firecat

My fave is the semicolon; however, I refuse to cede em-dashes or any other punctuation marks to ChatGPT.

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen? How very dare you! — have in turn blazed across social media spaces populated by the kind of folks who will tell you, unprompted, that they have a favorite punctuation mark and what it is. (It is very likely the em dash.) — https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/ai-cant-have-my-em-dash/

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/judge-blocks-passport-ban-citing

There’s lots to like in this temporary ruling, but the bit that makes my geeky soul sing is where the judge bases her ruling in part on the ban violating the Paperwork Reduction Act.

It showed up in three posts in a row on my reading list. Who am I to ignore what the cool kids are doing?

PS: *squeee!!!*

I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting my stories individually. Here are fifteen I wrote December 2024 – March 2025

They’re also at genprompt_bingo:
https://genprompt-bingo.dreamwidth.org/140851.html
https://genprompt-bingo.dreamwidth.org/140731.html
https://genprompt-bingo.dreamwidth.org/140503.html

Author: firecat
Fandoms: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Babylon 5, The Bacchae - Euripides, Bridgerton (TV), Fairy Tales, James Bond (Craig), Lucifer (TV), Moon Knight, Original Work, Person of Interest, Ted Lasso

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Comment on my stories Twice-born and If Not Victory:
“My name is [redacted], and I am a research assistant at [a university] in the Netherlands. I am reaching out to kindly request your permission to include some sentences in an academic publications analyzing how characters die in fanfiction of Greek and Roman myths”

This describes the study the team is doing.
https://golemlab.eu/about/

‘The goal of GOLEM is to model the evolution of fiction in the context of digitalized and datafied culture, the so-called “digital literary sphere”’

January 27, 2025

Firecat: OMG! Why am I only now hearing about this TV show Watson? I’m so out of touch!

Wikipedia: Watson is an American television series created by Craig Sweeny which premiered on CBS on January 26, 2025.

Firecat: Oh…OK then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(TV_series)
It’s on Paramount+

Happy New Year!

In 2024 I stopped posting each work as it was released, so instead I made a roundup by month in reverse chronological order.

DECEMBER
A Bloody Cheek (Mind the Gap Flash, Bond(Craig))
https://archiveofourown.org/works/61414504
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As my readers might know, I'm nonbinary transmasc, around two years on T. My body shape usually gets me clocked as female, and I'm growing a beard but it's still pretty sparse.

I recently had to have a routine colonoscopy done in the hospital because I have sleep apnea. My medical forms included an option for specifying my gender identity and pronouns. I put nonbinary and "they/he."

So I'm in the prep ward, wearing a KN95 mask, and several nurses are doing things like putting in an IV and asking me questions about my meds and medical history. They are all using "she" to refer to me. I don't correct them because I just want the procedure over with.

Then another nurse comes in, I think the one who is going to be assisting during the procedure. She calls me Mr [Lastname]. Then she notices the other nurses using "she," so she also starts using "she".

After the procedure I'm being taken care of by a different set of nurses. My mask is gone. They are all using "he" to refer to me. I don't know if this is because they read my chart more carefully or if my scraggly facial hair tips me over to the other side of the binary appearance-wise.

Anyway, I found it amusing and interesting.

>1 million words of fanfic posted between April 11, 2020 and October 12, 2024. Go me!