Linda Codega's discussions

i don’t think the boobs made much of a narrative impact Read more

he absolutely does but Nandor is never going to do better than Guillermo Read more

fuck off <3 Read more

it’s a very good film, and clearly draws from the comics, and preserves the characters intention. it’s well worth watching. Read more

she is trans, the story is a trans allegory. both things are true. Read more

they are very different stories, so no. Read more

this is an absolutely hateful comment to make about a movie where the entire plot is about being transgender, based on a work by a transgender author. there is no explicit moment where Nimona says “I’m transgender” but that doesn’t mean she isn’t trans, and her story isn’t a trans story. (just like Ballister and… Read more

It’s defintiely a Good Movie and I don’t think that discussing the differences has much merit outside of like... analytical curiousity, tbh. The two pieces of work are in conversation and both are good! Read more

well the shark had boobs in the webcomic, which is what Stevenson is referring to.  Read more

I am not really plugged into the board game community! I’m much more familiar with TTRPGs, which is why there’s a focus on those.  Read more

I don’t think there’s much nuance needed when you look at the fundamental innate differences between a living, breathing Human who is able to learn and think and express themselves through art and a Program that produces output based on data. there is no spirituality or philosphy here. they are different because the… Read more

i did not know and THANK YOU! Read more

chatbots are not writing, they are generating. they cannot write. they do not have emergent creativity or ideas. we are encountering an issue of semantics, but fundamentally speaking, chatbots do not write anything, they utilize programming drawn from a corpus of static datasets. Read more

i mean i haven’t ruled it out but i kind of hope that my education and experience might lend itself to a decent critique of anderson’s formalism but whooooooooo knows art is a wash Read more

again, writers practicing their craft in earnest, for free, as a part of a gift culture is on the opposite end of the spectrum as having their work used by a chatbot who exploited that to create a for-profit product. Read more

yup. genuinely, go for it. i would rather have hundreds of kids experiment with writing based on my fanfic than a single dataset have access to it for programming purposes.  Read more

chat based generators pull the Next Most Likely Word, based on their predictive programming, out of their massive dataset. this is not in reference to creative work.  Read more

fic has ALWAYS been accessible. writing has been accessible for YEARS. people have been writing fanfiction since the 1800s and publishing it since the 1890s. Accessibility has never been an issue, as there is literally no gatekeeping happening and nothing stopping anyone from writing fic. Read more

writers practicing is very different than a chat based generator pulling the next most likely word out of a dataset Read more

If you cannot see the difference!! in between a HUMAN BEING!! taking something they love and loving it EVEN HARDER and in public and within fandom culture and a machine outputting The Next Most Likely Word then i simply cannot explain it to you in simpler terms lmao Read more