I 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.