The Enemy of Mine... Isn't He of Your Kind?

- f.k.q

FALLOUT — 1.03 "The Head"

Panem's Guide to Troubled Birds (insp.)

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) dir. Gil Junger

look me in the eye and tell me Charlie wouldn't do this

GET TO KNOW ME ✰ [6/10] Musicals ⤷ Six (2021)

hey artists just in case you feel despair at the rise of ai art please remember that the talking points of pro-ai people are as genuinely “ai art bad? but what if there was a PUCK girl who had Steampunk Tube Arm Prosthetic No Hand Syndrome that couldn’t draw because of no hands and you poured a biiiig vat of pencils in front of her really big and made her look at it sadddd style and she can’t just Pick Up Pencil and draw because No Hand ? what if that happened? then ai art… goood😃😄?”

the most ironic thing about pro ai people being like “BUT IMAGINE IF THERE WAS A DISABLED PERSON WHO COULDNT DRAW?! AI ART WOULD BE SUCH A USEFUL TOOL TO DISABLED PEOPLE WHO ARE PHYSICALLY UNABLE TO DRAW!” is that by virtue of saying that they have outed themselves as knowing jack shit about the online art world because a huge majority of artists have carpal tunnel or some other pain condition in their hands like tremors that makes drawing Painful. like ohhh wow yeah ….it would be such a huge innovation if there was …. a tool that would make drawing easier….it’s not like every art program on earth comes with ….. oh i don’t know… a stabilizer that would completely alleviate this problem..??? yeah it would be really nice if that would happen. but yeah it’s such a miracle of technology that we disabled people FINALLY have a method of creating art! by creating something completely artificial and inauthentic !!! it’s SUCH a gift from god THANK you random person on the internet! do you want all the disabled people in the world to come to your house and throw a party? do you want a cake? do y

Not to mention that it's also Incredibly ignorant that disabled people can't draw.

Because there are people without limbs who can do amazing art with only their mouths as a guiding tool, such as Mariam Paré and Grant Sharman.

Pro AI art people just refuse to do the work

Polish artist Mariusz Kędziersk, who is also self-taught and paints without hands.

Simon Ushakov painted this without hands in 1658

Natalie paints with her lips.

Artist Martin Sodoms from Capetown.

Chinese artist Guofu paints with mouth and feet.

All this in 5 minutes of googling. There are so many artists without hands creating art, all sorts of art, that AI "saving" disabled people is a horrible take.

And seriously speaking, does art need to be super awesome to be art? No. Draw a line. Great, you made art! Draw many lines with different colors. You made more art!

ANNE WITH AN E (2017 - 2019) + Flowers 🌼

Chapter VIII. {Anne’s Bringing-Up Is Begun} Anne of Green Gables

charmed | 1x09 “the witch is back”    

I often see posts about curating your own online experience that make the point, “content creators aren’t your parents.” And, yes, that is absolutely true! And I try not to be like “as a parent,“ but as a parent…

EVEN PARENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE READING/VIEWING BEHAVIOR. NOT filter everything ahead of time for their kid.

When my kiddo was 5, his pediatrician was asking him the usual Well Child Visit questions (“What are your favorite foods? What do you do to get your body moving? Do you know what to do if you get lost in a public place?” Etc.) and she asked, “What do you do if you see something on TV that scares or upsets you?”

I piped up like, “Oh, he doesn’t watch TV without one of us in the room,” which was true at the time and is still largely true now. She said, “Yes, but that won’t always be the case, so make sure you’re talking to him about what to do if he sees something that upsets him.”

So we started talking to him about that, and the answer is simple: “Turn it off or leave the room, and talk to someone you trust about what you saw and what you’re feeling.”

The answer is NOT “Ask your parents to make sure you never see anything upsetting again,” because that’s just not possible — and ultimately that would be doing the kid a disservice, since sooner or later he’s going to be out in the world where we can’t control what he watches or reads. That doesn’t mean we don’t try to make sure he’s watching/reading age-appropriate stuff, it just means that’s not the only safeguard he has — and that’s a good thing.

So yes, content creators aren’t your parents and aren’t responsible for making sure you never see anything you don’t like — but also, your own parents should have taught you what to do when that happens. So if they didn’t, take it from me, your internet mom:

Turn it off.

Walk away.

Talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling.

And leave the person who created the thing that upset you alone.

Huh. Did someone get called out for not posting trigger warnings? Did we get asked about why we leaned on implicit bias in our fiction? Hmmm?

Despite the fact that this is a pretty bad-faith response that makes no effort to engage with the substance of what I said in my post, it does raise an important point of clarification that I should probably address here, seeing as how this post has “broken containment” for me in a small way:

The fact that users are (and should be) curators of their own online experiences doesn’t mean that content/trigger warnings are unnecessary, or that tagging isn’t a vital part of the AO3 ecosystem.

Warning for common triggers in fic/art is the decent thing to do. I would go further and say that if, like me, you believe people should curate their own experiences, then (also like me) you should believe in utilizing the systems that allow them to do so, which on sites like AO3 and Tumblr, means tagging appropriately and in great detail.

(As a side note, this is what drives me up the wall about the TikTokification of AO3 and Tumblr tagging — don’t censor your tags, people use those to filter)

If I write some dark violent shit and don’t tag it at all, that’s a dick move. But if you ignore my detailed tagging (and the author’s note saying “mind the tags” that I put at the beginning of my most upsetting fic) and then get mad at me for writing it, that is ALSO a dick move. My original post (and, I think you’ll find, the attitude of many of the “fic writers aren’t your parents” crowd) was a response not to people who ask for appropriate tagging and content warnings on fic. It’s to people who argue that said fic shouldn’t exist in the first place, because someone might read it anyway and be triggered.

But mostly, it’s a response to the implicit assumption behind the statement “fic writers aren’t your parents,” which is that your parents should be responsible for making sure you don’t encounter anything upsetting. Because that is not true! Back to my original point, parents should be helping their kids learn how to avoid upsetting stuff on their own (which includes teaching them how to navigate rating and content warning systems) — and how to cope if/when they do encounter something upsetting.

The answer can’t be “art shouldn’t exist” (and yes, even the filthiest noncon smut is someone’s art). It has to be “give people the tools to make the choices they need to make to engage or not engage with a specific piece of art.” So yes, that does include tagging and content warnings.

Derry Girls (2018-2022) Season 2 | Episode 1

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (2019)

someone should’ve introduced data to crochet. i think that would’ve been good for him.

crochet can’t be replicated by a machine but one of the central points of data as a character is that he’s not just a machine. just imagine someone giving him a hook and some worsted weight yarn, and he makes an absolute beaut of an afghan and then geordi probably mentions that he hears crochet can’t be done by a machine and then the look on data’s face, u know the look. u get the vision.

[ID: A reaction image of Lisa Simpson crying /End ID]

Halloween Hexathlon | Day 4 ↳ Witch(es) + Element(s)

"Lucy is in many ways an echo of who The Ghoul once was; a polite, moral person, who believed people were going to do the right thing. He certainly doesn't like to be reminded of his naivety when he looks at her. After all, it isn't just that he used to be good; it's that he used to be nice."