S. H. Marr
@shmarr.bsky.social
Author. Analogue Gamer. Otaku. Generally passionate person. | Icon by @gabapple.bsky.social
I am apparently going to spend my Christmas holidays fighting off an emotional collapses and extremely stupid suicidal ideation (I’ll be fine).
Basic bitch move honestly. During Christmas??? Get some originality, Marr.
Basic bitch move honestly. During Christmas??? Get some originality, Marr.
December 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I am apparently going to spend my Christmas holidays fighting off an emotional collapses and extremely stupid suicidal ideation (I’ll be fine).
Basic bitch move honestly. During Christmas??? Get some originality, Marr.
Basic bitch move honestly. During Christmas??? Get some originality, Marr.
I would say I'm a professional catastrophizer, but that would imply I get anything out of this.
And advice to deal with this is like "Think about it logically!" but my Catastrophe Brain looks a lot like logic.
Like fae food looks like food, but it's made of rot and maggots under the glamour.
And advice to deal with this is like "Think about it logically!" but my Catastrophe Brain looks a lot like logic.
Like fae food looks like food, but it's made of rot and maggots under the glamour.
December 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I would say I'm a professional catastrophizer, but that would imply I get anything out of this.
And advice to deal with this is like "Think about it logically!" but my Catastrophe Brain looks a lot like logic.
Like fae food looks like food, but it's made of rot and maggots under the glamour.
And advice to deal with this is like "Think about it logically!" but my Catastrophe Brain looks a lot like logic.
Like fae food looks like food, but it's made of rot and maggots under the glamour.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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It's okay if writing every day isn't for you- writing a set amount of words every day definitely isn't for me!- but if you are struggling to make consistent progress like I was writing in fits and starts, you might try to do it for a week or a month and see if it could be a good fit for you too
December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's okay if writing every day isn't for you- writing a set amount of words every day definitely isn't for me!- but if you are struggling to make consistent progress like I was writing in fits and starts, you might try to do it for a week or a month and see if it could be a good fit for you too
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I feel like the tide has turned against it, justifiably so, but I'd actually like to put in a good word for "write every day" as advice, it has helped me commit to making progress- even just a little progress! my daily writing is sometimes under ten words!- through a year of variable mental health
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I feel like the tide has turned against it, justifiably so, but I'd actually like to put in a good word for "write every day" as advice, it has helped me commit to making progress- even just a little progress! my daily writing is sometimes under ten words!- through a year of variable mental health
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New ship of Theseus just dropped: is it the same band if all the original members have been replaced
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New ship of Theseus just dropped: is it the same band if all the original members have been replaced
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Treat a published work that was later divulged to be AI-generated the same way you would if you found out it was manually plagiarized from a different book. Same situation, just the plagiarism has been automated and averaged out a bit, and the plagiarist is also a scab and a cultural arsonist.
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Treat a published work that was later divulged to be AI-generated the same way you would if you found out it was manually plagiarized from a different book. Same situation, just the plagiarism has been automated and averaged out a bit, and the plagiarist is also a scab and a cultural arsonist.
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The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.
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Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.
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There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.
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There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.
December 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.
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The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
People who keep their files on the desktop on their computer should never tell me about it because it gives me hives.
Tuck that shit in the document library. Or at least a folder.
Tuck that shit in the document library. Or at least a folder.
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
People who keep their files on the desktop on their computer should never tell me about it because it gives me hives.
Tuck that shit in the document library. Or at least a folder.
Tuck that shit in the document library. Or at least a folder.
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SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
Everyone: The dark has been defeated! Huzzah!
Me: 😢
Me: 😢
December 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Everyone: The dark has been defeated! Huzzah!
Me: 😢
Me: 😢
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Same. Frankly, I can’t imagine any situation where using an LLM to generate text would not make writing the book take ten times as long.
In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).
December 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Same. Frankly, I can’t imagine any situation where using an LLM to generate text would not make writing the book take ten times as long.
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I dunno man, as a visual artist it’s been clear from the very beginning how the LLM/AI sausage is made.
It’s been frustrating as hell to watch other kinds of creators justify it and then backtrack once it comes for their field.
It’s been frustrating as hell to watch other kinds of creators justify it and then backtrack once it comes for their field.
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I dunno man, as a visual artist it’s been clear from the very beginning how the LLM/AI sausage is made.
It’s been frustrating as hell to watch other kinds of creators justify it and then backtrack once it comes for their field.
It’s been frustrating as hell to watch other kinds of creators justify it and then backtrack once it comes for their field.
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I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.
December 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.
People are startled the closest thing American SFF writers have to a union are throwing in on the side of writer labor rights?
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December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
People are startled the closest thing American SFF writers have to a union are throwing in on the side of writer labor rights?
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The rule should not be chosen based on who it excludes.
If the rule means that the output of an entire publishing house, which goes AI-edit forward in 2026, is excluded, the rule is functioning as intended.
If the rule means that the output of an entire publishing house, which goes AI-edit forward in 2026, is excluded, the rule is functioning as intended.
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The rule should not be chosen based on who it excludes.
If the rule means that the output of an entire publishing house, which goes AI-edit forward in 2026, is excluded, the rule is functioning as intended.
If the rule means that the output of an entire publishing house, which goes AI-edit forward in 2026, is excluded, the rule is functioning as intended.
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2) when deciding if a clear rule is a GOOD rule, the absolute last thing you should be doing is crafting a rule and then looking to see if it excludes people you like and respect and frantically redrafting it if it does so that those people are eligible for your contest
December 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
2) when deciding if a clear rule is a GOOD rule, the absolute last thing you should be doing is crafting a rule and then looking to see if it excludes people you like and respect and frantically redrafting it if it does so that those people are eligible for your contest
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So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now:
1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.
1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now:
1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.
1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.
Me: I don't think people should steal ebooks
Someone on Tumblr: SO YOU HATE GAZA THEN?
Me:
Someone on Tumblr: SO YOU HATE GAZA THEN?
Me:
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Me: I don't think people should steal ebooks
Someone on Tumblr: SO YOU HATE GAZA THEN?
Me:
Someone on Tumblr: SO YOU HATE GAZA THEN?
Me:
This entire job search, that has gone on for over a year and a half now(I haven't been unemployed that long, but, y'know, I knew it was coming) is not only stressful but basically a repeated series of small humiliations.
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This entire job search, that has gone on for over a year and a half now(I haven't been unemployed that long, but, y'know, I knew it was coming) is not only stressful but basically a repeated series of small humiliations.
My parents are world-class failures at emotional comfort, always have been, and I would like to understand how I keep forgetting this
(culture. Culture tells me I should reach out to them for comfort, despite that working negative percent of the time)
(culture. Culture tells me I should reach out to them for comfort, despite that working negative percent of the time)
December 19, 2025 at 7:52 AM
My parents are world-class failures at emotional comfort, always have been, and I would like to understand how I keep forgetting this
(culture. Culture tells me I should reach out to them for comfort, despite that working negative percent of the time)
(culture. Culture tells me I should reach out to them for comfort, despite that working negative percent of the time)