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Hi guys it's Olivia irlsiren/softfeatures and I'm back for cultural reasons
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STOP THINKING THERE IS A DEADLINE. THERE IS NO DEADLINE. TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND TAKE YOUR TIME.
there are a lot of really valid issues with TikTok as well as some lesser problems that people like to complain about but probably one of the worst things to come out of that app is hauls like starting with fast fashion and moving on to thrifting and when it became less cool to collect more clothes than anyone would ever need people shifted gears and started reselling to continue making content and upcharging on clothes they got for dirt cheap and now people are buying fewer clothing items (because they can't afford them) people are posting hauls for physical media like specifically DVDs and I've even noticed in my own local stores there are now tons of people always crowding the DVD/VHS section and nobody used to so one can assume people are now buying the types of movies other people might like and reselling those as well which was always a thing among collectors but now it's worse? idk it's just a really crazy way to force people to spend more money on things they need or want and could once get at an affordable price
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KILL ME IF IT'S WORTH IT; ON FLESH.
silas denver melvin // ethel cain // george bataille // blythe baird // margaret atwood // nicole homer // emily palermo.
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German executioner’s sword from 1613 with the inscription “And the Word became Flesh”
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i don’t give a fuck if i “sound like chatgpt,” you will pry—my em dash—from my cold—dead—hands—fuck you fuck you fuck you
in all seriousness, i find it concerning how we’ve begun to denigrate rigid/formal english in favor of what feels “real” (i.e. informal, social). harrowing implications for neurodivergent and ESL communities. i was a child who “sounded like a computer”—i can’t imagine what my education would have felt like under AI-driven scrutiny. as an adult, i’m far more equipped to construct my thoughts using informal language, but i consider that skill a privilege
many people experience this in reverse, learning english as a native language through peer-driven social experiences. in that world, “formal” english signifies privilege and education rather than neurodivergence and/or multilingualism, so i understand the impulse to attack it, but there’s nothing wrong with relying on structure to be understood, and—for the record—you cannot always identify generative AI with a cursory glance. it is an exercise in hubris to believe otherwise
#this is such a difficult topic to approach as someone who literally works as a writer#because it's very much a required set of skills to be able to both write formally and adopt an informal tone#at the same time writers are often asked to use seo best practices to compete against ai generated stuff#which monitors everything you do for the use of ai#and you will spend hours writing something just for it to tell you your work is 80% ai generated#which is because ai is pulling from the work of other professionals with the same required skills#i don't think the answer is throwing out formal language mechanics#in all seriousness things like em dashes and the oxford comma exist for real reasons that clarify meaning to readers#but i also don't know how we should be expected to distinguish ourselves from ai with its growing prevalence
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THE FIRST OMEN (2024) dir. Arkasha Stevenson NOSFERATU (2024) dir. Robert Eggers
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Tiffany HC-900 Clear Black Telephone
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