rimouskis

"Can you put your finger on why the team struggles with the shootout so much?"

"I don't know. Why you ask me? I'm not do it, next time maybe ask the coach. Maybe we need to practice little bit more..."

i struggle to have any sympathy for people who use ai for fanwork. i also think these witch hunts are giving people an “ethical” excuse to be mean. i think we’ve let consumerism and capitalism infect fandom, and this is the inevitable result. i think the erosion of fandom as a community opened the door for this, but these people made the deliberate choice to step through it. i think the why matters and should be the focus of the conversation, but i also think it's equally important that we don't let the reasons excuse or normalize the actions.

i think the relentless call outs and the immediate memeification of everything, the fics and authors who use ai becoming running mean girl jokes, is only furthering the degradation of fandom, and creates a space that feels unsafe for someone new to create without the crutch of ai. i can empathize with people not being sure how to form connections other than through producing content people will talk about. the root problem is that everyone is hungry for community, but we've lost sight of what that means and how to build it.

i don't think i can find any sympathy for the people who loudly professed to be against AI and used it anyway, or those who doubled down after being called out months ago and wrote treatises about being victimized. that's deliberate deception and manipulation and cannot be excused or enabled.

hi all! seeing some interesting from my friends/mutuals about where me and some other friends are watching the old games from the pens' 2009 cup run, so i thought i'd compile a list for you below! i am missing 3-4 games, but i am sure there are some more creative ways of finding them if you're so inclined. :)

links + rounds are below the cut. please feel free to reblog and share with credit!