u/Micahzz

So what I've come to understand is that within Steiners ontology the human being is composed of four layers, the physical body, the aetheric body, the astral body, and the I. Each of these corresponds to a particular kind of substance in the world, which I think I've heard also corresponds to the four classical elements. Now my question is this, if each of these are particular kinds of substance, why is it possible to cleanly differentiate the universe into distinct realms, after all, the classical elements that we see on earth are all overlapping and jumbled up with one another. Is the cosmos like a jar or sediment where these different kinds of substance are layered due to differences of density? Also people talk a lot about the astral and physical realms, is there also an aetheric realm?

Ok so I'm not even going to try to make this post concise or neat. It's probably going to be a jumbled maelstrom of thoughts.

Anyway I'm posting this because not only do I struggle with crippling loneliness, social ineptitude that isn't even rooted in anxiety just a total social blindness(audhd) fuck I honestly with it was just anxiety. Anyway no that's not even why I'm forcing myself to write this. My brain is so UNBELIEVABLY COOKED that I can't even read long paragraphs anymore, I don't know if it's the phone addiction or multiple potential causes of brain trauma but in the last few years I have gotten noticeably worse, I can barely read paragraphs, I can't commit or bring myself to write or create ANYTHING. I used to actually be somewhat active on reddit, I would talk about my problems or contribute and engage with communities I found interesting, now it's like even if I'm suffering more than I have in years I feel so completely and utterly drained of energy that I just sit and decay in my chair as my body becomes increasingly grotesque due to my chronic overeating.

So to be clear this post will be about my subjective opinions and not about the technical side of things like a lot of the posts discussing the quality of the site.

Anyway my personal biggest gripe with the writing done by the ai system is actually the lack of stakes. What I mean by that is a general tendency where the stories and characters tend to downplay the negative feelings and aspects of the plot in a way that deflates the tension and ironically makes it feel less erotic.

This may not affect some of the genres but it has a particularly bad effect on my preferred genre which is exhibitionism and enf. To illustrate my general point I'll explain what I mean by this trope and give an example of how this trope is affected by what I'm talking about.

For me the appeal of enf is in the sense of tension between the need for release on one hand and the restrictions caused by social norms and the potential of the main character going through with it.

This could manifest in a lot of different ways, but ideally the character has to actually be into it, but at the same time have real doubts and concerns that make them nervous and hesitant. It should take place in a semi public area where this sort of thing feels thematically appropriate like a party or camping trip with a circle of friends.

In the stories I've prompted though there seems to be a consistent issue where the characters simply adjust to what's happening almost instantaneously or don't seem to have any conflicting feelings at all.

Like in one story a few women in their late twenties are celebrating a birthday and one of them decides to say fuck it and tells the other two that she got a new suit for her birthday only to come out of her room completely in the nude.

The ai writing will at most have the other two characters gasp in surprise before then immediately cracking a joke and acting like nothing interesting is happening.

The fact that it does this consistently lowers the stakes.

Ideally for a story like that work there should be a sense that the main character is actually taking a risk and knows it.

The tension that builds up as the mc contemplates baring it all, knowing that it comes with the risk of social humiliation that may not even stay contained to that one event. Conversely the tension on the side of the supporting characters who could react in a wide variety of different ways. Are they judgy, are they made uncomfortable, does this turn them on. Also what thoughts are there behind those feelings, maybe they aren't puritanical but the shock of seeing so much more of their friend than they expected makes them feel awkward, maybe they're worried that this new precedent will lead to other people expecting them to get naked too etc. The point being that the emotions behind it are really complicated and isn't either or, the main character might ultimately get a good reaction and feel really gratified, but also experience a lingering sense of dread and awkwardness as they realize that there's no going back.