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not here

[scionreads]

i did the “propaganda im not falling for” for books/book community and it got long quickly lol

[scionreads]

two indie books i wanted to pick up over my birthday weekend are just not in print anymore

oh ?

[scionreads]

I have a good few hundred dollars worth of books that I in my delusional feel like I will have soon because my birthdays this month

[scionreads]

some ppl took that as “ew kink” when it immediately read to me as “not everybody like being tied up it’s okay to keep it cute that’s still hot you know” which true

the fifty shades of a it all

​also let’s be real a good amount of the ppl aren’t properly researching bdsm & kink and tbh that shows in the writing sometimes like damn ya heart not in this

[heartbreakincident]

nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

[heartbreakincident]

most correct addition so far

[thevoyaging]

Grand Staircase, Longleat House, Wiltshire, England photo via mariana

[anxeious]

[too-many-clubs]

[scionreads]

indie book haul this summer that will make me retire my debit card

[scionreads]

some (see im not generalizing) of the current authors & book creators just give…edgelord that’s an only child. wont be elaborating.

[scionreads]

the pages and pages in my docs musing and going off about current book quality and the community and it’ll probably never see the light of day i just needed to get it out of my head

(i was reading academic journals and shit like i couldn’t even help it)

[scionreads]

doctor odyssey is super unserious who gets pregnant off a threesome

[scionreads]

I always laugh when they’re like these are the spicest books I’ve ever read and it’s books where the sex is mid at best it’s just a lot of it. it’s quality over quantity folks

[scionreads]

HOTD birthed some of the stupidest takes known to man. The locals are not bright

[sandersstudies]

Hey, you reblogged that AI post and I was surprised to see something so mean on your blog. "If you cant write unassisted, fuck you, youre a disgrace to the community." Is that really something you want on your blog?

Just in case this isn't a spam message:

Posting AI-generated content to a platform intended to be an archive for writers is not appropriate use of the platform. On a platform intended for human creation, it is rude and inappropriate to clog search results with AI-produced content which often plagiarizes the work of human authors.

Use of generative AI is also horrible for our environment, leading to massive waste of fossil fuel energy and water. We should not be doing damage to our planet for the sake of generating (robot-produced, often plagiarized) fiction, especially when the joy of fiction comes from the creation and emotion of real people.

Rather than giving a prompt to a generative AI, people should consider attempting to write their own work, or asking another writer from the fandom if they would be interested in writing it. Anyone who is capable of typing a prompt into ChatGPT is capable of writing a story. The first attempts may not be amazing, but that is true of any skill, and anyone can improve with time and practice - and while ChatGPT may give you big returns in your time, it doesn't give you practice, growth, or creativity, which is where the joy of writing should come from.

[fofflesnave]

To add to this, generative AI isn't an assistant for disability. Something that assists you helps you complete a task. You do the task yourself, the thing assisting you just helps you manage parts that aren't possible for you. Assisted writing could be using dictation, using a screen reader, relying on a spellchecker, typing instead of writing by hand, etc.

You aren't doing the writing yourself if you use generative AI. You're offering up a single sentence and asking a machine to steal the hard work of others so you don't have to actually write anything. The hard work you steal may well belong to people who actually need assistance with writing, and absolutely will not appreciate seeing the struggles they overcame being turned into slop for others to claim as their own.

Enjoy the creative process. Be part of the creative process. Don't become reliant on AI to the point where you can't think, create or act for yourself. This is why AI isn't an assistant. It takes independence and from you, instead of helping you realise it. It convinces you that you can't do things, instead of helping you try. It tells you to just leave it all to the machines and don't bother yourself with the fun (and struggles) of creating.

[sl-walker]

If you use generative AI, fuck you.

[shadowmaat]

Generative AI generates content. That means the person using it isn't doing the work themselves. And that means it isn't a tool, it's a bypass. And it's a bypass used by lazy, entitled people who are more interested in "content" than in telling a good story. People who want headpats for being "creative" when they're so unoriginal they can't even do the work themselves.

Spellcheck, voice-to-print, screen readers, etc. aren't "AI," they're tools. They are what writers use to help capture their stories that they wrote. The writer does all the real work of creating and then uses tools to assist them in getting it down properly. Folks who try to lump it all together with shit like chatgpt are deliberately arguing in bad faith so that they can their machine-generated bullshit behind real tools that actually help.

[angstandhappiness]

SO TRUE

[mama-qwerty]

To repeat an oft seen quote:

"Why should I bother reading something you didn't bother to write?"

AI isn't 'helping' you write. It isn't 'assisting' you. It isn't some tool for disabled people. You're telling it what you want, and it's stealing words from other sources to string together a story. All you're doing is slapping your name on it to post online for back pats and high fives.

Just as an art AI isn't 'creating' that picture for you, it's stealing bits and pieces from other artists to copy and paste it together in some semblance of a (kinda sorta) cohesive image.

I'm sick of this argument that AI 'helps' new writers or artists. It doesn't. It's actually stunting your ability to USE YOUR OWN BRAIN and come up with scenarios and stories on your own. And every fic or fanart that's posted using AI just clutters up the space for those of us who write and draw each line ourselves.

We're not being "ableist". Miss me with that bullshit. We--as in, those of us who actually write and draw with our own brains--are having a hard enough time getting eyeballs on our work, so having AI created slop filling our spaces makes us testy.

We work really hard on our craft. Don't demean it by claiming your computer generated content is in any way equal.

[scionreads]

id be using the family computer reading fan fics and my grandmom would walk by and say "you better not be reading smut" and well...

[scionreads]

do we have any romance books with a BLACK woman going to her hometown for the holidays and discovering the true meaning of christmas