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See the thing about the whole Claude AI exposing document thing is that as great as it sounds in theory, I can see how this leads to even more harassment and witch hunts in practice.
People have said the tag is unique to Claude only and therefore thereās no way a human-made fic could have gotten wrongly flagged as AI. But how accurate and trustworthy worthy this is, really? Even IF, hypothetically, this method is proved correct 99 times out of 100, that still means āthere is 1 time out of 100 times where a human-made fic is wrongly flagged as AI due to an errorā. And that to me nullified the credibility of the whole doc. Like, sorry for not trusting another newly-introduced machine and for being skeptical about it.
āBut how could the tag get there if the author didnāt use AI?ā Besides the possibility of an error, I can already see people weaponize this method by faking screenshots of fics that are about the ships or topics that they hate to make it look like these fics have Claude tag in them, and then spreading those fake screenshots around. And the worst part is that authors cannot prove their innocence because people would just say āthey got caught so now they removed the Claude tag from their ficsā.
Like. I hate AI, but I hate witch hunts, accusations and harassments more.
It's very telling that people will argue to hell and back against any and all possible flaws of this thing because this AI detector is 100% totally infallible this time trust me bro, but every single "flaw" in a fic that has been sern in AI texts MUST mean the writer was 100% totally using AI to write this trust me bro.
Almost like the people who claim they want to avoid actually want the opposite. They spend so much time and effort to try to detect AI that they could be spending reading because... idk actually. Maybe it's another weird purity thing where you're eternally tainted by seeing something "bad." Maybe they're addicted to the rush of feeling morally superior for five seconds on the internet and have discovered a new way to fill that hole.
It's so painfully clear that they want to find as much AI as possible for some reason. These are not people engaging with fandom for fun, they're here to destroy.
And if you, dear reader, engage in this behavior and for some reason genuinely believe you're doing a good thing, take a step back and take a good hard look at why you're more preoccupied with detecting perceived AI to the point of driving the actual real creators you claim you want to protect out of fandom, instead of investing all that effort into supporting those creators.
#even outside of fic #I swear so often now on like. pet pics or random videos #I'll see accusations of ai for the weirdest reasons. on things that absolutely aren't #art as well. even after evidence is shown that it's not ai. #because it's about the witch hunt at a certain point. the idea that you can make an author or artist or pic poster #scramble to prove you wrong. and no proof is enough because you can always insist that's ai too #so it's either paranoia or hatred at that point and also like #the whole enemy is both strong and weak thing. you can always tell when it's ai but also it's impossible because it looks exactly real #and can fake any evidence that it's real. everyone who uses it is both simultaneously stupid and lazy and pouring in the effort to trick you #as if most ai users don't brag about it #just. c'mon. #ai is not a great thing rn. it has the capacity to be a good tool but RN is not #but people rly are scaremongering and moral panicking over it. which is not helping #in part bc people who go those concerns are overblown will miss the actual problems amid the yelling #and in part bc opposition to AI at all costs has people arguing for stricter copyright and big corporations rights
See the thing about the whole Claude AI exposing document thing is that as great as it sounds in theory, I can see how this leads to even more harassment and witch hunts in practice.
People have said the tag is unique to Claude only and therefore thereās no way a human-made fic could have gotten wrongly flagged as AI. But how accurate and trustworthy worthy this is, really? Even IF, hypothetically, this method is proved correct 99 times out of 100, that still means āthere is 1 time out of 100 times where a human-made fic is wrongly flagged as AI due to an errorā. And that to me nullified the credibility of the whole doc. Like, sorry for not trusting another newly-introduced machine and for being skeptical about it.
āBut how could the tag get there if the author didnāt use AI?ā Besides the possibility of an error, I can already see people weaponize this method by faking screenshots of fics that are about the ships or topics that they hate to make it look like these fics have Claude tag in them, and then spreading those fake screenshots around. And the worst part is that authors cannot prove their innocence because people would just say āthey got caught so now they removed the Claude tag from their ficsā.
Like. I hate AI, but I hate witch hunts, accusations and harassments more.
It's very telling that people will argue to hell and back against any and all possible flaws of this thing because this AI detector is 100% totally infallible this time trust me bro, but every single "flaw" in a fic that has been sern in AI texts MUST mean the writer was 100% totally using AI to write this trust me bro.
Almost like the people who claim they want to avoid actually want the opposite. They spend so much time and effort to try to detect AI that they could be spending reading because... idk actually. Maybe it's another weird purity thing where you're eternally tainted by seeing something "bad." Maybe they're addicted to the rush of feeling morally superior for five seconds on the internet and have discovered a new way to fill that hole.
It's so painfully clear that they want to find as much AI as possible for some reason. These are not people engaging with fandom for fun, they're here to destroy.
And if you, dear reader, engage in this behavior and for some reason genuinely believe you're doing a good thing, take a step back and take a good hard look at why you're more preoccupied with detecting perceived AI to the point of driving the actual real creators you claim you want to protect out of fandom, instead of investing all that effort into supporting those creators.
sometimes u headcanon a character as a sexuality but then also ship things that contradict that. sometimes you ship things you would NEVER EVER want in canon. this is because these things are fun and silly and not legally binding.
The real problem with D&D's contemporary culture of play is that it's basically a worse version of what Paranoia was doing forty years ago. It's a faux pas for players to display knowledge of the mechanics and the GM is expected to maintain an elaborate kayfabe where they merely pretend to be moderating a game with rules while actually doing something completely different, and they're not even allowed to kill players with orbital laser strikes for talking back.
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Thinking about The Blue Castle and that specific genre of literary fiction that's like "it's not fantasy because the magic is all Imaginary and the main character has to give it up and learn to live in the Real World" and how The Blue Castle actually understands the point of imagination. The point of imagination isn't that Valancy wants a castle, it's that Valancy wants a better life for herself, and needs a way to imagine that. I mean, I know this website is full of people who understand the Emotional Support Daydream, but I have read a depressing number of stories (particularly children's books) where the goal is to make the character abandon the daydream so they can improve their real life or as part of "growing up," rather than help the character improve their life so they can have a healthy relationship with their imagination rather than maladaptive daydreams. Because people actually do need to maintain an imagination ecosystem in order to be okay.
notes on things about queer regencies that are bad and ponderings upon the regency genre as a concept: 1. i think like a decent amount of romances written today they fall prey to the Therapy Is Sexy attitude that no amount of historical trapping will ever make not jarring. relatedly. its not enough to say 'homosexual' you do actually have to research historical understandings of sexuality and queer culture i think. 2. and related to this you have to let your principals be monumental asses to each other.its like some of you bavent read pride and prejudice seriously. which 3. hm well not to say your characters have to adapt fully the sentiments of the period but like they should exist as background u know? 4. this one is maybe more controversial also but you need to have charavters that arent the two mcs and maybe a younger sibling. who will personify the scanadalized ton in a vacuum BOOOORING u r all boring. 5. im that one friend thats too shakespeare but like i think many regency novels would be improved if the authors framed them less like a romance plus cravats and more like a comedy of manners. plus cravats also lol. but i think inchresting how the genre of regency has lost this framing so quickly ?? put more social commentary and negotation back in the regency novel. this is also why 6. and this one is. definitely personal but idk if its possible to untangle regency romance from an ending of marriage/working everyone back around to an acceptable normative uninterrupted society. to me that narrative of conservative restabilization is kind of at the root of it for better or worse. not that it cant be done but i cant quite see my way to it
My hypothesis (or rather, the hypothesis we keep coming back to in my research group) is that romantasy has replaced the Regency romance because you can do all the ballrooms and aristocracy and rigid social rules without having to grapple with The Empire of It All and also The Cisheteropatriarchy, which is valid but also shows a distinct lack of imagination. I do think another significant part is an inability to divorce (pun intended) the idea of the Happily Ever After from monogamous marriage, but also I suspect a lot of people enjoyed Bridgerton but then did not get good recs for reading Regency romance and were turned off by what they read (such as the Bridgerton books, which are not at all what I would recommend to someone new to the genre in 2020). There are definitely authors who were doing funky stuff with the genre but you had to know what to look for!
I've enjoyed Cat Sebastian's queer Regencies, The Ruin of a Rake really leans in to how artificial the strictures of Manners are and she has some interesting thoughts about class she keeps coming back to. (Unfortunately there is an unforgivable dearth of f/f Regencies and the ones I have read really did not do it for me.)
when someone is completely fucking wrong about your blorbo but you don't want to argue about what basically boils down to opinions about shit that doesn't matter so you just sit there like
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Despite it all I can't hate solarpunk. It's caramel-apple sweet-simplistic, a desire for a greater world on one simple axis without grappling with any kind of political reality. You can chip at its ankles but unfortunately it will still be kind of awesome epicsauce at its heart. Sometimes you really do need to just cut past all the hard-nosed realism, get back to the kid looking up at you with those big blubbering eyes saying "what if everyone was nice to eachother?" That kid does not know an ant's arse about the real world or how it works, but they're still 1000 times more correct than all of us trying to explain why it can't be done. You can't lose sight of the stupid, hopeless dream. You can't lose sight of it. Otherwise you turn into a dickhead.
i must say, i am a huge fan of when a book is in the middle of a very exciting plot containing many interesting problems when out of nowhere for a few pages it's like, "hey by the way, real quick, here's a detailed explanation of the city's water filtration system! i'm telling you this for a reason and you should worry about it. anyway! haha okay back to the plot" and you just get to be Scared for a while
When I was like eight years old I read a novel where the protagonist gets isekaied to a fantasy world and immediately bumps into a wise mentor figure who purportedly wants to help her become a wizard, except it turns out that he's teaching her a fake magic system that does nothing except drain her power for his benefit. This wasn't even the actual plot of the book (the scheme is uncovered after like one chapter), but I've always wanted to do something with that in a tabletop RPG where the GM is actively lying to the players about what the rules are and they have to figure out how the "real" mechanics work. I haven't put any deep thought into how that could actually work from a structural perspective that doesn't just immediately devolve into yet another tedious exercise in "here's the vague suggestion of a system, now have the GM make something up", but it's on my "to do" list!
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It was too late, when the humans came. They were a young species, still exploring outwards, vital and thriving.Ā
Weā¦ were not.Ā
War had ravaged us, and sickness, and war once again, until our population dwindled beyond the point of recovery. We struggled against that, of courseā¦ we used genetic manipulation, and cloning, and even more desperate measures. None succeeded. When the humans came, we were sinking into apathy, only a few tens of us left. We had begun to discuss whether we should commit a mass suicide, or simply wait to fade away.Ā
And then the young species came, in their clumsy ships, and they asked us why we were so few.Ā
āWe are becoming extinct,ā we told them.Ā āWe have passed the point of recovery.āĀ
It is custom to avoid the races that are dying ā once a species reaches the point of inevitable extinction, even war is suspended, and the fiercest enemy pulls back. The custom was born of plagues and poisons that could be carried forth from a dying world to afflict a healthy one, but it has the implacable weight of tradition now. After we are gone, after they have waited for the prescribed period of quarantine, there will be a fight for our world. Habitable worlds are few, and this is a good one, with plenty of free groundwater and thriving vegetation. It is a bitter thing to be grateful for the custom that allows us to die in peace, but we are grateful.
But the humans donāt know that custom, and they do not leave. They seem distraught, when we tell them we are dying, and try to offer their aid - but their technology is behind ours, and it is too late. When they realize that they canāt save us, though, they do something that bewilders us.Ā
When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genreās subversion of traditional femininity. We werenāt just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.
But since Iāve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, Iā¦ find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. Itās that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into itā¦ but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.
As Iām disabled, as I say to groups of friends,Ā āI canāt walk that far,ā as Iām in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: Iām boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: Youāre out of the narrative, youāre secondary, youāre a burden.
The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; itās common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that sheās like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, sheās important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork. Ā In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her householdās moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.
That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.
#itās so so important to remember that representation is not one-size-fits-all#what is empowering to one person might be exhausting and oppressive to someone else#some people need stories about having the strength to save themselves#some people need stories about being considered worthy of being saved#some people need inspiration for their independence while others need validation that they donāt have to be able to do everything themselves#before you lash out against something PLEASE stop to consider:#is this inadequate and/or damaging representation?#or is it just something I donāt personally relate to?Ā [X]
Itās been half a decade and I still havenāt found an articulation of the complexity of ārepresentationā as concisely and precisely mindblowing as @hungrylikethewolfieās here.
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