writing thots

[miscellanium]

i decided to walk away from kidscomefirst this year like a sad ant with its bindle due to their new policy of screening all works for genai. i am staunchly against genai but i also don't like treating these exchanges like school or work assignments with a trust-nobody mentality. i'm told they're far from the first which is also a bummer to hear. at least it looks like the consent_issues_exchange isn't doing that, and their nominations open tomorrow, so i'll keep an eye on them. november is also when the ygorarepairs minibang starts, and since i help co-mod that one it'd probably be smarter to sit out signups for the consent exchange and just watch for pinch hits. we'll see.

i'm currently working on a fic for the "stuffed with love incest exchange", which i heard about via fedi. doesn't have much of a dreamwidth presence. i liked the low minimums and the long creation period (two months!); it was hard thinking of an idea for my recipient, but having that time let me just wait for something to materialize instead of trying to force it. here's hoping they like the result.

autumn always brings up my nostalgia for supernatural, unfortunately, so i excavated a couple decade-old wips and have been enjoying stitching them together as warmup for other writing projects. spn's interpretation of angels and vessels still has a grip on me for better or worse. if i'm satisfied with this gabe+cas fic then there's a novakcest(ish) idea i might try next, if the weather inspiration holds. something inspired by the chorus from the CSN song "southern cross".... once it starts snowing i'll probably want to switch back to a plane-crash-cannibalism hellsing fic i've been poking at for a while.

i don't like it when writing for fun doesn't feel fun. i had a great time in the latest edition of firewhiskeyfic and am looking forward to seeing whether my submission places at all lol. here's hoping i can join the next round. in the meantime, back to ellipsus!

Comments

[ashelterofpages]

Don't a lot of the ways that have you put in work to check for AI....work with AI/feed your work to AI? That seems counterproductive.

[miscellanium]

yeah, pretty much. i'm aware of some pattern-recognition programs that were developed for literary analysis and don't use generative AI, but they have their limits. it's something of a lose-lose situation and man, what a loss.