he is half of my soul, as the poets say.

ally | she/they | 25+| 🏳️‍🌈 | pagan | green witch | pendragon at heart | amateur writer, professional daydreamer.

[writingdose]

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

[castielstiel]

[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.

[schweetheart]

yet another post on my dash lamenting that writers can no longer use xyz thing because AI has "stolen" it and I just.

guys. can we please be for real right now. I am not changing the way I write because of some fucking machine. I was here first. AI can fucking change if it doesn't want to be confused with me, end of story.

[saladscream]

It is amazing, disheartening, but not altogether surprising that there'd be so many well-intentioned but ill-informed people out there who still don't understand that AI is copying us. Mimicking us. Everything it "knows" it got from us. The long paragraphs? Ours. The vocabulary? Well yeah, we invented the fucking words. The infamously incriminating em dash? That's us. WE use that!

::sigh::

Also, I love the Chuck Norris vibe.

[atdawn]

MERLIN | 2.02 The Once and Future Queen

[knighteirian]

Merlin & Arthur Pendragon BBC MERLIN (2008–2012) 1.02 "Valiant"

[fredweazley]

[gvaine]

[calefies]

I'm a blacksmith's daughter, remember?

MERLIN | 3x07 The Castle of Fyrien

[16th-of-a-twigg]

BBC Merlin but make it the Nosferatu poster 🌓 Ko-Fi

[tvandfilm]

Merlin The Once and Future Queen | 2.02

[nextstopparis]

all the times I let you in, just for you to go again. x

[thebookluvrr1816]

I wanted to wake him and see those eyes open. - The Song of Achilles for @merthurmicrofic | prompt : wake

[thebookluvrr1816]

I wanted to wake him and see those eyes open. - The Song of Achilles for @merthurmicrofic | prompt : wake

[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.

[brolinskeep]

“What do you think?”

merlin rewatch 2019 - 3x01

[klimtsonian]

“And what kind of king would Camelot want?” 🏰⚔️🐉