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Soulless Creation: The Rise of AI, Anti-Intellectualism, and Devaluation of Creativity
On Ao3, AI Scraping, and Protecting Your Intellectual Property
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Erica Kitch
Photo Diary #6: The Long Catch-Up
I haven't done one of these in...9 months?
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Erica Kitch
the second person lionizes the first
A Poem
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Erica Kitch
To Love Someone: An Epitaph for Jack
For Jack: Thank you for the dreams.
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Erica Kitch
the starter home
a free-form poem
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Erica Kitch

Essays

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Soulless Creation: The Rise of AI, Anti-Intellectualism, and Devaluation of Creativity
On Ao3, AI Scraping, and Protecting Your Intellectual Property
 • 
Erica Kitch
To Love Someone: An Epitaph for Jack
For Jack: Thank you for the dreams.
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Erica Kitch
This Isn't Fun Anymore: A Creative's Quest to Defeat Imposter Syndrome (While Losing the Battle with Mental Illness)
An intrusive look into horoscopes, religious OCD, and how depression begets writer's block.
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Erica Kitch
To Be a Writer Is to Be a Slave to One’s Whims
On shifting roadmaps and guilt
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Erica Kitch
I Resent the Regional Artist Label
An Ode to Appalachia
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Erica Kitch
Burn It Down, Generative A.I., and Richard Karinsky: Starving Artists and Other Fibs
On capitalism, Hollywood, AI, and the myth of the starving artist.
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Erica Kitch
Girl With No Face: An Open [Love]Letter to Allie X
Fanmail by way of essay, or; Have you heard the good news? Allie X has a new album out RIGHT NOW
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Erica Kitch
They Discontinued Sprite Ginger Zero Sugar in 2020, And Every Day Since Has Been Pure Hell
Coca-Cola Company, I am coming for your left thumbs.
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Erica Kitch

Creative Writing

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the second person lionizes the first
A Poem
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Erica Kitch
the starter home
a free-form poem
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Erica Kitch
Written Apologies Dated October 1st, 2024, Penned During Rainfall
A Poem
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Erica Kitch
morning lovesong for my wife
A morning reflection of old memories
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Erica Kitch
Old Boffin’s Menagerie of Rubber: A Memoir
The story of an old clown, told in prose.
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Erica Kitch
“I have often found myself at the mercy of the cocktail Ennui + Melancholy”
2 AM Thoughts
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Erica Kitch
The Trans-Allegheny Heretic [Short Story]
Where my witches at?
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Erica Kitch
The World's Best Cranberry-Blueberry Muffin - Recipe Adapted by Alanna Best [Short Story]
A ghost story about family ties and the snacks that bind us.
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Erica Kitch
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