at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"
like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.
"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."
... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.
and i'd still keep writing.
i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.
i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley
"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"
and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.
it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.
you create because you're greedy.
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Until Dawn’s Original Ending
Going to share another one of my Until Dawn Reddit posts here.
Did you know….
That an unused scene in the game involved 5 characters (Presumably Sam, Mike, Chris, Ashley, and Emily) dying in a cable car? The fandom has known about this since a trophy was discovered for it in a build of the PS3 version of Until Dawn. The trophy was called “Cable Scar” and, again, said five people died in a cable car. We didn’t know much more about it until recently.
I ended up getting sent a link to a podcast by a group called Crimson-Head who said they thought I’d be interested in an interview they did with Will Byles (director of Until Dawn) . Of course, I had to listen. Well, during the interview, he said something CRAZY interesting.
The original ending of Until Dawn was the survivors making it to the cable car station. The car then jammed halfway down the mountain and the group got stuck. The game ended with someone going, “I’m really hungry.”
Now this makes sense if you consider that it was foreshadowed by Chris and Sam getting stuck in the car at the start of the game!
If you want to see the direct quote and pertinent links, I provided that stuff on Reddit.
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I love how the viewer’s perception of Nadakhan shifts based on the words of the character’s around him. When Nadakhan reveals his plans to use Nya to get infinite wishes, Jay states that Nadakhan never truly loved Delara. The viewer thinks that Nadakhan is just a power hungry villain but in the season finale we see that isn’t true, and he truly did care for her. He’s not inconsistent, because we’re letting other character’s descriptions shape our view of him, only to have his actions contradict those views. It wasn’t Nadakhan himself that said he never loved Delara
I love Nadakhan as a character because it was so easy for the writers to make him a sympathetic villain, or a power hungry one that never cared for the others around him. But they made him both. He offered to save his father in Djinjago’s final moments, but he also needed to become king to gain infinite wishes. He didn’t want to leave his crew stranded in different realms, but he betrayed his crew the minute he got infinite wishes. His plans were both always about his needs and never solely about his needs. He’s full of contradictions that make him complex enough to sympathise with but also to be happy when he fails. He’s conniving, but he was also a captain that cared about his home and crew before casting it away for the sake of his love and power
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I think the main reason WW's Ganondorf is so different from the others it's because he has learned that his battle against the Goddesses is not a matter of everyone against him/the gerudo but rather a everyone against the gods.
Besides Demise's curse, Ganondorf has always been flooded by his wish of revenge: revenge against the hylians who marginalized his people, revenge again the hero who slayed him, revenge against anyone who opposed him. He doesn't fight for a just cause because he believes the world is unjust and the only way of surviving is by being unjust in return.
But in the Adult Timeline, after the events of OoT and breaking his seal, he discovers an awful truth: it's not that the world is unfair, the Goddesses are. Just to seal him again, they flood the whole kingdom they were supposed to protect, killing most of the hylians population and condemning a few selected survivors to struggle in tiny islands isolated from the rest by a huge sea warren of fishes but filled with dangerous monsters. Even the other races had to undergo drastic changes in their bodies to survive un the aftermath of the flood. That's when Ganondorf understood that the Goddesses weren't just unfair: they were uncaring, and willing to sacrifice anything to torment anyone who wronged them.
I think this is why Ganondorf, even thought some of his actions are still deplorable (launching Link to drown at the sea, kidnapping girls, allegedly destroying a village...), we see that he's less willing to actively hurt people (in the final battle, he has TWO clear opportunities to kill Link and Tetra, and in both times he just incapacitates them, and besides whatever happened in Windfish island we never see him sending his monsters to attack people, just kidnapp a few of them). In fact, he's motivanted by a more "noble" cause: to bring Hyrule, or better said, his idyllic version of it, back from the seafloor. This could be because he has stopped seeing hylians as the "other", and has started to consider them as being from the same band, just a bunch of mortals trying to survive the whims of the gods, who play with them as if they were mere chesspieces.
So, in a sense, Ganondorf is not really much different from its other incarnations. He's still full of hatred and rancor, but It has been redirected. Not against the royal family, who exiled his people to the deserts. Not against the hylians, who lived si much better than them and even had the gall to call them thieves when they were just trying to survive. Not against the hero and the princess who defeated and sealed him when he tried to reclaim what he thought he deserved.
It's the Goddesses.
The Goddesses that drowned their people to "protect" them from him.
The Goddesses that decided it was okay to let two children fight against him as their champions. Forever.
The Goddesses that decided he is the one and only Big Bad Guy of the story when they have commited more atrocities than him, both by action and inaction.
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Kirby and Bandana Dee’s Expedition to Toadstool Thicket
Based off:
Some world-building for Toadstool Thicket because I was bored:
In Toadstool Thicket, you’ll find many inhabitants here, such as:
And most importantly:
Many craps decided to move to Toadstool Thicket after wanting to do more than just falling apart and exploding in a Kirby sub-game in a Kirby spin-off game (Mass Attack, my beloved). Craps love living in Toadstool Thicket and will clean up whatever trash they find! Which usually means they self-destruct, destroying the trash but also themselves in the process.
Tree:
Scientific name:
Arecaceae Muscaria
Other names include:
Palmstool:
The most common name for this tree is because it looks like a fusion of a palm tree and a toadstool.
Toad Trees:
Kids often call these trees Toad Trees, due to the Toad Trees having a large mushroom on the top of their base that can be bounced on. Most kids don’t know that toads can’t jump and frogs can.
Coconuts:
The trees mutated these coconuts to look and sometimes even taste like a mushroom. These coconuts evolved to no longer have their green outside due to their pattern being enough to ward off any animals. This energy that was used to make the green outside is now used to maintain their life expectancy. Due to the large mushrooms they host acting parasitic in nature.
Instead of there being a seed inside, there's a mushroom that has rooted itself in the meat of the shell. The mushroom seed makes the coconut dangerous to eat, but it's not impossible. With enough skill, the inhabitants of Toadstool Thicket learned to carefully remove the roots from the meat, allowing it to be consumed. The water, on the other hand, is much easier to prepare by filtering it through activated carbon.
The meat on the outside of the shell has the texture of a mushroom and the flavor of a coconut. The coconut water, on the other hand, is more complicated. Depending on how big the mushroom in the coconut is, the water can have a broth-like taste to it.
Notice the graph above:
Dot 1:
At dot 1, the mushroom is small, basically giving the coconut the classic coconut taste with barely any hint of mushroom.
Dot 2:
At dot 2, the mushroom is at its ideal size, the coconut water has a mushroom broth flavor with hints of coconut to balance out the saltiness of the mushroom. Perfect for any recipe that includes these coconuts. Chefs have killed to get the perfect coconut. It's also great bragging rights to say your dish is all natural and not modified to taste like the ideal coconut.
Dot 3:
At dot 3, the mushroom is large, giving the water a mushroom broth taste that's a bit too salty for anyone's liking.
Some dishes that can be made using the coconuts:
The coconut shells can also be used in dyes and give off a lovely red to maroon color.
Bird Statues:
These bird statues can be found everywhere in Toadstool Thicket. No one knows why they were made, but popular theories are:
-They were made to please their gods
-They were made in the image of their gods but were also used as guides to keep track of where you were in the forest
-They were made for their rulers who usually associated themselves with the gods.
But the even stranger thing about these statues is that there's a third version of this bird statue with longer wings but their heads are completely destroyed and with what researchers assume to be the beak, tucked under their wing. And unlike the other statues, are hollow.
There are three popular theories about what this statue could've been:
Theory #1:
They were large instruments designed to be performed for the Gods.
The reason for this is because the statue closely resembles a Bird God who is the embodiment of music and karma. This is due to its large wings and tail. There are also traces of DNA inside these mysterious statues.
Theory #2:
They were used to contain and filter water. This is because the statue could also resemble the Bird Goddess of water and life, who also had large wings and a tail. This one is the weakest theory of all three.
Theory #3:
They were used as coffins to respect and bury the dead. This is because (this is the final one) the statue could also resemble the Bird God of death. Along with the DNA that was mentioned earlier found inside the statue.
Alternatively, there's another theory that stems from the previous one that the statues were used for punishment. Forcing the person who has committed the crime to be trapped and sealed away in the statue until they die. This is because some people believe that the Bird God of music and karma is the same as the Bird God of death, making this an oddly poetic way to punish criminals. The DNA, and a more recent discovery that the old civilization was more strict on what was right or wrong with them having punishments being cruel and unusual, like eating a coconut with its shell on.
That’s all I want to say about Toadstool Thicket
I’m going to watch Over the Garden Wall now.
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Underrated (or simply unknown) hungry tummy kink fuel is trans guys who go on T and suddenly get insanely hungry from the hormone. This happened to me when I started, and god at the beginning it felt like my stomach was just absolutely rumbling constantly. I was starving all the time, even when I stuffed myself full sometimes my brain still sent hunger signals for a bit, and I'd have to stop myself from making myself sick eating so much.
I also got crazy horny which also happens on T but with the added hunger aspect it was... Listen if you're a trans guy starting T and you have a hunger kink you'll be having a time is all I'll say alright
Now obviously I wouldn't want people to be fetishizing the transness part of this scenario but like, if you ever want to have a trans guy OC for your hunger kink blog, you get that boy some gender affirming care and he'll be a whole fountain of hunger for ya
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Thank you for the tag, @bellaxgiornata! I enjoyed this one!
(Link found here)
What this has hilariously illustrated to me is that I am absolutely a fanfic trope racoon who's willing to read just about anything if I'm hungry enough. Google I did the math and 84% of these are 'sure if I'm in the mood' or higher. And if I trust an author a TON, I may even follow them into the dark lands of Major Character Death and Dark Fic. So if you include those 'if I trust you' tropes, I'll read 93% of these in the right scenarios. 😂 Equally hilarious, I've managed to squeeze 14 of the 16 top tropes for me into TRT. LIVE YOUR DREAMS PEOPLE.
Honestly my NEVER EVER category is really small. Pregnancy + babies are a hard no due to tokophobia (ironically only solidified years ago by trying to WRITE a pregnancy fic I was assigned in a fic challenge), as well as bad memories of being around babies that were hard on my sensory issues. And 'unhappy ending' is out because I generally read as a form of escapism. I'll follow characters through all SORTS of tragic shit as long as there's a promise, or even just an implied 'maybe eventually in time there's a happy ending and they make it through', but if there's no light at the end of the tunnel, I tap out pretty quick.
Tagging those who might enjoy this: @heybluechild @wonderlandmind4 @shouldbestudying41 @stress--relief @burstanddecay @bunnelbie @cellophaine @feelmyskinonyourskin
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