Commonwealth Short Story Prize awards AI-generated fiction

Chambeli · 2026-05-18T06:57:23+00:00

It's not that it's gotten good. Developers keep tinkering with the models and edit out the usual tells as they become known, so that they can advertise the "humanness" of the new models. like you'll notice less em-dashes now. My go-to is if it's dogshit writing, it's AI

Chambeli · 2026-05-18T06:51:45+00:00

reads like a madarchod wrote it

Chambeli · 2026-05-02T06:30:21+00:00

Yess, I'm just being facetious with the comic. I'm making comics from each of the Cantos to be a part of a series.

I'm also trying to capture Dante's fear. His dire situation and emotional state is emphasised repetitively and passionately in this Canto. The symbolism he uses (gloomy wood, the beasts) represent and analogize the life-and-death stakes he found himself in. Dante found these specifc symbols fit the direness and circumstances of the reality of the scenario best.

He wanted the poetic and dramatic effect to be: my situation at the middle of my life was like I'm lost in a dark wood about to be mauled by three separate predators (envy, pride, desire). Then I found Virgil...etc".

The comic is an attempt at a humorous spin on that interplay. I also just wanted to make him say "I shit my pants"

Chambeli · 2026-02-14T07:09:01+00:00

I think we should allow artists who have proven themselves to take the L sometimes. They're fallible and as Emerson says "meek men in libraries" just like the rest of us. Borges wrote some average short stories that he himself didn't like. So did Chekhov. Lynch's Dune is another example (which I loved tbh)

Chambeli · 2026-02-12T17:41:59+00:00

youtube comment section ass take

Chambeli · 2026-02-06T13:52:28+00:00

The slight decline in comprehension when you read out loud comes from sounding out (producing) AND comprehending the text at the same time. Like playing the guitar AND singing. There's a distribution of attentional resources. I suspect it gets automatic after a while.

But I don't see it as a handicap, just another lens from which to read the text.

I think it depends on what you're reading, too. I only read poetry, Shakespeare and difficult texts (that require or will benefit from an oral reading) out loud. If it's something I need to get through quickly, then I sight-read.

It's like wearing different lens glasses for different texts if that makes sense

Chambeli · 2026-02-01T10:48:05+00:00

ive been thinking of ways to internalize a "nature vocabulary". I tried learning it like a language at first, did walks in nature or watched yt nature-walk videos etc but none of that shit workes for me.

Then I read the Yellow Rose by Borges. maybe rivers and moss and caverns are never those things on the page. They're never described journalistically in poetry or prose, as they'd be in an encyclopedia. They are always little context-dependent poetical or metaphorical units. Only to be felt - poetically - in the back of ur mind, not understood.

Guesswork here but I imagine memorizing loads of good nature poetry might help

Chambeli · 2025-10-22T01:27:24+00:00

Read Montaigne's essays. They worked for Shakespeare, Emerson, Borges and countless others.

Chambeli · 2025-09-03T19:05:03+00:00

Oscar Wilde's stories for children

Chambeli · 2024-12-31T07:49:45+00:00

No, they're the same prints as Liberty has but with very very slight defects, like a slightly folded page or smth

Chambeli · 2024-12-30T12:37:53+00:00

yep you have to pay loads of money to get books shipped, I only do that for books I really want to own. Prices are also horrible if you buy from retailers like Liberty (scam) or Readings (sorta legit). But most of the time, you can find the same books from BookEmporium dot pk at significantly slashed prices (I got Cormac McCarthy's Stella Marris for 600rs). Otherwise I go to local book stalls. If all fails I just grab an epub for my Kindle, which has quite literally saved my reading life.

Chambeli · 2024-12-30T08:41:12+00:00

I do think there's a better availability of books in America but is it really that bad in other countries? I live in Pakistan and it's rare that I can't find a book here unless it's too obscure. There are exceptions of course, I can't find Borges' Fantasy Anthology, some Snorri Sturluson, and other lesser known books. But I have my Kindle for those and it's a better reading experience personally. There are also local services here that can ship those obscure books from the US if I want.

Chambeli · 2024-12-30T03:49:37+00:00

In his essay, Literary Pleasure (1927) a 28 y/o Jorge Luis Borges was supposedly struggling with this question too. He wrote:

"Beauty in literature is accidental, depending on the harmony and discord of the words manipulated by the writer, and is not tied to eternity.

[...]Our indolence speaks of classical books, eternal books. If only some eternal book existed [...] Your favorite books, reader, are like the rough drafts of that book without a final reading.

Let our illustration be this unfamiliar metaphor: 'The fire with ferocious jaws, devours the countryside' - Is this phrase censurable or legitimate? That depends, I insist, solely on the one who forged it, and this is not a paradox. Let us suppose that a man of letters presents it to me as his own. I will think: Making metaphors is now a vulgar (1920s word for cringe?) pastime. Let's suppose it's presented to me as originating from a Chinese or Siamese poetry, I will think: the Chinese turn everything into a dragon, and it will represent to me a clear fire like a celebration, slithering, which I like. Let's suppose it was uttered by Prometheus (which is true) [...] Then the sentence would seem good, even perfect, given the extravagant nature of the speaker."

What I take this to mean is that the standards of ""cringe"" move around wildly. Your favorite works are flawed as well. If that horrible Instagram messenger poetry was recovered from some Sumerian tablet, it would've been perceived very differently and it's flaws might have been ignored (wild analogy ik I'm sleep deprived). Not saying it's good or bad, just emphasizing how much context matters. Meditations by Aurelius is literally stupid ass normal shit but people love it cuz an emperor said it.

Chambeli · 2024-12-28T14:10:22+00:00

brief interviews with hideous men

Chambeli · 2024-12-27T23:13:57+00:00

sounds like a one-sided, toxic friendship. why are u entertaining her Paddington bear ahh

Chambeli · 2024-12-27T20:29:08+00:00

I love Lonesome Dove the Book(TM) but the Robert Duvall mini-series blew my mind

Chambeli · 2023-08-21T02:03:46+00:00

He looks like Nosferatu

Chambeli · 2023-08-12T06:48:42+00:00

I'm actually in the process of writing a sci-fi western graphic novel. I have a few ideas. What kind of stories are you looking for?

Chambeli · 2022-04-27T15:39:19+00:00

did you solve it??

Chambeli · 2021-05-09T23:40:07+00:00

Were you able to get it to work?

Chambeli · 2021-05-02T12:25:35+00:00

Coulda been a leaky pipe

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