if the point of ao3 was just storage, there would be no usernames, no ability to click and see what else someone has written, no ability to subscribe to an author or a story. ao3 not having a personalized algorithm does not mean it’s not a place where community can and does exist
Online fandom has existed for over 30 years. I get that young ppl in Fandom may not realize that a paradigm outside social media/influencer exists but it does, it did and many of the people they are screaming at remember it
generative AI and AI aren't the same thing and people treating them as interchangeable concepts benefits techbros that try to normalize the AIslop.
The thing making NPCs in game work, older translation tools and older TTS, that's not the same as, the machine generationg images.
@VMarsConfession@hurtandcomfort Having taken a quick peek at your profile I'm getting the impression that you're supportive of authors (are one yourself? Unsure sorry) and that this was intended as a purely informative thread? Please do correct me if I'm wrong haha
you write professor/student fanfics on ao3 sis, by your own logic you are normalizing unethical workplace relationships of educators with their students 🤷
happy 6 years to supernatural definitively confirming dean reciprocated cas’s feelings and making destiel fully canon by having lucifer impersonate cas to get dean to let him in when his whole thing was always impersonating his victims’ dead lovers to get them to let him in
if i am reading a callout post doc and you post a bunch of triggering art uncensored and then mention in a throwaway line at the very end the artist is getting groomed we all get to jump you and beat your ass over it
whatever you want to write, someone will have written something similar before. write it anyway. unless you're planning to "write" it with ai, in which case stop that and go away
@tetelinos Genuinely this. By objective metrics, I 'write well' (spelling, formatting, punctuation, grammar, etc). I'm very descriptive. And my writing still isn't for everyone, and that's fine! And when I was new, I was bad! That doesn't mean none of it matters. Liking/disliking ≠ quality
I am a proud AI Hater and I see no real issue here
It's an inconsequential use of Ai in a fun game by an indie developer
It was used to help fix code that Mr Unity itself said they couldn't fix
They didn't even copy paste the code, they modified it
Entirely undeserved backlash
both Harbingers. Two Harbingers getting married? That's incredibly dangerous for both of them. It's *risky.* They never married for their own safety - they're both already accused of enough (rightly or otherwise) as it is. The other Harbingers hate them enough as it is.
Pantalone and Dottore never married. They were lovers, they were *in love* - they were something both of them thought impossible and never quite dared to grasp too hard in case it shattered in their hands. But that's not why they never married. They never married because they are