Elves & Angels

@arafinweanweek day seven | later generations | elladan and elrohir

‘And have you marked the brethren Elladan and Elrohir? Less sombre is their gear than the others’, and they are fair and gallant as Elven-lords; and that is not to be wondered at in the sons of Elrond of Rivendell.’

Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.

it sucks, but you can never be 100% sure if something is ai, especially in written works. any sign of "ai-generated fic" is something genuine writers do (guess what ai is trained on and what it's trained to mimic). more often than not, innocent human-made fics that were accused of being ai were written by people who are on the autism spectrum or writers whose native language is not english but they write in english regardless (kudos to them!). actually, even proper grammar is now being considered "a sign of ai", when it's... not. people can use proper grammar in their works, that means they are good at grammar, it doesn't mean they used ai to write for them.

behindthename.com:

"What are you in for?"

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)