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Currently obsessed with Critical Role and Unsounded (best webcomic, go read it!) I also have a series of posts about the French translation of the Animorphs books, here , and some thoughts on the French dub of the TV series The Flash here 

[kittysneezes]

I like this article because it’s not what you think it is.

[aprilwitching-deactivated201808]

the world is a strange and wonderous place

[lovelylogans]

is there such a thing as a beta but instead of reading for line edits or plot notes, they just read my work and recommend what tags to put on ao3 outside of like. warnings.

[centrumlumina]

Lulu's Totally Unofficial Guide to the Top 10 Freeform Tags to Add to Your Fanfic

Genre - Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Case Fic, etc.

AU - If it's an AU, what kind? What role do each of the characters play? How is it different to their canon role?

Parts of canon - If it's not an AU, what part of canon is it about? Is it set before, during or after a particular episode?

Themes - Are there any topics or ideas which you are trying to explore, or which come up repeatedly?

Minor Warnings - Is there anything you think you should warn for that isn't included in the archive warnings?

Format & Length - Is your work art, video, podfic, etc? Does it use a particular format like a Drabble or 5+1?

Characters - What is going on with each of your major characters? If you had to describe them with one or two adjectives, what would you pick? (Format as [Adjective] [Character Name].)

Relationships - What is going on with each of your major relationships? Are there any relationship tropes like Slow Burn or Enemies to Lovers in your story?

Tropes - Are there any tropes or common story elements in your story that haven't been tagged yet? If your work was on TV tropes, what are the first things you would add?

Sex - If your work includes sex, what kink(s) and specific act(s) does it involve?

Remember: you can always look at the drop-down menu for suggestions. But! If you want to tag something that doesn't appear on the drop-down menu, you can & should write in a new tag!

[mikkeneko]

This is a good guide!

[businesstiramisu]

This is one of the things r/ao3 is actually pretty helpful for, in fact I think centrumlumina's guide is almost word-for-word match for advice that i see posted regularly on there. Its also great for "here's a thing that happens in my story/i want to warn readers about, is there a tag for that?" (Or even "this tag i already know about doesn't suit my purposes for xyz reasons. What can i do instead?")

[kezrekade]

Only on the darkest arctic nights can you encounter this Primordial Pokémon. It manifests as aurora and ice, gently towering over the pole's frigid denizens... ✨❄️🧊 (There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden... Have fun, open your mind, & don't give away answers! 💕) Image on Bluesky~

[curiositysavesthecat]

What did you dissect in school?

A frog

Pig’s heart

Sheep’s lung

Several things

Something else

My school didn’t have students dissect anything

I didn’t attend school

Voting ended onOct 20, 2025

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[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

"this fic uses em dashes, so it must be ai-generated" real humans use em dashes.

"this fic has long paragraphs with overly described details and scenes, so it must be ai-generated" real humans can write like this.

"this fic has inconsistencies, so it must be ai-generated" real humans make errors and mistakes. that's why we have this thing called plot holes. sometimes writers are tired and they don't remember what they wrote in the last sentences or paragraphs, let alone chapters.

"this fic sounds robotic and unnatural, so it must be ai-generated" not every writer writes in their native language. sometimes they can sound 'robotic and unnatural' if they wrote in their second or third or fourth language (and kudos to them).

"this fic has a prompt left in it that the author forgot to delete, so it must be ai-generated" the 'prompt' the author accidentally left in their fic could actually be a part of an outline that was meant only for them, so they could keep track of what they would write.

"this author posts too often, no human writes this fast, so they must use ai" 1.) you don't know how fast someone can or can't write, how much time a person has in a day or how motivated/skilled they are. 2.) the frequent updates you see could be something that has already been finished and sitting in the author's drafts for god knows how long. just because it's recently posted doesn't always mean it's recently written.

my point? no, you can never know if a fanfic is 'ai-generated'. unless the author says they use ai, you're just assuming, suspecting and witch hunting. chances are that you're not going to 'stop ai fics from being created', you're just going to wrongly accuse genuine writers of using ai and ruin their day at best, make them want to quit writing or sharing their works at worst.

[vivelespatates]

Of course you can know when a fic is AI-generated.

The prompts left in aren't stuff like "put it more emotion here" or "tighten the beats in this paragraph". It's stuff like "Certainly! Here is the paragraph revised to include character X doing Y and more emotional depths!" It's bits of ChatGPT or whatever AI they use engaging with the user, very clearly.

Also AI writes in a certain way, for now at least. When everything in the fic feels like AI, descriptions, dialogue, formatting, chapter endings, etc, you can safely bet it's AI.

[animentality]

[cali]

2018 tumblr post:

1: why do they call it a boner when theres no bone in it

2: there used to be

3: why does this sound so ominous

2025 tumblr post:

1: forward my shambling soldiers and slay without thinking. let blood flow into every crevice of this rotten land

2: yes my lady

3: yes my lady

[curiositysavesthecat]

Do you think AO3 should ban AI generated works?

Yes

No

I don't use AO3 / I don't know what AO3 is

Voting ended onOct 18, 2025

*As of now, AI generated works are allowed on the site

This poll was submitted to us and we simply posted it so people could vote and discuss their opinions on the matter. If you’d like for us to ask the internet a question for you, feel free to drop the poll of your choice in our inbox and we’ll post them anonymously (for more info, please check our pinned post).

[vivelespatates]

It should be banned because AI writing is not writing and so it has no place on a *writing* site.

The people saying AI writing can't be reliably identified have either never used AI to generate writing and seen what it spits out, or lack the critical thinking required to identify that writing. AI writing has a specific voice, a specific tone, a specific flavor that infects everything. Can a human writer happen to write in that flavor? Of course. But when you find a text written with AI descriptions *and* AI dialog *and* AI end of chapters *and* AI general lack of care for canon details (in case of fanfiction writing), guess what, it's AI.

[scienceoftheidiot]

J'ai besoin de ce meme qui prédisait que vu la vitesse de succession des premiers ministres le prochain durerait deux heures

Je le retrouve plus

C'est pour l'encadrer

[littleragondin]

This one?

[scienceoftheidiot]

C'ÉTAIT AVEC PACIFIC RIM BIEN SUR C'ETAIT LUI AH

C'était lui mais je pense que peut être il y a eu update dessus

[cephalopodvictorious]

modern Snow White where instead of a magic mirror it's just an AI chatbot driving the stepmother insane because it's programmed to agree with her and confirm her fears

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

this would go SO HARD I need it pls

[lilaccatholic]

I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.

[reinanova]

[terror-billie]

[pixeljade]

Tumblr, I propose a battle of wits!

I have put Iocaine powder in one of these two goblets. You choose, then we both drink.

If you choose the more popular option you are poisoned, and must log off and do something you are putting off. If you choose otherwise, you may reblog and keep scrolling!

The Goblet Nearest You

The Goblet Nearest Me

Voting ended onFeb 14, 2023

[a-heavenly-melody-deactivated20]

This is genuinely the funniest thing that could’ve happened considering how the actual scene plays out holy shit

[geopsych]

Pictures from a September morning at the lake.

[geopsych]

Welcome September!

[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[vivelespatates]

No, we use our eyes and our brain. AI has a specific style that's easy to spot once you've spent some time looking at the kind of writing it produces.

AI detectors are not accurate and shouldn't be used.

[mikanseinic]

“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

anyway. fuck ai.

[vivelespatates]

There are specific tells of AI writing that are easily spottable. Not all AI writing, probably, because it's getting better every day, but a good chunk of it. It has a specific way of writing descriptions, and writing dialogs, and writing the end of a scene.

So when you come across a fic that has AI-flavored descriptions, and dialogs, and ends of chapters… well either the writer is unlucky enough that their style matches exactly what AI produces, or they're using AI.

[asdfghnbvfdwertyt65rewerfg-deac]

i just think itd be funny if kittypets were a little more familiar to twoleg things such as: cars and bad words

[redthezoroark]

[roseverdict]

@celestiachan I KNOW YOU LIKE LOSTWAVE IS THIS LEGIT

[if-you-are-tired-clap-your-hands]

Wait isn't it the second lostwave song found this year why is everything coming back to the surface now