About...

...This Site or Whatever:

This 'website' is a collection of HTML and CSS code which exists on what is often referred to as 'the internet'. Many such 'websites' exist, and they can have many different purposes. This one exists to showcase this one girl's 'fiction', which is a term describing the process of writing things that aren't true for fun.

...'The Content':

Y'see the Headers up top of the page? You can get to the project pages easily through those.

...'Me':

Did you ever have to do that thing where you're in a class, or starting a new job, and it's just...all eyes on you, 'please tell everyone a fun fact about yourself'...and then you freeze...and then, for some reason, your brain tells you that it'll be funny if you say something that, the subsequent reaction tells you, was not an ice breaker, but deeply unsettling information you should have saved for...I dunno, therapy?

...'Me':

Fine. Hi, I'm Bel. I'm...a disaster sapphic trans girl whose writing 'career' started with fanfiction and writing OCs to do stuff in little worlds I created. But that was long ago. Since then, I've seen things you wouldn't believe.

I survived the flame wars of the pre-Facebook era. I've watched entire fandoms implode in since-banned subreddits, over the pettiest and weirdest of Tumblr threads. I've seen queer representation shift from para-canons hewed into being using slashfic and force of will as bricks and mortar...to Adora randomly going starry eyed over some Mad-Max coded desert butch.

This world is not the one I knew. And all I wanna do is write my gay little books and eat my gay little sandwiches and try to love my gay little self until I'm, inevitably, relegated to a gay little grave...and it's all lost in time...like tears in the rain.

...'Pay-Walling':

So I like money. Many do, is my understanding. If you'd like to give me it, that's fine. But this is literally just a dumping ground for my writing. Mostly just so the people in my life who like it can access it without me needing to constantly manually, incrementally send it. And in case anyone who stumbles across it might find it a pleasant enough way to kill some time. So enjoy it for free or subsidise my habit, whatever you prefer. Simply: this is an 'I accept donations' rather than 'please purchase access to my output' thing. Y'know? There's a 'paid tier' for that reason. Or...I dunno, here. You can also do that HERE.

...'AI':

I don't use AI for art. I have to use it for work and I am very fucking unimpressed about that, tbh. And I've got plenty of ethical concerns which inform why I think it's bad to use for art in general, but honestly? From a purely practical perspective? It's not functionally capable of making good art unless you're investing more effort than would have gone in to just making good art without it. Because it's simply not capable of doing anything original. Maybe...stop trying to take the effort out of output and just pick up the fucking pen, y'know? Get good, basically.

Also, why would you want to 'make' art without the 'making' part? Seems counterintuitive. Sort of defeats the purpose...sucks out the fun...negates any actual sense of achievement?

...'Signing Up':

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