the cutting room floor

this is a great point. fanfic is playing in someone else's sandbox for the love the characters/world. all of the heavy lifting is done already ie: characters, world-building, established dynamics and histories, etc. aspects can be changed to suit whatever the author wants to do but it's still playing with dolls. it's a great place to have fun but when fanworks are adapted into original stories, the stories often fall apart.

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

here's how you do it:

one of the things that makes autism a disability (and why some of us choose to label it as such rather than an “alternate neurotype”) is the stress. 

i only learned this year that loud noises aren’t physically painful for other people. i have lived 34 years in a world in which my friends and family regularly physically hurt me at random just by shouting, and i thought everyone else just thought i was kind of a wimp for not dealing with the pain as well as they did.

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Also, please listen again: AI was trained on real writing. Of course some works sound like AI because THEY WERE STOLEN like millions of others, to train the idiot machines.