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If you ever feel like you don't contribute to fandom because you "only" comment—

A regular serial commenter just joined a fandom Discord server I'm on and people are coming out of the woodwork to thank her for her service to the fandom, expressing how much joy her comments on their works bring them.

Remember—they're never only comments.

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Gong Jun in Thailand 04/2024.

#gong jun #srill not over these photos

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Gong Jun Studio Weibo Update 2024/04/10.

#gong jun

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Whenever I see a post talking about how it's okay to steal from huge corporations, when they have shit like self checkout, I always want to jump up and say they have cameras and are collecting your information and you need to be so careful because yeah like they're inflating the prices and running monopolies and price fixing with competitors but everybody is caring about shoplifters more and that's really fucked up, but you also need to consider that Target might be keeping track of every time you don't scan something or intentionally scan it wrong, and just waiting for it to add up to a felony.

Which feels entirely beside the point and almost inappropriate to bring up when the point is that the customer is already a victim of theft, but I feel like there are people encouraging others to do stuff that can absolutely end up with them in jail without mentioning at all that it's a risk.

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Gong Jun Studio Weibo Update 2024/04/13.

#gong jun #gdi #I can’t tell if my allergies/eczema is acting up #or if JJ is just that hot

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"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

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it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.

#as someone who teaches college classes #it may seem like busy work #but assignments have a purpose #if you ise chatgpt you not only don’t learn the material #you don’t learn how to utilize or apply that knowledge #knowledge builds on itself #if you don’t even solidify your foundation #it will come back to bite you later

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Gong Jun Studio Weibo Update 2024/03/27.

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If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

#this makes so much sense #why it takes me forever to finish even a short story #but also #my attention span these days is short #because my mind runs a mile a minute #pondering tasks I need to do

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#spot the AI #I don’t like reblogging AI images #but #this is some good advice to train to look for AI

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#word of honor #wen kexing #zhou zishu #shan he ling

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Mystery solved, everyone!

Emails between the Hugo Awards admin team last year were leaked and turns out the American & Canadian members willingly went through all the finalists and removed those of us who they thought might offend China.

The leaked emails

The full exposé

Edit: We can't yet say for sure if the team did this due to government pressure or not. If you read the exposé there's a piece of evidence that suggests the local Sichuan government had a hand, but there's no confirmation. The point is that the Western admins chose to actively comply instead of uphold the integrity of the awards.

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one of the important cornerstones of fandom is understanding that your headcanon is not everyone else's headcanon, and i'm not sure when people stopped understanding this

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Don’t Like, Don’t Read.

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Merry Christmas 2023🎄❤️💙

#junzhe #lld #fanart #brilcrist artwork

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#cat

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Gong Jun for GQ MOTY 2023.

#gong jun