i should be writing

SOUND ON.

"How could you do this" with the help of the demon blade "this isn't you" well yeah it's me and the demon blade "I know you're a good person" yeah that wasn't in question "please come home" not if you're gonna be a dick to the demon blade "we need to destroy the demon blade" listen I don't come to family gatherings and say we Need To Destroy aunt cassie and she's genuinely evil, unlike the demon blade

tell me my prof didn’t upload the reading by photocopying his kindle reader page by page

bruh

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Art by BlueSky user Adi Fitri

do people have no shame anymore?

Screw this crap sideways with a monorail. HELL no.

the nice thing is, if you use a custom skin on Ao3 then this is a great list of tags to add css blurb checks to style with 'display: none !important;'

I do advise making a new skin and naming it your Anti-AI list or whatever. Then adding it as a parent to your current custom skin instead of adding the list to the custom skin directly. Keeps things from getting too cluttered. As for what I mean by blurb checks...

for partial matches use href*=

for exact matches use href$=

You can knock out a lot of tags with partial matches and unique tags with the exact matches - note that partial/exact matches are upper/lower case sensitive

And what does doing this accomplish you might wonder? Well, when Ao3's backend returns a set of search results, it'll still return fics that have these tags. But any works with those tags won't be displayed because any element with the blurb tag that has within it anchor elements (links) that match the href criteria will have their display setting set to 'none'. Goodbye AI generated fics.

So if there should be twenty fics displayed on the page but you only see 19, then you know that one of the fics that matched your search results was tagged as being a fic written with AI.

There are some tags I didn't include when creating my own blocklist because things like 'AI assistant' could refer to using AI to help write a fic or... it could refer to a character like JARVIS in the MCU acting as Tony's assistant. Sometimes what we intend to convey when using a tag isn't necessarily what the tag wranglers tie that tag to. And that is the downside to doing a blocklist like this because you might wind up blocking a bit more than intended. So that is something to consider when deciding how broad or narrow you want to make your blocklist.

Another plus to consider is that doing this in an Ao3 skin instead of using an external tool is that it'll work anywhere you're logged into your account. Your computer, your phone, your tablet, 3DS, Playstation browser, whatever you're getting your fanfic fix from.

But the TLDR is, if you don't want AI fanfics wasting your time when your looking for something good to read, then here's a way to hide them from view.

what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

As I grow older I feel my capacity to understand that Miss Piggy is not a real person reached a peak in my adolescence and is now on a steady decline. I watched a Wendy Williams interview and there's this part that's like "can we get a ring cam!" and Miss Piggy shows her bling and I'm just like fuck she's so iconic. Miss Piggy who are you wearing? Miss Piggy have you ever considered running for office??

Like literally every time I see Miss Piggy there's a period where I need to readjust to the fact that it's not a person, and I feel that period is getting longer and longer with every instance

now all my Youtube recommendations are filled with Miss Piggy interviews. I’m not complaining. Miss Piggy what’s your secret to ageing so graciously

It's not just the audience; professional journalists, hosts, and actors report it is legitimately difficult to not see the Muppet as a person, and it is, in fact, incredibly easy to interview or act with them once the performer gets properly set up.

Like that one time they couldn't figure out why Kermit's audio was so garbage... then realized they'd put the mic on him instead of the performer.

this has been a very longstanding issue - before the muppet show was even a thing some muppets appeared in commercials, such as rolf the dog they had a continual problem where when people directing/shooting the dogfood commercial would give dirrection to rolf that they would be speaking to the muppet, to which rolf REPEATEDLY had to tell them ‘i cant hear you, you have to talk to him’ and point at the performer underneath him rolf is one of the most embarrassing muppets to need this direction as the performer is this, damn, obvious when not on camera

‘sir, i am a bathroom mat, the man you need to talk to is back there’

I did an interview with Gonzo one time, and when I got into the Zoom call, it was the actor on screen trying to figure out his audio. And then once he did, he went like “OKAY!” and then just like dove to the floor and it was Gonzo and there was never a moment when I doubted that the dude was just Gonzo’s tech guy 

I have met a muppet-like puppet in real life and when I tell you that my brain was hacked FUCKING INSTANTLY..... It was a person, I swear it was a person. I asked it for a hug (no i was not 5 years old, i was like 28 at this time). i genuinely don't know what came over me, it was just. It was a person???? Witchcraft

A couple years ago, I was invited to the birthday party of one of my former preschool students. I decided to bring my teaching puppet (a big rat) along because I knew several other kids from that class would be there, and she was always a huge hit with them.

They were, of course, very excited to see her. But what surprised me was that after the kids ran off to play in the sprinkler, the parents around me struck up conversation with the puppet. They continued for at least fifteen minutes, asking her questions like, "how long have you been teaching?" and "eaten out of any good dumpsters lately?" until one dad exclaimed "why have I been talking to a rat puppet this whole time!"

There's a guy who comes to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science with life size Skeleton puppets of mammoth/young T-Rex that he wears. You can fully see him in the middle of the skeleton, and it's a SKELETON, but absolutely everyone interacts with the puppets like they're living, breathing animals. I watched multiple people attempt to feed pretzels to the baby rex.

Hooters is just an extremely American take on a maid cafe if you think about it

your not wrong but you shouldnt say it

This is incorrect. Hooters was founded in 1983, and the first permanent maid cafe, Cure Maid Cafe, was established in 2001. Maid cafe’s are an extremely Japanese take on Hooters.

sir that is my beloved mutual with whom i have not shared a fandom since 2013

SIR that is my- okay, look i can't actually remember why i followed them or why they followed me, but I LOVE THEM, it would be WEIRD not to see them reblogging gifsets of shows i have no interest in!

i think if your account has existed on this site for a certain number of years you should be grandfathered into ad free browsing. a decade seems reasonable like if you signed up in 2012 or prior you have tenure

Were you a victim of the Mishapocalypse? You might be entitled to compensation

ah yes the “heart” function… or as i like to call it, the “i’ve never seen this post in my life yet there is glaring evidence to the contrary” button

im quitting tumblr

ok see u tomorrow

this post is now 10 fucking years old

and ur ass is still here