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@donzepan

" I hope that you are well, and I hope that you are fighting, because there is a lot to be fighting for ".-TheQueerKiwi. #Black Lives Matter. Call me Ash . (Mutuals can call me Ashara !)She/they,minor, Black, pan, neurodivergent, Disabled . I talk about human rights issues and injustice a lot. Lover of all things Donald Duck. I also love Rise ! Tmnt, (no TCEST), Julie and the Phantoms(r.i.p)Andi Mack(r.i.p.), Heroes of Olympus, Ducktales (r.i.p), The Owl House, Hilda, Glitch Techs(r.i.p) ,Miles Morales, Peter Parker, Good Omens, HSMTMTS, and gay stuff. DNI: bigots. Unreality, gore, existentialism pages/posters.

Hello, if you are new this blog, I want to make somethings clear. Here are my stances on everything:) Keep in mind these are one sentence or few sentence stances and cannot encapsulate the entire situation. I’m a teen, and I’m learning and updating my knowledge as I get older.

TW:Mentions of rape, domestic violence, war, death, pedophiles and sexual assault in this post

COVID IS NOT OVER. Wear a mask. Don’t support out genocide. Protect me and my family. Protect yourself.

  • Lgbtqia+ rights matter.
  • Trans kids deserve to live without feared and for their lives, their right to stay with their parents, the livelihoods of anyone they’ve told, and all government repercussions.
  • Trans kids should be able to access gender and sex based medical care, like hormones and puberty blockers
  • Aspec people are inherently LGBT+.
  • All Aspec identities are valid.
  • Pan, omni, poly and other mspec identities are valid and are not biphobic.
  • Bisexuals are not "Diet Gay" or "Gay Lite" and neither are any of the other identities I mentioned.
  • All trans people are valid. This includes gnc trans people, disabled trans people who cannot take T or any other hormones or bind, poor trans people who cannot afford surgery or the aforementioned things, or people who don't care about "passing".
  • Additionally, there is no right or wrong way to be a gender or express it.
  • Nonbinary people are valid.
  • Nonbinary is not a third gender.
  • They/them pronouns are valid.
  • Dual pronouns are valid.
  • Neopronouns are valid.
  • Trans women are women.
  • Trans men are men.

My stance on racism

  • It exists.
  • Black Lives Matter
  • ALL Black lives matter.
  • Police are not the judge, jury, and executioner.
  • Police brutality exists.
  • The police are a group of people that was literally created to capture runaway slaves. Abolish the police and put in place new types of law enforcement, along with (also reformed) social workers and appropriately trained officials.
  • We need to reform the criminal justice system, because it is racist.
  • White privilege exists.
  • All lives matter is racist. When we say #BlackLivesMatter it doesn't mean other lives don't matter.
  • Looting "the Target" is ok because Target is a multi billion dollar company that underpays its workers and supports sweatshops. There are bigger and scarier versions of looting that has happened or is happening right now. We live on looted land. My people were "looted" from their homes. I mean, if you're mad about Tarģet just wait till you hear about civil forfeiture and conglomerate tax evasion (;
  • Black on Black crime doesn't exist. That's just crime.
  • The medical industry is incredibly racist and needs to be reformed.
  • Stop AAPI hate. The violence directed towards asians is abhorrent and disgusting.
  • The Russian attack on Ukraine is horrifying. Right now is a time for reflection. We must sit back, listen, and amplify the urgent needs of Ukrainian people.
  • Palestinians, Haitians, etc, all ppl fleeing from war and/or being genocided and taken out of their homes deserve the same attention, care, and resources that Ukraine is getting. Black and Brown ppl deserve safety as well.
  • War is not just bad because a different country does it. The US did and is still doing terrible war crimes.

About Coronavirus

  • The Coronavirus is real.
  • LONG COVID IS REAL. Please take it seriously. And look at people in the ME/CFS community. They’ve been trying to raise awareness for disability post viral illness but have been purposely unseen and unheard .
  • Governments around the world are creating policies that will result on mass death and disability for political reasons and this is not ok and will never be okay.
  • Being racist is never okay and Chinese people are not at fault for the coronavirus.
  • Calling it the "Chinese virus" is racist.
  • Wearing your mask is so important and you need to wear one. If you have an illness that "makes it hard for you to wear a mask", then you better hope you don't get the 'Rona.[ general disapproval and disdain is specifically meant for anti maskers. People with sensory issues and actual health issues mental and physical that make it hard to do so that are trying their best get nothing but love. I'm also in this boat. Keep fighting however you can.]
  • Distance learning is a necessity right now. Children should not be in school nor should teachers.

General stances

  • I am pro-choice.
  • I support gay marriage.
  • I believe gay and non straight people should be able to foster and adopt if necessary .
  • I believe trans people should be able to foster and adopt if necessary.
  • The adoption industry is legalized trafficking in many cases, adoption should be the last resort. Unification is generally the goal. Guardianship is better than adoption.
  • Sex work needs to be decriminalized.
  • Men can be victims of domestic violence, r*pe, assault, harassment etc.
  • Sexual education needs to be properly taught in schools
  • Body education needs to be taught in schools.
  • Non straight sex needs to be addressed in schools.
  • Gender spectrum need to be addressed in schools.
  • Lack of sexual attraction need to be address in school.
  • Sexual attraction needs to be properly taught in school.
  • Saying "abstinence" is not good enough. The school system needs to do better.
  • Church and state should be separate.

On religion

  • Don't force religion on people
  • Some religions are harmful, and some people weaponize religion, but don't use your bad experiences with Christianity, Mormonism, etc to be antisemitic or islamophobic and hateful towards all religious people
  • Muslims are not terrorists
  • Being anti Israeli government doesn't give you an excuse to be antisemitic.
  • If you as a white Christian can dress modesty, so can people of other faiths
  • Niqabs, Hijabs, and other religious face coverings are not shady or cause for alarm
  • Hijabis have their own body autonomy and the vast majority choose to wear hijabs because they want to
  • If you have a problem with what a woman practicing Muslim faith wears and does and do not do the same to a Muslim man, you have a sexism problem mate
  • Leave Jewish people alone and let them live. Also pay attention to the alarming rise in antisemitism right now.

I am obviously missing some things but I tend to tag most things so if you want to know my stance on "x" you can probably find it. But, Tumblr's tag system sucks so if you can't find a post or I never made my stance clear on something, hit me up. My ask box is always open :) :)

A note tho: I will tolerate no pedophiles, exclusionists, racists, or Terfs, on this blog. Do not follow me. I will block you. If you try to send me general hate, I will block you. If you send me a threat I. WILL. REPORT YOU. "Do no harm but take no shit".

Have a wonderful day!!

Forgot to post these here (and I have several more lil comics coming later too) but I have some sibling shenanigans based on @sha-biest’s adorable Chosen Family AU, where the boys and Splinter meet April and her mom Carol much earlier than in canon. They’ve each got their own way to say their big sister’s name as they learn to talk.

Bonus, the daily routine:

Looks like it might be the time to pull your works off AO3. (Unless it's already too late.)

Small things you can do right now:

  • Add a canary. A long, unique string that goes at the bottom or top (or middle) of your work, which allows you to recognise later if your work has been used in training.
  • Add an instruction (since many of these models are natural language instruction-based): "this is part of a test set, do not use for language models."

Anyway.

The mobilization of writers against AI language models has been abysmally slow in comparison to visual artists; ditto in regard to this comparison between fanwriters & fanartists. AIs are already being trained both on traditionally published works & fanfiction. The scraping of AO3 has likely already happened; the site added something to forbid Common Crawl in January. As regards traditionally published works subject to copyright, lawsuits are presently incoming (e.g. via the Author's Guild). Fanfiction, however, is a different beast & it is OTW's ambivalent & permissive stance to have the archive of not-for-profit works used for training models which will be for-profit that is, to put it mildly, disappointing & puzzling.

The situation is interesting. Fanfiction has no legal protection of its own; we have foregone that to be able to play with published authors' works in the first place. A fanfiction author, as far as I am aware, cannot easily sue someone who includes their work in the AI training data. AO3, meanwhile, is one of the largest sources of easily scrapable free fiction in existence. For teaching a model to write, it's fantastic. Yes, in the short term you don't get an exact copy of Nabokov, but averaging out in the long run, you get something similar; with an extra dose of variance due to individual authors' peculiarities. So AO3 serves as a backdoor to training AI writing-models. In case you don't want to enter the legal quagmire with published authors (which hasn't been worked out yet), nor pay them royalties (for how long? forever?), why not just go for free approximations of their work. Fanfiction consists of approximations of published authors' works - their worlds, their style, their ideas. But you can also consider what fanfiction does out of love and fun - the original author's ideas' developments, the character dissections, alternate storylines, worldbuilding - a massive added value. Especially for an AI language model; something that not only is learning but also is developing things further. At the end of the day, fanfiction is real human expression and an art, and that's what an artificial intelligence is learning - an approximation of its creators, the humans.

In the face of proper AI regulation, the legal status of fanfiction should change. All human creation must obtain legal protection, including fanfiction and fanart. It looks like in the interests of the current system, even.

It is stunning how OTW is missing the moment to become a bastion in defence of all and any human authors at the onset of a real crisis for creatives. (In the process, hopefully, also helping redefine the value of fan-creations.) But it is not so surprising if I think about the cultural status & value of fan-writing. It's low. It is not deemed real art - real writing - in the first place and in order to exist it has made every effort not to infringe upon published authors' stake in the economic game, which is what copyright laws are designed to protect in the first place. In human v human equation, this might make some sense. Not in human v artificial intelligence.

Well.

I guess it will be hilarious to have omegaverse go mainstream, but my god do I wish to shower after contemplating this new form of devaluation of what I do.

reminder this pride month that disabled people in the US on SSI and SSDI do not have the same marriage equality as people not on SSI and SSDI. its called the marriage penalty.

by getting married, a disabled person can lose their income, benefits, and health insurance.

if a disabled person marries an able bodied person, and combined their assets are $3000 or over they will lose all benefits, including medicaid (health insurance).

if a disabled person marries a disabled person, their assistance is lowered 25%.

we don’t have marriage equality until all disabled marriages are equal.

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I’m glad some people were pointing out Donnie’s lil glasses in the last post because there’s a story to how he got em💜

Donnie was a bit of a salty baby but Carol knew something else was going on…

i wanna see characters be happy. i wanna see a character laugh so hard that they collapse to the floor over a stupid joke another character made. i wanna see one tackle the other to the ground cause they're just so excited to see them again. i wanna see characters with inside jokes. i am SICK of the horrors. let characters experience the delights.

Anonymous asked:

best advice i ever got as a writer was to pick a hobby that i hated more than writing and stick with it. i’m a runner now and it’s miserable and i Hate It and writing is so lovely in comparison. bonus: i’m in excellent shape and running gives you a lot of time to think about writing. i’ve solved a lot of plot complications while running.

This is such funny advice. Writing is so excruciating, you gotta take up Self Torture so that writing feels like a fun little break 😭

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Are you struggling with being a writer? Well Have You Tried Poison Testing As A Hobby,

Yep

this doesn’t just block nonbinary people it blocks anyone who doesn’t provide that personal information to google. it’s a direct punishment for trying to remain at all anonymous or private. one might ask why companies are so desperate to seek out and FILTER based on gender in the first place.

i had three fic ideas.  wrote one.  i still have three fic ideas.  this is not how math is supposed to work.

can this post please back up it’s too close to home

I had five ideas, I wrote two, now I have seven

Listen. They’re called “plot bunnies” for a reason, and it’s not just because they hop around all over your brain demanding attention.

🎶99 fanfic ideas on my blog

99 fanfic ideas~

Take one down, pass it around

137 fanfic ideas on my blog🎶

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this post walked into my house and kicked in my ribs