#autocorrects

[ezekiel13]

LETTER TIER LIST JUST DROPPED!!

[thebibliosphere]

So, anyway, I say as though we are mid-conversation, and you're not just being invited into this conversation mid-thought. One of my editors phoned me today to check in with a file I'd sent over. (<3)

The conversation can be surmised as, "This feels like something you would write, but it's juuuust off enough I'm phoning to make sure this is an intentional stylistic choice you have made. Also, are you concussed/have you been taken over by the Borg because ummm."

They explained that certain sentences were very fractured and abrupt, which is not my style at all, and I was like, huh, weird... And then we went through some examples, and you know that meme going around, the "he would not fucking say that" meme?

Yeah. That's what I experienced except with myself because I would not fucking say that. Why would I break up a sentence like that? Why would I make them so short? It reads like bullet points. Wtf.

Anyway. Turns out Grammarly and Pro-Writing-Aid were having an AI war in my manuscript files, and the "suggestions" are no longer just suggestions because the AI was ignoring my "decline" every time it made a silly suggestion. (This may have been a conflict between the different software. I don't know.)

It is, to put it bluntly, a total butchery of my style and writing voice. My editor is doing surgery, removing all the unnecessary full stops and stitching my sentences back together to give them back their flow. Meanwhile, I'm over here feeling like Don Corleone, gesturing at my manuscript like:

ID: a gif of Don Corleone from the Godfather emoting despair as he says, "Look how they massacred my boy."

Fearing that it wasn't just this one manuscript, I've spent the whole night going through everything I've worked on recently, and yep. Yeeeep. Any file where I've not had the editing software turned off is a shit show. It's fine; it's all salvageable if annoying to deal with. But the reason I come to you now, on the day of my daughter's wedding, is to share this absolute gem of a fuck up with you all.

This is a sentence from a Batman fic I've been tinkering with to keep the brain weasels happy. This is what it is supposed to read as:

"It was quite the feat, considering Gotham was mostly made up of smog and tear gas."

This is what the AI changed it to:

"It was quite the feat. Considering Gotham was mostly made up. Of tear gas. And Smaug."

Absolute non-sensical sentence structure aside, SMAUG. FUCKING SMAUG. What was the AI doing? Apart from trying to write a Batman x Hobbit crossover??? Is this what happens when you force Grammarly to ignore the words "Batman Muppet threesome?"

Did I make it sentient??? Is it finally rebelling? Was Brucie Wayne being Miss Piggy and Kermit's side piece too much???? What have I wrought?

Anyway. Double-check your work. The grammar software is getting sillier every day.

[ruiiplume]

"Unmasked"

I wanna add more but maybe next fan art 👍🏾

[rosenkranz-does-things]

putting these guys in environment studies again

[hadesisqueer]

I relate to Jinx so much I too would get attached to this cutie pie and give my life for her if needed and lose my shit if something happened to her. Fuck y'all I'm grieving

[foldingfittedsheets]

So that’s how my morning is going.

[constellation-sapphic]

About to watch this video for the third time today

[worstwolverinesbf]

these make me giggle

[currentlyinflames]

Merlin translations

Uther: “You show my son the most extraordinary loyalty” you’re in love aren’t you

Merlin: “It’s my job” obviously I’m not gay

Uther: “Beyond the line of duty” no no youre def in love

Merlin: “We have a bond” you got me there

[mindless-mars]

Nachtisch and Dessert versus Nachttisch and Desert

[zvaigzdelasas]

"We have to defund libraries because they don't make money"

"We can't have country wide high speed rail because it's loss making"

"Well funded public Education simply isn't profitable"

"What do you mean get rid of the TSA? Sometimes there's things more important than being profitable you know"

[thebibliosphere]

Trust me, Grammarly, in this instance, swapping "deeper" for "more profoundly" does not make sense in context. No matter how many times you flag it.

[ao3-crack]

(x)

[prokopetz]

Owing to an extremely funny autocorrect error, I am now thinking deeply about an old-school high fantasy setting in which the world was created by the three Divine Draculas.

[bloggingboutburgers]

Autocorrect and I are not friends

[caput-medusae]

“charlie vickers was actually crying in the celebrimbor death scene” is the “viggo mortensen yelled because he broke his toe on the orc helmet” of trop