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Riley can have a self-actualisation crisis. as a treat~*☆
You know that whole trope where like, the protagonists get teleported up into the aliens’ spaceship or base or whatever and the alien appears to them only it doesn’t appear as it really looks like but rather, since it doesn’t want to scare the protagonists, it takes the form of something we find familiar and pleasing and is like, “I look like your dad or whatever–is this form okay?” Like I think about that trope a lot and I think like, what if the alien couldn’t pick out a form via telepathy and only had earth media to try and decide what form would scare its human guests least and be accepted almost immediately and honestly the more I think about it the more options for what form that might be are just really fun to me.
“I have chosen the form of your earth playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda–do not be afraid. I come in peace.”
“Greetings. I am Glofnorbo of the cloud you call the ‘Pegasus Nebula.’ I have scanned your earth media from afar and empirically decided that you would find the form of the one known as Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson most pleasing. I have come to confer with your leaders.”
“Do not be panic. I come in peace. I have assumed the form of your insectoid demigoddess ‘Hatsune Miku’ so that we may communicate peacefully without my true form horrifying you.”
i have been trying for like. months to explain how the relationship between butch lesbians and trans men is not something akin to polar opposites and this is all i got. like it's not like this:
it's a venn diagram with a massive overlap in the middle. i'm not saying EVERY butch is a trans guy and EVERY trans guy is a butch dyke , i'm just saying it looks more like this:
these are not "mutually exclusive" terms- they do not mean the same thing, but we can be the same people, an very often are. there is a long history of butches who identify as FTM, trans men, drag kings, genderqueer, genderfluid, transmasculine, male, polygender, and two-spirit lesbians, and so much more. the relationship between lesbianism and queer masculinity is inseparable and the only people telling you that butches and trans men need to violently separate from one another and be at each other's throats are terfs. even if we do not share identities, we share our struggle together as heavily misunderstood and unseen masculine queers.
we stand up for each other when our identities get confused by strangers, and we get misgendered. we stand up for each other when terfs and terfpilled people tell us that transmasculine people and men can't be lesbians, when people say "butches just want to be men", when people say "butches aren't real women", when people call each of us bull dykes and trannies, when people mock the way FTMs walk and talk and look, and when people tell trans men they're "just butch dykes in denial". we stand up for each other and understand each others struggles.
whenever a butch lesbian asserts they're a woman no matter how masc they are, whenever a trans man asserts that they are a man and not a butch, whenever a butch struggles to be seen as both a man and a lesbian, and whenever a trans man returns to the lesbian community while embracing their manhood, we are part of the same community, we share the same struggles, and we owe it to each other to stay strong.
we are not enemies. we are bedfellows, lovers, family, spouses, partners, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, siblings, friends, each others support networks, even if we don't share identities perfectly. whether you are butch and a woman, butch and a man, butch and something else entirely, a male, ftm, genderfluid, polygender, genderqueer, transmasculine, nonbinary, two-spirit or whatever else you may be lesbian, you are part of our family and your experience is worth being heard.
You people can say whatever you want, but I refuse, and I repeat, I refuse to acknowledge that 147 is divisible by 3.
Man just doesn't have the vibes to be in the "x times 3" club
He just, feels like a prime number droput, like, the exact opposite of 149. Or even 139. How are they prime?? But like?? 147 isn't????? W.T.F.
beach episode
seen on PHO
Mmmmmmmmm, lazy day.
Sleepy. Got up. Made coffee. Drumk said coffe.
Tasty.
Got back to bed. Hot. Turn on th fan.
Mhhhhhh, wind.
Mind is warm and fuzzy. Try to doze off. Can't.
w a t t ? ? ?
Turn around. Aw ye, comfy. Feet dangling, legs tangling pilow. Sprawled, hug other pillow.
Aaaaajdjjs, fluid like cat, nice eeby sleeby can't.
W A T T ?! ?
Put on white noise.
Can't sleeb.
Put on music
Cant sledp.
Gdamit!! Want sleep mind melted, rleyes unfocused but caffein says NO SLEEP FOR YOU YOU MASOCHIST, THAT'S HOW IT FEELS TO UNBALANCE YOU oWn NEYROChemISTRY!
Me when facing comcequemce of my actions: nO.
(Post made by the "altered state of mind gang")
every day i am percieved™️
I really feel this reaction, and I think that, even if I don't think it's reasonable, it's very understandable.
That said, I wanted to add my take on this because, wether we like it or not, AIs are here to stay, so we should try and unerstand what their place should be.
My personal take is that yes, purely AI generated shit is kinda morally repugnant and just pre-processed sludge, that said, it's PREMIUM pre-processed sludge: most of the time it's something that I would not have thought of, and that should be the right use for this kind of algorithms.
Inspiration-makers, kinda like putting random words in a hat and drawing a few, but a thousand times more effective and focused, it can get you out of a writing block or give you a great idea to bypass a bad point.
Or, it can be a powerful grammar checker, (like, idk, grammarly) that can give feedback on how good your work is and how to improve it.
Yeah, thats it.
Just feels like AI CAN be used, and used well, just... not like people seem to want to use it nowadays.
This morning I was reading a fanfic (ao3) and everything was fine until in the comment section the author answered a question about the writing AI she was using. I felt such visceral disgust at that. I dropped the story like it was acid.
To those that use AI. How dare you? How dare you to have the audacity of using a program that steals people's creativity? How dare you feed it, taking that which was granted with love and passion and then transform it into a soulless program? How dare you bend yourself to these corporations that only seek to exploits us further?
I would 100% prefer to read a fic that has mistakes but that has care into every word and a person behind it with immense love for the fandom, than to read Shakespeare vomited by a code that it was written by a thousand cunts that wank themselves at a picture of Mark Zuckerberg.
If you're doing mental gymnastics to justify art theft and exploitation, then there's no mistake. You are wrong. Nothing will change that.
So this is a thing that me and @penelopetheverytrans collaborated on, I did the doodles for the sprites and she put the video together. I hope y’all like it, makes me laugh :)
My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big
the undersiders are really funny because every single teenager on that team is fucked up in a unique and extraordinarily weird way and yet all of them are convinced that they're the single normal person on the team. every undersider team meeting involves all of them thinking "what freaks....i'm the only normal one here" simultaneously
i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer
The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life, and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you, simply for being you.
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Explaining #196
On Reddit, there was a subreddit called r/196 where the only rule was that you had to post before you left. It was a successor of r/195. r/196 became a community of mostly leftist queer people with a large proportion of trans women and bisexual people, and besides a few instances, wasn't friendly to tankies, an unfortunate rarity in Reddit's leftist spaces. Reddit, in its genius, made some stupid selfish decisions resulting in moderators' ability to do their jobs getting gutted and causing Reddit on phones to be largely inaccessible to a lot of people. Thousands of subreddits decided to go private for a limited time out of protest to these changes, but a few subs would go private indefinitely until the changes were reverted, including r/196. People who still wanted the community migrated to other sites, like Tumblr.
Actually helpful 👍, thenk
Yes, hi, what's happening to reddit? I usually check some fandom news there but everything is private/blocked now? I have an account and not even that allows me to enter?
Reddit is changing their policy so they every thousand api requests they charge money. This means that third party apps, moderation tools, and other various things just won’t work anymore, since these things rack up thousands of requests very quickly, they’d just be unsustainable to run.
This cost would be average out to a dollar per month per person using third party applications, like an alternative app, text to speech, moderation tools, etc. Reddit has millions and million of users, most of which would be affected.
For example, Apollo for Reddit, a popular third party alternative to the Reddit app (which I used myself, seriously the Reddit app is abysmal) would cost $20MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO RUN. Given the app is developed by one guy, that legitimately puts him out of business.
Moderation would get even worse than it already is, as moderation tools use the api to effectively moderate, but now it’s at a cost.
The reason why this change is happening, is because the API can be used to collect data for AI, and, to quote the CEO, “the Reddit corpus of data is really valuable” and he doesn't want to “need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
So, once again, AI and capitalism is ruining things for everyone else.
This is a change that is created solely to make money without thinking for a second about the millions of people it would effect. This lead to 7000 of the most popular subreddits blacking out for 48 hours in protest, and I’m pretty sure it crashed the whole site. The voice of the people has definitely been heard, now it’s just time to see if it’s done anything.
Edit: I got something wrong! Thanks to all who corrected me! No thanks to the anon who was an asshole about it lmao
It’s not that Reddit is charging that’s the problem, it’s that it’s charging way too much, is way too short of a deadline to change it, and spez is just an asshole lying about the Apollo dev. Still a shit situation! Just not exactly for the reasons I said. Look into the reblogs for people who know more!!
Came here from reddit, have no clue how this place works, but I liked the vibes.
Beans 👍
Due to the Unfortunate!
We are deeply out of Onions!