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Anyway here are my favorite notes

Exhibit A: The very feminist take that people socially/medically/legally classed as female aren’t oppressed on the basis of being socially/medically/legally classed as female.

Exhibit B: Seeing a non-sexual image of a trans man and immediately thinking about him bottoming. Because sexually objectifying random people for no reason is, again, very feminist. 🙄

Dad for One from One for All's perspective as an incredibly distressed ghost

Bonus:

I’ll never understand the mindset that says “if you block someone who’s rude to you, it’s an admission of guilt. if you delete rude comments, it’s an admission of guilt. you are supposed to sit there obediently and take the harassment”. I think it’s first spread by bullies who are mad and offended that they can’t freely harass others anymore after they were rightfully blocked and their comments were rightfully deleted.

you don’t owe anybody anything, much less strangers on the internet. plus it is your account. you can block any person you want for any reason or for no reason at all. you can delete any comment you want for any reason or for no reason at all. I don’t know when internet etiquette shifted to this cult-like behavior where witch hunt is the norm and people are expected to seek strangers’ approval and prove their innocence when random strangers throw accusations at them, especially when chances are that nothing you do will ever be enough when they’ve already decided you were guilty of petty imaginary crimes and cancel culture that to them are the equivalent of first degree murder.

I’ll never understand the mindset that says “if you block someone who’s rude to you, it’s an admission of guilt. if you delete rude comments, it’s an admission of guilt. you are supposed to sit there obediently and take the harassment”. I think it’s first spread by bullies who are mad and offended that they can’t freely harass others anymore after they were rightfully blocked and their comments were rightfully deleted.

you don’t owe anybody anything, much less strangers on the internet. plus it is your account. you can block any person you want for any reason or for no reason at all. you can delete any comment you want for any reason or for no reason at all. I don’t know when internet etiquette shifted to this cult-like behavior where witch hunt is the norm and people are expected to seek strangers’ approval and prove their innocence when random strangers throw accusations at them, especially when chances are that nothing you do will ever be enough when they’ve already decided you were guilty of petty imaginary crimes and cancel culture that to them are the equivalent of first degree murder.

The concept of marriage in American society is a legal construct, not a religious one.

every single time I see these posts, there are always writers who say “this looks like how I write” and “what if my works sound like ai”. it’s discouraging to genuine writers to see a screenshot of a fic that is “obviously ai” and then wonder if their own human-made works “look like ai” too. it’s discouraging to genuine writers to have to live in constant fear and worry if someone will screenshot their human-made fics and put them on blast for being “obviously ai” too.

no matter how “obviously ai” a fic looks, unless the author says they use ai, you can never know for absolute certainty that it’s ai. you assume. based on vibes. and there’s always a chance of you wrongly accusing a genuine, innocent writer and encouraging people to harass them. “real humans don’t write like this” do you know literally every single human being to say for absolute certainty that none of them write like the machine that was trained on millions of human-made works to look and sound like humans? “most people can tell” no, no one can tell unless authors disclose their use of ai. most people guess. based on vibes. every ai telltale is something humans actually write, otherwise ai would never have been able to mimic it in the first place. short sentence stacking? some people prefer it as a stylistic choice. “not x, not y, but z” type of sentence? people have been using this for ages, way before gen ai became a thing. I’ve been using it in my writing for almost a decade, way before gen ai became a thing. em dash? you mean proper grammar? not to mention how often people who are autistic and people whose native language isn’t english are wrongly accused of using ai in their fics because “real humans don’t like write that” — it’s super offensive and harmful.

even if someone says they use ai, the right thing to do is to not read their fics and leave them alone if it bothers you. I don’t like ai fics. I don’t agree with people who let ai write for them. but I will always condemn harassment. no matter what. also not to mention, if you harass someone for being honest about using ai and tagging their fics as such, chances are that they will stop tagging their future ai-generated fics as ai, meaning no one can know for sure if the fics are ai, meaning it’s impossible for anyone to filter them out. if you want to be able to effectively avoid ai fics by filtering them out, you’ll have to make sure people who use ai are comfortable enough to be honest about it.

I also want to say that no one “writes like ai”. it’s the other way around. ai writes like human, because that’s what it was trained to do. saying a human-made fic “reads like ai” is saying a work looks like its copycat.