No Happy Endings Here

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Did you have an imaginary friend when you were younger? Describe them. 

What’s your comfort show?

Whose podcast would you want to be a guest on?

What was your first ship/OTP?

What was the first fanfic you ever read?

Do you talk to yourself? How often?

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

What do you want to be when you grow up now?

Tell me a piece of gossip.

What is an act of kindness you have never forgotten?

What is a childhood quirk you never grew out of?

What is your favorite drink?

What is your favorite snack?

Describe your first crush.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Do you have any phobias?

What’s something random/odd that you find hot/attractive. 

What is your favorite flower?

What do you smell like?

Describe yourself how your love interest would describe you in a book.

If you were a main character in a romance book/movie/show, what tropes would you want associated with you?

If you could bring back an extinct species (with no major consequences) what would it be?

Do you think Atlantis was real?

What hobby/activity do you keep saying you’ll take up when you retire?

how many posts are in your drafts right now [*whispers* post one]

What’s an achievement big or small that you’re really proud of?

Do you have any recurring dreams? What are they?

What would be your death row/last meal? (no limits)

What is a book/story from your childhood that has stuck with you?

What are your top 5 most used emojis?

What celebrity do you feel like you could realistically be friends with?

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.