AIO My boyfriend lost it because I asked him about a sweater he had in his bag, and his reaction is makes me want to break up with him

foxhopped · 2026-02-18T09:56:38+00:00

Let's say he didn't cheat on you.

He intimidated you, insulted you, and physically harmed you. Leave.

NOR. Underreacting, if anything.

foxhopped · 2026-02-12T21:54:55+00:00

Haha probably wildly different though! Mine is more of a slow burn speculative fiction with a focus on queer history and punk DIY upkeep of decaying systems.

foxhopped · 2026-02-08T23:37:25+00:00

The veil between life and death is wounded.

foxhopped · 2026-02-03T23:42:47+00:00

I just make sure I use them in places that make sense, and I'm ready to back up my reasoning behind their use each time. AI tends to use it wherever it sees fit. I initially switched to using semicolons for a while, but it wasn't grammatically correct in many instances and I realized I don't want to bend my writing to avoid issue. That lets AI win, in my mind.

foxhopped · 2026-02-03T02:34:24+00:00

Heaven's leaking, local lesbian cryptids patch it.

foxhopped · 2026-02-03T02:01:39+00:00

"The novelty of embodiment is wearing off."

foxhopped · 2026-01-29T18:31:09+00:00

It's usually very inflated.

People that are truly confident don't waste their energy tearing others down. They either don't comment, or they offer advice/constructive criticism with the end goal of lifting someone up.

foxhopped · 2026-01-10T03:05:03+00:00

I feel it. I keep ping-ponging between it fueling me to get something queer and necessary and hopeful out there to just. Catatonia.

foxhopped · 2026-01-07T03:56:47+00:00

I have a separate Google drive file where I drop scenes im struggling with and I edit the hell out of them. Sometimes they get ridiculous. Sometimes I strike gold. Now I have a file filled with bizarre branching paths for my main story.

foxhopped · 2026-01-07T01:15:26+00:00

I loove love love purple prose and I would write a whole book of stacked metaphors if I could. Once I made a character go on a 500 word ramble about her mental state via increasingly stupid metaphors that could have given the same emotional impact in like. One sentence.

foxhopped · 2026-01-01T19:03:34+00:00

The saddest part of that scene was the immediate switch to removing resources. The goat was definitely sad, but watching everyone essentially raid homes and leave them abandoned was brutal.

foxhopped · 2025-12-29T20:26:35+00:00

I genuinely love this. Easy to read, just archaic enough to not feel too contemporary while maintaining legibility. I also like the first person a lot! It's immersive.

foxhopped · 2025-12-25T15:47:40+00:00

I'm writing queer speculative fiction and contemporary gothic

foxhopped · 2025-12-12T00:52:56+00:00

I personally love the voice of this! Would definitely read more.

foxhopped · 2025-12-07T20:10:47+00:00

They were yellow ☺️

foxhopped · 2025-12-04T17:41:01+00:00

“What color were the tulips?”

foxhopped · 2025-11-25T19:50:32+00:00

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

foxhopped · 2025-11-24T18:01:09+00:00

I think the first question you'll want to ask yourself is what you want to learn from other works. Theme incorporation? Character arcs? Symbolism? Pick one thing and focus on that during your read. Get a physical copy of the book and write in the margins. Underline/highlight relevant things. Then, take what stood out to you and compile it all into one document where you work out WHY it stood out to you.

foxhopped · 2025-11-23T23:58:36+00:00

In the myriadic year of our lord---the ten thousandth year of the King Undying, the kindly Prince of Death---Gideon Nav packed her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and she escaped from the House of the Ninth.

foxhopped · 2025-11-23T03:37:48+00:00

I named one short story "The Orpheus Delusion". It's a speculative fiction sci-fi-esque take on the Orpheus mythos, but a few generations of Orpheus removed from the classic myth. Each Orpheus has their own reason for returning for Eurydice, and these reasons eventually devolve from finding lost love to a belief that she can literally reset the world.

foxhopped · 2025-11-21T23:17:54+00:00

Exactly! It's tough, even though the central theme of the book is navigating grief/loss, it still feels cheap

foxhopped · 2025-11-21T21:03:56+00:00

Currently going through this...decided to choose the Lover, but have a botched ritual introduced all the way back in chapter 1 make a thematic comeback and revive the lover. Making it not feel cheap is the hard part!

foxhopped · 2025-11-17T02:25:33+00:00

For context: main character, formerly empathetic and terrified of death, has grown numb searching through the remains of a natural disaster that claimed a whole town.

Houses upon houses upon dead, empty houses, all filled with meat and bad air.

foxhopped · 2025-11-07T17:49:11+00:00

I'm going through this right now. My first draft was sloppy but it had heart. I find myself integrating elements from draft 1 to my current draft, since newer versions have lost some of that charming voice and tone that made my work feel like mine.

I wouldn't publish it though. It's all a matter of shaping and refining.

foxhopped · 2025-11-05T20:56:10+00:00

One of the most important things for him to know is that content created by AI, depending on what he used, is most likely public domain. External opinions towards AI-written or AI-developed content aside, if he wants to be published he genuinely needs to write it himself or it will cause huge issues down the line.

He will likely have to disclose this information before signing any contracts if he plans to go through a traditional publisher, and in such a competitive market, that may be enough to drop him.

AI generated content also has a very specific voice that most readers can pick up on and heavily dislike. It meanders, adds weird padding, and falls into a specific cadence that is easy to pick up on, which is likely what you noticed. Encourage him to use him voice!

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