I'm terrible at bookmarking, and most of it's random stories on the internet. My favorite was about a girl, raised by wolves, who meets a werewolf, found on DeviantArt when I was a teenager when I didn't know what erotica was. Must be gone because I haven't been able to find it. But had a hell of an impact since I remember it, vividly.
Literotica has fantastic writers. I'm in a discord server with other amateur/professional writers, too. 9/10 are bad to meh, but that one in ten can rattle in my brain for days.
This article prioritizes the conflict between the protesters and the first nation, with about three sentences regarding the conflict with the RCMP. It seems to intentionally obfuscate the fact the protesters were working under the guidance of local indigenous people and their primary conflict was, repeatedly, with the police.
Non violent protestors were pepper sprayed, arrested, injured, stolen from, and abused. They were charged, and settled with conditions that barred them from participation in future protests, fined them, as well as impeded their ability to work and live.
It was one of the largest protests in Canadian history and it was hidden by algorithms on social media. There was barely any detailed news about it, even at the time.
I wouldn't equate gooners with grifters. I mean, has erotica highjacked literature? Porn highjacked film? Have dildos highjacked sex? My phone is a revolutionary piece of technology, and I can watch porn on it while connected via Bluetooth to a programmable dildo.
I can use it to indulge in lectures by nobel prize winners while using that same dildo.
The need to get off is valid, human, and if it gets more people interested in technology, I'm all for it.
I don't. It was the first example I found where you could write a character to talk to. I had fun seeing how different personality traits changed their responses. At the time most AI was censored, so it was using it like a less powerful ChatGPT that could swear, sometimes with the personality of Hannibal Lector. And sometimes as William Howard Taft. Among others.
If you've read any amount of erotica you'll know the sex scenes can be fairly boilerplate and repetitive, it's the set-up that makes it interesting. For that reason I found the bots kinda boring for that purpose.
Plenty of people have fun using it as intended, though. Lotta incest bots on there.
The developer is a fairly active, positive guy who built up a nice community, so I like supporting him.
Your post made me want to check these out. I only ever played one with a friend for kicks. It was a fun, cheap activity, easy to make a drinking game out of.
It's like how erotica can still be literature, but people dismiss it for the sexual focus. But I've read erotic stories that had me hooked, made interesting social commentary, had nuanced characters and were just a fantastic time.
Currently paying for a chatbot program similar to character AI, but primarily marketed for sexual content. Started supporting it as a fun single-developer app and now I find it a pretty useful writing tool to bounce around ideas.
I'm trialing writing and grammar apps because I have mild dyslexia, but haven't found any paid apps that work much better than just chucking writing into ChatGPT and asking it to find the mistakes. The streamlined UI is the only benefit I've found so far. And one, I think called Pro Writing Aid, kept crashing my writing app, Scrivener, whenever I tried to use it.
Lady Jessica's character in the new films pissed me off. She was one of my favorite characters in the books, and one of the first examples of a powerful, nuanced woman I'd read in my life.
She's supposed to have so much self control she can literally alter poison with her body, decide the sex of her own baby and hypnotize people with her tone of voice, and yet she's freaking out and crying in the movie. She went from a brilliant woman trying to survive and save her son to an over-emotional and manipulative dark mother trope.
Only once. My teammate broke rule 1, tried to steal an air filter from maintenance. I didn't want to end up sharing a cell so I ran for the closest exit.
You're fascinating.
Going through your profile, I just had to upvote your comments.