Come join me as we grow a whole bushel of kale in Stardew Valley! www.twitch.tv/gemma_hale

@sadlittleacorn.bsky.social Thank you for being so awesome in your stream this afternoon! I'm excited to see your little frog come to life!

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

And I'm live at Twitch.tv/Gemma_hale! Come join me (and feel free to do what you need) as I read Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac.

Going Live at 1:30 MST to read Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. Take this time to work on something else while I read out loud!

Meant to post this yesterday, but the day got away from me. Stream schedule for this week: Tuesday - Stardew Valley, 7:30 PM MST Thursday - Stardew Valley, 7:30 PM MST Saturday - Coworking Stream, 1:30 PM MST Sunday - Gemma's Choice, 7:30 PM MST Find me at: www.twitch.tv/gemma_hale

stop-calling-your-art-CONTENT!!!!! 💢

Going live playing Stardew Valley tonight at 7pm MST! Join me at twitch.tv/gemma_hale

ngl after recent events of politicaI & online stupidity, i really need this kinktober to be for the freaks™. need u all to get so freaky with it, just unabashedly weird. concerning to outsiders, perhaps. i want to question things about myself, i want to feel like my ao3 bookmarks need a lock and key

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write.

Even if it feels like the world’s ending, don’t forget your HALT: Hungry. Angry. Lonely. Tired. You can’t fight fascism on low blood sugar

It wasn't until a client made the comment that she needs more coffee that it dawned on me that I have not had my requisite coffee (1 cup vs 2) nor have I taken my brain meds. ....well fuck.

Therapy is good to do but damn today I feel like a wrung out towel.

ADHD = Always Dropping Hobby Dollars

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

We need to keep the threat of backlash against the use of genAI in art spaces as harsh as fucking possible because if we give these talentless, plagiaristic fucks an inch, you bet your ass they're gonna take a mile. They won't stop until AI "art" enshittifies every medium it can reach. End of story.

It’s distressing that I can’t craft and write at the same time; usually because all my brain bits are as plugged in as much as possible already. 😭 Trading off between them feels completely unfair.

"July 1st." I've had complicated feelings about this comic this year. We've seen so much quiet quitting of rainbow capitalism--a canary in the coal mine. I started wondering if I was naive to not think of when I drew this as "the good times."

One reason I'm excited to visit my parents: elk-peeping (if they're in the area) Second reason: urban Habitat ReStores and Facebook Marketplace. ...I am not going to need to rent a trailer. I'm not. 🤞 (but also, I just found an entire cabinet set up for Kallen - maybe)

The lack of support in my job (or insinuated support that doesn't manifest) is legitimately pissing me off. Thanks for giving me uninflated floaties and not the air pump or the specialized nozzle to fill them with I guess. 😒

It's interesting how much better I write when I'm not trying to do 13 other things. Now just need to take a notebook to help me remember thoughts at work. 😅 In other news: 800+ words tonight. I'm pretty pleased as punch with that.

To my friends on the EC. If you have an older house / AC system and are trying to create a delta of more than 20 degrees to the outdoors, you are probably going to end up freezing over one of your coils. Be alert if your system is running continuously with no breaks.

Please don't break your sobriety over this. Please don't harm yourself over this. We're all scared as fuck, but please, PLEASE don't undo all of your hard work. No matter what happens, you HAVE to protect yourself. You HAVE to hold on. Please hold on.

Okay. The fan will require a warranty call, but the rest is done!! …now I don’t know what to do with myself.

unrelated to anything, but just a reminder to NEVER let anyone dull your enthusiasm for anything. be loud, be excited, be unhinged. as long as you're being respectful, you're not doing anything wrong. people who try and kill that joy, who make it out to be a bad thing, aren't worth keeping around 💜

Goal for this weekend: functional office! Desk built, desktop set up, and fan fixed. The rest will come with time.

Repost with Alt Text. ...bc yeah, THIS.

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

that thing where you get off work and check the internet for the first time in hours and there are at least three new verses of “we didn’t start the fire”

Okay, pinned post time! Places you can find me: 📖AO3: archiveofourown.org/users/Gemma_... 🧠Tumblr: gemmahale.tumblr.com I do a fair bit of thinking about writing, attempting to write, screaming at blank word documents, and sometimes actually writing. Sometimes fiber arts or bugs and flowers.

If you've been waiting for permission to write that self-indulgent story, this is it! Congrats! Write for yourself, even if you never intend to publish it. Write that fic you think is a little too dark, or the rare-pair you think everyone will hate, or the mushy romance you've been longing for.

Loading my fictional characters up in my car for this drive. Someone’s gotta hold the tomato starts in the trunk though; sorry mate.

Pouting at the absolutely sopping soil and gifted plants sitting in a tub of rain water. I know we need the rain. I'm thankful for it. I just need like...one or two days to get everything in the ground.

This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it. Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.

Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

Stop using ChatGPT. Stop letting GenAI do your thinking for you. They're making you lose focus. They want you compliant. They don't want you to think for yourselves. They don't want you to do anything but make money for them until you die. Don't let them have it. Don't give them what they want.

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

Artists feel pressured to make new art too quickly at the moment. Normalise artists fucking disappearing for months. Just walk off into the woods for a year and come back with a single sketch. It’s good for you

You are magic ✨

Good news: gravity still works Bad news: my knee is about three shades of purple and my palms are torn up. 😬

So proud of the kids and their presentation today. They’ve come leaps and bounds since a month ago when they all were shy and scared out front. Tomorrow; LEGO robot games! (Here’s hoping that we don’t have tech issues.)

I wish I was kidding when I say I'm bickering about the genetics of mascot traits with friends that started because we were bitching about work-out videos. Don't ask about the path we took to get there - it is convoluted and winding.

I am *steamed* because this is directly related to my job, and it tolls a warning bell for a number of grants I'm on related to food security and food deserts. I'm incensed beyond reproach. Shop farmer's markets. Join CSA's. See if you can donate produce you don't need to your local food pantry.

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors. Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts. Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

First round of therapy and my therapist calls me on my bullshit right out of the gate. "Stop 'should-ing' on yourself. That invites shame, which brings everything to a halt." (And then we joked about how it sounded like she said 'shitting' with her accent.) 🤣 "Yeah, stop that too."

I think I'm going to just go take a long walk into the forest and go scream because this has to be the most stupid timeline.