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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

#i spent the first 18 years of my life surrounded by terrible selfish cruel people #trust me: mean people are not interesting #they're pathetic and stupid and spiteful #and tbh it's extremely rare for me to find fictional villains even remotely interesting. their motivations are always so fucking predictabl #😴😴😴 #i think the only ones who aren't a total snooze are those who show enough compassion and goodness that you think they might change #but otherwise all they have going for them is usually like. cool outfits or something #cruelty #villains

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#what the fuck #that's amazing #art #tie-dye

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#slghalfdg cute XD #he's like a dog 😍😍😍 #video #cats

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It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

#yes #always reblog #shipping #fandom #slash

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#always reblog #death stairs

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"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together

#pffff #great analogy #XD

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#sdlkgjsl literally before i saw anything other than the first gif i was like ''whoa i didn't know elves were into wrestling'' #XD #amazing #silmarillion

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Okay, you know what? After reading this post, I jokingly said we should all just make a pact to reblog it five times a day forever. So I'm gonna do this louder for the people in the back:

AO3 WAS CREATED BY FANS, FOR FANS

AO3 IS RUN BY FANS (VOLUNTEERS, NO LESS)

AO3 IS PART OF THE NON-PROFIT, ORGANIZATION FOR TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS

AO3 IS NOT OWNED BY ANY COMPANIES AND DOES NOT EARN REVENUE

AO3 OPERATES ON DONATIONS FROM FANS

again:

AO3 WAS CREATED BY FANS, FOR FANS

#oh yeah gotta reblog this again #ao3 #archive of our own #otw #fandom #fandom history #fanthropology

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Hi! :) If you're still doing the SW hug requests: Waxer and Boil or Kix and Jesse? Thanks! <3

*sneakily adding in Numa

#i still love this one 🧡💚🧡 #boil #numa #waxer #art #tcw #wbn

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[Jedi Maul AU] me and @cranity​ was talking about a scenario where Maul and Kenobi get stranded a bit on Dathomir at the Nightbrother village, waiting for their ship to be fix. Maul soon found himself circling by curious younglings, he tried to act cool and ignored them at first but gave up. Now he just gushing over these exquisite little rascal because Maul have never seen any specimen like him before.

++ Maul joked that he “has every desirable attribute in abundance” and he would have make “aesthetic pleasuring offspring”…Obi-Wan holding back laughter in hopelessness like what the hell are you talking about “So, what are you thinking? Settle down here, fathered a couple of those, send me podcast later?" 

#lfkjgaf every time i see this one i need to chew crywall #SO CUTE D:< #jedi!maul #maul #savage opress #feral opress #darth maul #art #star wars #tcw

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Okay then. Today's the 23rd of February, so wish me luck!

I might just reblog this post as I go, meaning any followers/mutuals who might want to block it, I'll be using #comment bingo by valkeakuulas tag.

You can find this and two more Comment Bingo Cards from @feedthefandomfest

#yoooo that fic is so good though! #also yay comments! :D #fic rec #comment bingo

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These days, it seems to be fashionable to refuse to believe that AI has any possible use beyond "plagiarizing" (please look up the actual definition of that word?) fic, so I wanted to share a brief list of questions I have asked MS Copilot and Perplexity as a demonstration that the bots can actually be leveraged to HELP fic authors.

Generate a list of one to two word writing prompts about things soldiers experience while at war.

using the list above, iterate to add 12 prompts that touch on the lighter side of life in a military unit

What are some good names for a secret society?

using the list above, iterate to include fraternal organizations comprised of soldiers

Generate a list of possible titles for a story about brotherhood, loss, and the horrors of war

re-generate the list above with a tone of sadness or mourning

To be clear, I have not used any of the results wholesale. The titles query in particular produced a set of very cliche and overly dramatic possibilities, no matter how many times I refined the ask. The prompts were pretty decent and I cherry picked them to add to other lists of prompts I've gathered, then used AI to randomly shuffle the list, divide it into sections of 25, shuffle those 25 in each section, etc. This was done to make personal bingo cards and I'm pretty pleased with the results. In the case of the question about the secret society, the AI tendency toward the absurd actually worked in my favor, though I did not like any of the answers well enough to choose it. AI can be incredibly useful when you are stuck on something.

what are six ways a man might escape from a burning building?

generate a list of four types of injury that would prevent a person from walking, but would not be fatal

how might a robot respond to being teased by humans in a sci-fi setting?

in layman's terms, explain the science behind the concept of hyperspace travel in sci-fi

Those are all ways of generating ideas that you can then chew on and adapt for your own use rather than sitting and staring at a blank page or blinking cursor. AI can help you brainstorm. I haven't tried this yet, but I bet it could also help you figure out what the cliches in any given genre are so you can either lean in or run away from them.  Something like "in Star Wars fan fiction, what are the most common ways Obi-Wan Kenobi and Commander Cody flirt with one another?" might produce a list of Codywan tropes that either sparks your imagination or makes you laugh hysterically. There's a lot of worry that AI will replace artists and writers and, yeah, there are people who are using it to create things out of whole cloth. We're all entitled to our opinions on that (mine are deeply conflicting and still forming, tbh). But we shouldn't damn the tool because we perceive that people are abusing it. The tool can help you if you let it.

#same goes for visual art - plenty of folks use generators as tools to come up with ideas for environments and color combinations etc etc etc #ai #creative tools #writing

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Baleen Whale Fall

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#i remember seeing this video shortly after the livestream aired! #amazing #whale fall #ev nautilus #gifs #cw animal death

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So I thought this was commonly known internet navigation (but apparently it might just be those of us who have been using the internet since the 90’s who still know it). Or so it seems based on… a grumpy comment I got.

When you see an arrow like this:

It means you click it to expand out a hidden section.

It’s an accordion section/menu! It’s useful in web design to hide information that may be overwhelming under specific headers so people can only see what they need.

Here I’m using it for people who need the content warnings to be able to check, but for those who don’t need them and don’t want to be spoiled to just move right past without accidentally reading anything.

It’s still the user’s responsibility to click the arrow and read things as they need! But it is all warned. (And, yes, the all encompassing issues are already a tag on the fic, I’m just providing additonal warnings per chapter.)

#always reblog #i love using this in author notes when i feel the need to yammer on and get embarrassed by the length of my yammering #so then i can hide my shame under the arrow #XD #the shame-hiding arrow #ao3 #html #details

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Darth Maul from Brawlhalla

#oh that looks nice! #maul #animation #star wars

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Nice whumpy thing: when people are intensely pragmatic about their injuries illnesses.

“Listen, if I pass out…”

“If you let up pressure, I’ll bleed out. So just, don’t move.”

“I know it ill hurt, just do what you need to.”

#heh #good stuff

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Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

#that august 15 reblog is the one I need the kids to internalize #that's how they divide and conquer us kids #<- prev tags #i grew up in a poor rural area in the 80s and 90s and have never been part of any irl queer community #my mom was not queerphobic at all but she's also not very well educated and i grew up with the idea that queer was a slur #i was surprised when i started seeing people online using it a lot in the past decade or so (probably just a result of the spaces i was in) #but it was very clear they were not using it as a slur so why the fuck would i lecture them about it #it's more inclusive + easier to use and i don't owe anyone information about me. queer is more than enough #queer stuff