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Rambling Writer

@dragonsaphirareads / dragonsaphirareads.tumblr.com

I'm Saphira, a 23 year old writer I read and record audiobooks of my stories she/her or they/them Don’t tag my headcanon posts as u!sides or tw deceit/Remus please!
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Anonymous asked:

Looking at your art makes me really curious about what your fics would be like if you wrote about your sides instead of thomas's. They're similar but different, you get me?

loop twenty-one.

“You’re… taking notes,” says Dee, coming to a halt on the front-of-theatre pavement. “Goodness fucking gracious. All right. You do you, I suppose.”

Min has not bothered getting up from a face-down position on the ground after her usual trip down the theatre steps. Her forehead and nose took the worst of the collision, but she barely seems to care. She’s propped herself up on her elbows, has her phone out, is typing rapidly into it. “We got hit by lightning,” she says, visibly delighted.

“I know,” says Dee with a soulless smile, tucking her hands behind her back. “I was there.”

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Anonymous asked:

Follow-up ask about Sides and the potential to be hollows, but if you and your own Sides were in the setting of syzygy, what kind of jobs or lives do you think your Sides would be living?

I wrote a short thing about this a while ago, actually! Obviously I've thought about it. Here we go.

In an ideal world, I'd get to do nothing but write and draw and create things and live off universal basic income while doing that, and this is an ideal world, so.. let's go with that! Alternately, librarian. And in the event that the sun decides to strike me from the sky and split me up into my constituent parts...

Rationality works in the clockwork of the City, which is a whole thing that I never really got into, it's a fucking mechanical maze down there. She does a lot of really minute fiddly repair work, and she absolutely adores it.

Inspiration is a street artist! Not much to say there, she does really elaborate murals and chalk sidewalk art. She's really bad at marketing herself, she mostly does it for the fun of it.

Pash is a renegade bookshop owner, by which I mean she blatantly shoplifts books from non-hollow book stores with unethical business practices, and often commits minor felonies in the name of social justice.

Hate's a ghost. I never precisely defined what turns someone into a ghost rather than a hollow, but in general terms it happens when you're too conceptual a being to fill out an entire person suit on your own. She haunts my house and is miserable about it.

Dee is most certainly a Sunbaner. But what does she do for work? I think that, as she is, she exists as an entity that can't possibly conceive of having a job, it's just completely alien to her. Therefore, in a world where she is forced to consider getting one, she has had a long string of short jobs, all of which she has gotten fired for, either for being too upfront or too creepy with the customers/her coworkers/her boss. She's more miffed with this than she'll ever show. She really wasn't made for talking to people.

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Ghost Trick is so funny because it's one of those games where people keep telling you to play it and after a while you start getting curious so you go "whatever" and try it

Then you're playing it and the thing happens which leads to the thing and ultimately gets you to THE thing and then you finish it and are like "I have to tell people"

So you go on social media to post about how this was a downright mindblowing experience but are like "Oh no what do I say to not reveale too much?"

You then type "Play Ghost Trick" and hit post like some sort of drone and you are 100% right to do so

Anyway play Ghost Trick

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pompoison

Patreon, Squarespace, Gumroad. What do all these online spaces have in common? A monopolizing payment processor. My hand slipped and I contacted the ACLU, the FSC, and the MA Bar Association for legal assistance. If you’ve been fucked over by draconian nsfw bans please join my Mastercard Injury Mailing List.

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kmclaude

BTW folks who read/look at/enjoy/consume adult content should fill this out too! Not just artists and writers! You too have been negatively impacted when adult creators have to close shop!

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You were the caretaker for the mythical beasts of the royal family. Yesterday they decided to replace you with some incompetent noble, before kicking you out of the castle. You then spent the night in a nearby forest. However today you were awakened by the beasts who chose to follow you.

I’m not good with people.

I never have been. I’ve tried, but I’ve never been good with people. I’m always saying the wrong thing, and usually I don’t know what the wrong thing was until a lot later, until I’m thinking about what I said. In the town I grew up in, I was known for being simple.

I don’t think I am, but I understand why they think that- I’m not good at making the words in my head match the words I say.

But I am good with animals. Always have been. Lots of people are, I’m not special, or anything. Mam taught me.

Animals speak their own language, and it’s a lot simpler to figure out. They’re not people, they don’t understand us. A lot of people who are bad at animals expect that. They think an animal should understand them perfectly. They think animals have human impulses, human urges, a human understanding of the world.

And they don’t.

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tumblr staff will let the thousands of porn bots on here run rampant yet will take down trans comics with no actual nudity

i originally reblogged this post, but since staff took it down you can't fucking see my reblog anymore. well i liked this comic, i want it on my blog, and it does not include any fucking nudity. especially compared to all the straight up porn staff allows to go free

so here it is

untitled by Pas (paxiti), all pages from May 23, 2018 to June 22, 2023

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There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

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Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

Who makes the porn bots.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.

do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?

My voice repeats what

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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solkorolevaa

This. This is the first time. The only time. That it was not an echo. It was not found. Oh god.

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adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

couple things here:

  • multiple things can actually be bad at the same time
  • I’m 32
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bramblepatch

couple more things:

  • Little kids really aren’t equipped to work full time without damaging their physical, mental, and emotional development and health, and when you play the “but adults work all day!” card you sound like a nineteenth century textile baron.
  • Highschoolers can easily be “working” 40+ hours a week, between school, homework, and extracurriculars and/or part-time work, and still hear this smug “:/ wait til you get to the real world sweaty” rhetoric all the time.
  • The original claim here wasn’t even “school is too hard,” it was “school is failing to perform its most basic function,” which is different.

from an adult point of view:

- When my work day is done, it’s done. I don’t need to spend hours each night to study or do homework. 

- I don’t have tests and exams.

- I MAKE MONEY. 

Sometimes I’ll be at home and start freaking out that I haven’t done any homework yet before I realize “Wait I’m 30.”

Or I’ll be asleep dreaming that I’m at school but suddenly realize at the end of the semester that I’ve missed all my classes and don’t know what’s going on

School/homework has to be a stressful thing if it gives people anxiety and nightmares over a decade after graduation.

On a serious note: I agree with all of this.

On another note “you sound like a 19th century textile baron” is my new fave insult.

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bonecouch

what made them think it was always right?

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smoqueen

they are stupid

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atalana

orrrrr they just grew up in this tech focused privacy lacking world

current university students, assuming they went to university at 18 (which would be most of the first years) were maybe 4 when smartphones got popular? the world they have grown up with is one where apps are the only way one interacts with technology, where social media increasingly demands personal information, where someone who refuses to go along with those norms automatically has something to hide, which means everyone polices themselves as if their every fashion choice or sentence structure is subject to judge and jury, because it is

we live in an age which discourages asking questions, where every question is met with offense and "just google it", while google itself fills its entire first page with ads and misinformation

and tumblr is the only place i've seen critique chatgpt. i've had windows 11 (which every laptop comes with these days) advertise chatgpt to me as a search engine

it's not a search engine. frankly, google hardly counts as one either these days. but if you're not surrounded by people telling you chatgpt is bad and fake, how are you supposed to know? when your computer and your phone and your relatives who don't know much more about technology than you all think it's a search engine with a voice, it wouldn't occur to you that all of them are wrong

and they're clearly not stupid! that's the point of this as an exercise - their teacher is telling them for the first time that chatgpt might be wrong. your job is to find out if chatgpt is wrong. and they did the assignment! they had a reason for the first time to question chatgpt, and all of them came to the conclusion that yeah, it is lying to us, and so is everyone else who said it was always right

and they'll go forward now not only knowing they can't blindly trust what computers tell them, but they'll spread that message around, which will decrease misinformation on a bunch of levels

this was a win for the students and a win for the teacher, i think an exercise like this should be mandatory in all schools if we ever hope to combat where technology's going these days

How is TUMBLR the only place that seems to be critical of the PLAGIARISM AND MISINFORMATION MACHINE?!?!

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teaboot

Machines taking our job

Also I am a teacher and in a personal development day they told us flat out to use chat gpt to create content and create quizzes.

So, reluctant as hell, I tried it.

I told it to create a quiz for the book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats if NIMH because we had just finished reading it in class. I know thia book very intimately and it had 4 questions out of 10 that were flat out wrong and had no logical answer. And there's no way to tell it to fix itself. It also heavily co fused the movie and the book- there was no nuance between it even when I specified the book.

It was easier for me to just MAKE the quiz than go through the system's spat out version and rewrite the incorrect things.

So let me reiterate- Teachers in America are being told to use chat gpt to make essays, informational text to read, quizzes to test on, and all sorts of curriculum supplementary work and it's got WRONG information thrown in all the time.

I feel really sorry for the kids stuck learning through it.

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made me think of this

[id: x/twitter qrt from user styloshka that says "I read a forum post about art once, that it's a product of the dialectic between the effort of the artist and the friction of the medium. You push on the thing and the thing pushes back on you, it has its own voice. The weight of a piano key, the tension of a guitar string." original post from user colleen_daves says "Don't you want to skip over the mindless drudgery that is making art?" I do six stand embroidery and break like 10 needles a day, would I prefer that activity didn't hurt my hands and make me angry? Sure. But that's what makes having the finished piece after so worth it to me."]

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