#which i guess also might as well happen

[sparklepoint]

for @loveotomization and the art trade prompt silence/kiss/betrayal :3c

#the readmore is just a close up #i'm sorry its not more involved my brain is incapable of focusing on rendering;;; #as usual everyone is welcome to come up with their own context #but *i* was setting this in the quasi-accomplice au i have with my friend in which / #/ akechi takes too long frog boiling his emotionally vulnerable bf into being okay with murder and the power of friendship gets him first #play stupid games win stupid prizes! have you tried not lying your ass off to him all the time! #i am now realizing out of context this just comes off as yusuke femme fataleing it up for fun and profit #which i guess also might as well happen #anyway bri thank youuu for offering art trades i'm always happy for any excuse for more ✨Them✨ #persona 5 #akekita #auverse #twine au #<- shared au with tumblr user floodbender thanks for all the dev help

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the doctor isnt neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or nonbinary or genderqueer or asexual. what the doctor is, is Not From Here

#which necessarily of course says something abt their (non)whiteness #(i had all these words in quotation marks first so mentally add those to whiteness too) #but we've them be black for all of 1.5 episode now so #lets see how that develops you know #also i dont think i understand the politics of that part well enough to say much abt it #not that i probably understand the politics of these parts better but #im annoyed enough abt this Thing happening these years. in these 20s i guess. the 'representation' thing #to complain abt it anyway #the dsm isnt real and it isnt gonna fuck you buddy #maybe i'll read some books and then one day i'll write an essay driven by spite and pettiness #i wonder if i can make the thesis statement about the tension between their status of main character #in a 60 year running family adventure show vs this therapy thing we're doing now #like. you cant do that. in terms of like. what story is and does. what a character is and does. it strains #in an interesting way. like im not saying they Shouldnt have done it. im just observing. that you cant do that really. i think #or maybe you can! but i'll find that out #i also dont know shit abt narratology or whatever so. need to read books first. sigh #always have to pause my thoughts to read myself in first its so annoying. esp bc i rarely really do #bc then new thoughts new things to do you cant do EVERYTHING. you can do almost nothing. bane of my existence really #but like you might even be able to say smth interesting here about whether you can call them traumatised at all #remember that article i saw around on tumblr a few years ago i think that was abt like. some scholar in the middle east maybe #saying that ptsd is a western thing bc it necessitates a Post #all of this is western. psychiatry is western. its all stories. how you conceptualise trauma is a story #whos Other is story #where youre from is a story what you stand for is a story who you are is a story #ah. checked the article. dr samah jabr. palestinian. i'll start with her book maybe

[brookheimer]

the one thing i feel pretty certain about for this episode is that america will not decide the election. a decision will be made, a president will be elected, but america will not be the deciding factor.

succession can’t mimic 2016 or 2020 point blank, that would be boring and have nothing to say. it can’t try to outdo trump because it’ll go too whacky and fall flat like veep’s last season (sorry conheads, no way he’s winning). but what it CAN do is illustrate the immensely corrupt, often arbitrary, and hugely influential nature of news media and conglomerations on political processes. i think probably jimenez will be in the lead, then atn/waystar does something to, i don’t know, discount votes or cast suspicion on jimenez or call the election for mencken early, and the tide will shift, even though the votes are already in. the votes don’t actually matter. the actual result doesn’t actually matter. that’s the power logan (and as an extension, billionaires and CEOs in general) hold. shiv says it herself to logan in s4e2: “just cause you say it’s true doesn’t make it true. everyone just fucking agrees with you and believes you, so it becomes true and then you can turn around and say like, 'oh, you see? see? i was right.'” but it doesn’t matter that logan’s “a human fucking gaslight,” everything he says comes true anyways. not because he was right, but because that’s how it works. he says things and then they happen, regardless of what the truth is or what should actually come to pass. that’s been one of the key throughlines since the very first episode of the entire show when, in response to kendall calling logan out of touch because times are changing and logan isn't changing with them, logan hisses that everyone always says you’re wrong until you do it and prove you were right: “you make your own reality.” you can't miss the bus if you're the one driving it. the election, the votes, the political process? none of that matters. it was always going to come down to the roys and their ilk (allies or enemies, just the top 1%) — that was the whole point of “what it takes” (the mencken episode) last season, after all.

i’ve seen lots of theories about what america will choose and how the candidates will respond and all that and i just don’t think that’s the show’s focus; i think the whole point is to demonstrate the lack of agency, the illusion of democracy. because, i mean, we’ve already seen the fall of democracy via fascist election and fascist election-denial, both in real life and in the countless (usually mid) satires created afterwards. it would be disappointing to see succession use the election to reiterate that same point of 'ohhh alt-right ahhhhh!!!' i don’t think it’ll be about ‘fascism’ at all — at least, not ‘trump-y’ fascism. it’ll be about fascism in the broader sense, the kind that doesn't sport a KKK hood (even when it keeps one tucked away in the attic). it's the fascism that every single roy (very much including shiv and kendall) aid and abet -- the fascism that so many succession fans don't seem to regard as fascism, despite it quite literally being the definition of fascism. trump wasn’t the entrance of fascism into our political process. he wasn’t the lone sign of the failing of american democracy. democracy in america has long been illusory, trump just made it more blatantly evident with his particular brand of hate-speech-ridden masculinist in-your-face fascism.

so i think that’s what this episode will hopefully focus on — america will not decide. corporations, news media, and the roys will. thus, the president will most likely become president not because the country supports his policies the most, but because he’s likely to agree to help block a business deal for a major media empire, and the other candidate is unlikely to. and this will likely come to pass due to said major media empire's interference and influence: they create their own reality. they say it, and everyone agrees with them and believes them, so it becomes true.

#WOOF okay here's my unnecessary ~thematic prediction~ for this episode #i have some more like random thoughts ab what'll happen but those r less thought out and more throwing shit at the wall etc #but i've been thinking a lot ab this ep n idk i just can't see any other way it could be done satisfyingly -- they can't just do 2016/2020 #again. the focus has to be elsewhere. i have some specifics thoughts on details but again those r kinda random n will be in another post #after bizarrely getting a lot of things right this szn i know a lot of people are looking to me to see what i'll say for this ep and let me #remind yall that I AM LITERALLY JUST GUESSING BASED ON MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE SHOW AND HOW NARRATIVES #TEND TO WORK PARTICULARLY IN SUCCESSION! if i am wrong which i very well might be please do not crucify me. i know literally #nothing more than anyone else i'm just a random english/gov major who likes speculating about media ! that said if i end up right again #somehow then yes i am a prophet i am jesse armstrong i have never been wrong about anything in my life. etc #watch this age so poorly tho. #LOL #also fwiw i dont think the Shock etc is going to come from the election results - maybe possibly from the way things happen (i could see a #line of miscommunication resulting in fucked up outcomes etc which i can get into in another post) or a roy sibs moment but i just #don't think there's any way the results themselves cld be surprising. it's jimenez or mencken. it's not gonna be connor guys. #succession #succession spoilers #except not really. just succession speculation more than anything else #long post #succession speculation #100

[leqclerc]

Do you have some sebchal recs? I try to look on ao3 but I barely find any, so I imagine most of their fics are more old

Hello! ❤️

Interestingly, I find myself having the opposite problem. I feel like the fandom - and, by extension, the interest in Seb/Charles as a ship - has grown exponentially since 2020. I think there's like forty pages of published works on ao3 right now. Which might not seem like a lot, especially when compared to other juggernaut ships or fandoms, but considering the fact that there were maybe 3 when I first looked up the tag... 😳 Anyway, over time I've kind of figured out what I like and what I don't like in relation to the ship, so these days I tend to be more selective and pick through to find what really speaks to me, what really knocks my socks off, if that makes sense. 😂 We all have different tastes, both as readers and authors, so different people will gravitate toward different things. Not everything scratches the itch, basically. TL;DR: it really depends on what you're looking for and what you like. 👀

That being said, here are some of the fics that made an impression/that I find myself coming back to:

Canon/Canon Adjacent (aka still set somewhere in the realm of F1):

postcards from places that miss you by streetlightsky T | 15,108 words ↳ Seb wanted to leave quietly. That was the one thing he had asked above all else. Or, the one where Seb retires, but Charles refuses to let him disappear. -> I honestly recommend pretty much anything by this author ⭐ immortality on their faces, night at their back by wintrs E | 16,147 words ↳ Sebastian had always wondered about Charles—but maybe he’d known the truth all along, and he’d just never let himself acknowledge it. no flowers, no flashbulbs by superoxide E | 10,736 words ↳ Sebastian frowns, without thinking. They’d both ridiculed the idea of some kind of staged paparazzi friendliness when it had come up. He wonders what has turned Charles around on the idea so suddenly. (Charles has a plan to improve their image; Sebastian is less convinced.) see you falling by redpaint E | 3,653 words ↳ “I can’t— There are no words. No words. I just need to get this out of my head, okay? Before you go.” -> I honestly recommend pretty much anything by this author, especially the 'conflict resolution' series for that 2019 feel⭐ those who miss each other by sionisjaune E | 8,401 words ↳ Charles’s phone is burning a hole in his pocket. This is something he should be filming, but he doesn’t want to. He thinks he shouldn’t, for some reason. He thinks he can keep this encounter for himself. + bonus: (yes I'm sharing my own fic shhhh) been a long year by ssilverarrowss M | 7,123 words ↳ The days stubbornly march forward. Sometimes it feels agonisingly slow, and sometimes it feels like everything is moving too quickly, like Charles is going to blink and all the time he’s spent with Sebastian will be in the rearview, gone forever.

Alternate Universe:

scenes from an american artist by tetrapod M | 9,389 words ↳ Excerpt from an interview with Charles Leclerc. August 1974. Q: How did it all end? CL: The way all relationships end, I suppose. Inevitably. flesh of my flesh by charlotte_stant E | 4,749 words ↳ Sebastian, still smiling, tilts his head and looks at Charles speculatively. “Can I take you for a drive, Father?" he asks. "To continue our conversation. I find myself in need of… spiritual direction.” Charles ought to say no, but he doesn’t even consider it, not really. Sometimes falling is like that: as easy as opening your mouth and saying “Yes.” the language of another world by redpaint G | 2,568 words ↳ Charles is sent down from Oxford (drunkenness, absenteeism, behavior unbecoming of a Balliol man) and becomes the research assistant to a botanist who is doing fieldwork in the Shetland Islands. and VASI to guide you in by anonymous T | 1,375 words ↳ Nobody at the tiny Aeroporto di Maranello Enzo Ferrari can figure out why and how the runway lights manage to stay on through the night—long after curfew and long after the last worker has left the premises, taking the main ops key with them. However, newly promoted Captain Charles Leclerc of floundering charter airline Ferrari Air knows the answer to that question. He just won’t tell it to anyone. Ever. the tools to rebuild by astronomical_light T | 22,645 words ↳ After months of stagnating in his recovery following a high-speed crash, Charles gets referred to a specialist clinic tucked away in the Swiss mountainside that feels as much like a high-end wellness retreat as it does a physical rehabilitation program. He doesn’t have many expectations going into it, but he knows one thing for sure—he definitely wasn’t expecting Sebastian.

Seb/Charles feat. other pairings:

stringe il cuore della stella morente by partywitharichzombie E | 14,634 words ↳ The announcement is almost poetic in its sweet simplicity: a photo of Daniel, aged three, the cavallino rampante a stark contrast against the white of his oversized t-shirt, radiant grin as disarming then as it is now. No caption. None necessary. (Daniel signs with Ferrari for 2021 and beyond. He hopes he and Charles can avoid ending up in a scenario of assured mutual destruction.) high speed weekend survivor by babypapaya T | 18,608 words ↳ Formula Student is a student engineering competition held annually in the UK. Student teams from around the world design, build, test, and race a small-scale formula style racing car. (in) clover by tetrapod T | 5,895 words ↳ “I was thinking we could take the boat out,” Charles said. spacetime invariants by distressedgremlin M | 6,615 words ↳ Lewis arrived midway through the season of dust storms. Sebastian met him on a shabby starport that barely clung to the atmosphere of a frozen-over planet, the only one within forty light-days’ distance that the dust did not reach.

#replies #anonymous #fic rec #sebchal fic rec #hope this helps! <3 i might make a more reblog-friendly standalone version later 🤔 #also bear in mind i've not been super active on ao3 for the past [checks watch] few months for a variety of reasons #so im not 100% up to date on the happenings in the tag esp in relation to the newer stuff #might also make a non-sebchal f1 fic rec list at some point bc im totally open minded re: fics about pairings i dont ship myself #if the writing is so good it makes me bite my fist and yell abt how i wish i could write like that sjdkflghdfk #if it hits the spot it hits yknow #ALSO thank god for the tumblr drafts auto save feature (which is new? i think? idk first time i've experienced it anyway) #bc of course i accidentally hit some combination of keys that close d the draft just as i had written up a whole ass section #the panic was real but it auto saved. well done tumblr i guess 😭😭

[volatilechemicalz]

it would be p silly of me 2 do a dtiys I think

update: poll

#noodle talks #not art #idkkk we reached 300 recently (which is fucking crazy . hello ) and ive been think abt something like that for a while #is that enough for a milestone ?? i think so #either that or wait an eternity for smth like 500 which will literally never happen #i might just use a piece that ive already posted because it works really well 4 it plus idk what I would make for this #specifically also motivation left me for art again (FUCK) #but idk #i might do an interest poll or something ?? #lmk i guess ough im so indecisive

[tyttetardis]

David Tennant, Good, Press Night 12th October 2022, stage door

Wow, these pictures are nothing like my photos from DJIS in terms of quality, but with the terrible light, a phone instead of a camera and having David smile at me while looking into my eyes with those intense, beautiful eyes of his good pictures definitely weren’t happening. But, for tradition’s sake I figured I should just add a few to my page <3

#david tennant #good the play #stage door #crappy photos but hey it's always a pleasure meeting David #I didn't even expect him to come for stage door this night #but being the absolute sweetheart that he is of course he did #and I was rather blown away by him not mere wearing a handsome outfit but also not wearing the mask or cap #it was of course all super quick #but my gosh my brain just haywired for those for secs he stood in front of me and talked to me #guess that's never gonna stop happening no matter how many times I meet him #I didn't dare bring my actual camera #both because the stage door experience this time is so weirdly calm! It would feel weiird to rock up with an actual camera #also because as I was standing with my phone filming on the first night the security guy said No cameras. No flash and I was like what?! #I mean the no selfies was what it was but it seemed weird that pictures wouldn't be allowed at all #and why also say no flash if you already said no camera #but yeah freaked me out so I didn't dare film the next day either #which was a shame because damn he looked good that day! #Also I already posted some of these so not gonna bother with watermarks #but yeah also debating whether to even post pictures in the future #but since these are out they might as well go up like a wee journal page for myself

[transmonstera]

you can add your experience to the tags of something and people will really think you're telling people that's what they should always do huh anyway

#i would rather disclose my disability and what i cant do as well as my transness in the interview so they can be shitty on the sly #and Not hire me #than not tell them and try and hide it until i Have to tell them and am then forced into a hostile work environment which Has also happened #i stand by sometimes you can just be honest about employment gaps especially if its some shit like retail they do not care #it really is not that deep and you dont need to @ me and screenshot and write five paragraphs about how its bad advice #if you think that wont work for you simply dont do ot #also while i said i got the job offer the next day i had to ask a week in to lower my contract and i could only get that approved because i #had told them im autistic #soooo idk idk idk whatever what do i know im just a person with experiences that might differ to others and for some reason got put on blast #many such cases i guess

[sealacrossthesea]

i'm feeling so... weary

#rho.odt #i kinda hoped i would get my hyperfixations back #bc i started meds and i did have interests when i was on meds before the whole ordeal #but now it's like 'everything's the same but i'm more aware of it' kind of thing #which i feared might happen #and i kinda want to d*e ngl #also my agoraphobia didn't go anywhere :) #as well as the other thing i needed meds for #guess it really is hopeless. huh. #perhaps i shouldn't have quit smoking then. being a miserable smoker just. adds to the whole vibe #why am i even here? to get more fucked up as time goes on? fuck off.

[gibbearish]

am finally back home and can say without a doubt that i am just fundamentally not built for long distance travel however the train was much nicer than planes

#that being said. pressurized cabins drive me insane a little bit #and also it gives you pretty intense sea legs for a While #like. the ones from the first trip hadnt gone away by the return one. so. might be stuck with that for a few days #we shall see #also ajr live fucks severely #the albums were already incredible but that was a goddamn religious experience #like. idk the way i think abt it is theyre more djs than a regular band esp w their performance showing the making of way less sad #like their music is very electronic‚ theyre making mixes of their own sound effects more than singing in one go #so like. the vocals were a teeensy bit rough at times #notably times it has taken me Literally Hundreds Of Hours Practice to be able to consistently sing along with #and times ive found its literally physically impossible to like. no matter what #idc how big your lungs are‚ there is no human on earth who can do that final run of karma in one breath #much less to An Entire Stadium After An Hour Of Jumping And Dancing And Singing Loud As Fuck #so like i dont blame them for that‚ you dont go to live shows expecting it to be 100% perfect anyways jwbdjsbfksb #the trumpet however. well she was certainly playing sometimes. and was very enthusiastic about her flares. #however. in most of their songs they use midi trumpets to my ear at least #meaning she was likely an addition specifically for live performances and in my personal band kid opinion #prooobably was not in any of the like. higher tier bands? idk just. a lot of the mistakes she was making were hitting as stuff that got #taught out of us the instant we joined any band beyond regular concert #so i would guess she was probably just like. a friend who happened to play trumpet in high school or maybe even just middle school #and they knew that the trumpet parts in their pieces were big and distinct enough that like they /had/ to get a live player #and just kinda. didnt anticipate the audition -> performance gap #like. her tone was really fried the whole time like she was playing as hard as possible #which. she was mic'd. have the sound guy turn her up. #the way they did it made it sound like she was using a mute but not. like she only got the bad parts of a mute from it yknow #her tempo and timing were. bad. theres no nice way to put that one it just Was Bad‚ like the trumpet runs in ajr songs arent. complicated #like. quite literally if you handed me the sheet music right now i would have it down perfect in a week at absolute most #and better than that player on sightread. like. we did so many sightreading drills. #like ill share my band kid creds if anyone cares but i need to emphasize this isnt me being braggy like. they genuinely just arent hard #fuck im out of tags. w/e i think only like one of yall also listens to them anyways so i can leave it there

[swordsonnet]

on the off chance anyone on here followed me for my jonmartin fake dating au, currently standing tragically unfinished at 7 out of 8 chapters: i'm still working on the last chapter! i would love to have it up this year, but unfortunately i can't make any promises, because i've started a new medication and the side effects are wreaking havoc on my mind and body. haha isn't chronic illness fun. but rest assured the fic is the beating heart under my floorboards, and i WILL finish it one day

#i feel pretty bad about it because my update schedule has been really inconsistent for the whole fic :/// #and now the final chapter is going to be even more epically delayed than the other ones #should've probably finished the whole thing properly before i started posting it but you live and learn i guess #my chronic illness really messed with my ability to write and i hate it #like the chapter is almost done. under normal circumstances it wouldn't take me long to finish it #but it's like my brain has forgotten how to make words happen. ugh. #i don't want to let people down by making them wait so long for an update #but i also don't want to let them down by giving them a mediocre chapter y'know #if all goes well the new meds might help with both the chronic fatigue *and* the depression which would be an absolute godsend #but ngl. the side effects are rough. and they can apparently last for up to six weeks #and i've only been taking the meds for about 2 1/2 weeks so i've still got a long road ahead of me #i also started my period yesterday which certainly doesn't help lmao #delete later maybe #just needed to vent for a lil bit. and as everyone knows there's no better place to discuss your private business than tumblr dot com

[trainingdummyrabbit]

i do miss using my funy lil replycons tho, as self conscious as i get sometimes i really do just gotta

#.. but also theres again that weird Speaking In Not-Third-Person thing and its like. yknow. The Difficulties. #piktalk #n like. if youll excuse me a moment. she hasnt been here in fucking Forever. like girlie what in the goddamn #shejust Presumably showed up; shook things around violently; and then fucking vanished. like yeah ok this might as well happen. #which isnt necessarily to say those were Because of her. things were just timed in a Very funny way. if it workses it workses. #idont even know what fucken level were working on here. idont/didnt have time to interrogate her so i guess thats just a forevermystery #ilove our little mysteries. sometimes a guy will just show up n we gotta deal w it. imnot mad. just confused. girlie.. #i set out some tea and a chair like a good host and she goes around rearranging the furniture and then vanishes. like ok. cool.

[bejeweledmp3]

tell me why i'm considering opening the doc and writing fanfiction during my lunch break. ON MY PHONE

#talking tag; #totp tag; #i've been meaning to make a tag for the fic so. there #ok if anyone is curious (probably not but like. i like talking about these things) i split the fic in sections in my head #so every ''kimberly finds her father in blah blah'' is a section and that's how i keep track of them #so chapter 1 had sections 1-3 and chapter 2 had sections 4-5 #and chapter 3 will have sections 6-7. it has to. for structure reasons #but section 6 is a very important one and she's at like. 8.5k words at the moment???? and i still haven't gotten to the last scene #OF THE SECTION. THEN THERE'S ANOTHER SECTION #which should hopefully be shorter (around 5k or less is my guess) because fewer things happen but. god #we're looking at a 15+k word chapter. if you're reading the fic hopefully you like long chapters cause!!! it'll be a long one!!!!! #also i am once again pointing out that if you're reading the fic and have absolutely anything to say about it PLEASE tell me #i love talking about this fic she's my child that i created. she's like a clay sculpture to me #i do mean to reply to ao3 comments but i'm shy 😭😭😭😭 but i reread them all a billion times and cry about them every time #i'm still thinking about the lengend that dropped that page long comment on chapter one. king (gn) if you see this i love you #when i reply to comments yours will be first. know that you have me and nat's infinite love forever and always. #truly i hope you like it and cand find peace in it. lord knows we all need it #well. anyways! i think i might edit the doc i'll see

[iguessitsjustme]

i'm rewatching that show you're taking a poll on and taking notes and you know it's deeper than i thought it was, which is a nice surprise? like. oh, there's real substance there. despite the fact that i have to blush my way through the entire thing, haha

Oh my dear anon. Hello. I put that poll under a read more and I said "don't ask questions you don't want the answer to" twice for this very reason.

I stopped watching only about 2 weeks ago so I haven't missed out on that much so far and you've kind of hit on the main reason I dropped it in the first place: the show is not as deep as it thinks it is.

I'm very glad that you found depth and substance in that show. But what I see when I watch it is a puddle disguising itself as a lake.

(I thought about writing every single reason why I think that but decided to spare you the dissertation because I don't want to ruin anyone's enjoyment of the show. I am happy to expand if asked but I will reiterate not to ask questions you don't want the answer to. If you're super curious, I did also already write a tiny bit about my problems with the show here.)

#thanks for the ask #i truly mean it when i say i'm glad you see depth there #i just don't see it but i see the attempt at depth that was made #but other than that there were a few other issues i had as well #which is why i did the poll cause i know some people are still watching it and want me to see specific things #so they can talk to me about what the fuck just happened #*stares at you* you know who you are #but because of everything i just said here you will never guess the scene #that caused me to drop the show in the first place #alsooooo all this being said i am not most likely not going to tag the show when i criticize it #because as i said before #i am glad the show exists and i'm glad the idea of the show exist and i don't want to ruin anyone's enjoyment #i am happy people are happy with it but i also want to be able to criticize it freely #so for anyone that finds that poll and votes keep that in mind if you vote yes #that i should keep watching it cause it might come with posts you don't like

[savrenim]

gods nov 5th is the gift that keeps giving

#I recently have been dragged into I guess sort of the boku no hero academia fandom in the funniest of ways #which is to say I read a crossover fic went 'huh that's good' and decided to read more fic while also deciding to never watch the show #which I've only done for one fandom before and tbh it might legit be a more fun fanfiction reading experience than the normal one #it is WILD trying to reverse-engineer what is simply well-accepted fan theory and what is actual canon #I've definitely gotten a few guesses wrong but the osmosis process is really fun #(esp bc if you want to be a good detective you have to check dates; even people writing very carefully close to canon #might have written a fic before canon came out) #BUT ANYWAYS I guess I read BNHA fic now it's actually pretty good #probably bc there are multiple characters that fit my standard..... not even 'blorbo' preferences #my 'you have a backstory and/or situation that means fanfic written about you is most likely going to hit the spot' preferences #1 defs being Eraserhead bc let's be real 'I am a very tired gruff teacher working two jobs at once who does not get any sleep and has #against my own will adopted all of you why is this happening to me I'm so tired' is The Most Relatable #Hawks bc Crafted Into A Weapon From Childhood is The Weapons Feels^TM #and then Dabi bc that was the crossover that I read that was fun ok it was a silly jjk crossover of 'what if Gojo is reincarnated as Dabi' #that just transferred all my 'HELLO FAVORITE CHARACTER' emotions onto Dabi who then I go and look up and has also the sort of backstory #that makes him fave character material #SO here I am sitting here just generally happy with all of this watching my annual Nov 5th meme compilation #and LO AND BEHOLD there is strong arm 'trending during the us election: destiel/ BNHA' meme #and I'm going 'what the fuuuuuuuck my new favorite fandom aLSO TRENDED IN THE NOV 5TH CHAOS????' #so obviously I had to look up why #WELL THE WHY WAS DABI BACKSTORY REVEAL #anyways my housemate had to check on me as to why I was screaming and it turns out that indeed nov 5th #is the gift that keeps on giving #if you have read this far down in my tags I feel like you now know uncomfortably personal things about me #esp if you know enough about BNHA to understand all of that #so if you have any fic recs About My Favs I'm taking them I esp enjoy canon retellings bc it's REALLY fun to try to figure out #which bits of those are actually canon

[cocolacola]

it's 3 am and i am deeply invested in the fanon i have created for myself with my various evil british people shows

#super duper long tags below!! #dont say i didnt warn you!! #very specific brand of grellerin in my head rn that's like #grelle is in denial and is like ''hey mey rin wouldnt hurt a fly anyways so i guess i can at least *hint* to the reaper stuff'' #''so that she can know the real me!!'' then BOOM drama ensues #mey rin is like Why Is This Actual Goddess Telling Me This #like bestie it's because youre worth it!!! #but #i need there to be STAKES #just two crazy women in love trying to hide it from their superiors who they both also care for #chefs kiss just give me drama and fluff and theatric romance #i'll write for them one day.... finishing my sertegra stuff comes first sorry 😞 #which reminds me i MUST finish some gonzoverse stuff that i made ages ago #like if those two are gonna be so angsty they might as well kiss about it #their fleeting dialogue is so funny ''IM NOT LIKE THEM YOU KNOW!!'' like yes girl we know #you dont have to be so loud she can hear you just fine #also integra dramatically turning away from her in that scene too Can you both CALM DOWN #there is a lot of tension in them just. casually arguing about seras' bloodlust #like girl what are u gonna do?? lick the blood off her finger or something?? psssh like that would ever happen in hellsing canon #BWHAHAHAH ok sorry #sorry i needed to infodump so bad #it's storming outside about to get the crispiest sleep of my life #goodnight for now!!!

[asaxophony]

Legitimately confusing to still see artists and ppl recommending glaze/nightshade and acting like it's the end all be all when how effective both are is still kind of eeeeeh?

Glaze also tends to chew up and compress your images to the point ppl have to go back in and put filters over it. There also seems to be a really large misunderstanding on how Glaze functions, especially on this site.

Glaze changes a specific range of the art ran through it to be read by diffusion as a different style. Generally it's changing pixels and code within the image so ultimately it does end up changing the image, often adding visual noise in the form of swirls or giving it a crunchy compressed look. Depending on how far you run the art through Glaze it can come out looking like a badly compressed jpeg. Glaze does this using the same sort of AI tech. The end result occasionally needs to be run through filters to get it too not look shit. The ultimate goal of Glaze is if someone is training directly from your art, and it's all been ran through Glaze the person won't be able to get a solid style from it, so the images trained off of it will be off from your specific style and not able to replicate it believably. It does not prevent img2img.

Generally Glaze's adversal noise is now robust enough to not be easily edited or taken out by the ai bros, this definitely was not the case on its release. So definitely use it but just keep in mind how it functions and weigh the pros and cons of like it crunching art, and any art posted on the web has a chance of being scraped.

I've seen some arguments basically being like well its the equivalent of crunching you art down into shitty jpegs, no one is going to train off of something that looks like shit which is I think definitely like yeah art has the downside of ot having to be visually vlear and good looking g for it to function so you can ultimately only change it so much before it deviates too much from the artists original intent and vision.

#sorry i just like sometimes trawling aroind the ai bros twitter and reddit stuff is useful #sorry i guess i should be more specific. glaze works but like ehhhhhh theres definitely methods the ai bros have to mitigate it #acting as if it the end all be all is just not how we should be using it #besides tje fact it prevents EXACT style replication ive seen examples of artists training glaze vs non glaze and tbh i didnt reallt think #the difference was high enough to actually discourage use of a data set trained by it #everytime an artist on reddit is like look!!! it makes a huge difference between sets im like well to an actuallt eye trained artsit maybe #but i think the average ai idiot would still be like this looks good #idk it still makes passable images which yeah it doesnt prevent image copying its suppoze to prevent style replication which it does to an #EXTENT which is still some protection but glaze also does weird stuff to the art u put thru it #idk im just not super sold on it and i really dislike how the art community is acting like its their savior its def a step in tje right #direction sure but i think legislation (which isnt going to happen lol) is the only surefire way to fight the ai stealing #i personally dont use it just bc i dont post a huge amount of art anyway and like eh #i think its ultimately more useful to ppl with a large gallery of a distinct and visually appealing style #in which someone might legitimately train a set over