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Captured Drifter HC illust im not going to finish. After years of tireless tracking and many men lost, at the peak of his notoriety and power, Drifter was finally captured by the Venators. But his capture was almost too easy, as if he wanted to be caught...

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permian-tropos

I haven’t read pathologic fic in a while but there’s a suspiciously high word count on a lot of recent multi chapter projects and I know some people are authentically immensely prolific but also I instantly found a fic that I can tell is AI generated. it LITERALLY mangled the plot details of the events it’s recounting in the first paragraph and keeps doing it, every other sentence is a mangled and overwrought metaphor, and yes it does use the not X but Y construction constantly. that’s only the tip of the iceberg. overall it SEEMS to resemble pathologic fic but if you look closer it’s just creepily wrong

I want to name the fic and let people judge for themselves but I know a lot of people aren’t attuned to these tells and won’t believe me and will play devil’s advocate. really, I kind of want to go through the whole thing line by line and eviscerate it as a teaching tool

I’m not claiming I can detect all AI text I’m saying that I am absolutely certain of this. I am witch hunting right now. I know a witch when I see one. I don’t care about this author’s feelings. if you want to forsake your humanity why should I treat you like a human. your fic is a soulless amalgam of real patho fic authors’ work. how very dare you.

#squash it

stupidkreker

"And… not now, but still think about future cooperation with the Inquisition."

bachelor-dankovsky

there is a bit from the rock paper shotgun article that asserts, one of the few opinions id actually agree with which is that pathologic is not shallowly edgy, it is truly edgy in an adult way. (this is an opinion ive voiced before) and upon seeing the opinion stated back at me i would like to revise it somewhat.

pathologic is edgy in an adult and meaningful way, but it is also edgy in all of those shallow ways you can list. it's humour is at times offensive and deliberately plays with bigotry in its jokes, there is also the obvious inclination towards aesthetic edginess and references to alternative culture. pathologic is edgy in almost every definition of the word, shallow and deeply meaningful. i think there are so many ways pathologic fits the definition of edgy reducing it down to it's pure depth is less meaningful- it doesn't capture every aspect. pathologic is about being meaningfully edgy, yes. also, it is about aspity calling you bitchless. where would we be without the combat boots everybody wears in classic? we can't let the cultural perception of pathologic as deep and unapproachable overtake the simpler ways it can be enjoyed. the tonal flexibility of the text is what makes it deep, not the absence of anything simple.

#oh! i really like this #i think this is an idea that extends to other pieces of entertainment/art #that “shallow” things do add a lot of value. entertainment/catharsis/another way of communicating with the audience/indulgent in jokes