A pinned post for people who may want to venture into this blog:

Hello! Call me Ara! My pronouns are they/them and I have been on tumblr and writing fic for too long now. I tend to jump around in fandoms a lot, but I am once again having very aggressive opinions about DC comics. Though I’m always down for revisiting old fandoms and discovering new ones.

Things to remember before you follow:

• I am an adult. I don’t mind minors being here, and I don’t really care for NSFW stuff for various reasons, but I am an Adult so do keep that in mind. (I am also bad at tagging.)
• Don’t be an asshole. 
• Not a spoiler-free blog. I do not have the brainpower to care too much about major spoilers. I tag the fandom and then it’s fair game. If it’s a new thing, I usually put it in my queue so it’ll come out more or less two weeks after the episode/issue came out. If I do post on the day it drops, I will tag it as [fandom] spoilers.
• If you need to unfollow or block me for whatever reason, feel free. It’s your dash, dude.
• I totally respect that everyone uses tumblr in a different way, but if you’re blog is completely devoid of any activity, I will assume you are a bot and block you, so sorry to the nonbots I end up blocking because off that I guess.
• Prompts are always open, though I can’t promise I will write them in a timely fashion. I tend to hoard them until an idea strikes.
• Send me an ask or DM for whatever. I’m always down for a chat.

A few links

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That’s all for now. As always, be kind to each other and to yourselves <3

THIS IS NOT A DRILL JASON TODD ORIGINAL LITTLE CURL BANGS HAVE MADE AN APPEARANCE IN YEAR 2023

i’m 100% sure that the real reason kaveh was not in the archon quest is because if he was there and found out about the sages’ plans, he would not have hesitated. he would have had mehrak beat azar with a claymore while he went on a 12-hour rant about all the ways he is wrong

i’m starting a movement to stop calling this shit “artificial intelligence” cause it’s fucking not. it’s not intelligent, and the things it produces are not informed by logical choices. it doesn’t know how to research sources for you. it doesn’t compose art thoughtfully or meaningfully.

call it machine-generated, text generator, chat bot, but it’s not intelligent.

I have started calling it Artificially Generated in my head and I support all of these.

I saw an article yesterday which had a header something like 'Lord of the Rings AI Art Imagines Gollum with Menacing New Design' and I was just.

no

no let me stop you right there

right there at the word imagine

please. please think about that word.

please. think.

@vaspider

I call it either the Tech Bro Tracing Machine or "procedurally-generated images".

I get why some people think this is not important, but treating these algorithms as if they are actually intelligent is going to lead to all sorts of terrible consequences.

And it's really depressing how blatantly the techbros went from crypto to NFTs to the metaverse to "AI" but people are still falling for it and creating another bubble. Sure the last few things they pushed were lies that collapsed after everyone realized they sucked, but surely this time will be different!

GREEN ARROW

Art by DAVID NAKAYAMA

“Only rich kids played with Barbie” is just an absolute insane take. Literally every family had at least one Barbie at some point. Like ok if you had like walls lined with tons of different Barbies you were probably rich but I cannot stress enough that turning “playing with Barbie” into a bourgeoisie thing is just ahistorical to the point that stupidity is the only explanation

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Worst changes to internet video culture

• Reaction videos just normal videos now
• All platforms need livestreaming feature even when it's obvious it won't turn a profit
• The death of written instructions
• Concise, short, and clear instructional videos increasingly an impractical expectation
• horrific rise in casual, livestreamed instructional videos created as a Patreon incentive for early fans in lieu of dedicated, edited guides; who wouldn't want 20 minutes of painful small talk interspersed with occasional acknowledgement of the chat before explaining how your board game works?
• Why do I have to make eye contact to see how split screen software works. Why do you need me to see you. Why this