Astro

'A popular fanfic author stopped updating her fic because she said that the stress of being constantly falsely accused of using AI was a witch hunt and it was destroying her mental health to the extent that she needed to take a break from writing, leading to multiple online discussions defending her and debates about AI accusations and how You Can't Really Tell So Leave Her Alone, and then someone realised that there were Claude coding artefacts in her fics and that it was a super pervasive problem in that particular fandom, proven definitively by looking at the source coding of each work on AO3, and she denied it for a bit but then ultimately admitted that oopsie, she had been using genAI all along, and then she deleted all of her fics off AO3 and people got mad because they were being denied access to their favourite fics, even though they now knew definitively that they were genAI slop, and then it turned out that she'd actually stopped updating the fic on AO3 in the first place because she'd been shopping it around to agents and editors as an original work with the serial numbers filed off, and she'd been in conversations with a publisher which ultimately got dropped because she'd lied to them about her AI use' oh cool, so we're in Hell, then

Let me be clear: if you use AI to write fanfic, paticularly if you do so in the hopes of snapping up a tradpub deal off the basis of the popularity of your worthless slop, then you are an absolute grade A ding-dong, and may the vengeful spirits of our beloved Spirk Elders haunt you via the medium of perpetual papercuts forevermore.

I am unaware of who this is referring to and feel like a small fishing boat that just saw the dorsal fin of Leviathan off the starboard bow

That is so extremely valid, and truly I wish that I had not myself plunged into the depths and seen the truth of the Leviathan (a gigantic plastic fish effigy that's broken off a derelict Fish & Chip shop and washed into the Atlantic: a harbinger of doom in its own synthetic tongue)

i want a polaroid picture of us on the back of my phone

my love language is telling you random things about my day

my soul is searching for yours

happy decade to the horrible beast i have wrought

WAIT YOU'VE THE OP?????

"Wah nobody wants to dom anymore" Have you tried treating doms like people who you respect instead of pleasure dispensers?

“Wah nobody wants to dom anymore” have you tried actually engaging and being an active participant with your dom instead of replying with exclusively keysmashes and expecting them to do all the work?

“Wah nobody wants to dom anymore” have you created an environment where your dom feels safe expressing desire, especially when that desire is sadistic? have you established a system of communication that protects BOTH of you?

"Wah nobody wants to dom anymore" have you recognized that doms have boundaries too, and are you prepared to respect those boundaries? if a dom isn't comfortable doing something you want done to you, will you accept their "no" without pushing them or making them feel guilty?

“wah nobody wants to dom anymore” are you going to tell all your friends she assaulted you if you don’t have a perfect time

"Wah nobody wants to dom anymore" do you appericate disabled and smaller doms or do you completely ignore them because of subconscious ableist beliefs that they won't be able to give you what you want.

something about crowds singing in unison at concerts that leaves my entire existence awestruck. its the the most human thing ever.