nico

certified freak. ‎22 — he/him

[summeroflove-if]

Hi loves. Being honest with you again because that's the only way I know how to do this.

I'm short this month, like genuinely short. Council tax came back higher than expected (we'd been waiting to hear if we qualified for support, we don't, so the bill caught up with us) and I've got food to sort on top of that. I have about two weeks until payday and roughly £20 to my name right now.

So. Here I am again, hat in hand, trusting you with the unglamorous truth of it.

The good news is I'm properly setting up my Ko-fi in the next week or so, exclusive content coming for both one-off supporters and monthly subscribers. If you've been thinking about it, now's actually a good time, and it means a lot more to me than I can really put into words.

If you've ever gotten something out of Summer of Love, and you're in a position to help, my Ko-fi is https://ko-fi.com/summeroflove. Anything at all is genuinely meaningful right now. No guilt if you can't.

And if you can't, a reblog does more than you'd think.

[summeroflove-if]

Hi loves. Being honest with you again because that's the only way I know how to do this.

I'm short this month, like genuinely short. Council tax came back higher than expected (we'd been waiting to hear if we qualified for support, we don't, so the bill caught up with us) and I've got food to sort on top of that. I have about two weeks until payday and roughly £20 to my name right now.

So. Here I am again, hat in hand, trusting you with the unglamorous truth of it.

The good news is I'm properly setting up my Ko-fi in the next week or so, exclusive content coming for both one-off supporters and monthly subscribers. If you've been thinking about it, now's actually a good time, and it means a lot more to me than I can really put into words.

If you've ever gotten something out of Summer of Love, and you're in a position to help, my Ko-fi is https://ko-fi.com/summeroflove. Anything at all is genuinely meaningful right now. No guilt if you can't.

And if you can't, a reblog does more than you'd think.

[chatoyeer]

once again thinking about the valenreign wedding.... do you think it was more of a public or private affair?? did they get married through the church or the courthouse??? do you think they allowed paparazzi in???? if they didn't, do you think they crashed the wedding anyway??? what type of dress did victoria wear???? if g is griffin, do you guys think he wore a boring ass suit and called it a day or do you think he went w something more flashy/extravagant??? if g is gina, do you guys think she wore a classical dress or did she go more for a non-conforming attire??? did they write personalised vows???? how involved do you think they were in the process, like, do you think they picked out flowers and the menu and where each guest was supposed to sit or nah???? were both of their families there??? if they were, how tense was it?????? Ugh i want to know Everything

[bladeweave]

"they should be in a healthy relationship with good communication" they should be obsessive freaks who stalk each other and have zero boundaries

[molabuddy]

3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh

0 ours of sleep = waouw 🌼🌼🌼🌼🐎

[molabuddy]

we all need to take better care of our selfs or we might Pass away

[fauville]

anyway the best thing in the world is when queer people write interactive fiction

[macabrevampire]

i think avoiding everything is going to save me for real this time

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[finalgirlguy]

2026 is gonna be the year of banging your head against a wall. in 2027 maybe we can do other things

[capacity]

It’s funny when people don’t get it, they think u have bad taste. But they just don’t get it

[anak1n]

no rest for me and im not even that wicked ?

[fairycosmos]

music songs and lyrics. its just unbelievable

[fairycosmos]

theres even talk of albums. performances

[lettuce-tv]

don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.

[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.

[thelonelyshore-if]

( Or Patreon Launch might be more accurate, but I didn't want to make two banners. )

Howdy, everyone! I've decided to give this Patreon thing a try. Our first piece of bonus content is Willow's journal pages for the first week or so after MC nearly drowns.

As we go I may end up adjusting things, but for the moment our two tiers are:

New in Town - ($3/month) Includes monthly bonus content (side stories/povs/etc), a monthly devlog, and 2 week early access to new chapters.

Resident of Easthaven - ($6/month) Includes the bonus content & devlog, as well as a monthly Q&A, the ability to vote on next month's content, and 1 month early access to new chapters.

Thank you to anyone who decides to support me!! I'm nervous to take this step, but I'm very excited to get to share even more TLS with your all c:

You can find the Patreon: here

[greelin]

[AFTER REVEALING VERY TELLING PERSONAL INFO] But don’t read into that. let’s move along

[chatoyeer]

this is g around mc every time and that's just so funny to me

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

nobody “writes like ai” as long as they write, then they write. period. there’s no “writing like ai”. because by saying someone “writes like ai”, you’re implying that ai actually writes and that ai is the blueprint. but what ai does is mimic human-made works.

ai writes (aka they’re mimicking) like humans. not the other way around.

saying “this writer writes like ai” is the equivalent of saying “your work looks like those other works that copied yours”