Quick Drawing To Put Into My Final Haha

Everyone's favourite war criminal!!

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services

Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover phys

Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

i hate driving. here are the laws! if you break them there will be consequences! except youre also expected to break the law just a little bit. people will get mad at you if you dont. you dont have right of way but the person who does is waving you forward for some reason. here's the speed limit! it's not the speed limit, the actual speed limit is that plus ~5-10. the light is green but you're in the turning lane. can you go? should you have gone just then? the person behind you is honking at you. there's a weird noise coming from your engine; if you try to do the right thing and get it checked out, will you get scammed? you are driving a 1-2 ton metal machine rocketing at speeds unknown to humankind for most of history. around a million people die in car accidents every year; that's about one person every thirty seconds. if you take that seriously and try to drive safely then people get mad at you.

reunion :)

(heavily inspired by “all that’s said in the low light”)

Self-care (part 2)

I saw this image posted on reddit and it immediately made me think of this fic written by Hayfever_street. It is one of my favourite pieces of writing ever. It seems like smut at first (why I read it in the first place lmao) but the actual storyline is filled with so much mystery and suspense that kept me hooked throughout the singular night I read it in.

The story alternates between Ghost and Gaz POVS (at one point Soap as well) and the way those two are characterised is absolutely genius. The author is so skilled at what they do. I will pay people money to read this, and all their other works.

people using ai to generate fics is terrifying because large language models are getting better and better at approximating real writing, for the very reason that they steal more and more work from real writers every second.

ai generated writing has become sophisticated enough that often you truly have to rely on a gut feeling that what you’re reading isn’t written by a human. as bi says in her post, it’s the same as ai images that just have a certain look to them. sometimes there are specific “tells” you can pick out as evidence, but sometimes there aren’t.

ultimately what ai writing lacks is a true understanding of what is being written.

crucially, large language models aren’t actually intelligent. the way they work is simply predictive text on steroids. they generate words based on the words that come before - when they start a passage of text, they don’t “know” where it will go. this is why sources like chatGPT consistently give incorrect information, it doesn’t know what it is telling you, it is only regurgitating words in a human-like order based on the swathes of information it has stolen from other sources.

one thing ai writing will always lack is a true thought-out plot. it will constantly repeat itself. it will have plenty of adjectives and similes and “creative” synonyms, it'll be rife with cringey wattpad tropes as bi mentioned, because it is entirely unoriginal.

what frightens me is a future where the difference becomes indistinguishable to laypeople or casual readers, especially those who aren’t writers themselves. making accusations is near impossible without evidence and we don’t want a world where real art is dismissed simply out of ai paranoia, but the thought of a world where real authors are sidelined in the industry because readers are sated by robot-written slop is genuine nightmare fuel.

all this to say, i guess, is human writing can never be genuinely replaced if readers and writers are aware that ai generated work is hollow, meaningless, unoriginal garbage whose very production is harming our planet. or, rather, that readers continue to care that the art they consume is produced by a human being.

i honestly don’t know how anyone can stomach to read or enjoy work produced by ai knowing that there is no human feeling behind its creation. all i can do is hope the majority feel the same.

It's my birthday today! The best present for me would be a reblog of my work.

Wolfshifter!Soap who became a demolition expert because he could sniff out the bombs.

Wolfshifter!Soap who grows more body hair during winter and has to invest in high quality razors.

Wolfshifter!Soap who views the 141 as his pack and is fiercely loyal to them.

Wolfshifter!Soap who is very protective of his partner.

Wolfshifter!Soap who's wolf form is incredibly cuddly and physically affectionate.

Wolfshifter!Soap whose family is a very close-knitted pack.

Wolfshifter!Soap who doesn't like dogs because he knows they smell the wolf on him.

Wolfshifter!Soap who wears his mic like a collar as a subtle way of representing his canine.

I feel like Ghost would be the type of dad to keep his kid on a leash