Holy shit why is swing music so good???
how it all feels lately
Listening to bagpipe music with a muted awards show is honestly very fitting and makes it so funny
Dude I am actually such a nerd are we kidding
I can’t watch mainstream stuff without like wanting to watch a dnd podcast I haven’t touched in a bit instead
Like it’s not even the one I am currently working through just one I used to listen to
Man I wish I could be watching — instead
Girl????
there’s so much evidence THEIR WORDING is SO specific
Can you guys confirm, is it normal to smell the scent you are remembering when you remember it? But like it works in two ways
1) I think if a scent and imagine what it smells like, like what I think is normal and how normal people remember scents
2) I smell a scent first (but it’s not actually there in the room, and I can tell by smelling the room) and then I am reminded of the scent because something caused me to smell it
If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…
Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.
Including (sigh) the em dash.
There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.
A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.
No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.
You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.
Defend the em dash.
(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)
My history teacher encouraged us to use AI to help us revise for our upcoming history test
You know what I'm gonna do?
Revise like a MAN 🗣️🔥🔥PAPER🔥🗣️🗣️PEN🔥🗣️🗣️ INFINITE KNOWLEDGE 🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️
hey, if conformitygate isn't real tomorrow I am letting everyone know this right now.
PUT. THIS. IN. YOUR. POCKET.
This idea is GENIUS, and I know how many ao3 authors are like mid-late teens-early adults, but this idea is genuinely amazing and could be a REAL thing in a piece of film/media that one of you guys make in the near future. Because now you know how to write a good series. Don't let anything stop you, we know how that went (cough cough volume 2)
This is your sign (whether conformitygate/9th episode is real or not) to take inspiration FROM conformitygate. Like I said, this idea Is genius. Like- I cant even explain how crazy it is. Think about it, gaslighting EVERYBODY the finale came out? it premiered in THEATRES. Then, BOOM. REAL FINALE, YOU'RE IN A FAKE REALITY. WAKE UP. Do you guys understand how smart that is? not just in an intellectual and compelling narrative way, but in a marketing way as well.
make it happen!! make a fake finale!!! make that slow-burn queer romance!! make everything YOU wish you saw in media when you needed it most!!
