To Understand What's Going On Here, Know These Things:

To understand what's going on here, know these things:

OpenAI is the company that makes ChatGPT

A spider is a kind of bot that autonomously crawls the web and sucks up web pages

robots.txt is a standard text file that most web sites use to inform spiders whether or not they have permission to crawl the site; basically a No Trespassing sign for robots

OpenAI's spider is ignoring robots.txt (very rude!)

the web.sp.am site is a research honeypot created to trap ill-behaved spiders, consisting of billions of nonsense garbage pages that look like real content to a dumb robot

OpenAI is training its newest ChatGPT model using this incredibly lame content, having consumed over 3 million pages and counting...

It's absurd and horrifying at the same time.

Despite what you may have heard Bruce Wayne is not, in fact, a furry.

He is, however, very opinionated.

This is made exclusively to punish Alexander Hamilton for getting this song stuck in my head.

the beautiful original post by @garaks-padded-bra can be found here, with additions from @acrowbyanyothername, @starfleetshrimps, @imhaley, @ronzyponyo, @funnywormz, @deepestturtlepielover, @willowandthesagaofgayyearning, @summer-azure, and @spacetronomyfan

(as always, omagpies stuff drops on Patreon @/magpiecrown one month in advance, and there’s already a hefty backlog awaiting everyone 💗)

And you know what else? Sure, you can dress like people from this or that music-based subculture without listening to the music and we won’t mind as long as you don’t pretend you’re part of it or spread misinformation about it.

But don’t you want to know the music that inspired the looks you’re so attracted to? Because, that’s the thing, at least speaking regarding goth, the fashion didn’t just occur to us, we started dressing the way we do inspired not only by musicians with an iconic form of dress, but by the music itself. Sound and appearance usually go hand in hand.

In the 90s Medieval and Renaissance inspired clothing was so popular not by mere coincidence, but because Ethereal Wave was at its peak. The girls dressed in long velvet gowns with dripping bell sleeves, who had impossibly long hair, were listening to a lot of Faith and the Muse, Mors Syphilitica, Dead Can Dance, Lycia and Sopor Aeternus.

The girls dressed in babydoll dresses, with pigtails, maryjanes and such are more than likely Switchblade Symphony fans.

The people dressed in leather and latex with a lot of fetish gear are most likely listening to a lot of Darkwave and/or to bands like Two Witches, Athamay or Umbra et Imago.

The people dressed like Victorian vampires are probably listening to a lot of Inkubus Sukkubus, Vampyrëan, Nosferatu, Paralysed Age and Witching Hour UK.

AND SO ON.

You don’t have to like it, if you don’t then you don’t, but if you haven’t given the music a proper chance AND you’re so intrigued by the fashion that is inspired by said music, how come you have such little interest and commitment as to not even dip your toes properly? Again, if it turns out to not be your thing, fine, just don’t spread misinfo. But who knows? You could be missing out on music you would fall in love with if you gave it a chance.

(Before there’s any misunderstandings, this does NOT mean that a goth who dresses a certain way 1) has to prefer goth music that is associated most with that style of clothing, or 2) can ONLY dress in that style, most goths mix and match or dress in different substyles depending on our moods.)

he's gonna have bubble tea every day... until he's seventy, and if you try and stop him... then he'll delete you from his contacts!

so I connected modern AU Huaisang + Chris Fleming's "boba manifesto" literal years ago, but I've only just got around to scribbling something for it, and I feel like this song really captures something of Huaisang's essence. YOU'RE WELCOME.