sugar sweet venom

i joke but it is kind of funny that for all the using undertale to try and "solve deltarune" no one picked up on the fact that all of the pink and yellow cat stuff was foreshadowing not some kind of secret evil mastermind killing dess and ruining spamtons life but instead the pink and yellow cat character we know already exists

y'all really weren't kidding with "the biggest indicator of ralsei being transfem is how hard ppl are angrily trying to disprove it" oh my god the shit i've seen this past week 😭

utdr fans will convince themselves that actual straight-up woody from toy story is gonna have major significance to the plot and is connected to some demonic cat creature whose role/identity is still shrouded in mystery because of an unrelated shitpost toby posted to tumblr like a decade ago that was rediscovered and went viral around ch2, but if you so much as imply that ralsei wants to be a girl they'll act like you shot their dog

im starting to think a lot of ppl might not have realized that the whole mike thing is poking fun at them specifically

the more i think about that scene in Chapter 5 the more i realize how utterly crazy this guy’s whole deal is. Tenna is a bad boss, yeah, but this is guy is basically Yoshikage Kira

There are a lot of reasons I think it's an ethical good to minimize engagement with proprietary gen AI, many of which are materialist (minimizing contributions to techno-fascism, to ecocide, to the demoralization and deskilling and global stratification of labor, etc.). But in the specific context of fandom I think a big part of what bums me out about the proliferation of proprietary-AI use is the way it erodes the human collaboration that can be one of the greatest affordances of fannish creation. Even if people are using gen AI for things that seem ancillary to writing, like brainstorming or editing or translating (and I would personally argue that those activities are in fact integral to writing), that's still outsourcing to a corporately owned tool of knowledge enclosure what could be the foundation for building relationships and learning with other people. It can be scary and hard and lonely to look for those people when you're new in a fandom space, or if you're shy or experience social anxiety, but like so many other things, if one stops putting in the effort, one stops building the skills. And thinking about a version of fandom where fewer and fewer people collaborate: that really feels like a loss.

you are not an endearingly rude and unfriendly cartoon character you need to be nice to people

i actually don't think it's a bad faith nonequivalent argument to point out that artists are perfectly capable of holding a moral stance about what they will produce and sell when it comes to AI, but not when it comes to gambling or sweatshop labor. i can't really imagine why being righteously opposed to AI is just natural regardless of whatever hypothetical financial benefits could be gained from it, but expecting a similar stance towards extractive business practices or exploitative labor conditions is some sort of unbelievably high bar to meet. Why? Can anyone explain to me why other than pure, naked self interest from artists that AI is a more legitimate moral concern than those other two things?

one of the best jokes in I See You Aizawa-san is that there's a male character in the main friend group but only just sort of in theory, no one dislikes him but you get the sense that the girls are just kind of passively letting him hang out in the general area (one of the girls refers to him as "Boy"), and in one of the scariest most game-changing chapters he's very casually revealed to have two moms

I'm still convinced Seta's an egg.