Apr 15
Ilya, from Wolfbird, one of my favourite Hollanov fics 🥹
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Ilya, from Wolfbird, one of my favourite Hollanov fics 🥹
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Did u see that Lyft (yes the rideshare app) did a discount code for 🐺 🦜 fic when it surprise updated, only for the fic to be ai. I think that alone speaks volumes, who signs off on their fanfic being advertised to a million dollar ridesharing company?? It goes against the spirit of fanfic and just makes u feel like they are writing for clout and clout alone.
ANON IT IS FINALLY SAFE FOR ME TO RESPOND TO THIS ASK AND CAN I JUST SAY: WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK.
I told every single person in my entire life who stood still near me for ten seconds about this. This is CERTIFIABLY insane. I have never in my LIFE heard of a fic update with a fucking sponsorship. How did they swing this with Ao3?? That HAS to be a violation of the guidelines???
Oh fuck and then she was SHOPPING IT AROUND for tradpub!! Insane!! Your fic got a Lyft sponsorship and you think you're gonna file the serial numbers off??? Losing it!
As someone barely in the HR fandom/barely online as it is, I find the Opalapparition/Wolfbird AI controversy fascinating. As someone who witnessed the horrors of younger doctors/medical students utilizing/becoming dependent on AI in hospital (to the detriment of their clinical skills), the idea that an AI generated fic was almost traditionally published is....terrifying. AI does not belong in our literature. It does not belong in our learning processes. It does not belong in our education. It most definitely does not belong in fandom spaces. And I say this as a person who formerly worked in tech and quite literally studied AI algorithms more than a decade ago.
the only thing i have to say about opalapparition is the same thing i have to say about james somerton (and cassandra claire): this entire messy business could've been a lot more pleasant if they hadn't engaged in encouraging their fans to harass anyone accusing them of doing what they actually did.
remember, guys: any creator who asks you to enact their agenda by harassing someone has made the jump from creative to cult of personality.
whether they become cassandra claire or james somerton is 100% about how much they are able to make people continue enacting their agenda after they are caught.
plagiarists don't stop stealing after they are caught, they just get better at hiding it. if they were willing to do the actual creative hard work they would've just done it in the first place. if they had intellectual honesty they would've admitted it at the first instead of doubling down.
not only was opalapparaition getting fandom attention, but they also got an agent and a manuscript deal on our fucking backs. because of our attention.
an apology is nice, admitting it is nice, but in the end it doesn't change anything for me.
she was willing to capitalize on fandom attention to achieve real-world benefits while also not sharing any of those benefits with friends close enough to beta her to-be published work for free. while also not even finishing the story for fans.
don't let her become another cassandra claire when james somerton's path is the one she's earned.
Wolfbird by Opal Apparition, Ch. 12, annotated with AI evidence.
Summary: this fic struggles with point of view, human physiology, and interaction between human bodies. It does this to a degree that we believe is inconsistent with human authorship and is indicative of AI use.
EDITED TO ADD: Apparently the siege condom is a reference to something earlier in the fic that we didn't remember, so please disregard that one.
The issues with physicality and blocking are an issue on their own (simply put, when human writers mess up blocking, they don't do it this way), but it's especially notable because the spelling and grammar in this fic is impeccable, and in human-written fics, that suggests a very high level of care and attention to detail.
That level of care and attention to detail is very, very incongruous with gravity not working or Ilya having three hands. Spelling and grammar this pristine suggests that someone read it over carefully at least once, and probably several times--but in all those careful reads, they missed that Ilya has three hands?
The EPUB and PDF of Wolfbird, downloaded from Archive of Our Own on April 6, 2026, can be found here.
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getting back to back wolfbird and route 96 kanata updates really is just like asking "what if ilya busted his knee?" ...ah yes, I see, he would kill himself. "and what about if shane busted his knee?"...oh? he would kill himself faster. and going yes yes this tracks
I'm still so betrayed and heartbroken about Wolfbird. I loved that story so much. Even with the unnecessary verbosity Opal's writing felt visceral and aching and real. I hate the people who didn't vibe with it now acting like their taste was clearly too superior to be taken in like the rest of us poor plebs. I think she had real talent that the fucking plagiarism machine couldn't kill, and her stories would have been considerably better without all that clunky verbiage, which was my main gripe about her writing. Like, why would someone who can write and experienced in writing do this? What was the point? She wasn't even enjoying the fame because it was coming close to exposing her. And how can someone who can tap into the lonely isolation of the human condition choose to engage with it through the thing that most warps it and alienates us from human connection?
Part of me wants her to finish the fic regardless because I want to know what happens, but the other part of me can't bear the thought of continuing to engage with art killing fraudulence. This is what betrayal does. You realize all your emotional investment had had the currency of Monopoly money, and now you're stuck holding onto it like a fool with nowhere to put it and nothing to do with it.
Vesnushki
Quote from Wolfbird by OpalApparition
“‘Much better. Now I can see all these freckles.’ Rozanov’s thumbs traced up Shane’s sternum, following the scatter there like he was connecting dots only he could see. ‘Ty slovno chto-to, vybroshennoye iz kosmosa spetsial’no dlya menya. Zvyozdy.’”
