Retired

Boycotting is literally a non-action, if you can't handle not buying things, you're just a weak person...

"don't demonize ppl who can't!!!" ... You can't not eat McDonald's and Starbucks? You're not capable of not buying a new laptop or puma shoes?? You can't resist sabras hummus????? huh?

The targeted list + Starbucks, which we the ppl are taking on ourselves for directly aiding genocide. If you can't handle the stress ( 🙄) of not giving your money to McDonalds (who sends meals to the IOF while Palestianians in Gaza and the west bank starve)... Idk! What I have to say would have me put on a list!

5 November 2023

To the Israeli idiots who keep insisting all this began on October 7th and they were just peaceful inoccent saints before this.

"Hamas attack was unprovoked."

No no, it was very much provoked.

The names of the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the IOF as of October 26, 2023, with the numbers only increasing since then. Innalilahe wa inal ilaihi raji'oon. May these children rest in peace in a place much better than this world. They deserved better than us and from us, as do the children who are alive right now, and the children who will survive this genocide. Palestine and her children will live and it is unconsciousable to lose any hope for them at all. The only thing to do is to raise our voices and speak and fight for them and ensure their survival. Talk to your local representatives, attend protests, boycott the companies the BDS listed, and donate, and spread as much information as posssible

Massive fuck you to everyone who is talking about Palestinians as if we’re already all dead and sharing more solidarity with our corpses than us living. “We will never forget the beautiful Palestinian people-“ how about you stop “making peace” with Palestinian extermination. My people are not going to be forgotten because we are going to live. Palestinians have already survived one genocide and have been surviving one ever since.

Do not ever let the idea that all Palestinians are going to die exist in your mind. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.

Since Tumblr staff turned off reblogs for this post

This is absolutely vile. They are forcefully suppressing opposition to the violence against Palestinians. And even suppressing opposition to their suppression now. This is absolutely disgusting. Tumblr cares more about profit than the lives of Palestinians.

People saying you can pirate this song or show to not support the people or company... I just don't understand how can you even hear their names and not be enraged "yeah they did support genocide but I haven't finished the show :(" and "that's my favorite song" and "I'm attached to it" you're a disgrace to humanity.

MAKE ME CHOOSE ≡ ANONYMOUS ASKED: CeCe/Schmidt (New Girl) or Jake/Amy (B99)?

animated fantasy films just don’t make fucked up evil castles like they used to

[ID: king haggard’s castle from the last unicorn (1982), the horned king’s castle from the black cauldron (1985), and maleficent’s castle from sleeping beauty (1959) /end ID]

aesthetic of the day is fucked up evil castles

oh yeah because i'm immoral too! sorry, forgot that part

The more despair I endure in life, the more I love Frodo. I'm just. I'm so glad that Tolkien wrote him like that. He was a hero and it broke him. He was given too much to carry. The circumstances were dire, everyone was doing the best they could, and Frodo tried so hard, for such a good cause, and he...broke. And the narrative has pity for him, the characters show him kindness. Even after victory, his hurts did not heal, and it isn't considered his fault. He must go to the undying lands, to seek out peace there. In universe, he is forgiven for being human - don't be pedantic - and his great torment is recognized. He fell. He could not have done it alone. He is still a hero.

And, I think that's important.

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses nailed to the church door, but two other pieces of paper have been nailed on beneath it, reading “OP is a Heretyck” and “Hot Single Serfs in thine Area! Clycke thou here”

To reiterate: Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon and other such books, blocked me on Twitter for calling him out about his AI-generated cover.

Tor has admitted he approved this cover and they have been consulting him every step of the way. He is complicit.

It’s honestly so fucking frustrating that this is going to go forward. That the cover to Fractal Noise is gonna be published with AI art that has ripped off other artists. And neither the author nor the publisher give one flying fuck about it.

I don’t think a lot of people really understand what this means. Book cover art is already nearly universally shitty. You go look at fantasy art covers, and they’re all photomanipulations, generally a single girl on the cover doing magic or looking into the distance. There’s no variety. But at least people get paid for them.

With AI art, artists don’t get paid. You know who does? The people who made the dataset. The people who sold the “cover.” Even though it took less than 20 minutes to make.

If this isn’t infuriating you, I don’t know what the hell else to say. Machine learning is coming for everyone’s jobs, and corporate wallets don’t care if it’s safe or not. Certain areas are already experimenting with AI Amazon deliveries, and it’s been hinted that long-haul trucking is next.

This is unacceptable. PLEASE. I’m not going to guilt you into sharing this, but it is CRITICAL that we take a stand now and STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING. If you follow me, I am asking you as a friend to share this, and to find it in your heart to put pressure on people who publish AI art without paying artists.

Tor could change the cover. They’re not, because they’re using Fractal Noise as a test run to see if they can get away with it. Don’t let them. I don’t care how much you like Paolini’s work (although I think Eragon was a boring slog, so I had no qualms about calling him out), you HAVE to do your best to make this stop.

The Batman (2022) + Letterboxd Reviews ♡

an absolutely insane way to end this year 

holy…