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This last year has been a deeply interesting but extremely taxing on me and my family, you'd likely remember that issue with my father from the LAST new years. Things have been in legal contention for this entire year, including lawyers fees, and all manner of stress. We've all been working, trying to keep up, and prepare for any angle. but it was all practically ambiguous what would happen. THAT SAID. GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS Good news first, We've finally reached a settlement with my father. Bad news, it's not a great settlement, but will allow us to actually recover at the end of all of this. This has been genuinely so draining that each of us has taken this financial hit. despite working constantly. (Heck I even Monetized my hobbies to try and help with this all.) That said we're finally getting to the point where we're barely scrapping by. We've still got lawyers fees to pay before this is all settled. It's gotten to the point my mother has made a gofundme for this, IF you can spare even a dollar, any assistance is deeply appreciated. You can find my other's post, and the general story of what the hell happened here. My mother and my sister took on the brunt of the work, and I'm currently looking for basically a third job to try and help pay off all of these damned fees.

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

this is solely me rambling about social anxiety, adhd and König. nothing exciting sorry folks!

König’s social anxiety - my thoughts

okay so firstly my qualifications here; I am diagnosed with social anxiety, generalized anxiety and ADHD. (I didn’t end up getting into his adhd at all oops)

i just want to speak to like the experience of being a grown man with mainly social anxiety, because idk I see some posts that just feel upsetting to read? like people complaining about certain ways König is written?

like I do agree that he is not some blushing little uwu babygirl kitten (bc you know he is in fact an adult and in the fucking military), but I’ve never actually seen anyone write him as that. I think what gets me are the complaints about people actually writing him with traits of social anxiety, which he canonically has, and kind of treating it like writing him that way makes him seem weaker? Or less dominant? Or like uhh less of a man? There’s a chance I’m just taking this super personally for no reason but I’m gonna ramble about it anyway.

One more thing! I am happy to announce that the Welcome Home website will reopen on: April 11 !!

We are decorating this Home to the best of our ability and hope it will be fun to peruse once our spring cleaning is through! (Spring drawing, spring typing, spring website maintenance, etc!)

One more more thing!- We are also happy to announce... We are getting our very own array of merchandise! (Julie and Frank... Julie and Frank...) Designed by both Huck and Myself! It's been a labor of love we've been working on behind-the-scenes and I am so, so pleased with how they look thanks to those who are helping us- I hope you folks will really like what comes out too!