I'm not sure if I seen any posts going around discussing the recent VERY DETAILED (and honestly kind of poetic in how vitriolic they are) AI generated spambots on AO3.
I feel like I just need to spread the word, because these guys are NASTY. But they aren't real! You can tell that by the fact that they don't mention a fandom, a character, or anything even remotely about the fic itself.
Just wanted to put it out there in case anyone gets one of these and it crushes them. Never stop writing. Writing and story telling is one of the oldest ways of connecting with other humans. It's a gift to this world. Keep writing!!!
some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.
I couldn't remember the word "doorknob" ten minutes ago.
ok but the onelook thesaurus will save your life, i literally could not live without this website
REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER'S LIFE
LIFE SAVED
REBLOGGING TO SAVE ANOTHER WRITERS LIFE
I use this every time I sit down to write. It's the best tool in the world and I would be lost without it!
since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"
some people think this is a shitpost so i want to clarify that i am dead fucking serious. make mage the official gender neutral honorific NOW. i want it on my passport. i want it on my bank account. i want doctors and judges to use it for me. i don't care if it sounds a little silly. people thought "missus" sounded crass at first. call me mg.
benefits of mg:
- easy to pronounce, even for children (though kids 4 & younger may pronounce it more like "mayd" or "maygh")
- ONE SYLLABLE!!! ("individual" is too goddamn LONG.) you have to be able to say it quickly and casually
- ends in a soft vowel sound, so it'll flow right into the next word ("ind" halts the whole sentence)
- fits neatly into the existing structure as a relative of master/mistress that can be abbreviated down to an m and one other letter
- distinct enough that it can't be mistaken for either gendered term (if you call me mix I'll kill you. it sounds like miss with extra steps)
- wizard.
drawbacks:
- there aren't any
- yes, i know about milligrams and magnesium. i don't give a shit. ms can also mean microsoft. who cares.
I had to find this from somewhere and reblog it again because I work at a high school summer camp and told the kids to call me Mg. Day during our first day programming today.
They went NUTS for it! Not only did they love it, but there was an immediate click in understanding about they/them pronouns *from the entire cohort* that I haven’t experienced in 3 years of programming.
And linking it back to the root words Mister and Missus as OP so wonderfully provided helped establish that using they/them or neopronouns isn’t just playing around or “Miss but different” the way it can be with Mx. I used to try to go by Teacher Day because I was still getting she/her’d all the time but that also came with the problems of the students only being able to see me in the role of Teacher and being intimidated by the educational institution and their grades (I don’t even work for the school I’m external staff I don’t even have WiFi access). And I’d still get she/her’d all the time.
As soon as I introduced Magister they saw that a nonbinary person could be an Adult with a *societal* role outside the binary. It was immediately visible in their ecstatic faces. And I didn’t get misgendered today.
The only downside is I’m gonna have to practice my card tricks because I did promise I could do magic!
I have to write scenes on Cybertron for my Transformers fic, and given that it's the TfP universe, I have been given free reign on what their atmosphere is composed of as long as it can't sustain (most) organic life.
This, combined with my fascination of hydrogen fire, has brought me to produce this atmospheric composition:
- Argon - 60%
- Hydrogen - 23%
- Methane - 12%
- Other gasses - 5%
Buuut, I also have a nagging feeling that this would cause something to blow up, and that usually isn't a good thing.
You’re not going to have to worry about fire unless you have oxygen. Hydrogen and methane play nice with each other so those guys should be chilling. Even if you add in the carbon monoxide you guys were discussing it should still be chilling. You could have reactions like the water gas shift reaction or Boudouard reaction but those will only start causing problems at higher temperatures like 500degC.
I’ve done some research into this stuff for work previously.
I have to write scenes on Cybertron for my Transformers fic, and given that it's the TfP universe, I have been given free reign on what their atmosphere is composed of as long as it can't sustain (most) organic life.
This, combined with my fascination of hydrogen fire, has brought me to produce this atmospheric composition:
- Argon - 60%
- Hydrogen - 23%
- Methane - 12%
- Other gasses - 5%
Buuut, I also have a nagging feeling that this would cause something to blow up, and that usually isn't a good thing.
I think that seekers and other flightframes would have some kind of suppressant for ground sickness, the same way humans have antidepressants. Since I assume ground sickness triggers the fight-or-flight response, the suppressant would have to somehow block certain receptors in a flightframe's processor. It would probably work for other frame types as well, for better or worse.
I have no idea what they would call it, but I feel like it would exist.