daniel radcliffe calling out j.k. rowling on her bullshit is big dick energy
One thing I have not seen mentioned in light of this statement, perhaps because it’s just well known or perhaps because it’s been forgotten, is that Radcliffe has dealt with this before. About 10 years ago his friendship with a trans musician named Our Lady J became known to the tabloids. They immediately published sensational articles calling her a transvestite and a drag queen (she was not), and speculating about the nature of their relationship. He responded to insinuating questions by simply being aggressively positive about what a great musician and good friend she was. They did at least one interview together for a queer magazine. This at a time when trans people were even more marginalized than now, and when he as an actor was finishing Harry Potter and under a lot of pressure to ~manage his image~ as he transitioned to an adult career.
TL;DR - Radcliffe has a record of not just saying nice things, but supporting trans people in his life.
I learned to speak Chinese with a Dongbei accent because I used to live not far from the OP (which definitely gets me weird looks as a white lady originally from Kansas.) Native Mandarin speakers are often SO confused by my accent. But yes…Taiwanese speakers do sound really melodic and beautiful. And I sound like I’m angry shouting all the time.
In Germany and Austria, the Swiss are well-known for speaking Scweizerdeutsch. For reasons unknown, they use diminutive forms of a ton of nouns. The result is that Swiss people speaking German sound like if you found a city in Appalachia where it was 100% normal to baby-talk to everyone, all the time.
On the flip side, no one can understand a goddamn thing coming out of a Viennese person’s mouth.
I drew this poster for Jon Acuffand his FINISH book tour. Big thanks to Jon for this collaboration, his book has some great ideas about how to complete creative and life goals.
Love this, but reblogging it specifically for “Get rid of secret rules.” That’s one of the most amazing illustrations—and points—I’ve ever seen.
so important especially for perfectionists who procrastinate and never finish, or even start because they set such high standards for themselves.
Not to keep talking about AI, but to really compound some of the things I’ve said before: AI is no match for human understanding of context.
It’s also only as smart as we make it.
That’s why Google Docs was constantly trying to correct every instance of “quirked” to “querched” for the longest time because it was learning that people misspelled the word “quirked” more often as “querched” and assumed the latter was correct due to the frequency of occurrence.
It’s not smart. Not in the way people seem to think it is.
Also, P-R-A and Grammarly launched a new “use AI to rewrite this sentence” feature not too long ago, and I’ve seen some people freaking out that it’s the end of writing/editing because the machines are spitting out prose and able to spot errors and make tone suggestions. But here’s the thing, my entire week has been consumed fixing AI-generated mistakes for a handful of my writers who assumed the machine knew better.
The tone is off, the context is missing, and the nuance is gone. It reads like someone copy-pasted something foreign into their existing text, hoping no one would notice. And also, haha, the grammar is wrong.
Anyway. Back into editing hell I go as I try to salvage this prose and convince the author to stop relying on Grammarly for tonal advice.
Have more faith in your skill. You’re better than the machine.
They said the same thing about AI and chess. Kasparov was so sure the chess robots could never possibly match a human’s skill at chess.
AI are now better at chess than a human could ever possibly hope to be.
With AI its only a matter of time. Google will keep improving this shit until one day it surpasses human ability, its literally inevitable.
You can’t base your opinions about AI on exactly where they are now, because they are constantly being improved.
You are comparing apples to oranges here.
Chess is a series of math moves. Computers are magic rocks that use math to “think” and predict a series of logical outcomes within the set rules.
Art and the written word cannot be surmised by a series of logical predictions. It might look and read like the real thing, but all it is is mimicry.
Also, this post isn’t about what’s in the future.
It’s about what is happening now directed to the people in my inbox talking about giving up on art before they’ve even started because they find doom-mongering about AI technology leading to the inevitable demise of creative spirit to be so disheartening they don’t even want to try in the here and now when in reality, the world will always need art and stories written by humans because that is the only way to experience the human condition besides living it.
lol, they blocked me.
Sorry for refusing to give in to the pessimistic crush of anxiety that resides daily over my heart in this capitalistic hellscape. But there will always be an innate human desire for creativity and expression, and while some may try to stifle or replace that with optimized algorithms and outright theft, they will never fully succeed because humans have been making art and telling stories since the moment we left handprints on cave walls.
And we can, will, and should continue to do so until the last star falls out of the sky because otherwise, what’s the point?
One thing that MASSIVELY pisses me off is how fainting is shown in media. It’s always the person sways a little, collapses in one movement, and then is unconscious for like… fucking ages??? They wake up hours later tucked under a blanket and it’s acted like that’s normal. It’s NOT. A person that’s fainted should be back with you pretty quickly, actually:
(From NHS website)
I had an experience in my last work place where I fainted, but because it looks so different to how it’s shown in film and TV my managers had no idea what had happened. Here’s a comparison of usual media vs my actual fainting that they were all confused by-
Films, TV shows, plays etc:
1) Person goes “oh goodness” or something similar whilst holding hand to chest
2) eyes roll back, gracefully falls to the floor
3) nearby people see the poor fainted person, pick them up, put them on a bed or sofa
4) person comes to hours or even days later with no idea what happened and everyone else is just like “oh good you’ve woken up 🙂”
My usual fainting experience:
1) Everything starts spinning. Incapable of making words as my sole focus is on trying to get myself to the ground ASAP
2) Stumble to floor/chair/ anything I can lean against
3) Quick violent slump as actual faint occurs. There is no dainty falling- the whole body has hit shut down. Usually smack my head on the floor if I haven’t managed to get myself somewhere soft
4) Aware of surroundings almost immediately, but takes a few seconds to fully come back round
5) Carefully sit back up and explain to everyone going “what the fuck happened” that I fainted, and no, I do not need smelling salts actually.
This is like the heart attack discourse… much needed.
100% how fainting looks and feels, from both sides.
I think I’ve worked out (part of the reason) why there’s been such a huge uptick in folks who don’t reblog things on here.
This post has like 14k notes right now, and the tags and comments and reblogs are FULL of people who didn’t know about fast-reblog, and – you guys have been slow-reblogging this whole time!?!??!?!?
In the interests of a) making your lives easier, and b) encouraging you to reblog posts, which is what keeps this site alive, here’s how you fast-reblog:
On mobile: press and hold the reblog button. Your blog icon will appear. If you have sideblogs, all of the different icons will appear. Drag to whichever blog you want to reblog to, and release. Job done.
On desktop: hold down the E key and click reblog. Job done.
