For context their writing was so good that people were convinced they were using ai because of their use of the em dash (—) even though they had provided mountains of proof that they didn’t but em dashes have been widely used in fanfic since the dawn of time like nobody loves an em dash like a fanfic author and the fact that ao3 has become so mainstream over the last couple years that people who aren’t old enough/ versed enough to understand the em dash’s presence in fanfics is older than them

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