#Esp in law

[ladystoneboobs]

no, but the way, cersei brushes sansa's hair with her fingers after telling her ilyn payne will kill her if stannis wins his battle, so they can all die together. this intimate, almost maternal gesture following a death threat. and then later a similar gesture is used with her actual child, when intimidating the king himself, her youngest, after threatening to have his whipping boy brought in to be beaten before them. just as she scared sansa, she scares tommen, also thought to be meek as sansa was. cersei only knows how to rule through fear but in these certain cases, she can sometimes mix in acts of tenderness too for a particularly unsettling combination.

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf meta #asoiaf #cersei lannister #sansa stark #tommen baratheon #like with sansa she wants her as a daughter-in-law bc she seems unthreatening #but she also somewhat relates to sansa saying she'll survive humiliation as cersei did bc she's stronger than she looks #and w tommen his perceived weakness frustrates her as unlionlike esp as she idealizes joff after his death #but it also makes her even more protective of him to justify all her schemes and plots against her enemies #tommen himself wants no harm to come to his wife and in-laws and sansa no longer wanted any part in cersei's schemes either #(c)lsb #happy murderous meowmeow monday!

[johannestevans]

gonna have to update my will soon and i am absolutely gonna make everyone else do their first wills at the same time i update mine and it's so funny how everyone is just like "ugh but it's so much effoooooort" and it's like. yeah but it's Important and you'll prefer it Done rather than Not Done if worst comes to worst

if you're estranged from your family of origin like?? u don't want them having custody of your remains and misgendering you in your obituaries or whatever, or putting you through religious ceremonies that you reject

you don't want them keeping your death secret or shutting out your actual family and loved ones from your death and the grieving process just bc you didn't write up a piece of paper

and that's not even thinking about the division of your assets? stuff like savings or bonds etc if you have them, other assets if you have them - your home if you own it, your car or bike, your big pieces of tech, your collections

if you're an artist or another independent creator, who gets to receive the profits in your death, who gets to control your body of work, who inherits creative control of your work or your name? do you want your unpublished work to be finished by someone else and put out there?

and that's not even considering like. an advance directive / living will, which for many of us with chronic illnesses (esp considering long covid) are important to keep in mind, to make sure you're given appropriate care if you are rendered unable to control your own circumstances, or if you don't want to be kept on certain forms of life support, or if your family follow a religious doctrine you don't that would lead to you being denied certain medical care, etc

like i know it's easy to sort of go all-edge and be like, oh well, i don't care what happens when i die, i'm cool, etc, but like. if you have people you love and care about? if they depend on you?

and even if it's like "Oh, fuck the state, it's terrible, i shouldn't have to play by their rules" ok well if you don't have living relatives and you don't make a will then the state gets control of your assets, and wouldn't you prefer to give it to a charity or an organisation you love and trust?

like if you die in the UK and your assets can't go anywhere they go to the fucking Crown. would you rather king jackass and his line of inbred imperialists get your assets, or a trans charity? exactly.

#musings #like esp as unmarried queer people but even when you ARE married like #when you're in found family situations and you have adopted others into your family unit you want that to be reflected in law and paperwork #like this is not assimilationism it is ensuring that the state cannot FORCE traditional dispersal of your assets in your death #let alone making arrangements for your position in a living will

[fairybonesandstardust]

law lunging at shanks trying to claw off his face

corazon stepping in flawlessly and smoothly catching law by his collar stopping him from reaching shanks. law goes limp like a kitten when held by their scruff

shanks stares at corazon in slow mo as the opening to careless whispers (or smth romantic idk) plays in the background

shanks with the rizz that got him mihawk (big titty goth gf) : thanks

corazon forgetting that he’s holding law ducks his head and goes to tuck his hair behind his ear like debbie ryan on disney channel. somehow it leads to him and and law toppling into the ocean

in and effort to impress his father in law and save torao luffy the devil fruit user jumps into the sea

in the end shanks and zoro get them all out but shanks has to give corazon very incorrect and not really needed cpr

shanks: don’t worry i’ll give him cpr

law: HE DOESN’T NEED CPR

(context ig luffy and law came to tell shanks about their relationship and law snapped. its shanks he has a talent for pissing people off i mean luffy hero worships this man )

#this is my formal and humble plea asking y’all to help feed the poor #i’m starving i need more corazon/shanks esp corazon/shanks/mihawk #one piece shitpost #op mihawk #one piece incorrect quotes #lulaw #donquixote rosinante #donquixote corazon #trafalgar law #luffy op #op shanks #red hair shanks #mishanks #one piece lawlu #shanks x corazon #red haired shanks #lawlu #trafalgardwaterlaw

[kukinto]

Part 1/2

I did it! Saw these memes on Deviantart way back then and wanted to participate but never did :(

#harteus meme #one piece #one piece fanart #monkey d luffy #roronoa zoro #sabo #portgas d. ace #dracule mihawk #trafalgar law #shanks #gol d. roger #poor roger #mihawk fondling yoru #spent too much time on some of these #esp at 5 #lucky bartolomeo #that's life-sized PirateKings-GoldenFamilyjewels-Floorlamp! #art meme #now I'm a cool kid too

[drsunshaine]

"The gang's all here." [ Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn ]

#tales of arise #toarise #alphen #shionne imeris #law #rinwell #kisara #dohalim il qaras #nazamil #alphen toarise #shionne toarise #law toarise #rinwell toarise #kisara toarise #dohalim toarise #nazamil toarise #tales of arise spoilers #ANYWAY HOW ARE WE ALL DOING asdasjk #man now that i'm seeing this i'm looking forward to the camp convos agAIN esp post game aaaaaaaaaaaa

[kinnsporsche]

✨ a comprehensive guide on why daemi is literally the worst ✨

if y’all missed whats currently happening with daemi on twitter here we go.

context: daemi are the writers of the kp novels made up of two people. poi (a cishet female) and yok (a cis gay man)

1. barcode

poi admitted to essentially grooming barcode whilst they filmed the series. she claimed she “taught barcode how to be a good actor” by teaching him how to give her and yok massages. barcode was 16 at the time of kp filming. jeff calls them out for abusing and misusing their privileges as authors. jeff also emphasises that they’re not joking, he’s the second actor with mile to confrm that the harassment from the actors isn’t something they joke around with. (source x)

a couple people started digging through their old interactions with barcode and found him looking super uncomfortable around them to the point that jeff comes and intervenes, even perth looks uncomfortable with their interaction in the background. barcode also, whether jokingly or not, says that he’s scared of yok. (sources x and x)

2. apo

a video from what i assume is a live came out recently where yok and poi basically get apo to do some fanservice which he does pretty playfully in his usual apo style. poi seemed to think it wasn’t enough and got up and started trying to unbutton his shirt to make him take it off whilst he’s literally trying to fight her off and saying “don't do this to me, enough poi, please bring back the old poi.” she then slaps him on the arm and apo playfully starts pretending to hit her back for it but you can clearly see how uncomfortable and distressed he is when he leaves the room (sources x and x)

a few months back daemi decided to republish the novel with a picture of the cast as the book cover. they only booked bible, build, and mile, because they said apo was busy on a retreat and didn’t bother rescheduling the shoot despite the fact that he’s one of the, if not the, mains. fans started a campaign on twitter in support of apo and apo liked some of the tweets and yok started arguing with him on twitter. the conversations and screenshots are all buried and deleted so i dont have many sources for this but (source: x)

someone associated with the two of them (wannggjinn852 on twitter) accused apo of sexually harassing mile because he was teasing and joke-flirting with him the way he does in a live. a few days later daemi did a twitter space and invited the person who accused him into their audio call with them (sources x and x)

basically daemi really dislike apo and bully him a lot because of it. my guess is that they’re jealous of the friendship he has with mile because they both have a creepy obsession and infatuation with him which brings me onto

3. mile

he has openly come out and said that they sexually harass him, and he’s made it clear that it’s not a joke, that when he talks about what they do to him he’s not messing around, and they just laugh it off because they think they can get away with it all. (source x)

he’s also genuinley uncomfortable around them and they just don’t care and keep touching him and harassing him. when mile sees yok recording his exist post episode 7 underwater kiss he literally tries to hide himself and looks so uncomfortable. (source x and x)

yok is, by his own words, a digital content creator for be on cloud. today a pretty sensitive and jarring picture was posted on be on cloud’s instagram story that doesn’t fit with the rest of the content that they’ve posted over the last few days. it’s from an awkward and weird angle, has nothing to do with the tour, so there’s been speculation that yok was the one who took and posted it because of his obsession with mile. tw, the source includes the picture. (source: x)

4. bible

more harassment towards bible from yok. he asks bible to call him ‘mom’ or ‘mommy’ or something and bible refuses and says he already has a mom and keeps touching him and holding him when he tries to get up and leave. (source x and x)

5. pond

a video has surfaced that poi seems to have taken of her at a gathering with some other people. she pans the camera to pond (the screenwriter and director of kinnporsche the series) who smiles at it and then she leans in and kisses him without his consent. the discomfort is pretty clear in his eyes (source: x)

6. misc

made, and fully intended to sell, merch of vegas’ don’t worry i’m not gonna hurt you line before he assaults porsche in the show and only got rid of it when they faced backlash for proffiting off of sa (source x)

be on cloud had to tell them to stop hosting events around content for kinnporsche the series because they kept giving things away and people were getting mad at pond, mile, and apo, when it didn’t happen or when things were spoiled. (source x)

they’ve always been super disrespectful and rude to fans when they’re criticised and recently yok told international fans to fuck off in an instagram live (source: x and x)

tldr: everybody listen to bas

#daemi #kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #man i hope boc can get them out but i know the chances are slim bcs the writers are protected by law #i just want our boys to be safe and happy esp bcs boc is such a safe environment for apo after everything he went through #god i hope they dont ruin it for him!!!! #anyway if more things happen ill try to update this #daemi masterpost

[p2ii]

question. are the 'lotus eaters' from Jessica laws song Lotus eaters the nymphs? ik that if the song was kept in it would be in place of sirens but idk enough about greek mythology to really pick up on that that implies.

I kinda though so because lotus is frequently referenced as something Orpheus struggles with addiction to, aswell as presumably being big in the nymph scene/Dionysus's clientele, being so focused on pleasure.

(set at a party held by narcissus, Dionysus's most popular nymph)

also this line (government sponsored??? hmmmm)

#might just be me (who for some reason though lotus eaters was a song SUNG by Orpheus the first few times I heard it 😭 and so had him in #the front of my mind the whole time) #but also the vibe of the song feels very seductive. and the idea of letting go of outside troubles and matters of the word to loose yoursel #to the lotus/drug addiction. feels in line with the nymphs doubling as information extractors as well as pleasure workers #could be completely wrong tho and would just like to hear other ppls thoughts #esp since I know jack shit about greek myth 😭 #psii.txt #ulysses dies at dawn #jessica law #languid little lies #lotus eaters #udad Orpheus #udad narcissus #the mechanisms

[descendantofthesparrow]

Hades and Beast give off bitter exes energy in the third movie

#...yeah #esp with the ROR school of merlin bullshit they very well could be exes now #fuck it they're bitter exes #now Mals dad and her father in law have fucked and she learns that and screams #Ben disassociates #Belle already knew this

[despazito]

Ngl seeing a meetup or judging ring of 50 dogs who all look xeroxed just kind of feels unnerving

the commodification of dogs as a consumable product and therefore the expectation that your product will look like what's on the package to the extent there are lemon laws that apply to pets just feels like such a weird attitude to living creatures idk. Animals aren't products that can be manufactured as clones, and genetics aren't kind to bottlenecks or homogeneity. before pedigrees dogs were still selectively bred but primarily for function and the parameters for a breed were much much looser. Social media has only made it worse I'm afriad. Everything has become visually performative and that extends to your pets and what aesthetic they give off, so the dog I'm getting better look like the ones I see on the Instagram tag!

#lemon laws make sense to an extent #like false advertising esp if you need a work dog #it's a weird precedent #idk just let dogs have a little bit of variety #i really dont like conformation as a goal i much working trials that keeps type less strict

[storm-of-feathers]

The funniest thing ab America is that whether or not its rude to start entire ass conversations beyond "hello" depends on entirely where you are

#i think america is more analogous to the eu as a whole than any one country all of our states operate differently #and very independently of each other #joe for example always says its stupid that laws vary state by state esp around guns and such #and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just how it works here

[rollercoasterwords]

like. i still wouldn't want someone to copy and paste my fics into a large language model like chatgpt but it's not so much bc i'm worried abt my work being stolen (seems unlikely that an LLM would spit back out my exact words considering how it works, and even if it did, i doubt any individual would be able to like. publish and profit from those words, based on the nebulous status of copyright law when it comes to LLMs like chatgpt. and having my words fed into the LLM really isn't going to make much of a difference when it comes to corporations profiting off the tool in the first place; plus in instances of corporate exploitation i think there are more effective ways to organize than like...arguing for strengthened ip laws or trying to like make ip laws for fanfiction spaces). it's more because i'm wary of what that says about how a person is like...approaching my fic specifically + fanfiction more broadly. in two main ways:

1. i think it is just. basic respect to check with a writer before u take their work off ao3(or whatever fanfic-specific place it's been shared) and put it somewhere else. and like, this applies to lots of things outside chatgpt--reposting fics to other sites, posting them on goodreads/storygraph, printing + binding fics, etc. if u are treating fanfic writers as people who u are in community with, who are generously sharing a gift with u, then it seems like basic kindness to check in and see if they're alright with u taking that fic outside the space it was posted to do something else with it.

with chatgpt and similar LLMs specifically, a lot of people are wary because there's still so much unsettled in regards to how copyright laws might shake out, and most people (myself included) are unsure of how/whether our writing/data might be stored and used by these corporations that own the LLMs. i don't think ai itself is something that should be mythologized as like ontologically evil technology, but anytime a corporation is introducing us to new tech like this we need to be wary of where it's coming from and how it could be used--people have already pointed out a lot of very serious issues with the way this technology is being developed and how it could/likely will be/already is being used exploitatively--which, again, is more a matter of organizing against corporations than railing against ai tech itself, but is still a valid reason for writers (again, myself included) to be wary of having their work fed to LLMs without permission.

and like. sure, u don't have to care abt writers' feelings + boundaries and can just take their stories and do whatever u want with them. but to me that says u aren't treating fanfic as a community space, but rather a content farm in which fics are products that u are entitled to do whatever u want with. and i just think that's shitty! and if that's how ur treating fanfic then i'd rather not have u reading my fic at all

2. i honestly think it's a strange way to engage w storytelling by treating endings this way. like. story endings are usually v important + intentional, and can completely change the entire tone, themes, messages, etc of a story. i understand going to the writer and asking them abt what they had in mind for the story ending if ur looking for closure, and i understand imagining ur own story ending or even writing ur own ending to an unfinished story. what i don't understand is plugging a story into chatgpt and having it spit an ending out for u.

and like. maybe this is bc we've all been calling these LLMs ai, which evokes an impression of like. a sentient robot creating something. but that's not what these programs do! the first article i linked explains how they actually work really well, but essentially--chatgpt and similar LLMs cannot create new ideas. they can't take a story and synthesize its themes or pick apart its tone to then come up with an original idea for an ending. at the same time, they aren't just plagiarism machines that are ripping text directly from other writers and spitting it back out.

instead (to my understanding), what they're doing is compressing vast amounts of information by running statisical analyses to just save the most common trends, patterns, recurring info, etc, and then plugging that in to fill the gaps. it looks like it's writing something new, but it's essentially just paraphrasing already-existing information pulled from the internet. so i'd imagine that if u fed an ai a fic and said "write an ending," the ai would basically compare the fic to whatever similar stories it has saved and then spit out an ending that is most commonly found on the internet for that type of story. [not an expert here tho--this is just my best guess based on the bit of research i've done].

my point is--you won't be getting a new ending inspired directly by the story u put in. you'll be getting a paraphrased version of the most commonly recurring type of ending for similar stories on the web. and i just....don't see how that would be satisfying in any way. it seems, again, like a way in which someone would be approaching fic like a product, something that needs to be finished + complete bc ur entitled to it, rather than viewing fic as a piece of art with its own unique themes, message, and story that can't just be plugged into a one-size-fits-most ending generator. and like, i'm trying to avoid mysticizing writing as some sort of ethereal art form that would be blasphemously degraded by having someone plug in a shitty ending paraphrased from a conglomeration of various similar stories--i don't think someone creating a shitty ending for a story is like. a horrible evil thing. but i can understand where the satisfaction is coming from if you're writing your own shitty ending, where you get to come up with where u think the story would go + where u get to synthesize the themes u picked up on etc. but ai isn't even doing that--so again, i don't understand where the satisfaction is coming from aside from just going "well every story i read needs to be finished," which. makes me wary bc it just feels like a completely different way to approach stories and storytelling than i would hope to find in fanfic spaces, one that treats fic less as a creative place to explore and more as a transactional space where u are entitled to products.

anyway. feel like my thoughts + feelings abt ai keep changing the more i learn abt it + i'm sure they could change again, but rn my impression of this whole situation is like. i find the fact that some people are plugging fics into LLMs less concerning re: ip + ownership rights, and i don't think it's useful to exaggerate or mythologize abt what ai actually does (i think even calling it ai has kind of misled a lot of people, myself included). what concerns me more is that plugging fics into LLMs to write endings feels symptomatic of a broader culture in which people treat fanfic as an informal profit economy in which fics are product or content that a consumer-audience is entitled to, and i think that sort of approach leads to a whole plethora of other issues + makes fandom a more hostile space.

#hopefully this makes. sense #i am not a fan of most of the uses of ai/LLMs that i've seen #but i also am concerned that much of the backlash against it seems to be defaulting to this position of either #mysticizing writing in reactionary ways #and/or running into the arms of ip laws #which are a tool of capitalism and shouldn't be trusted any more than the corporations who profit from + exploit them!! #definitely feel like there are issues w plugging fics into LLMs without permission and would not want anyone to do that w my writing #but. moreso bc i don't want my writing being treated like content for consumption y’know #anyway the articles i linked esp the first and third r really good...highly encourage reading them #ranting and raving #txt

[ruthlesslistener]

Lmao some old white bitch just came up to me and bitched about how scooters weren't allowed in the building bc of 'policy' so I just went and entered another way in instead. Idgaf about your fucking 'policy', its a fucking folding push scooter and I'm not buying a bike lock when nobody gave me shit about it before and I'm only here to piss anyways. Shove your fucking policy up your ass

#rant #i haaate people like that so fucking much #rules arent the goddamn divine law or something bitch im not gonna follow them if i dont see the point #esp. since the reason that rule got put into place was for hugeass electric scooters and bikes

[umarthiels]

[...] Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing, he had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command. From even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground, Ahab must of course have been most anxious to protect himself.

LAW TIME!

this is so interesting to me bc it calls back to the fact that ahab doesn't actually own the pequod! he's captaining it and he does own a share in it, but the real owners are peleg and bildad, and on shore he's accountable to them. even though on the sea he is master of the ship, he still answers to the owners, and in derailing the voyage from "hunting whales and making money" to "hunting moby-dick specifically", he is usurping authority! he doesn't (well, in the sense of ownership, which will come up later) actually have the right to do this! and if the crew were to mutiny against him (say, if a certain mate who isn't keen on the quest and prioritizes the commercial interests of the voyage over ahab's goal convinced them), legally they'd be in the right to do it, and arguably it'd be their duty to do it. (nautical law side of tumblr do correct me if i'm wrong) (the idea of whether ahab actually has ultimate authority over the pequod comes up later and it's all very interesting!)

this is extra fun since ahab knows this and is genuinely nervous that the crew might rise up against him. right now starbuck stands alone, and even he gave way to peer pressure in the end! the entire crew is enthusiastic about the quest, but if that wanes and they start to consider it, ahab will be in genuine danger! he can't actually answer to the charge of usurpation, he undeniably did it (within the framework of ownership of the whaling industry ofc) which is something that isn't really obvious in pop culture perceptions of him, he's not just some dictator, he's pragmatic about things!

#whale weekly #ahab #moby dick #fr this is so interesting #and the callbacks to this in later chapters are so fascinating to me #esp in chapter 109 where it's most obvious #any people who know big water law do add onto this #like if ahab were any less charismatic and brilliant and pragmatic he mightve fallen prey to this but he DIDNT #and [REDACTED] #and that's something really interesting bc ishmael mentions how the incompetence/traits of the mates made them unable to stand up to ahab #and given that [REDACTED] iit's !!! to thinka bout ishmael recalling all of this after #also also the EVERYTHING abt ahab not actually owning the ship and being painfully conscious abt that #and how he reframes it in 109 #same energy as 'a king is he who can hold his own' #yeah thingol you say you own all beleriand but maedhros is actualy holding it #yeah bildad and peleg you technically own the pequod but ahab is actually captaining it #ALSO cannot believe i forgot to mention but something something means of production #ahab and the crew are doing the labor (and to be fair they do get shares) but they don't get the shares that the big stakeholders like pele #g and bildad do even though they're the ones doing the grueling labor

[emblazons]

Me trying to stay neutral when someone tags any of my gifsets with mlvn and/or any “he’s so in love with El” commentary b/c they’ve breached containment:

#like I get gifs are free range for anyone. and I would never in my life enter the tags of a gif set I know was made my a mlvn with Byler #despite knowing some of my fave gif makers are in the mlvn side of the fandom #and honestly I love that! your creative/editing ability shouldn’t be cornered based on sharing a ship! #but…lmaooo why would you make me see this #I can’t write ‘gay Mike truther and borderline ElMike anti’ in bold on my posts but #I really do wish people would just. enjoy the work without making it about a ship it’s not. ESP my gen Mike sets lmao #or the byler in law (?!?) ones #also this is as close to a hater post as I get but lmao it’s happened FOUR TIMES today 😭 #the me tag

[rusty-jester]

i have a headcanon abt why Rolan is so adamant abt not smoking. it's because he gets really fucking tired when he smokes, just like when beekeepers put bees to sleep with smoke :) Basically he doesn't want to get made fun of for passing out in the middle of the sesh lmao

#the jester jingles #jrwi bitb #jrwi bitb spoilers #bitb spoilers #He tried to smoke a lot in college i think. esp with the stress of law school #but it was kind of annoying falling asleep like 5 mins after having a smoke #i do think he has used them as a sleep aid before tho #they worked v well for that purpose but he had too many dreams of his old friends and returning to galloway that he eventually stopped.

[rahabs]

Watching the presidents of Penn State and Harvard hang themselves publicly has been eye-opening.

#These are the people who are like. #'Everything I don't like is genocide and unforgivable! Words are violence! This is harassment! Racism! It violates our CoC!' #But then when asked DIRECTLY if calling for the genocide of Jews is bad #They hem and haw and go 'well only if the speech becomes conduct can it be considered harassment and maybe in violation of our code' #'But only if you actually put it into action and kill Jews' #EXCUSE ME? #No actually. /Excuse me?/ #Harvard's a joke to everyone outside the United States these days (esp law) and I had no idea who Penn State was until now but good lord. #Good fucking lord. #text #antisemitism