So what the 10yo has learned is that when they can’t be bothered doing something they can just throw it to someone else to do it for them. They haven’t learned perseverance; or how to overcome or improve a skill. They haven’t learned anything.

This is hands down the best trop bts pic ever I love them so much

Creatives have been saying this ad nauseum from the very beginning. Y’all told us we were overreacting and gatekeeping when we constantly said, use your brain and not the plagiarising murderbot.

you’re never going to convince artists that removing their process by way of offloading it to ai is good for their artistic process.

Doomscrolling Denethor #tolkien #art

I don’t know how much more to stress that genAi hallucinating academic papers and historical “facts” is really dangerous - esp to people who have no media literacy or critical thinking skills. Trying to rewrite history has never ever been a good thing because minorities always lose.

Our Samwise doing us proud. Get ‘em, Sean!

Art

Something I've said for a long time is that you'll never see the likes of Sex Matters or Four Women Scotland, who claim to be "women's rights campaigners" fighting to end Rape Culture. And here, with the opportunity to do so, they are not only not bothered, they are actively resisting it.

NOT teaching boys about misogyny is how you get shite arseholes like the Totebag. If it was up to me, they’d be taught at 7, because I’ve seen firsthand on the Scraplet’s school playground: so many little boys (and even some girls) parroting misogynistic shite they’ve heard at home.

"Stop stealing and start creating" Meanwhile them:

All of these losers should be tied in a line and every artist they’ve stolen from allowed to throw a brick at them. “Ai Prompt Theft” is the biggest fucking crock of donkey shite I’ve had the misfortune to read with my eyes.

☀️ For anyone up at this time of a morning, Winter Solstice is about to be live-streamed from Stonehenge courtesy of English Heritage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEnQ...

Did we even know #TROP won a Concept Art award for this?? Well now we do. Congrats to them! www.creativebloq.com/art/digital-...

Y'all, I watched the trailer for Serkis' "Animal Farm" and that has done nothing to alleviate my massive current lack of confidence for his "Hunt for Gollum". If anything, I'm even more dubious about it now. I mean, I hope to be surprised, but that trailer was not inspiring any goodwill.

The fact of the matter is that even if we removed all dehumanizing immigration restrictions, the vast majority of people would stay where they are because barring overwhelming danger most people don't like uprooting themselves to move to a strange place where they don't know anybody

quote-posting this out of spousal obligation...

So this is a massive, private field in Twizel, NZ South Island. It's actually part of a Dark Sky Reserve, and you can even do stargazing out here. The tour we went with set up sleeping bags so we could just lie down all snug and look at the stars - and there were so many stars. It was wonderful.

Or he's a Dwarf (or half-Dwarf) who's there to make sure the Elves reforge it correctly. Narsil is, after all, a Dwarven-made sword, I repeat ad nauseum.

For the confused: this is a Howard Shore cameo in the ROTK EE

Here's a story: Merry and Pippin travel around Middle-earth post-War of the Ring, trying all the cuisines from the various locales of Arda.

Billy and Dom Eat the World, 2024.

You can’t tell from this crappy screenshot, or unless you watch this on a big screen, but the elven smith on the right is mostly hidden in darkness because he has a rather magnificent moustache. Clearly he was cursed with visions of the 2020s…

The holly holding the chains together, or the chains holding the holly. Almost like... Eregion is now chained... #TROPRewatch Believe me, nothing is coincidental here. Every choice from the various production departments is deliberate.

They're all mostly lit except for Celebrimbor, as he starts quoting Halbrand. Also, I know the holly leaves on his costume are obvs for Eregion, but also look at how they hold those chains across his neck as he's speaking Halbrand's words... The imagery: so subtle, but brilliant. #TROPRewatch

Someone needs to do one of those video edits with this song, even if it’s just the chorus. Especially the chorus. Paging @islandofnumenor.bsky.social

They had to have Miriel go blind because if she kept looking at Elendil any longer, she would have jumped his bones. #TROPRewatch

A pretty sound analogy The only thing is that Sauron poured his own power into the Ring in order to control Middle-earth GenAI's makers stole everyone else's power to train their thief machines in order to make money on future trading bets against a technology that's created to fail

third Tolkien/LOTR tattoo and my love letter to this universe that has been carrying me for years, even through the darkest times 🥹 It’s such a huge part of my life and I wanted a statement piece that show how much this universe, those characters, those stories means to me 💚

Soon… 🐎🧧🏮🍊🐴 #LunarNewYear #imissthis

Yeah, we already knew by this point. But what a line, and what a delivery. #TROPRewatch

I’m sure that everyone will be quite normal about this. *checks his skyline* Ah. #TROPRewatch

There would be a sense of foreboding to this scene, if Earien had actually been developed in this season, or given any sort of character arc. There’s definitely a sense that something’s missing here - I wonder if it was actually filmed but edited out… #TROPRewatch

They may not have written their scenes to be romantic, but I guess they forgot to give Lloyd and Cynthia that memo. #TROPRewatch "Come what may." "Come what may." Me, a Millennial: I WILL LOVE YOUUU UNTIL MY DYING DAY!!! You won't convince me they weren't thinking of that song while writing this

Season 1 finale of #TROPRewatch! Here we go... And we open with this shot that made me squeal out loud - cos it's a location I've been to a couple of times in my NZ trip. Some of you might recognise it from The Hobbit AUJ, because it also plays the Trollshaws.

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

American-defaultism brainrot again Not everyone here is American, nor do we want to be wasting our lives arguing with American Nazis. Assuming the entire BSky user base is a form of US dem-lib whatever is uhh… there’s a word for that. Starts with R… Some of us just want to shitpost in our fandoms

I think Twitter hold-outs are as simple as — they’ve put in a lot of Warcraft style grinding hours in to get their levels up and they refuse to go to a different website where they’ll have a lower number next to their names The gamified psychology of discourse has always been really straightforward

… I have actually sung Duel of the Fates before (with my old choir and live orchestra). Really fun bit of music to perform, and the percussion section got really enthusiastic. So much so the Conductor had to tell them to dial it down cos they were drowning out everyone else.

Somewhere, Suzanne Collins is currently slamming her head into a desk, and wondering if a sledgehammer would be hard enough to whack ppl over the head with until they understand the point of her books. This is deranged.

What we enjoyed about the tech advances of the 00s and 10s is that they made aspects of our lives more enjoyable or convenient. Tech “advances” in the 20s are about scamming us.

It’s not hard enough. The amount of Xmas cards and Xmas backdrops I’ve seen on sale this month that were so obviously and grotesquely genAi was infuriating.

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

This is an example of what that quote post was talking about.

English Composition homework when I was 9y. Prompt was “Lost”. At that age we were expected to write maybe 3-4 A5 pages max. I wrote 8. Teacher was dubious at first cos she didn’t think a 9yo could write that cohesively. Then she read i; and never bothered me again

Posting this on all my socials.

One year he brings Durin and Disa to the Elf party because he desperately needs them to help him stay sane.

Fëanor seething when Gimli shows up in Valinor with THREE strands of her hair 😆

Okay, so how did it take me until today to learn that Leonard Nimoy made a song back in the 60s called "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"? And yes, it is exactly what you'd think it is. youtu.be/QuQbus0xfhk?...