"who radicalized you" ever since i was a child i wanted other people to be treated nicely and fairly because i didnt understand why theyd deserve otherwise and it fills me with disgust seeing how people treat their fellow human beings sometimes

guys dont freak out or anything but its suporting Icons day MY GIRL IS BACK

kellan orrinshire - fae-blooded, daring traveler, inquisitive prodigy, kid

Part of Me Never Left That House - Mada Hayyas // Up The Wolves - The Mountain Goats // Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson // FROM THE MAKERS OF "TWO-MOM ENERGY DRINK," IT'S "LET YOUR FATHER DIE ENERGY DRINK" - Danny Lavery // "Problem Area" - Melissa Broder

guys i cant keep booping i have a uni class to go to

guys what is all this

guys what is all this

might be playing in a Strixhaven dnd campaign as the participant who knows the most about magic the gathering lore. Gonna try to encourage our dm to turn the campaign into a planetrotting adventure as our strixhaven students get to go on excursions and exchange events across the multiverse through omenpaths. study politics and law in Paliano, investigate anatomy with the stitchers of Nephalia, explore the technology and technomancy on Otawara. Each arc could be set on a new plane. Honestly this is getting me ready to just run this myself for another group

Kellan x Amalia nation are we rising up or what??

NINE YEARS I MISSED IT FUCK

HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY TO MINECRAFT DIARIES

Shows you should save physically immediately

Over the Garden Wall -- It's being pulled from HBO Max on August 31 and knowing HBO, there's a chance it'll be pulled sooner. *I have now made a Google Drive of all the episodes of OTGW. Please, please, please, PLEASE, save these on a physical device.

The Owl House -- Disney has tried to bury this show many times (giving it a weird release schedule, cutting the budget, etc) and has even cancelled the show. Also, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue soon and I doubt TOH will survive*I have now also saved all the episodes of TOH. Click here for the posts with all of the episodes

Amphibia -- I know less about the behind the scenes BS than TOH but Amphibia was screwed over by Disney mainly by poor promotion. Also since one of the protagonist is openly bisexual*, like TOH, I really can't imagine this would survive.*Amphibia has also been saved. Go here for the post with all the episodes.

Steven Universe -- Cartoon Network cancelled Steven Universe and gave it a weird release schedule, it has also just been pulled from HBO Max.

Gravity Falls -- Once again, Disney+ is going to nuke their catalogue at some point in the future and between Wendy being canonically bi, Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland being in a relationship, and Alex Hirsch (being the amazing man that he is) constantly calling Disney out on their BS, I imagine that Disney would be more than willing to nuke Gravity Falls. *I’ve also saved Gravity Falls now go to the main post here to see all the episodes.

and most importantly

Every single show, book, game, fanfiction, movie, etc you've ever loved

We now know that at any moment's notice, streaming services can and will just nuke their catalogue without hesitation. If it's digital, it can be removed and there's a likely chance you'll never see it again.

So, please take some time to save anything you love on an external device. It could be a box set (it can be official or fan-made one), a USB, or anything.

If you have a physical copy of something, it's yours forever and no one can take that away from you.

*Edit because I’ve seen some confusion about this. Read this again, it’s “one of the protagonists” not “the protagonist.” Sasha is the one who’s bi, Anne’s sexuality hasn’t been confirmed.

Also in addition to this, people have reblogged this to say Steven Universe is still on HBO. Since I don’t have HBO, I’ve been going off of what people have been saying and I’ve seen it mentioned that HBO was taking off SU. You should still save it though.

*Edit 2 if any of the links here don’t work, check the original post as I might’ve changed/updated them. If that still doesn’t work, send me an ask or DM I’ll give them to you.

card declined at therapy so they brought out the characters of the book I attempted to write at age twelve but then abandoned as I grew up

THEY HAD US GAGGED!!!!!

There are two key issues that I'm focusing on (and want you to as well) and that is:

Conversion therapy needs to be banned in Australia

Abolishing the Gender Reassignment Board in WA because it's a pointless barrier and massive inconvenience to trans people having their gender legally recognised.

At times I will make a post about one instead of both - but they're definitely both important. It's more concise and easier to go "conversion therapy is legal in most places in Australia - contact MPs to demand that changes" than it is to explain what the Gender Reassignment Board in WA is and it's impact, because people know what conversion therapy is.

However, I want you to treat them with equal fervour. The LGBTQIA+ community should be united on every form of injustice against us. If there is a problem it should be solved. If MPs believe they can appease us by making laws that are kind to gay people but then ignore trans people then they're wrong.

Look into the laws about conversion therapy in your state and tell your representatives to improve them.

Look into the laws about gender recognition and protecting trans people and tell your representatives to improve them.

Same-sex marriage wasn't the end of what needs to be done, and when we're done campaigning to end conversion therapy and improve gender recognition/protection laws there's still more to go. For example: laws regarding intersex people and their protections/personal autonomy are sorely lacking and need to not just improve but even exist at all in some parts of Australia.

Let's keep fighting! Let's make this country better for everyone!

WE LIVE IN A HELL WORLD

Snippets from the article by Karissa Bell:

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands of performers, has struck a deal with an AI voice acting platform aimed at making it easier for actors to license their voice for use in video games. ...

the agreements cover the creation of so-called “digital voice replicas” and how they can be used by game studios and other companies. The deal has provisions for minimum rates, safe storage and transparency requirements, as well as “limitations on the amount of time that a performance replica can be employed without further payment and consent.”

Notably, the agreement does not cover whether actors’ replicas can be used to train large language models (LLMs), though Replica Studios CEO Shreyas Nivas said the company was interested in pursuing such an arrangement. “We have been talking to so many of the large AAA studios about this use case,” Nivas said. He added that LLMs are “out-of-scope of this agreement” but “they will hopefully [be] things that we will continue to work on and partner on.”

...Even so, some well-known voice actors were immediately skeptical of the news, as the BBC reports. In a press release, SAG-AFTRA said the agreement had been approved by "affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community." But on X, voice actors said they had not been given advance notice. "How has this agreement passed without notice or vote," wrote Veronica Taylor, who voiced Ash in Pokémon. "Encouraging/allowing AI replacement is a slippery slope downward." Roger Clark, who voiced Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, also suggested he was not notified about the deal. "If I can pay for permission to have an AI rendering of an ‘A-list’ voice actor’s performance for a fraction of their rate I have next to no incentive to employ 90% of the lesser known ‘working’ actors that make up the majority of the industry," Clark wrote.

SAG-AFTRA’s deal with Replica only covers a sliver of the game industry. Separately, the union is also negotiating with several of the major game studios after authorizing a strike last fall. “I certainly hope that the video game companies will take this as an inspiration to help us move forward in that negotiation,” Crabtree said.

And here are some various reactions I've found about things people in/adjacent to this can do

And in OTHER AI games news, Valve is updating it's TOS to allow AI generated content on steam so long as devs promise they have the rights to use it, which you can read more about on Aftermath in this article by Luke Plunkett

I wish more people used Magic the Gathering's Color Pie instead of D&D's alignment all of the time.

Like, saying a character embodies the selfishness and impulsivenes of Red Black offers more depth than Chaotic Evil

tired of my brain being filled with these bugs.

Need to get this out desperately