✩ steph ✩

ok i'm saying more about stratt bc i literally am obsessed with her so. in the book there's a part where on launch day she goes into grace's jail cell and gives this whole monologue about the severity of the situation because she needs him to understand why she did everything she did. she wouldn't be monologuing in a jail cell with him as her literal captive audience if she hadn't also felt betrayed by him when he said no. she wouldn't be pacing back and forth nervously infodumping about world history if she wasn't absolutely begging for him to understand her. there's actually no reason for her to be there doing that other than she feels that she has to before it's too late.

hmm my former landlords are trying to deduct a frankly off the rails amount of money from our security deposit…my time has come once again

i was chatting with a coworker about this whole saga today and someone nearby popped into the convo to be like “you know, you can use chatgpt to write a demand letter!” and i sort of blinked and went, “okay. i did it myself, though.” and she was like, “yeah but it can tell you what laws and stuff are relevant” and i was like, “i also did research myself.” and she was very well-meaning but she said “chatgpt” like six more times before she left and it was genuinely baffling to me, this insistence on it.

Please never use generative AI tools for any kind of legal dispute. It does not know what laws or court cases are. It will make up something that sounds favorable to you, and you will get crushed. There are free resources out there to learn this stuff. And sometimes attorneys will offer free consultations or volunteer at a free legal clinic. OP didn't just do it themselves to do extra work or some shit. This is really the only viable way to do things short of hiring a professional to do it for you.