𝐸𝒯𝐸𝑅𝒩𝐼𝒯𝒴 ✽ 𝐿𝐼𝒢𝐻𝒯

You don't have to try so hard to be perfect. I like you the way you are. Even though this is the end of your world, I can still meet you on the other side.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[typhus-andronicus]

[slorty]

The fact that this is completely incomprehensible to me makes it funnier than if I could understand it

[silver-tongues-blog]

skill issue. i understand it completely

[cerastes]

People don’t even say w00t anymore.

[cerastes]

This sux00rz…

[radiqueer]

Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget

[aromanticduck]

Transactional: everything has to be exactly 50/50 all the time, pay me back for the £5 sandwich or buy me something worth exactly £5, I refuse to make an effort for you if there’s nothing in it for me

Reciprocal: you were there for me when I needed help, and I’m going to do the same for you, it doesn’t matter if one of us needs more or is capable of less, because the point is not equivalent exchange but mutual care

[snowfated]

I think it's time to go back to writing. I need to add to the pool of people not using AI bullshit to write compelling stories.

Here's hoping it'll be seen.

[bigandlong]

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

[jae-felidae]

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

[doctorcocktopus]

Getting shot while literally dismissing people’s concerns about gun violence under a tent with the words “Prove me wrong” printed on all sides is the most fucking hilarious way to die

[loafed-beans-deactivated2020082]

[kamenotaku]

crab crab crab hand hand hand frighten

[birdhug]

i like them..

[louisegluckpdf]

sexting responses

likewise

is that so?

:o

well yes!

[seeyouguyslater]

no fucking way dude we live in a stupid era

[seeyouguyslater]

ITS... REAL.....

[phaeton-flier]

Stupid, chauvinist misogyny: Men are X, which is good, while Women are Y, which is bad

Woke, Feminist Take: Men are X, which is reactionary, while women are Y, which is enlightened

[phaeton-flier]

Maybe, just spitballing here, maybe we don't have to do the "Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars" stuff at all. Maybe men and women aren't all that different, maybe the differences between individuals are far more important, maybe we just talk about good or bad behaviors directly instead of having to force everything into war of the sexes shit.

[phaeton-flier]

Some of you learned the shadows on the wall are fake but are stuck insisting the puppets being used to cast them are real

[rednines]

[saviorified]

people who don't follow baseball are missing out they don't even know about the mariners etsy witch

[saviorified]

Yeah

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I think the thing that's been bothering me about the "is it okay to use ChatGPT to plot/make characters/etc" is that at the end of the day, these are not tools that are helping your writing, they are shortcuts that are undercutting it.

These things are supposed to be hard, because you need to learn how to do them.

And listen, I know this sucks. I've got to knock off 4k of words from my current novel to make it more sellable, which seems like a completely arbitrary thing to do, but things like printing costs absolutely do factor into traditional publishing. It took me five drafts to figure out a completely obvious in hindsight plot point that explains why a character does what he does. It takes a few tries to pull together a detailed outline into a workable story, and it always will.

I would have loved to figure this all out way earlier, but I had to learn how to spot the gaps in my writing before I could fix them. Generative AI isn't ever going to bridge the gap between sitting down and learning how to work things out, because if you don't do that, you never will become a more competent writer. If that wasn't part of the point, none of us would be doing this in the first place.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Also not to harp on the obvious, but even if you are okay with using the Plagiarism Machine That Lies And Also Uses Enough Energy To Burn A Small Forest Down as a tool, it's just not... a good one. I've seen the argument that they're like calculators or synthesizers, but both exist to help you become better at something, not replace a skill or talent altogether.

There are loads of free resources that people put out there to help you right. Name/character/plot generators! Plot structures and bulleted outlines! Loads of fantastic advice that is given out openly by people who like writing for people who like writing. As much as we writers whine about doing it, you are genuinely missing out on a self-rewarding and satisfactory journey of creating something that you're proud of doing, even if no one will ever read it. It is worth the effort.

You can do better than the Grift Machine trying to convince you art isn't worth it. Both art - and you - deserve more.

[elumish]

To add on to this point, the act of figuring out your writing makes you a better writer.

The process of building your story builds you a better story. Literally writing the words, whether you type them or speak them or write them by hand, will help you build a better story. Two different sentences will give you two different thoughts--and making the decision of which sentence to write is what building a story looks like.

With GenAI, the intentionality isn't there. It doesn't know why one sentence means something different from a different sentence. It doesn't know which direction you're trying to go in. It doesn't know that you will evoke a different feeling by saying skin than by saying flesh, and so it won't choose one of them versus the other.

It won't choose anything. It's just a very energy-intensive autofill.

The same is true for building characters, for building settings, for building plot. GenAI doesn't know why something is the right answer for your story, to tell the story you want to tell in the way you want to tell it, because it doesn't know anything. It just picks the expected outcome based on what other people have done.

GenAI is just a machine filling in letters in an order that they have been filled in before. It's just averages. It's just likelihood.

If you want to write a good story, you have to sit down and write the story. You have to write the sentences. You have to know why you're writing the words you're writing. You have to make decisions.

And if you don't do it this time, you won't be any better at doing it next time.

[ashkaztra]

"But I just need a ...."

I get it. Sometimes, you're on a roll, your writing is flowing, and you don't want to break it too much just to name a thing or create a random thing for your world.

There are better options than AI, though!

Need to name something?

Fantasy Name Generator has you covered. Need a more contemporary/real world name? Fake Name Generator.

Need to generate some details?

Roll for Fantasy or RanGen

Now, just using these alone won't make your writing better! You still have to fit things into your world and make them your own! But it's a way to get inspiration without using the plagiarism environmental destroyer machine. There are so many tools out there that are much better than AI and just as convenient if you just know where to turn.

[maryellencarter]

Square brackets.

This is an old tip from Nanowrimo -- when you're on a roll and you need a character name or a detail you don't know, put a placeholder in square brackets [like this]. My first Nano's two main characters' last names were [Lastname1] and [Lastname2] for the entire first draft. Then when you go to edit, you can search for square brackets throughout your draft and find everything you skipped to maintain momentum, and *then* you go down a rabbit hole of Armenian surname databases or whatever.

[clockworkcuttlefish]

LITERALLY JUST USE SQUARE BRACKETS. I do it all the time to keep moving along, and it works perfectly. Way more perfectly than the Water-Eating Plagiarism Machine.

[best-blurst-of-times]

[ironbite4]

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

[thedarkbutbeige]

[spaceshipoftheseus]

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

[randomslasher]

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

[limbobilbo]

> sees nihilistic depiction of human nature

> looks inside

> hope :)

[accidentallyoccidental]

can someone give those flowers a spacesuit please

[alocalpizzadruid]

:)

[girldraki]

Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks

MONESSEN, PA—Recreational cyclist Ethan Coseglia, 38, thoroughly explained the benefits of wearing $35 bike-riding socks to his friend Kevin

[emberlark]

[tlirsgender]

Here comes the goody two shoes brigade arguing for the sanctity of life including nazis

[tlirsgender]

Just unfollowed someone for saying essentially "if you condone violence then they'll get you next" like they're not already killing people come on now lol

[targetedknowledge]