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New fic: Victus (5,070 words) Ancient Rome Rivaeru, rough hate sex with verbal degradation and sprinkles of Roman history throughout. archiveofourown.org/works/57575227 #eruri #rivaeru #BottomErwinWeek

@layniesmid I’ve only read his short story “The Last Question,” which I would recommend.

@layniesmid A few short stories I remember enjoying: The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell The Regular by Ken Liu Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

@layniesmid Spanish colonial authorities censored his work because it was politically significant and exposed their injustices. This case is a good argument in favor of being anti-censorship, but only if you acknowledge the significance of fiction in the first place.

@layniesmid This kind of thinking denies powerful, positive effects of fiction too beyond entertainment value. Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere, which criticized Spanish colonial rule, became a cornerstone of Filipino national identity and influenced their independence movement.

I find it so odd how people are using crimes committed by individuals clearly mentally unstable to argue for fiction affecting reality when there are much better examples. The movie Birth of a Nation sparked a wave of hate crimes and helped revitalize the KKK.

If you can't see works of fiction as being able to address social and political issues, trigger deep personal reflection, or even serve as propaganda tools, then why is censorship so bad? What does it negatively affect besides the quality of your entertainment?

I'm anti-censorship, but saying that fiction doesn't affect reality is a very poor defense of that position. It effectively relegates art and literature to be nothing more than entertainment, never able to have any positive or negative impact besides making you feel good.

@layniesmid Would short stories be easier for you? I know a lot of great 10-30 page long stories and I think reading them helps with prose and other aspects of composition.

@AkaruiSakura I really don't get why people are turning an artist being self-critical about their own work into some kind of grand conspiracy.

That comment about Isayama being "insincere" about the ending has been on display at the museum for years. Why is it making its rounds again?

@layniesmid No, you would use a comma to separate two independent clauses. You wouldn't use a comma to separate an independent and dependent clause or to separate a compound subject or predicate. owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_wr…

@layniesmid I won't blame my current lack of fanfic writing on this, but it's definitely contributed to my feeling of disillusionment that the craft of writing barely matters as long as the tropes and and characters people like are being served.

@layniesmid I can't remember the post, but I saw somebody saying once that although AI witchhunts are harmful to human writers, it's also incredibly disheartening to see the massive amounts of praise clearly AI generated writing receives.

@layniesmid I think the most reasonable alternative would be “works” (like AO3 uses), but I don’t care that much. I can’t relate to half the complaints online who say that only people who don’t write would disagree with them. For example, should I think wanting to improve is capitalist?

@layniesmid Still, AI prose for creative writing is quite bad if it's longer than a paragraph or two. The descriptions are colorful, but it's very lacking in substance and focus. I wouldn't consider a real person who writes like that as a good prose writer in any sense.

@layniesmid Maybe I'm lucky, but I have a hard time getting people who are afraid of being perceived as AI because their prose is too good. Obviously there's no foolproof way to detect AI prose unless they leave the prompt in by mistake, and people can be shockingly bad at telling.

@layniesmid When I got all four of my wisdom teeth out a year ago, I only got ibuprofen afterwards. I don't know if this is unusual, but I had a fast and relatively comfortable recovery. I had basically no pain after the first day and had better results than ibuprofen for minor headaches.

@nekine @grubiczka As an American, I am honestly really confused how she didn't know. Granted, I've been a history nerd since middle school, but I feel like the firebombing of Dresden is nearly as famous as Hiroshima + Nagasaki...

@grubiczka czy oni maja jakies prawa autorskie do zadawania glupich pytan wykupione ze to zawsze musza byc oni

dla nekine

@layniesmid I'm more of a villain lover for real historical figures than fictional characters. Fictional characters are the only "people" I can find truly worthy of emulation, whereas many "great" (ie, interesting, notable, and impactful) historical figures were not "good" people.