Anyway rules are simple. Pick your favorite single line of 2025 and show it off (also lowkey like link the fic)
I am bad at picking favorites of anything, but this one stands out in my memory:
She looked so complete, there at the end of the dock in the bubble of lantern light, one foot dangling down to dip her toes in the water—like she existed inside a snow globe, frozen in time.
This is from Chapter 1 of Borrowed Magic, one of my Shane/f!Farmer Stardew Valley fics. I loved working on it. Shane and Lydia, individually and together, really speak to me whenever I write their stories. Someday I’m going to get to their getting-together story, but all the pre-relationship stuff is so fun. Can’t skip it.
my honest feelings on AI are that humans are amazing and I don’t really give a shit what a computer has to say
a human makes art? it’s a reflection of their experience living on this earth, the same one I live on. it’s an invitation to understand how other people think
a computer makes art? well, ok? I don’t give a shit. you live in computer world. you’re ones and zeroes. your art could be an interesting reflection of that experience, except it’s actually just a slurry of what humans have made.
AI can splort out things that are cool or funny or interesting or even thought-provoking, sure. but I can’t pretend I give much more of a shit than that because I know the artist and it has no beliefs or convictions or experiences. who gives a fuck
I feel cheated when I learn that a video I watched or a piece I read was plagiarized. the “author” didn’t necessarily believe any of what they said so much as they just stole someone else’s words.
I feel infinitely more cheated when I find out something I experienced was AI generated. cool, so not only did the “author” not believe what they said or what their “art” represents, nobody does.
I’m not even trying to make a moral argument against AI or whatever I’m just trying to express how I feel. I do not care what the computer has to say. I care a negative amount. do not show me what the computer has to say and pretend it can matter as much as what humans have to say
Having thought about it, “Cloud dancer” is really the perfect bullshit color for the bullshit year of 2026. It’s gonna be the year of the tech billionaire, so of course the color of the year is tech white, AKA the landlord special.
Welcome to the technofascist future, bitches. It’s white.
hey kids did you know that computers didn’t used to automatically connect to the internet. it used to make this screaming noise. we should have listened.
An object cannot make you good, or evil. The temptation of power, forbidden knowledge, even the desire to do good can lead some down that path. But only you can change yourself.
