Old And Kinda Sad

Happy Pride Month!

ZERO TO HERO

Baby Arthur Morgan and his mama.

Beatrice plz come hug your son he needs it.

He was just a baby once :(

I’m keeping Mutt.

That’s my dog.

When everyone’s failed Henry, when Hans has gone away, and Theresa stays in Skalitz; when Radzig and his bestie-lover are done with Henry, and there’s no longer a memory of Jana(Jane?) and Martin of Skalitz: There’s Mutt.

There’s our good boy, laying on the floor or wagging his tail in wait—still too skinny despite the fact that he eagerly collects his 10% of every hunt with impatience.

I’m keeping that dog.

If they try and Arthur’s horse Mutt, I will..

I’ll do something.

That little mite is OURS! HE’S MINE!!!

When I say I was ready to steamroll Dry Devil again to protect my dog in Suchdol. Like cannibalism crossed my mind for a hot second.

*The mechanic is that you get him from Theresa if you download A Woman's Lot, and immediately Mutt is like, "this is my human now. Thankfully alive... I guess I gotta keep him that way..."

the plight of balancing inventory space 😮‍💨

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Please Warhorse, let us ask Hans for a hug, Henry needs it badly

For fuck's sake, what can I use? Seriously y'all, I don't know about you, but all the advice on how to write does Jack shit for me other than make it really fucking impossible to tell a story.

"this fic has long paragraphs with overly described details and scenes, so it must be ai-generated" real humans can write like this.

"this fic has inconsistencies, so it must be ai-generated" real humans make errors and mistakes. that's why we have this thing called plot holes. sometimes writers are tired and they don't remember what they wrote in the last sentences or paragraphs, let alone chapters.

"this fic sounds robotic and unnatural, so it must be ai-generated" not every writer writes in their native language. sometimes they can sound 'robotic and unnatural' if they wrote in their second or third or fourth language (and kudos to them).

"this fic has a prompt left in it that the author forgot to delete, so it must be ai-generated" the 'prompt' the author accidentally left in their fic could actually be a part of an outline that was meant only for them, so they could keep track of what they would write.

"this author posts too often, no human writes this fast, so they must use ai" 1.) you don't know how fast someone can or can't write, how much time a person has in a day or how motivated/skilled they are. 2.) the frequent updates you see could be something that has already been finished and sitting in the author's drafts for god knows how long. just because it's recently posted doesn't always mean it's recently written.

"Do you think AO3 should ban AI generated works?"

Well, in theory, it may sound ideal. But in reality? No.

I am not a fan of AI, but "do you think AO3 should ban" never actually solves a problem. Because how can you tell what's AI and what's human made? It is extremely hard to tell, and going around accusing authors of using AI — just because you suspect they do — does more harm than good. Chances are that you're accusing real writer of being AI and ruining their day at best, making them quit writing at worst.

And the act of banning never stops something from existing. It only makes it more difficult to find or avoid. Tumblr bans porn, but you can still find porn on Tumblr. The only difference is that they're no longer tagged as porn, which means you're more likely to stumble upon them because blocking the tags no longer works when they are not tagged as porn.

The same applies to AI generated works on AO3. For now they are tagged as "AI generated". You can avoid them if you don't want them.

Once they're banned, people will no longer tag them as AI, which means you have more chance of unknowingly reading and leaving kudos on AI.

Also, no, unless an author says "this was written by AI" you cannot tell for sure if something was written by AI. Em dashes aren't evidence of AI. Long and overly described paragraphs aren't evidence of AI. Real human writers do write like this and AI was trained to mimic real humans' works.

Commission for a friend of a BG3 character moment!

There is actually text that goes with this as well, but here are the full drawings. This was a lot of fun!! I loved playing with the setting and the situation is so dramatic..

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