I have a whole ass attitude today

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TO CLARIFY: The 988 lifeline is STILL able to be used! I feel that this post can be very easily misinterpreted. Like, this is so misleading. What happened is that DOGE cut staff who work for this lifeline as well as one that's specifically dedicated to veterans. Is this evil as fuck? Yes, absolutely, especially since this lifeline has had literally MILLIONS of callers as of 2024. Can you still use the 988 number in the US? YES, and if you ever feel the need to use it, please do. You may use any of the above resources. Stay safe out there, everyone. 🧡

not to be a killjoy but it's still crazy to me that it's considered mean to be like "maybe you should read / play / watch the source material before creating fanworks and diving into the fandom" bc every time i see somebody going "i havent played disco elysium or know anything about it tbh but uwu here's harry and kim kissing" idk maybe you should engage with it. maybe you should play the anti-capitalist surrealist game where you investigate the murder of a mercenary who led the gang rape of a foreign girl and process that for a bit? and then you can do cutesy mlm or whatever idc. but like at the absolute bare minimum you should understand what the source material involves otherwise we get the phenomenon of people joining a dragon age server and wanting content warnings for like, mage racism. like it's fine to ship and transform the genre into whatever but if you arent comfortable with discussions of the actual source content itself then maybe the fandom isnt for you and a different one is. peace and love.

actual peace and love would involve letting anyone who wants to do things do them, without judgment.

I don't think there is anything unreasonable about the idea that if someone isn't comfortable with actual discussions of the source material they should probably not insert themselves into the fandom. And I struggle to see how this has anything to do with ableism as per your tags.

Well, when you demand a certain amount of effort to be input before you consider someone's creative work valid, that's ableist.

The issue at hand isn't one of the validity of transformative works (and I agree with you there that art doesn't derive meaning or validity from the amount of "effort" poured into it) but of fandom social dynamics and the very simple fact that people involved in a fandom will find people who have not engaged with the source material yet insist on inserting themselves into the fandom annoying. This user articulated it well imo and I'm tired right now:

Unfortunately it's still gatekeeping and still ableist.

I genuinely think it's neither of those things.

i show up to the Planes Enjoyer Convention to talk about how pretty planes are. to my shock i learn planes fly which is awful because i'm scared of heights.

despite me being very passionate, nobody wants to hear about my novel where i imagine planes as types of burrowing creatures. instead people tell me i don't seem very interested in planes or the Planes Enjoyer Convention. this is very mean and judgemental.

eventually i strike up a conversation with someone and they reveal that planes are sometimes used for wars, and they actually like historical "war planes". my heart sinks.

they seem surprised and suggest that i read up about planes. that's just unacceptable. i call them an ableist gatekeeper and protest as i mime being forcibly escorted out of the convention by the security guards i made up in my head.

#sorry but this person is a clown. Its Ableist to say you should know what you're talking about. lol. guarantee the same clown would tell ya#that It's Ableist to tell you to turn the earth destroying genai off and do the damn thing yourself. hint: no it fuckin isn't

hey maybe you should know what you're talking about before you add misinformation to my post. AI software does not pollute particularly hard except in the hands of specific companies creating e-waste. i can run genAI offline on my computer and it doesn't consume more energy than playing fortnite.

it IS also ableist to tell a disabled person to stop using a tool and "do the damn thing themselves". what do you think being disabled means?

You're not entitled to theft just because you're disabled. And that's what GenAI is. Even if you want to downplay the pollution and energy waste these models contribute to, you cannot ignore that every single currently available GenAI model is built from databases dominantly filled with stolen material. Terabytes upon terabytes of stolen art of all kinds.

It is a shame if someone's disabilities prevent them from creating art. The solution to that is not theft on a mass scale. I'm sorry your friend has crippling joint pain that prevents her from holding a pencil, but she's not entitled to anyone else's art and hard work.

There are disabled artists all over the world who create despite their disabilities, and they don't deserve to have their hard work and their pain invalidated and denigrated because you're under some weird belief that disability entitles someone to the title of "artist".

You can't just tell a theft machine to make a picture that kind of looks like the prompt you gave it and claim you're an artist. GenAI isn't a "tool". It's an attempt to discredit the ownership of art posted online so that rich people can steal from everyone and anyone, and every time you use that shit for your personal junk, you give that attitude and that concept more credence.

As a disabled person myself, this idea that we should be allowed to steal because we have struggles that may prevent us from creating art? That's what's ableist to me. The idea that well, I should just steal because there's no way I could ever make art the real way is offensive and tasteless to me. Esp since the argument isn't just that I should, but that I have a right to.

Also it's tasteless to hold up your disabled friends (who may or may not actually exist, as this is the Internet) to justify an argument for mass scale art theft....theft that, may I remind you, includes the work of hundreds of disabled artists who made their own damn art.

I agree that people should know the source material before they join a fandom. The fact that you tried to twist this into a pro-GenAI argument is pretty gnarly.

allow me to tell you of the grave error i made yesterday. it was 8pm. i was cooking moroccan stew. needed to let it simmer for 25 minutes before i added the chickpeas. i shall go upstairs, thought i, and take a shower, and leave the chickpeas on the counter to drain. puddles the cat is sleeping near the stove. i briefly consider locking her out of the kitchen - but surely even she, leviathan of unconquerable appetites, will not concern herself with hard, drained, uncooked chickpeas. surely not.

with this set-up in mind, what do you imagine i found when i came back downstairs?

i'll not keep you in suspense.

the moral of this story is never own cats

everything

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.

ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website

REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE

Man, I almost drank myself to death yesterday, I can't even remember my name, if only there was someone that could help me.

The the trustworthy and saint-like lieutenant:

sunrise, parabellum

Sorry but I can't allow this to remain just in the tags

Behold the pocket-sized western pygmy possum! (Cercartetus concinnus). One of the world’s smallest possums, this species typically weighs just 0.5 oz (14 g)—the size of an AA battery. This dainty marsupial is a nectarivore, meaning that its diet consists primarily of plant nectar. It inhabits treetops in forests throughout parts of Australia, using its long prehensile tail like a fifth limb as it moves from branch to branch.

Photo: gilliank, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

Airbnb bathroom in Malta, taken from the wet floor of the shower. Don't like the lip on that shower.

tags pass peer review

did anyone see that video of the guy who was like “im really good at finding moles” and hes saying that hes gonna pull a mole right out of the ground and for a few seconds youre like ok whats the joke and then he just squats down to the grass and and jams his fist into the ground and pulls a mole up

i think about it so much

@ladyepicenter

how the fuck

T H E    M O L E    D I V I N E R

Of course there is an ancient Scottish art of finding moles in golf courses.

druids are real and they use their animal affinity for mole-grabbing

IT’S SO CUTE AND SO DISPLEASED WITH THE SITUATION

REACH INTO THE DIRT AND YOU WILL FIND A FRIEND AND A BOY

"Nihilist Heron" 12"x16" acrylic, conté crayon, wax pastel on reclaimed support

Herons have captured my attention lately. I love their feathers and shapes.

Stay frosty out there, comrades.

Idk man it’s so easy to get bogged down in all the bullshit online but when my then-6 year old cousin found out I was trans he said “ok” then corrected my grandma when she misgendered me. I was once the third between a gay man and a lesbian. Two lesbians once invited me back to their place when I presented as a man. I met an AMAB nb butch who looked strikingly to outsiders like a cis man and it was one of the more sapphic experiences I’ve had. I nervously wore a boydyke shirt to pride and got 3 different cis-looking femme folks tell me they loved my shirt. I once told a trans group at a protest that any pronouns were fine for me and one person said “wow, I’m impressed and intimidated by people like that. I don’t know that I could be that chill with pronouns.” I once told a GNC friend I wished I could wear a type of “opposite” gender clothing after I had already transitioned and so it would be associated with my AGAB and he said “You could just do it.” I’ve had cishet men fight cops for me before. The first time I had a doctor ask me if my name was different than what was on my forms I had to try not to cry. Last week, a phone call with a doctor’s office where I am generally cis passing asked unprompted if my name listed is what I want to be called. It touched me then too. I told a lesbian friend once I felt like my attraction to men AND women both felt gay. She said “makes sense.” And we moved on. I go by different pronouns in different circles. I’ve had gay women love my facial hair. I’ve had gay men like my tits. It’s all out there, I promise. It can be hard to find it but I promise there is community like you and community who likes you. And it’s more messy and beautiful than tumblr discourse makes it out to be.

These are from the last 8 hours only. And not all of them.

We're here! We're here we're here we're here!

Check the notes! There are so many of us and so many who love us.

Queer love, baby!

Check the notes! There are

so many of us and so

many who love us.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I have a bad habit of calling things “loathsome” if they mildly inconvenience me, which usually isn’t that bad, but today I spilled my drink and said “loathsome juice…” under my breath without realizing that’s not a normal thing to say

everyone started laughing

BULLYING ME