I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say
The Lorax protagonists be like:
Before you ask, almost every character in that movie is a bitch.
“Alford is my favorite character. I don’t care that he’s a minor character. His character development is amazing considering how little we see of him, and his sense of right and wrong is, on the whole, as powerful as Yuuri’s. After all, once he realized that his actions were truly in the wrong, rather than continue to live in denial, he accepted it and made a change for the better, showing that he had a true stregnth within him. I truly admire and respect that about him.”
these concept arts that Steve Wolfhard posted make me happy I love seeing them acknowledge the Russian part of Simon
And this one demands your full name and date of birth before you can enter it.
So this is the original scrape that everyone is (rightfully) upset about.
And here is a new one. I don't know what all they got but if you had any work on the archive between the dates listed, it's probably safe to assume they got some of yours.
Anyhow. Remember to report the datasets if you think your copyright was infringed!
How to Submit Copyright Infringement / Art Theft
Restrict your fics to the archive. Glaze, and if possible, Nightshade your art.
Fuck generative AI, and let's call this what it is. Content theft. IP theft. THEFT.
This absolutely sickens me. I feel violated. I have over 100k words on AO3. Each of those words was a labor of love. I don't want my work feeding AI slop. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
That's it, that's what i was trying to say
super curious where people are at with this nowadays, BASED ON HOW YOU LIKE TO INTERPRET IT NOT WHAT YOU THINK IS CANON OR NOT
It's good
Look, just assume that for this first scene, everyone is singing unless indicated otherwise. Also, listen to “Thneedville (Demo)” before reading, so you can know what they are actually singing. Btw, I didn’t write the song, I just planned out the stage directions and other details not related to lyrics.
Setting: Thneedville
(Lights slowly go up on an empty stage as the beginning of “Thneedville (Demo)” starts playing. On stage are the buildings and streets of Thneedville, or at least the basics. All the buildings are broken and crumbled, and everything is a slightly bleak color)
Ensemble
In Thneedville
It’s a brand new day
(As the ensemble begins to sing, they gradually enter the stage, acting out daily life. All are dressed in far too many clothes, and some are holding shopping bags filled to the brim with random objects)
Ensemble
Can’t see the sun
But we like it that way
(Ensemble pauses what they are doing before turning their heads towards the audience)
Ensemble
Here in Get-More-Than-We-Need-Ville
(All go back to what they were doing)
Ensemble
In Thneedville
Where the buildings are broke
(Where the buildings are broke)
And the streetlights drop
And the chemicals flow
Little Girl
(Standing front center stage) I just went swimming, and now I glow! (Runs offstage)
Ensemble
(All put their hands on over their hearts and face towards audience) Just one place has stayed the same
The hill that bares our founder’s name
A tradition we maintain
Random Man
Soon to become a pizza chain!
Ensemble
Pizza chain!
Pizza chain!
(Everyone goes back to what they were doing before Mr. O’Hare enters from upstage right and walks grandly over to upstage center, followed by a bodyguard. All turn to Mr. O’Hare)
Ensemble
(Cheerfully) Oh look it’s Aloysius O’Hare (Aloysius O’Hare)
The man who
Bottle up fresh air
And became a zillionaire!
(All lights on stage go off except for a spotlight on O’Hare, who has walked to center stage)
O’Hare
(To audience, as though telling a secret) Everyone round here works for me
I sell them something they should get for free
We’ll live in perfect harmony!
(All stage lights come back up and all surround O’Hare)
Ensemble
In Thneedville!
In Thneedville!
Hip hooray! Hip hooray! Hip hip hooray!
(All stage lights begin to go dark with the cast exiting the stage as a spotlight lands far downstage left, and Ted comes onstage to stand under the spotlight. Ted addresses audience for the rest of the song)
Ted
All I ever wanted is a whose-it
I would never flaunt it
Oh how I’d use it
Everybody has one
Like Jared and Julie and Jim
And even Ronald Shnook has one
And nobody’s lamer than him
(Lovingly) And I would play with it all day (Play with all day)
And never ever lose it (Never lose it)
Cause all I’ve ever wanted is a whose-it
(Hesitates) Except-
(Runs to downstage center, spotlight following him)
For the time that I wanted a scooter
A cell phone, a trombone, a laptop computer
A sports car, an SUV, robot that looks like me
A broadsword, a surfboard, a gas powered sled
Little pet monkey that danced on my head!
But this!
This is totally different!
Cause all I’ve ever wanted in my life
Is the stuff that I
Don’t have
(Stage lights come back up as the ensemble re enters stage and dance their instructed choreography. Ted doesn’t join them, instead staying in place as he looks straight at the audience or slightly upwards, depending on director’s instructions)
Ensemble
In Thneedville, it’s a brand new day!
Ted
All I ever wanted is the stuff that I don’t have!
Ensemble
Can’t see the sun
But we like it that way!
Here in Get-More-Than-We-Need-Ville!
Ted
Want it terribly!
Ensemble
In Thneedville!
Ted
Want it horribly!
Ensemble
You’re never alone
Ted
All I ever wanted is the stuff that I don’t have!
Ensemble
Because you always
Got the stuff that you own
Ted
Where is the stuff that I
Haven’t had?
Ensemble
Here in Spend-Until-You-Bleed-Ville!
Growing-Like-A-Weed-Ville!
Please-Don’t-Mention-Greed-Ville!
We’re happy here in
Thneedville!
Please, let's put this project on action
In light of the recent SpongeBob Movie Rehydrated.
If there was, it would be one animator animating a scene, the other animator animating a different scene, blah blah blah.
If there could be a “The Lorax (2012) Reimagined”, it could be an opportunity for both amateur and pro animators alike to re-animate the Lorax and the Once-ler, and all the different characters up there in the film. It could also encourage people to project their voices fearlessly and gracefully.
You guys are amazing to realize something
But being honest, the animators in Fiona and Cake probably made Simon for the Tumblr crew, it feels like they were having so much fun (Tumblr) sexuali- I mean drawing and animating him.
Simon Petrikov is the character ever because he manages to exist on all sides of the tumblr sexyman spectrum
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It's ok