I can see the stars again my lady

Mish | 27 | Slovakia | Translator

[zer0caffeine]

Original post by @morallygrayautisticscientist here, this post was so funny I decided to draw it lol.

Panel by panel below:

[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.

[ivycryptid]

here's some weird project hail mary book stuff the movie skipped because it Didn't Want To Touch That:

they nuked antarctica ryland gets called a leaky space blob eridians culturally hate seeing others eat. viscerally. theres no edible food for ryland on erid so he has to eat these (synthesized!!) things he calls me-burgers. please guess what me-burgers might just be made out of. they paved over the sahara. to breed astrophage. grace forgot his name for the whole first... multiple chapters, and called himself: - bite me - Emperor Comatose (kneel before him) - The great philosopher pendulus stratt pirated everything ever (yes. Everything Ever) for the hail mary to have on board the computer and the un tried to sue her about it. they failed there's a panspermia subplot

[skapediem]

if it's any consolation, you'll be hailed as a hero

[primeministerofantarctica]

"ryland is rocky's dog" this "ryland is rocky's goldfish" that. ryland is a giant but extremely fragile and skittish creature that rocky keeps off property with an entire team of dedicated carekeepers. ryland is rocky's horse.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Maybe we saw the real shrimp colours this whole time.

[voskhodart]

Turning heavenward.

[i-merani]

[segamascott]

[azatas]

my dad's wildlife photography would do numbers on here

[azatas]

ok permission granted everyone look at this fat sandpiper

[dogpuppy]

[milkovichy]

[queerdnp]

[homunculus-argument]

I am no nutrition expert but I do have a pretty damn good track record of keeping myself alive, so I want to remind you all that "fed is best" also applies to adults. There's nothing you could eat (that has been deemed fit for human consumption, I don't mean asbestos you smartass) that would be worse for you than just straight-up not eating. No food is as bad as no food.

A protein bar isn't the best possible source of protein in your diet, but it's better than not getting that protein. Fresh fruits would be better than orange juice, but if your choices are between having the orange juice and not getting the vitamins at all, you drink the fucking orange juice.

If you were out at winter while barefoot, and your options were between wrapping random newspaper around your feet, or not having anything to protect your feet, you wouldn't think "newspapers are a worse option than proper shoes, therefore I shouldn't take this worse option" and go barefoot.

[depsidase]

[gaeliclass]

DO NOT COME TO THE US FOR TOURISM!!!!!!

U.S. to mandate checks of some tourists' social media history from past 5 years

Tourists from countries including Britain, Japan, France, and Australia will now be expected to provide their social media history to visit

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan

Plan would apply to countries not currently required to get visas to the US, including Britain and France

[woodsfae]

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Dragging myself out of my sick hole to say, don’t come here the next 1,133 days.

[pseudophan]

✋ stop this

[femboydaniel]

[otherwaybabe]

Dan is wrong in his insistence that calling Phil "babe," when used sarcastically and never before publicly in 16 years, doesn't constitutes as a pet name in the same way that he is wrong in his insistence that he and Phil don't share clothes.

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

The Quilt by Gerard Donelan 1988