GenEx

About a week or so ago livejournal seems to have cut access to its platform from certain locations, the US included. By using firefox's free VPN I can access it depending on the country I set it to (France seems to work best for some reason) but thankfully I had basically grabbed everything I wanted to keep from it a bit back and I don't use it much so it just means I'm not perusing my flist there much anymore which doesn't matter much since most folks are here as well. Still though. End of an era. sigh.

The less said about the weather this summer the better. Ugh. Very glad I finished working on that blanket when I did.

For months now there's been accusations of AI usage and pushback (against the usage and the accusations) in different fandoms, particularly swirling around certain Heated Rivalry authors. There were a lot of AI "tells" but recently it was discovered that Claude (and others I think) left specific html code in a work if it was C&Ped directly from the AI to AO3 and there's been ao3 skins created to find it (for example this one that combines the reversi skin and the detection things), a lot of info about all this has been compiled into a googledoc "Fandom has a Hidden Generative AI Problem" (backed up on the internet archive here) and there's an AO3 user, i_hate_ai_fics, bookmarking all discovered AI works (both by using the html finder and fics that left AI prompts in and other basic tells) that can be found here.

Have a ton of recthething recs. A bunch of art recs from tumblr (and one vid) and also quite a lot of art recs from doodle4doodle

doodle4doodle is still in anon phase but artists will be revealed tomorrow I think (there's lots more great things than what I recced, over 200 actually, peruse the rest of the collection here):

Object and Concept Anthropomorphism:
- Forced Vacation. Summary: Art of Clippy and Coppy at the beach! (very cute and clever)

Original Work:
- [Art] At the Weyr. Summary: It's said that the bond between a dragon and their rider is the most powerful in the world. (beautifully detailed dragon and rider)
- Delinquent Penguins. Summary: Dyeing their hair and making a racket. (Or maybe they're just regular crested penguins.) (absolutely delightful trio of penguins)
- [art] Snide and Snejudice Summary: A snake takes a break from working on her snake magnum opus, or snagnum snopus. (amazingly detailed, love this sleepy snake)
- [art] White-Breasted Nuthatch (wonderfully detailed rendition of a nuthatch)
- [art] Space Whale (whale constellation, very cool)
- [ART] The Subroboticon Summary: The thrilling conclusion to Roboctopus versus Warlocktocon!! A fake cover of two octopuses with no chill for Spring 2026 Doodle4Doodle. (incredibly detailed, really an amazing fake cover for a comic)
- tiny snake says "i love you <3" Summary: pet tiny snake. hold tiny snake. cherish tiny snake. forfeit all mortal possessions to tiny snake. (adorable)

Tetris (Video Games)
- [art] Tetris Museum of Modern Art. Summary: Tetriminos in iconic paintings. (really clever tetris-ish recreations of the paintings)

Tumblr Lore:
- [Art] Neil banging out the tunes. Summary: Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006 (great sketch of Neil and his piano)
- Piano Rat. (cute Neil and his little piano)
- [ART] Bang It, Neil. Summary: Neil banging out the tunes, as he does. (adorable art and animated gif)

tumblr recs:

Daredevil
- A World on Fire (amazing tapestry project)

Merlin
- Merlin and Arthur (gorgeous)

Nirvana in Fire
- mei changsu (love the way Lin Shu is shown on the strips of the bandages as they unfurl)

Rivers of Lonson
- Leyendecker Styled PC Peter Grant and DCI Thomas Nightingale (really excellent Leyendecker rendition of these two and The Folly)

Massive fandom video:
- Only the Horses: A fanvid about horses. On tumblr here and AO3 here

(fandoms are: Xena Warrior Princess, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, The Walking Dead, Hot Fuzz, John Wick 3, True Lies, Leverage, Doctor Who, The Fellowship of the Ring, Hidalgo, The Witcher, Due South, The Lighthorsemen, The Man from Snowy River, The Return of the King, Mulan, Ladyhawke, Bob's Burgers, Brave, The Princess Bride, Sleepy Hollow, Black Beauty, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dances With Wolves, The Black Stallion, Centaurworld, The Neverending Story, Tangled, The Postman)

Hope everyone's doing well and staying comfortable whatever weather issues you're facing!