yours truly🤍

hey! i'm ashanti from "i'm now in my mid 20s!! yikes!!" and you're watching disney channel! 🪷 i like pretty things and memes || 25 || she/they || ig: delicate-simone || dni: racists, terfs/swerfs, maps/nomaps/etc., homophobes, transphobes

[stars-bean]

Practical Magic (1998) dir. Griffin Dunne

[everydaylouie]

do not. address it

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[charlesoberonn]

Hearing your online friends' music taste and feeling like a total normie in comparison and then hearing your co-workers' music taste and feeling like a throat-singing/death-metal/electropolka fusion enthusiast in comparison.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

beginning to suspect that if I ever want to have a published novel I will have to actually write a novel, which is frankly ghoulish

[herssian]

deepen the shadows bro. it'll be ok

[herssian]

i meant art-wise but if any dark sorcerers see this. you do you

[whimsicalvalleys]

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⌗ — Disks/Cd Pngs! ᡣ𐭩

⌗ — Free to use, no credit needed!

⌗ — Like/Reblog if using! ౨ৎ :D

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[becherdireinen]

trust that everything will fall into place without you forcing it there.

[dollywons]

free to use :) ♡︎ credit would be appreciated!! ♡︎♡︎♡︎

[punkitt-is-here]

you will probably not look like a skinny white anime girl when you transition you will likely look like someone's mom and you need to realize how swag this is

[punkitt-is-here]

I saw a picture of my mom last week and did a double take because we both realized how similar we look. skinny white anime girls are not real women but your mom is. I promise you look like a real woman

[punkitt-is-here]

Shoutouts to the funniest possible tags on this post

[podcastwizard]

affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

[flamingkorybante]

My friend worked with the People With AIDS Coalition in 1990 and found this while cleaning out some old folders. I can't stop thinking about it.

[willgrahamscock]

just saw a fanfic on ao3 have a dedication for chatgpt... that section is meant for your horny perverted mutual who proofread your work, you violated sacred law and you will be torn apart and laid bare btw

[whimsicalvalleys]

— Pink/Purple Pngs!

— Free to use, no credit needed! :D

— Like/Reblog if using!

[littlemissihaveaquestion]

Reminder that spring will always come back, music will never stop being created, and there are still so many books left to read! You’re alive! You’re alive! You’re alive!