Hello! Ao3 Has Been Part Of An Unauthorized Data Scrape For GenAI Purposes. If Your Fic Has An ID Number

angel of darkness

Thank you @positivelyamazonian for the idea!

🖤 Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness ✨️... Modern audiences are just not ready for the edginess of this game 🤭

🖤 I'm so excited for the 2nd round of remasters and really wanted to paint something in time for the release! The end result it's pretty far from my original plan though, cause I ran out of time 😅

More witches art! ♥

reblog if you’re a writer who’s very terrible at responding to comments from your readers, but has read them all and loves and appreciates each and every single one of them very dearly

Fanfiction is great because you can see so clearly how people learn to write.

Some people, it's clear, learned almost entirely through absorbing the world around them. Grammar and punctuation will be all over the place, spellings are approximate, but the voice of the narration will come through so clearly. You can hear the dialect of the people around them as of they're telling the story. It's not a written story, it's a transcription of how they talk in their day to day life.

Some people learned through reading a gazillion books as a kid. Grammer and spelling will be rock solid, formatting occasionally based on the single tab of physical books rather than the double tab of online scrolling, but dialogue is often stilted and overly formal. You might notice a lack of contractions and very rigid rules they made for consistency that actually have a lot more flexibility than they think. They tend to have a fantastic grasp of sentence flow, though.

And other people formally learned how to write. This could be anywhere from taking school classes seriously because they enjoyed writing stories as a kid to literal certifications and jobs in the field. Grammer is flawless. Punctuation is triple checked. Foreign words are in italics. Characters have distinct voices. But their self indulgence is tempered by perfectionism. They know precisely what they want from a fic. Authors notes often feature mutterings about their happiness with the chapter. Kaomojis often appear! They seek a style to their writing, and it makes for some wonderfully clever plots! These are the ones most likely to get fun with formatting!

And some people.... Some people examined it all. They dissect dialogue, people watch, cross reference behaviours and compare characters to people irl. You can tell almost immediately who had formative experiences with Terry pratchett and/or ghibli, because it's these people. While others see writing as fun, expression, craft, they see it as art. Plain and simple. Sure, the grammar is occasionally sacrificed on the altar of creative freedom, and the occasional sentence might miss a full stop, but these people seem to self reflect on themselves as part of the art making process. On occasion, these people have the most masterful grasp of dialogue and invocation and hand sewn characterisations. Formatting is pretty standard because all the focus is on the actual words. These fics can be edited to the moon and back!

All of these can vary wildly in forethought and quality, and betas can often catch individual problems before they hit post, but just. Isn't it so cool? What's that one Oscar Wilde quote about every mask just being another fragment of yourself?

Did you recognise yourself?

Writing is wild because you’ll plan a perfectly structured scene and then your character is like

“actually I’m gonna kiss this person now” or “what if I had a traumatic backstory I’ve never mentioned before”

and suddenly you’re spiraling because THEY’RE MAKING CHOICES and you’re just the poor little author with no control

like sir. ma’am. i gave you life. and now you’re rewriting your own plot??

Reblog this and tell me the most unhinged thing a character of yours did without permission.

I need solidarity. i need chaos. i need to know i’m not the only one getting bullied by their own cast.

i don't care if Cyberpunk 2077 was patched and made good. I genuinely think it's shameful that a video game could come out that broken and win an award years later. it's like if Morbius won an Oscar because the DVD release was good.

112/136.

That's how many of my fics were used to train generative AI tools without my consent. I will be frank, I do not think I am an incredible writer or the next master of fiction, but my writing means more to me than I can put into words, and if the people who did this or supported this had any respect for that feeling, then this wouldn't have happened.

Generative AI is not the answer to accessibility or whatever other lies are being fed to people about what it is about, especially not when it is stolen instead of willingly donated.

I cannot tell you how angry and hurt I am by what's happened to me and every other writer out there. Things like this make people give up on their art and throw away all their hard work just because other people are too lazy to try what they've been brave enough to attempt, and I have no explanation as to why because there is no explanation. If you want to write, then you have to write. If you want to draw, then you have to draw. The same goes for singing, acting, and every other creative field that I cannot list right now. Depending on generative AI while demanding to be appreciated as an artist is the most ridiculous thing I can possibly imagine.

Generative AI is not art. People who use it are not artists. If you want to make art, then put in the damn work like everyone else.

2 days baby!

Art: Me (ixcato)

Software: Clip Studio Paint