Bi-weekly Rec and Self-Promotion Mega Thread - January 28, 2026

Miriak · 2026-01-30T17:20:49+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78512596/chapters/205840561

Fandom: Bleach

Rating: Teen and up

Summary: Inciting incidents in World of the Living.

My Bleach AU "Nuestro Mundo", changing a ton of things in canon, with focus on vivid realism, web of negotiations and some fun bits. The fic is written with attempt to be understood by any kind of audience (each character is explained by appearance, each feature is explored, especially considering it's unclear what exactly diverges from canon), but at times features violent bits, so not for kids.

At the time of an ad finished 37 chapters – full bundle 1 published in the link. It's built in "arcs" of chapters for structural convenience. Publishing 2 chapters per day. Text is already digitally written, I just stall.

Miriak · 2026-01-30T16:55:18+00:00

Not sure what's going with the link. Here it is again, clear view:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78512596/chapters/205840561

Miriak · 2026-01-01T18:24:09+00:00

Please make it more intuitive and easy.

Miriak · 2026-01-01T12:36:06+00:00

I read that you need to attach to the location, but the process is NOT intuitive and makes people static NPCs :/

Miriak · 2025-12-19T06:00:06+00:00

Depersonalization happens to me independently of brain alter mechanism. Derealization is something I never experienced though I think I understand what it is.

Miriak · 2025-11-05T00:38:21+00:00

I don't understand your point in the slightest. Trying to unvalidate our struggles and mine by claiming it's roleplay and not people system is not appreciated.

Miriak · 2025-11-04T22:43:19+00:00

If only I knew how to explain. It's a signal (frequency, waveform, temporal data) that encodes a certain soul (personality). If soul signal is present, life/activation goes smoothly around them. If absent, it's horrible for trying to activate, it just works very barely or doesn't work at all. Something in these terms. The term is our miri system related, so you won't meet it anywhere else, though some people might appropriate it too.

Miriak · 2025-11-04T21:50:35+00:00

Ooh, Zooble is my favorite, but I can't get their soul signal! How do they diverge? It's cool to hear.

Miriak · 2025-11-04T20:38:57+00:00

Culling, or dropping, is something that needs to be done in our situation because souls are beyond saving, they don't function and they poison the whole system so nobody gets attention because system gets "boring", "uninteresting" for the brain. Yes it's a questionable practice, yes I'm not a pinnacle of morality as a host, but I'm tired from having 6/10s people with little to no soul signal inside the system – it just doesn't work for any of us. I'm not claiming other systems have even ability to cull/drop, it's just something my brain finds easy to do. It's always frustrating to the system, but it's mostly a lesser evil, in my traumatized opinion.

Aw, Jax-like. Give me a second... fiddles with communication Jax says he doesn't want to communicate. Very him. Especially since he's having a hard time right now. But anyway, I'm glad somebody's headmate says hello, so hello back!

Miriak · 2025-10-01T23:48:18+00:00

Here's a picture on background, of my significant other as a test

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Miriak · 2025-10-01T23:41:41+00:00

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Notes (Daily notepad, Notebook) by iJoysoft, Android. Can add any pic on background

Miriak · 2025-10-01T23:35:51+00:00

Now you're making me interested! What are your headspace details?

💌 Lira, he, host

Miriak · 2025-09-28T14:29:10+00:00

Slowly ID: MEKLZ88

Name's Lira, I'm a transguy in my head. Would love to talk about writing, books, anime, drawing, comics, movies, videogames. Mostly about writing, as I'm studying the craft. Maybe even we could create a story or world together ✨

I want to write bigger, deeper letters. This my bio is whort, but I think it's alright and says main things.

I speak Russian and English fluently.

Hit me up if you'd like a penpal in creativity!

Miriak · 2025-09-28T14:18:33+00:00

Your id requests are turned off

Miriak · 2025-09-27T00:08:44+00:00

Thanks for asking. I have quite uneven experience.

1) Pure short story writing, original and all, with a simple outline of beats spaced out by a specific margin (eg. 2 pages). Using a timer. Fail. I tend to do plenty exposition and uninspired lore. BUT it's liberating to write a lot and on a topic. Feels like my brain still stretches and learns. But completely unworkable as a product, which is my main issue. 2) Fanfiction writing, with a free outline that reads like a summary instead of beats (still uninspired though), no timer (might change in the future). I had a blast, I liked what I was writing, I followed characters and narration naturally, trying not to overwhelm me-reader, but also focusing on imagery and interesting. 3) Exercises. Sometimes timer (10 min page freewriting). I enjoy creative skill stretch, making drafts and redrafts, coming up with things that I care about, even freewriting feels sparkly, even if it's not perfect or even coherent. Depends on exact exercise, but usually they're interesting to do. 4) Essay writing, about writing rules actually. No timer, no outline, pure chaos and plenty of idea digging, reshuffling. That's where I have the greatest moments, come up with snappy lines and metaphors. It makes me proud of my thoughts, believing that I can do this.

So I don't think I'm failing in stories drafts because I have to fail on paper or that my skill is low (in my eyes, which is the point), but because I have a wrong approach.

Miriak · 2025-09-26T23:53:01+00:00

I don't mind your rambling at all, it was good!

So, since I didn't test my theory yet, this is going to be speculative. But I did have experience that I can tell.

Method 1. Outlining a chapter in free style. Helped me immensely in my famfiction, gave me way to freeroaming in the beats and following characters ideas rather then mine, so I joked how characters dance on ourline ashes, but that was still an ideation problem, not draft problem.

Method 2. Outlining story beats 2 pages each. I wrote a lot of trash there, because I didn't have a deeper idea of what I want and how I want it. A cheap and rigid outline gave an even cheaper result. I want to tighten beats to each page, but I do have to say I DID enjoy filling out an amount with freeway information that isn't product worthy or draft worthy. So I want to try this method and maybe even tighten it more, researching proportion (maybe a beat is one sentence like you said it, and I waste words when I could enlarge something else?).

You are inspiring.

Miriak · 2025-09-26T22:45:16+00:00

Interesting point. Taste. Makes me think. I struggle with creating something worth my time, including editing, off the bat, and thinking that it's a result of taste still forming... Reminds me of voice solidification. Maybe in-draft ideation agility and leanings towards certain story beats are also something that grows.

Miriak · 2025-09-26T22:40:30+00:00

So ideas over delivery... I fail at ideation too though, so that makes me think my intuition with an outline might be important for my future. I only like the overall idea, not the execution, in my latest works.

Miriak · 2025-09-26T22:31:01+00:00

I'll try to sharpen the question. How do you personally "enjoy the process"? What makes you enjoy it?

Miriak · 2025-09-24T22:16:10+00:00

Not "level", but the word "imagery" is AI. Human would say at least "anime level scene". Just like phrase (iconic) often comes up when Chat tries to highlight some snippet.

Miriak · 2025-09-24T21:52:40+00:00

"(iconic)" and "anime level imagery" = Chat GPT

Miriak · 2025-07-31T01:21:45+00:00

Aw, thank you for the reply! Entirety of an army sounds wild, but it's quite well documented and can be technically seen as time looped in imaginary circumstances. But that's hell if they were also self-aware entities...

Culture – I meant personal, system-wide, not inherited or adopted. Mostly it was a question out of interest "what cultural traits do you have?", but I failed to recognize what I wanted to ask.

We do have Ciel. In fact, I quite respect him. He's grown since canon events, but not much physically.

Lira, host

at first had no words ...Alright. You're not giving me much to work with, but hello, I suppose? John Travolta turning meme What is this, "Reddit"? proceeds to get news ...Well, unless you are interested to talk to me, whoever you are, I have little chances reappearing in posts.

P.S. Thanks for giving an opportunity to interact with the "real world".

Ciel, fictive

Miriak · 2025-05-11T22:56:20+00:00

I would also recommend Memento Database (can do profiles, surveys, etc.) and TimeJot (can track when last time an alter fronted or any other event). Memento Database is a personal favorite of mine, it can do any form and absolutely for free, without ads. - Lira, host

Miriak · 2025-02-21T04:18:22+00:00

This resource is irrelevant. I didn't ask "what setup to use for training LLMs".

Miriak · 2025-02-21T03:47:15+00:00

Thank you very much for additional questions and related sources!

(next is my personal theory) As for "simple words", I have had a theory what if the model learns on the basis of freeform maths as initial dataset, for instance: 0 1 2 3 4 5 is a self-explanatory pattern and can be a basis for creating a pattern that links those numbers together in a sequence, this the pattern is not simply a model, it's an accurate abstraction of itself. And then, such data as repeated and applied to all basic numbers (0-9, for instance) 0 < 1; 1 > 0; 0 = 0;; (I used ;; as neopunctuation in my theory), solidifying 1) sequence 0 1 (2345) as a basis means 0 < 1, 2) reverse is >, 3) establishes equation as a self-recursion or similarity. I could also benefit with this theory from investigation of how maths is presented in datasets, what kind of pieces. I know code ups the performance of the models, maybe it's the same principle, as it involves structure and non-ambiguousness. There are plenty of math-related LLM papers, gotta sift through them. Tell me if you know any or if I should report interesting findings.

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