constantly emo over fictional characters & tswift songs

andi | she/her | queer 🏳️‍🌈 | twenty something | gratuitous user of the em dash and adverbs | i write things something i guess | icon created by the wonderful kidovna

[andiwriteordie]

i love browsing through ao3 for a nice little morning fic to read and then finding that someone has plagiarized one of my works 🥲

[andiwriteordie]

Hi everyone. So, I made a decision a couple years ago when AI was on the rise to lock all of my AO3 fics in hopes of protecting my work from being used without my consent and fed to AI. While it wasn't a guarantee that my work would be protected, it felt like a better alternative than a worst case scenario of removing my stories from AO3 completely.

When ST5 came back around, I decided to go ahead and unlock my stories again as the fandom grew. I wanted the works to be available to anyone and everyone who wanted to read them.

Unfortunately, with finding that someone has blatantly stolen excerpts from one of my longest and most popular works, I’m going to go ahead and lock the stories that are solely written by me. Please be aware that you will have to have an AO3 account to read my fics from here on out, and please let anyone else know that if they’re unable to find one of my stories!

The last thing I’ll say is this: fandom spaces are such a special thing. Fanfic writers often have lives outside of this hobby, but we do it out of our own passion for storytelling and our love for the fandom. We create for free and share our stories with the world because we love to do it. I know I have personally spent many hours crafting the stories I share with all of you, and for the plagiarized story in particular, this is one that’s dear to my heart due to it being an exploration of grief. I wrote that story as a way to process what I was feeling in the aftermath of a deeply personal loss and to help people do the same.

To steal another person’s work is unacceptable, and it is a symptom of the larger issue of disrespect that our fandom in particular has for its authors.

It’s okay to be inspired others’ art. It’s okay to create things that are based on the same ideas and themes that are floating around the fandom! But what isn’t okay is taking someone’s work, making a couple small changes, and claiming it as your own.

I’ve already reached out to the author and won’t be naming the story or the author specifically, so please don’t ask about that. Otherwise, thank you for all the love and support from everyone who’s ever read one of my stories, and thanks for getting through this long ass post. I’m going to lock my stories later when I have my laptop, so please be aware and let anyone know if they’re looking for something of mine. ❤️

[andiwriteordie]

finished binging bridgerton finally and the urge to write a byler regency au inspired by s4 grows stronger with each passing hour

[domi--mi]

yearn white boy, yearn

+ lumax being 100% over it before it even properly started

[jemcvrstairs]

real karma is that the only memorable scene of season 5 is the ending of sorcerer

[domi--mi]

the weekly tavern argument (powerscaling Will and El)

[wiccanlytalented]

Will the Wizard Sorcerer

[lovelyfinn-deactivated20260423]

[wickeddreamerr]

Mike probably will start looking at Will even longer and more carefully because he doesn’t wanna miss any changes about him since he missed a very big part of his identify

[loserrsquad]

i promised i would draw will next. ehehehhe

ngl i really see the vision now

ok but i’m still gonna draw figure skater mike at some point

ok bye

[ceremonyn087]

mwah! queue lovesong by the cure

[mikewheelerisaqueerler]

THIS is will byers never found reunion, change my mind

[mikewheelerisaqueerler]

do NOT mistake will byers for a wizard in front of this guy unless you want to see unspeakable things

[bbluesidess]

omens and cycles

another bravebyers and wheelwise comic because I’m still obsessed with this concept

[hona-hona]

❤️✨ a whole bunch of cleradin i did for merch!

[thewisewill80sbyers]

Will Bunny Byers

[loserrsquad]

still thinking about this drawing i made before the catastrophe that was volume 2 and 3 💔

unfinished but i can feel the post volume 1 high in my soul bro. suffer brothers when i catch you

[elcorhamletlive]

also, beyond, again, the environmental cost which is the same whether you're using it to fool your teacher or to get 1000 kudos on ao3, generative AI fic has a horrible ripple effect in fandom environments because humans do not create at the same speed as machines. a LLM can generate a 10k fic in seconds. a person will take hours, at the very least, to write all of that, and that's if they are a fast writer, and it's not even counting the time they will have to spend thinking about what happens, or revising, or angsting over a specific line of dialogue or plot twist.

and if AI fics continue to be generated at inhuman speeds, and thus gathering praise much faster than an actual creator ever could, you end up with an environment where it's very easy to feel discouraged to do the work of creating something yourself! fandom is a community, and people create for interaction. what happens when young people start to believe the only way to get this interaction is by making content at a faster rate than they're capable of?

I've already seen fanartists complaining that they will post something they drew and get a ton of comments just saying "more," because our collective attention spans are also fucked and so people want to consume stuff as fast as they can and then toss it aside and move on to the next thing. if you normalize using gen AI for fandom content, this will become a hundred times worse. creators, especially the younger ones, will feel like they have to use AI just to keep up. and by the time you wake up and look around you've turned a space that used to be all about human creativity into a soulless, sterile landscape of slop.