VON DOOM

It also has the side bonus of getting covert ai users to out themselves (you know the "i dont use it to *write*, I just use it for research/inspiration types 🙄) so I can avoid their slop too.

I've seen 1st hand how addictive it is. It isn't *possible* to only use it for one type of task. If someone admits to using it for one thing (meaning they weren't immediatly repulsed by it), they're using for everything, but are too ashamed to admit it. LLMs are engineered to be as addictive as possible. Someone saying they only use ai "for inspiration" or "for proofreading", is like saying that they only smoke meth on Tuesdays and could totally stop at any time.

??? what recent events? and unless there’s something I missed, what does ai users have anything to do with school shooters? I’m not sure if this is satire and I don’t like ai either but

1. can we please not water down something so serious and terrible as school shootings to… normal people who use ai? sure, ai is terrible and harmful, but it’s not anywhere near as terrible and harmful as school shootings. like, you do know people—children—actually die because of it, right? comparing the two together like it’s “on the same level of being harmful” is super offensive and insensitive to people who were affected by school shooting incidents.

2. shame and harassment won’t make people stop using ai. it just makes people use it in private/secret.

I’m sorry but you’re not doing anything right here, and the fact you think you are — unless you’re being sarcastic (which is still shitty) — is concerning.

do I hate ai? yes. do I hate people who use it? no. do I think people who use ai are terrible people? no. I have already talked about this before, but I believe people are more complicated than whether or not they use ai. will I ever condone harassment? also no.

babe, I don’t even like incest or anything that involves characters who are minors being portrayed in sexual nature. it makes me extremely uncomfortable and if I ever come across it when it is not properly tagged (which is extremely rare), I either block, mute or scroll past it like it burns.

that said, I also understand censorship is a fascist tool and I also understand fiction is not reality. no real person or animal is harmed.

I also understand a lot of victims and survivors — victims and survivors whom you told to hang themselves — use dark fiction to help them heal from their trauma.

I also don’t tell others to harm themselves, especially over fiction.

the fact you hide behind anon like a coward means you know you are in the wrong and are too ashamed to show your face.

if you think this message makes “antis” look like “good people” instead of unhinged bullies who suicide bait others over fiction while pretending to be morally superior, you’re both wrong and stupid.

but instead of stooping to your level and telling you to harm yourself, I genuinely do hope you get the help you need and understand that fiction is not reality, and under no circumstances will it ever be okay to tell anyone to harm themselves — especially when you do so while hiding behind anon, especially when it’s over something as harmless as fiction and fantasies.

do better.

THIS IS A BOT/SCAM BY THE WAY.

I have never made a post asking for a beta reader. if anything, all of my posts regarding beta readers are to warn my followers about this new surge of scam plaguing the writing community on tumblr where bots reach out to random people and offer to beta read their works. in all these posts, I’ve also made it clear that I prefer to work alone without a beta reader, but if I ever want one, I have my best friend whose opinions I trust and value for that.

normally I would block asks like this without posting/giving them the attention, but since this specific one claims something that’s entirely untrue (meaning they use the same script for probably dozens of people at random in hope some of them actually do ask for a beta reader and will fall for their scam), I’m posting it as another example of bots and scams pretending to be beta readers.

no one says you have to like every fic. no one says you can’t find a fic ‘terribly written’. but if at any point you find yourself not liking what you read, instead of being a dick about other people’s harmless hobbies that they do for themselves and you got to read for free, you could have just clicked the back button and looked for something else to read. or, better yet, you could’ve started writing what you wanted to read yourself.

this normalization of openly mocking other people’s fics — especially now with the raise of ai, bots harassing/trying to scam writers and the lack of positive engagement writers get — is why writers are wary about sharing their works with you. writers are kind enough to share with you what they wrote for free. you can just not read it if it’s not your cup of tea. but if you keep this mean girl bully energy up by screenshotting their works to mock and shame them, eventually there will be no fics for you to read, eventually there will be no fan contents for you to enjoy.

There's a difference between mocking published books by authors who are MAKING MONEY from their work (think Colleen Hoover, JK R*wl*ng, Jeff Kinney) and mocking fanfiction which the authors are NOT MAKING MONEY FROM and are doing this because they enjoy the work. "Why did this fic I was mocking stop updating?" maybe because the author thought that nobody liked it because of YOUR (and several other peoples) mocking!

You can give criticism to fanfiction. You can criticize anything. But mocking it? No. Do not.