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Posted 2 weeks agoI confess to encountering something of a dilemma.
The presence of AI both in general and in works viewed on the site (not from my own reports, from those of others) has made me unsure about going on with posts of "Adventures of Dusty Yote". I haven't a good way to prevent scanners or otherwise from taking the work and reposting it elsewhere or adding it into the algorithm (for it's not learning intelligence, it's pattern-recognition software that only is increased the more is added into it from outside). So, unfortunately, I am going to hold on posting more.
"Adventures of Dusty Yote" is difficult to explain. It is basically a story of my OC, but it's that of putting my OC through the wringer. Yes, it's an epic fantasy, but it's an epic fantasy placed in a universe that, were I to post a map made on another site, would show that it would rely heavily on satire purely by how the world is shaped and formed. Simultaneously, it is an epic fantasy story, but one where the magic system is also meant as commentary on repression of true self. It is a work that is frequently daunting to myself, but is also things I am somewhat deeply personal on and am desirous to see myself how these events play out.
To wit you might be able to see why I am hesitant about giving it up to the possibility of AI. I neither want the work to be scraped but don't know a good way of preventing that, nor do I have the inclination of seeing the work suddenly get finished ahead of mine being ready and wholly complete without me being considered its origin. It is not fear of context that I am afraid of; it is fear that the context shall be misconstrued by someone wanting to make it something that it both is not and something that, in its own way, would be actively warning against becoming: a cog in a machine.
The other thing is I am not quite getting feedback on it. I realize both that my posting is erratic and that the work is not quite the easiest to follow (already being 12 parts and each being fairly long) but I am looking for more criticism than I am getting (read: minimal aside from the occasional fave). Which, as a writer who posted it here for that, is mildly disheartening. I'm still writing it, I'm still in progress and will continue to work on it, but I'm unsure if to take it further public.
So, I leave it up to you. While I may occasionally post random things, updates of AoDY will stop for the time being. If you would like to see more, please let me know and I may reconsider, though I may have to reconsider in a more "guarded" format.
The presence of AI both in general and in works viewed on the site (not from my own reports, from those of others) has made me unsure about going on with posts of "Adventures of Dusty Yote". I haven't a good way to prevent scanners or otherwise from taking the work and reposting it elsewhere or adding it into the algorithm (for it's not learning intelligence, it's pattern-recognition software that only is increased the more is added into it from outside). So, unfortunately, I am going to hold on posting more.
"Adventures of Dusty Yote" is difficult to explain. It is basically a story of my OC, but it's that of putting my OC through the wringer. Yes, it's an epic fantasy, but it's an epic fantasy placed in a universe that, were I to post a map made on another site, would show that it would rely heavily on satire purely by how the world is shaped and formed. Simultaneously, it is an epic fantasy story, but one where the magic system is also meant as commentary on repression of true self. It is a work that is frequently daunting to myself, but is also things I am somewhat deeply personal on and am desirous to see myself how these events play out.
To wit you might be able to see why I am hesitant about giving it up to the possibility of AI. I neither want the work to be scraped but don't know a good way of preventing that, nor do I have the inclination of seeing the work suddenly get finished ahead of mine being ready and wholly complete without me being considered its origin. It is not fear of context that I am afraid of; it is fear that the context shall be misconstrued by someone wanting to make it something that it both is not and something that, in its own way, would be actively warning against becoming: a cog in a machine.
The other thing is I am not quite getting feedback on it. I realize both that my posting is erratic and that the work is not quite the easiest to follow (already being 12 parts and each being fairly long) but I am looking for more criticism than I am getting (read: minimal aside from the occasional fave). Which, as a writer who posted it here for that, is mildly disheartening. I'm still writing it, I'm still in progress and will continue to work on it, but I'm unsure if to take it further public.
So, I leave it up to you. While I may occasionally post random things, updates of AoDY will stop for the time being. If you would like to see more, please let me know and I may reconsider, though I may have to reconsider in a more "guarded" format.
Introduction
Posted a year agoHello all you fellow dusty dogs and travelers of the trail out there.
My name is Dusty Yote. I'm a normally somewhat shy coyote who likes to write. I've been part of the furry fandom for about 14 years now, and actually have a bunch of self-published books under my actual name (though online I prefer going by "Dusty Yote" or "Yote"). I have the fandom and anthropomorphic characters as my main muse and inspiration, and it is rare that I write things that do not include animals or anthro characters in some way.
However, a few of my projects lately are a little different. While most of the time I am content with heavy editing and the subsequent release of my works (I self-publish more to share than to make any money off them), I have a few recent projects that are technically a little "weird". As in, heavy enough on the kink I'm unsure about releasing them to the general public sphere so quickly. But in light of still wanting feedback on it, I decided to make an account here (on some recommendations) and release them here.
So I will endeavor to release in serial-format a (hopefully) weekly series. It very much stars Dusty the O.C., but I will be using the series ostensibly to very much screw with him. The entire point of the series is going to be to put him into situations that would make him squirm. It will be written somewhat similarly to a normal fairy tale or high fantasy work and thus it may come off a little slow to start. But there are things I have planned for the series that are eventually going to turn even that very premise on its head, or incorporate elements from other styles that may not be commonly seen in high-fantasy works. I don't think they'll be ground-breaking, but certainly not the styles the general public would normally associate with it, and considering part of the "making him squirm" as I said involves kink, it's gonna get messy.
That is what I mean by "weird". And so, to gauge public reaction, it goes here.
I hope this has somewhat interested you. I hope to post these things on Sundays with designated breaks at certain points. But more to explain later, as further than this will involve spoilers I'm not content to give away just yet. I'm a writer; I can't show my whole paw too early, you know?
My name is Dusty Yote. I'm a normally somewhat shy coyote who likes to write. I've been part of the furry fandom for about 14 years now, and actually have a bunch of self-published books under my actual name (though online I prefer going by "Dusty Yote" or "Yote"). I have the fandom and anthropomorphic characters as my main muse and inspiration, and it is rare that I write things that do not include animals or anthro characters in some way.
However, a few of my projects lately are a little different. While most of the time I am content with heavy editing and the subsequent release of my works (I self-publish more to share than to make any money off them), I have a few recent projects that are technically a little "weird". As in, heavy enough on the kink I'm unsure about releasing them to the general public sphere so quickly. But in light of still wanting feedback on it, I decided to make an account here (on some recommendations) and release them here.
So I will endeavor to release in serial-format a (hopefully) weekly series. It very much stars Dusty the O.C., but I will be using the series ostensibly to very much screw with him. The entire point of the series is going to be to put him into situations that would make him squirm. It will be written somewhat similarly to a normal fairy tale or high fantasy work and thus it may come off a little slow to start. But there are things I have planned for the series that are eventually going to turn even that very premise on its head, or incorporate elements from other styles that may not be commonly seen in high-fantasy works. I don't think they'll be ground-breaking, but certainly not the styles the general public would normally associate with it, and considering part of the "making him squirm" as I said involves kink, it's gonna get messy.
That is what I mean by "weird". And so, to gauge public reaction, it goes here.
I hope this has somewhat interested you. I hope to post these things on Sundays with designated breaks at certain points. But more to explain later, as further than this will involve spoilers I'm not content to give away just yet. I'm a writer; I can't show my whole paw too early, you know?
