That Unicorn Looks Happy, Eh?

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.

The Beekeeper Who Cried “John!”

John! John! by ShirleyCarlton (explicit)

Sherlock cried “John! John!” one too many times, but didn’t live to regret it. At all.

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For @priestofthepremise lovely fic:

Above is a sneak preview of two (of many!) beautiful vulcan script translations by the talented @jennelikejennay for TZD, our print K/S fanzine. Ordering begins soon, so don't miss out: Follow @the-zine-directive for updates!

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Most of you probably know the talented @jennelikejennay (she/ish-veh) from her fanfiction, but we asked her to join us for an entirely different talent... her understanding of the Vulcan language, both in script and transliteration! Our very own universal translator... or at least a darn good Vulcan one 😏 We just know she and Lieutenant Uhura would have a lot to talk about and are incredibly thankful for all she did for TZD 🫶

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✴︎ Most important question: Kirk, Spock, or Bones?

Spock.

✴︎ What is your “specialty?”

Taking kinks and making them soft and tender.

✴︎ What is something you've made that you're particularly proud of and why?

My fic A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By was just a way of combining some of my biggest interests, but it turned out so much more than that. I'm very proud of it.

✴︎ How has it felt to be a contributor in a fanzine?

I feel in continuity with the past. So many of my obsessions have been solo endeavors. This comes with a community that's been going on for sixty years.

✴︎ What does K/S mean to you?

It's the devotion..... being such a unique person that you can never find your match, then finding the one person who truly understands. Of course you'd be devoted!

✴︎ Anything else we should know about you?

I also write novels. They are not what you'd call popular but I am very proud of them.

✴︎ Where can people find you?

Tumblr | AO3

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Thank you so much @jennelikejennay! See more of our contributor spotlights here!

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Fic written by emmagrant01, which you can read here. This 5+1 fic does have a NSFW ending, which will be limited to Patreon. But the comic and fic itself can be enjoyed in its SFW version which will be posted in full on Tumblr and Twitter. $1 Patrons will be several pages ahead and all other patrons will be an additional page ahead. This comic will update Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please enjoy!

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Late night kisses ♡♡♡

Kiltlock commission for my wonderful Patsy aka welovethebeekeeper !

what men hear: “I have no idea whatsoever, but here’s a totally random guess”

what you say: “I’m not an expert on this subject”

what men hear: “I don’t know anything about this subject and need its bare fundamentals explained to me”

what you say: “I could be better read in this area”

But there are men in my life who I respect, who I think are generally good communicators, but who have admitted to me that if they do not know the answer to something they will just state their best guess in a confident tone of voice, with no hedging or clarification to warn the listener that what they just said was pulled from their ass.

I once asked my high school boyfriend what noise a platypus makes and he confidently told me "oh they quack" and I said "really? that seems like they'd have different noise-making structures than ducks since they're not birds" and he said "oh yeah you're probably right. I was just guessing." And had no idea why I was mad! I was like, so if I ask you a question you might just bullshit me?? What if I had believed you and gone and repeated that to other people? I could have looked like an idiot. I could have spread misinformation to a ton of people! But I have told that story to other men and had them say "oh yeah I totally do that."

Hi friends!! Just want to make quick note to anyone who attended either the Canadian @ficwritersretreat or the @europeanficwritersretreat this year, and you have posted up your fics either on AO3 or Tumblr, I'm interested in helping promoting your fics again this year in a Fic Rec Sunday post! I'm not sure what the tag is this year for fics, so I haven't been able to find them on my own.

If you'd like to promote your story that you either tweaked, started or jotted down during a Flash Fic session, please send me a DM, a submission (where you can copy-paste stories into if you'd like), or an ask with the link to the fic(s), and I will compile them all into a list for 2026, similar to last year's list. THIS IS FOR ANY FANDOM, ANY PAIRING and CAN BE FOR ORIGINAL STORIES AS WELL (as I believe AO3 does allow original fiction to be posted on there too).

And if I get no submissions, well, at least I tried, LOL 💜