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writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

he would buy you your own home library with a ladder, a comfy chair, and so many shelves

you want a book but it's out of print/in another language/hard to get in your country? he'll give it to you over breakfast, just saying that "he has his ways"

loves to read with you while one of his new records plays in the background

keeps track of your favourite authors and pre-orders their new books for you

loves to listen to you talk about books and how excited you get (especially if it was a book he recomended)

also enjoys when you read to him

would read to you if you asked (he could read the phonebook and it would sound heavenly)

he would buy you the best pens if you like to annotate your books

he obviously encourages you to use his card to buy books (or whatever you want, just use his card~)

the employees at the bookshop love his black card you (they will never go bankrupt <3)

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