It is time to spread the love with our June 2026 Comment Bingo. Try and fill four in a row, column, or diagonal, or let all the creators out there know how much you appreciate them 🤍🩶🖤 and go for a full black-out!
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The comment prompts are listed in order of the grid (rows 1 through 4, columns A through D):
1A: user's first work
1B: a drabble (exactly 100 words)
1C: comment more than 100 words
1D: a work you have bookmarked or saved
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2A: written before canon (jossed)
2B: less than 500 hits
2C: non-fic (audio, art, poetry,meta,...)
2D: liveblog in comments
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3A: quote your favorite sentence
3B: a genre or trope you've never read before
3C: first comment on work
3D: one of oldest 20 works in a fandom or ship
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4A: anonymous work
4B: describe how it made you feel
4C: an old fandom of yours
4D: by user with less than 10 works
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Credit:
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wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts
your post about the hero enjoying mind control got posted to pinterest and surpassed the target audience. this person's response is frying me they got clowned on so hard
clearly theyve never seen anything this site has to offer
fascinating response. I'm curious what they think ethically about people writing villains?? I feel like my post was phrased in a way that makes it obvious I'm just playing toys here.
anyway reblog if you enjoy expressing monstrously evil desires on the public internet
idk guys sometimes you just have to accept a ship dynamic is unhealthy, insane, and sometimes abusive. and its not real people so those factors just make it interesting
please stop unfolding the origami crane and smoothing it out bc you got worried the paper was hurting from the bends
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
ANIMALS:
catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear
piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave
pluto-lichen: horses
misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like
pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially
SEX:
dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.
dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”
SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:
thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad
shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze
sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon
alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices
dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.
the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes
typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy
draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices
11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note
fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is
emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣
NON-FOOD STUFF:
red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.
bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket
nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English
sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp
danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author
meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does
vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'
leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake
fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?
dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic
msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate
shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September
baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird
twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)
waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up
violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours
purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.
We do like that the “if you’re writing a marginalized character and you’re afraid of doing a sterotype, add another contrasting person of the same demographic to the story!” is finally being presented as a way to reduce tokenism! But I’d also like to point out that, like any writing advice, whether or not it works for a given scenario is situational. For example;
A marginalized identity can have more than one associated stereotype. If you aren’t paying attention, you invoke dueling stereotypes.
You cannot keep adding characters to a work forever. Some works are genuinely better with smaller casts.
There are themes out there that benefit from having only a singular character as representation, like some stories exploring feelings of isolation.
Which isn’t to say that the original advice is wrong. Just that you need more tools in your pocket too, in case the one doesn’t work. Like;
Being willing to do some digging to find new or underappreciated angles to approach a trait from.
Making sure that a given character expresses interiority outside of their marginalized trait(s).
Remembering that a given character can have multiple marginalities, and also that those marginalities might interact.
We do like that the “if you’re writing a marginalized character and you’re afraid of doing a sterotype, add another contrasting person of the same demographic to the story!” is finally being presented as a way to reduce tokenism! But I’d also like to point out that, like any writing advice, whether or not it works for a given scenario is situational. For example;
A marginalized identity can have more than one associated stereotype. If you aren’t paying attention, you invoke dueling stereotypes.
You cannot keep adding characters to a work forever. Some works are genuinely better with smaller casts.
There are themes out there that benefit from having only a singular character as representation, like some stories exploring feelings of isolation.
Which isn’t to say that the original advice is wrong. Just that you need more tools in your pocket too, in case the one doesn’t work. Like;
Being willing to do some digging to find new or underappreciated angles to approach a trait from.
Making sure that a given character expresses interiority outside of their marginalized trait(s).
Remembering that a given character can have multiple marginalities, and also that those marginalities might interact.
I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.
I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.
And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?
Okay, so I don't spend a ton of time using these features, but more than a lot of people, because I'm in school and so I have to write papers, emails, etc. I thought I was going crazy because the suggestions just.. do not make any fucking sense. Increasingly over the past few years (started back to college in 2023), Word and Outlook are both making terrible suggestions, and I don't get it because I've been using Word since the late '90s and it has never been as bad as it is now...
Did they add AI to Micro$oft's products? I already turn off Copilot, but is there anywhere else to turn off AI?
Disabling copilot will turn off the generative AI features, mostly, but the problem isn't coming directly from generative AI. It is coming from where these grammar checkers are pulling their data from, because they are essentially crowdsourcing their data now, rather than relying on real, determined rules.
You CAN make it somewhat better in Word at least by going to File>Options>Proofing>Writing Style>Settings, which will open up this big long list:
Unchecking everything from the "clarity" and "conciseness" sections will get rid of A LOT of the suggestions that try to really change your voice. It won't fix a lot of the stupid ass suggestions it makes for other stuff, but it at least gets rid of a bunch of the distracting junk.
However, the settings never seem to stick for me so I have to go back in and check this list pretty often, sometimes even in one editing session where I haven't closed and reopened the document at all.
Yes, the spelling/grammar check has grown increasingly horrible, but Microsoft DID add AI a couple years ago and didn't tell its customers!
I have a shit computer and was wondering why Microsoft Word was basically unusable and it's because the AI takes up so much more processing power than normal, it was basically crashing my system.
BUT!
You can delete the AI without affecting the rest of the program.
Instructions under the cut cause they got long.
How to delete the AI assistant (in Windows):
Open your C: drive which can be found in "This PC" as OS (C:)
Then open the following folders:
Program Files
Microsoft Office
root
vfs
ProgramFilesCommonX64
Microsoft Shared
OFFICE16
AI
In the AI folder, there will be two application files called ai and aimgr. Delete both of those.
Unfortunately, every time Microsoft updates, these files will come back and need to be redeleted. I've saved myself time by adding the "AI" folder to my Quick access in the file explorer folder (on the left of the image below) so I can just click on it and delete the ai/aimgr every time I need to (which is pretty much every time I use Word).
This forum also has the instructions about how to delete the files if you scroll down https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4649157/outlook-how-to-disable-artificial-intelligence-(ai
On a related note, Microsoft 365 also started charging users more for a subscription
because they added the AI (that we didn't want). The only way to get the normal pricing back when you're up for renewal is to go into your online Microsoft account and basically go through the motions of cancelling your subscription and they'll offer you the old option.
Absolutely insane that we have to do this for a basic word processor...
