Flailing Through Fandoms

Aidyn, 30, female, artist, writer, librarian. Currently dealing with Bungo Stray Dogs brain rot so feel free to ignore me. I basically just lurk a lot and reblog things I like so I can find them later. (Leverage is my favorite show of all time, just FYI)

[the-moody-angel]

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

Chapters:  5/6

Status: Complete, will update weekly

Fandom:  文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs

Rating:  Mature 

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence 

Relationships:  Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya  

Summary:

In hindsight maybe they should've kept their voices down.

A stealth mission was not really a good idea for two people whose favorite hobby was arguing with each other as loudly as possible.

Ability users have been going missing throughout the city and in an effort to find them and stop the disappearances, the Special Division, ADA, and Port Mafia team up. However, things turn out to be more dangerous than initially thought when one of their own gets taken. ---------

Or: Chuuya is taken, Dazai preforms a one-man rescue operation.

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Now how exactly are the boys getting out of this mess?  👀

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[garlicbunny]

“ok lets do warm up sketch”

“oh..”

[grippiersockgangggg-deactivated]

I was not made for….*gestures broadly at the world*

[kosmogrl]

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[anatomicalart]

This is relevant to art also because it is becoming increasingly difficult to find reference images online during simple searches.

[writingdose]

protect em dashes.

protect “not x, not y, but z” format.

protect short sentence stacking as a stylistic choice.

protect fanfic writers—who are kind enough to share their works with people to read for free—from ai witch hunts, speculations and accusations.

“don’t like don’t read” also applies to any fic that is ai-generated and any fic you think is ai-generated by the way. if you don’t like what you’re reading for any reason, you can always stop reading and exit the fic at any point. but harassment is never ever justified. no matter if you think you’ve found a noble excuse to do it. and also…

witch hunts, speculations and accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does. if not more. I don’t want to see another innocent writer get driven away from the community because someone decides to harass and accuse them for using ai just because their fic happens to have “ai telltales” — the same telltales ai got from having been trained on millions of human-made works to mimic how real humans actually write.

[hayatheauthor]

This is so important and occurs outside of the fanfic space as well. I've seen authors get rejected because their book sounded 'too AI' when they're just the type of writer who knows how to use em dashes. I've seen content writers and copywriters spend hours on assignments they submit for job applications that reject them for 'using AI' that they never used to begin with! All while those jobs hire writers who did in fact use AI and prompt it NOT to 'sound like AI' (because yes that is something you can very easily do), and publishers work with authors who have openly mentioned using AI for 'editing and brainstorming' while receiving little to no backlash for it.

Also, no you're not some holier than thou smartass for presuming everyone who does not have em dashes/'not x, not y, but z' writing is writing without AI and vice versa. I especially hate when people in power like publishers, employers, and professors use this presumption to make life miserable for writers who genuinely love writing

[fangshazzard]

I bet raising your arm and summoning a weapon for you to grasp feels good as fuck

[alientitty]

💀

[spazzbot]

I don’t say this often, but you really should unmute and listen to the song



[decadee]

Not me emotionally wrecked by a cartoon

[ismenes]

you know those studies showing that cursing helps with pain tolerance or whatever. that’s how i feel about making my weird little noises to get through my basic daily activities. sometimes you just have to go hggblaaaah for a minute so you can find the strength within yourself to get up or wash the dishes or send an email. mmmnneh. urgh. the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it.

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[the-moody-angel]

Had no clue this was a common thing to do lol

[the-moody-angel]

My impulse control is ... not good. I stopped at the dollar store to get ice cream and walked out with this blanket (in addition to the ice cream).

[oreramar]

Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.

The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.

The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.

I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.

I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.

[befikra]

i bet it feels good to be an underwater plant just swaying in sync with the flow of water

[befikra]

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[clownboybebop]

Those sick fucks at Ocean Spray will mix anything with a cranberry