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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10h

I can answer this in two words: Fuckin Reagan.

Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 11h

Quick cultural lecture time, from Sigrid Ellis:

As we are in Spooky Season, why do so many horror movies of the 80s and early 90s feature extremely creepy homeless people?

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 2d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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Kacy! 🦆 @kacycarr.bsky.social · 15h

(this is because someone (respectfully!!!) asked me not to tag their marimand art as marimand and im just like, baby i think we need to relax but sorry for sharing your artwork, i will refrain.)

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Kacy! 🦆 @kacycarr.bsky.social · 15h

also it's like, what if someone wants to filter that ship? tags aren't always in celebration of the thing, they're just for organizing. chill dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Kacy! 🦆 @kacycarr.bsky.social · 15h

and even like, when someone asks so respectfully, i appreciate theyre being respectful, but i simply must ask if youre being too sensitive, like is it worth this big of a reaction because someone tagged your art (of the 2 characters) as ship art ? like chill dude.

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Kacy! 🦆 @kacycarr.bsky.social · 15h

yknow this has happened to me with KLs too because I use "Sheith" as a fandom tag on tumblr so even like solo art of them I'll still tag sheith and I've gotten some real fuckin pissbabies getting mad at me about it

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Kacy! 🦆 @kacycarr.bsky.social · 16h

the way people on tumblr won't stop drawing marimand art and then going I HATE MARIMAND IT'S NOT MARIMAND ART lol okay. youre getting into heaven baby !

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Cuckoo / Luke 🍂🎃🌔 @ghostcuckoo.bsky.social · Sep 13

Book version Armand and Daniel
I do want to draw Assad and Eric (or Luke) so bad

#armandthevampire #danielmolloy #interviewwiththevampire #iwwtv #thequeenofthedamned #annerice #vampirechronicles

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Kacy! 🦆 @kacycarr.bsky.social · 18h

it's so strange in a fandom context like, media criticism is a thing, that's fine! you don't have to like eveyrthing! but why do people like specifically occupy space in fan communities for stuff they're clearly not even a fan of sdhsdgjhkglasdhjlg IF YOURE INTRIGUED - WRITE FIC LIKE A NORMAL PERSON

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