Brain is AFK

Ramblings and observations from a brain that isn't always quite there. Chronically exhausted queer socialist. Veilguard defender. I think about ocs too much.

[girldickdotcom]

they should invent a job that doesn't affect your schedule or energy level that you don't have to go to if you don't want but you still get paid

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[mikanseinic]

“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

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.

anyway. fuck ai.

[totallyjustabunchofhocuspocus]

I can definitively prove that every single "marker" of AI has been present in my writing since the year of our Lord nineteen fucking ninety seven. Fuck AI.

[brainisafk]

Ay'lhia is level 50. \o/

I have been slightly distracted bc I wanted to make a Kul Tiran druid, and she has been trying to take over my brain (as usual >.>). I keep forgetting to get screenshots but once I remember I will show her off. >.>

(Also she has informed me she would like to flirt with Kyn so now I am having Thoughts. Darnit guys. >.<)

Zuuluu's DF mining has reached the point where rich/elemental nodes are the only things giving skill points, and those only maybe half the time. I am severely tempted to just leave it for now bc I am so tired of mining. >.<

[poppunkyogaparty]

I'm not built for a 9 to 5. I'm built to wander in the woods and stare at a lake.

[jame7t]

I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself

[portraitoftheoddity]

The problem with having OCs is that sometimes you wanna read about your little guy being in situations but unfortunately he is YOUR little guy and no one is gonna put him in that situation but you. Tragic.

[nostalgic-teddyy]

Imagine the level of whimsy I could reach if I just had $5M in my bank account rn

[bidet-of-evil]

there are two wolves inside me. one wants to write and the other wants to nap. they’re both in a cage called My Job.

[digivolvin]

pining is 100000% the most important aspect of pre-relationship fic for me. good-natured whole-hearted pining filled with lovelorn gazing and chest aching and fluttering touches, that’s my top priority. i was put on this earth to watch characters suffer over the profundity of their love for another person. unrequited love is why god made me. characters finding out that their feelings are reciprocated after long months/years of suffering is why the universe was assembled from nothingness. amen.

[brainisafk]

Koza has finished with the blue dragonflight and now I need to go sit in my feels for the next two days or so. >.>

He's 79 already. I'm beginning to consider turning off his xp just until he's done with TWW stuff. >.<

[lannegarrett]

[brainisafk]

Koza is still helping Kalec round up blue dragons but he's almost done so maybe he can wrap up the DF storyline soon? Maybe? Idk I should really try to look this stuff up. >.>

He's also up to 76 already and depending on how close I'm feeling to burnout he might just skip TWW and go straight to Midnight once the others are caught up. Idk. Decisions, ugh.

[weavingshaw]

not to get sentimental on main but i truly love being on tumblr with all of you i love scrolling through my dash i love everyone i follow i love everyone who follows me i love all my mutuals even if we’ve barely spoken i love the simplicity of blogging i love seeing people lose their minds over books and shows and movies and characters i love that everyone is so unapologetic about their interests i love the sense of community that i feel on here

[brainisafk]

I have just discovered the batform sleeps.

!!!!!!!!

[vithcy]

How it feels to post about your ocs even though only 2 people care about them

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.