As Tiring As All This Shit Is, I Can't In Good Faith Continue To Use Spotify.

if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this

hope is a skill

looks like i have the gift of prophecy because....

AO3 got fucking scraped again for gen AI purposes!

AO3 got scraped for gen AI purposes again, a ton of works were included.

There's been DMCA requests and it looks like some/most? of it has been taken down, thankfully. Still. I highly highly recommend that everyone lock all their works to the archive right now. I can't force you to, but I strongly suggest that you do. Don't let them scrape your work in the future. It sucks losing guest interaction but. Would you rather feed the AI slop?

For people who guest comment: Make an AO3 account! You have to wait a bit for an invite but it's worth it i promise!!

For artists specifically: I recommend that you look into Glaze and/or Nightshade. There's also these disruption filters, it's not clear how well these actually work, but you're welcome to try them. Glaze is supposed to work best, though.

It looks like you can see the status of the datasets here

And how to submit DMCA or copyright violation

I'll say it again: FUCK AI THAT STEALS PEOPLE'S ART AND WRITING!!!!

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.

AUTHOR'S NOTES

there are many arguments for why AI generated art is bad, most of them dogshit. the worst one of all is that "it breaks copyright" and that we need stronger copyright laws to reign it in. which is so astoundingly bootlicking it just makes my tongue dry.

i didnt spent my entire formative years watching youtubers get fucked over and over by corporations and getting constantly lectured about fair use and transformative creations and gnashing my teeth over the precarious position fan fic was in and seeing metallica and anne rice and other similarly litigious assholes wave their dick around and i didnt celebrate every time some work from a hundred years ago finally entered public domain for then everyone to go "actually copyright is based guys"

fuck that noise, if you dont agree with me

ALL THE GAYS REBLOG THIS LETS SEE HOW FAR OR TUMBLR THIS GETS

Reblog if you're black tumblr.

You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and your for us.

So I saw some discourse online about some ships in the one piece fandom recently, and I felt like I should say something.

1. If you’re not sure about characters’ ages in a ship and you’re worried there might be an age gap you’re not comfortable with, look it up.

2. If someone doesn’t know the characters’ ages when they ship them and it’s a weird age gap, please do not harass and bully them. There’s always the option to inform them of the characters’ actual ages instead (don’t bully or harass anyone actually)

3. If you have a problem with an 8 year age gap between people who are adults (and I get it, it is kind of questionable, but still), you should also have a problem with shipping a 17 year old boy and a woman in her 30s (why are so many LawLu antis also LuBoa supporters? Starting to think it’s not about ages at all…)

And finally, 4. If you do not agree with a ship, simply don’t interact. Do not harass, insult, call out, or otherwise be obnoxious towards the creator of the work. Even if it’s a gross or illegal ship, there’s no reason to go out of your way to engage with the creator (making the work gain more traction) to start a fight for no reason. If you think they might be unaware of the character ages, simply politely inform them. Otherwise, leave it be.

It’s so exhausting to try and see people’s interesting fanart, go to interact and compliment it, and then half the comments and notes are people insulting the creator, especially when it wasn’t even ship art or the creator didn’t know the characters’ canon ages because the art style doesn’t make it very clear (I used to think Law was 20 and Koby/Coby was 12 pre ts because of how they were drawn and portrayed)

Please be kind to others, even if they don’t share the same opinions as you

So something I’ve noticed being talked about around this topic as well: messing around with friends and jokingly saying “kys” is fine, as long as everyone involved knows you’re joking and that’s accepted in your friend group. If you are online, and/or if you’re not close with that person, don’t say it. If everyone involved is not 101% sure it’s a joke, just don’t. (I brought up the 1 and only exception because there have been several times where I’ve joked like that with my friends and someone has tried calling us out for it, not being aware of the difference)

About a week ago I posted this.

I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:

and my personal favorite

After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.

About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like

I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like

This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”

But I guess the lesson goes like this:

DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN