Hmmm lies

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"They can survive on very little, in their cells. They barely need to be fed, and simply need daily watering. Why give extra? After all, we are doing them a favor keeping them alive..."

— Mono Guidebook (Abridged 2030 Edition), Chapter 17, Page 9.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLYwQb2T_i8

Hmmm, is the Mono stuff connected directly to your eldritch horror stuff? (Oh wait, @Through The Living Grass already came up with that theory. Probably means we're right.)

Apologies for not commenting much, have been overwhelmed with schoolwork lately.

2 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

phew. sorry if i was accusatory.

tbh any ignorant person (oop, me included?) can just say "good" writing = ai

or is that false

ignore

I don't associate AI writing with being 'good' or 'bad', but rather the following characteristics

• A very... bland style that feels soulless
• Perfect grammar, more than a human would typically use, but also uses word choice that would be strange for people
• A lack of true creativity, or an ability to explore interesting ideas
• (In some cases) strange uses of bolded text or lists

I also usually suspect it if I see very long pieces of writing from someone who I wouldn't expect to be writing such a long thing on something, but that's not really the style, just the laziness of the person using AI.

Anyway, I think suspecting good writing to be AI isn't a very good idea, as it gives AI more credit than one should, and it causes writers who put effort in to be hurt. (I don't blame you, just wanna inform you)

8 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

oh yeah that's definitely..  worse than your current stuff. yes. improvement is real. is it real if subconscious?

In all fairness, I also thought I was a guy when I wrote that so who knows maybe that made my writing worse or smth.

But yeah of course improvement in writing is real if it's subconscious, just like any other skill.

2 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

sigh I should've out more abiut her but how?how

I think you may have misinterpreted what I said. May seeming interesting despite the audience not knowing much about her is a compliment, that you can make it engaging with so little information. It makes me want to see more of her, but in later stories.

3 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

and why do you write so not badly 

I've been writing for over two years now, and I've been getting better and better. In fact, here's something I wrote in 2022. It's unfinished, and complete garbage.

What the hell was I cooking back then? I don't think I really was locked in on my writing until like 2024, and even then it wasn't great. Really it's only recently that I've begun to consider my writing decent.

6 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

also wdym two posts of this wdym you mean for 3/13? also gwahh

 

Ah, it was a joke that this blog post was titled "may_1" but wasn't published may first, but rather March 13th. And then I meant that despite being a "daily" blog, you posted twice in one day (which I liked)

7 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

are u using ai or grammarly or just take writing classes or using formal-speak rn.

 

I would never touch AI, and I wouldn't respect me if I was. Grammerly also I do not use.

I have also taken writing classes yeah so those did help a lot on criticism, as being critiqued didn't just help me write, but I also learned to imitate that.

3 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

 

sigh sigh sigh i need to learn how to handle criticism sigh why do all my stuff sound too boring by that i mean letter.txt and that dumb unnapeallable ban

thank you for your feedback, it will not go into the paper shredder like it would if i were one of Them

Don't be so harsh on yourself, you're doing great. Use criticism as a chance to improve. I feel like even as these blog posts come out you're getting better and better

>Is called May 1

>Looks inside

> 2026/03/13

anyway cool we get two posts of this. May seems interesting, despite seeing almost nothing of her. If I'm not mistaken, this is our first "prose" story in this verse, rather than with a framing device, and I think it's also good.

Kinda looks like the message came from "Lily" when that's actually just the author, but that might just be me.

Anyway, I like this whole story, I'm excited to see where it goes.

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Lies to make you get more than you need or want.

Yooo I got a cameo lets go

Anyway I quite like the stories here. You're genuinely good at this.

Only criticism I'd make is that Nothing is Ever Okay feels a bit too... infodumpy i'd say. It could sound more human I think. Also, it's supposedly all "letter.txt" however .txt files cannot contain italic text. Solution would be to either remove italics or rename it letter.html. (I recommend the former, would make it feel more minimalist, which it feels like it's kinda going for.)

6 minutes ago, Through The Living Grass said:

Uhhh this is really difficult to describe, i would recommend watching some of game theory’s videos on Inscryption, they are great examples

@Hmmm lies could you explain this better than me?

Typically, an ARG is like some sort of online puzzle I guess, like with hidden secrets and a mystery that needs to be put together. They often have their own website, but not always. 

2 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

Yah, I was actually considering writing that manga thing in either one or a set of short stories/microfics.

Also I'll probably continue to use multiple in-universe mediums, like forums, emails, texts, transcripts, maybe newspapers (think Wax and Wayne hehe), etc., but also some regular stories.

If that's what you feel like than go for it. Your Wax and Wayne analogy actually works quite well, I do like it when narratives are interspersed with in-universe stuff like that to give more context.

Still not sure how the manga would work like that, but I'm sure you could figure something out.

3 minutes ago, Through The Living Grass said:

This has potential for some ARG type stuff, if you feel like it. 

ARG stuff is cool when done well, but it is so rare that it's done well.

1 hour ago, Through The Living Girl said:

unfortunately if my writing sucks then I can't do what I want lol

but that's part of why I write so short

Being good at short-form stuff doesn't mean you're a bad writer. Being able to tell a story in so few words is actually difficult in my opinion. I'd say having issues with long-form writing is more of an endurance thing, it's difficult to keep writing good for so long.

1 hour ago, Through The Living Girl said:

pov when even you, the author, don't know what they mean:

nah jk I have smth in mind.

Also I can tell you what the 'code' was if u want hehe.

Nah, let it be revealed when you want to.

1 hour ago, Through The Living Girl said:

 

i actually also had an idea for a manga... that i was gonna make months ago but idk how to draw and im slowly learning ig

but i basically wrote the whole plot andeveyrhting and it'd likely be in the same universe.

Sounds cool, although I don't think you would be able to deliver the plot purely through in-universe media like forum posts and stuff like the current stories you have are.

Also, I know this wasn't your intention, but I find it funny that immediately after coming back from your ban, you write a story about evil malicious forum staff lol.

Oh and I do think it would be cool to see more of the forum users we've already seen, but it's up to you if you wanna reuse these characters

6 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

oh also i'd love to see more like this lol

"Corporate Horror"

Corporate horror is honestly one of the more disturbing genres of horror for me because it feels more "real", more "possible". In my piece, it was never supposed to be too realistic, just creepy, but yours is more relevant it feels like, which adds another layer of horror.

Anyway, sure, although my next project probably won't be, I'll probably make more of it eventually since it's so well received.

1 minute ago, Through The Living Girl said:

Yeah,,,

i guess it was kinda lame

don't feel bad about it, not everything I write is great either. And like I said, I like it more for the fact that it's right before "Concealed Content"

2 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

I could try making it into a longer story, or a bunch of shorter pieces. I also had an idea a few months ago when I was writing more short stories (as in, those few-hundred-word ones) and made a bunch of them connected (behind the scenes), and I think these ones could connect canonically too.

It'd be fun, for sure. (The shorter pieces idea I mean. Though if you wanna make it longer than sure)

3 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

PLEASE HELP

by elaborating and giivng suggestiins. I also can't think as well rn cuz sleeeeeppy.

Also I made a writing thread and may use that for stuff, like getting advice or feedback and stuff.

Alright lemme see

I think "Unappealable" lacks from the fact that there's not much disturbing in there besides the ending lines. I might have included the content that the user was banned for, and made it something innocuous, or otherwise made the beginning and middle more creepy. (Though I do like how ridiculously long the ToS are)

"Concealed Content" gives hints to a wider universe, which I quite like. There are many different ways to take this, depending on what you feel like, and how optimistic you want to make it. (for example, we seem to have this resistance group, who you could give victories or have fail, depending on how edgy you wanna make the story) I was a bit confused as what the 9-digit usernames mean, as they're too short to be phone numbers, so I didn't know what 'code' they were alluding to.

19 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

btw ty @Hmmm lies for la inspirationnnn

idk if it's any good cuz i wrote it so late...

(the Mono ones)

I wasn't initially super impressed with the first one of those (the TOS thing), but upon reading the forum one I liked it as a background piece or an opening scene for the more developed story.

Honestly would like to see more in this canon, if you feel like you should write more.

Edit: Have followed this micro-fiction blog, seems like it'll be fun

2 minutes ago, Through The Living Girl said:

write it down so u don't forgor it

also u wanna see them? read my early entries in my blog (#shamelessplug)

like this

https://www.17thshard.com/blogs/entry/1309-20251231/

the first one. "A Chat Between Friends" is the text one.

 

also u inspired me with ur msg board corporate thingy.

 

i love this. by this i mean us writers on the shard inspiring each other :3 earlier, I inspired Verde and then he inspired me and now ur inspiring me and yah

 

Seems nice, although while I like writing short, I could never imagine writing that short lol.

1 minute ago, Through The Living Girl said:

OHAHHWNENDNDNMEKEKKW

sorry omg omg 

u just sent a burst of excitement through my brain

 

basically just cuz i love that idea

ive even done some!!!!!!!!

like email chains, transcriptions, and text messages!

That's so real, it's quite fun I think

For some reason I really like "corporate" and "cold" documentation and stuff. Though adding human elements is just as fun sometimes.

In fact, I just had a cool idea... but i'll explore it more later

This is all part of my recent obsession with telling stories through in-universe material. I might write something like this full-length some day

More lies? Okay.

2+2=5

Mistborn isn't that good.

I am cishet.

My profile picture is the Regent from Slay the Spire 2

14 minutes ago, Through The Living Skies said:

it's good! It isn't cringe, so it's good!

Mmkay, but I think if you look at my writing here compared to the stuff I wrote at writing camp, the latter is better. (I wrote this stuff first)

Still, I'll admit this is some of my finer work, as I had large issues with prose that aren't so much of an issue when I'm writing in-universe documentation. Maybe that's why I like the SCP foundation so much

23 minutes ago, Through The Living Skies said:

lies have you considered writing novella length short stories 

that... that's just a novella.

2 minutes ago, Through The Living Grass said:

I would say it’s at least 3/5 sanderson level, which is about 3/5 more points than i would give myself

How does the magic system work?

Sanderson was my main inspiration for this setting, as this was recently after I started reading his stuff.

So uh the magic system...

I never actually came up with concrete laws. But it revolves around gemstones and heat. Different gemstones have different abilities and stuff, the main two showing up in the novellas I wrote were A: Creating an inter-dimensional gateway to a hellish world of incomprehensible beings (various diamonds) and B: Controlling/being controlled by said incomprehensible beings (amethyst). And then they can also store information, and the Syndicate has pretty much supercomputers and magitech stuff going on.

Okay, with how much I'm writing on this, I'm gonna go write a full blog post on the setting tomorrow.

8 minutes ago, Through The Living Skies said:

Lies why are you so good at writing

Tess this is like so mid what are you talking about. Like I'm not saying it's bad but like I wouldn't consider this good by any metric.

7 hours ago, Through The Living Grass said:

This is awesome! I want to know more… 

Anything specific you wanna know more about?

(If you like, I could just make a new blog post detailing the setting this all was for.)

2 minutes ago, Aeoryi said:

Wake up new yuri just dropped

(Very good but now we need a sequel this is cool)

Just now, Shatter said:

Fire writing. More? plez?

I wasn't intending on sequels (especially since I wrote this like 9 months ago) but I could totally write new toxic yuri with similar vibes.

First though, I'm gonna upload a bunch of writing that I've already done to this blog. (which could take a lil while)

Toxic masculinity: Something that some trans women have to learn to escape, and something that some trans men have to learn not to pick up.

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I’m discarding the idea that tears are a sign of failure. In reality, repressing those feelings didn't make me stronger; it just made me numb. Now, I’m learning that expressing my needs isn't being "needy" and crying isn't "hysteria." It’s human. I’m giving myself permission to feel the full spectrum of my life without checking to see if I’m being "too much."

Storms, I wish I could cry so badly. I don't know why, but it's almost impossible for me. I hear hormones are supposed to help with that, and they have a little, but still...

I feel so emotional now, but it feels so hard to express that emotion.

When I was in the egg/closeted, I kind of had the opposite problem as what you described. I didn't try and act masculine, I was just too shy. It was like I was trying my best not to stand out. Now that I care about life more, it's something I've tried to do, to stand out and be myself more, but it's hard and scary.

And assertion is hard. It usually takes a lot of buildup before I feel confident enough to assert myself in any situation. I have a problem with just passively going along with the status quo that I've had to unlearn. But it's a very useful skill to have.

Why is Willow only an option in the first choice and not the second choice? And Sylvie and Sylvia are only separated in the second choice.

(Also gotta love deciding your name through democracy)

Yo why do you have a queer blog and I don't? I should get on that.