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Curious as to what new and exciting activities are you participating in during the wga and sag-aftra strike of 2023
All acceptable and encouraged forms of fanfiction. Thank you creators
āThis reads like fanfiction (it feels like it was written by a preteen, and most of such things posted publicly are fanfic)ā vs āThis reads like fanfiction (it has a focus on character and relationships, like the style of a lot of modern fanfic)ā vs āThis reads like fanfiction (it keeps referencing people and events with the assumption that the audience is already familiar with them, like how fanfic doesnāt need to rehash the source material)ā
Amazing! A much better version of west world
Westworld: What Could Have Been
My friend and I just finished season 4 and so this is my thought dump of a rewrite. Because they had so much potential they could have done with these characters and their themes that just didnāt happen.
Themes Westworld has been exploring: What is Consciousness? What is sentience? What does it mean to be human? What is the true difference between an AI/robot made in a humanās image and theĀ āreal thingā? Masters vs Servants. Control. Consent. Slavery. Power. How do we rise above our own nature? How can we live together without destroying everything?
My season 4 rewrite:
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from now on your tumblr nickname is whatever you get from this sexual identity generatorĀ ā
so unrelated but have you guys heard about what's going on in the uk? our main gas company has been breaking into homes of single mothers, the disabled and other such vunerable groups and replacing our gas meters with smart meters while we're not home through a legal loophole. so. lol
Whereās Metallica when you need them?
Thereās a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!Ā
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.Ā
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: āBecause diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.ā Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.Ā
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.Ā
OMG! Thank you thank you thank you!
I took one for the team and made a supercut of every Clexa scene in full HD, enjoy.
"For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolismāa body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your bodyās energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call āthe lean unhealthy.ā A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people."
A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.
Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.
And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.
encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.
classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 hereās a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much itās unreal
moleskine = bad
Pieces of A Novel - Wordsnstuff November Monthly Writing Challenge
The idea of this challenge is to plan one piece of your story per day. For those participating in NaNoWriMo, this may be a helpful tool to use in conjunction with your daily writing goal. This can help you sustain inspiration, and it can help you find that balance between careful planning and spontaneity that many struggle to maintain.
This tool is designed to help you plan and/or write a longer story in a short amount of time, particularly a novel. If you choose to both plan and draft each scene assigned to each day, you should in theory have a near complete first draft of your story in a single month. Instead of basing the challenge on a word goal, it's organized into a list of tasks. Once all/most of these scenes are planned or written, you will have a nearly complete draft, missing only the scenes unique to your story.
The inciting incident of the beginning of your story.
Establish your protagonist(s) core need and bring key characters into the picture.
A scene that progressively complicates the beginning of your story.
A scene that establishes the protagonist(s)'s strengths and/or weaknesses
A scene that creates a crisis question at the beginning of your story.
A scene that foreshadows the arc of the main characters.
A scene that climaxes the beginning of your story.
A scene that establishes what the protagonist wants, versus what they think they need, versus what they actually need, as well as what they're willing to do to get it.
A scene that resolves the beginning of your story.
A scene that gives the reader a glimpse into the antagonist's power, needs, or goals. Alternatively, if there is no antagonist, a scene that establishes the background of the main challenge the protagonist is trying to overcome..
The inciting incident of the middle of your story.
A scene with a twistāsomething new happens. A new friend, minor antagonist, or new information arises as a result of the middle inciting incident.
A scene that progressively complicates the middle of your story.
An unexpected twist gives the protagonist(s) false hope. An important clue or weapon arises.
A scene that creates a crisis question in the middle of your story.
A scene that establishes how the protagonist(s) and antagonist(s) motivations could become their downfall.
A scene that climaxes the middle of your story.
A scene that reveals the protagonist(s)'s and/or antagonist(s)'s greatest fears.
A scene that resolves the middle of your story.
A scene that foreshadows what the protagonist(s) and antagonist(s) will gain/lose in the process of pursuing their goal.
The inciting incident of the end of your story.
A scene that establishes that there is no turning back for your main character(s)
A scene that progressively complicates the end of your story.
A scene that establishes how the main character(s)'s strengths/weaknesses help or hinder their success
A scene that creates a crisis question at the end of your story.
A scene that establishes what the protagonist(s) and antagonist(s) learn once they initially succeed/fail
A scene that climaxes the end of your story.
A scene that answers one of the major questions of your story, or resolves an important dramatic theme.
A scene that resolves the end of your story.
(bonus) A scene that hints to the continuation of the story, if a sequel is to come.
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I identify as a fattie queer. All other sexual orientation labels feel like a lie to me and donāt fit right when I wear them. Iām queer.
queer is literally a slur. like youāve never been called that in a derogatory context like most lgbt people? you think your experiences escaping homophobia make it okay to justify the use of a homophobic slur?
queer is an identity.
it has also been used as a slur. there is no denying that. but using a word as a slur does not make it a slur. because before queer is a slur it is an identity. before it is derogatory it is a label. the use of queer as an identity is infinitely more important than the use of queer as a slur because the people who identify as queer are infinitely more important than the people who use queer as a slur.
say a lot of people decided they hated me. despised me. were disgusted by me to the point where my own name became a slur. would you tell me not to say it? would you tell me i could no longer be helena, and instead must come up with a euphemism for the name that belonged to me decades before it belonged in the mouths of bigots?
because that would make you an enabler.
you would tell me i canāt say my name anymore because some lowlife decided he could use it to insult me?
you would tell a gay man that he canāt be gay anymore because some teens in the early 2000ās started calling everything they didnāt like āgayā, and now he has to say āsame sex oriented male identifying individualā?
does that enrage you? because it should. thatās exactly how you sound.
you are telling me i cannot use my label. you are telling me that when my great-uncle shouted until his face was red and he spat tobacco and the word queer at my feet, he was right. he was right to insult me, and i was wrong to say my name.
you are shitting on every single one of our predecessors. you are slandering every person who fought for their rights to exist and and be tolerated and be celebrated in their countries, every person who was lost to the aids epidemic, every person whose country criminalizes love and gender expression, every child whose parents abandoned them for straying from the norm, every person who was born and will die in the closet longing to be themselves. the queer umbrella is a safety net, a security blanket, the comfort of being known without being pressured to tell. it is near and dear and important as fuck to every member of the lgbt+ community and you are a blight upon the earth you walk.
how dare you speak upon my experiences with homophobia. how dare you disguise your own homophobia as activism. and how fucking dare you have the audacity to come to my blog and hide behind an anonymous ask and preach to me about how iām oppressing myself. go look at the fucking wikipedia page for queer and read about how 1980s lgbt+ activists, especially lgbt+ people of color, fought to call themselves queer in a world that still hates peculiar things. and here you are forty years later spitting queer back at their feet.
i donāt give a fuck if people start using my name as a slur. my name is still helena. i will not change it. i chose it, i like it, and it belongs to me. it does not belong to bigots no matter how badly they want it. your discomfort with my identity is not my fucking problem.
i am helena. i am queer. die mad & go fuck yourself
Love this so much!
Get you one who can do both š
Day sixty-seven (67/100)
of @the-wip-projectās challenge
Q67: How do you get through the fire swamp?
A67: When I feel this way, especially if I feel like deleting an entire section or chapter, I get up and away. Go for a walk, if I can leave the house, or otherwise take a break from my writing. Then I do something useful like the dishes. If I have time to continue writing, I give myself a 15 minute window to write the scene Iāve been struggling with. Just bang it out and only look at that scene again in a week or so.
Day sixty-six (66/100)
of @the-wip-projectās challenge!
Q66: What's the thing that you find super annoying about writing?
A66: Here are the top things that annoy me: 1. That my writing isnāt always able to capture what was/ is in my mindās eye. 2. That the best ideas and wording often come to me when Iām driving and canāt pull over to write them down. When I do try to write them down, the words on the page never seem as good as how I imagined it in my head. 3. Being interrupted by life. 4. Pain in my hands after writing too much.
Day sixty-five (65/100)
of @the-wip-projectās #100daysofwriting challenge
Q65: What else counts as writing for you?
A65: Art, especially sketching story locations, research in particular maps and historical events during the period the story is set in. Or, in terms of my clexa wip, verifying canon events versus where my plots diverge from it.
However, I think it is important to mention that I have had to set boundaries for myself around how much time I spend on research, e.g., how much research do I actually need in order to write the story versus how much information am I taking in because I am curious.
Day sixty-three (63/100)
of @the-wip-projectās challenge
Q63: Are you more of a drabble/flash or a longfic/novel kind of writer?
A63: I am more of a drabble/ flash/ poem writer. BUT the ideas that came to me for my wips really deserve to be treated as a longfic/ novel. I guess that explains why I have difficulty sticking to a plot structure lol!
Day sixty (60/100)
Iām skipping a series of @the-wip-projectās prompts to land on this one:
Q60: How do you start your chapters? Do you start with dialogue? Why or why not?
A60: Iāve not really thought about this before but, on reviewing the two wips on currently focusing on, I rarely start chapters with dialogue. In the chapters I do, I use it to startle the reader as a character is being startled by whomever has just started talking to them.
Day fifty-six (56/100)
Q56: What influenced you in a surprising way?
A56: This may sound odd but when I was in university and studying chemistry, full paragraphs or prose or full verses of poetry would pop into my brain. At the time, I interpreted this behaviour as my mind was tired of learning new things and, therefore, rebelled by outputting new things. Sort of an off gassing of creative thought.
A more recent influence is coding, in particular writing pseudo code to solve a problem. When I initially write down my wipsā notes, those notes have a strong resemblance toĀ pseudo code.
Day fifty-two (52/100)
of @the-wip-projectās #100daysofwriting challenge.
Q52: Pick an idea and write a short "shopping list" of what will happen in the story.
A52: I did this but did not feel like sharing with you. Hope your ideas and shopping list are delicious!
Day eighty (80/100)
of @the-wip-projectās challenge
Q80: How do you feel about your old works? And bonus homework: say something nice about past-writer-you.
A80: Some are really good others not so great.
Bonus: Past writer me was prolific. Too bad I didnāt finish some of those stories!
Day fifty-one
of @the-wip-projectās challenge
Iām actually very curious to read the other answers to this question.
Q51: Do you use tools for plotting and what are they?
A51: Itās not a tool, per se, but a method:
āKatytastic's 3 Act/ 9 Block/ 27 Chapter Outling Method!ā
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe3eodLF_Uo