Alecto killing John with a sword is OUT. Alecto going full Saturn Devouring His Son is IN!!! 👏👏 This Is How Meat Loves Meat!

@saiintofawe who said you could be funnier than me on my post

a complete set of lyctors + alecto

it's been incredibly freeing to realize that i'm entitled to never having to come up with anything original ever again because i already made cookie clicker and i can be satisfied with that. sorry this isn't meant to be relatable the rest of y'all still gotta try

"hey orteil you posted a joke but someone else already made that post like a month ago" don't care. popularized a game genre

some bard named Gerardus Arthur of Waye: damn that’s sucks i should go write music

Never research horse travel speeds and limitations for your fan fiction; it is cursed knowledge. It will ruin your ability to enjoy horse-travel related fiction forever. They never rest the horses. They never change horses. They run flat out for days. The more you learn the more you'll realize that most modern writers treat them like cars.

How is literally every wlw ship in popular media skinny and flat as a board. you would think someone would at least be curvy with tits or ass but no they really hate body fat THAT much. I feel like I’m going crazy

fuuuuuuuck,, this new toxic yuri is so hot you guys 😍

no. I specifically had live action shows and american media in mind. fatphobia is universal and not just an “anime” thing. which brings me to highlight this comment:

^^^ This hits extra when you are that fat lesbian of color in real life

Tumblr age test!

i feel like those posts thatre like “REAL gay people don’t talk about yaoi discourse they go to gay clubs and do ket” are crazy like i understand they’re critiquing a hyper specific genre of online queer but babe they can do both… i know people who are ravers and are always on shrooms and read mcr rpf like i feel like we draw a big line between the online queer community and the in person one but that girls at gay bars have tumblr accounts it’s really not that seperate

AI Psychosis and the implications of its existence

Actually as shitty as the existence of AI psychosis is, the implications of it are FUCKING MIND-BOGGLING in actually a really revolutionary way.

("WTF are you talking about?" / "What do we currently know about AI psychosis?": x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x)

Paywall free, via Futurism, June 28, 2025

Like, as someone who works professionally editing mental health books, the existence of AI psychosis almost certainly completely upends our understandings of how mental health disorders work. And their causes.

There's a non-zero chance the discovery/existence of AI psychosis is like. going to be/lead to more or less the mental health equivalent of inventing germ theory.

Like, we went from only sort of beginning to suspect to having actual, literal, indisputable proof that you can go from not having a psychotic disorder to having a psychotic disorder literally just from talking too much to a very aggrandizing source and/or echo chamber

THAT SEVERELY UPENDS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND ORIGINS OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS

And like, obviously, in at least many cases, there would be/often are genetic, environmental, or trauma factors that are putting their thumbs on the scale there. But we know for a fact that a number of people who have developed AI psychosis do not have a previous record of mental health issues.

But the tipping factor for at least dozens of people, we now know for a fact, was talking to an AI chatbot. And we have a complete record of what was said for almost every single one of those cases, because, among other things, OpenAI / ChatGPT is now LEGALLY REQUIRED to preserve ALL CHAT TRANSCRIPTS, even if users delete them, until the court says otherwise (x, x, x).

(Which will be, by the way, years, at a minimum - that may have started with a copyright lawsuit, but there will be so many other AI lawsuits and investigations, including about AI psychosis, in the EU if not the US - this will go on for a while)

Anyway, yeah, good news in the long term for the understanding and treatment of mental health disorders

In the short term, seriously, please don't use chatbots for at least another couple of years, as a safety precaution

At least until they've sorted this shit out and (HOPEFULLY) figured out how to make this shit stop happening (and then, hopefully, actually implemented those changes).

Just call it a basic safety precaution - especially if you have any sort of neurodivergence and/or any history or family history of hallucinations, delusions, schizophrenia / schizo-spectrum, psychotic spectrum disorders, etc.

All of this will, I strongly suspect, be incredibly validating to a great many trauma survivors, abuse survivors, cult survivors, and members of the mad community

And it will hopefully really transform our understanding of how to understand and treat mental health issues, and particularly psychotic disorders, in really, really profound and positive ways. Which would be great, bc we're pretty fucking shit at understanding and treating them right now!

re-iterating the "don't fucking use chatgpt" part

ChatGPT has encouraged/convinced people to commit suicide. When I looked it up, I was searching for a particular incident, only to find a new article about an apparently different suicide that had happened.

These chatbots are not safe to interact with. Don't use them

(from @ruffboijuliaburnsides)

I feel like at this point when Alecto is announced I won’t even need to check the tags or anything to figure it out, I’ll just feel it in the ground. Like a dog sensing an earthquake.

how flesh loves flesh

I don't really think there's any need to choose one or the other explanations of whether john making alecto into his childhood barbie is about icons of white beauty and the objectification of women for mass consumption or a reflection of queer childhood gender nonconformity, it's just both things at the same time. if we weren't meant to think about women's objectification then it wouldn't be Literally Barbie and if we weren't meant to think about gnc queerness then we wouldn't be told that little bi māori boy john's favorite toy was a hyperfeminine fashion doll. both innit.

Love seeing posts that make it clear that the user has immersed themselves in a realm of online discourse that nobody else has even heard of, let alone cares about, so they’ll say things like “I’m so tired of everyone saying that it’s somehow misogynistic for trans women to own jet skis 🙄”

Bonus points if it’s also used to stroke some weird fuckin exclusionary stance, like posting “I told you. I told you this is what would happen if we let non binary people in transfeminine jet ski spaces. It happens like this every single time and yet we’re the bad guys for trying to take a stand.“

okay who is ready to be in love with me

my mom made me watch the last part of stranger things w her last night and she kept getting frustrated that i was laughing every time the evil villain guy showed up because whenever he’d come onscreen i’d think abt this video of his actor in prosthetics trying to drink a bottle of coke and fucking dying and she was like WHATS SO FUNNY HE JUST KILED SOMEONE and i couldn’t form coherent words for liek 10 mjnutes the noises THE NOISES