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the little silver deer and the found heaven necklace sitting next to each other on the chain around my neck hmm

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OW MY SHOULDER IS FUCKED

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the BEST fics are always the ones where remus lupin is having an absolutely awful time

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sibling relationships are so strange... like i love you. you will never understand me in a way that matters. we are the same person in drastically different ways. we are sewn together. we don't talk. we are attached at the hip. you wish i was never born. can i call you. let's eat together. i forgive you. etc

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“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.

writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.

using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.

long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.

“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.

italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.

stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.

because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.

anyway. fuck ai.

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Aaron Minyard in the foxhole court specifically, character of all time. moisturized unbothered in his lane etc etc. he's got like two and a half lines and pops off with each one. serves cunt on the court. serves cunt on the dancefloor. he's hardly present so he's at his least aggressive out of all three books, in his unproblematic era. doesn't care about anyone's drama but best believe he's paying attention. mans is in the kitchen doing dishes while the others are throwing fits and acting out. king shit.

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might fuck around and drink the daily recommended amount of water

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i love reading fanfiction!!! the happiness that is running through my veins right now!!! oh i could jump up and down in joy!!!! it's so so wonderful oh i make silly little stories and then i read other people's silly little stories and we all have a fun time oh this is what life is about!!!!!!!

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The first thing Andrew ever did to Neil was stop him from running

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there are times when james is tired and doesn’t have the strength to carry out a conversation. contrary to what the others believe, though, james did not want to be left alone when this happened. he hated when it got too quiet so he pushed himself to be the one who talks even when he doesn’t want to. before they even got together, regulus sensed this and he would yap for hours on end. james’ only responses were “hmm” “yes” and small chuckles here and there but it didn’t discourage regulus. james appreciatied it so much

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Reread the great gatsby last week. Oh, Jay

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one of the books i have to read for my ap lang class is one i was assigned for 8th grade summer reading and i genuinely crashed out onto the floor at the sight of it

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i am a tragedy enjoyer before i am human

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no one talks about how straight up painful it is to be the bigger person when deep in your soul you just want to be a huge bitch about it

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i haven't woken up this early since may

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you know its bad when grammarly is asking you if you want to check the doc for mistakes because it looks 'a little long'