hello & welcome to the materlist!requests/ideas/any interaction is so welcome as long are you are nice.
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my statement on inclusivity in x reader fic.
give it a read. pls.
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on to the masterlist.
so far there's really very little on here, but it's easier to find if it's in one place.
cassian andor 🌅
latch
complete, but still adding drabbles.
gender neutral reader - no pronouns used, no use of y/n.
set in the time between andor s1 and (up to and including) rogue one. this is just me hypothesising: what if someone loved cassian with an open heart. what if someone treated him gently. what then. latch spotify playlist - each chapter is a song title/lyric
had i known you better
amidst the chaos (part 1)
amidst the chaos (part 2)
as i was saying
to know him is to love him
here i am
you're so busy changing the world
interlude (what love is) - drabbles/short stories (coming,, at some point)
9.1 one more grain of sand (canon ending)
9.2 if i could (canon deviant)
post-latch drabbles
ease my mind
moments of intimacy
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din djarin 🌑
lay down your head - sickfic oneshot
gn!reader, no warnings.
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Ok whatever whatever whatever . unforeseen circumstances: I am up to date on strange new worlds and it’s thrown a spanner in the works for my plot plans because now I wanna be more SNW/TOS canon compliant than AOS compliant with the fic I am plotting, but in the end canon is my charcuterie board and I am picking and mf CHOOSING
i love the snw characters i wanna write em. let me at em.
Anyway here is the ,,,, whatchamacallit. The basis of the story:
OK SO I think about the book The Dictionary Of Lost Words often because very interesting book. Look it up if you aren’t familiar.
I’m just thinking that if you have an extremely emotionally volatile society that’s tearing itself to shreds and then you have a big old reform where everyone adheres to strict logic there’s got to be a bit of force involved and I think it’s plausible that could be in the form of language.
Basically: a mild sort of au where surakian reform involved destroying the records of most words to do with emotion and subjectivity, only keeping a handful. If u don’t have the words for it you can’t justify it or talk about it.
As per many fanon things (I cldn’t find this on Memory Alpha being canon or woteva) Amanda Grayson? Linguist. She’s out here going to rural Vulcan towns and then there are all these Vulcans using these words she’s never heard and she’s like what the hell are yall talking about
And slowly she builds this dictionary of words that the rural Vulcans (and colony Vulcans too) are using, that they kept over the generations because structures aren’t as strict as in the cities. They’re out here using Feeling words. Love words. ashaya k’diwa and many other words and feelings. And she doesn’t publish the words because that would be like throwing a lit Molotov cocktail into a field of dry grass but she keeps the words safe in case one day they can be used. Especially if Spock is struggling to identify emotions or cope with them being half human and all. Giving him words in his first language. Et cetera.
That’s just the background. The plot being: Uhura and Kirk (of the Jim variety) at some kind of science/tech/gifted high school that isn’t a direct line to Starfleet academy but definitely recognisable. They get placed on secondment during the summer break because they’re great at their studies and the secondment is on Vulcan. Uhura in linguistics maybe with ms grayson herself and Kirk in some kind of,,, admin thing. Kind of like advance credit in being an ensign/yeoman type thing. Baby steps in command track. They’re sending him bc his application was good but also in hopes he grows up a bit. He is a reforming delinquent. Bit of AOS energy here, not sure how much, not sure if I’m bringing Nero into this.
MeanWHILE Everyone at the VSA so xenophobic and Spock despite excelling is stuck with hanging with a human for a couple months which is very clearly a punishment because Vulcans are xenophobic how interesting.
Cue cultural exchange. Jim plays Spock terran music, Spock makes commentary and likes about 20% of the music. Spock leanrs a lot about feelings. Jim has a big old crush on spock. Spock is too busy having a career crisis to notice.
Then some other cool plot points blah blah blah the kids incl. Uhura hang out on Vulcan and they are friends :)
Time jump babey. End of VSA year 1 Spock is like actually fuck this I’m going to Starfleet. He do Starfleet. A year or two later Kirk and Uhura join.
Then what I actually want is the configuration of SNW where Spock and Uhura are on the Enterprise and Kirk is on the Farragut. I think Kirk gets FOMO something terribly fierce but is like there’s literally nothing I can do about it.
Idk how many SNW canon compliant spirk interactions I’m going to put in. that mind meld was crazy I feel like I need to put it in. I’m about to bite the walls.
Gary Mitchell mentioned in that episode of TOS that Kirk taught him at the Academy so I’m saying after that weird gas thing that kills a bajillion people, remaining Farragut crew are on leave and Kirk can’t sit still so he does teaching.
Enterprise is docked back outside earth that time,,, Spock sits in on one of Kirk’s lessons and is hit with an absolutely insane wave of love appreciation lust you name it it’s there and he's like huh.... a development.
Uhura hasn’t seen Jim in a while either, catches Spock’s reaction and just sends him the mp3 file of Whatta Man by salt n pepa being like hey is this u rn?
And then we live laugh love from there idk I have plans don’t even worry about it
i told myself i would not watch strange new worlds after finishing TOS but here we are and i finished s1 in 1.2 ish days here are my short thoughts on the characters so far. spoilers.
m'benga love him what a lovely man, what a soothing gravelly voice, what a heartbreaking arc. the face of a friend. he's lovely. and also very much combat trained. incredible. and that bright blue colour of med uniforms is delightful on him.
hemmer he was a diva i love him and i am sad. he was so cool. and such a good mentor for baby uhura. loved his wizard performance in elysian kingdom.
baby uhura i know she's not a baby but i'm obsessed with her she's such a cutie and a sweetiepie I LOVE HER. u have found ur place girl. sing ur songs speak ur languages live ur life wear ur statement earrings love uuuuu
chapel love her i think she's fun and i think it was a really cool choice to make her character attempting to be very emotionally closed off and raw esp since she's not super explored in TOS and she's mostly a romantic in that. Do Not Like her hair tho. they need to give the beach waves and purple shampoo a rest. also combat trained which is super cool. and she's got a big old crush on spock which tracks, babey
la'an at first glance i was like 'hmm very archetypal character traits i wonder how this will go' but she feels very real and i think she is awesome and cool and i love her. also her eye makeup suits her really well. and I like her signature hair and braids and stuff. also her in the elysian kingdom episode in her hoop skirt and bridgerton bosom and overall flightiness was such a wonderful display of range. most fantastique.
ms number one diva i love her hairstyles i love her mannerisms i think she's very cool she and pike have great energy as a command team. and it was mean of them to arrest her end of s1. she's very steady and i like that about her. re genetic modifications,,, the julian bashir of it all. i'd say they would get along bc they have something in common but julian would piss her right tf off.
mitchell i feel like we don't get to hang out w her much but she's fun and i think she is cool. LOVE a helm duo dynamic and her and ortegas is great
ortegas we hang out with her a bit more i think and she's fun!! her hair is also cool. i enjoy her playfulness. she is a bit of a rapscallion and that's important
pike i thought the him making dinner for people and riding horses was fanon but it's real and he's a cowboy and the devoted and loving father of 400 people. i really like him! I think he was well cast for 'boy scout' energy. he's fun and a bit silly and cares very much and is very captain dad. love him.
spock lowkey highkey love this spock. i liked aos spock but sometimes his perpetual smirk felt a little much (i know it's an alternate universe but still). in SNW,, Spock's spockishness feels familiar and correct to me. he's got a very deep voice which also feels familiar like nimoy spock. he's out here making deductions and vulcan-mannerisms-based social blunders and getting into shenanigans. he's lovely and he's a little asshole. he's so spock. i like that he's figuring stuff out, i like the push and pull with t'pring. i wasn't really expecting that, my first reaction to that was like 'ugh really we're doing betrothed stuff?' but i stand corrected. i think it's kind of awesome. i am curious about this sort of potential emotional cheating thing he's doing with chapel. yikes. on a completely visual note i wish they made the ends of his eyebrows a liiiiitle longer. or pointier at the end. they feel too short on his face but then again he does come across a bit more human like that. so that could have been a stylistic choice and if so,,, cool, i suppose.
sam kirk i feel like he's fine. he's a bit of a dweeb but i think that was the right choice. u can't have both the kirk brothers be super charming, fun and cool otherwise it's just too much.
jtk i've only met him in the alternate pike lives timeline so far so i feel i cannot make a solid judgement but i think he's got potential (as in the casting). i'm excited to see him as a ??lieutenant?? in further seasons. curious if they're going to show us the thing that went down on the farragut where a bunch of the crew died with that gas.
commander pelia i have to put this in i'm watching s2 ep1 as i type this and idk if we're ever gonna meet her again but she is completely nuts and she's like a little witch (positive) why is she absolutely bonkers?? is she from something else?? should i know her????? and she knows amanda grayson?? incredible
anyway that is my evaluation <3 im on s2 now live laugh love
checking in 3 days later 3 eps into season 3. triple 3 babey. let's see if any of my opinions have changed
m'benga - still love him. he's got 3 ex wives? 4? hey it's like that sometimes. he is a compelling character fr. kind of fun that he's also like a stealth combatant dude. the klingon war flashbacks go crazy.
hemmer - i still miss u diva <3
baby uhura - complete ray of sunshine still. she's such a cutie. her singing was good in subspace rhapsody i know she sings irl. love her diff hairstyles in s3!! she's so uhura yk? like i know she's her.
chapel - love you girl. also found her klingon war flashbacks wild and compelling. it's rough what's gonna happen with roger korby but that plot has been canon since 1968 and u gotta live it out bestie. sidenote they've done a lot better with her hair in s2 and s3 love it.
la'an - truly she never stops surprising me. what a cool character. still love her eyeliner still love her hair. her time travel romance with jtk was unexpected but so interesting and the subsequent convo with the normal timeline jim was wild and she's so brave and beautiful. also she dances? she ate that shit up. i think she's so cool.
ms number one - i'm watching ep3 s3 and literally hate the braid crown she currently has if they moved it like 5cm back it would be better. sorry it's so distracting this ep. but most of the time love what she's doing and everything about her. her trial abt being illyrian was super cool and i think she's wonderful.
mitchell - still don't see her very often but i like her :)
ortegas - she is erica ortegas and she flies the ship !! she's a cutie. i really enjoy the way they've written the character and the way the actor plays her -- very good balance between fun silly lighthearted but also just real person. like the silliness never feels annoying which I think can happen quite often with characters. also he just loves his crew so much it's very sweet.
pike - he's coping well. he's really going through some shit atm. he's a great character!! and love that most of the time him and number one do the thing of only one of the command team in the landing party at a time. that feels responsible. and he loves his crew so much and he's very sweet.
spockums - oh he's doing his best. he's the most guy ever. the way they framed his attempts at smiling and laughing in that one episode that was part cartoon (lower decks? is that what it was?) like it was a horror movie,,,, that was so funny and yeah i was unsettled i'm sorry. his learning to dance with la'an was so so sweet i love that he has friends and everything it's so cute. i don't rlly want a romance between him and la'an but if it happens i won't be surprised.
anyway he's god's favourite. except when Q's son ???? rhys darby??? is making his life a living hell and psychologically torturing him. also they fixed his eyebrows which is HUGE for me they were pissing me off. also i forgot arthur conan doyle is an ancestor of his that's so funny.
sam kirk - him having an inferiority complex because his brother is james kirk tracks and honestly like.... yeah <3 he seems mostly nice ish tho. if a tad juvenile.
jim - he's giving!!! he is really giving. i'm fond of him. love that the first interaction between him and spock is a big old handshake..... like .... kiss. but the thing that actually got me was afterwards when him and spock and nyota sit and chat and i'm pretty sure uhura says something about math and spock says "i love math" and jim says "me too" ??? did i hear that right? anyway.
i think the casting for him is great. it took me a sec to get into it but i think he just has the right vibe about him. some very cool eps with him in them!! also i did not know he had a kid with carol (i have not seen the og movies). wild.
commander pelia - god she's crazy. i love her. no notes. she is absolutely bizarre. she's great.
batel - i like her! i think i don't have a strong opinion on her bc she is an auxiliary character but i do like her and im curious about this whole gorn chimera thing and how that's going to go. yikes.
motherfuckin montgomery scott - love how they introduced him. he's so scotty as well. and LOVE that we got to see his dress uniform with the kilt so early !!!
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Quark can't say Fuck because Fuck is a valid ferengi name and he doesn't know what cousin Fuck did to the hu-mons that they say his name with such vitriol but Quark is proud of him for it
i told myself i would not watch strange new worlds after finishing TOS but here we are and i finished s1 in 1.2 ish days here are my short thoughts on the characters so far. spoilers.
m'benga love him what a lovely man, what a soothing gravelly voice, what a heartbreaking arc. the face of a friend. he's lovely. and also very much combat trained. incredible. and that bright blue colour of med uniforms is delightful on him.
hemmer he was a diva i love him and i am sad. he was so cool. and such a good mentor for baby uhura. loved his wizard performance in elysian kingdom.
baby uhura i know she's not a baby but i'm obsessed with her she's such a cutie and a sweetiepie I LOVE HER. u have found ur place girl. sing ur songs speak ur languages live ur life wear ur statement earrings love uuuuu
chapel love her i think she's fun and i think it was a really cool choice to make her character attempting to be very emotionally closed off and raw esp since she's not super explored in TOS and she's mostly a romantic in that. Do Not Like her hair tho. they need to give the beach waves and purple shampoo a rest. also combat trained which is super cool. and she's got a big old crush on spock which tracks, babey
la'an at first glance i was like 'hmm very archetypal character traits i wonder how this will go' but she feels very real and i think she is awesome and cool and i love her. also her eye makeup suits her really well. and I like her signature hair and braids and stuff. also her in the elysian kingdom episode in her hoop skirt and bridgerton bosom and overall flightiness was such a wonderful display of range. most fantastique.
ms number one diva i love her hairstyles i love her mannerisms i think she's very cool she and pike have great energy as a command team. and it was mean of them to arrest her end of s1. she's very steady and i like that about her. re genetic modifications,,, the julian bashir of it all. i'd say they would get along bc they have something in common but julian would piss her right tf off.
mitchell i feel like we don't get to hang out w her much but she's fun and i think she is cool. LOVE a helm duo dynamic and her and ortegas is great
ortegas we hang out with her a bit more i think and she's fun!! her hair is also cool. i enjoy her playfulness. she is a bit of a rapscallion and that's important
pike i thought the him making dinner for people and riding horses was fanon but it's real and he's a cowboy and the devoted and loving father of 400 people. i really like him! I think he was well cast for 'boy scout' energy. he's fun and a bit silly and cares very much and is very captain dad. love him.
spock lowkey highkey love this spock. i liked aos spock but sometimes his perpetual smirk felt a little much (i know it's an alternate universe but still). in SNW,, Spock's spockishness feels familiar and correct to me. he's got a very deep voice which also feels familiar like nimoy spock. he's out here making deductions and vulcan-mannerisms-based social blunders and getting into shenanigans. he's lovely and he's a little asshole. he's so spock. i like that he's figuring stuff out, i like the push and pull with t'pring. i wasn't really expecting that, my first reaction to that was like 'ugh really we're doing betrothed stuff?' but i stand corrected. i think it's kind of awesome. i am curious about this sort of potential emotional cheating thing he's doing with chapel. yikes. on a completely visual note i wish they made the ends of his eyebrows a liiiiitle longer. or pointier at the end. they feel too short on his face but then again he does come across a bit more human like that. so that could have been a stylistic choice and if so,,, cool, i suppose.
sam kirk i feel like he's fine. he's a bit of a dweeb but i think that was the right choice. u can't have both the kirk brothers be super charming, fun and cool otherwise it's just too much.
jtk i've only met him in the alternate pike lives timeline so far so i feel i cannot make a solid judgement but i think he's got potential (as in the casting). i'm excited to see him as a ??lieutenant?? in further seasons. curious if they're going to show us the thing that went down on the farragut where a bunch of the crew died with that gas.
commander pelia i have to put this in i'm watching s2 ep1 as i type this and idk if we're ever gonna meet her again but she is completely nuts and she's like a little witch (positive) why is she absolutely bonkers?? is she from something else?? should i know her????? and she knows amanda grayson?? incredible
anyway that is my evaluation <3 im on s2 now live laugh love
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when i was doing parallel play w my bf he was like what r u doing. and i thought i will be brave so i said i was reading star trek fanfiction which is what i was doing but i feel shy abt that generally.
and he is not much of a nerd like he doesn't get super stuck into books/tv shows/movies he doesn't hyperfixate etc.
but i told him I was reading fanfiction and his reaction was to tell me how cute i am and how much of a nerd i am and then he offered to download any fics i was reading and put them on his kindle in case my phone screen was too bright and giving me a headache. so. marriage.
and then the other day he said what u doing tonight? and i was like oh i'm writing stuff. and he said what stuff? and i was like i've been thinking abt star trek and im sort of writing something
and his reaction was just 'you're so creative!!! that sounds fun!!'
when i was doing parallel play w my bf he was like what r u doing. and i thought i will be brave so i said i was reading star trek fanfiction which is what i was doing but i feel shy abt that generally.
and he is not much of a nerd like he doesn't get super stuck into books/tv shows/movies he doesn't hyperfixate etc.
but i told him I was reading fanfiction and his reaction was to tell me how cute i am and how much of a nerd i am and then he offered to download any fics i was reading and put them on his kindle in case my phone screen was too bright and giving me a headache. so. marriage.
and then the other day he said what u doing tonight? and i was like oh i'm writing stuff. and he said what stuff? and i was like i've been thinking abt star trek and im sort of writing something
and his reaction was just 'you're so creative!!! that sounds fun!!'
the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.
oh, no, you misunderstand me. those were my monkeys. yeah the circus and i have since parted ways. yeah it was the elephant thing, i dont really want to address that right now though
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apropos of absolutely nothing that has ever been on this blog so far (and i have not posted for real in like 4 years i think) i am going and i mean GOING to write a star trek fic. i'm deep in it.
a nice slow burn spirk situation but also i just think vulcans are neat and i think nyota uhura is neat so we're going to get into it and here is my plan thus far
16 y/o jim and nyota overcome their weird hatred and rivalry of each other bc they’ve both been given the honour of accompanying some fancy earth dudes to Vulcan for 2 months for some federation thing. Uhura bc communications and languages and kirk because all-rounder and he hasn't picked his focus and also the staff think it'll maybe help him grow up a bit. and they’re both top of their classes and did the best applications et ceteRA
they go to a school in SF that takes the very gifted talented sciencey, public speaking, language, kid-genius, model UN, engineering types and it's somewhat connected to starfleet. not a guaranteed thing but it's a 'high school is too easy for you and u have aspirations'.
Meanwhile 18 y/o spock acing first year VSA but the hoes are prejudiced and give him the ~boring job~ of hanging with the terrans for 2 months as some high council or VSA prof. aide and first he’s like haaaaate this and then he’s like lowkey this is a valuable cultural exchange.
but for context
Jim and nyota hate each other because when they were 14 on their first day at this sort of pre-starfleet gifted and talented sort of school,,, jim looked worse for wear (maybe he’s emancipated he’s going thru a tough time or maybe he just fell in some mud) and nyota and a friend were like ‘wow poor guy’ genuinely feeling bad but one of them said it weird + they said it in unison despite having just met which made them laugh and then they just kept going ~poor guy~ in the weird intonation for the whole day. And Jim is around the whole day because it’s orientation and it’s a class of like 20 kids and that’s it so he hears them say it over and over again.
and from jim’s perspective hes like I turn up lookin like shit i get laughed at and then get called poor the whole day like the fuck ? immediately sniped by the pretty girls in my class (he is 14 and he cares deeply about the fact that they are pretty girls)
So he calls nyota a bitch. And from nyota’s perspective it’s like I was having fun making weird sounds with my new friend and some little asshole is calling me a bitch for no reason. what the hell was that and they hate each other for a year and or two and they have an academic rivalry and all that smoke
And then once they both get awarded this position, pike or someone is like,,, jim,,,, dude this is a huge opportunity you need to get your act together w the terran delegation for this thing because jim is un petit peu a delinquent (trek aos energy)
nyota’s like this dude’s gonna kick the bucket over there in logicland I almost feel sorry for him.
and jim’s like “hey I’m actually ready to put that stuff behind me I don’t even care anymore I just want a friend over there because maybe I’m scared actually of messing this up because I am literally a teenager and going to planet of pure logic no childishness no getting silly,,,, with a bunch of very serious important adults”
and nyota is like oh you're ready to put this all behind you? i expect an apology.
And he’s like why the fuck are you saying it like I’m the one who needs to apologise
And she’s like the first thing you ever did in my presence was call me a bitch unprompted.
And he’s like no i called you a bitch because you kept calling me the poor guy
And she’s like ????? you read that wrong???? I’m not an asshole????
And he’s like ????? you read it wrong too????? neither am i?????? maybe yes i am but i'm not when it matters????? and i'm trying to do a better job of being nice now?????
and she's like i've actually been noticing that. you're pleasant enough to be around. (he's inching closer to the middle ground between aos and tos kirk)
And then they realise hm we could have been getting along fine this whole time and it seems we have had a misunderstanding of some kind
Mandatory joke about nyota being a communications specialist in training and having that big of a miscommunication
Mandatory ‘dude I was 14 cut me some slack’ from both of them because yeah they were 14 cut them some slack
Achievement get - friendship
now,
Jim playing beastie boys in the red car he drives off the cliff. that song is like 200? 300? years old by his time? that means he’s a music nerd and that’s True and Verifiable. Nyota we know is an angel of music. and she knows so many languages you know she is so into fusion music and songs in diff languages.
They bond over music and then they meet Spock and they’re like yoo what’s up (Vulcan-appropriate version) and Spock appreciates how mathsy and scientific music is and kirk and uhura are like please let us show you terran songs it will be fun
Fun is not productive or particularly logical but he’s going to get into it for the sake of cultural exchange when they're not working. i've decided that nyota is going to mostly work with someone else in languages and comms but hangs with jim and spock sometimes, and jim and spock are paired in work because they're all-rounders that haven't picked specialities at this stage in their lives.
And you know Spock got that thang (Vulcan lyre) on him.
And then at some point spock is like why are some of these songs hitting different why am I feeling things abt the music. i thought i could maths and science my way through this
a while after this valuable cultural exchange he's gonna go: dude.... i have to go to starfleet i can't do this VSA xenophobia shit. like the humans are weird but there's actually nothing wrong with being human and because he's 18 he can go to straight into starfleet. and jim and nyota can't bc technically they're still in highschool so spock beats them to the punch.
note that when chekhov enrols in starfleet age literal CHILD (in like 4 years) uhura and kirk are pissed but it's because the rules changed
And then we sort of talk about language and stuff and then THEN maybe timejump
we get into an extended thing of when Surakian reform happened part of the becoming devoted to logic was getting rid of feeling words
And spock is like what is this feeling so sudden and new I don’t have words for because they literally don’t exist. And then we’re gonna go from there idk we’re going to rediscover the ancient Vulcan Feeling Words. and we're gonna talk to amanda grayson and she's a linguist i've decided and she's gonna go hello my beloved son i've actually been deep diving into this my whole married life let's get into it do i have some ancient Vulcan Feeling Words for you
and then idk if i'm gonna TOS it or AOS it enterprise-wise and vulcan-wise and nero-wise and timeline-wise but it's gonna be a fun journey i think
I don't want to sound rude, you may have already answered this question (if so, I'm sorry, I didn't find that answer), but I'm wondering why you're so against AI bots specificly. Obviously, this is a personal matter for everyone, but I'm a little confused by such harshness. Of course, I'm not going to prove anything to anyone, but I just wanted to understand the roots of your position. I really like your work, but to be honest, your last answers have thrown me into a kind of stupor :(
i have an ideological opposition against AI as a whole to be fair. a lot of it comes down to it's environmental impact
Globally, AI-related infrastructure may soon consume six times more water than Denmark, a country of 6 million, according to one estimate. That is a problem when a quarter of humanity already lacks access to clean water and sanitation.
but i also believe it's inherently anti-human.
In a time when global literacy rates are diving (did you know that half of american adults read at a 6th grade level or below?) , I think it's incredibly short-sighted to be essentially surrendering your ability to write your own emails/essays/messages to an AI, when doing it yourself, despite what online contrarians will say, does have value (emails teach you how to communicate professionally, messages improve your social skills, essays improve your critical thinking skills). In this political landscape, it also feels dangerous to have your ability to read critically by yourself get dampened by AIs which are, at the end of the day, owned by silicon valley billionaires many of whom attended trump's inauguration, which is a good indication of where they lie politically.
Generative AI when it comes to art is also killing culture, removing opportunities for existing artists who are the ones who can extend the ceiling for human creation and helping society devalue art even more even though it's the only thing keeping us all sane. How would you feel if all you had in your life was just school or work, leaving out music, movies, tv shows, books, art? Doesn't art bring enough value to your life that it's worth properly compensating the people responsible for it? Why should we ever encourage or normalise throwing art into a meat grinder and feeding on the approximated soulless sludge it generates?
For AI chat bots, my beef with it is that it's an inherently anti-social product. All it does is remove the need to ever communicate with another person, which is horrible for people's brains. Some people are "falling in love" with their ai chatbot, some people are using their ai chatbots as therapists. The desire for real human connection is getting lost. An AI chatbot also makes RP obsolete, which is a foundational part of fandom which, i always feel like i need to remind people, is based on community. The point is to connect with people! I just fear that the popularisation and normalisation of this technology is going to end up with people shut in their homes their entire life, lost to whatever toxic pipeline their anti-social behaviour inevitably leads them down.
i know people love to play with AI like it's a fad, and it's "not that deep bro" but i think it's shameful and embarrassing to act as if you don't have agency in your life. You can choose to abstain from technology, you can choose to find entertainment elsewhere, you can choose to be a person independent of technology. If all AI went away tomorrow, would you be able to still do your job? Write a story? Read a book and understand its meaning? AI is a product built on instant gratification and entitlement - not to get too deep on an ask about AI chatbots, but i think art, relationships, culture, all of it is worth the journey to get there.
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