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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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NASA
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Three Goblin Art
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TVSTRANGERTHINGS
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Jules of Nature
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@allieisdone
a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.
how i sleep knowing i write shitty fiction but at least don’t use chatgpt
Me at 13: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”
Me at 17: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”
Me at 21: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”
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!)
MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION
my daily affirmation as an author
Not only is having worldbuilding threads that are mentioned once and never picked up again not a flaw in fantasy media, I'd go so far as to say that a lack of such threads is a flaw. If everything ties up in one neat little package, you're missing the point of fantasy worldbuilding. Like, don't do it on every page, or your setting is going to be an overstuffed mess, but every so often you are not only allowed but obligated to casually drop some utterly batshit worldbuilding detail and then just never follow up on it. Maybe some rocks are sentient. You don't owe your reader an explanation. Just fucking go for it.
Reunion/Reconnecting Masterpost
Reunion Dialogue Reactions
Rekindling Friendship Dialogue
Not Wanting to Rekindle Friendship Dialogue
Reconnecting Friends Prompts
Reunion - Getting Back Together
Second Chance Trope
Exes to Lovers Prompts Part I
Exes to Lovers Prompts Part II
Exes to Lovers Dialogue
Getting Back Together Prompts
Reactions to... someone returning who should've stayed away
supporting the shane as snoopy agenda
[ilya as woodstock], [ilya as woodstock pt. 2]
To all my lovely writers who haven't made it to that one specific scene yet. You know, the one that is the whole reason why you wanted to write this in the first place. Still not quite there yet.
You ever be enjoying an OC and then you pinpoint the subconscious thing that influenced them 😐
7 June 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
E (2018), dir. Anna Malina Zemlianski
claire’s
"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.
six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.
point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but it won't build you the the muscles.
