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People are so hateful these days, almost like if hating something gives them value

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I understand why people are sick of ai by now and I kinda share the sentiment as ai researcher, but

Disabled people exist. And they want to create shit too.

Someone might not be abled enough to type these 500 words — ai can ease this job for them by typing 600 words they can edit. Intellectual disabilities exist too, some people struggle with reading and writing words (for example me, I’m dyslexic) enough to hate the whole process. It shouldn’t mean I should stop writing at all. You and I both use the same “ai” technology in our daily lives within our smartphones called “predicative typing” — without it I wouldn’t be able to write a single word right. LLMs work similar, just in a bigger scale.

Someone might not be in the resource to actually commit into creative writing — because of depression, or some other underlying reason. PTSD, trauma, flashbacks, whatever else — can be overwhelming enough to drain them of all energy. But they still have ideas and implementing them, even so, is part of their healing.

If ai isn’t used to directly harm anyone, if it’s just a fanfiction written and distributed for free — why do you even care? Just walk past it if you don’t like it.

But don’t deny people the ability to create at least something. Them being honest about using ai is a good thing, not a reason to bully them

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

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Does this mean I won’t wake up one morning? Woohoo!

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Split fiction yuri this, split fiction yuri that

Yeah, reasonable, true, makes sense, you’re absolutely right and correct 👍

But can we take a step back and actually acknowledge that this Rader guy laying there with his hair being a mess and with blood over his face is uhhm kinda hot?

Ice king was a cutie pie too, btw

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the premise of Split Fiction would be so funny with fanfic writers like yepp this is my high fantasy masterpiece i came here to get published. and this other universe? its the one where my guys are sucking and fucking. enjoy stealing that

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we're so back

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dick makes people mentally ill. dick havers, dick wannabes and dick lovers are all insane. it's like toxoplasmosis, you have compulsive need to defend and push and worship dicks all the time and spead your dick mania to everywhere you go.

this seems rational and grounded in empirical evidence

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Debugging in python feels like exorcism

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I need to note that they also swap places

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rb to have a super gay 2023

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i feel you Viago

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i feel so old saying this, but i want to write it down for myself: Assan is also Davrin's "son" (and Davrin keeps calling him kid in game almost all the time), and the thing parents have with their kids is that you get to experience life twice: through yourself and through your kid, and it is twice as frightening to do so

Davrin is scared to give Assan agency at first because he's scared to lose him, and he thinks only he can protect his baby griffon from dangers. But truth is, Assan grew up to the point where he already learnt all the lessons Davrin meant to give him, and now he builds something of his own on top of that. As a teenager. And Davrin is scared of losing him not only literally like in battle, he is also super frustrated with the fear of losing his baby catbird to him becoming a big dangerous mythical creature that doesnt need Davrin. It is seen pretty clearly when you decide the future of the griffons, and Davrin seems to be ready to the fact Assan will just abandon him with no second thought, and shocked when he doesnt.

And not because he loves Davrin that much. He doesnt, because Davrin is a good parent, because he accepted Assan's personal self and freed him (as much as he was able to) from the chains of his helicopter parenting. He doesnt choose peers over parent because he trusts his parent will let him go when he'll need it. And we've been watching Davrin struggle with this idea from the very beginning of his character arc, going the entire way from "stay behind and be quiet" to "go on scout the place"

and i think it's been a beautiful growth of him as a parent, and its been really obvious Assan wasnt written as a pet or as a service dog. Assan was written as Davrin's kid. And it makes sense that if Davrin dies, his kid is doomed with him (even through within the game logic the griffon didnt have to fly into the blight after him)

kinda upset by how many people are insisting that davrin's narrative is more about assan than davrin

it's really not

everything revolving around how davrin interacts with assan is also him talking to himself

which is a perspective problem that all of the companions have

they are all people who are too in their own heads to be able to resolve some of their deeper fundamental conflicts, because all of them are deeply lonely and alienated from their respective social environments, convinced in various ways that they cannot relate too others or be related too in turn, which is one of the things that makes them the perfect team to hunt down solas, who has the same problems writ large across the ages.

and in overcoming their issues and turning to rook and each other for external opinions while solas observes rook it demonstrates that other courses of action are possible and that there is value in trusting others with their loneliness and vulnerability but ANYWAY

davrin pretty clearly projects his feelings about his own upbringing onto assan, including the very

clearly present problems he has experienced as a dalish warden, if we let ourselves see them. he's not turning around to us and saying directly that he's been treated like shit by humans for most of his life in any run i've had so far. he also doesn't need too. he demonstrates it with the positions he holds.

how he advocates for not revealing the truth behind the origins of the elves, because it will make their lives harder than they already are.

how he tells assan that he needs to toughen up or he'll get chewed up by the world. that he's meant to be a hunter. that it's in his blood. it's what he's for.

how he changes his mind when he sees assan interact with the halla. how it clearly reminds him, along with his reconnection with endrin, that he was once a little boy who sang to halla. that he is more than violence, more than the hunt, more than a living weapon meant to be used once and then disposed of.

i've barely touched on his romance at all in my current run but like. please. even without it, just from my first run:

davrin is so clearly afraid of abandonment, of rejection. of letting his guard down and letting people in because it might compromise his dedication to his chosen path - *as are they all, in different ways, which is on purpose* - that he is trying to raise assan to protect him from davrin's own pain.

which doesn't work! that doesn't work.

davrin looks at assan and names him arrow. davrin looks at himself and calls himself a weapon. davrin doesn't let himself return to his clan because he anticipates their rejection. because he already didn't fit in with them to start with. davrin never gives us his last name.

the unity between warden and griffon comes when davrin stops just projecting his own pain and fears onto assan, and learns how to work with assan as he is. In doing so, it makes him realize he can be more than a weapon. That there's an option for him beyond sacrifice and vigilance. That he can find peace. it is a reconciliation of disparate aspects of his Self, which is another recurring narrative thread in the game.

Davrin doesn't have to completely disconnect from his people. He doesn't have to himself separate and away from everyone, protecting them from what he perceives as his inevitable end, or from harming them. Assan can just be Assan, and Davrin can just be Davrin, and they love each other.

he reconciles himself with his complex feelings around his clan, finds value in the lessons they taught him that he chafed against as a younger man. he reconciles himself with the complex history of the wardens, and looks for a different future with them too.

assan is bright and vibrant and alive and new and, to borrow davrin's word, "pure". He can be anything. He reminds Davrin that he can be anything, too. Assan is a catalyst, he's not the actual focus. He is the catalyst for realizations in every scene we see him in in Davrin's personal quests, which are always actually about Davrin.