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I came across a haunting fanfic (a short poem) that strongly implies (without saying it explicitly) that a certain fictional character was Jack the Ripper. I was curious if this allusion could be detected by an AI, and asked 3 of them (ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini) to analyse the poem and note any hidden meanings. While their analysis was detailed and mostly on point, none of them guessed it! Moreover, even after I revealed the secret, Copilot asked if this interpretation could be intentional or accidental. Even though it is blindingly obvious to any reader who's into Jack the Ripper lore. (The other two agreed right away that it was brilliant and absolutely fitting.)

It's like what I had posted a while ago, about puns that AI can't understand. I wonder when they will be able to look deeper into the context and put all the clues together...?

On the positive side, with the help of Copilot's clarifying questions (it can never stop a conversation by itself, provoking the user to keep chatting ;) I came up with a satisfying ending/resolution of the story, and ChatGPT even wrote a couple of snippets for me. I guess it can be used to scratch an itch, if you can't find a fanfic you want to read... The problem is, you need to know exactly what to write, with all the twists... whenever I asked to write something from a vague prompt, the results were rather boring.

Current Mood: curious

vriddy

Murder, I say!! Lol. A few panels under the cut, so spoilers for a few scenes but not really plot stuff.

( MURDER! A.k.a., fatal doses of polyshipper catnip XD )

Current Mood: bouncy

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Title: Crypt Hunting
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author:

veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some coarse language
Word count: 100 (Google Docs)
Spoilers/Setting:
Summary: Set in S4, some time between eps. 4x12 “A New Man” and 4x13 “The I in Team” | Spike has finally found a crypt to live in.
Notes: also for #481 Charity by

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Prompts [#1-#5]: charity - dangerous - hunting - sick - tired

Also on my journal

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( Crypt Hunting )

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Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.

Over the last week...

Chit-chat on bnha_fans.

Signal boosts:

worderlands' next event at the end of the month will be a daily 3-sentence flash fiction challenge. I know a few people in my circles enjoy that kind of event!

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Challenge 262:
SOULMATES

n. a close friend or romantic partner with whom one has a unique deep connection based on mutual understanding and acceptance

Soulmates – a myth, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, or something a little more supernatural? Maybe soulmates are just someone you have a special connection with; maybe they’re something mystical, something predestined for you one way or another, a kind of magic found in special marks or mind-links. Or maybe they don’t exist at all.

Do your characters believe in soulmates? Do they have one, or want one? Is it an option at all for them?

Write a story about soulmates.

BONUS GOAL: “Do you believe in love at first sight?”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, June 16 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 262 – soulmates
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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #261 – Schemes!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 3134

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

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You may now post your Challenge 261 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!

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Adventures Elsewhere collects our reviews, guest posts, articles, and other content we've spread across the Internet recently! See what we've been up in our other projects. :D

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Each month, we look back over the media we loved in the previous month, from books to film to video games and more. This entry in the series was written a while ago, but we haven't posted a favorite media since then, so we're posting it now for maximum completion!

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Title: Not Over You
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Oz, Willow.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 453: Over You.
Spoilers/Setting: Years into the future.
Summary: Oz still thinks about Willow, the love of his life.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

Not Over You

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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I devoured The Witch Roads in three days. ( Read more... )

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Last migration season, I subscribed to this nifty newsletter by a PhD student at UCLA—an "Early Bird Arrival Forecast" that sends personalized emails based on your location, and tells you which birds are early/peaking/late migrants in your area. It's data that I probably could figure out via other sources, but I suspect the data backing his emails is superior, and his simple summary & targeted recommendations were very handy for me to get a sense of what I might see in the field—"ooh, warbling vireos are peaking this week; let's go find one!"

Anyway. I enjoyed his recommendations again this migration season, and also, ngl his final email of the season this year weirdly made me tear up a bit:

There are no birds forecast for this week or last week, so it's time to close down the Early Bird Forecast for your region. Very sad :(

Thank you so much for participating in the second season of the Early Bird Forecast! A few asks from me before you go:

[. . .]

2. Last year, I provided a link for people to donate to me personally (AKA to "buy me a coffee"). In light of recent realized and proposed cuts to government-funded science programs, this year I would like to steer people towards donating to nonprofits that do efficient and important conservation work at home and abroad. A few good charities in this mold are Birdlife International, The American Bird Conservancy, and The Nature Conservancy. If you would like to look for something more local, check out your city or region's Audubon chapter.

3. If donating is out of the question for you, consider contacting your representatives and let them know that you believe federally-funded science is worth supporting. The Early Bird Forecast is actually a by-product of a NASA-funded research fellowship I received in graduate school. If the current administration's proposed budget becomes law, funding for NASA-funded research like mine will decrease by over 50%. This science funding is cheap in the grand scheme of things – If you are the average taxpayer, you paid $0.0006 for my research (thank you!). Plus you get Early Bird Forecast for free, what a steal!

Happy Summer!

god knows a phd student could always use some spare change; incredibly classy of him to point towards Science As A Whole rn instead.

something something "he's not giving up & i'm not either" etc

dorchadas

Today was the parental information session for new families at Laila's new school, and while I couldn't go, I watched Laila while

sashagee went. It ran over the hour they had set and

sashagee didn't get to grab any coffee before she came home, but she took copious notes. Among those notes:

It's an International Baccalaureate school, so it follows a standardized curriculum through all of its instruction (preschool through middle school).
The school has a whole system of communications that goes through tiers, from emails and website announcements and fliers home and so on.
There are a bunch of parent groups you can join, including some Facebook groups she said I should join.
Breakfast and lunch are offered but optional, important because sashagee wants to make meals for Laila.
There will be a "welcome back" day where we can take a tour of the school.

Something else that stuck out in her memory was overhearing a conversation about the condo to the south of us that was just on sale. A month or so ago, we were walking out on the sidewalk and I heard some people outside the condo showing say they already had twenty offers. Today,

sashagee said she heard other people talking about wanting to move into the neighborhood to secure their kid a spot at the local school for kindergarten since if you're already in the school you don't have to change mid-year and it's possible that you'll get to stay in future years (depending on the school administration, how many students the school has, their admissions policies, the phases of the moon, and so on), and that the same condo had closed with over thirty offers and gone for 120K over asking price! Once again, me being very lucky has worked out in my favor--just a few blocks over and we'd be in another school district, none of which are as good as our local one.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: Azurah - The Year of Akatosh

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Current Mood: lazy

vriddy

...Just the preps, I haven't started on the actual edits yet XD But I have a roadmap and an extensive list of actionable steps, and I'm glad I do. Working offline using Pomodoro, like I mentioned the other day was super effective.

A disadvantage, I suppose, is that I can't have conversations back-and-forth in GoogleDoc comments, which is something I dearly enjoy doing with fanfic (either as beta-reader or beta-readee!). I think maybe it's just too much, on a turnaround of 40k words at once. Also because I needed to let it rest, folks might not be so interested in a reply 6 months later on a reaction they don't remember having about a story they fuzzily recall 😅 Having said that, I did write to folks after chopping their feedback into the roadmap, to thank them again and share a general reaction to their reactions :D

( Stuff to ponder )

It took me 17h41 to go through all 7 beta-readers' feedback. (Thanks again everyone for offering, I am so grateful :D). I'm going to have a brief interlude now (well, brief is the plan XD). Ideally, I'd like to use that time to write something original but SHORTER so I can bask in the self-indulgence of inventing fun worldbuilding, which I loooove doing. But on the other hand, Wind Breaker Volume 22 just came out and drove me insane with the OT5 vibes so I may have to write something for that instead XD

I 100% intend to break down the work and take regular breaks when I start actually following the roadmap, if only to make the structural changes then giving it a bit of space so I can make sure the major changes didn't break something else important. I expect overall it'll likely take longer than the 17h41 prep time, so I better pace myself! I think I should learn very interesting things throughout the process. I'm already thinking about what to be careful about in the Soul Thief story, when I get back to it.

Current Mood: contemplative

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I am aware of both these community orgs through their ties to the MALDEF and Raices. Happy to discuss more via DW message if you want more vouching.

Short-term/immediate bail and jail assistance for protesters: Jail Support LA

Jail support campaign of a long-running SGV mutual aid network: Operation Healthy Hearts

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Theme Prompt: 261 - schemes
Title: Broken Trust
Fandom: Quánzhí Gāoshǒu|King's Avatar
Rating/Warnings: No
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 510
Summary: Su Mucheng has had enough of those schemes.
( 2nd person POV )

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