The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.
Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.
-starfleet captain with a martyr complex + freedom fighter ideologically opposed to everything she stands for + her longtime best friend who was spying on that guy
-janeway and tuvok have lied to and hidden important plans from chakotay on multiple occasions
-janeway has thrown chakotay in the brig for suggesting she may be taking things a little too far (he forgave her tho <3)
-tuvok gave in to a mutiny in order to contact the vidiians for a cure for janeway and chakotay’s deadly virus
-while mind controlled chakotay ordered tuvok (also mind controlled) to kill janeway
tom/harry/b’elanna
-guy who has something very wrong with him but thinks he’s completely normal + guy and girl who are both convinced there’s something very wrong with them but are in fact (relatively) normal
-harry and b’elanna attempted to help resolve tom’s daddy issues by building a starship engine that would break the warp 10 barrier, it turned him into a salamander instead
-flying another one of harry and b’elanna’s novel engine designs led to everyone on board except harry and chakotay being dead for 15 years. harry and chakotay solved this issue by committing time crimes
-even though tom and b’elanna weren’t on board at first but harry did eventually manage to convince them to mutiny against tuvok
One of the most dangerous things in the world is not being able to say no to people because you don't want to upset them or dissapoint them. This will completely ruin your life in every way possible, at work, in your private life, your sex life and your friendships. It's a way of removing your own consent in your own decisions and go against your wishes, it is always a crime against yourself. Let yourself have a say. Upsetting people is better than traumatizing yourself.
A young Ferrari fan clutches a Schumacher doll as she waits for a glimpse of her hero in the paddock
October 12, 2001 - Japan
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i wish more people spread around the quote from a 1998 yoshiyuki tomino interview where he talks about how boys who only build gunpla are fake gundam fans and the true original fans were girls who write fanfiction