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moon’s haunted roche is a katakan

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akilah12902:

YES

Beautiful glorious fancomic of one of my fics, Unexpected Complications, thank you SO MUCH

bomberqueen17:

It’s also on AO3 please tell the artist how great it is

[image description: a cartoon. In the first panel, an arm and leg appear over the side of a ship, with noises of effort as Letho hauls himself aboard. Second panel, Iorveth, unimpressed, is saying “Failed by dh’oine once again. What’s your excuse this time?” Letho, dripping wet and dead-eyed, says “Vernon Roche is a katakan.” Iorveth, blank, says “What?” Letho, in voiceover over a cruder drawing of Roche arms akimbo paper-doll style, says “Roche. Special Forces commander. Stupid hat.” (The drawing of Roche is labeled with the same thing, arrows pointing at the stupid hat and special forces insignia, and finally an arrow points at his general torso area and is labeled “katakan”.) “He’s a katakan,” Letho continues, over a drawing of a katakan, Roche’s hat and clothes flying off it as it transforms, leaping at a smaller cartoon Letho with a “SKREE”, as cartoon Letho says “oh shit!” Iorveth, ears flat in shock, says “WHAT?” as Letho, offscreen, says “He’s a vampire.” Cut to the final panel, where the distant ship shows through a window with a huge speech bubble that reads “WHAT” in bold is coming through into a room where a puzzled Geralt of Rivia has one eyebrow raised and is making a bemused “hm”, as in the foreground King Foltest, not dead and rather smug, is petting the curly hair between the horns of a kneeling katakan, and is saying “Good boy, Roche,” as the katakan purrs blissfully.]

ptork66:

concerningwolves:

i have three responses to “how is your writing going”

1) it’s not

2) it’s going

3) i am ENTHUSED. i have been BLESSED with the POWER of the MUSES. i am an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF CREATION i am the MOST ULTIMATE OF ALL WRITERS

Pie chart showing the proportion of time each answer is used:

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ranidspace:

ranidspace:

reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.

Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn’t over. They’re shifting from “world health emergency” to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO’s announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.

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https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1654477334139863041

of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do

cosmictuesdays:

solitarelee:

seriouslyamerica:

tumblr users: i hate tiktok it’s the worst

every post of a tiktok video: 12,746 reblogs, 45,094 likes

yes but the experience of occassionally seeing a curated-by-my-homies tiktok vid on my dash is so violently different from the endless stream of scrolling through algorithmic video content. i crave variety. what is my social media experience without walls of text interrupted randomly by videos of ducks and pictures of weird vegan brownies.

#every tiktok that appears on my dash has gone through at minimum 2 layers of human peer review

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Anonymous:

Hi Sam! Because I just saw the post on ao3 and donations, and a different post about ao3s updated statement regarding chatgpt/ai generated fiction, and you generally have a good read on things like this - what's your opinion on it, and how its meant to be interpreted?

(I want to good faith believe, and its a complicated/ongoing topic, but wanted to hear your thoughts)

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copperbadge:

I don’t know which post about the update you mean, Anon, but I assume the update referenced is the one the OTW posted on 5/13 about AI scraping and ChatGPT. I do have some thoughts but I want to go through the post a little because I don’t think I’m actually needed to interpret this one – I think with some critical thought anyone can, but a lot of people don’t get critical thinking training in school, so I want to do a little demo of it.

Pre-emptively, this is a list of things I’m not an expert on: copyright law, data scraping, AI, website design, and the legality of certain forms of freedom of expression. But honestly for this you don’t need to be.

First and foremost, we really have no reason to disbelieve OTW when they speak on this subject. While there’s debate and discussion about AO3 and certainly it’s imperfect in a number of directions, they are pretty transparent, generally speaking. I don’t believe there is a reason to approach AO3 with an assumption of disingenuity in a general sense. However, the organization is run by humans, who are imperfect and can sometimes be deceitful, so it’s good to always approach public statements with a critical eye.

So the post is talking about two separate but related issues: preventing AIs from scraping AO3, and policy on AI-generated works being posted. What we are looking for, from both, is a combination of things: we want what they’re saying to make sense both in the world, and within the statement – no contradictions, nothing that seems illogical, nothing that seems like baseless assumption or generalization. We want simple prose, and we want a look at the reasoning behind the actions they’re taking.

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