Oatmeal

[writingdose]

being a writer is

50% daydreaming about plots and writing

50% procrastinating/suffering during the actual writing process

[writingdose]

“oh. oh” in writing is a treasure. I will never stop using it and cherishing it.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

wake up babe new ao3 canonical tags are here

[writingdose]

things I won’t let ai take away from human writers

em dash

“not x, not y, but z”

short sentence stacking as a stylistic choice

none of these belong to ai. these are all what human writers have been writing since day one, way before ai was invented. ai was trained to mimic how human writers write — so em dash, not x not y but z and short sentence stacking would never have been used by ai at all if ai hadn’t learned and mimicked them from human writers.

no, you are not “fighting against ai” by accusing every work that has em dash, not x not y but z or short sentence stacking in it as ai-generated, you are helping ai harm the writing community by engaging in witch hunt and scaring human writers away from creating/sharing their works for fear of being wrongly accused of using ai.

speculations, accusations and ai witch hunt harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

[writingdose]

write it anyway even if you think it’s bad. a badly written fic is still better than a nonexistent fic.

[garpen]

"you already left kudos here"

And??? Let me like it again??? Clearly it deserves more??

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

there are fanfic writers who are: "I want to write about this prompt but other people have already done it before, unfortunately. I would have loved to write it 😢"

and then there's me who unapologetically writes about the same prompt, same trope (that has absolutely been written by other people before), same ship — in slightly different ways, at least 200 times in across 200 different fics of mine.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love ao3 exactly how it is and you don’t want it to “update” or change in any way♡

[oatmealbowl0]

normalize a hatred for drawing malik i know hector is like WAY shorter but i kind of messed it up while drawing the hair and got too lazy to go back. im so scared.

i had to take it upon my own hands to draw them because nobody would.

[oatmealbowl0]

if nobody makes more Hector amani/malik bruder art I will cry. this fandom is so dead but I need it so bad pls draw more hectik before I resort to doing it myself, and it wont be pretty