This is my oldest draft and honestly don’t know if the world will ever be ready for it

saw a youtube video about last year's ao3 scrape for some AI site and i truly like....honestly could not give a fuck. sorry.

1. i am legally forbidden from making money on this stuff anyway.
2. feeding all of ao3 into an LLM is not going to produce anything interesting or good.
3. even if it DID produce something interesting or good, there is already plenty of good fanfiction that isn't written by me, and that does not harm me.
4. none of this is going to produce a "replicate my personal writing style" machine. but even if someone did train a model specifically on all of my work and asked it to create something in my style. that would be kind of creepy and strange, but it still would not harm me. it wouldn't mean i couldn't write more fanfiction and it wouldn't mean nobody would read my work anymore.

ao3's statement on this topic kinda cuts to the core of the issue: "It is an unfortunate reality that anything that is publicly available online can be used for reasons other than its initial intended purposes."

it's truly like. sorry!!! putting your work out there means that people have free rein to misinterpret it, or criticize it, or write the same idea in their own words, or print it out and make blackout poetry of it! if someone is wholesale plagiarizing your work and posting it back on the site, ao3 has multiple mechanisms to resolve this. otherwise you gotta shrug and move on. your work being repurposed in ways you don't like can feel bad, but like. unfortunately, if you create fanworks, there is no way to come after uses of your work that you don't like without kicking yourself in the face in the process.

ICE fucking abandoned the scene in a Minneapolis neighborhood and left their battle plans and designs on the city, fake license plates, and challenge tokens which they reward themselves for arrests. Looney Tunes shit.

We need to investigate the transfem cryptobuddhism phenomenon

rip to the dilbert guy. i feel like you were a trailblazer in the very specific way the internet turns people nuts

absolutely nothing but contempt for people who talk like this. At least fucking own your convictions instead of hiding behind this turbulent priest shit. Say you want death squads with your whole chest!

It’s been 2 years since I lost my friend. My found family, my Bat. Simply the coolest human of all of em. The best among bastards and miscreant scamps. The best of the biggest hearts. He would’ve loved so many of you, I’m sorry we didn’t have more time. He loved my kids like family. So much. So much so it’s like I’ve lost two parents and in my joy at feeling so loved and seen by someone I forgot I’d be passing on another lost grandparent to my children.

It’s been 2 years. I talk to his ghost often. If you knew him, you know how lucky we were to be stardust together, at the same time because he was a once in a lifetime experience, love, he was an eclipse over blooming bluebonnets, he was a singularity of joy so powerful not even light could escape his spirit. He’s not here in a way that feels both unfair and given the current world, a small grace. But he isn’t gone either, he couldn’t be. Not him. Not ever. Bat saw me in him, which I do not take lightly, which I can’t not see as an honor. He helped me become the most me and he’d be so proud of what my life has become these last 2 years (spoiler: it was on no one’s bingo card)

To have been chosen by him, to have been loved by him will always be among the best applause I could ever get

I miss you MamaBat

@saint-batrick

this is petty beef but its so stupid to be antipsych and also a practicing catholic. forced institutionalization is bad but its fine to compel seven year olds to confess their deepest thoughts to some old fuck every week. if they're an adult convert i think the damage of religion to children simply does not occur to them... a deeply embarrassing flaw for someone who defines themselves by their principles