#rsmg

[rubiatinctorum]

OH FUCK YEAH I JUST REMEMBERED I HAVE MONDAY OFF >:D!!!!

[rubiatinctorum]

I feel like one of those sitcom people rn. So many people (and allegedly a mouse) popping into my room on my break

[rubiatinctorum]

Mouse shit on the desk at work today. Really takes me back to my food service retail combo days. I'm not supposed to swear at work, to be a good example, so when paging downstairs about it, I realised very quickly I needed an alternative phrase to "mouse crap" and "mouse shit." Forgot the word poop altogether, opted for "mouse feces."

[rubiatinctorum]

I want a day at work to go well please

[rubiatinctorum]

Another staff meeting where nobody sits near me. If I sit at a table, it is a guarantee no one else will sit there. They could try to pretend a little harder that they don’t all dislike me.

[rubiatinctorum]

Just over a half hour until I can get out of hereeeeeee let me out let me out please while there’s still daylight left

[rubiatinctorum]

Someone turned in an essay with made up quotes that contradict what happened in the book but a good structure and it’s so hard not to say “this essay is best viewed from far away” Lord give me the diplomacy to put acceptable feedback on this

[rubiatinctorum]

Not only does the visual on this exam look like AI, but the short story has the cadence of an AI piece. Either that or it’s just a shallow piece that relies too heavily on punchy punctuation tricks to hide that its details are almost completely non sequitur, its similes border on cliche, and its plot structure feels like it’s trying to resolve quickly without doing so with a satisfying manner.

On the punctuation: I am an em dash warrior and even I don’t reach these em dash per word ratios. None of them ever have the second dash to bridge back into the main thought of the sentence either. Not that it’s necessary, but wouldn’t an em dash aficionado use them to their highest potential? Instead in this story they’re used one at a time always, to break sentences where a comma should often suffice. If it’s not AI it’s a stylistic affectation that diminishes the effectiveness of the em dash. I use a ton of these and if ever I’ve used one as Ill-placed as these ones have been, I will be sorely ashamed.

The structure of listing three things gets tedious when it is done too often. Vary your damn sentences. Same for it’s not x it’s y.

There’s no record anywhere online of this story or of the author.

You know, if I had been asked by the department to sit down and crank out a mediocre pseudo-semi-inspirational short story about anti bullying for the exam and throw it in under a pseudonym I would have. The lack of artistry in the exam stories of today disappoints me. Back in the day they’d put an obviously human made whopper of a fiction piece on the exam that would stick with people for years and it would have a more artistic cadence one way or another than this slop does. I know ‘AI witch hunt bad’ but god this is is written like a slop Facebook page post in terms of its sentence structure and clunky use of figurative language with all the elegance of a flying brick and if it’s not AI it’s from a writer who is. shall we say. Both creatively and technically deficient in the matter of creating short stories that don’t fucking suck.