Bianca Icaras

I don't think Mark can ever top "INDEED, MR. JONES, INDEED" and "AND THAT IS HOW I KNOW YOU LIED TO ME" from the first Sandy Hook trial in Texas (not to be confused with Chris Mattei, the attorney in the Connecticut trial), but this part

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

A fic I had kudosed, liked and bookmarked a few months ago, I revisited and the person had added a tag to say "AI-generated text." :( I don't remember anything standing out about it as AI writing and I'm a college professor so I'm usually adept at spotting that stuff, but in retrospect, their profile has over 300 lengthy fics from a wide variety of different fandoms that all have a similar sort of faux-poetic writing style, and all of these were written in the space of about 6 months. I feel a little silly for not picking up on it, but I guess I never imagined why someone would AI-generate a fic for a tiny fandom like that. And I'm overall not really sure what the goal of this activity is. If you're into fanfic for the fun of writing, then why do it? And also why do this for a bunch of fandoms of varying size? Why, in this case, for a fandom with less than 100 fics total? How much attention are you really getting for that? Anyway, at least I could delete my comment and bookmark. I also wonder why they ended up adding that tag, and to all their fics. Did someone call them out on the AI usage maybe?

*screams of a witch burning at the stake*

"Why do you buy books when the library is right there?"

#public libraries are good because they let people access books they might never otherwise read#private book ownership is good because it's Yours#physical books are good because they last a long time and again it's Yours#ebooks are good because you can fit a whole library into the physical space of a single book and they're cheaper to produce#audiobooks are good because they're accessible to people with eyesight or visual reading issues and leave your hands free#in conclusion: all books are good and people should enjoy them however and whenever they can#(lest it be misunderstood I agree with you completely OP I just also really like books in general and it got away from me)