battlships:

animentality:

Amazing levels of reading comprehension there “this sucks because we’re always right but no one listens to us” “have you tried being wrong?”

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radiofreederry:

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manywinged:

manywinged:

manywinged:

manywinged:

blood being frequently described as having a “coppery smell” in fiction is kind of funny considering that there is a metallic component to blood and it’s not copper

in fact if your blood smells or tastes like copper you probably have more urgent things to worry about than it being outside your body. it’s probably better that it’s not inside you anymore actually.

story where blood is described as smelling or tasting “coppery” and it’s actually early foreshadowing that all the characters are suffering from heavy metal poisoning

ALT

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velocirapity64:

animentality:

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rainbowgaez:

sun tzu once said “wwwwwwwwwwsswssswwwsssadasdsdasdsa” because he forgot he left the in-game chat box open and tried to move

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lloonlloon:

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nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we’ll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

hey so, just so there’s no ambiguity about what just happened– this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the “vividness” of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that’s not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it’s literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn’t give permission–i can imagine quite a number of authors didn’t give permission either. (oops, i don’t have to imagine–because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn’t give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to “support authors” yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don’t believe me, here’s a link)

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pika-memes:

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jadedgenasi:

I’ve seen this before, but it’s been years and it just came across my Twitter in its dying days. The words are from a favorite author of mine, Maggie Stiefvater, and they are the words I most need to hear when it comes to dealing with chronic pain and illness. I didn’t need this the first time I saw it, six years ago. I need it now. Maybe you do, too.

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neofooturism:

neofooturism:

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yellenabelova:

KEN Things Ryan Gosling Can’t Live Without | GQ

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zachsanomaly:

So what this paint company does is take iron pollution from abandoned mines that are polluting soils and rivers and makes iron based red pigment paints out of it.

Basically they realized hey no one’s cleaning this shit up, it’s polluting the streams, killing all the fish, making the water undrinkable and there’s a huge market for it so why not make money by cleaning it the fuck up?

They remove this stuff by the industrial bucket load from the rivers. The idea is if it’s in a painting, if it’s in your home, it’s not poisoning wildlife.

anyway its cool as shit, please support tf out of these people https://gamblinstore.com/reclaimed-earth-colors-set/

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everythingfox:

Still figuring out controls

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

captaindibbzy:

I think it’s important to let guys be gender non conforming without telling them they’re a girl, cause actually misgendering people is still shit even when you are pro trans. “You’re a girl, an egg waiting to crack, and that’s ok” how about you are a boy and a man and it’s still ok if you want to do something that doesn’t align with traditional ideals of your gender. You can still be he/him in a skirt and makeup.

“If you wear pink/like floral scents/write with gel pens/whatever then you’re a girl” is not the progressive statement that some people think it is.

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pochowek:

pochowek:

Wish i was drunk at a party explaining mgs to someone

no go on

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