Status report, "What Even Is My Work Life" dep't:

—Chopping carrots for beef stew (because there were none yesterday and there are now), while watching ski events in Livigno & noting background neighborhood: "I should run away to the mountains and become a chalet chef. That's work I could do."

Background brain, more or less immediately: COZY CHALET CHEF ROMANCE NOVEL! Foreground brain (while straining stock off simmering carrots & parsnips): Yeah, sure. (eyeroll) Background brain: …WITH WEREWOLVES! Foreground brain (while rummaging among herbs): Hmm. Background brain: ON SKIS!

FG brain: Oh, FFS, whoTF would read this?! BG brain: With hot werewolf coaches…! FG brain: … BG brain: AND WEREWOLF PHYSIOTHERAPISTS! FG brain (reaches for the pepper grinder): …Um. BG brain: And then it gets SPICY!!!!! FG brain: Um… Which PART of the Alps? 🤭

...So, seriously. If I wrote this, would you buy it?

Classics A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin * Charmed Life by Dianna Wynne Jones* Sabriel by Garth Nix* The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss* So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane* Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce*

YA A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O'Brien* In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen* Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead* Legendborn by Tracey Deonn* Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender* Vicious by V.E. Schwab* Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams* The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater*

Adult A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik ^ The Magicians by Lev Grossman* Will of the Many by James Islington* Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle*^ An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson Vita Nostra by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko* To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose*^ The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson*^ Red City by Marie Lu^ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett* The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H. G. Parry Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Dark Academia (wherein the school itself isn't necessarily magic but magic happens at the school) Babel & Katabasis by RF Kuang Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake* Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo* A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid* (also fits under the Romantasy category) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh Bunny by Mona Awad* The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole Making History by KJ Parker

Romantasy The Ordeals by Racehl Greenlaw Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma* A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros^ A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson On Wings of Blood by Briar Boleyn Spellcaster by Jaymin Eve A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

*denotes a first book of a series

^ denotes YA-adult crossover appeal

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I'm pretty sure in this particular instance, this falls under the AO3's rules against plagiarism:

II.E. Plagiarism Plagiarism is the use of someone else's words, or their expressions of their ideas, without attribution. Minor alterations (such as replacing names, substituting synonyms, or rearranging a few words) are insufficient to make a work your own. Plagiarism is not allowed. Deliberately creating a work using the same general idea as another work is not plagiarism, but citation may be appropriate.

If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform

None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.

You dont get to witch hunt and scour peoples work just frothing at the mouth hoping someone messes up so you can publicly humiliate and gang up on them. Fuck genai and every single poser and lover that uses it but if you are not 1000000000% certain that something is made with it you shut. the. fuck. up.

"hurr durr these very common writing practices are SUPER OBVIOUS AI TELLS!!!!!!!!!! obviously this is an AI invention and not the result of AI being trained on THOUSANDS OF REAL FUCKING STORIES!!!!!!! we're all very intelligent!!!!!!!"

I hate yall. I hate yall for fucking ruining fanfic with your goddamn motherfucking AI obsession. "ooh there's em dashes!" YEAH REAL WRITERS USE THOSE. "there's long paragraphs!" YEAH BECAUSE THATS HOW PEOPLE WRITE STORIES.

we're not "writing like AI" - AI is writing like us, because it fucking stole from us in the first fucking place.

I've never used AI in my work, not ever, but guess what, my fics are ALL written like that. long paragraphs, long sentences, em dashes and hyphens and other grammatical tools, because I fucking know HOW TO WRITE.

Fuck outta here.

(Also, yes, you'll see spaces around em dashes in journalism, but for fiction and academia, it is the expected norm to not have spaces. Some people add spaces out of personal preference, but the expected norm in fiction is no spaces.

Fictional characters are objects.

The actors, directors, writers, etc that create this characters are people.

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IT WORKS

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“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

You shall not feel guilty for spending time on art

You shall comment when you can with joy

You shall share the art you find that makes you happy

You shall not envy the size of your neighbor's fandom or pairing

You shall support your fellow fans in making art that makes them happy even if it is not to your own taste

You shall make art of your own to your own taste

You shall love your art however imperfect because it is yours

You shall share your art in whatever way you can with joy

You shall not covet your neighbor's hits or comments or kudos