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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
Wen Kexing and his deadly fan.
Took me years, but I eventually figured out that being demi is why I rarely seek out erotica with original characters, but I adore well-written erotic fanfic between characters I already know and love. It's precisely because I already know and love them. Explicit fanfic can thus often do it for me much more easily than erotica in which I barely know the characters. (I do like erotic scenes in original fiction too, as long as we've had enough of a slow burn to allow me time to form a strong attachment.) Plus I've always gotten mad on the (fortunately rare) occasions we're accused of "fetishizing" with fics (or with my own novels), and now I finally get why: because it is always *these particular individuals* I'm into, thank you, not their sexuality or gender.
What is your opinion on using ChatGPT to help you write? I myself use it for moral boosters and when I'm doubting myself and ask it if something makes sense, nothing more as I'd never want a word of my novel to not be my own. But I've seen some hate online recently from writers saying that anyone who uses it at all isn't a writer? Which does make me awfully sad
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It's not hate – we're scared and frustrated. Not just for ourselves, because AI is a genuine threat to our livelihoods, but also for the next generation of writers, like you. It's going to be a lot harder to get discovered or published with AI-generated content flooding the Internet and the book market.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Meta trained Llama 3 on a massive body of pirated work. You can read more about it here. Meta employees knew this was morally wrong, but they did it anyway, because (1) they didn't want to pay anyone for the use of copyrighted work, and (2) they knew they could get away with it, and they have. They took our stories, born of real human experiences, and used them to feed something that's designed to be able to replace us. There are other reasons writers may be anti-AI, like the impact on the environment, but hopefully that gives you some context for why writers, specifically, are reacting to this so strongly.
You've said you wouldn't use ChatGPT to write your novel, which is great to hear. If you did, I would tell you that you weren't, in my opinion, a writer – just as I would never claim to be an artist if I used ChatGPT to create images, or a musician if I used it to generate a song. But I would also gently question why you feel like you need it to give you morale boosters or tell you if something makes sense. ChatGPT is not a human reader; unless you specifically instruct it not to flatter you, it will say what you want to hear. It isn't reacting to you, or to your story, with a human gut or a human heart. To me, any praise or encouragement it offers is empty. There's nobody and nothing behind it.
As for asking it to help you work out if something makes sense: I really do understand the temptation. I'm chronically ill, so I write at a slower pace than a lot of my colleagues, and it might help me churn out books faster if I asked ChatGPT to help me unpick a knot in the narrative, or fix a plot hole. But I don't want to surrender the ability to think and problem-solve for myself, and I would caution you against doing that – not just for the sake of your writing, but for everyday life. In this era of disinformation and propaganda, our ability to think, interrogate and analyse the world around us is more important than ever.
I can't stop you from using AI. But ask yourself: what would you have done before ChatGPT? Could you have figured out for yourself if something about your story makes sense? I think you definitely could have. It might have taken a bit longer, but you would have worked it out. I would encourage you to hold on to that ability. Cherish and nurture it. Rather than relying on artificial intelligence, trust your own.
All of this but I also want to add: OR ASK A FRIEND. MAKE FRIENDS AND THEN ASK FOR HELP FROM A HUMAN BEING. We're all so fucking scared of each other that we're turning to the hallucination machine to feed our hunger for connection, and ChatGPT can only give you a version of that which is utterly empty calories. It's like eating grass in a famine. Yeah, it'll fill your stomach so you stop hurting with hunger, but it won't nourish you, and it'll just make you sicker and you'll starve faster because your body will have to expend energy to try and fail to digest it.
Talk to other writers. Make friends. It's not rocket science, it's what a human being is wired to do. Just be kind and friendly and interested in other people and their writing, and they'll be interested in you and yours. And then if you can't figure it out, ASK FOR HELP. There is NOTHING wrong with asking for help. Asking for help is, in fact, a beautiful thing that will bring you closer together with a new friend. That's what you're sacrificing when you turn to ChatGPT for it -- you're losing out on the possibility of making a really profound, lasting, potentially lifetime friendship with another human being. You're missing out on something sacred and beautiful because you're impatient and scared and insecure.
Insecurity doesn't just vanish automatically. You have to file it down gradually over time, like filing your nails or sanding a piece of wood butter-smooth. You can do it. It is WORTH doing. It just takes some elbow grease.
Don't ask ChatGPT. Ask your new acquaintance, the one who you're like "ooh i don't know if we're good enough friends yet for me to ask for help..." DO IT. YOU ARE. DO IT. Experience shared humanity together! Open yourself to the possibility of connection! If you can't handle the small rejection of "ooh sorry, I can't, I'm at the grocery store right now and I've got errands the rest of the day," then you are ABSOLUTELY not cut out to have any kind of a writing career with bigger rejections than that. Build your muscles while you can, learn some resilience so that when you Make It as a writer, you're strong enough to survive the experience without being utterly annihilated.
The other thing that remains top-tier for noodling out a writing problem is to Take A Shower. Don't play music or listen to a podcast, just shower and let your mind wander and clean up some loose ends and I guarantee you'll come out of there cleaner and more inspired.
The two best solutions to figuring out a writing problem are and remain Friend and Shower.
You may have mixed results if you combine the two, but... Hm...
Sounds like a romance prompt to me!
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Happy Pride Month!
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)
In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.
I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!
From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!
I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.
Edit: Yes, this also works on mobile!
The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.
(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)
If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.
The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.
insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box
add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box
delete -> self explanatory
on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic
The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.
Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.
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A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕
Was there a need for this flirty smile, WYB? 😏
i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges
"Did you find it on the internet?" is back. "Did you google it?" is out.
The blooms at Tokyo Skytree.
Tokyo, Japan.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
IT IS DONE! The 94,000-word fic I wrote during the last year (instead of working on, say, a book) is 100% posted! It's wangxian, but if you like m/m contemporary romance with some magic, it should work fine for you even without canon knowledge. Enjoy, and do share and comment. 💜 (The final chapter has karaoke as a [silly] grand romantic gesture. There's just a lot of fluffiness to the whole fic honestly. It was the mood I needed.)
My friend wrote a book* and if you're into Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, but in a modern AU, go give it a look! (accidental rhyme)
* novel length fanfic
She has written many books, actually, which have been released in traditional paper format. Check those out as well by following her Tumblr.
Thank you, friend!! Also, lol that you, @astridellejo, of all people are spreading the word on this one, since we were in an act-a-thon together in high school (we needn't go into details...), and this fic centers around a university arts-a-thon that probably sounds suspiciously similar. The fic is not *about* that particular act-a-thon (in case you were deeply worried), but I did take the general idea of the event, put it in a university setting, and added in all kinds of other angles. Because, hey, it's an interesting fundraising idea, and theaters are fun!
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
IT IS DONE! The 94,000-word fic I wrote during the last year (instead of working on, say, a book) is 100% posted! It's wangxian, but if you like m/m contemporary romance with some magic, it should work fine for you even without canon knowledge. Enjoy, and do share and comment. 💜 (The final chapter has karaoke as a [silly] grand romantic gesture. There's just a lot of fluffiness to the whole fic honestly. It was the mood I needed.)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
IT IS DONE! The 94,000-word fic I wrote during the last year (instead of working on, say, a book) is 100% posted! It's wangxian, but if you like m/m contemporary romance with some magic, it should work fine for you even without canon knowledge. Enjoy, and do share and comment. 💜 (The final chapter has karaoke as a [silly] grand romantic gesture. There's just a lot of fluffiness to the whole fic honestly. It was the mood I needed.)
