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bananonbinary:

seriously i wish people understood that queerbaiting has almost nothing to do with the actual content of a story. two men can gaze soulfully into each other’s eyes for 45 minutes straight and then at the end be like “oh yes my good pal friend no homo” and its still not anything more than homoerotic and kind of stupid writing.

queerbaiting is a marketing technique to get gay people to buy a ticket. it’s hemming and hawing whenever someone asks about subtext, giving long answers that don’t mean anything to sort of imply “maybe you just need to wait and find out. ;)” it’s interviews where the actors talk about how much they love that particular relationship, and they think they will ~surprise~ you with how it turns out. it’s every single trailer showing these two people almost kissing, even as the creators talk about how offended they are that anyone would think it’s gay.  it’s disney’s 65th First Gay Character that they sort of imply might actually be a main character this time but is yet another nameless asshole. it’s evil, because it’s completely deliberately misrepresenting the actual media just to make a buck.

bumblewyn:

orlissa:

Hi,

It’s you friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.

if you have a blanket permission statement on your profile for fanart/spinoffs/remixes/etc., consider adding something like this:

(full example here)

penrosesun:

penrosesun:

Actually, you know what? I’m breaking this out into its own post, because it’s important:

If you’re thinking of using a photo, or a drawing, or a story you wrote, a piece of non-fiction text from a friend’s blog, or info from your job, or info about yourself or your family, etc. etc. as part of a prompt for an AI model, ask yourself this simple question: Would you give that thing to some random guy in the tech industry, via a website which outright told you that he was running a data harvesting scheme? If the answer is no, then for the love of god, do not give that thing to any AI.

Because, not to put to fine a point on it? That is literally what you are doing when you input literally anything into a closed model you don’t own, and all of the ai models that you can play with “for free” are closed models that you don’t own.

This is literally just the high tech equivalent of “find out your stripper name - your first name is your mother’s maiden name, your middle name is the street you grew up on, and your last name is the answer to your third security question!” I am genuinely horrified by how many of y’all are falling for this.

By the way? This includes co-pilot. This includes Photoshop’s new generative fill. The deal with the devil that these companies are offering is “we’ll do amazing work for you if you just let us own everything you do via our tool, and also everything you let our tool touch, forever.” And I don’t doubt that whole industries are going to take that deal, but I also don’t doubt that they’ll spend a lifetime regretting it. Is the small boost in productivity that these tools are offering really worth handing a data harvesting scheme your entire portfolio? Really? You can’t unring a bell, and you can’t get your work back once you feed it into these things. Please think very carefully before you throw your creative life away.

rivensbane:

RIVEN!MARA SOV in DESTINY 2: FORSAKEN.

Even paradise is a prison… when you can’t leave.

soopsiedaisies:

this is for those who despair over seeing ships or tropes that make them uncomfortable while they do their little scrolly-scroll on ao3, acting like they aren’t responsible for their own internet experience

(alternatively, the back button also works)

darkheart-darlings:

Look, I’m going to be honest, I don’t care whether people feeding other fans’ fanfiction into AI is “legal” or “illegal”.

What it is, is rude, entitled, and disrespectful of your fellow fans.

vrabia:

mostly-funnytwittertweets:

patrickat:

aurumacadicus:

In before I start seeing people bitching about rainbow capitalism MY favorite rainbow capitalism story is about Subaru. Yes the Japanese car company.

In the nineties, they were struggling. They were competing with a dozen other companies targeting the main demographic at the time: white men ages 18-35, especially after a failed luxury car launch with a new ad agency. “What we need is to focus on niche demographics,” they decided, and then focused on people who enjoyed the outdoors. The Subaru was excellent at driving on dirt roads that many other vehicles couldn’t at the time, so it was perfect for all those off-road campers; they started making all-wheel drive standard in all their cars to help with that. And the people who wanted cars to go do outdoor stuff? Lesbians.

Okay. Of course it wasn’t only lesbians buying Subarus. They’re on the list with educators, health-care professionals, and IT people. But the point is, this Japanese car company interviewed this strange demographic (single, female head of household) and realized one important factor: They were lesbians. They liked to be able to use the cars to go do outdoorsy stuff, and they liked that they could use the cars to haul stuff rather than a big truck or van. Subaru had a choice to make then. They had four other demographics they could market to, after all–the educators, the health-care professionals, IT professionals, and straight outdoorsy couples. Their company didn’t hinge on this one “problematic” demographic.

And they decided “fuck it,” and marketed to lesbians anyway. This included offering benefits to American gay and lesbian employees for their domestic partners, so it didn’t look like a cash grab. (This was not a problem. They already offered those in Canada.)

Yes, there was some backlash. They got letters from a grassroots group accusing them of promoting homosexuality, and every letter said they’d no longer be buying from Subaru. “You didn’t buy from us before, either,” Subaru realized, and ignored them. It helped that the team really cared about the plan, and that they had many straight allies to back them up. There was also some initial backlash when Subaru hired women to play a lesbian couple in the commercial, but they quickly found that lesbians preferred more subtlety; “XENA LVR” on a license plate, or bumper stickers with the names of popular LGBTQ+ destinations, or taglines of “Get out. Stay out.” that could be used for the outdoors–or the closet.

Subaru said “We see you. We support you.” They sponsored Pride parades and partnered with Rainbow Card and hired Martina Navratilova as spokeswoman. They put their money where their mouth is and went into it whole hog. In a time where companies did not want to take our money, Subaru said, “Why not? They’re people who drive.” And that was groundbreaking.

Subtly on license plates.

therealbeardedgentleman-deactiv:

Reach for it.

beardedmrbean:

X

manny-jacinto:

DAKOTA BEAVERS as ‘Taabe’
PREY (2022)

reginasbread:

please accept fruits of my gay labor and don’t judge me

dzamie:

teaboot:

hatingongodot:

hatingongodot:

hatingongodot:

“Why don’t people recognize Link in TOTK” bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn’t bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like “Bake one of every pie”

Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn’t that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?

Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that’s wild

“Wouldn’t they recognize him bc he’s with Zelda” Everyone interacting with Zelda was like “Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who’s building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!”

ALT

Zelda keeps coming across spare genders she doesn’t need and Link follows behind scooping them all up off the ground like a starving trash possum

Someone uses an unfamiliar pronoun around Zelda, and she hears the item pickup sound come from Link

rebeccalouisaferguson:

#arms

REBECCA FERGUSON as Juliette Nichols in SILO (2023 -) 1 x 06 “The Relic”