Bev

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.

I suggest

Do fandom fannishly.

firstly - If you don't like a fic then just close it.

Comment and talk to writers. Do rec lists to share fic. Make art for people's fic. Arrange prompts and games. Ask people who like it for requests. Send pleasant asks. Give praise.

i just think it would be really cool and sexy if Leon had moles and scars all over his body clap if you agree

Guards! Put the blond man in spandex in situations!

(also colt would make fun of him for being a prius owner)

SUCH A PRIUS OWNER. like a used 2013 model, specifically dark-blue. and i know he has some “i <3 science” and other punny stickers on his bumper to go along with his shirts. would be the most identifiable car in all of SF. but again he hates being labeled prius driver (such a baby about it by the way), so somehow you're stuck at the wheel every time you guys go out. and at this point, it's basically your car, under ryland's name.

he really does love being passenger princess, even though he'd rather die than admit it out loud. like, there's something very routinely and vaguely domestic he loves about being the one to carry the coffees into the car and put them into the cup holders and set the gps for you. will put your sunglasses on when it's too bright out. he is the ultimate passenger princess. and it's like his prius comes with a built-in science podcast to listen to because he's always telling you about new research papers that he's reading from the mollecular bio/astrobiology fields (of course, with additional opinions on whoever's writing them and how accurate they are).

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.