“shark infested waters” bro they just live there
A note to all creatives:
Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.
No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.
We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.
Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.
And they especially are not scabs.
*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.
Oh so we're in hell
I literally can't do this again
Edit: Kesha just released a new album titled Gag Order! Go support her and stream the hell out of it!
https://kesha.lnk.to/gagorder
Reminder that Kesha initially lose her defamation case on the basis that the courts deemed Dr. Luke a private citizen instead of a public-figure, making it exponentially easier for his legal team to "prove" defamation- they functionally said Kesha was behaving recklessly with his reputation and defamed him in a series of private text messages between herself and Lady Gaga, where Kesha claims to Lady Gaga that Katy Perry was assaulted by Dr. Luke. This was a series of text messages that were only made public by Dr. Luke's own legal team, btw.
Who's ruining who's reputation again?
The good news is- the New York Supreme Court just overturned it's previous decision on Dr. Luke's status as a private citizen, and will be handling this upcoming appeal under new parameters with Dr. Luke as a public figure. Now, it is on Dr. Luke's legal team to show that Kesha was acting maliciously, which is notoriously difficult to legally prove.
The likelihood of Kesha winning this time around is a lot better, but it does nothing to change how hard and how effectively Dr. Luke and his team have worked to keep her silent, as discussed above.
Because even if she wins, Kesha is still under contract with his record label. This case isn't even about Dr. Luke's assault on Kesha herself- she lost that case because he claimed she made it up to get out of her contact. THIS defamation lawsuit was his countersuit- used to punish her for speaking up against him in the first place.
That is why her music is not being promoted- she's still stuck working under her abuser. Stream her music and get loud about this case.
Out to Pasture
Dragonstone Hollow Part 10 of 10
Aemond Targaryen x Reader (Modern AU)
Summary: In the wake of the engagement party, you and Aemond try a new strategy: 100%, stomach-turning honesty.
Word Count: 5.9k
Rating: Explicit/18+/Minors DNI (detailed warning beneath the cut)
National Targaryen's Summer Vacation (Chapter One) - Modern Aegon Targaryen/Aemond Targaryen/Jacaerys Velaryon x Reader
A/N: this one is for the national targs girlies! i hope y'all enjoy this little adventure as much as the last. it's not necessary to read the original story as this is completely new but if you wish to, the masterlist is HERE. i would highly suggest reading the drabbles tho for some context. ❤️
Summary: It's summer and you're ready to head out on a Disney cruise with your favorite people. It's finally time to see them again after your, Jace, and Aemond's first year away at university. You grew up together and are super excited to see each other again. But change is in the air.
PAIRINGS: Aegon x Reader, Aemond x Reader, Jace x Reader, Helaena x Cregan
Word Count: 2,735
TW: profanity, innuendo, she/her pronouns
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the House of the Dragon/Fire and Blood characters nor do I claim to own them.
Comments, likes, and reblogs are never required but are immensely appreciated ❤️
i will never care about the met gala beacuse i know in my heart if you gave a drag queen 45$ and three days they could make something completely out of this world that out every single celeb to shame
my friend just told me that there's a secret second dashboard that solely contains posts from people you've turned on post notifications for, and when i click the link in the messages it opens it within the tumblr app, so the tumblr app also has a secret second dashboard for post notification blogs, and the only way to access it is to open the link for it within the app.
i literally love tumblr
i have a private pinned post that just has a link to this dashboard on it, it's great. two dashboards for life
wow! i was really hoping someone would organically reverse-engineer this and find that dash.
here are a few other "secret" dashboards:
- Posts from your "crushes"
- "What you missed" (will be empty if you already visit Tumblr every day)
- "Trending"
these are all just taking existing feeds of content and putting them in a dashboard-like format... the "Stuff for you" tab/feed is the same idea.
I swear if the link in the original post is a virus I'll be so upset.
nope! i hovered over the link and this popped up on the bottom of the browser. here's all the links in order:
leoreturns-deactivated20110811
I have been waiting all year to post this.
omg
This has been in my queue for months.
I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
15poundstosummer
YES
wander1ustt
omg i didnt reblog this last year!
romanticizing your life is such a powerful tool and it’s a shame that it’s mostly used by people on tiktok to justify the purchase of expensive breakfast smoothies when there are few better ways to force oneself through unpleasant shit than imagining a cinematic backstory for your extremely quotidian suffering
im so done with seeing articles about kids and screen time that doesnt mention parent behaviors even once. “kids are always on their phones” so are the parents! which the kids look to for how they should behave! ipad babies didn’t chose to only play on their ipads, thats what their parents gave them!
an anecdotal example: when i was a kid, all my parents would do in their minimal free time was watch tv and then they would be surprised when in my sister and i’s minimal free time we would also only watch tv/play video games. they scolded us for not reading books, but they never read books. they scolded us for not going outside but they never went outside.
“kids are always on their damn phones” my mom is in her 60s and opens up candy crush anytime she’s sitting — it isnt just the kids
Tragic: this song's actual lyrics don't fit my blorbo as well as the lyrics I misheard
anyone who treats me like i’m dumb or inexperienced for wanting to view the regular mundane world around me as something whimsical and exciting and beautiful deserves to die.
“i like to ride the bus and pretend it’s an animal” “ERMM…. sounds like SOMEONE hasn’t ridden on a bus ever. you sweet sweet dumb summer child… must NOT be american” like ok. be miserable, then. rot. live your sad miserable life and view everything as mundane. die alone and unloved. i am not dumb, and i am not inexperienced, and i wake up everyday and choose to view life around me as wonderful. you wake up and choose to miserable. we’ll see which one of us survives the winter.