#tigerkat24

yes I know one of them wasn't really a Palpatine but he (almost?) got murdered by a Leia realdoll so I think he should be adopted.

Anyway thank you.

copied from the reblog i added:

the book is The King In the North by Max Adams, describing events in Great Britain before, during, and after the life of King Oswald. I found the subject matter absolutely fascinating because I know nothing about this period, and Adams is both really well-informed on a number of levels and also good about making it clear how much we don’t and can’t know about this area of Old English history. (That said, the writing style isn’t exactly what I would describe as ‘compelling’ and prioritizing the fragmentary nature of the evidence means that the narrative style meanders a bit.)

So I think it's important to point out exactly what part of the writing process this hypothetical LLM would be cutting out -- the part that's so scary or impossible that it would need technological assistance to get over the gap.

Specifically, the part where you "see how the characters react". The writer would be doing all the verbage themselves, but getting into somebody else's head? Making a decision that's not exactly the one you would make? Seeing things from a different perspective, even for an instant? *That's* the scary part, to this writer's friend.

And I think... This is probably going to sound like a stretch, but I think that's a much more common attitude right now than just people who think writers should use AI, in a couple of directions. We've all seen the meme "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people". And all of us on this website have probably seen people saying things like "you can't trust cisbians", "I'd rather be ideologically pure than help my neighbor", all those divisive ideals.

It's all the same attitude. It's all fear of the Other -- of people whose experiences are slightly different than yours, of stepping outside yourself, of risking having your worldview changed by understanding. It's all the exact same attitude as fascism: saying that only the people of *this* specific category have a worthwhile viewpoint. Only yourself and those like you.

And it is scary! I lost my entire world because I dared to try to understand gay people, because I wasn't able to step back inside that box of *not* understanding or wanting to understand. But it's important.

I've known plenty of writers who would never use AI but who were just as fascistic in this way, just as terrified of the Impure worldview, as any right-wing fanatic. It's important to try to write and understand *different* characters and perspectives, especially the Bad ones, especially the ones that scare you, especially the ones you feel it would taint you to understand.

because my roommate Enabled Me

Mulder:

Scully:

Mulder & Scully:

Skinner:

The Lone Gunmen:

Smokey:

Krycek:

Just. The Show:

especially anything having to do with the arc plot

Bonus!

Additional Mulder (in 3, Chinga, or, arguably, Monday):

and...well this started as Krycek but honestly. Also applies to Mulder, Smokey...

I had to go look this meme up but you're not wrong! Someone has definitely used him as a Wiseposting template.

If we're sticking with my bud Mourinho as a model (I'd feel weirder about this if he wasn't already two memes) then definitely the wiseposting memes people make of Michaelis are all about being faintly appalled by something and use this image:

[ID: An image of football manager Jose Mourinho, a grey-haired man in a polo and hoodie, looking quite startled, eyes wide and brows drawn up. Knowing Mourinho, he's about to get red carded for something.]

Michaelis pretends not to understand wiseposting and has made several memes of his own that don't quite hit the mark, just to tweak Jerry, who is going to lose his mind. Well, everyone needs a hobby.

In Twelve Points I do actually have Gregory and Jerry briefly get turned into a meme. It's basically the "is this a [insert thing here]" butterfly meme, but recreated from an image of Caleb, Gregory, and Jerry sitting together on stage as Caleb performs an encore during a concert:

Someone had snapped a photograph, or perhaps grabbed a frame from the digital stream of the encore. Caleb was sitting on the right side of the image, perfectly lit, in those dumb but undeniably helpful sunglasses, hands slightly blurred as he played. The king was sitting next to him on the left, watching him, and the duke -- Jerry -- was looming a little over his shoulder, out of the spotlight but still visible. In every printout, all three of them had different captions pasted over them. The most central and largest one, from someone on Reddit, had captioned Caleb "New Friend". Gregory III was captioned "My Autistic Ass" and Jerry, lurking in the darkness, was captioned "The Hyperfixation I'm About To Explain".