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I have been saying this FOR YEARS about Merrill from Dragon Age 2. She is heavily autism coded. The fandom (and many characters in the game, but obviously that's about the writers) treats her like she has no idea what she's doing! She's not great in social situations, yes. She makes decsions that are hard and dirty, yes. But she's smart and quick and I wish more people would actually TRY to understand her character instead of just dumbing her down or treating her like a child!

every time a fandom dumbs down a very interesting nurodivergent character to “stupid dumb dumb child infant who’s smol and innocent and needs protection bc he’s just a baby” an angel fucking dies btw

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being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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YOU!! YES, YOU!! GO WRITE THAT FANFIC YOU THINK NOBODY BUT YOU WILL READ!!

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*laughs in chronic migraines*

reblog to give any and all pain, no matter how minor, whether it be your brain being mean or having a fucking heart attack, to a bigot

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Another reason to ignore negative comments (especially on AO3)

So at work I’ve been forced to learn about “AI Agentic Workflows”. But being an AO3 author, I couldn’t help but think of how this technology affects authors on AO3 (and honestly on other social media platforms too).

What I learned was this: Agentic AI workflow software makes it extremely easy to automate, and bulk-post, HIGHLY-STORY-SPECIFIC negative comments to AO3 fics.

If you’re not familiar with what an AI Agentic Workflow is, I highly recommend informing yourself. You’ll be hearing it a LOT very soon. Basically, it’s a linked linked chain of AI prompts on one/many software platforms. Each “agent” completes a task. Then it hands off the completed task to the next AI Agent in the chain, which builds on it. Then that result is handed off to another agent, etc etc, even potentially to a final agent which analyzes what worked well and what didn’t, and changes what the other agents do.

There are a ton of repercussions here.

But let’s stay focused on AO3.

With AI Agentic workflow software, a person/group who wants to silence the voice of a community can easily scrape a tag, analyze stories by the thousands, then post thousands of highly customized, story specific negative comments, all without a human being ever seeing your words.

They could even set up AI agents watching to see if you delete your story, or delete your profile, which would be a marker of success. That success marker could be shared back to the other AI agents, and the whole workflow could be changed via automation to use that more effective approach.

I’m sure the OTF is working on ways of stopping this. I’m sure most social media companies are too.

But as usual the tools to create havoc are ahead of the ones to prevent havoc.

Anyway.

TL;DR: If you get a highly-story-specific negative AO3 comment — it does NOT MEAN it was written by a HUMAN! You were probably just story 20,031 in a scraped database of 50,000 stories, all of which were being targeted because they belong to a group/topic/tag that some shitty group or agency wanted to silence because of their horrible political or social.

Don’t let them silence you. They never looked at your words to begin with.

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Lovely

Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy

Rating: General Audience

Pairing: Miranda Lawson/Female Shepard

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

This is a very short, fluffy one shot for my Edythe Shepard and Miranda. It's loosely inspired by the song "Lovely" by Billie Eilish. Lyrics are referenced at the end. I've been battling with myself on posting anything, so I decided to just go for it! I'm quite proud of this!

I am still new to Tumblr so bear with me when it comes to tags. I'll get there!

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To set the precedent for when I start posting my stuff here. AI is nothing but "socially acceptable" theft.

Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.