[dduane]

So this just happened over at Bluesky

Status report, "What Even Is My Work Life" dep't:

—Chopping carrots for beef stew (because there were none yesterday and there are now), while watching ski events in Livigno & noting background neighborhood: "I should run away to the mountains and become a chalet chef. That's work I could do."

Background brain, more or less immediately: COZY CHALET CHEF ROMANCE NOVEL! Foreground brain (while straining stock off simmering carrots & parsnips): Yeah, sure. (eyeroll) Background brain: …WITH WEREWOLVES! Foreground brain (while rummaging among herbs): Hmm. Background brain: ON SKIS!

FG brain: Oh, FFS, whoTF would read this?! BG brain: With hot werewolf coaches…! FG brain: … BG brain: AND WEREWOLF PHYSIOTHERAPISTS! FG brain (reaches for the pepper grinder): …Um. BG brain: And then it gets SPICY!!!!! FG brain: Um… Which PART of the Alps? 🤭

...So, seriously. If I wrote this, would you buy it?

Send me a sign. :)

[flowersorteapots]

[dragonmuse]

Just saw a post elsewhere arguing that if a fic is really long and published very quickly than it must be AI.

Y'all, some of us are just deeply ill in an occasionally very useful way, okay?!

[lastparty]

at this point i wish i could obliterate harry potter from cultural consciousness i hate hearing positive and even neutral references to it. find a new thing

[bangchansrailway]

Megalist of Magic School Stories for People Who Need to Find a New Thing

Classics A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin * Charmed Life by Dianna Wynne Jones* Sabriel by Garth Nix* The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss* So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane* Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce*

YA A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O'Brien* In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen* Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead* Legendborn by Tracey Deonn* Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender* Vicious by V.E. Schwab* Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams* The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater*

Adult A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik ^ The Magicians by Lev Grossman* Will of the Many by James Islington* Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle*^ An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson Vita Nostra by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko* To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose*^ The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson*^ Red City by Marie Lu^ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett* The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H. G. Parry Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Dark Academia (wherein the school itself isn't necessarily magic but magic happens at the school) Babel & Katabasis by RF Kuang Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake* Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo* A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid* (also fits under the Romantasy category) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh Bunny by Mona Awad* The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole Making History by KJ Parker

Romantasy The Ordeals by Racehl Greenlaw Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma* A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros^ A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson On Wings of Blood by Briar Boleyn Spellcaster by Jaymin Eve A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

*denotes a first book of a series

^ denotes YA-adult crossover appeal

This is by no means an exhaustive list so please add your favorites/recs

[my-castles-crumbling]

Me at age 13, exhausted at school after staying up all night to read fanfic: I can’t wait until I’m an adult and I can stay up reading without any consequences!

Me, an adult, exhausted at work after staying up all night reading fanfic: Fuck.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"it's not that deep" not yet but I've got a shovel and fan theories and digging makes great exercise!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"its's not that deep" it WASN'T but babe im delighted to report the Fandom has come together to mine a cavern system

[flowersorteapots]

source: this post

Fans think like-minded :)

[daydreamerdoodles]

Hey. I think I hate you.

[daydreamerdoodles]

Hey. I really hate you.

[oifaaa]

actual scum a reminder to all the real fanfic writers out there that you are appreciated and id rather read a fic that was written by a human being with passion behind it then ai generated slop any day of the week

[scribbleboxfox]

If someone plagiarizes your fic on AO3 using AI, you can report them using this form.

I'm pretty sure in this particular instance, this falls under the AO3's rules against plagiarism:

II.E. Plagiarism Plagiarism is the use of someone else's words, or their expressions of their ideas, without attribution. Minor alterations (such as replacing names, substituting synonyms, or rearranging a few words) are insufficient to make a work your own. Plagiarism is not allowed. Deliberately creating a work using the same general idea as another work is not plagiarism, but citation may be appropriate.

Something to keep in mind, because this isn't the first or last time something like this is going to happen.

[hostilecandle]

If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.

If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform

None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.

THIS GOES DOUBLY FOR ARTISTS.

[hodari-pavels-good-boy]

Posting this here from my main too bc I feel that strongly about it

You dont get to witch hunt and scour peoples work just frothing at the mouth hoping someone messes up so you can publicly humiliate and gang up on them. Fuck genai and every single poser and lover that uses it but if you are not 1000000000% certain that something is made with it you shut. the. fuck. up.

Pathetic loser behavior on display here

[mintedwitcher]

I'm about to get mean because this shit? this pisses me all the way off.

"hurr durr these very common writing practices are SUPER OBVIOUS AI TELLS!!!!!!!!!! obviously this is an AI invention and not the result of AI being trained on THOUSANDS OF REAL FUCKING STORIES!!!!!!! we're all very intelligent!!!!!!!"

I hate yall. I hate yall for fucking ruining fanfic with your goddamn motherfucking AI obsession. "ooh there's em dashes!" YEAH REAL WRITERS USE THOSE. "there's long paragraphs!" YEAH BECAUSE THATS HOW PEOPLE WRITE STORIES.

we're not "writing like AI" - AI is writing like us, because it fucking stole from us in the first fucking place.

I've never used AI in my work, not ever, but guess what, my fics are ALL written like that. long paragraphs, long sentences, em dashes and hyphens and other grammatical tools, because I fucking know HOW TO WRITE.

quite frankly, if you think these things are "genAI inventions" you're just telling the world that YOU DON'T READ ENOUGH.

[thatdisasterauthor]

And you don't put spaces around em dashes???

[thebibliosphere]

Right???? Like, tell me you don't read books or know English grammar rules without telling me you don't read books or know English grammar rules and are trying to use it as a gotcha for people who do know what they're doing.

Fuck outta here.

(Also, yes, you'll see spaces around em dashes in journalism, but for fiction and academia, it is the expected norm to not have spaces. Some people add spaces out of personal preference, but the expected norm in fiction is no spaces.

Now, if you're using an en dash, those should have spaces, but em dashes and en dashes are not the same thing!)

[the-real-seebs]

i remember seeing someone confidently claiming that the word "delve" was unique to llms, and my friend, you have clearly never played old-school RPGs or you'd have read grimtooth's traps at least once and you would not say that shit.

seriously, remember this: llms are trained on text that was, for the most part, written by humans. everything they're doing with em dashes or whatever is something they're doing because humans did it often enough for them to learn it.

[moondrunklesbian-deactivated202]

You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad

[moondrunklesbian-deactivated202]

This post is cancelled, I have found a new book and everything is all right again

[moondrunklesbian-deactivated202]

By Talos this cannot be happening

[prof-grace-aspen]

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

[tshmarie]

An equal and opposite truth:

The actors, directors, writers, etc that create this characters are people.

They are real. They exist independent of the characters and your opinions. You have no right to them, their opinions, or their relationships. They have no responsibility to you. You cannot force them to follow your fantasy.

[prof-grace-aspen]

THIS is a good addition.

[scottbaiowulf-deactivated201805]

Male writers writing female characters:

“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”

[m1ssc0mmun1cat10n]

‘ She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards’ is the greatest fucking sentence I have ever read.

[silly-activites]

THE ORIGINAL??

[willisiam-woodiam]

THAT’S WHERE IT CAME FROM??

[littlefeatherr]

[salvadorbonaparte]

concept for a tv show: a cute simple love story between an assistant and a chauffeur or bodyguard or whatever else rich people have and in the background the rich people are having the wildest telenovela level drama that we only catch glimpses of

[still-bejeweled-and-shining]

(Flustered assistant) "So... do you want to go on a coffee date?" (Very flustered bodyguard) "I'd love to!"

(While they're looking at eachother cutely, we hear a woman screaming in the background "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CHEATED ON ME WITH MY BROTHER???" . Then somebody jumps off a window)

[salvadorbonaparte]

Exactly you get me

[3liza]

unironically i love this website and the people who post here because like 4% of them are even more pedantic and specialized in their knowledge bases than i am, and they are ALL HATERS. these are my people, sincerely. i support them uncritically even though all of us are REALLY annoying

[quendergeer]

if you just want your effete dilettante twink to have an emotionally distant servant who brings him tea after fucking him then the term you are looking for is VALET

[quendergeer]

if the setting is military and you want to really fuck with the A03 tags then the term is BATMAN

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[tenderwatches]

now for all your bodily perception needs

[dreamwatch]

How am I only just learning this!?

[livingmeatloaf]

[ID: a cropped screenshot of the AO3 Exclude filter section, reading "Other tags to exclude". "*/reader" and "*/you" have been selected. End ID.]

[westiec]

Wait

[ID: cropped screenshot of the ao3 include filter, reading "Other tags to include:" with "*/James "Bucky" Barnes" selected. /end ID]

IT WORKS

Is this new???? I've been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham...

[mysteryteacup]

helpful info for those who need it

[shrinkthisviolet]

Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[nanenna]

“But if the dialogue is being interrupted-” She cut in front of the speaker to finish for them, “The dash goes inside the quote.”

“And sometimes a character goes on a long monologue, so long it may need to be broken up into smaller paragraphs for easier reading. In that case don’t put an end quote. “But do put a beginning quote at the beginning of the next paragraph.” She paused as if in thought, “Unless it’s broken up with action. Then simply carry as normal.”

[randomishnickname]

One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

[inimitably-ineffable]

Not to mention the plot tropes.

“I don’t think the Highschool AU is going to come in too strong this year. Fandoms a touch jaded for that. But the hurt/comfort is growin’ thick as weeds and twice as fast. It’ll be a good harvest, fer sure.”

[mx-incognito]

@cynaram

[cynaram]

“I hear over at [neighbouring fandom] they’re putting the top field into fix-it fics.”

“Yes, ‘twould be.  They had a hard season last year, a right hard season.” 

[explorerrowan]

“You think I ought to plant a little Sailor Moon Wild West AU? Don’t know if anything would come of it. Might not make it to harvest.”

“Won’t know until you plant it, will you?”

[fieldbears]

“Ah, a heritage crop.”

[captainclickycat]

The shipping forecast.

[romanticalgirl]

The Fandom Almanac

[nyansense-the-nyanbinary]

“I think I’m going to sow some rarepairs this season. Don’t know what the market for ‘em will be, but I can eat ‘em if nobody else wants to.”

[bebx]

[ladyananas]

so im hearing @astolat is god??? what's your 10 commendments my liege

[astolat]

You shall seek out and enjoy art (which fanfic is) that gives you pleasure

You shall not feel guilty for spending time on art

You shall comment when you can with joy

You shall share the art you find that makes you happy

You shall not envy the size of your neighbor's fandom or pairing

You shall support your fellow fans in making art that makes them happy even if it is not to your own taste

You shall make art of your own to your own taste

You shall love your art however imperfect because it is yours

You shall share your art in whatever way you can with joy

You shall not covet your neighbor's hits or comments or kudos

My best stab! lol