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Fanfiction Masterpost

Find me on AO3 as phoenixianCrystallist. You can find info on my OC’s here.

Final Fantasy XV

Forspoken

  • Burnished - a Frey and Cuff domestic fluff moment in which no vambraces purr; rated G
  • How I Mine For Fish? - a Frey and Cuff fishing lesson that ends badly; rated G; light warning for implied suicidal thoughts
  • Redamantia - a Cinta and Susurrus fic about the power of love; rated G

Kingdom Hearts

Legend of Mana

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neil-gaiman
fuckyeahgoodomens

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Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)

Neil Gaiman: Hi, I'm Neil Gaiman. I'm wearing the first red T-shirt I've worn since 1987. Because I'm a member of the WGA. I'm on strike. I care so much for the things that I've written but I'm out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.

prokopetz
prokopetz

It's true that sometimes everything happens too much, but I think there's value in acknowledging that sometimes everything happens a reasonable amount and you're just being a dick about it. You've gotta recognise that you're being petty in order to properly lean into it!

prokopetz

"Your feelings are always valid" no, sometimes the dumb monkey who lives in my brainstem is straight up being an asshole. It's important that I know this – one cannot truly love one's dumb monkey without accepting its nature.

naryrising

lady-bellatrix asked:

You know what, I'm worried about OTW's Legal Chair about AI & AO3. Like, those machine learning systems inevitably will be used for commercial purpose, why are they allowed to scrape AO3? Fans never want their works to be fed to machine learning, so why wouldn't OTW protect fans on this, legally and technologically?

olderthannetfic answered:

It looks like OTW took down that comment, so I haven’t read the full text of it.

My broad opinion (yes, I see you, inbox of 77+ asks), is that AI is here to stay, so we have to figure out how to make it more ethical and reasonable rather than just trying to ban it.

I have mixed feelings about the scraping of non-public domain datasets where authors have not contributed on purpose.

In the case of AO3 specifically, I think, as always, that far more of us should archive lock. (But we should also download everything we want to keep because that means no Wayback machine copy.)

olderthannetfic

Ah, okay, the actual statement is interesting:

Katherine: When you think about AI technology, fan works, and copyright, what excites you? And, what keeps you up at night?

Betsy: One of the things that excites me—which is probably a bit off to the side of what most people are talking about with AI and copyright—is that AIs are reading fan fiction now. For a long time, machine learning relied almost exclusively on data sources that were known to be in the copyright public domain, such as works published prior to 1927 and public records. The result of that was that machines were often learning archaic ideas—learning to associate certain professions with certain races and genders, for example. Now, machine learning is turning to broader sources from across the internet, including fan works. That means that machines will learn how to describe and express a much more contemporary, broad, inclusive, and diverse set of ideas.

I’m also intrigued by some of the expressive possibilities that AI may create. Will DALL·E or ChatGPT become characters in fan fiction? Surely they will. I want to read the fan-created stories where DALL·E and ChatGPT fall in love with each other (or don’t), get into arguments (or don’t), buy a house together (or don’t), team up to solve (or perpetrate!) crimes….

As for what keeps me up at night, I remain mostly optimistic. I think it would be a very sad turn of events if some of the newly begun litigation about data crawling and scraping ended up preventing machines from building contemporary, inclusive, broad-based data pools to draw on. I think it would be very sad if people turned to AI-created works instead of finding, exploring, and making fan works of their own. But I don’t think either of those things is very likely to happen. Fans make fan works because they love doing it. They feel compelled to tell the stories they imagine, and they want to share those with communities of other fans. They use fan work creation to build skills and find their own voices. I don’t think that the emergence of new technologies will stop them from doing that.

The first thing I’d note here is that the question is literally about what “excites” her. She didn’t just decide to say that AI is exciting because she loves it sooo much: she’s repeating the terms of the question.

I think she’s overly optimistic about fanfic teaching AI to not be a dickhead, but on the other hand, works from 1927 are so unabashedly racist, that perhaps it’s an improvement.

Honestly, my big takeaway here is that she doesn’t think AI is going to actually affect fanfic writers or AO3 all that much, so she’s not concerned about that.

She thinks the scraping itself is fair use and gives pretty good reasons for this (in the second answer, which you can see at the link above). She’s more interested in the other aspects of AI, legally and ethically, than in handwringing about AO3 itself or fanfic writers becoming obsolete or whatever. Makes sense to me.

Granted, it was maybe not the very best quote to include in an OTW post, but OTW being bad at PR means it’s a day ending in y. This all seems like a bit of a tempest in a teapot.

naryrising

I'd also add the exact same person presenting before the US Copyright Office to make the argument that fans should be allowed to opt out of having their works scraped: https://stream-media.loc.gov/copyright/Copyright_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Listening_Session_Literary_Works_including_Software_04192023.mp4 (sorry, video only, no transcript yet that I know of.)

So the OTW *is* trying to protect fans legally, by arguing before the authorities who will decide such things that people should be allowed to protect their own content from use in training AI. They're also protecting content from scraping to the extent that they are able to do so, technically (as outlined in my post from the other day, here: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/25888) - but stopping all scraping forever is not feasible for various reasons, at the present time. Maybe in the future there will be different options at a technical level - maybe laws will be passed that will give us different options - maybe both.

But in general, people in the OTW are allowed to have varied opinions, and to speak their minds - it doesn't actually impact the OTW if one person (yes, even a board member or chair of a committee) thinks X is great and one person thinks X sucks, because no one person makes decisions for the org. That's a good thing. You don't want any single person making policy decisions that impact millions of users and works. That's why they can't, by design.

creativepromptsforwriting
creativepromptsforwriting

Places for kissing

  • kissing on front porches
  • kissing on the dancefloor
  • kissing in the water
  • kissing under an umbrella
  • kissing in the moonlight
  • kissing under a tree
  • kissing against walls
  • kissing on a plane
  • kissing in the shower
  • kissing in bed
  • kissing in the rain
  • kissing under the covers
  • kissing on a swing
  • kissing on the beach
  • kissing, lying in tall grass
  • kissing in a car
  • kissing on a couch
  • kissing on a ferris wheel
  • kissing in an abandoned building
  • kissing on the battlefield
  • kissing in dark corners
  • kissing on a train
  • kissing in an alley behind a bar

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seananmcguire
ratbastarddotfuck

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This is maybe the funniest (worst) radfem post I've come across in a while. It was a comment about cis women getting hysterectomies.

Do y'all know how many feminists have been fighting to be allowed to get hysterectomies without a) birthing (often multiple) children or b) a husband's permission? Including many people who have extremely painful and/or dangerous uterus-related conditions, like PCOS or menorrhagia? So many doctors HATE giving hysterectomies specifically because "you really should have kids first".

Also, cis men don't need to "remove their ballsack" to avoid having kids. They get vasectomies. An incredibly simple, routine procedure.

People who are getting hysterectomies are often doing so for reasons not solely related to pregnancy - if it were just about fertility, getting your tubes tied would suffice if you were averse to other forms of birth control. My mum did that after my sister was born, and then went back in for a hysterectomy a few years later because her periods were agonising. My aunty also had a hysto several years back, because not only were her periods agonising, but they would cause flare ups in some of her other conditions.

I just... how are you calling yourself a feminist while advocating for LESS bodily autonomy for women? How can you act like women are being stupid or reckless in their choice to get a hysto and not see the indescribable misogyny you're utilising?

"It's never [cis] men who remove an organ just because they don't want it" yeah, I wonder if that's because they don't have an organ that causes agonising blood loss on a monthly basis? Like... nobody's out here getting kidneys removed for fun. It's a very specific organ only being removed for very specific, personal reasons.

It's my body, not yours. Hands the fuck off.


*This post is authored by a trans person. If you're agreeing with me about this topic while being against trans healthcare, consider that your whole ideology is built in opposition to bodily autonomy for people outside your ideals of gender. Sit with that information.*

kriatyrr

Men have appendectomies all the time. Slightly more than women do, in fact. If an organ is making your life miserable, or is threatening to kill you, and you can live without it, you have it removed.

languagenderflux
icaruspendragon

i love you fanfics with rabid intimacy. i love you long and intricate passages about lovers who love with such intensity they want to make a home in the bones of their beloved. i love you insatiable need to get impossibly closer. i love you winter love, cold and intense and all consuming. i love you inherent divinity of lovers who love with such ferocity they want to be the blood pumping in their beloveds veins.

icaruspendragon

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this. this is what i’m fucking TALKING ABOUT !!!

seananmcguire
kropotkindersurprise

June 22 2019 - A fascist trying to pick a fight at Bologna Pride gets more reaction than he bargained for. [video]

sugary-bowl

Exit, pursued by bear.

unified-multiversal-theory

@exeuntpursuedbyabear

taramaclaywasaterf

The description of the original video:

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Translation:

“A neo-fascist, in all his Italian virility, begins to insult some women participating in Bologna Pride. This until, frightened by other protesters covered with glitter and by a bear far more virile than he, to devote himself to what the Fascists do best: escape.”

a-humble-waffle

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR. I’M SOBBING

maneth985

La fuga, pursued by bear in glitter 🤣🤣🤣

peel-a-potato-with-a-potato

“to devote himself to what the Fascists do best: escape.” ROAST HIS ASS

arcaniumagi2

the Strength, the Solidarity, and the Shade here is examplary

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brackenfur

i hate how capitalism and 2010s-20s minimalistic designs took away creative and colorful designs. i miss how mcdonald’s used to look when it had the red tile roof and when they had chairs in the dining room molded after their characters. i miss when storefronts would have colorful cartoon art on the walls and windows. i miss how hot topic used to look, when it looked like it’d be scary to walk into when you were a kid but after you got in and saw all the invader zim merchandise it was okay. or how malls used to have so much color, from the tiles to the walls to the ceiling. i hate the bland minimalism we have now. i hate the beige and silver design that every store has now. i hate it.

seananmcguire

Anonymous asked:

Do you have any references for centaur foals? It's really hard to find any references that's not adults

theartingace answered:

Yea! Enjoy a dump of all my centaur babies!
They’re mostly a bit older drawings but I think they still hold up haha and I don’t think many people draw them cause they can be a little funky- what with the chunky little bodies on big ol spidery legs 😅 But I still think they’re cute 💜

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And a lot of my drawings of the bitties are in slings, as that’s how I built in infant care with an L-shaped infant 😂

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and of course, some goofy little baby Sunny doodles <3