Reylo and Cannibalism Apologist

Don't worry tumblr you get to see my dumb face too.

Some Ben Solo at Disneyworld.

This.

Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

The spam comments have evolved.

They are now also linking to a site they claim is able to scan works and tell you whether they were AI written or not, and that you should do that before reading a fic.

It should go without saying that you should not, under no circumstances, visit a site advertised in a spam comment.

In this case, I'd say there's even a chance that the "scanning" site is actually used to scrape fics and use them for future AI writing. What it definitely doesn't do is tell you whether something was AI written or not. That's a bullshit claim.

Don't use that site. Don't believe these spam comments, whether you get them on your own works or see them on someone else's.

It's all bullshit.

Just got another one, so here's what they look like to anyone curious. They're never real users, either, just keysmashes for the display name.

Image Description: a screenshot of an AO3 comment by nlaoboh that says HoloAI pattern found in work. To all readers, before you read please scan the work with an AI detector like gowinston.ai and call out all AI using cheaters /end ID

will I ever stop falling headfirst into obsession with dark haired fictional men full of trauma and a need for love? no, no I will not

and reblog after voting thanx

Please reblog this so that I can get a bigger sample size, but DO NOT include anything in the tags about the results, as that could influence other responses

Please take good care of them!

One of my favorite genres of male character probably has to be the guy who, upon meeting a woman who can and does kick his ass, thinks “she kicked my ass, the only logical course of action for me now is to marry her.”

hey if you're a UK resident can you sign this petition and if not please rb to spread the word

this is an official UK government petition that they have to respond to if it reaches 10,000 signatures

there's so much pathologizing over why enemies to lovers is a popular trope (something something the normalization of abuse something something) when the simplest and less moronic answer is that narratives thrive on irony and reversals, and there's no greater irony than characters going from hating each other's guts to loving each other unconditionally. raw thesis-antithesis-synthesis.

prev tags so true

This is very neat but most [het] ETL is not written nearly well enough to achieve this and IS fuelled by, to an extent, usually women being repeatedly sold “you can fix him” “he hurts you because he likes you” “controlling is sexy!” as fantasies which is a product of the normalization of abuse 🤷🏻‍♀️ Ain’t moronic to point out most writing doesn’t achieve this

It's because what you described is not enemies to lovers it's just abuse lol. EtL is like Blorbith serves a king and Blorborino serves the enemy king but in between clashing swords oh no feelings happened. Or Blorbith is a detective and Blorborino is the criminal they have to bring to justice and in between shootouts in dark alleys oh no feelings happened. Enemity implies equality and an abused person is not their abuser's enemy, it's their victim. Some people look at stories that take place in extremely heightened realities where, like, one superhero punches the other to prevent them from reaching the Amulet Of Power, or whatever, and think this is in any way comparable to that one time their coworker Debrah got punched by her husband Hank when she forgot to put the beers in the fridge, and those people will then concern troll anyone who wants said superheroes to kiss with the idea that those shippers will end up just like Debrah if they think punching your partner is romantic when the contexts couldn't be more different and also one of them is fictional.

But this is not even the point of the post, the point is from an angle of purely mechanical storytelling EtL is satisfactory because reversals are satisfactory and the more opposite the poles a characters starts and ends as the more impactful is their arc.

some of you are miserable because you're mean. like you're just mean to people and things

"why don't i have any friends" because you are mean

this can be fixed at least in part very easily though! just stop being mean. i believe in all of you 👍

re-reblogging this with actual advice because sometimes it really isn't that self-evident how to Not Be Mean

DO

TRY NOT TO

(this is both non-exhaustive and not ironclad, simply a list of general things to aim for and skills to practice)

basically, 'people will largely stick by you through pretty dark shit if you make their lives brighter the rest of the time' is super legit and something to lean into

Cloned Dyad <3