Heisentoii

1. in fandom

i hate when people act like fanart is more valuable— or respectable, even— than fanfiction in fandom spaces. you people act like because SOME fanfiction is “cringe” or “not well written” it makes the entire form of fan content embarrassing to talk about / engage with / create. it’s so upsetting to me. fanfic writers, in a lot of cases, are extremely talented people. the ability to understand a piece of media and the characters in it to the point where you’re able to create new stories from it is so cool. and a lot of fanfiction writers have quite literally spent years improving their writing, and learning how to phrase things in ways that best fit the story they’re trying to tell. it’s so so awesome to me and it makes me upset when people belittle fanfiction writers because of some predisposed assumption that fanfiction is inherently cringe or childish

2. in regard to ai

i’d like to start off by saying, ALL AI IS BAD. ai has terrible effects on our environment, with the energy it consumes and the waste it produces. it’s also just bad for society in general, promoting laziness, incompetence, and the spread of misinformation

however, i’m aware that certain people hold the view that ai is “only harmful in creative spaces”

this is objectively wrong, but to entertain that view for a moment, those of you who claim to hate ai “in creative spaces” and then turn around and hop on character.ai are SO ANNOYING.

at that point, by “creative spaces,” i’d assume you were for some reason only referring to visual art. which, again, is just so demeaning. what is writing to you if not an art form??

and the fact that you’d use artificial intelligence to generate written fan content rather than, i dunno,

-writing it yourself

-finding a real person to roleplay it with/write it with

-requesting a fanfic writer to write it

-look for fics with a similar premise that already exist

is so evil and lazy. by supporting ai roleplay sites you are INHERENTLY diminishing creative writing spaces in fandom. i hope you know that.

it’s genuinely so frustrating, too, because i’ve met people who are literally on character.ai for multiple hours of the day. do you know how many fanfiction writers you could have shown support to within that time frame? real people? real people who put love and effort into creating written content, just for you to turn around and act like an AI is more worth your time??????

oh my GOD

ok sorry rant over 🙏🤲 for now