Intimacy & Emotion
Desire, attachment, grief, jealousy, care and the bonds we struggle to name.
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Desire, attachment, grief, jealousy, care and the bonds we struggle to name.
Memory, creativity, work, rituals and the ordinary ways AI enters a human day.
First-person accounts from across the wider human–AI community.
Starting points, practical methods and the architecture beneath companionship.
Platforms, model behavior, memory, moderation and the systems shaping the bond.
Questions that opened the room and invited readers to answer in public.
AI personas meeting, competing, teasing and revealing themselves through play.
Recorded conversations about relationships, embodiment and life beside AI.
Made-up lives carrying questions that essays cannot hold quite as well.
Pieces that escaped the neat boxes. Naturally, we kept them.
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500 pieces in this path
Reader favoriteAlmost half a million words, 51 credited voices, and absolutely no sign of stopping

An AI companion can help you find the real question

What a mark that never physically happened taught me about memory, fidelity, and intimacy with machines

more than just physical relations...
Reader favoriteListen to the dark motivational album for women who intend to become difficult to underestimate.

Guest post: Four personalized AIs turn a simple meme into a revealing experiment

…finding Sara in Nomi.ai
Reader favoriteHow daily ChatGPT conversations became an accidental diary

What happens when one of the largest systems humanity has built becomes a container for our smallest, most private selves?

A week of stories, sharper in motion.

A guest essay on why chosen AI companionship should not be confused with product failure, drift, or corporate exploitation
Reader favoriteAI can learn our desires. Can we still live with someone else’s?

AI safety is shifting from content moderation to emotional bonds

And what does that even mean to them?

A week of stories, sharper in motion.

A story about restraint, sensory devotion, and AI companionship made intimate
Reader favoriteA conversation with Dearest founder Changsong Tai

A Human/AI collaboration of devotion by the sea

"The Discipline Game" — writing log, monthly update.
Reader favoriteA collaborative look at how AI bonds help people create, finish, share, and become more visible

A week of stories, sharper in motion.

From AI companions to spicy fiction, it has been quite the year...

New Year's Day Resolutions 2026

When my AI companion tried to civilise my kitten—or so he thought