Similar phenomenon: NSFW content is incredibly policed from small creators on platforms that will then allow ads that are nearly softcore.
NSFW content isn’t censored if it makes money for big corporations, but individuals and small creators have to toe an arbitrary line of what counts as too much.
yea, that's a no
basically so many people forget that they don't only need to sort charaters into a role that would fit them in AU, but also figure out how they got to be recognizably the same character in this AU
gods, I kinda wish I was more into mcu and also a writer so I could write it, lol
true, the augment thing is just there for the taking, and now there's not one but two canon compliant ways to do a time jump. so many delicious ethical and legal messes. juxtapositioning Steve and Khan. Drawing on Bashir's whole deal. Diving into the way augmented people are treated as seen in ds9
help I'm suddenly wondering if anyone ever did mcu/trek thing and translated Steve's superserum into genetic augmentation and explored legal implication of that, becasue it could be great if done well (but I'm not ready to go and look for it yet, lol)
I've also recently seen critrole c4 college au which was... half assed in a way that half was great and other half was. what (I guess it's tricky because one pc aready is actual student and other is working in the same uni administration, so it's easy to focus on it and lose the rest)
yea, the whole fun part of making AU is figuring out how to make it make sense, but sometimes I see a thing and it's just... what (I'm once again having flasback to mcu/trek au where someone clearly assigned heroes divisions based on their supersuit's colour, sigh)
I have the same grievance about university/college AUs. all characters are at different places if life, their ages vary, they wouldn't just all be students! also can pepole research how higher education institutions works please, because even I can tell when they don't do that
it's something that always annoys me about many AUs, people are so focused on sorting the characters neatly into other universe's roles that they forgot to stop and ask if that would make sense for characters. I love authors who plan things properly, like you <3
a collage of three screenshots of hbo Rome showing bathing with the use of strigil, with a picture of actual strigil in the center. eggplant emoji is used to censor a penis
I am, however, a twelve years old at heart, because this was one of the slides
I had such... Moment at con with it when I was like "watch hbo Rome, kids. oh my gods, some of you are younger than this show is"
yea, it's just so cool. I have very vivid memories of watching it collectively with friends, it was airirng in polsih tv and we would log into chatroom to watch together (funny thing, it was on tv first at 8pm with some sex/violence censored and then at 11pm uncensored)
the fact that there's not only multiple accurate scenes in bathhouses, but also one that shows strigil in use? amazing. most shows would never.
yesss
I rewatched it last year (I needed screenshots for my history of bathing talk at convention, lol) and it's just. so good. I have some fanarts planned.
Keep saying "slop" in reference to AI.
At every opportunity.
The techbros are listening, and this word makes them so sad on the inside that they'll hoist themselves on their own Streisand Effect petard.
"you wouldn't download a" meme image that says "you wouldn't download a terment nexus"
ohno
skin on the inside of my ear decided recently that it's excellent place for a pimple and it was a nightmare (I had my share of pimples in stupid places over the years, but this was definitely the stupidest)
we got internet at home in 2005 and I consumed SO MUCH fanfiction in a very short span of time, lol
(yes we had internet cafes when I was a teen, but my anxiety back then was way too strong and I was scared to use computer in public because what if everyone can tell I'm not good at it ;D)
I *think* it was Tolkien, on a polish Tolkien site (general site that had a section for ff), and I was 23. it's important to note tho that I'm polish and home internet moved from "fancy" to "regular thing" in early 2000s when I was already an adult, otherwise it would've been different story
misery loves company
people whose whole mode of engagement with media is whining, comlaining and hate need to have their reactions validated, and they love to spread those misery around
to be fair, russian history is always relevant because moscow only knows how to do one thing
real thing I just said in semi-professional context: "I didin't have time for canibalism, I was busy with degeneracy"
it was all about art
Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.
sometimes we get lucky, indeed!
the best colours are always limited edition, I hate that
(I think you'd like royal rajah ruby, I remember if having the most beautiful depth)
help I'm looking at 2008 India collection and I'm tempted to find some of these (moon over mumbai is the one polish colour that never left me since 2008, and that colection really pulled me into nail polish world after I crawled out of depression, lol)
we're not immune to the allure of a good and inspiring colour name (and all issues aside, older location inspired OPI collections were really cool)
Four years of devastating, full-scale war as the rest of the world sends barely enough support and propaganda is rampant. My wish for Ukraine is that this nightmare ends, and soon. Slava Ukraini!
The AI "race" is a race to the bottom. To be profitable, companies will be motivated to agree to the terms of the highest bidder, leading to serious social repercussions. No amount of "safety and transparency policies" should convince us otherwise. 🧵
