Abandon All Reality, Ye Who Enter Here

Tara • INFJ • 22 • Writer (AO3) Fanfiction enthusiast Star Wars ~ Marvel I love all things reading and writing Accepting requests

[imposterogers]

the worst part is steve rogers WOULDN’T. he wouldn’t leave sam with the responsibility of the shield without being there to support him. he wouldn’t go back to a woman who died of old age, had her own life and told him to move on. he wouldn’t have ever, not even once, considered leaving bucky — aka his entire world wrapped up in one person — alone, especially after just getting him back. and he wouldn’t have decided that he’d fought the good fight enough and retire in suburbia in the decade epitomes for traditional values aka an antitheses to everything he stood for. the real steve rogers would legitimately hate the man marvel put on the screen in endgame. and yet. and yet

[readingupsidedown]

Okay so I have a conscious bias against ChatGPT. I’m of the Aurthur Weasley school of mind that you should “never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” It just weirds me out, call me crazy I guess. But I do very much dislike AI being used to create “art” whether it’s music, illustration, or the written word. I know a lot of people on here share that dislike.

That being said, I’m an incredibly curious person, so tonight I broke down and decided to play around with ChatGPT-written fanfiction (NOT to post, just to see what it came up with. I would never post AI fanfiction). I gave it a pairing and asked it to write me a scene. I’m going through a Marvel phase, feeling nostalgic, so I gave it Steve and Darcy. ShieldShock was an old favorite of mine.

The scene it came up with was Darcy and Steve in Steve’s apartment watching Brooklyn 99. It’s the stereotypical fic of Darcy introducing Steve to the 21st century. It’s been done a lot. THAT BEING SAID. I will happily read hundreds of fics based off of that trope. I love it. I adore it. And here’s the thing: every author has a slightly different take on the dynamic, and that’s what makes it something I’ll read over and over again. The soul that people infuse into the characters, the scenario, the whole story. The thing ChatGPT pumped out? Yeah that had absolutely zero soul. The characters were flat, and while the story mimicked the trope well, that’s all it was: mimicry. It just missed the mark so totally and completely. If I read it on AO3 I would 100% know it was an AI-generated fic just because there was absolutely no humanity. It was utterly lifeless.

And the kicker was that after the little scene it wrote, it asked me if I wanted it to write a blurb for AO3. Like it was expecting someone to take that scene and post it. No thank you.

I’m fully aware that outrage in this topic is far from new, this post will be news to absolutely no one, but I felt the need to come on here and rant because I just find it so infuriating for so many reasons.

Now I’m off to read and possibly write some WinterShock because my souls needs a balm 😅

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Im randomly on an Avengers kick, and the way Steve gets sassy when he’s mad has me WEAK

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Is anyone else losing their mind that we’re getting a literal Maul tv show??? Just me???

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You know you’re a nerd when you’re reading a wonderfully written fanfiction and cringing because the author misspells a word in Mando’a.

[reader6898]

Did I expect to watch Twisters and not fall in love with Tyler Owens? Yes. did I come out of the theater in love with him? Absolutely 🤭😌

[readingupsidedown]

We left the theatre and I looked at my sister-in-law and said “Okay, don’t take this in a creepy way because I adore my husband [her brother] but the only way that character could have been more my type is if Glen Powell wasn’t blond.”😂

We then proceeded to go home and rent Anyone But You and it’s been a very long time since I laughed that hard during a movie.

[djarins-cyare]

So today is Mando Monday, and it’s also the day that my fic, Be-All And Endor, has reached 1,500 kudos on AO3!

I’m still stunned it’s received this much attention, but it brings me such a sense of purpose to see people enjoying the story and taking time out to indulge in the little scenarios I wrote.

So thank you to everyone who helped me to reach this milestone; your support has been truly life-changing and means more to me than you will ever know 🧡💚

[readingupsidedown]

Be-All and Endor is genuinely one of the best works of fanfiction that I have ever read. It is the work that won me over to reader-insert fics. Jem’s thoughtful writing regular paints pictures, her characters are vibrant and realistic, the plot adds an originality that allows it to stand out in the fandom, and the pacing is flawless. This fic deserves so much more recognition than it’s gotten - I’ve read countless published works that are drastically inferior, and I don’t believe Jem even had a beta (I could be wrong there, I just don’t remember there being one). If anyone out there likes Star Wars - specifically The Mandalorian- and hasn’t read Be-All and Endor, run don’t walk!

Also as a fun little bonus, the chapter notes always have definitions/explanations of SWU terms and phrases, so a complete Star Wars newbie can keep up without feeling lost.

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

Casual reminder that Hunter is LITERALLY the person who brings a knife to a gun blaster fight.

What makes this even funnier? In this scene, Anakin says "Hunter, hold them off," and Hunter's response is to drop the blaster he's holding in exchange for his knife.

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“That’s not a knife, THIS is a knife.”

Guys he even has the accent for it I’m dying🤣

[lordfarquuuad]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 42/? Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Darth Maul/Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul & Ahsoka Tano.

Hey guys its here! Thank you for being patient and waiting <3

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Everyone remain calm, this is not a drill!

*breathes into a paper bag*

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Why is no one talking about the fact that the villain in The Acolyte can’t be a Sith? Obviously, the Sith still existed during this era, but the Jedi didn’t know that. In TPM Yoda says that the Sith have been extinct for a millennium. The Acolyte is roughly a hundred years before that comment is made. So unless they’re somehow going to hide this from the Council, which isn’t the direction it seems to be going in, this villain cannot canonically be a Sith.

That being said, can we talk about how much this villain looks like a Knight of Ren? We know Kylo Ren was obsessed with the past, and we also know that the Knights of Ren were an ancient order of Force wielders that went extinct are were resurrected by Kylo. We don’t know when they went extinct, meaning they could be active during High Republic. They are neither Jedi nor Sith. This could absolutely be the secret of this villain. The mask, the vocoder, the red saber - all the visuals point in that direction.

We all know Disney likes to draw connections (hello, the sheer amount of interconnected content we’ve gotten from 19-0 BBY), so it doesn’t seem far fetched to me that they would tie this show to the sequels by using it to give backstory for the KoR.

[gffa]

Disney, hire me as your Attachment Advisor, I will shove so many George Lucas quotes at your producers and writers, I will shove so many context-laden clips from the movies and TCW at your creatives, I will make powerpoint essays about how it's more Buddhist-aligned, not Attachment Theory-aligned, I will cite literally every time attachment has ever been discussed by Lucas AND in the show itself and show you that it's always aligned with fear, possessive feelings, and selfishness, I will do this work for you for free, I can even literally just point you to my Jedi Citations collection, DISNEY, HIRE ME AS YOUR ATTACHMENT ADVISOR, I CAN HELP YOU.

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IF THEY HIRE YOU CAN I PLEASE BE YOUR ASSISTANT?!

This was my biggest complaint about the premiere. Not any of the other somewhat questionable decisions/line deliveries, etc. say it louder for the people in the back LOVE 👏🏻 AND 👏🏻 AFFECTION 👏🏻 DON’T 👏🏻 EQUAL 👏🏻 ATTACHMENT 👏🏻

This is such a basic and critical distinction, and it bugged me to no end that the writers are lumping them in together. I feel like we tend to write off what Anakin said about attachment and love in ATOTC because he was using it to justify his attachment. Anakin never found the balance, but what he said was sound. Jedi are encouraged to love and have compassion. It’s part of the Jedi code, as shown even in The Acolyte (hello, Osha trying to leave that dude on the ship and she literally can’t do it, she HAS to go back for him). Obi-Wan Kenobi is arguably one of the best Jedi we’ve ever seen in universe, and that man loves so deeply, it’s why everything fucking hurts him so much. Yet he maintains the balance of knowing how to let go, even if it hurts him to do it. He loved Anakin like a brother/son, yet was able to do what needed to be done on Mustafar because he was able to let go of him when he had to. Because he didn’t let that love control him. The Son (the literal embodiment of the Dark Side) told Anakin that if he was haunted by the fear of losing his love, that it wasn’t love but a prison. THAT is attachment. THAT is the danger of it, and why the Jedi can’t afford it. THAT is what led to the horrendous things Anakin did. That’s the contrast between love and attachment at its finest.

I really hope the writers don’t continue to make this mistake as a plot point, because there is a lot about the show that I am genuinely enjoying, and I think it has potential. I can just also see the potential for them to try to weaponize this stupid oversight for the purposes of “plot”.

[tesb]

#if i had a nickel for every time something like this happened in star wars, i'd have two nickels, which is not a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Idiots online: THIS ACTOR IN A STAR WARS SHOW DOESN'T HAVE EXPERT KNOWLEDGE OF STAR WARS!!! ARRGGHGH!!!! STAR WARS IS RUINED!!!! Meanwhile Harrison Ford: Who the fuck is Anakin and why are you asking me?

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Husband, getting back from a run: what have you been up to?

Me: Oh, just researching what happens when you get shot in the brachial plexus.

Husband: *blank stare* if anyone looks at your search history they’re going to think you’re a serial killer.

[readingupsidedown]

This song is the ultimate Rexsoka song. No one can change my mind on this. If you’re a Rexsoka shipper and you’ve never heard it, you need to go listen to it. ALL THE FEELS😭🤍

[padmestrilogy]

star wars wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks me to carry it across. i hesitate, afraid that star wars might sting me, but star wars promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed me in the middle of the river. i consider this argument sensible and agree to transport star wars. midway across the river, star wars stings me anyway, dooming us both. dying, i ask star wars why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which star wars replies: “i am sorry…it is my nature”

[readingupsidedown]

What it feels like being a HEA kind of girl but also a hardcore Star Wars fan…

[readingupsidedown]

Y’all know the feeling of sitting in front of your laptop for an extended period of time trying desperately to force words out of your brain, through your fingers, and onto the page because you’re bound and determined to write every day writers block be damned? That feeling? Y’all know the feeling when BAM it’s like the wall crashes down and suddenly you’ve written 1500 words in 20 minutes, a plot twist that you hadn’t planned on has made its presence known, and you feel like you ARE in fact a writer, you’re not just an imposter? Isn’t that the best feeling ever?