This might be harsh but I think those who equate “good character design” to “character I would fuck” and express outright disgust at designs who dared to fall outside their conventional beauty norms should be trapped in the amulet for a thousand years. minimum
No this isn't about April from the new TMNT movie. This is an old sentiment that has existed way, way before that. But I do think anyone who’s mad about April not being “attractive anymore” should just straight up explode into viscera
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Have fun with your midnight scenarios <3
Hands up if you're a nonbinary/genderqueer person who was generally quite neutral as a child and never thought much about gender until puberty hit and it was honestly kind of traumatic not necessarily because of the body changes but because of the sudden expectations™
just a reminder to those who report works for being too sexual. if you feel uncomfy or dislike the work don’t put a community label on it, instead don’t read it. most writers put content warnings on their posts. read them before venturing further, please. and if you dislike something on there, again don’t read any further. smut etc. isn’t for everyone, that’s perfectly fine. but don’t do that to a writers hard work. please and thank you.
how is people feeding fanfics to AI disrespectful? i don’t really get it…
1, AI is basically plagiarizes everything--it has no creativity in itself (it cannot create), it just regurgitates what you feed into it. Those words that it spits back? They were stolen from somebody else without their consent.
2, You are basically saying that a soulless machine can do just as good a job as an actual human being. How much motivation would you feel to write if someone would rather ask a machine to finish your work?
Do you know how much thought I put into my fanfics?
Fanfics are the place I use to improve my writing. I challenge myself and edit. Then edit again. I cut things that aren’t working. I read them out loud to minimize typos. I put as much time, thought, and effort in to the creation of my fanfics and I would a real novel.
It’s disrespectful because you are basically just saying, without an author’s knowledge nor permission, to their free work, their work they poured effort into and shared with you 100% for free, “I want a machine to do this instead, and I think a machine could do this just as well.”
My last fic was 150,000 words and took 2 years to finish. I am still actively editing it so I can get it bound into a hardcover for myself and my friends because I am that proud of it. I have probably spent, as only a rough estimate, not even counting the other connected stories, about 300 hours on a free legend of zelda fic. If I - or any author, including of professional published works - worked at $10 an hour, a well-below livable wage, my book would be worth $3,000.
A machine will never be able to do what a good writer will do, and it is dangerous to feed into the notion that they can. This is not me exaggerating and being lovey dovey about the power of artists and human beings. This is a fact. Machines cannot think or reason. Under no circumstances do we ever WANT a machine that can think and reason the way a human can. Writing is not just words on the page and how they fit together. Here is a non-exhaustive list of things I consider as a writer:
About 10% of those are about how words fit together on the page. Do you seriously expect a machine that just eats information to learn how to string words together pretty will be able to do all that? AI recognizes patterns that are on the surface. AI cannot analyze everything that goes on in the human mind, both from the writer’s and the reader’s perspective.
If you want a certain type of fic you can’t find, write it yourself. Feeding writing into machines to get “good results,” to “train” this AI into making better writing, will never work. AI will never actually be able to do so, and to become complacent in allowing society to believe that AI can do all these things will lead to the further abuse of all writers and continued devaluation of our medium. Writers put in more work than they will ever be fairly compensated for, and you want it that way.
Do not use AI. Especially do not use AI if you want to keep seeing good work. Not just about the work that the AI generates, but the actual books, movies, tv shows around you. It is not a coincidence AI writing is getting attention while a major writer’s strike is going on. Every time you use AI and feed a good piece of writing into it, you are telling the people who want to replace writers that it CAN work and they absolutely should. You are telling them you WANT them to invest more time, money, and effort into making these machines “better,” and in fact, to prove it, you just stole something and fed it to it yourself!
I cannot stop people from feeding work into AI. I unfortunately cannot stop my own work from being fed into AI. But if we do not take a stand against this, writers will stop writing. People will get replaced. New works will stop being born. Wonderful things will never even have the chance to come to life because “a machine could do it anyway.” And that is bleak, my fucking dude.
I am making so many “hey mutuals!” posts but this one is serious and it applies to everyone who sees this post actually. PLEASE REBLOG.
I just had to block someone with this flag as their pfp -
For those who don’t know, this is the MAP pride flag. This flag represents pedophiles.
Please reblog so people know that they are not welcome anywhere. Mutuals I BETTER see y’all reblogging this
we DO grow old and happy. btw.
And you find love and it stays with you.
♡Over the past few months, I've thrown together a bunch of info in a notebook to give me tips for when I get stuck. I decided to put it all in a PDF to get more organized and I figured I'd share it here in case it might help anyone.
It covers fluffy and spicy content so of course minors DNI. There are also tips on word alternatives, tips on describing plus size bodies, a fragrance wheel, color charts, prompts, etc. Just sharing it in case this helps one person get out of a writer's block hole {also ignore the title of it, I'm a Beetlejuice fan }♡
Hey folks, if you want to fight back against the twitterfication of tumblr USE IT LIKE IT'S TUMBLR!!!!!! REBLOG THINGS!!!!!! USE THE TAGS TO SCREAM AT YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!
Woke up to this having more reblogs than likes! Keep it going! Do it on every post! REBLOG THINGS ON THE REBLOGGING THINGS SITE!
hello this is my favorite post ever and also life goals
Awww,,, goalsssss
Not scene but reblogging anyway cuz this is my blog and I think it’s SO FUCKING IMPORTANT as a young trans person to see older trans people that are still happy and alive and in a good place in life with people that love them. We all deserve this <3
The Barbie movie really said. Yes you will grow up and childhood wonder will vanish. Yes you will grow up and learn to hate yourself, your body, your awkwardness. Yes you will grow up and lose your confidence and certainty and sense of purpose. Yes you will grow up and the world will seem a bleaker, lonelier place every day, and society will seem bleaker and lonelier every day, and you won’t understand what went wrong in the span of just a few years, what took you from a happy and secure young girl to a sad, uncertain, scared grown woman.
And yet. You will learn to find beauty again. You will find joy in not having a purpose, in building a purpose for yourself. You will find beauty in connection, with the people and the world around you. You will learn to love signs of ageing as proof of a life well lived, of experience and happiness. You will take that little girl by the hand and tell her “I know, this isn’t what you thought it would be, but it’s real. Let me show you how beautiful it can be.”
Why are ghosts such dicks in movies I'm watching the insidious series on the third movie and girl just getting flung around like a damn ragdoll. If I was a ghost trying to steal someones body I'd be chill about it "hey bud, life seems pretty tough don't it - why not let someone else steer the wheel for a minute"
fanfiction writers rb and say in the tags how many hours the average oneshot/chapter takes you to write! include time spent brainstorming and researching too if you'd like :-)
just trying to spread some awareness about the level of effort and dedication that our craft takes!
one shots take me about two hours to write and another two to edit and revise. sometimes it takes more than four hours for me to finally like the final draft and be okay to post it.
Every writer on Tumblr: “I would combust out of love if someone ever drew fanart of my fic!!” Me: “oh man I wanna draw this scene BUT THEY WOULD PROBABLY HATE IT AND HATE ME FOR THE NERVE”
Dear artists.
We, the writers, will accept any of your fan arts.
We don’t care if it looks like shit to you, or you think your art skills are not good enough.
We will love any fan art, because it’s the most beautiful way to say “I love what you write”.
This times a million.
This also applies to aesthetics, moodboards, spin-off fanfic drabbles, and the like. Doesn’t matter how insignificant or amateurish you think it is – all of it is beautiful. <3
I had 2 separate people make tiktok fancam/fic trailers for things I’ve written and I think about that every day and watch them often 😭❤️❤️
I have every fanart in a folder i look at all the time
I have every
fanart in a folder i
look at all the time
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Keep the flame going for those we have lost to suicide.
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I don’t give a fuck if this doesn’t suit your ‘theme’ have a heart and reblog.
Keep the flame spread the tag.
“this memorial is dedicated to those that perished on the climb”
Carry the torch for those who cannot any longer.
