I think Stephanie is so fun to draw alongside Dick because they are the most colourful (therefore easier to test brushes on)
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dukerino
a Signal that didn't make it into the book (of bats, out now)
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The internet was supposed to be a place for connection and creativity. But it’s being flooded with AI text, algorithmic hostility, and platforms turning against the creatives who made them vibrant in the first place.
Tech giants have gone all-in on AI at creators’ expense. Google’s AI is baked into everything, prioritizing machine-generated slop over human work. Microsoft Word now suggests AI-generated “improvements” on every new line.
The Trump administration’s massive AI investment means there’s little incentive for tech giants to slow down the exploitation anytime soon. (Meta? Just caught training AI on 81.7 TB of pirated books.)
Big tech isn’t waiting for legal mandates to censor content—its platforms are restricting creative expression to appease political and corporate pressure, manufacturing consent in real time.
Read our full post over on the blog!
- The Ellipsus Team xo
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thescriptorium
no way ppl are using ai to write ao3. what happened to being a tortured writer. what happened to blood on the page. what happened to the ao3 curse. people used to get run over, have their houses burned down, break their entire spines and they still put in the work to finish a chapter. fuck you, using ai. y’all are weak
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Pssst...hey... Alfred can't be "good" if Bruce is "bad"
If Bruce is written as abusive and obsessed with "the mission," then logistically, ya gotta write Alfred as an enabler/accessory to the abuse.
It is impossible for Alfred to be there throughout all Robins, be first witness for multiple years with multiple children "suffering" and still have the kids be like: "Oh well, Alfred is still an angel, though." They would've known he hadn't helped them.
Imagine a building is on fire, and someone just stands there and watches it. They didn't start it, but they also don't try to put it out. They don't help anyone get out. They don't even bother calling for help. Yet, they still get a medal for their bravery??
There would only be 2 ways that Alfred could be seen as a "loving grandfather" if he
1. Outright stops Bruce by confronting him directly or getting the kids out from the first sign of abuse.
2. If Bruce is at least a somewhat decent father. Sure, he can make mistakes, and he can fumble sometimes. But Bruce can not be actively harmful to the kids for years without Alfred being aware and choosing to leave the kids to fend for themselves.
Alfred would have to be written as a non questions asked, 100% dedicated to only a "True Wanye" kind of butler. He would have to see the kids as not real Wayne's to allow an abusive Bruce to continuously harm them. The kids would know this and hate BOTH of them.
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very tired of the ‘Dick Grayson is mostly a pretty boy with bad puns, golden retriever vibes’ trope. Give me German Shepherd Dick. Give me the ‘consummate performer’ Dick. The one all, brilliance, bloody smiles and showmanship, the one with razor sharp wit and charm made weapon. Dick who seamlessly switches between a million personas. The one who doesn’t know what to do when the show’s over. Give me the Dick no one wants to be on the wrong side of because Nightwing might not start battles, but he finishes them. The only one whose threats the entire Batfam (including Bruce) takes seriously. The one fear toxins can’t affect because he’s been to hell and back.
The Dick who unlike Jason doesn’t even mention how much he’s been fucked up and survived. The one the Joker knew he couldn’t break.
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my earnest hope for 2025 is that everyone embraces being a little weirder and freakier and less judgmental bc we will all be better off for it like to charge reblog to cast
I see there’s been some slight misunderstanding along the way so let me be crystal clear
This is a post telling you to cut out that uwu morality police pearl clutching bullshit that so many of you like to dress up as fandom discourse so you don’t have to admit that you’ve done a deep deep slide into social conservatism that has very real impacts on how you view the world around you and the people that populate it
Be earnest but like, earnestly fuck shit up, okay? Christ.
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even our ancestors sang Popipo
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Some parents will never forgive you for how they failed you
The crux being, of course, that this is yet another one of their failures.
Hear this: like every other way they've failed you, it has nothing to do with you. It has nothing to do with you. My darling, it never had a thing to do with you.
It was always them.
Most of us know of the phenomenon called the "uncanny valley," where we get unsettled by humanoid things that are just slightly... off. There are many hypothesised reasons for this response in human biology: the sickly, the corpses, the other "homo sapiens" way back when.
With this being said, I think it'd be fun to play with the causes and triggers in a world with aliens, say DC. There would be more incentive to be able to pick up these subtle ticks or warning signs about something to be warry of (assuming that there had been enough contact long enough ago for anything alien related to developin our psyches).
So, I bring you Clark Kent.
Clark Kent, Superman, as we all know is a remarkably human alien descending from Krypton. We all joke about being able to spot the man, the glasses and a different hair style (along with general mannerisms but I'll get to that) not doing much to disguise the man.
But -- what if -- people just don't look that closely at the reporter from Smallvile, he's off putting to look at in a way they can't understand, they make them uneasy.
What if it's not the glasses that hide him, but the publics discomfort at looking at all. Personally I head canon subtle differences between him and humans, the pigment in his eyes not being from a lack of something but an over abundance, canines a tad too sharp, smile instinctively too wide, etc., the real small things.
All of this, I believe, would be just enough to trigger something.
Now, I also want to bring in his mannerisms, which, yes, are undeniably human (he was raised here after all), but I reckon their just wrong enough, that they set something off if you look at him too long. Stride too controlled, steps too soft, the carefullness that he exudes at all times due to his uncanny strength despite his controlled clumsiness.
In a world with known aliens, the possibilities of them interacting with humans for as long as they've existed, I bet that the human brain would have picked up a few more reasons to ding the uncanny valley.
His colleagues don't link the connection between Clark Kent and Superman, not because they can't see whats right under their nose, no, because of their unwillingness to see at all.
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ok, because i just saw a terrible take, i feel compelled to say that there is no "fic market" to "oversaturate" in fandom. good gravy.
cordeliawhohung-deactivated2024
i need everyone reading this post to remember that writing is not "content." writing is art. you don't look at a painting of an ocean and say "eh, it's overdone." you look at it and think its beautiful, because it is, and y'all better start treating writing the same fucking way before you lose your favorite authors for good.
Art is not something to be capitalized on. Stop treating it like it is.