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forkaround · 1 year

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I wonder why so many people still remember Guardian despite how it got nerfed halfway through and how people remember the shitty special effects with fondness rather than chagrin. How even today people come across things from the set, details and entire maps of Dragon City. How much love fans have poured into this show that didn't make any big waves like The Untamed did! How there is an entire blog dedicated to finding photos of one of the main actors laying on things! You won't find this type of media experience anywhere else coz the end product was a mess but it was our mess!

#guardian #cdrama #zhu yilong #bai yu #zhao yunlan #shen wei #i still get requests on crack videos I made 2 years ago #to continue #and there are other channels still making crack videos of guardian #this show might not have been popular #but it surely is loved

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bo0bydrake · 1 year

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i have got to emphasise on the fact that this is huge actually- gay rights in football is something that's just barely discussed. during the world cup in qatar, captains were banned from wearing a one love captain's band because it was too political (it was just a band with a rainbow heart on it), homophobia and racism is practically rooted in the songs sung during matches and there are no out players in the premier league, or more generally, there is only one (1) out player in the top leagues. having a character simply just,, be with another man and also a footballer in the premier league is a huge statement and will hopefully aid in trying to make football a better space.

#i listened to a podcast about why there are no out players in sports last year #and the conclusion was that it had to do with a lot of different factors #among them: the fans #take for example in the netherlands there's a hooligan group that roots for feyenoord. they threatened a fellow supporter who -#- started a supporter's group for lgbt+ fans. and also tried to light the man's place of business on fire #and in an away game to (albania i wanna say??) they brought banners that said they wanted him to die of hiv #mind you this is a FELLOW SUPPORTER #for the same club #and the songs supporters sing are a hell of a lot less tame than in ted lasso #homophobic racist antisemetic or islamophobic chants are just regular business in football matches #and in addition to that: locker room culture!#locker room culture in football and many other sports (with the men mostly) is toxic as hell!#there have been some efforts to try and nip this in the bud with trainings and seminars on diversity being given at youth clubs #but it's an issue in society as a whole that a lot of young men are just homophobic as FUCK #and i mean having a character on an acclaimed and popular show on tv/streaming right now could have a huge impact #esp on all the young ppl who'll see this thru fk tiktok and whatnot #im just really excited for what this will bring. and i hope it might do some good in football as a whole #ted lasso #colin hughes #ted lasso season 3

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theprinceandthewitch · 4 days

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Man, what is it with Sonic Prime and it's need to make Shadow a Vegeta type of character? I've noticed how the western side of Sega has an apparent dislike for Shadow and Team Dark.

Shadow DOES have people he cares about. But Team Dark hasn't been acknowledged since, like, Sonic 06'. I also don't like how Rouge is shoehorned into Sonic's friend group... that doesn't make any sense to me, given Rouge's moral alignment. Rouge could have been included in the show without being pushed onto Sonic's team.

Again, I've noticed the western side of Sega has a very strange dislike for Team Dark vs the Japanese side of Sega and I'm not sure why that is tbh...

#sonic prime #I liked it for what it was. it's a show created specifically to reel in new fans... but again #I don't get why there's a dislike for Team Dark - it's popular for a reason #like there's literally nothing wrong with it. I've also noticed the western side has a preference for KnuxRouge #and it's like... i mean you can still do KnuxRouge stuff without completely disregarding Team Dark #and reducing Shadow to a Vegeta type of character.#I might rewatch Sonic X... Shadow and Rouge's friendship is everything to me BYE #the shit Shadow fans have to go through... I've been in these trenches for like 20 years bro

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everyfandomeverywhereallatonce · 4 months

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#i’ve been having this debate with my friend #she thinks it’s crazy the show is so popular now #and says no one even cared about before meghan and harry started dating #suits #meghan markle #prince harry #i thought of this because i read something earlier today #that said suits might be getting a revival

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bluesadansey · 1 year

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I think it’s so incredible that you people will have discourse about every other character and pairing and why they’re morally awful to you but Don’t have this attitude about the ship where a male character tries to pressure his fwbgf to have and raise their baby and reacts horribly to her decision to get an abortion because he was such a Nice Guy Sweetheart Prince (in your mind apparently) before this happened 💀.

#‘It was the 70’s-‘ *gunshots*#I was actually glad the show made his reaction even worse because I was like finally people will realize #but then barely anything about it among all the D/B/C stuff #like I just can not take someone in this fandom seriously if they see Karen x Graham as the ideal relationship #and Graham is so uninteresting even outside of this evil.#djats #fandom wank #abortion mention #he’s also such a dogged nice guy to her before this happens.#I was really worried that because they’re popular the show might change Karen’s ending which would have been a nightmare for me #Thank god they didn’t but I resent the implication of her reciprocating his feelings more than she did in the book #s speaks

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minas-linkverse · 2 years

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Hi! About the DTIYS, I’m going to try to limit reblogging only 2 posts per day, so each post gets time in the spotlight, and I dont spam anyone’s dashboards. If you dont want to see them, I’ll tag them DTIYS, as much as the art is amazing I understand there are people who are here just for the comic.

#Sorry if it'll take a while to get to your art due to this...!#It just feels wrong to reblog them all at once #...Also I might have to limit what I reblog in general #As much as I wanna save them all here.. The post has been way more popular than expected #Let me know if you have an idea on how I could show everyone's off...!

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the-busy-ghost · 2 years

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You know I used to beat myself up a bit for not reading/studying enough, and especially for wasting time during my teenage years because I stopped reading/trying and now have to catch up when it no longer matters or can do any good.

But I’m slowly realising of late that there are a lot of books I’m glad I never read before I was ready to seek them out myself. Currently reading “Wuthering Heights” and I am so so glad I didn’t read that book in high school- I would have wildly misinterpreted the premise (even if I liked it), and that would have been a great disservice to the author and the book itself. Now I can really try to understand it on a different level and I think I will only grow to appreciate it more in time.

#Also- I'm not quite finished it so I might be wrong in this but don't think so- having read it myself #I feel like social media and popular culture (or at least the opinions I have heard personally) do a real disservice to Emily Bronte #She often gets painted as if she were romanticising Cathy and Heathcliff's relationship for some bizarre reason #The narrator may be an unreliable one but the whole tone of the book shows that there are sooo many problems with their relationship #I won't say Emily Bronte CONDEMNS the relationship- I doubt she would do anything so stuffy and Victorian #But she's very clear about showing us how toxic their relationship was (and Heathcliff's character in particular)#But also how it stems from longstanding childhood abuse and neglect as well as issues of class and gender #And how nobody in the book no matter how nice can really claim to be exempt from blame on some level #As they all participate in a society that treats children as property and turns a blind eye to abuse #Or at the very least washes its hands saying 'well it's sad but that's the law and it's really the parent/master's problem'#And that abuse and neglect turns Heathcliff into a genuinely abysmal and horrifying person #Cathy's not in the same league but she's still a rather unpleasant person in the grand scheme of things #That being said! They are both sympathetic in different ways even as adults #They have some good qualities even under all that horror and Cathy in the end really does cut a pitiful figure #Let her breathe in the open air #Also like I think Bronte gives us a good idea of how things wouldn't necessarily be solved if Heathcliff and Cathy had stayed together #The effects of their childhood traumas have shaped them #Heathcliff sees anyone who isn't absolutely for him as being against him and would expect Cathy not just to be loyal but utterly partisan #Cathy must have her way and I don't think she would take kindly to Heathcliff disagreeing with her idea of what was best for them #Maybe I've just been reading the wrong media but because of its popular image I went into this book expecting to have to struggle through #some bizarre romanticisation of a toxic relationship where the reader is expected to totally fall in love with Heathcliff and excuse him #Or where Cathy is some kind of author's self-insert or the twentieth-century stereotype of how All Women Are Repressed And Only Want Sex #How lucky I am that a) that's really really not the case and b) that I am reading it at an age where I won't misinterpret it #Or allow my own judgement of the book and its merits to be clouded by some English teacher's Accepted Intepretation of Literature #Not that other people's interpretations haven't been absolutely fascinating and helpful #The pop culture view I was given was definitely based on only one particular type of interpretation of the novel #Also why do so many film/tv adaptations of the book seem to leave out the second bit of the story with the children etc?#I didn't even know that it isn't set in the Victorian era but the late eighteenth century! (Even if Victorian mores are important)#And god I love an old Yorkshire farmhouse with a cavernous kitchen and a date on the door lintel and a strange family history #reading log

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teruthecreator · 11 months

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god help you all when i'm finished with a picture's worth >:-)))))))))

#ignorance cloud on #the content i have planed is ohohoho......very very inch resting #in no particular order i have:#esper boys do weed fic (silly little oneshot)#toichiro character study (probably a stupidly long oneshot that will take me months to finish)#very special au that i will not discuss rn bc hehehe...i am evil #but that will either be a chapfic or a series of oneshots. probably chapfic #i might open requests or somethin once a lot of this stuff is in the works i like getting ideas from the audience #kinda tempted to do somethin w serirei just to show u clowns how to write it. staring pointedly at a certain fic thats very popular rn....#anyways. maybe ill write chapter 6 tomorrow. or start it. idk #been so fucking depressed lately i dont have a lot of motivation to do anything other than breathe and sleep #but ill try! lord help me i will try #maybe if i start tomorro wduring my day off i can have it done by like friday

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aesthetiicly · 1 year

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need to start making friends who actually listen to the 1975

#presale for their second sydney show is currently happening and there r still tix for reasonable seats AND GA #and it’s been over 6 hrs since presale started #but also I have no one to go with :))))))#and I can’t go by myself I might have a panic attack lol #I was debating buying 2 and then just trying to persuade a friend/make a new one but like :\\\ that’s so effortful #so lmfao I just won’t go #hopefully since it doesn’t seem as popular at this venue mb closer to the date there’ll still be tix left #and if I find a companion I’ll buy it then #at least I saw them live once 😩😩#also John mulaney is performing in sydney like next month?? but again I don’t have friends who watch him 😭😭

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lyfeward · 1 year

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I mean. I know everyone is upset about the "Venatori are still active in Tevinter" thing, but we've known that since Tevinter Nights. the Inquisition did a lot to hunt the Venatori . . . in southern Thedas. in Tevinter, the Lucerni are the ones trying to uproot them, but they are still very much an issue. the only quibble I would have is that Tevinter Nights gave me the impression the Venatori were out of favor and had gone to ground; no one was openly acknowledging being one. of course, that's not necessarily incongruent with what Hira is saying. we can't take everything characters say as objective fact. what she said might be true from her perspective or might have been true at the time her father was killed. after all, that seems to have happened when she was a child and thus would've been years before DA:I.

#OOC / HOLLY.#holly watches shows #absolution spoilers #I'm the first third of ep 5 so I might need to amend my stance as I continue watching #but for now what she's saying makes perfect sense to me and is in line with other canon material ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#contrary to popular belief the Inquisition's reach does not span all of Thedas #the games might be pc centric but not all of canon is #if anything I think we need to talk more about how long this means the Venatori have been around #they clearly didn't just pop up circa DA:I they've been around for a good while #in fact they probably existed before Corypheus was freed and he just scooped them up #it depends how old Hira is during Absolution and how old she was when her father was killed

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sidewalk-scrawls · 2 years

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I’ve been joking for a bit that if Our Flag Means Death doesn’t get renewed, it’s homophobia, but then I actually thought about it – And I’m now convinced if Our Flag Means Death doesn’t get renewed, it *is* in fact because of homophobia (implicit or otherwise). Like, to be clear, I don’t think the execs are sitting together in a room evilly rubbing their hands together, while declaring “let’s cancel the GAY pirate show.” Whatever decisions they make will be based on a profit motive because that’s how capitalism works.

I want to start out by emphasizing that I’m still pretty optimistic this show will get renewed! I’m also making some pretty big assumptions in this post – There are reasons besides homophobia that OFMD could be canceled, and my logic here isn’t airtight. I’m not using any actual stats because I don’t have access to the data HBO Max does, so I’m predicting what the data *might* look like based on what I’ve seen in other fields, primarily in the US. This post is also all from the perspective of why OFMD might be canceled, and again, I’m still hopeful it’ll be renewed! Regardless, I think this post is still an interesting look into a potential reason why more diverse shows seem to be canceled more frequently, even if that isn’t the case for Our Flag Means Death.

So why do I think that homophobia is the most likely reason that OFMD could be canceled?

To start, we know pretty well that this show out-performed expectations, especially in terms of views. If HBO Max cancels it, it probably has more to do with the audience they are trying to cultivate and the metrics they are trying to optimize (and that metric probably isn’t views). Let’s consider this quote from the earnings call with CEO of Warner Bros Discovery (the company that now owns HBO Max):

“Our goal is to maximize long-term shareholder value and asset value, not just subs,” [David Zaslav] said. “We will not overspend to drive subscribers.”

The above article includes the line:

As potent as HBO Max has become, however, Zaslav noted that it has “meaningful churn … much higher than we have seen.”

My main takeaway from those quotes is that Warner Bros Discovery wants to maximize “long-term shareholder value” by increasing long-term subscribers and decreasing subscriber churn. Churn rate basically just refers to how quickly a company is losing customers, and it’s a common metric for measuring subscription performance. From a financial perspective, it’s better for a company to maintain subscribers rather than to seek out replacements for the subscribers it loses. Low churn means more predictable profits, and it makes it easier for a company to achieve growth (the god of capitalism) since it’s not trying to constantly replace lost subscribers.

From a data analytics perspective, predicting the factors that impact churn rate has some… interesting implications. Let’s say, for instance, you decide to focus specifically on the sociodemographic factors. One *very* common factor found to be associated with high churn rate is lower income. This is not particularly surprising – If you have less disposal income, you’re probably less likely to keep subscriptions running when you’re not actively using them.

Now, HBO (probably) doesn’t have your actual income, but you know what they absolutely do have? Your name, your zip code, and your watch history. The zip code *alone* is a pretty strong stand in for income and other demographic info (at least in the US). I’ve used this myself for research into healthcare inequality in the US (...sigh) – Take a patient zip code, pair it with some income metrics from publicly available census data, and ta da! You have a factor strongly associated with a. unstable access to healthcare (leading to high churn rate!) and b. poor patient outcomes. In commercial industries, you don’t necessarily even have to go through that much effort – I can fully envision a company like HBO Max grouping together zip codes based on whatever metric they care about (such as churn rate), and using those groups as a stand-in for demographics. Whatever the case, commercial industries are almost certainly doing *something* with your zip code information.

Now, let’s combine the information gained from your zip code with your name and watch history. And while we’re at it, let’s consider the possibility that HBO Max has data from external providers. (The external data is purely speculation on my part, but it’s pretty common for companies to buy data in that way) This external data could provide even more info about you that you *didn’t* directly provide to them, and it can typically be matched up pretty easily based on the info HBO Max already has on you. After combining all this extra data with your watch history, the company can piece together a pretty good guess of your general demographics.

If HBO Max’s goal is to decrease churn rates, they can pretty easily identify shows that have an audience with a higher average churn rate, and then cancel those shows in particular. They don’t technically even *need* to figure out demographic information for that -- they can just look at the churn rate based on watch history -- but generally speaking, companies care about the *why* behind the churn rate, so they’re almost certainly digging into your demographic info.

Their cost analysis goes a bit deeper than churn rate alone, obviously – they’d want to adjust for views and overall cost, too – but for simplicity, let’s consider churn as an isolated factor. Since low income is often associated with high churn, this means that optimizing for that metric often disproportionately affects lower income people. This is obviously more harmful in some fields than others, but in the case of HBO Max this means that, by optimizing for low churn, they could potentially target shows for cancellation that have a lower income audience (intentionally or unintentionally).

That’s lousy enough on its own, but what does that have to do with OFMD and homophobia? I’ll start with the more “objective” reading before moving into the more cynical one.

For the more objective reason, let’s say execs are focused on analytics alone, and they are *not* actively targeting queer shows. Instead, they’re choosing to cancel shows that have an audience with high churn rates – As discussed, this often disproportionately impacts low income audiences. Now let’s think about OFMD’s audience: I am very, very confident that a large portion of OFMD’s audience is queer, and queer people typically have an average lower income than cishet people. Although I don’t have demographic data for this show, I’d suspect this is reflected in its audience (i.e. the audience is probably lower income than the average audience for other HBO Max shows).

BIPOC in the US also have a lower average income than white people, and while I’m not confident enough about the viewing demographics of OFMD to say that it has a larger BIPOC audience than other shows on HBO Max, this is absolutely still important to mention in this context. Considering the diversity of the cast and the way that the show handles race, I wouldn’t be surprised if this show also has a larger than average proportion of BIPOC in the audience. So implicit racism could play a part in this, too. It certainly plays a role, in general, when it comes to canceling more diverse shows.

All that goes to say that even if the execs aren’t targeting OFMD *specifically*, it’s very possible that they could select it for cancellation due to the (presumably) higher churn rate within the audience. So that’s already a pretty grim reading in my opinion – that they choose to cancel the show based on statistics alone, without thinking or caring about the implications.

The bleaker reason (I know, I’m sorry) is that the execs *do* target OFMD specifically. This goes back to what I was saying earlier, that HBO Max might be trying to cultivate a specific audience. The general relation between income and churn rate is not exactly a secret, so I’d be willing to bet that execs assume that shows with queer and diverse audiences often attract fewer long-term subscribers. Even if this isn’t reflected in OFMD’s metrics in particular, there’s a decent chance the execs don’t care. If they assume that the show will attract a less “mainstream” audience than other shows on the platform, they could decide to cancel it on that basis alone. And while I’m just guessing on the demographics of the show’s audience, HBO Max likely already has that information figured out.

Considering how well the show is doing, I imagine they’d want to justify its cancellation with some sort of metric, but that doesn’t really mean much – Statistics are tricky, and it’s pretty easy to twist the numbers to say what you want. (This, by the way, is a fun difference between academic research and business analytics. Research has peer review, which ideally helps to prevent this kind of twisting of data. In business analytics, the most convincing visualization wins. This is, at least, based on my personal experience in both. Can you tell which one I prefer lol).

The thing that causes me the most concern, honestly, is Warner Bros’ emphasis on trying to attract “long-term subscribers.” There’s an underlying suggestion there that they’re aiming to focus on shows that cater to a “mainstream” audience. Queer and diverse shows are often the first to get canceled because they don’t support that sort of “safe” subscriber-base.

If Our Flag Mean Death gets canceled, could it be for a reason completely unrelated to homophobia? Sure. Anything’s possible. But I think the most likely paths to cancellation are built on either implicit or explicit homophobia.

Anyway, HBO Max should go ahead and renew Our Flag Means Death, thank you.

#i put this under a read more because i accidentally spent 3 hours writing a 1500 word essay #instead of writing the two articles that i have due tomorrow #oops #please clap #a lot of this is speculative!#but i spend a lot of time thinking about bias in data analytics #so i've been thinking about how metrics might influence hbo max's decision to renew this show #especially since it's so popular!!#and this suddenly clicked as a possibility #so anyway #i've convinced myself non-renewal of ofmd is homophobic lol #ofmd #our flag means death

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the-kipsabian · 2 years

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i would like to see live wrestling again pls

#ive been in one (1) live show in my life #thats the shit part about living up north in europe. we're not a popular destination for big companies lol #could go to a local show tbh. support our indies #but i miss the big leagues #then again i understand its not s big deal around here even before rona the wwe event wasnt packed so like. why would they come here lol #might have to start to plan like. europe/uk trip next year or whenever ugh #painnnnn #wrestling musing

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ms-demeanor · 5 months

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Why reblog machine-generated art?

When I was ten years old I took a photography class where we developed black and white photos by projecting light on papers bathed in chemicals. If we wanted to change something in the image, we had to go through a gradual, arduous process called dodging and burning.

When I was fifteen years old I used photoshop for the first time, and I remember clicking on the clone tool or the blur tool and feeling like I was cheating.

When I was twenty eight I got my first smartphone. The phone could edit photos. A few taps with my thumb were enough to apply filters and change contrast and even spot correct. I was holding in my hand something more powerful than the huge light machines I'd first used to edit images.

When I was thirty six, just a few weeks ago, I took a photo class that used Lightroom Classic and again, it felt like cheating. It made me really understand how much the color profiles of popular web images I'd been seeing for years had been pumped and tweaked and layered with local edits to make something that, to my eyes, didn't much resemble photography. To me, photography is light on paper. It's what you capture in the lens. It's not automatic skin smoothing and a local filter to boost the sky. This reminded me a lot more of the photomanipulations my friend used to make on deviantart; layered things with unnatural colors that put wings on buildings or turned an eye into a swimming pool. It didn't remake the images to that extent, obviously, but it tipped into the uncanny valley. More real than real, more saturated more sharp and more present than the actual world my lens saw. And that was before I found the AI assisted filters and the tool that would identify the whole sky for you, picking pieces of it out from between leaves.

You know, it's funny, when people talk about artists who might lose their jobs to AI they don't talk about the people who have already had to move on from their photo editing work because of technology. You used to be able to get paid for basic photo manipulation, you know? If you were quick with a lasso or skilled with masks you could get a pretty decent chunk of change by pulling subjects out of backgrounds for family holiday cards or isolating the pies on the menu for a mom and pop. Not a lot, but enough to help. But, of course, you can just do that on your phone now. There's no need to pay a human for it, even if they might do a better job or be more considerate toward the aesthetic of an image.

And they certainly don't talk about all the development labs that went away, or the way that you could have trained to be a studio photographer if you wanted to take good photos of your family to hang on the walls and that digital photography allowed in a parade of amateurs who can make dozens of iterations of the same bad photo until they hit on a good one by sheer volume and luck; if you want to be a good photographer everyone can do that why didn't you train for it and spend a long time taking photos on film and being okay with bad photography don't you know that digital photography drove thousands of people out of their jobs.

My dad told me that he plays with AI the other day. He hosts a movie podcast and he puts up thumbnails for the downloads. In the past, he'd just take a screengrab from the film. Now he tells the Bing AI to make him little vignettes. A cowboy running away from a rhino, a dragon arm-wrestling a teddy bear. That kind of thing. Usually based on a joke that was made on the show, or about the subject of the film and an interest of the guest.

People talk about "well AI art doesn't allow people to create things, people were already able to create things, if they wanted to create things they should learn to create things." Not everyone wants to make good art that's creative. Even fewer people want to put the effort into making bad art for something that they aren't passionate about. Some people want filler to go on the cover of their youtube video. My dad isn't going to learn to draw, and as the person who he used to ask to photoshop him as Ant-Man because he certainly couldn't pay anyone for that kind of thing, I think this is a great use case for AI art. This senior citizen isn't going to start cartooning and at two recordings a week with a one-day editing turnaround he doesn't even really have the time for something like a Fiverr commission. This is a great use of AI art, actually.

I also know an artist who is going Hog Fucking Wild creating AI art of their blorbos. They're genuinely an incredibly talented artist who happens to want to see their niche interest represented visually without having to draw it all themself. They're posting the funny and good results to a small circle of mutuals on socials with clear information about the source of the images; they aren't trying to sell any of the images, they're basically using them as inserts for custom memes. Who is harmed by this person saying "i would like to see my blorbo lasciviously eating an ice cream cone in the is this a pigeon meme"?

The way I use machine-generated art, as an artist, is to proof things. Can I get an explosion to look like this. What would a wall of dead computer monitors look like. Would a ballerina leaping over the grand canyon look cool? Sometimes I use AI art to generate copyright free objects that I can snip for a collage. A lot of the time I use it to generate ideas. I start naming random things and seeing what it shows me and I start getting inspired. I can ask CrAIon for pose reference, I can ask it to show me the interior of spaces from a specific angle.

I profoundly dislike the antipathy that tumblr has for AI art. I understand if people don't want their art used in training pools. I understand if people don't want AI trained on their art to mimic their style. You should absolutely use those tools that poison datasets if you don't want your art included in AI training. I think that's an incredibly appropriate action to take as an artist who doesn't want AI learning from your work.

However I'm pretty fucking aggressively opposed to copyright and most of the "solid" arguments against AI art come down to "the AIs viewed and learned from people's copyrighted artwork and therefore AI is theft rather than fair use" and that's a losing argument for me. In. Like. A lot of ways. Primarily because it is saying that not only is copying someone's art theft, it is saying that looking at and learning from someone's art can be defined as theft rather than fair use.

Also because it's just patently untrue.

But that doesn't really answer your question. Why reblog machine-generated art? Because I liked that piece of art.

It was made by a machine that had looked at billions of images - some copyrighted, some not, some new, some old, some interesting, many boring - and guided by a human and I liked it. It was pretty. It communicated something to me. I looked at an image a machine made - an artificial picture, a total construct, something with no intrinsic meaning - and I felt a sense of quiet and loss and nostalgia. I looked at a collection of automatically arranged pixels and tasted salt and smelled the humidity in the air.

I liked it.

I don't think that all AI art is ugly. I don't think that AI art is all soulless (i actually think that 'having soul' is a bizarre descriptor for art and that lacking soul is an equally bizarre criticism). I don't think that AI art is bad for artists. I think the problem that people have with AI art is capitalism and I don't think that's a problem that can really be laid at the feet of people curating an aesthetic AI art blog on tumblr.

Machine learning isn't the fucking problem the problem is massive corporations have been trying hard not to pay artists for as long as massive corporations have existed (isn't that a b-plot in the shape of water? the neighbor who draws ads gets pushed out of his job by product photography? did you know that as recently as ten years ago NewEgg had in-house photographers who would take pictures of the products so users wouldn't have to rely on the manufacturer photos? I want you to guess what killed that job and I'll give you a hint: it wasn't AI)

Am I putting a human out of a job because I reblogged an AI-generated "photo" of curtains waving in the pale green waters of an imaginary beach? Who would have taken this photo of a place that doesn't exist? Who would have painted this hypersurrealistic image? What meaning would it have had if they had painted it or would it have just been for the aesthetic? Would someone have paid for it or would it be like so many of the things that artists on this site have spent dozens of hours on only to get no attention or value for their work?

My worst ratio of hours to notes is an 8-page hand-drawn detailed ink comic about getting assaulted at a concert and the complicated feelings that evoked that took me weeks of daily drawing after work with something like 54 notes after 8 years; should I be offended if something generated from a prompt has more notes than me? What does that actually get the blogger? Clout? I believe someone said that popularity on tumblr gets you one thing and that is yelled at.

What do you get out of this? Are you helping artists right now? You're helping me, and I'm an artist. I've wanted to unload this opinion for a while because I'm sick of the argument that all Real Artists think AI is bullshit. I'm a Real Artist. I've been paid for Real Art. I've been commissioned as an artist.

And I find a hell of a lot of AI art a lot more interesting than I find human-generated corporate art or Thomas Kincaid (but then, I repeat myself).

There are plenty of people who don't like AI art and don't want to interact with it. I am not one of those people. I thought the gay sex cats were funny and looked good and that shitposting is the ideal use of a machine image generation: to make uncopyrightable images to laugh at.

I think that tumblr has decided to take a principled stand against something that most people making the argument don't understand. I think tumblr's loathing for AI has, generally speaking, thrown weight behind a bunch of ideas that I think are going to be incredibly harmful *to artists specifically* in the long run.

Anyway. If you hate AI art and you don't want to interact with people who interact with it, block me.

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Yandere! Monster x Reader Headcanons

You find yourself kidnapped into a half-breed family of monsters and humans, for the purpose of an arranged marriage. Luckily for you, the groom is their only pure human, terribly handsome and charming. You'd perhaps appreciate him more if your eyes weren't glued to his monstrous older sibling...

Content: female reader, monster smut, reader is a shameless monster hoe

[Part 2]

You always imagined such kidnappings to be of theatrical intensity, being scooped up against your will as you scream and flail your arms, longing for a savior. The affair itself felt more like a formal summoning. Mysterious men appeared before you and merely announced that your presence is required, unfortunately without the choice of refusal. Might as well. You packed necessities under their polite supervision and now you're sitting at the table, facing multiple strangers who are casually enjoying their lunch. One of them, the head of the family apparently, explains that half-breeds are in a rather sensitive place when one considers human and monster politics. Thus, every now and then, they will do whatever it takes to strengthen their bonds and show good intent towards both species. This time it's an arranged marriage with a fellow human.

Why you, in particular? No need to concern yourself with intricate details. What matters now is that you are to be married soon and your groom is right here, enthusiastically waving in a welcoming greeting. You scan his features and can't help but agree with the family: he is, by all definitions, a conventionally handsome man. His face is carefully chiseled in most elegant, yet masculine features. His voice is confident but warm, and you can tell by the flock of servants hovering around that he's rather popular. After the luxurious meal he guides you around the imposing home, showing you to your room and briefing you on future responsibilities. Caring, attentive, and several other checks that you can easily mark in his favor.

Yet one vital aspect has been omitted. The prince's mesmerizing beauty was rather swiftly discarded once you realized the presence of his older sibling, a pure monster blood towering above everyone else and idly eating his food, uninterested. You managed to hide your blush in time, but you couldn't help throwing curious glances. Might've been easier for everyone involved if they handed out 'monster lover' badges. Alas, you weren't prepared to ever be faced with the choice.

The next day you're awoken by the murmur of diligent work, as both servants and family pace back and forth about their plans. You sneak your way out - since nothing is yet expected of you - and wander until you find your intended target: the beastly sibling is polishing a bizarre weapon you don't recognize in what seems to be a storage room littered with battle memorabilia. He notices your presence and acknowledges you with a bored nod. You ask whether you may observe his current activity and he looks up at you, raising an eyebrow suspiciously before agreeing. Why would you care? Certainly there's more entertaining things for you to do as a soon-to-be bride.

As you listen to his little stories from the battleground (hardy monsters like him are better off fighting, not socializing), you have to pat your cheeks in desperate attempts to cool down your burning blush. "H-how comes you don't have a partner?" You mutter, almost feverish. "Not interested. Plus, who would dare to marry me?" he jokes, focused on the sharp item in his clawed hands. There it is. Hesitation and diplomacy out the window, you rearrange yourself, smoothening your clothing, and whisper: "Well, if I had to choose, I would've preferred you as my husband..."

Once again he stares at you bewildered. Have you come here to mock him or something? A frail, pretty human like you, about to tie the knot with his stunning younger brother, showing up here and behind everyone's backs to openly flirt with him. Ridiculous beyond comprehension. His skin is thick enough to not mind such twisted humor, so if anything he's impressed by your audacity. Alright, if you've come for jokes, he'll comply. He places his weapon down and fully turns to you. A little scare might teach you to be more respectful with your in-laws next time.

With a speedy movement that's barely registered by your eyes, he pushes you on the floor and pins you by the wrists, lowering himself uncomfortably close to your face. "If you tease me like this, I might not be able to hold back." He says as he forces himself to smile extra hard, revealing the multiple rows of fangs. "In fact, I can't guarantee you'd make it out of here alive." Hopefully he isn't going too far with his tactics. He senses your frantic breathing and is about to apologize for continuing your prank, but you blurt out in a daze: "Yes, please! I've been thinking about it ever since I saw you." You're panting for dear life as your face is turning a deep shade of red.

Uh oh. Now this is awkward. You weren't...you weren't kidding. For a moment, he freezes in place, trying to recollect himself to no avail. Fucking your brother's future wife in a storage room in the middle of the day feels like poorly written erotic romance. Then again, he can't deny the sudden urge overwhelming him at the mere thought of it. You're squirming underneath him, gliding your legs across his now obvious bulge. His common sense is hanging by a comically thin thread and he can almost hear the instant when it snaps. Thankfully some leftovers of sanity must have remained in the back of his mind and his lustful grunts while pounding you are kept low enough that no one is notified of your horny deeds. Shutting you up was the bigger challenge.

"Is this too tight, miss?" You spin in front of the mirror and the servant readjusts the lace corset adorning your wedding dress. You have to hold back your yawn. Downright shameless and perverted of you to daydream about your monster boyfriend while trying on bridal gowns, but it's not like you agreed to it to begin with. You were kind of hoping to discuss future dating prospects post-intercourse, but someone had been looking for you shortly afterwards and you struggled to regain your composure. Your scary-looking suitor shooed you away with the promise of a reunion.

Before the servant can reach for the next dress, you both jump, startled by angry shouts coming from the hall. You rush outside to witness the older sibling standing before the head of the family. The wrathful threats were coming from the much smaller half-human. "Y-you can't just decide like that!" He screams. "Of course I can. You're welcome to fight me for it." The monster sibling flashes a smug grin. "Can anyone here defeat me?" His question is met with silence. He spots you and gestures you to come towards him. "I'll say it one more time. Find another human for my brother if you have to. This one is mine." He ends his sentence in a low growl and you shiver underneath his heavy arm. Boy, what a time to be alive.

#this feels more like a parody but I randomly thought of it last night sorry #yandere #yandere x reader #yandere x darling #yandere monster #yandere monster x reader #monster x reader #monster smut #monster fucker #terato #teratophillia #yandere headcanons #monster boyfriend #monster x human #female reader #monster imagine #monster headcanons

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i love these tags this person is so right

actually, can you imagine if dave was raised by B1 roxy?

i wanna get into this actually

(ok i had to spend a few hours rewriting this because IT DIDNT FUCKING SAVE AFTER FIVE HOURS OF WRITING WHEN MY COMPUTER UPDATED WHILE I WAS AFK so it would mean a lot to show this post some appreciation. i LOVEEE hearing what other people have to say)

even though these things mom does are presented in an extravagant, kitsch, jokey way, her intentions always came from a place of sincerity. she is simply Funnie

but rose reads too far into it and assumes things that aren't there, that her mother is passive-aggressively feigning interest in rose's interests simply because the things she does are so extra. "why do all of this if not to mock me"

im telling you right now if dave lived in this household he wouldn't assume antagonism, he'd go,

don’t forget who LITERALLY patented tangible jpeg artifacts as their post-scratch adult self and scattered shitty scummed up statue of liberties all over the planet. theres no way some of that overboard artful shit wasnt post-ironic / circling back around to genuine funny sincerity

dave's natural state is funny sincerity like roxy. he's had the natural capacity for this type of humor from the start and this is the direction he goes towards when he grows out of his brother's shadow by the end of the comic. dave and roxy share an earnest “so bad its good” type of humor

(lots more under the cut; the length of this meta analysis just got unwieldly with all the pictures and whatnot)

despite the alcoholism, roxy is a supportive mother. she's not the ideal guardian but hells of a lot more supportive of her kid than bro is. if she knew dave's interests she would totally indulge in them with some over the top silly goofy haha shit as a genuine gesture simply because she loves him

rose isn't too keen on it though. but she is more similar to dirk in her natural state of thinking of overthinking shit and assuming the worst, like the tags said

and yes dave got the sweet cuddly yet sometimes backhanded ouppy gene from roxy, probably even moreso lol

roxy's even said rose "sounds like girl dirk"

side tangent here, but this is something i wanna talk about.

i dont think bro should ever be in custody of children ever but if theres anyone who would be up to the task it's rose probably. i know she'd be able to keep up with him. not only does she have a defined personality (dave is more malleable and absorbs his environment like a sponge), if anyone can pick apart B1 dirk's batshit brain and probably be right on the money it's her. lil cal has been pumping patriarchal nonsense into bro's head and rose would be able to bring the fucking facts to the table without losing her own and being a living example of a badass little girl. i also don't think bro would try to force masculine roles onto rose like he did with dave, seeing as she is a girl, so she would actually have more of a leg up and get some passes that dave was never afforded. and rose wouldn't stand idly and accept any bullshit; she is no doormat. and i think this would earn bro's respect

but anyway, from this, couldn't we conclude roxy "sounds like girl dave"?

yeah okay. we havent even gotten into their penchant for funny typos or misspeaks, deliberate or otherwise

so, dave's environment

the sentiment "god you hope you can be as good as your bro at this some day" might have been genuine at the time when he idolized bro but of course he's not able to express that in any sort of sincere fashion because he's in dirk's fucking household. and this level 10 irony shit isnt doing dave any favors

his role models were the Internet and a vague idea of what Bro was like. So he built up his facade based on irony–not the literary definition of irony, as Rose might be quick to point out, but a popular concept of irony based on the idea that things that didn’t make sense actually made sense in some roundabout way. As a master of irony, Dave probably reasoned, he could see in a way other people couldn’t why a world that was scary and didn’t make sense really did make sense, and could therefore convince those people that he was superior to them. And he would wield his knowledge to maintain the appearance of superiority by calling everything ironic and pretending he didn’t care about things that didn’t make sense, and he would use walls of vaguely rhyming words to keep everyone at arm’s length so they wouldn’t discover his insecurities (source)

roxy's style is the embodiment of post-irony. being raised by mom lalonde would be like being raised by joel vinesauce ok

what can i say ….. (getting meta about this actually, hussie got these jpeg wizard wallpapers from a spyware website. link takes some time to load because internet archive)

rose is quick to read post-irony as actually being a joke/insincere, which in bro's case would be true. but i believe dave's natural instinct, outside of the influence of bro, is to read post-irony as genuine, which is exactly how mom serves it. we see this as early as act 3 from him; he understands her motives better than rose does herself:

and in act 6 intermission 2 i think it's pretty clear

but the thing is, it's always genuine from her. dave wouldn't have to second guess it because he's not one to naturally second guess someone's sincerity; that was learned due to his bro being virtually unassailable

there two types of ironies at play here:

seems like a joke, is actually genuine (roxy)

doesnt seem like a joke, is actually a joke (dirk)

you can make the argument that the second is is more psychologically destructive because it makes you question the reality of what is genuine sentiment and what isn't. dave never knew what was genuine and what was irony so he just sort of existed in this sincerity-ironic limbo and always did the opposite of what he genuinely felt on principle even if it always did originate from a genuine place.

"it just a joke bro i was just being ironic i dont actually x" is so much more trust-breaking and psychologically damaging than "wait are you being serious" / "i am being so fucking fr rn davy gravy" / "ok thats actually pretty fucking awesome. giant ass wizard statue" / "RIGHT"

how much about dave would change do you think? his character arc would be completely different for one thing, i think he'd have it good aside from mom's alcohol issues. he'd be left with the sweet and funny parts of him that we see at the end of the comic. the fake coolguy stuff is out, but this remains. this is dave in his element and we see it as early as act 1

he'd probably have no shades growing up in the lalonde residence* either cause those were given to him by bro straight out of the crater as an extension of his own cool image. and john gave dave ben stiller’s aviators for his 13th birthday to replace them so he could “spread his wings”

dave said he was wearing them for the ironies but i kind of doubt it. maybe post-irony but there was some reacharound to it being genuine because dave never put those pointy anime shades on his face again.

*though... it’s kind of hard to imagine him without his shades at all? B2 dave still got stiller’s shades from stiller himself so maybe getting them is a universal constant. i can imagine mom getting him them as a birthday gift cause shes pretty wealthy and probably could buy it out in an auction. but also itd be cool if john still gave him it as a gift

dave is actually a lot more genuine and easy to read than he lets on even when grappling with his upbringing with B1 dirk (again, see this post). this can be seen all throughout he comic but a good example is the evolution of thoughts about his interest in the preserved dead things in his room:

if B1 roxy was dave's guardian he probably WOULD have pursued paleontology because she wouldve indulged him in it and probably find it cool and worthwhile to pursue, instead of allowing dave to flounder under ironic detachment, being poisoned by irony to the point of gaslighting himself into believing he doesnt actually believe he thinks this shit is cool. even if it was indulged in this such a way; a superficially kitsch and ironic appearing presentation, it comes from a genuine place and inspires genuine interest. just read the comments.

basically, i think if B1 roxy raised dave, their relationship would have a surface level appearance of being bizarre or over-the-top but they’d have an unsaid mutual understanding that it’s completely in earnest and just build on each other's funny and absurd gestures of affection. rather than seeing it as one-upping each other, it'd more like collaboration of some silly bullshit that you take a step back and look at full and just say, "fucking incredible"

speaking of paleontology, mom had the proto-ectobiology lab. maybe they'd be able to use the equipment to appearify paradox ghost imprints of the dead shit to create paradox clones of things from the cambrian era??? sounds like a fun mother son bonding activity. and theyd actually put the sciencey shit in the household to use

oh god i know exactly the kinds of music shed listen too also growing up as a teen in the 80s. she on that (post)-punk/art rock/new wave/new romantic mtv stuff. XTC shit fr. this is a B-52S HOUSEHOLD. maybe the associates for the campy melodramatic flair. so he gets to keep the record on his shirt cause he is an enjoyer of the shit in her vinyl collection. dave would still gravitate towards musical expression and music itself but of more variety outside of just rap, with an 80s-90s, even 70s flavor due to mom’s influence. see this for perhaps a glimpse. she probably visited new york city a lot for business trips and because the music scene was cool as hell around that time, imports came straight from jfk airport, she probably got in on that a bit and have remnants in the form of vinyls and cassettes. in this way she could be distributing void to dave (influencing him with forgotten / presently irrelevant music). now he can REALLY rave about bands none of his friends have heard of. “hey davy grvay watcha listenin to” (he holds up vinyl cover) “omg snakefinger”

btw dave lalonde would look like this to me

#homestuck #homestuck meta #dave strider #mom lalonde #roxy lalonde #hs #strilonde guardian swap

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PAIRING: lando norris x fem love island contestant!reader SUMMARY: y/n makes a one-off comment about lando norris being her type in a confessional, and the internet rolls with it all the way to lando norris' twitch stream. A/N: just bc i love me some love island 😌

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