about twenty seconds worth of civility left in me (Posts tagged poll)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mitochondriaandbunnies
alongtidesoflight

wait i wanna do a thing where u guys tell me about the tumblr specific thing you DIDN'T watch. like why do you get fake tumblrina syndrome every now and then?

tumblr media you haven't seen

supernatural

dr. who

sherlock

steven universe

hazbin hotel

gravity falls

teen wolf

house, m.d.

merlin

all of the above

a combination of the above

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(i'm not inviting you to be a hater here btw)

the criteria being: seen them posted about when i was still in high school, still crosses my dash every now and then with a dedicated active fanbase. yes xyz is not on there. i'm not asking about xyz.

poll seen ALL of teen wolf at least some of spn + dr who + sherlock + house + merlin and none of what's left
mitochondriaandbunnies
popcorn-plots

I have a question for fic writers about fanfic and mental imagery for research purposes. My psych class is talking about Francis Galton right now and we're doing experiments with mental imagery, and I brought up aphantasia in the discussion because my brother has it and I don't: I see things vividly, in my mind's eye and he doesn't. I was also talking to a friend about it and we realized that she can only sometimes visualize things.

Another thing about my friend and I is that I'm a fic writer and she isn't. I've also met a lot of people who both dislike or feel they can't write and struggle visualizing things, but are great artists, and vice versa. My friend hates drawing poses because she can't visualize them. I hate drawing poses because my skill level doesn't reflect what I visualize, and it frustrates me.

So, using this chart, how well can you picture an apple --or any other object-- in your mind and do you write fanfiction? Not including your skill level, online presence, or online interaction. A fic writer is anyone who is or has written some form of engagement with existing media, regardless of posting status.

My hypothesis is that a wide range of fic writers can write with anything from perfectly realistic mental images to no mental image, but more writers have an easier time visualizing objects, based on my experience and the experiences of others that I have heard.

image

Fic writers/Aphantasia test

Fic writer, I see number 1 (perfect realism)

Non fic writer, I see number 1 (perfect realism)

Fic writer, I see number 2 (reasonably vivid)

Non fic writer, I see number 2 (reasonably vivid)

Fic writer, I see number 3 (moderately realistic)

Non fic writer, I see number 3 (moderately realistic)

Fic writer, I see number 4 (dim and vague)

Non fic writer, I see number 4 (dim and vague)

Fic writer, I see number 5 (no image)

Non fic writer, I see number 5 (no image)

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poll a 4 obv the outline thing isn't literal but dim and vague is an accurate description I put myself as not a fic writer cause i haven't posted anything in a few years when i do write i'm not heavy on the scenery etc.
crappylineofbestfit
duckprintspress

no nuance. you must pick one.

light mode, everywhere, forever

dark mode, everywhere, forever

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tell me why in the tags. or not. it's fine.

duckprintspress

it's been intriguing watching how, the further from my own circles this has moved, the better light mode has done. like, when there were 500 some-odd votes, it was like 18% light mode/82% dark mode. but light mode keeps catchin up...

poll i am one of the minority light mode developers cause i can't fucking see my eyes are garbage and have a distortion in them i use solarised light mode for whatever i can i will also go for readable lower contrast themes but generally regular light is easier to read than regular dark
lorrimervanhelsing
pseudospectre

What kind of horror is prev?

A terrible transformation

Creepy dolls/cursed artifacts

Dark family secrets

The hack n' slash special

The creature feature

Found footage

Vampires! (I vant to suck your...blood)

Zombies (they're coming to get you, Barbara!)

Analog horror

Ghosts and Demons, oh my!

Survival horror

Carbon monoxide leak

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poll your url obliges me to pick vampire but otherwise i would maybe go terrible transformation or dark family secret
mutantenfisch
incognitopolls

(1/2) How easy or difficult would it be for you to dress up as your tumblr username for Halloween?

Very easy

Somewhat easy

Neutral/medium

Somewhat tricky

I'd have to get creative

Very difficult, but possible

Only possible in theory, I wouldn't have the resources for this

I don't know how you would even do that

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poll depends how right the coat has to be and i've never worn a bald cap before...
allthingswhumpyandangsty
curiositysavesthecat

Do you think AO3 should ban AI generated works?

Yes

No

I don't use AO3 / I don't know what AO3 is

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*As of now, AI generated works are allowed on the site

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allthingswhumpyandangsty

Not a fan of AI, but "do you think AO3 should ban" never actually solves a problem. Because how can you tell what's AI and what's human made? It is extremely hard to tell, and going around accusing authors of using AI — just because you suspect they do — does more harm than good. Chances are that you're accusing real writer of being AI and ruining their day at best, making them quit writing at worst.

And the act of banning never stops something from existing. It only makes it more difficult to find and avoid. Tumblr bans porn, but you can still find porn on Tumblr. The only difference is that they're no longer tagged as porn, which means you're more likely to stumble upon them because blocking the tags no longer works when they are not tagged as porn.

The same applies to AI generated works on AO3. For now they are tagged as "AI generated". You can avoid them if you don't want them.

Once they're banned, people will no longer tag them as AI, which means you have more chance of unknowingly reading and leaving kudos on AI.

Also, no, unless an author says "this was written by AI" you cannot tell for sure if something was written by AI. Em dashes aren't evidence of AI. Long and overly described paragraphs aren't evidence of AI. Real human writers do write like this and AI was trained to mimic real humans' works.

If AO3 bans AI, you will be dealing with witch-hunting, genuine writers getting wrongly accused of using AI, and AI works no longer being tagged as AI (meaning they are almost impossible to avoid and no for sure if something you read is AI)

poll fandom no because it is literally unenforceable please just let them tag their own fic as ai and then i can not read it