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Just about done with the semester and rushing to catch up with ARCs lol, can you tell?

“All my life everyone had told me that everything I am was wrong. They made me memorize all sorts of stupid rules that didn’t even help and that nobody else had to follow, because maybe if I followed them all then that would make up for everything wrong with me. And I followed them. I was so careful. I was so good. But that wasn’t enough for them....”

Yup

I can't deal with Kelli 😒

“She also knew that kids from Basic Housing, no matter the severity of their illness, didn’t get therapy from an actual human. They got put into a comfy little room and given a workstation where they talked about their troubles to a version of the language model, fine-tuned to give sympathetic tips about mental self-care....”

So gross

“If only queer people in the Jovian system were really like that. If only they weren’t all blackmailers and kidnappers, or alone like Kelli, or dead.”

Big yikes 😬

‘“Can I be a lesbian?” Elaine asked.

“You can be what you want,” said Am, who had thought this part out in advance. “In the stories or in real life. Only you can’t date us, because we’re already dating each other. You can’t date us in a story either. But if you wanted to tell a story about, like, lesbians in general, that’d be fine....”’

This is so cute lol

“These stats here—the number of revisions, and the total numbers of human-authored and human-revised words—these are right up at the top of the allowable range. Your last two were like this, too. Seems to be a consistent pattern.”

Technofascism giving me the ICK

“Everybody’s dated everybody else and had fights with everybody else, in a community like this. You need an app just to keep track of who isn’t talking to who.”

I'm dead

“Queer Film Classics in Critical Review.

Almost Anything Goes: Queer Refugees and Queer Resistance on Triton.

A Timeline of Lesbian and Bisexual Philosophical Thought.

And so on. All massive. All nonfiction. They were good books, probably—Am could imagine Kelli looking at the list and just drooling—but so dry and dense that Am could barely focus on a single one.”

Is she wrong tho??

‘“And then,” Kelli plowed on, “I found a folder that was all Ship of Fools fanfiction.”

“Oh, no,” Rowan muttered under his breath.

“Half of it’s about sex, too! With pairs of characters who wouldn’t even do that; they don’t like each other that way. Some of it isn’t even consensual sex! Who would write that? And then, look, look at this subfolder, the one that says it’s about a kraken—”’

💀

‘Did you mean ‘dike’?

“It says it’s a swear word,” Kelli translated, which made sense because Elaine definitely hadn’t been talking about floodplains. “And you have to be a grown-up to see the definition.’

I shouldn't laugh but this is kinda funny lol

“Am belatedly figured it out: once you’d picked a topic or generated one sentence, the program would let you press Add a Sentence and type one more, which could then be edited with the More Exciting! and Happier! and Funnier! buttons. But only one at a time, still. Then you had to press Generate again.”

AI is brainrot fr

“They had saved up so much money that they bought everything. That was why anything could happen in the AdventureVerse—because every single story that could ever be told belonged to Inspiration now. Inspiration had the trademarks and the copyrights.”

What in the Bezos-Zuckerberg

“It was bizarre, looking at a movie filmed with real people. Compared to the crisp motion and flawless color of AdventureVerse shows, it looked flat and strange. Every once in a while a shadow flicked over the frame. Kelli stared at the two actors, distracted by what this must be like for them....”

A world with only AI "creations" and where human made media is illegal is whack af

“For instance, the robot always told Kelli to go up and introduce herself to people, but everybody already knew who Kelli was—she was the weird girl with the robot.”

I can't with this stupid robot character

I love the rep but this is also… a lot