it’s important to me that people know the original “he would not fucking say that” was in response to a tiktok where someone said eric cartman would thank you for asking for his pronouns. Like it just doesn’t hit the same without context.
everytime someone uses “he would not fucking say that” for something he would absolutely fucking say given slightly different circumstances or has already fucking said i immediately become indignant cause you can’t waste a joke like this on mild characterisation nitpicks. sorry. it has to be on par with Any Pronouns Cartman.
You might see friends today suggesting you support Hard Drive on Patreon today. You know, the funny video games version of The Onion? As a journalist, I will firmly tell you DO NOT GIVE THEM A DIME.
The CEO has pushed out all former staff that have built the site up to its current greatness and has been pushing the use of AI. The staff begged to have a Patreon before basically all being pushed out, but the idea was refused until now, when it will only line the pockets of a single person instead of hard working writers.
I know they might have provided laughs before, but Hard Drive is a shell of what it was once. Let it die and support the people who actually made those moments of joy possible.
Don’t believe me? Check out what former employees are saying below:
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
“ai is making it so everyone can make art” Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity
Oh gee, you’re right! Why didn’t the people who can’t even move their arms think of just making a painting? /s
And before anyone starts spouting some “art is more than just painting” spiel, you don’t know what kind of art someone might need to make in order to express their vision. An artist may have a very specific idea in mind to create the perfect piece of graphic art, and using music, performance, etc. just won’t cut it for them. AI is a tool that can help the disabled in so many ways. Not even just with art. Get off your high horse and accept that disabled people have different needs and, guess what, ABILITIES than you do. Fuck you, asshole.
you are a tar pit.
and you are ableist.
you’re fighting against a tool that makes art more accessible, and actively dismissing the notion that it could even possibly be doing that. this IS ableist. YOU are the tar pit in this situation.
L+Ratio+It doesn’t+i slept w your mom
Hi I’m disabled I’m crippled I have a disorder that makes my fingers suddenly dislocate while I’m holding my pencil I have a spinal issue that makes it hard for me to bend over a desk half of the time I have leg issues that make it difficult for me to get around etc etc etc. I also have a bunch of other issues I don’t want to tell you about.
I’m also in art college. And even if I wasn’t, I’ve been doing art for almost a decade now. I’ve been disabled the whole bloody time.
AI, isn’t art.
There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.
Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.
Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.
Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.
Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.
Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology I’m sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.
Fuck you.
hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.
my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.
our lines arent perfect because we have shaky hands but thats ok, make it a feature not a flaw in your art. fuck AI.
Anyone who thinks physically disabled people need to use art stealing AI to make our own art is the ableist, actually.
Mine isn’t as drastic (yet) but I’ve been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.
What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it’s what makes my heart sing.
Disabled artists don’t need your pity, we’ve been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.
No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool “I’m emulating your style because I wanna learn from it” way.
Go suck at art for a couple years like the rest of us and stop talking over disabled artists.
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Using both Glaze and Nightshade would corrupt the generation of pictures mimicking artist AND mess with the AI’s recognition of what everything is. Like it would generate a dog when you ask for a cat.
And it would be hell for AI bros to remove the cloaked pictures from their database ʕ 👀人ʔ
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs.
So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying.
So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!
The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great
this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.
so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.
Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah
AITA for punishing my child for being a selfish brat?
(Context: These are pokemon ocs lol)
I (45F) am a Vaporeon, and I have always heavily valued my own self image. Because of this, I have always wanted my child to be a purebred Eevee. I decided that I wanted my partner to be good looking too. Unfortunately, it was difficult to find one, as every Eevee or evolution I met until this point didn't meet my standards.
That was until I met my now ex-husband (42M), who I will call M (as much as I'd like to name names, I know that's frowned upon here). M was an Umbreon, he had a beautiful pelt and long hair, which is very unique for an Umbreon as typically only Eevees, Flareons and Jolteons have such long fur. He was also a shiny, so he was even more unique! He also had status, well-revered among wild pokemon. He was perfect. That was, until I found out that he wasn't, in fact, a purebred Umbreon.
The reason behind his long fur wasn't because of some genetic accident. No, he was part Furfrou! I couldn't believe it! I felt cheated, lied to. I broke up with him on the spot, threatening him to never come back here again. I heard he hasn't been doing too well lately, so I'm glad karma finally got to him. That would have been the end of it, but unfortunately by this point we already had a child (at the time 6monthsNB), who I will call F.
Fortunately, despite not being purebred, there was very little Furfrou in F's blood. They were Eevee enough, so I hid their lineage from them and let them grow up thinking they just had abnormally long hair atop their head. They were shiny just like their father, and I didn't want them to grow up and look like him, so I opted never to tell them about Umbreons until they had already evolved.
But then their self-centered lowlife excuses of "friends", a Zorua and a Sneasel, told them horrible things about me, things that aren't even true! They must've told them to evolve into an Umbreon anyways, because that's exactly what they did! A few weeks ago, on their 16th hatchday, F went against my wishes and evolved into one in the middle of the night. I couldn't believe the audacity of them to do such a thing!
They even tried to tell me that their "new name" was R! (Not the actual name they said. Again, as much as I would like to name names…). Now, I'm aware that people and pokemon can change their names out of personal preference and all that, but the fact that they did this after evolution tells me that this was clearly an act of defiance. I told them exactly what they needed to hear, that they were nothing but a selfish brat, and that the world doesn't revolve around them.
We argued back and forth, eventually leading to me slashing their ear. I did so as punishment, to permanently ruin any chance of them looking "perfect" to anyone ever again. They continued to sass me, saying "no normal person cares about shit like that" (their words) before running away, and I never saw them since. Unfortunately, some nocturnal Pokemon and Pokemon that woke up from the kerfuffle caught witness, and started acting like I'm the bad guy in this situation! I know for sure that I was perfectly justified here, but I want to stick it to 'em. Am I the asshole? The answer should be clear.
It’s just that what you have to understand about animorphs is that the most important thing about animorphs barely happens in animorphs. The most important moment in animorphs is when marco’s dad says that in the year before his wife died he and his wife stopped fighting, their relationship became smooth sailing, it was like all the little things that any couple has trouble with just disappeared, and marco (maybe 14? 15? at this point?) listens to him say this and understands with cold certainty that what actually disappeared a year before his mother’s “death” was his mother. This declaration from his father gives Marco a timeline for a familial trauma he had never before been able to fully parse, which is the precise moment in his life when his mother’s body was taken over by a brain controlling slug from outer space–hey. hey. stay with me. look at me. look at my eyes. don’t worry about the alien slug. just keep reading. this is a chilling and deeply compelling statement about patriarchy and colonialism and you have to not worry about the slug–anyway Eva Animorphs (an immigrant woman of color) lost all control of her life and voice and body and that was, in reality, the moment that Marco lost his mother to a colonial power, the moment he lost his childhood, the moment he and his mother lost their home, which even after winning the war they will never return to, but his father never understood that moment as anything but a mysterious sudden increase in harmony in his household. Because his wife stopped arguing with him.
too sleepy to elaborate at this time but I miss the old fandom culture of interacting with fanfic writers and fanfic artists as members of the fandom community who enjoyed engagement and discussion and feedback instead of the modern trend of seeing us as content creators up on a pedestal who don’t need positive feedback but DO need to churn out constant content to feed the a03 machine
If anyone wonders why I don’t bother with Severitus or the fact I don’t make art for it anymore unless paid, or as a gift to a friend-THIS IS WHY. Burnout was also a key factor and the moment I stopped I got complaints from people I had never seen nor heard of before.
Upset that someone abandoned a fic? Or they don’t draw this THING anymore? I wonder why, hmmm.
I legit had a huge ass convo with @sanctuary-angel about this in the wee hours of the morning lol.
I want a Tesla whose neural networks will whimper when I lobotomize them
I want a self-driving car that will text me a suicide note and then destroy itself by flinging itself into a ravine because its oil light turned on and it isn’t strong enough to withstand what I’d do to it when I opened up the hood
All I’m fucking saying is that if I’m gonna be scared to exist as a pedestrian then it’s only fair that I get to make cars experience body horror right fucking back.
You are talking about horses
can confirm, my horse texted me a suicide note a few months ago
one time I was at a bus stop and a stranger started showing me some folded paper art his daughter had given him. I told him it was really cool, and that one looked like a hyperbolic parabola, to which he went quiet for a moment, then said, “You don’t look like someone who would know that word”.
I’m still not sure what that means or how to feel but now you have to think about it, too
ID: Instagram post by mirna_elhelbawi. The text reads:
We only have 300 e-Sims left…
We connect more than 1000 to 1200 everyday..
Donating e-Sims is literally life saving.
Donate a QR code to gazaesims@gmail.com
“Connecting Humanity” is in handwriting at the top left corner, and “Connecting Gaza” is written in a different handwriting font near the bottom right.
you just gotta figure out how to do the mitten thing! (everybody does it differently, so whatever works for you)
make a little mitten shape, a bump for the big thumb muscle, a line for where you want to knuckles to be (and where the fingers end), and you can work out how the hand does hand things~
you can make them more simple or more real, however you want! hands are weird, so don’t worry if they keep looking wrong for a while, once you figure out what works for you, it’ll click. If you practice like 10 or-so basic hand shapes, you can make slight variations on all those, and 10 turns into 20 different hand poses~
Good luck, you can do it, practice until you find your groove, hands are stupid, don’t worry if they don’t look right!
you are a fucking saint x2
I haven’t got a single speck of artistic skill in me but I will reblog for any artist that might find this useful
there actually needs to be something like shinigami eyes but for tumblr users who supported russia invading ukraine and it needs to be built into the tumblr app so everyone stops reblogging posts about israel/palestine from those freaks
im begging you people to start hcing more Big Dudes as transmasc. dudes who are fat or have a lot of muscle or are tall and not just twinks. please. can you do that for me
basically i had a thought. it’d be cool to be a galaxy. so i made an oc out of the milky way (who goes by the name milky, milky way is far too formal)
weird little galaxy that observes and has odd mannerisms (it’s the humans their constant observation of the stars has altered it the lifeforms inside a galaxy have some kind of influence over how it acts. also the autism ray).
talks to it’s lifeforms despite that kinda being frowned upon in galaxy culture because it just loves learning stuff and observing stuff and it’s wowed by how much the humans have done in a relatively short amount of time
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