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the things i do for love

[cal? @cal_gif]

My brothers gf keeps bragging about how he spends more time with her than with me but like ok bitch who fucks him better?

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@tarotbypandora there are so many evil right wing therapists it’s crazy. and a weird number of religious nuts too.

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

i say this with the utmost respect for mental healthcare professionals: some of the dumbest bitches you will ever meet are LCPs.

[Elle 🦇 @gothamcityelle]

as an actual therapist who also is heavily involved in fandom spaces, I am going to make this thread about proshippers + their arguments for protecting pedophilia.

tldr: consuming + being consistently aroused by fictional fantasies of children is textbook, clinical pedophilia 🧵

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@samcentric readers who value distinct authorial voices tend to value authorship higher than those who don’t. they will follow authors from fandom to fandom because they enjoy that author’s style/voice/themes. that’s the curiosity i’m referring to.

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

i’ve always wondered who ai fanfic is for and now i know

[anna @jpadlovely]

everyone in this thread has me blocked so I can’t reply but … yeah you’re right lol. I can’t name my favorite ao3 author because I don’t have one… I don’t read fanfic for the authors. I read it for the characters. sorry if that makes me evil to you guys idrc

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@samcentric now, that person could very well be fooled if the ai-generated work was promoted to be in the author’s style, but that’s not usually what happens. ai was trained on what has long been described as “ao3 house style” and therefore lack distinct authorial voice.

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@nottheribbons @samcentric “it’s not aggression if it’s passive aggression”

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@nottheribbons @samcentric your first words to me were literally “unfriendly reminder” lol

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@samcentric i’d describe of it more as a failure of intellectual curiosity than of intelligence itself. an intelligent person operating in good-faith could be fooled by ai.

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@nottheribbons @samcentric where is this aggression coming from though? that’s the real question.

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@nottheribbons @samcentric my “theory” as you call it is that people who are indifferent to authorship are at greater risk of consuming ai-produced fic than those aren’t, especially in mega-fandoms like HR where ai use is more common. the fact a popular HRwriter was using ai does not disprove my “theory”

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@samcentric the presumption is that this type of person (this is a generalizing statement; i do not know or care about your friend in particular) would not recognize the ai authored works as ai.

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@faithrosestorm ???

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@samcentric yeah that would be a bananas thing to say, which is why it’s good no one said it

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@Sketti09 @samcentric mom? is that you?

[ً @lucrezia]

i miss them like crazy

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@samcentric someone who doesn’t care enough to pay attention to who is authoring the stories they read is much more likely to read stories without authors than someone who does! especially in mega-fandoms, where the demand for content is high and the integrity of many people is low.

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@theoceanblooms @ignatsbride @spartanawasp goofy behavior even for twt

[cat ✨ @catalystcomett]

@ignatsbride @spartanawasp @theoceanblooms physically cringed at her trying to do the don draper meme unironically

[Zach Schiffman @schlife]

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