[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

r u guys ok i haven't heard anyone say yeet in awhile

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

u guys used to love yeet...

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*sighs* this bitch really IS empty

[tall]

[moniquill]

[akashicrecord]

human pregnancy is so wild to me. like, you can just create another consciousness. and you can do it accidentally in the Cheesecake Factory parking lot

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

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!)

[weaselle]

[scorpionlafemme]

[enki2]

[1five1two]

[harlith]

[fairycosmos]

the first time i heard an adult say we all have to do things we dont want to do in life i knew i was doomed

[rustmarty]

[dogpuppy]

[chilewithcarnage]

[imjustanothergirlinasweate-deac]

im gonna be 50 on here still being like ive got a war in my mind i just ride

[lesbx]

this is by far the funniest jigsaw_quotes post i genuinely cannot stop thinking about the sight of like, jigsaw opening his wallet in the checkout line at the Death Trap Lowe’s and he has like two pennies and a dime in there. and he just sighs

[spaciebabie]

trauma therapy has been swell

[kosmogrl]

when you listen to a song for the first time and the lyrics deeply resonate with you