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♡⃞ ཐི♡ཋྀ ꨄ︎. ˚. ྀིྀི୧❤︎୨ ྀིྀི.˚ ⠀

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♡̸ 𓆩♡𓆪 ♡⃘

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❀ ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚. ✿ 𖤣

❁ 𖥧 𖡼 ⚘

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⚜ ✽ ✼ ✻

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★ ✦ ✢ ✥

✧ ❂ ❉ ✯

✸ ✵ ❇ ≛

⛤ ✫ ✬ ✪

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𓊆 ❀ ⁎⁺₊ ཐི♰ཋྀ ₊⁺⁎ ❀ 𓊇 ˚꒷︶꒷꒥꒷‧₊˚

˚꒪ ♬‧꒰ა 𓂋 ໒꒱༝⁺.𝄞 ཐིཋྀ₊˚*:ꔫ:*｡ꕥ˖°

𝝑⋆₊˚⊹♡⋆౨ৎ˚. ✿˖°. ݁ ˖୨୧₊❀

As we approach the Winter Solstice, I wanted to share my playlist called Behold, the Sun! It tells the story of the Sun God — ever-youthful, ever the hopeful "fool," ever-self-sacrificing — who is reborn of a morning and carried unto Death on the back of his lover, the Evening Star, son of the Moon and psychopomp. There, he rejoins with his Shadow, god of the Otherworld, to reclaim his radiance just in time for Dawn.

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!)