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CHALLENGERS (2024) Dir. Luca Guadagnino

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wip snip! ✍🏻 (dron)

Thank you for tagging me, @kember-writes! Here's something from my in progress Dron eighth-year fic. Hopefully posting soon...

Draco looks up sharply. His glasses have slipped down to the tip of his nose and his quill is dripping ink onto his textbook. He swears, potting it back into its glass bottle. He pushes his glasses up with the edge of his wrist.

Ron hovers over him, both hands on the desk, his read hair swinging forward off his shoulders.

“Hello,” he says. “What’re you thinking about?”

Draco looks around quickly. His desk is towards the back of the room, and all the surrounding rows are empty.

Ron slots in to sit beside him.

“I’m revising.”

“Really hard, by the looks of things.”

Draco rolls his eyes. “Where’ve you been? You smell like…” He leans closer. Ron’s lips curl into a slow smile. “… I don’t know.”

“Herbology stuff,” Ron says, tapping his nose.

Draco wrinkles his brow. “Do you want… I don’t know. To revise a little? Mocks start on Monday.”

Ron shrugs. “It’ll be fine. You swot.” He reaches up, touching the edge of Draco’s glasses. “I love these so much.”

Draco’s cheeks heat. He looks around again, but they’re still completely alone.

He slides a hand under the table, hooking his fingers over Ron’s thigh. “I’ve decided: I’m finished revising.”

Ron smirks and leans in to brush a little kiss against the corner of Draco’s mouth.

Draco shivers, squeezing Ron’s thigh, inching his fingers higher. Ron’s knees fall open and he groans a bit, tilting his head closer, rolling his forehead against Draco’s temple.

“Fuck, are you gonna…?”

A creak from the shelves two rows down startles Draco. He pulls his hand back.

“No,” he says primly. He closes his book. Gathers his quill and ink pot. “Let’s get out of here.”

tagging @hoko-onchi-writes @peachydreamxx @apricitydays-lazynights @arminaa8 @sleepstxtic @citrusses @jtimu and anyone else who's working on something and wants to share! tag me!

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Microsoft Office XP assistants

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Stop normalizing the grind and start normalizing whatever this is

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devotion that corrupts is my favorite btw there's nothing wrong with it ever & it should be encouraged

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writing fics be like

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How to Tell If That Post of Advice Is AI Bullshit

Right, I wasn't going to write more on this, but every time I block an obvious AI-driven blog, five more clutter up the tags. So this is my current (April 2024) advice on how to spot AI posts passing themselves off as useful writing advice.

No Personality - Look up a long-running writing blog, you'll notice most people try to make their posts engaging and coming from a personal perspective. We do this because we're writers and, well, we want to convey a sense of ourselves to our readers. A lot of AI posts are straight-forward - no sense of an actual person writing them, no variation in tone or text.

No Examples - No attempts to show how pieces of advice would work in a story, or cite a work where you could see it in action. An AI post might tell you to describe a person by highlighting two or three features, and that's great, but it's hard to figure out how that works without an example.

Short, Unhelpful Definitions - A lot of what I've seen amount to two or three-sentence listicles. 'When you want to write foreshadowing, include a hint of what you want foreshadowed in an earlier chapter.' Cool beans, could've figured that out myself.

SEO/AI Prompt Language Included - I've seen way too many posts start with "this post is about..." or "now we will discuss..." or "in this post we will..." in every single blog. This language is meant to catch a search engine or is ChatGPT reframing the prompt question. It's not a natural way of writing a post for the average tumblr user.

Oddly Clinical Language - Right, I'm calling out that post that tried to give advice on writing gay characters that called us "homosexuals" the entire time. That's a generative machine trying to stay within certain parameters, not an actual person who knows that's not a word you'd use unless you were trying to be insulting or dunking on your own gay ass in the funniest way possible.

Too Perfect - Most generative AI does not make mistakes (this is how many a student gets caught trying to use it to cheat). You can find ways to make it sound more natural and have it make mistakes, but that takes time and effort, and neither of those are really a factor in these posts. They also tend to have really polished graphics and use the same format every time.

Maximized Tags (That Are Pointless) - Anyone who uses more than 10 one-word tags is a cop. Okay, fine, I'm joking, but there's a minimal amount of tags that are actually useful when promoting a post. More tags are not going to get a post noticed by the algorithm, there is no algorithm. Not everyone has to use their tags to make snarky comments, but if your tags look like a spambot, I'm gonna assume you're a spambot.

No Reblogs From The Rest of Writblr - I'm always finding new Writblr folks who have been around for awhile, but every real person I've seen reblogs posts from other people. We've all got other stuff to do, I'm writing this blog to help others and so are they, the whole point of tumblr is to pass along something you think is great.

While you'll probably see some variation in the future - as people get wise to obviously generated text, they'll try to make it look less generated - but overall, there's still going to be tells to when something is fake.

I don't have any real advice for what to do about this (other than block those blogs, which is what I do). Like most AI bullshit, I suspect most of these blogs are just another grift, attempting to build large follower counts to leverage or sell something to in the future. They may progress past these tattletale features, but I'm still going to block them when I see them. I don't see any value in writing advice compiled from the work of better writers who put the effort in when I can just go find those writers myself.

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BOYS

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B_BJJEyAfP-/

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I made something

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London was actually sunny

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nothing has been more important to my being queer than when i went to my first pride parade, got seperated from my group, had a panic attack about it and was sitting on the side of the road holding a tiny genderfluid flag and freaking out. then this six foot five drag queen in four inch heels appeared from literally nowhere and sat down next to me. i, this scared-shitless trans bi kid at pride for the first time, very nervously told her she looked pretty and i told her my name and that i got lost and didn't feel like i should be at pride and she held my hand and said "oh, honey, everybody deserves to be here, especially you. pride is for everybody who's ever gotten lost, who's been scared of who they are or where they are. you think we never been scared before? pride's for you, honey, because you're scared. you don't have to be proud right now, but you're gonna be one day, honey, i'm sure of it."

i found my group soon after that and i never saw that queen again but to this day i am convinced i met an angel.

so yeah. pride is for you. pride is for all of us.

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Get ready and grab your tickets 🍿🎬

@lcdrarry starts posting here and on AO3 on 1 May 2024. 💕

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oops, i missed Tit for Tat’s birthday. here’s a belated post celebrating the 3 year anniversary of the end of my big baby! i love her! these two idiots have had my heart and gave me brain worms 20 years strong!

read it on the archive

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Draco slows at the perfect moment, gliding up the gentle slope behind the cottage, and then Ron’s running toward them, whooping, and the bike is safely out from under their feet. Harry gets his arms around Draco’s waist and gives him a sloppy kiss on the cheek, Ron’s arm brushing against him where it’s slung around Draco’s shoulders, and he knows just from how they move that Ron’s kissing his temple.

commission from @dodgerkedavra for their fic Bike Dream for @dronarryfest 2024 💕✨ This was a joy to work on (look at their happy faces!!!) and the fic is a real treat 🥹💕 y’all gotta go read and lay in bed to giggle and kick your feet ok