"But what if writing is hard? Should I not use AI if writing is hard?"

NO! YOU FUCKING SHOULDN'T! LEARN TO WRITE LIKE THE REST OF US!

I DON'T WANT TO READ SOMETHING THAT BY YOUR OWN ADMISSION WASN'T WORTH THE EFFORT FOR YOU TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE.

You're not better for using AI to write.

You're infinitely more worthless.

If you can't suffer through finding your own words, you'll never say anything worth reading.

I... I just had to

You did god’s work.

I'm from the Southwest US, aka Australia Lite aka Home of Just So Many Venomous Snakes, so here's a pretty solid trick for recognizing a lot of snakes as venomous or not:

That exaggerated spade-shaped head is literally indicative that you're looking at a pit viper with venom glands. You do not need to get close enough to see facial pits to confirm it's a pit viper! ALL PIT VIPERS ARE VENOMOUS.

That said, the best way to avoid getting bitten by a snake is to leave them the fuck alone, so do that whenever possible please. They don't want to hurt you, they just want to be safe. We have all kinds of danger noodles here, I've seen a shitton of them throughout my life, and I've literally never been bitten. Ever. I have picked up and relocated nonvenomous snakes with my hands* and never been bitten.

*DO NOT DO THIS unless 1. You know for sure what you're working with, 2. It is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for the safety of the snake and/or yourself/your pets/someone else, and 3. There is not a more qualified or capable individual available to carry out the task.

Recognizing danger noodles is a super important skill to have, but the best way to avoid getting into trouble with them is to LEAVE THEM ALONE.

Mistaken identity? More like mis-snake-en identity!

I curate my fandom experience very specifically. I block tags for ships and subjects I don't want to see, I mute and block users who engage in behaviors that I find unacceptable and focus on themes that I actively dislike, I use a number of extensions to keep specific types of content from coming across my feed. Every platform on which I spend any noteworthy amount of time is carefully managed in this way.

I will also block anyone who knowingly posts machine generated content. Period. I understand why it's allowed on AO3—if it weren't, people would just post it without tagging it appropriately the same way folks used to post smut on FFN—but I will go out of my way to make sure that I never ever have to see it.

This is not, contrary to a number of arguments I see, an act of bigotry. This isn't a form of harassment. It's not even ostracization—I'm a single person making a decision regarding what I want to see in my fandom experience, not a community shunning someone for their behavior. It's a personal decision.

If you don't think blocking creators whose work focuses on a ship you can't stand is "targeted harassment," then blocking users who post machine generated content certainly isn't either. I get to decide what fandom is for me, and for me it's engaging in something I love with other human beings.

If I wanted to interact with a computer, I'd call my health insurance provider.

There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

To steal something I saw elsewhere: Why would I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?

I feel like that tag is a free block list tbh.

So long as they tag it as AI it's easy to block, but reading and slowly figuring out if it was either AI generated or just poorly written where someone literally reuses scenes from fanfiction I've read earlier is a bit harder to immediately differentiate.

I'm from the Southwest US, aka Australia Lite aka Home of Just So Many Venomous Snakes, so here's a pretty solid trick for recognizing a lot of snakes as venomous or not:

That exaggerated spade-shaped head is literally indicative that you're looking at a pit viper with venom glands. You do not need to get close enough to see facial pits to confirm it's a pit viper! ALL PIT VIPERS ARE VENOMOUS.

That said, the best way to avoid getting bitten by a snake is to leave them the fuck alone, so do that whenever possible please. They don't want to hurt you, they just want to be safe. We have all kinds of danger noodles here, I've seen a shitton of them throughout my life, and I've literally never been bitten. Ever. I have picked up and relocated nonvenomous snakes with my hands* and never been bitten.

*DO NOT DO THIS unless 1. You know for sure what you're working with, 2. It is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for the safety of the snake and/or yourself/your pets/someone else, and 3. There is not a more qualified or capable individual available to carry out the task.

Recognizing danger noodles is a super important skill to have, but the best way to avoid getting into trouble with them is to LEAVE THEM ALONE.

You’re a Shapeshifter who was wounded by a monster hunter, in a last ditch effort for survival you shifted into a normal household pet and were whisked away by a plain human unaware of the supernatural where you’ve lived for the past three years. You thought you were safe, but they’re back…

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

AU Strifentine; Vincent never goes into the coffin, but does still go through the experiments. He moves (back) to Nibelheim around 2015, and he finds a...friend. Let's go with that. (They've met before, a couple years ago. Cloud is older now. Vincent is not.)

When I read a fanfic I like, the author becomes a mini celebrity to me. So when an author with a work I like kudos’ or comments on my own fanfic I just-

THIS THIS THIS

This

Person: What's your book about?

Writers:

I'm both somehow 🙃

You wanna volunteer?