Oh for fuck’s sake, people calling out racist writing in fanfic isn’t “censorship”. I say this as a fic writer but some of you need to get off your high fucking horse.
Truly some of the most irritating culture has sprung up around fanwork and fanfic in specific like… no, making something for free does not in fact make it sacrosanct or immune to criticism! Your right to “do whatever you want forever” or say “fandom is for fun” stops the second you’re being bigoted and making fan spaces unsafe for marginalized people!
“fandom is for fun” except for poc who have to deal with rampant racism and white people unable to acknowledge let alone take accountability for their racism
*struggles while writing* i suck and writing is hard
*remembers some ppl use ai* i am a creative force. i am uncorrupted by theft and indolence. i am on a journey to excellence. it is my duty to keep taking joy in creating.
Hey, you reblogged that AI post and I was surprised to see something so mean on your blog. "If you cant write unassisted, fuck you, youre a disgrace to the community." Is that really something you want on your blog?
Posting AI-generated content to a platform intended to be an archive for writers is not appropriate use of the platform. On a platform intended for human creation, it is rude and inappropriate to clog search results with AI-produced content which often plagiarizes the work of human authors.
Use of generative AI is also horrible for our environment, leading to massive waste of fossil fuel energy and water. We should not be doing damage to our planet for the sake of generating (robot-produced, often plagiarized) fiction, especially when the joy of fiction comes from the creation and emotion of real people.
Rather than giving a prompt to a generative AI, people should consider attempting to write their own work, or asking another writer from the fandom if they would be interested in writing it. Anyone who is capable of typing a prompt into ChatGPT is capable of writing a story. The first attempts may not be amazing, but that is true of any skill, and anyone can improve with time and practice - and while ChatGPT may give you big returns in your time, it doesn’t give you practice, growth, or creativity, which is where the joy of writing should come from.
To add to this, generative AI isn’t an assistant for disability. Something that assists you helps you complete a task. You do the task yourself, the thing assisting you just helps you manage parts that aren’t possible for you. Assisted writing could be using dictation, using a screen reader, relying on a spellchecker, typing instead of writing by hand, etc.
You aren’t doing the writing yourself if you use generative AI. You’re offering up a single sentence and asking a machine to steal the hard work of others so you don’t have to actually write anything. The hard work you steal may well belong to people who actually need assistance with writing, and absolutely will not appreciate seeing the struggles they overcame being turned into slop for others to claim as their own.
Enjoy the creative process. Be part of the creative process. Don’t become reliant on AI to the point where you can’t think, create or act for yourself. This is why AI isn’t an assistant. It takes independence and from you, instead of helping you realise it. It convinces you that you can’t do things, instead of helping you try. It tells you to just leave it all to the machines and don’t bother yourself with the fun (and struggles) of creating.
If you use generative AI, fuck you.
Generative AI generates content. That means the person using it isn’t doing the work themselves. And that means it isn’t a tool, it’s a bypass. And it’s a bypass used by lazy, entitled people who are more interested in “content” than in telling a good story. People who want headpats for being “creative” when they’re so unoriginal they can’t even do the work themselves.
Spellcheck, voice-to-print, screen readers, etc. aren’t “AI,” they’re tools. They are what writers use to help capture their stories that they wrote. The writer does all the real work of creating and then uses tools to assist them in getting it down properly. Folks who try to lump it all together with shit like chatgpt are deliberately arguing in bad faith so that they can their machine-generated bullshit behind real tools that actually help.
AM I EVEN ALLOWED TO SAY ARCANE S2 IS GOOD ANYMORE? SERIOUSLY, IM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS SHIT, EVREYTIME I GO ON YOUTUBE OR FUCK ANYWHERE FOR THAT MATTER AND SAY “y know I enjoyed s2 despite it’s flaws” IM EITHER MOCKED MERICOULUSLY, CALLED BRAINDEAD, CALLED RACIST FOR SOME REASON, OR IM LINKED A YOUTUBE VIDEO WITH HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VIEWS OF SOMEONE SHIT TALKING IT, (and completely missing the points of certain arcs *cough* Cosmonaut variety hour *cough*) WHAT THE FUCK CAN I JUST ENJOY WHAT I WANT TO ENJOY PLEASE I JUST WANNA HAVE FUN WATCHING ARCANE WITHOUT THESE PEOPLE SHAMING AND BREATHING DOWN MY FUCKING NECK ALL THE TIME!!!! (Sorry I really needed to get this off my chest, I just wanna enjoy Arcane S2, but these people are making it PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE at this point, I just need help.)
coming out of the tags to say that some of us have been saying this for years and have been called all manner of degenerates, perverts, and pedophiles over it, and we really deserve an apology we will never receive
We DO deserve a fucking apology we’ll never get, and not to soapbox, but lemme just throw out another fucking explanation of exactly why this shit keeps happening in the slim chance that it helps at least one person not fall for it:
Fascism in ANY form will ALWAYS present itself as reasonable to YOUR sensibilities. It preys on a lot of things, your disgust reaction, your fear reaction, your own shame, your need for a tribe, your need to feel like you’re part of something bigger than yourself, your need to protect your resources, your need to boost your own ego, your need to feel better than others, and in my opinion, the worst thing of all that it can prey on is your WANT TO DO GOOD.
It turns that Want To Do Good against you, gives you “acceptable targets” and sets you loose, thinking that you’re being a fucking super hero. Fascism will ALWAYS feel okay when you’re doing it because you understand why you’re doing it because you’ve been told why you should be doing it by someone who’s fucked the narrative to make you feel good about hurting other people because they’ve convinced you that you are protecting people by doing it!!
Fascism tells you: “The sort of people who value a sex scene in a movie are perverts, and perverts are dangerous, right? Oh god… What if they’re a rapist and that’s why they like that sort of stuff? Yeah, that trans girl that made that post about movies needing sex scenes… She pisses in a diaper, that’s fucking disgusting right? And she likes weird fiction… And diapers are meant for kids… So… Yeah… Exactly, you got it! See you figured out what she was too! So you should trust your gut with these people, you’re really good at spotting them! You know when someone is evil! And you DEFINITELY should not listen to a pervert explain themselves, because… Right, exactly, what’s the point? They’re just going to lie about it and probably say gross shit to you.”
Did you catch how that worked? It let YOU make the conclusion. It let YOU answer the questions and start setting shit in stone in your own mind. And the next thing you know, you’re using fiction as proof, anything outside of your own comfort levels as evidence, you’ve become an emotionally reactionary fascist who genuinely believes you are making the world better, and safer, for the people you love, and who love you in return.
Fascism doesn’t begin with violence, it begins with a kind hand held out in your direction from someone else who believes they’re helping. You might not even realize you’ve fucked up. Ever. That’s how it works. That’s how it thrives.
The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people But when we go to our homes, we will not find these homes destroyed.
The joy is indescribable here in all parts of the Gaza Strip. It seems like a real miracle.
Rafah crossing will open tomorrow, God willing We need help, please donate, my friends.
The State of Qatar announced a full agreement on all details and said that the ceasefire will be implemented on Sunday.
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