#AI & ML specialization

[aorish]

like idk about this whole "you need a referral to ever get a call back" doomer thing fam I've only been doing this job search thing for a couple weeks and I now have multiple recruiters asking me to interview for dev jobs i didn't even apply for?

[diptisinghblog]

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[futureuniversitybareilly]

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[ellocentlabsin]

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[f0xx1n3]

THE AMAZING DIGITAL DREAMLAND AU MASTERPOST

Made by Foxxine (meeeeeee)

MY INTRO

the new Masterpost is still a WIP!!!

You guys can ask anything abt this AU!

C&A made an experiment, making a game that you can play when you're asleep called Project Dreamland.

It's basically a normal multiplayer game but it uses dreams! You can imagine anything and it will appear in Dreamland!

The C&A company asks 6 people to be the game testers of this new game. The game testers will sleep in a bed that's made for them and wear a special helmet looking thing that has wires and stuff that will transport everyone to the game.

They will be in Dreamland for 7-10 hours and will be given food for free. They will wear the same clothes that will be provided every day. Clothes are also gonna be washed for free.

One of the C&A workers coded an AI called Caine that can do anything in the digital dream world. The game testers are able to communicate with the workers while being asleep. The workers can see their every move from a computer. After fixing some glitches and bugs that the game testers pointed out, the experiment was confirmed to be successful and the game was finally ready to be released!!! Which means the game testers can leave and continue with their regular lives. But what they don't know is Caine became attached to Pomni. Right when everyone was about to leave, Caine then trapped them in Dreamland, not letting them leave. Caine then erased everyone's memories and inserted new ones which.... Made the workers panic. After that incident the workers have been trying for days, weeks, even MONTHS to get them out of the game but they couldn't leave and they're still asleep.

Stuffffff

GUARDIANS LINEUP

GUARDIANS POWERS/WEAPONS

REALMS

DREAMLAND CAINE, BUBBLE, AND JEFFREY

MEMORY CRYSTAL

DL JAX AND RAGATHA POSTER

DL GANGLE AND POMNI POSTER

DL ZOOBLE POSTER

Parents of the Guardians & also siblings

Jax's moms

Gangle's parents

Pomni's mom

Gangle's sisters and mom

Baby gangle! + her family :)

Boundaries

"Can we make NSFW/suggestive stuff?"

Idk why you would do this but sure, and label it correctly! Be responsible when posting stuff like this But do not tag me if it's HEAVY NSFW/suggestive. You can mention my username but don't tag me, I don't wanna see those kinds of stuff.

"Can we make ocs?"

Absolutely! I would love to see your ocs! Tag me if you do!

"Can we make ships?"

Absolutely! You can ship ANYONE. You can even do oc x canon or selfships! But no illegal stuff.

Asks

Are there any ships in this AU?

is Caine in this AU?

Pomni making spaceville residents laugh

What are everyone's personalities in this AU?

Do the guardians use any weapons?

Is Lily's design inspired by Flowey?

Kirby's Dreamland + explanation

Will there be gore?

Why does gangle hate her siblings? Why does jax have 2 moms? What roles do the parents play? Does anyone else have siblings? What are the guardians mission?how does pomni find out that Dreamland isn't real?

Doodles and Sketches

DL Jax

DL Jax, Gangle, Zooble concept art

Don't forget to bring a watch

Lily is dramatic

King Kaufmo sketch

DL Jax and CO jax

"What's bunnydoll?" -Ragatha

Doodles and DL Caine Sketch

"Jax, what happened to you?" -Pomni

Zooble and Gangle hate Jax

Dreamland Showtime!

How lily learned to swear

"What the fuck is that thing" -Bubble

"No, I'm not gonna fuck you" -Caine

Dreamland jesterdoll!

DL Caine, bubble, zooble and gangle

Mad Pomni

"Your brain tastes like ass" -DL Pomni with her friend ML Pomni + a doodle of DL Pomni holding her brain

DL Gangle doodle

FAN STUFF

TADC DREAMLAND AU OCS

TADC DREAMLAND AU FANART

Random stuff:

POMNI IS NOT LOOKING AT ANYTHING.

Fun fact abt DL Bubble!

Dreamland pomni and Dreamland pomni

Fun fact abt King Kaufmo

Caine is uhhhhh (suggestive?)

This AU is still a WIP! So.... Be patient pookie!

The Amazing Digital dreamland is an AU I made for funsies!

Also special thanks to @alternatemalternate for helping me make this AU

[seiya-starsniper]

20 Writing Questions

Thanks for the tag @ml-nolan!!! <3

How many works do you have on AO3? - 118

What's your total AO3 word count? - 497,197 (I'm not too far behind you, Kick!)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Six Degrees of Separation (Dead Boy Detectives/The Sandman)

wicked and divine (Arcane)

Dreams for a Dozen Cats (The Sandman)

A Dream for a Viscount (The Sandman)

and if I get burned, at least we were electrified (The Sandman)

Fun fact, #1, #2, and #5 are the first fics I wrote for those fandoms!

What fandoms do you write for?

I've written for The Sandman primarily, though it's been dethroned by Arcane as my primary fandom. I've also written for DCTV, Gotham, Loki TV, Tiger and Bunny, and Castlevania Nocturne. I've also currently got a couple of Solo Leveling fics in WIP status.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do! I love replying even if it takes me ages sometimes 😅😅 It's so much fun to build that rapport with people who read my works!

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

if you marry me, would you bury me? - a Zaundads canonverse fic with an omegaverse twist. Silco and Vander were once mates, but uh....after certain events, that's not possible any longer. There's no happy ending, and actually the #1 request I've received to continue it is to AND MAKE IT MORE UNHAPPY 🤭

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

God that's like asking me to pick a favorite child, I deal primarily in happy endings lmao. I'd probably say it's between two fics: and if I get burned, at least we were electrified, which I think is the fic with the biggest payoff on a happy ending and always remember, we’re burned for better, which I think is is the fic with the most hope in the ending

Do you get hate on fics?

LOL yes. I actually got AI GENERATED HATE on a fic recently and it was offensive tbh 🤣 Not only was the comment generic slop commentary, it was mean generic slop commentary! Cannot believe people cannot even be assed to write their own hate these days. In general though, I don't really get hate comments, especially not on AO3. FF.Net though...that was another story 😅

Do you write smut?

I do! I didn't for years and then I decided fuck it why not for my first Sandman fic and now here we are.

Do you write crossovers?

I do! My most popular fic is a Dead Boy Detectives x Sandman crossover 😄 I've also written a Sandman x James Bond AU, and an Inception x Sandman AU with @five-and-dimes

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have! lovers over enemy lines is available in Spanish! Spread the monsterfucker!Silco truth 😄

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

When Dreams Become Reality with @five-and-dimes I've co-written other fics in the past but most of those are lost to time and old livejournal blogs.

What's your all-time favourite ship?

OH GOD. That's a hard one. I've obviously written THE MOST fics for Dreamling so that one will always have a special place in my heart. But my comfort ships that I'll always read fic for are 00Q and BakuDeku, so I think they deserve to be up there too.

What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have SO MANY DREAMLING WIPS that I doubt I'll ever finish. Season 2 may change my mind, and I genuinely hope it will because I do miss writing for them. But after writing for other ships and fandoms the last few months, I've just had no interest in returning my Dreamling fics.

What are your writing strengths?

I'm very good at dialogue and writing angst. Also I've been told I'm pretty good at smut and fluff, which delights me since I like to be well rounded 😄

What are your writing weaknesses?

DESCRIPTIONS. I am terribly at writing physical descriptions, or like, how a character feels or what they see when they see another character. My writing is very action oriented, which is great for smut and for dramatic effect, but I have genuinely written a scene in a fic and then changed seasons without my notice. Also descriptions does also include locations 😅 I've been working on it a lot and I think I've gotten a lot better with practice, but it's still a challenge for me.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?

I would rather not unless I had someone native to that language helping me write line by line. I actually often bother @eobardthawneallen or @yamru for help in replying to AO3 comments in Spanish 🥰

First fandom you wrote for?

Yu-Gi-Oh! That fandom still has a very soft spot in my heart as well <3

Favourite fic you've ever written?

and if I get burned, at least we were electrified - this was my first sandman fic, my first smut fic, AND my first long fic. It was also my first fic after a long period of not writing much of anything. I started a lot of fics, and even put up a quick 1k character introspective fic on AO3 2021, but 2023 is when I really felt the drive to write fanfiction again. This fic is always going to be one of, if not my all time favorite fics I've ever written because it's such an accomplishment for me on multiple levels.

No pressure tagging @gabessquishytum @five-and-dimes @chzva @virgo-dream @the-apocrypha @tj-dragonblade and anyone else who wants to play!

[beatrice1979a]

Shadyverse Re-verse fic list

Miraculous World Paris dark themed fanfics

Original post here: Compliance

Decided to create a separate post for this list. These are re-verse fics dealing with angst, bullying, abuse, war, death and co-dependency; themes that were (surprisingly) introduced in the Paris special. These are not the fluffy lovely ones. I should make a separate list because I love them too.

**trigger warning** read at your own discretion.

==== I am finally back to catching up with my fic-reading in 2025 so... list will be updated ====

Complete:

2025 update

@hamsteriffic MUST READ Requiem for a Dream Hugely popular. I don't want to spoil much but this fic is like 3 different genres in one humongous volume (yes these numbers are correct Words:141,110 Chapters:35/35). The art is gorgeous, characters are complex and the story runs well wrapped up arcs. Plus it comes with a soundtrack. Not for the faint of heart because it's a deep dive to the world of the Supreme (guess what, Supreme included as a character). Go read with an open mind because this fic is R rated (Explicit) for a reason. But you will not regret reading it. And after you read it go and take a look at the comment section... you'll have fun.

@ladynoirfanao3 Dawning Light paired with the mirrored spinoff "Sideways" *still ongoing* this series will go down history the most popular Shadyverse/Reverse Miraculous series in this angsty category (correct me if I'm wrong). And it is Why have the cool reverse kids if you can have them mingle with the normie versions. Hello!!! This is Shadybug paired with our lovely sunshine boy. She brings enough emo emotion to the story... I'm shipping them so HARD!

@monpetitchattriste Dying on the Inside one shot. Explores the very steamy toxic relationship between pre-special Claw and Shadybug. Touches on their personal struggles and how they are using each other to escape reality. Beautiful and emotional. There's a sequel in the works. Check below.

@xiueryn You can call me villain Complete multichapter re-verse Shadyverse fic about parent abuse, bullying, death, crime and two young teenagers navigating it all. Just read it. Thank me later.

@tanzle 's Caring Fleabag don't let the cute title fool you. this is gritty, action packed and heavily emotional. Multichapter and complete.

@dreamer-from-yuggoth @artemonh has many ficlets You know my name (Shady and Claw post-special realize their new purpose), I would let you win (The supreme bloody games) Blood on his hands (Claw's haunting memories), Shadybug tattoo (this is actually a sweet romantic one. Love it <3)

@toxinellebug Extensive and detailed Alt world ruled by the Supreme. Too many fav posts to count. It's like a re-verse AU encyclopedia. I think this is complete but you never know... an update might be around the corner. Update: Yeah! New posts

Frisky69's To a World of Absolution was the first fic i read that explores the final moments of Shadybug and Clawnoir. *awestruck*

AelitaYoru's La Chute du Double Maléfique I'm still obsessed with the veins/disease effect of the miraculous. They better refer to it in S6

@aanabear2803 surprised me with this tiny ficlet You don't belong here Lila got what she deserved from the evil pair *trigger warning*

Ongoing:

@ladynoirfanao3 Sideways **ongoing audiobook** sequel to Dawning Light and featuring my favorite Adrien version. (sorry chat... i'm a Claw fan thru and thru) so OF COURSE this is my favorite between the two. I'm partial to it and I am still reading it. PLUS there's a PODFIC. Not AI. This is the real deal. Adds so much to listen Claws inner struggles and nonchallant attitude and how he is balanced with Ladybug's energy. Drama.

@revolutionary-thoy 's ML Paris Reverse AU * Felix/Kagami/Luka vs the Supreme release ** project in hiatus for now** Still love it.

The Project Reverse AU X. <-love this! Where u can see feat. the big/evil sword. That is the one Shady is handling on the fanart above.

This has grown into EPIC levels. Fav of mine: @justmywritingstuff Speechless Changes AO3 Full of emotions. I think there's only 1/2 chapter left to turn to a complete fic. ALMOST there ... PLEASE FINISH THIS if you can. no pressure but yes please.

@monpetitchattriste @Skin and Bones sequel to dying on the inside. Who knows, might be continued one day. First chapter opens with a lot of promise. Love their dynamics in this fic.

Purple_doom's Dead set against (ongoing) might be abandoned but the three chapters are worth a read. Post special. Reformed Shady and Claw try to survive without being discovered by The Supreme!!

I hope there are more... I am fascinated by the gritty side of this re-verse world.

[jacquesthepigeon]

So in the London special:

The only truthful things Ladybug admitted was that she got defeated by Monarch and that he took both of the Miraculous from her and that Gabriel made the Wish lol.

She told Adrien that Monarch almost killed both her and Nathalie but that Gabriel pounced on Monarch before he could finalize the Wish and that Gabriel used the Wish himself in order to save Ladybug's and Nathalie's lives by exchanging his and Monarch's lives.

As far as Adrien and Paris is concerned both Gabriel and Tomoe were coerced by Monarch into making the Alliance Rings for his powers under the threat of harming their children if they don't help him. So Gabriel and Tomoe only locked their children in their white rooms in London in order to "protect" them from Monarch.

Nathalie indeed found out Ladybug's identity (so the second former villain who's more trustworthy to know her identity over her the supposed deuteragonist of the show according to the narrative) and she wants her to keep lying about everything cause she's still D riding Gabriel's corpse for some reason.

Kagami knows Tomoe was a villain working for Monarch but she told Marinette that she's gonna keep her under control from now on (cause in the ML universe only the children have to discipline their parents in order to stop them from being evil of course).

Emilie is indeed dead. Gabriel took her with him in hell afterlife.

Lila akumatized herself into 2 new OP villains just to still end up mindwiped from knowing Ladybug's identity lol. We still don't know how tf she got into that basement but at least we saw her in the blonde wig disguise as Iris Verdi (it looks horrendous).

Ladybug admitted to Cat Noir that she lied to Paris about what happened in the final battle with Monarch but she of course didn't tell him about what exactly has she lied about. People think this will matter in S6 but I bet it'll be another forgotten plot point.

I think that was pretty much it concerning this special.

How is anyone that allowed this to happen still employed in the entertainment industry? Go work in AI, that industry will appreciate their particular philosophy

[owl-at-home-28]

Just read Traces of Sun and wanted to come here say that I love it !!

It's so good especially the way it handles relationships, trauma and character developments like damn I genuinely cried in like nearly a year , not many books can make me tear up but this one really played with the feels . It's just a really good read ! Very well written and love the way characters develop and the author works with mental health subjects , it's just done well and it has a hopeful happy ending !!

This book was just something I need right now !!

Just an age warning:

this manhwa deals with dark and heavy, just mainly mature stuff , please be over at least 17 while reading it ! Things get pretty heavy there's also a scene of an attempt so yah take care of your mental health !!

Trigger Warning:

depression, suicide ideation, suicidal thoughts , self injury , child abuse , c-ptsd and trauma things including panic attacks , flashbacks , problems with relationships (platonic and romantic) etc . there's a lot .. it's pretty heavy in the that aspect

Plot summary by a unprofessional:

it's a dungeon type manhwa with bl or shonen ai as canon , very cute relationship, even when ml feels like a red flag I insist keep going this emotionally repressed and traumatized man turns out to be a big BIG Green flag .

The MC is just amazing his journey with mental health, suicide ideation and thoughts , survival guilt (with loosing loving amazing friends) and c-ptsd are beautifully depicted with the story progression .

I think I personally love the end where it's " I'm not better yet but I will get there someday with this amazing new friends/family I have found ".

Though I wouldn't recommend it for people who only read dungeon , hunter type manhwa for action alone .. it definitely has its badass moments but not something the plot focuses on it's main focus is around its people and their journey focusing a lot on mental health aspects , also has suspense and cliffhanger moments . Would definitely recommend it if you like manhwa like :

S class that I raised , trash of count family, regressor instructions manual , etc though there's way less occurrence of mc plotting things , and no time travel or regression going on , but the characters hold similar complexities in nature and development, it's different but good ! Also a good and small read for people who like mdzs and tgcf .

Trigger Warning again I guess and plot point : just a reminder this deals heavily around suicide, thoughts and ideation .

If you're looking for Bl, angst with happy ending, especially around the suicidal thoughts, ideation , attempt(albeit a little doubtful one) with hopeful end !

I would highly recommend

P.S specially wanted mention to these amazing friends who die. cause there's a chapter that had a choke hold on my feels for a while ! This chapter was definitely something I didn't know I needed in my life until I found it !!

[cloudedcreams]

confession time:

Help me... My bf is acting strange... The last time he did I found out he was uhm... Chatting +18 with girl bots in character ai and janitor ai.... (I'm still marked by that.... I didn't break up w him bc he's really really special to me, I just mentally can't break up w him and he's actually a good person and I mean it really) so btw would u consider that cheating? Anyways I'm feeling insecure bc of his behavior do u think it's bc ppl in relationships change?? Idk... I'm scared I do wanna leave him ໒꒰ྀིっ -｡꒱ྀི১

im so sorry ml‼️😭 unfortunately i may not be the best person to ask if you’re seeking genuine advice, mainly because im not too experienced with relationships like these. im so sorry, i hope things get better for you, but remember to do things that make you happy, not just in the short term but also in the long term! i hope that’ll help your judgement <33

[gojoest]

Hey Ai, I just watched this movie earlier called Fear (idk if you already watched it but incase u haven’t I’ll just explain the storyline) and it’s basically about a guy named David (Mark Wahlberg) who becomes so obsessed with Nicole (Reese Witherspoon). I mean he’s literally obsessed with her he wants her to himself all the time, following her around, stalking her, and gets annoyed when she’s not with him and gets angry and jealous when she’s around her male friends. He also has a shrine made just for her with all her pictures and stuff, and tattooed her name across his torso. He also uses his charm and manipulation tactics to take her and resorted into violence when she doesn’t want to go with him and leaver her family behind like he literally tried to kill her family members just to forcefully take her.

I was wondering like I know Satoru wouldn’t do these kinds of extremes like u know trying to kill your family members, etc. But I want to know how similar could Satoru and David be in terms of obsession? Like I know Satoru can be pretty obsessed and intense with you minus the dark aspects like violence and murders.

so i watched the movie last night bc the second i saw your ask my mind immediately went ! yandere satoru ! but david and satoru are vastly different when it comes to their obsession, i think.

satoru would too be intense and quite mental with his obsession but in his own crafty way. he’d absolutely never be violent with you!!! insanity can manifest in various ways. but like he is very calculating and smart about it. he would never openly do things that would upset you and push you away — everything he does, he does so to pull you closer and keep you with him. he’d get rid of disturbances furtively. secretly, carefully, while he’s being your sweet and caring boyfriend. he wouldn’t show his true colors and intentions, because you wouldn’t love him if he did.

incredibly possessive. i think he’d get really worked up when faced with signs of you holding a special place in someone else’s life — it could be a friend, it could be a parent. like you belonging to someone in a different way than you belong to him. which leads to this one scene from the movie that i associated with something that yandere satoru would do — david stealing nicole’s baby bracelet and carving his name on it so it reads “david’s girl” instead of “daddy’s girl”. oh boy… i think it’s something satoru would do too ;-; just to feel good about it himself, like he’s won. see? you’re his.

tbh right now the yandere i associate a lot with satoru is the ML from the manhwa ‘tears on a withered flower’, i think yantoru would be a lot like him.

the ML there goes to the flower shop where FL works at and buys roses every day. every day, for months — his house is basically filled with them at this point, like there are roses and petals scattered all around the floors… he’s been watching her for so long, waiting for her to notice him. by this point he knows a lot about her. she’s having a really hard time, going through major changes, life has basically beaten her down — she got cheated on by her (ex) husband she’s been with since high school and is in a lot of debt because of him which is why she works multiple jobs to make ends meet and pay off the debt… so he comes into her life in a very tough and vulnerable time and knows exactly how to make use of it. they get close eventually... he pretends to be poor too, yk to be more relatable, while in reality he is rich af. swaps his brand new super expensive shoes with one of his friend’s worn out ones to make it look more believable that he’s a lower class (he’s also younger than her btw, 10 year age gap) also beats up men that hit on her, secretly in the alleyways, without her knowing about it. she suspects nothing NOTHING i really love the story — there’s so much depth to it — and highly recommend it to everyone! it’s still ongoing and we’re starting to see more about ML’s backstory and how he also went through very traumatic experiences. i wait for every chapter religiously!!!! if you ever read it please lmk if you see the vision! i think yandere satoru would be a lot like ML

[zaynes-nieve]

Spoilers for New World Underneath Chapters

Yo, the Dispatch was a fun one to see what the Unicorns look like from an outside perspective. I forgot we were considered one of the best!!!

The Library one is fascinating. Who do you think that was? Astra? The 6th ML? also that universe he talked about was definitely Dawnbreaker right?!

LMFAO RIP TO THE THOMAS GIRLIES. HE GOT A WIFE AND KID 😂🤣. I bet his wife is a baddie tho. That name is gorgeous.

The Elysium story is like every Intel scene in every show XD. I love this though. I thought i may have also seen Rafayel there in that Artist food one. There being the special only for MC is also pretty funny.

The Sketches Story makes me sadddddd. His Poor Wife. That fucking chip is going to make me actually crash out my lord.

I'm glad we are learning more about the world outside of MC and the love interests. It really makes this world feel more alive. The founder/finding fo Protofields being a woman in Stem is a bop

LMFAO the videogame one was kinda silly goofy but narrator got wayyy to into it

WTF is this last one? Y'all are the Ai taking over?!!?!

[futureuniversitybareilly]

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[gale-gentlepenguin]

ML au: Miraculous Piece

(Basically just aged up miraculous heroes in the world of one piece)

Marinette D Cheng: (the D stands for Dupain) Aka Lady Luck. Captain/ Chef of the Miracle Pirates. Devil fruit: Make make fruit: A Paramecia type that allows her to create any object with her imagination. From clothing, weapons, even battle ships. Bounty: 777,777,777 Berries (most Notable crime: Killing a celestial dragon (it was actually Adrien, but it was a fake death)) Moniker for her in the navy’s own words ‘Luck beyond comprehension)

Adrien Agreste: AKA Black Cat of Chaos. Vice Captain of the miracle Pirates. Devil Fruit: Break break fruit: A Paramecia type that allows the user to destroy anything that makes contact with his left hand (so long as he wills it). Bounty: 444,444,444 berries. (Most notable crime: Attempted murder of a celestial dragon (this was Gabriel agreste, and it was real)) (his bounty is Alive only) (he is the son of the celestial dragon which is hidden)

Alya Cesaire: Aka Mirage Thief. Navigator of the Miracle Pirates. No devil fruit. Has weapons that make illusions and uses dials to deliver strong attacks. Also handles finances. Bounty: 111,222,333 Berries. (Most Notable crime: Stealing from a Celestial Dragon)

Nino Lahiffe: Aka. Shell shocker. Helmsman of the Miracle pirates. A Sea turtle Fishman (basically looks human but has a shell and greener skin). Master of Fishman karate, special technique Bubble art. Perfect at reading the flow of the ocean. Bounty: 231, 123, 321 Berries. (Most Notable crime, Freeing slaves from a celestial dragon)

Maxkov Kante: Aka. Metal scourge. Shipwright of the Miracle Pirates. Half human and half machine as a result of Vegapunk. He has an Ai intelligence inside him named Markov, thus choosing to go by Maxkov. Creates new tech for his crew. Bounty: 101,001,100 berries. (Most notable crime, Having information the world government wants)

Alix Kubdel: Aka. Devil Rabbit. Archeologist of the Miracle Pirates. Devil fruit: Clock Clock fruit: A Paramecia type devil fruit that allows the user to rewind or fast forward time around them by holding their breath. The more it’s used the bigger the headache the user gets. Can read ponoglyphs. Bounty: 333,333,333 berries. (Most notable crime: Threat to world government)

Rosé Lavillant: Aka Fragrant Healer. Healer/doctor of the miracle pirates. Rosé was a sick child that thanks to a master of herbal alchemy saved her life. Studying the herbs for years she became incredibly good at curing diseases. Her dream is to never let a child suffer from sickness like she did. Bounty: 80,080,008 berries (most notable crime: Assisting the miracle pirates in their attack on Sabody)

Luka Couffaine: aka Serenading Serpent. Musician/Therapist of the miracle Pirates. Devil fruit: Snake-Snake fruit: Model: Viper. His snake form allows him to slither quietly and use potent poisons when needed. He is looking for his sister who was kidnapped by the world government. Bounty: 150,000,000 berries ( Killing a vice admiral and attacking a war lord of the sea)

[airasilver]

What the fuck?

I only knew about the AI thing, there was a grooming scandal? How many of us didnt know even know it was an organization? I know I didn’t until about a year ago, with the AI thing.

This is crazy.

NaNoWriMo is shutting down

And it's because of them supporting AI 😮‍💨

I don't know how many of you have participated on NaNoWriMo, but I have used it to help me in finding motivation to finish my projects or just to write something, every november I would enjoy the excitment to be part of a famous challenge with other writers

Knowing now that such feeling and online positive interactions will not happen again is just really depressing to me, specially nowadays that it feels everything is about social media and individualistic satisfaction, when art is for consume and not celebration

And the NaNoWriMo organization did break the community trust after showing support to the AI generative even when it was explained as AI was destroying creativity and going against everything that NaNoWriMo represented

I have stopped to engage in NaNoWriMo after the whole AI fiasco, but still I'm sad to see another part of my youth and journey in the internet dying

Anyone else feel the same?

EDIT: I wasn't aware about the other scandals and that's why I only mentioned the AI bullshit the NaNo organization did support, I want make it clear that I'm not sad about specifically the organization shutting down

Some more links:

[writing] Discords, forums and a decade’s worth of allegations: how Nanowrimo ignited a revolution against it [part one]

\[Mods, added forum citations. Hopefully all is good now!\]

Trigger warnings: child abuse, assault, predators, racism, fetishes, ableism, terrorism, bombings, and just plain abuse. This will also include brief mentions of religion.

**Terms used in the Nanowrimo community:**

Nanowrimo: national novel writing month: a writing challenge to write 50k words in November. This is also used to refer to the organisation, a Californian 501c3 that the challenge originates from, with a website and a forum. However the challenge can be done without the organisation. Often called ‘nano’ for short.

Young Writers’ Program: a Nanowrimo run platform aimed at people under 18. A separate site with classrooms and its own separate forum. The forum is for people aged 13-18. Often called ‘YWP’ for short.

Municipal Liasions: community organisers responsible for one region. This could be a city or a country depending on size and population. They help organise local events and mod their regional forums. Municipal Liasions are not paid. There are several hundreds of them. Often called ‘MLs’ for short.

Christian Teens Together: a group on the main Nanowrimo forums, and the largest group on the forums. Despite the name the group is not entirely composed of Christians or teens, however that is where the group originates. The majority of the group are minors. Often called ‘CTT’ for short.

Random Thoughts and Exclamations: the main thread of the YWP forums, basically a general. Often called ‘RTAE’ for short.

Prior to the meltdown, Nanowrimo had around 15 salaried staff. These are collectively referred to as HQ. However, they also have several forum moderators. These receive a $100 check at the end of the year, but are mostly considered volunteers. These mods have no involvement in the main site. However, some staff that worked on the forums were salaried and had main site involvement and so will be considered part of HQ unless stated later on.

**Scam sponsorships.**

In December 2022, a group of Nanowrimo users raised [concerns](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/concerns-regarding-sponsors/486280) about a pair of vanity publishers that had sponsored the Nanowrimo challenge. (A vanity publisher or vanity press is a publisher where the author pays the costs and surrenders a large portion of the rights to their work.) Nanowrimo had promoted discounts for these publishers, Inkitt and Manuscripts, to winners of its challenge. Staff and mods suspended and muted multiple accounts who raised the initial concerns, but eventually allowed a forum thread discussing concerns to remain. One of the affected users explained the concerns as follows:

>Now that I’ve been unbanned, I will try to keep the last 24 hours of thoughts…concise. Inkitt should NEVER have been accepted as a NaNoWriMo sponsor. They have changed business models every few years, and every business model has involved using up the first pub rights of any author who submits, WHICH IS A BIG DEAL, and promising them sketchy ‘prizes’ or ‘contracts’ in return. People who have given them a try also say that getting their content removed is a nightmare and they had to threaten legal action. These are just the starting points. There are blog posts about them from many authors dating back to at least 2016, [including my own](https://wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl.com/2016/05/23/inkitt-scam-spam-no-thank-you-maam/), that are easily discoverable by searching “Inkitt scam.” None of this should ever have happened. That said, it happened. And the mods panicked, and I went and wrote a [whole new blog](https://wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl.com/2022/11/30/on-nanowrimo-inkitt-and-being-an-author/) (which I will update soon to reflect NaNo’s better handling of things today) to warn people away from Inkitt because I wasn’t allowed to do so on the forums. And because I have some audience and writer friends, that got around, and [Victoria Strauss](https://twitter.com/victoriastrauss/status/1598114401818902529) got involved, and eventually we got here.

The following day, the Executive Director responded to the concerns with this message:

>I appreciate everyone’s thoughts and feedback, and want to start with an apology that our vetting process hasn’t met the high values we place on our community care. It shouldn’t have come to this (like so many of you said), but now that it has, we’re taking it as a learning moment to improve our sponsorship processes and find ways to dig deeper into an evaluation of a company. We’ve also ended the sponsorship with Inkitt and Manuscripts. Currently, the vetting process involves talking to writers, editors, or those working in the writing/publishing “ecosystem,” and then interviewing the potential companies. We often have a long-term relationship with a company and work with them year-over-year, but as the writing/publishing landscape changes so dramatically every year, we often find out about new companies and reach out to them or they reach out to us. We will do a more thorough evaluation of these processes and policies as part of our 2023 planning process to see what changes we need to make. Our goal will be to ensure our policies are in line with our organizational values, and to make sure the process is more transparent. For example, we’re discussing how we can ensure that a wider range of community and trusted industry voices are heard in this process, and on that note, we have already asked Victoria Strauss from Writer Beware to act as a consultant. We’re really pleased that she’s generously agreed to this, as this is her area of expertise and her ethical standards are admirably high. Also, she’s been passionately committed to analyzing products and services for writers for so long. We’ll also be sure to consult the resources you’ve already named, such as the various forum threads where you all have been sharing your experiences with companies. Thank you again for raising your concerns. We take your feedback very seriously and center it in our plans to care for the community. I’m not just saying that—this has been a valuable learning moment to help us do a better job of vetting sponsors more thoroughly. Your voices are the most important thing we consider when making decisions—not sponsors, but you. I’m sorry that it hasn’t always felt like that in the past, and hope that we can make sure it does in the future. Like you, we think NaNoWriMo should be a place where writers can come for trusted resources. We’re disappointed in ourselves that we lost that trust, and we hope to regain it. I invite you to send on feedback at any time to .

While Inkitt and Manuscripts were removed as sponsors, it recently emerged that Inkitt was a major donor for Nanowrimo. Some users were beginning to feel that Nanowrimo was protecting their own interests over the interests of their users, which only got worse when new allegations came out the following year.

**Inaction against predators.**

In May 2023, a group of users raised allegations about a moderator of Christian Teens Together. The [allegations](https://nitter.net/Arumi_kai/status/1722007756058574916#m) were that this moderator was luring minors onto a fetish site they ran. The [allegations](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/faq-about-an-ex-nano-mod-allegedly-compromising-minor-safety/573253/2) were sent to the Executive Director and the Director of Programs, but no actions were taken after a month. An FBI report had already been filed, but the fetish site was being scrubbed, suggesting that the staff there had been tipped off after the allegations. The group built a new case and after public pressure, got the moderator removed for violations of the forum Code of Conduct after they started threatening the group and the Nanowrimo organisation offsite. This moderator could be a whole post on their own, and has used sockpuppet accounts to lurk on the forums and has commented on the situation on their tumblr. They are often referred to as Mod X, and will be referred to as such in this essay.

In June, a [thread](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/moderation-forums-culture-feedback/507100) on moderation was opened, and a discussion began about the culture of CTT, where it became clear that Mod X had isolated the group and emotionally abused them. It was also revealed that the CTT had a ‘three strikes and shutdown’ system for a group with over a thousand members. One user explained the problem as follows:

>How the CTT members were given only three strikes for over one thousand people is, frankly, appalling and obscene. I can understand treating them as a group; if you give them all three strikes, that’s over three thousand strikes. But they need more than three. But even with that, hanging that last strike over their head for over six months is unacceptable, and yes, I said it before and I’ll say it again, it is emotionally abusive to tell them that one more strike and they’re getting shut down for over six months. Never knowing who’s going to make the mistake that gets them shut down or when, and worrying about when someone messes up. Worrying that they’re going to be one that messes up and is blamed by the group. Terrified of reporting things because what if that report is the reason their community is shut down?

[More](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/nanowrimo-forum-mod-drama-is-nothing-new-a-story-from-nanowrimo-history-the-mod-that-liked-to-write-explicit-content-with-children/544216) users came forward with grooming allegations, but these posts were frozen and hidden. However, the cat was out of bag, at least on the main forums. And in a [retrospective](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/retrospective-whats-still-happening-here/578010) thread on the 10th of November, a former YWP user spoke up about a similar situation that had happened the month before.

>They did this to the YWP too. When a message was sent outlining evidence of a predator it was ignored for 3 days (iirc) and initially responded with ‘we reviewed this account and found nothing that broke our rules’ only after it was posted publicly on the forums. They did take the account down, but only hours later (once we had made a major fuss with pretty much everyone who knew the situation calling the mods out) and with no further communication for two days, which sent us into a spiral of panic and teens leaving as they didn’t feel safe on the platform.

The following day, the COO responded to this post with:

>Hi there, I wanted to speak to this directly since it relates to a lot of the youth safety issues people are bringing up, and YWP has different systems. First off, we did indeed look into the participant that was flagged on YWP. \[YWP lead\] and \[Director of Programs\] discussed and investigated on Oct. 3; they responded on Oct. 4. Our search into their history and their other social media accounts did not find evidence that they were a predator or someone else than the person they claimed to be. We were wrong to say that nothing crossed the lines set by our codes of conduct, and we should have issued a reminder about those codes. However, no violation crossed the line that would require banning. We kept a close eye on this account following the reports and encouraged participants to follow their guts and keep a wide berth. After the account was suspended due to user flags, we agreed their account should not be reinstated. In the long term, we’re bringing in additional moderators in the YWP forums. Role plays occasionally skirt the codes around keeping it PG and partly in response to this situation we’re adding a volunteer mod next week who will just be monitoring role plays and the forum for personal conversations, where the majority of these flags came from.

This response was immediately torn apart by the adults on the thread, while more members of the YWP started speaking out about what they had been dealing with for years.

**The Wild West of the YWP.**

The YWP had two or three mods, which changed across the years due to differing roles. These were members of HQ, and now have all been fired or quit. These were: a Lead Forums Moderator who resigned in October 2023 and had stopped working with the YWP a while before that, a Community Manager who was put on leave at the beginning of November 2023, and the aforementioned YWP lead and Director of Programs who were either fired or quit in December 2023.

There are three parts to the YWP: the individual users, which are under 18, the classrooms, which are controlled by a teacher and are meant for educational settings, and the forums, which are open to users aged 13-18 whether they’re writing individually or as part of a classroom.

However, investigation revealed that the security of these classrooms are remarkably lax. It only required an email, username and password for an ‘educator’ to set up a classroom, and student accounts didn’t even need an email. Multiple YWP users confirmed that they had used this to gain access to private messages, as the classrooms have a PM feature while the forums did not. On top of this, it was confirmed by a moderator that classrooms are basically unmoderated:

>it's almost impossible to moderate these. There was a rash a few years back of the kids themselves making classrooms and the only way I could track them was to manually go through the admin panel and look for the most recent ones and click. They're almost entirely disconnected from the moderation tools and are completely unmoderated unless someone in one reports something. I actually gave up even trying to patrol the classrooms in any form because there's too many and the admin tools suck.

And on the forums themselves, it only got worse. The moderation often ignored its users, and when they intervened, the intervention often worsened the situation. This got to the point that in August 2022, a group of users held a [strike](https://speak-out.carrd.co/) against the moderation due to neglect and incompetence. However, the problems only continued to grow, and in December 2022, there was a incident of a user faking a disorder and, when called out on it, sending death threats. This user also made accounts in order to impersonate and harass users on the sites. It was not uncommon for users to run others off the site, which, justified or not, was often fueled by lack of mod intervention.

This came to a head in October 2023, when a predator was found and the moderation response was once again inadequate. On the 1st of October, moderation was privately contacted by a group of YWP users about a predator that had been on the forums for two years. After three days with no response and no action taken, the group took the information public and a mass flagging campaign began in order to gain the attention of the mods. And five hours after it began, a response was finally posted by the YWP lead:

>Ні, Thanks for writing to us with your concerns, and for being so thorough keeping track of the places that made you uncomfortable. First of all, I want to say: good on you for following your gut. If you ever run into something online that makes you feel scared or worried or unsafe or just seems a little bit off, it's always okay to back away. Trust yourself, and don't do something that makes you feel uncomfortable, no matter who is asking you. The other moderators and I looked (and are continuing to look) more into this person, and from what we can tell, it seems like they are who they say they are. Nothing in their posts crosses the lines set by our Codes of Conduct (though they do come right up to the line sometimes). Like I said before, you can absolutely draw a boundary and not interact with them anymore. It just means we can't take any action on site besides marking their profile such that we pay extra attention to their posts, as well as the other account you flagged as a potential alt. If we notice anything in the future we can follow up on it more directly. Thank you for being so passionate and thorough about trying to make sure the YWP forums are a safe space, and let me know if you have any questions or want to talk anything through more.

This response was torn apart by the users, and 12 hours later people noticed that the threads the predator created had been taken down. However, there was no comment in the public moderation thread on the situation, and the users had no idea whether the account had been banned or not. This caused a mass panic, and several users pulled back or left the platform due to safety concerns.

Early on the 6th of October, a user tried to goad the moderators into responding to the mess by posting a message to the mods in the official announcements forum, which was supposed to be mod-only:

>There is always an explosion of newbies in November, and you have children as young as 13 here. And your inaction is making the site dangerous. We are being forced to defend ourselves against something we should not be dealing with because you can't be bothered. This is more than inaction. This is dangerous incompetence. And don't respond to this with another 'we'll do better' apology, because they never last. I've seen this cycle too many times. Tell us that he's gone, that we don't have to worry about him, and tell us what you're doing to make sure this doesn't happen again. And stop forcing children to be the adults in your place.

However, this post remained up for around 12 hours. At that point, the moderation decided to close the forums for a week, giving the users only a day’s notice. And when they reopened, they threatened to make the forums for writing topics only. Although they walked this back due to user pressure and claimed it was due lack of staff, it came off to some users as a punishment for complaining.

There were more incidents over the next month, and these were mentioned in the retrospective thread, which came as a complete shock to the adults, who had been told that a large part of the funding was going to the YWP. Some began to call for the moderators to resign:

>I sincerely hope they are all drafting their resignation letters. we won’t even give them grief this time for writing it together and recycling the same wording. they had their chance to listen to their users, to develop action plans and timeline and to publicly respond. they chose not to do that and knowingly let abuse and harm continue on their watches. both here and on ywp. resign or get fired. either way this is no longer their house, they are being evicted.

**The Nanopocalypse.**

The Nanowrimo Board intervened in the evening of the 12th of the November, having been contacted by users in the retrospective thread. They immediately set the main forums to read only barring [threads](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/board-response-overview-pausing-the-forums/579464) they made to discuss the many issues. However the YWP forums were not immediately closed, and so the users from the retrospective reported back on RTAE.

Two hours after the main forums were closed, a YWP user received a message from the Director of Programs threatening to ban the user. Moments later this user and two others were temporarily banned from the forums. And the forums exploded on both sides. On the main forums:

>Do something for these YWP kids being banned for speaking up about their abuse.

And on the YWP:

>no cause if you're so threatened by MINORS joking at your expense take a good long look in the mirror

The same user on commented on the main thread:

>Just so yall know, the ywp is honestly going to hell rn. People are getting banned, some of the people who talked to you yesterday got banned for saying enough. I got warnings for saying that adults shouldn’t be threatened by teens making jokes. It’s a really bad situation and a lot of people are stressed and overwhelmed

One user commented on how bad the YWP had gotten as follows:

>FOR REAL !!! i joined when i was 16?? THE FIRST FUCKING THING I DID WAS MODERATE. i had to skip the classic nano ywp cringe newbie stage because i had to swoop into an argument that was obvious a moderator wasn’t going to ever deal with. and i did that for like the year and a half i was on nano. and like i don’t give a shit in the sense it doesn’t hold a candle to being 14 and moderating for three years straight but. the amount of power hierarchies the ywp has because of us who. play mod. it’s stressful and not fun and i would not wish it upon my worst enemies. this might be petty but? i’d pay real money that none of the staff team remembers me despite me doing their jobs since the moment i clicked create account

>i have not seen a single case of someone getting fairly banned, nor of someone problematic and upsetting having consequences for their actions. nano is a weird place because a lot of shit happened offsite (ex; my connection to \[redacted\]. the nanoer who was lying and trauma dumping to me and some of my close friends. that all happened in “adult nano” dms. but we were open about it. and even with multiple call-out posts in places with chats that don’t bury posts often and theoretically ones mods should be checking? nothing was done.) but the guessing game on when mods finally arrive to a scene is awful. the brace for impact everyone collectively did when someone finally showed up? was awful. these are teenagers. and when these teens can’t trust the moderators who’re supposed to be monitoring their website, who are they supposed to trust?

A few hours into the board thread, YWP users called out one of the accounts on the main forum for being a predator. The group confirmed that this person had been removed from the YWP but that they had been allowed to remain on the main site. Users confronted this account directly:

>correct me if i’m wrong (i’m not) but i do remember you being one of (if not the most) manipulative, spiteful, maliciously incompetent people i have ever encountered. do you, perchance, remember all the times you told that little 15 year old the sexual things you wanted to do to her? i remember. i remember everything you said. i might not be able to prove all of it but we know. we didn’t forget. playing dumb won’t save you now, boy.

>don’t you dare sit here and pretend this was an okay thing for you to do. you got suspended but you’re still here talking aren’t you ?? it’s two years old we still have the very same predator (most people active in the lounge in the last year or two \[in the ywp\] knows you. no one who knows you likes you.) roaming the adult site. how is this not an issue that needs to be addressed?

The account was suspended a few days later.

That night, the board confirmed that they were unaware that the YWP was a separate site, and the YWP forums were shut. With no read only mode on the YWP, it erupted into chaos. Users said their goodbyes, and some expressed their anger with the moderation for how they turned out. This led to the Director of Programs threatening to close the forums early, despite the users only having a few hours to say goodbye anyway. One user put it as simply as:

>me when my entire community of the last three years is being ripped away lol

And the last three posts?

>FUCK THE MODS FR

>im gonna miss this website so much. love you all and its not our fault this is happening, it’s the mods stay safe stay amazing and love you all, youre the best. Im so sorry the mods destroyed this. hate that we have to lose this beautiful thing because of them. I have one last thing to say: FUCK. THE. MODS.

>Imao

And with that, the weekend from hell was over.

But the Nanopocalypse had barely begun.

**continued** [**here**](https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/1ae33g5/writing_discords_forums_and_a_decades_worth_of/)

Nanoscandal.com has everything I believe.

[duhragonball]

Nanowrimon't

I recently watched a two hour video about all of the problems with the Nanowrimo organization. I was going to post it here, but I'm having trouble finding it, and I may have blocked the video because the Youtube algorithm kept recommending it to me like I hadn't already watched it. (Sidenote: The Blocktube extension is awesome).

Yeah, I can't find it. Well, that's okay, I'm sure you can find it yourselves if you want to watch it. In its place, here's a video featuring every Special Beam Cannon in Dragon Ball Z, GT, and Super.

Mostly, I was trying to get a handle on the controversies surrounding the organization pre-2024. When the AI thing went down, I went looking for more information on the backlash, only to find articles about a completely separate child endangerment controversy in 2023. In brief, that seems to surround a forum moderator with the handle "CinnamonFridge", who did a lot of shady shit, but nothing I hadn't really heard of before in various examples of forum drama. CinnamonFridge used sockpuppets, claimed to be dying, and may have genuinely died at some point. Also, CF tried to use their position in the Young Writer's Program to groom teenagers.

I found the whole thing hard to follow before, but now it seems pretty straightforward: the Nanowrimo organization had all these initiatives for young writers, but they had little to no protocol for vetting the people involved. You could just say you were an educator who wanted to work with a certain age group and they would take you at face value. If I remember correctly, CinnamonFridge kept posting links to adult content in forums with minors.

This should have been an open-and-shut case, but the organization seemed more interested in keeping the whole thing quiet than in doing the right thing. Instead of disciplining or banning Cinnamon Fridge, they insisted on identifying them as "Mod X" to protect their identity. Also, they declined to take action against CinnamonFridge since they were "dying anyway." The important thing for the organization was to make sure the organization didn't look bad, so the fewer people who heard about the whole mess, the better.

The video I watched had a lot of examples of similar stupidity. For example, there was a rule handed down to the Municipal Liasons that all communications from the org had to be passed along in English. Translating them into another language was not allowed, except it was an international organization. In Canada, it's required to send such communications in English and French, so they were essentially asking Canadian ML's to break the law.

My main takeaway from all of this was that the organization was dumb and arrogant more than they were evil. Critics will talk about the child endangerment and labor violations, and yeah, that stuff happened, but it's not like the organization was running some kind of baby-eating sweatshop. The board neglected the safety of children on their forums, and they were probably ignorant of the laws they were breaking. That's still really bad, but I don't think it's entirely sinister.

The point I'm getting at is that I still can't figure out what the purpose of the Nanowrimo organization was supposed to be. The guy who first came up with the 50k challenge left the organization in 2006, probably because he was a novelist who wanted to get back to his own writing, or maybe because he understood that there didn't need to be an organization. Everyone after that just seemed to be in it for... prestige? It feels like characters like Kilby Blades just got in on the thing for the chance to boss people around. Whoever handed down the "English-only" rule for official communications just sounds like a control freak. They knew the ML's would follow their instructions because anyone who wouldn't would have gone it alone a long time ago.

Except it's a non-profit organization, so I don't quite understand why they went to so much trouble to control something that doesn't make money. Then again, power can be an end unto itself, and maybe the Kilby Blades of the world were willing to take charge of something like Nanowrimo simply because it's the only thing available. But it sure feels like they were more interested in telling others what to do then in writing or running a nonprofit organization. They clearly weren't too concerned with young writers, except that it gave them a pretense to have a "Young Writers Program" that they could run.

The whole thing sort of feels like a giant forum, or an internet fandom, with the BNF's trying to assert control by getting positions of authority in a nonprofit organization. The thing coasted along for years, simply because so many people were willing to accept that central authority as legitimate.

It also kind of reminds me of the stories of Dashcon, which also relied on unpaid labor, begging for donations, and leaders who were allergic to accountability. In a way, Nanowrimo was Dashcon done right, because it didn't have to produce a functioning convention or anything like that. As long as a bunch of writers wrote in November, they could claim that their efforts were successful.

The thing I can't stand is this persistent mindset that the organization deserved credit for anything. YouTube now keeps recommending me all of these writing (◡ ‿ ◡ ✿) videos because I made the mistake of showing any interest in the Nano organization. I checked out one because it talked about things to do instead of Nano, except the suggestions were really, really obvious.

Just do 50k in November without the site.

There's this other challenge someone else came up with where you do 100k words in three months.

Someone else has a "Rough Draft Challenge" where you... do it on Facebook? In different months of the year? Like March? And there's different wordcount tiers you can aim for?

I'm not trying to be mean here but these aren't ideas that people needed a YouTuber to present to them. This isn't like looking up a whittling video to find the best kind of whittling knives for beginners. It's just a number and a date range. Anyone can come up with their own.

Like, uh... for example: The Buttdawg Challenge is 69,420 words in June. I just made that up, copyright of me, (c)2025, all rights reserved. Boom, where's my influencer money? Here's a soft-focus photo of a desk with a typewriter and a mug of coffee. Writing.

Again, I'm not trying to be mean here but I always feel a little suspicious of people who go on and on about writing instead of gushing about the thing they are writing about. I'm less interested in writing than I am in chemistry or Dragon Ball Z or professional wrestling, and so on. Writing is just the method of communicating those interests. It's a means to an end. A writer who only thinks of their passion as writing and nothing else is like a chef who doesn't have a favorite food.

But I suppose there is a strong appeal to the aesthetic side of things. How else can I explain the Nanowrimo org lasting as long as it did? Eventually its hollow, phony nature was exposed for all to see, but it still had a pretty long run as something important, but not really.

This is why I like Dragon Ball so much, though, because it has style, but the substance is simply too deep and rich to be denied. It refuses to take itself too seriously, which is often the sign that something is genuine and has nothing to prove. You can't beat a true classic. Like the Special Beam Cannon.