Chaos

Guilty until proven innocent. How would you prove yourself innocent? How can you prove that you didn't use AI? Not the AI-checkers, those don't work.

I write everything by hand. I outline, draft, and edit, all with a fountain pen. I can show you the literal paper trail of my creation. But even if I'd show that, what if someone is determined to discredit me? They could claim that I copied AI results, did it on paper to make it look legitimate. Anyone who doesn't like me, because my autism is off-putting, because I'd be a successful woman, because of jealousy, would love the idea of me being a manipulator and run with it.

And what of the writers who don't write by hand? How will they prove it? Document logs? What if you changed devices, or copied & pasted between programs?

Will we have to film ourselves writing, making time lapses of the process, in case the inquisition comes knocking? If someone is set on hating you, they'll accept absolutely anything as an excuse. And just like shouting "She's a witch!" in the streets, an AI rumor, even when unfounded, can give people the ammunition to tank your writing career.

This is not like bad writing, or plagiarism, or misrepresentation. How do you argue over something that you can neither prove nor disprove? Your verdict will come down to how popular or narratively pleasing the masses deem you. "They're so pretty and sweet, they'd never lie" versus "I knew I couldn't trust that [marginalized or outspoken person]". Or even "I can't sell my book, but this conventionally attractive woman is making 6 figures with her self-published romance novels... Gotta be AI, she could never be a successful entrepreneur!"

Man, I miss the days when my biggest headache was the pressure to have a social media presence as an author. Not whether using an em-dash might give people ammunition to make accusations.

@sagewiththyme You know that's a fascinating point because I figure the two options are a) no one really remembers what happened at the end because of magic bullshit or b) they play it off as a really elaborate but fully planned performance.

And the second one - can you fucking imagine.

Imagine one of the most popular bands in the world have this ongoing lore bit that they're actually demon hunters and they're always referencing it in their songs. And then one day a new boy band pops up and gets wildly popular with an over-the-top-cutesy hit. They're so soft and sweet and respectful. They're called Saja (Lion) Boys and they're all like "join the pride!" How cute!

And then they announce a new concert and you get there and it's fucking this. They're all dressed as demons/grim reapers. Surprise, "Saja" meant Jeoseung Saja all along! They're singing about how they're here for your soul and they relish in your pain, just a stunning 180 from their previous personas.

And then while you're trying to process the emotional whiplash the fucking demon hunter band bursts in and beats the shit out of them with the most insane pyrotechnic show you've ever seen in your life. They "kill" the boy band demons and then you never see them again. The whole band was a fucking psyop for Huntrix to play up the "demon hunters" bit.

Except, uhhhh. We didn't expect them to get so popular so fast? They For Sure weren't supposed to make it to the final round of the Idol Awards. Like, for Legal Reasons. We were almost visibly panicking on stage when they announced that! I mean, do you know how it would look once it eventually came out that Saja Boys were working for us? "Oh, you planted a fake band so you could win the competition!" No joke. I mean, that is a pret-ty clear conflict of interest there. You know?

The Idol Awards are all about the fan's choices, and we just accidentally rigged the game.

The Saja Boys had to win the Idol Awards, now, but there was no chance. They only had two songs, Soda Pop and Your Idol. We couldn't have them push up the debut--I mean, we thought about it, Your Idol's a banger song and it totally would've given us a run for our money--but we'd have to follow it up with This Is What It Sounds Like, first off, and second, 'killing' the Saja Boys onstage would be like. The Media equivalent of announcing we won, like the Fans didn't have a choice in the matter. At the Idol Awards? Ha. Yeah. That's a no-go.

And I mean. Soda Pop is catchy but not that catchy guys, c'mon. We were totally gonna cream them with Golden.

So we were all scrambling. Rumi and Mira and I were trying to write and choreograph a brand new song, Takedown, something good but not Good Enough To Win, to maybe prolong the Rivalry, you know? To make our comeback all the more sweet. But it was all such short notice, and the song wasn't working, and Huntrix never gives a shoddy performance, on principle. We couldn't do it. But it was looking like the only way we were gonna legitimately lose was if something... happened during the competition.

Like, obviously the Saja Boys weren’t a “real” band, so it makes sense they’re not coming out with new music, and since they’re “dead”, of course all their official band accounts have gone quiet, but like… someone would have had to be portraying the band members, right? Even if you wave that off as them being some of the same actors who portray the “demons” at their concerts, someone would definitely have to be lending their voices for the songs. Who were they? They couldn’t have been well-established in the industry, otherwise they’d have been recognized too quickly and the ruse would have been up, and something like this would have been a huge break for new performers.

So why’d they just disappear?

Where are the actors?

He also claimed that Hindus only see their god(s) as a "goldfish" (that grants wishes).

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Arrow Films (UK based)

Shout Factory

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2) all of it is about the character being trans in a different way than you headcanon

3) character being trans is literally never mentioned/they are a barely relevant side character

4) the tag has maybe 3 fics

5) wildly ooc in an odd fetishy manner

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