Is anyone else good at spotting ai art? Im pretty good at obvious mistakes, but I need a second or third pair of eyes on something. I want to be wrong, but the art has some problems that are hard to overlook

“We could hear them laughing.” Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility. #OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

With Spike, it's like third base.

Her emotional support vampire. 😍 Also, where's the lie? (Full offense).

Facts though

25 years ago, Season 5 premiered, in which we learned: 1. Buffy can't get no satisfaction from Riley so she goes out and gets her rocks off with violence 2. Dracula EXISTS in Buffyverse and is star-struck 3. Also, he owes Spike money. The scamp. 4. Dracula is no match for Buffy. Duh.

One reason why I came to bsky from Instagram was that I was tired of only posting sfw drawings and if I didn't, I'd get shadowbanned or worse... Here we have a nice thing called "labels", so every time I click on "show" I consent to viewing nsfw. Why additional censorship? #BskyCensorship

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

the fact that i have recently seen an influx of automatic warning labels given by bsky (aka "sexually explicit image) despite putting a non-sexual nudity label over feminine bodies/trans bodies is enough for u to understand that this is going in a very wrong direction

Best Girl 💞 Buffy Summers

Forgot to post these from our walk around the Toon the other day.

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

AI giving AI extra credit for no reason

🧵 on the problem with going into right-wing spaces to "debate," comfortable white liberals getting chummy with polite conservatives, and why Andor fell short as antifascist media:

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

What the ever loving hell do they think is going to happen to their parks and cruises in Florida when there are massive measles, mumps, and polio outbreaks. When people from other countries can’t/won’t risk coming to the US.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

I love solavellans because we’re just like this when we see solas hate or people say we’re bad for liking him

Needless to say that the first time I saw Solas doing that, I LITERALLY howled!! HOWLED

ehehe new meme format just dropped so I had to make one ofc ♥️😌

Good GODDDD fanfiction is a space dominated by every idenitity other than straight men because they aren’t finding representation in the mainstream. You fucking morons. All your dressed up censorship is doing is carrying water for the fucking fascists.

We’re too close for it now but in due time someone is going to write the definitive piece linking video games to gun violence We’re too close for it now but in due time someone is going to write the definitive piece linking Dungeons and Dragons to Satanism

Fiction with dark themes and morally dubious characters cannot hurt you but the censorship of such media absolutely can.

The audacity of someone who works for THE NEW YORK TIMES which regularly refuses to fact check politicians and both-sides every single issue for the sake of clicks or ratings blaming fanfiction and Romantasy for the rise of fascism is like a fucking Onion headline

There are genuine and important conversations that need to be had about fan entitlement, IP infringement, and the increasing commercialization of fan spaces, but those conversations can not and will not be led by anyone whose only response to fanwork culture is one of smug derision.

I remember how sex workers used this (and probably still do use this) to circumvent stupid rules. I remember charging for "time" or "a drink". Specifying that what happened during that time (the actual service) was private, consensual and unrelated to the payment.

Someone PLEASE make them stop. PLEASE. THEY'RE TRYING TO BAN ROMANCE SARAH.

2/2 but also somehow puts this idea on the community more heavily biased towards queer and female creators who make their own work to share, rather than the communities made more heavily of older white men whose entitlement leads them to actively harassing creators into making canon conform to them

Based on the top commentary, part of the idea seems to be that people writing fic is out of a demand for the canon to be what they want, which is enough of a bad faith misunderstanding to disregard any further commentary on the topic, (1/2)

The thesis seems to be this: some fanfic is about relationships with power imbalances > women who read that fanfic endorse IRL abuse > women who endorse abuse vote for patriarchy > fascism Which is garbage. Whereas "bad art is blocking utopia" IS the calling card of fascism.

Speaking seriously, this shit needs to be ground into the dust right now. If we let the "fanfic is societal evil" talking point take root with the "I'm anti-patriarchal but also women too stupid to think for themselves, lolz" community (which is large and influential), AO3 will be in deep shit.

omg it's even stupider than i thought "your selfish desire to explore a fictional world beyond the limits of core canon has directly caused the end of civil liberty"

a whole swath of people who think flag icons and pronouns in their bios will make up for the fact that their posts could be written by tipper gore

Incredible how far some people will go to avoid confronting the actual causes of fascism. It's so much easier to blame it on groups you can punish online, which you'd think wouldn't be possible if they were holding up fascism, but these exercises never survive a second thought, let alone a first.

Blaming fandom for fascism while linking a NYT article is pretty on brand if you ask me.

But Cath, internal story context doesnt matter if it's something women are into bc surely women (except for me, i'm a super special woman crime novelist, definitely not something that would have been considered gender-treacherous not long ago) dont Think about stuff like that bc abject horniness!1!

Every time I see someone in Tolkien spaces bitching about Haladriel by calling it "Reylo repackaged" I want to go smash up a few things because...those pairings aren't alike in how they happen or how any of them are characterised????! (Also antis PLEASE get over Reylo in the year 2025 challenge!)

"Dramione is basically Edward/Bella" the consequences of mainstream critics treating all woman-coded genre fiction stories as interchangeable and unworthy of being engaged with as art, everybody

You know what's ACTUALLY linked to fascism? Censorship of queer and fem-focused art.

I'm so tired. Here we are trying to survive Trump's hellscape and there are STILL people trying to blame women for being horny and creative.

Fanfic writers - famously queer, fem fanfic writers - are the fascists. 🙄 That is exactly as absurd as it sounds. I just want to point out that Romantasy books (like SJM's series) are frequently on banned book lists. But sure. Fascist.

Oh FFS I don't even have the energy for this right now. Blah blah abuse apologists For the billionth time, there is nothing feminist or progressive about this take. Grow up.