LES PAINS TRANS

*Offering The Scout around like sliced cake* Smut, anyone? Smut? Bit of smut? 👀

Nobody really has time to make art. But we find it. We make the time where we can. We don't sell our souls to the theft machine - we work at our craft because we care about it.

Alasdair Gray wrote movingly about Agnes Owens and how we missed out on so much of her words because she had to work hard to make ends meet. Imagine a world in which the money spent on AI would be spent on providing a Universal Basic Income for all the Agnes Owenses.

... I misread something as being "From the bong of Ursula LeGuin" and now I find myself wondering...

Went back to the cafe to write a bit for the first time in a while - only wrote a couple of sentences' worth of new material on Drive Through The Night, but I did revise a few pages' worth of material to be less schmaltzy, and it flows better now, so I'm quite happy! I love writing.

This is how I feel about people who don't do side quests

Can't click thru cuz no subscription, so I dunno if it's addressed, but I had a brain_explosion.gif moment awhile back when I read a skeet pointing out the men seeking tradwives rarely want women who would enthusiastically take on that role; They dream of subjugating women who don't want that life.

Move over Larian, the 'AI and Games' award for 'biggest PR cock-up' has just found its latest winner. Regardless of how big their current market share is, DLSS5 has pushed so far into the ridiculous that whatever trust players still had is lost, and that will impact them in the long run.

hmm

Pam Bondi fired

there's a ton, like really really a lot, of crappy kids' tv with crappy animation and crappy writing. We should be doing better by kids and we should start with the writing part.

Reluctant Hero is finally getting kick-started. Life has finally given me time to get this project done. There have been teething problems with this project that I won't go into but I am happy to say that the Kickstarter for volume 1 goes live Saturday 8am BST. ✨ #kickstarter #manga #oc

The masters of the universe can’t read for subtext & symbolism. This level of analysis would earn him a C on the assignment with a request to come to my office so we could talk this out. Of course PT wouldn’t show & instead complain in a private chat about me.

As we get closer, I do want to share this add on again. It does help us significantly each time someone gets one but I do want to celebrate folks who really help Arisan make it across the line. If you want to have your self or your original character join Nyx and the rest, we'd be glad to have ya.

At this rate the upcoming World Cup will be looked upon as a case study as how not to host a global sporting event

YES. At C2E2 last weekend, a piece of advice I gave out a LOT was, just... make a li'l 20-page story, first. Do not come out of the gate first-thing with your "Love and Rockets"-length magnum opus. That is a mistake. TAKE IT FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOOOOWS

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So @abertayuni.bsky.social waited *five months* to publish a response doubling down on the decision to invite an unqualified woman best known for calling rape survivors 'lying c****' on TikTok to give a guest lecture. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5462...

Folks I finally did it I used a whole bag of spinach before it went bad

"Hi, can I ask you a quick question?" "Yeah, sure, go for it!" "[Massively complex issue that I cannot possibly influence nor have any understanding of]"

10/10 no notes

......... Okay fair play to this YouTuber for trying something new, but whispering through the whole video is nooooooooot for me

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Looking to do some quick, no edits b+w comms in this sorta style if anyone’s interested. Starting at £50~ humans, furries, animals, your favourite guy, robots, armour etc all good.

*Offering The Scout around like sliced cake* Smut, anyone? Smut? Bit of smut? 👀

Any author I've seen using AI has been rightly ridiculed and shamed by their colleagues. If you don't want to write, don't become a writer.

“Faster” is one of those goals that sounds great but frequently withers under scrutiny because it comes with a number of unspoken priorities which can upend the whole effort because they go unaddressed and therefore no intelligent tradeoffs can be made.

Also, a lot of the time film voices can be very soft, restrained (depending on the era of the film), so if the role you're casting involves projection, battle screams etc it's nigh on impossible to match that style of acting. Games voice acting is more filmic/cinematic, but not exactly the same.

Ringo Award nominations are now open, and I would absolutely be honoured if you would consider me, a bearded goon, as BEST LETTERER for any of the works I have been involved with over the last year! ringoawards.com

Still a few A5 sketch slots left if you fancy getting the comic and something along these lines

.... I can't be the only one who occasionally confuses The Cheeky Girls with Tatu, r-right...?

Hey all, had trouble sleeping last night and I doubt I'll be up at a decent hour so doing the #Ariisan update now. We're now in the single digit days. April 10th is our deadline. We can make it, though, I believe. If you can help us get there, please do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...

Yes I would quite like to know why I am so anxious and overthinky and thought-racy and very sad or very happy and either very distracted or incredibly focused with no in-between and why the coffee helps. I am incentivised to understand myself so that I can live my life better.

Something made me reflect on the last couple of years and I just had a flashback to how exhausted I felt at the end of 2024. Specifically, at the end of the week we were performing at The Fringe.

This is legit delightful 👀

I still maintain this morning would be the funniest time for The Thing That Everyone Is Waiting For to happen

Hey, it's April - I've managed to make it three months through the year. Just four more to go. I can do this.

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if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Know what white-people Chinese Takeaways *do* get right? Chicken Balls 👀

I first saw it as Twitter memeslop, with the caption "What would you pay to wait on this table??" And the first reply, permanently burned into my cortex: "Pathetic. Even in your wildest dreams, you're just the help."

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"Look kid, if you're gonna make it as a grifter, you can't attract people with standards or critical thinking skills, you gotta go for the easy marks. It's called self-selection."

YOU ONLY HAVE 10 DAYS LEFT TO BACK ARISAN, YOU FOOLS. ARE YOU REALLY GONNA LEAVE ALL THAT NEAT STUFF JUST SITTING ON THE TABLE?

After some thought, I'd have to say my least favorite genre of art is "Half Dozen Notable Men I Admire (Always Men, Only Men) Sitting Around A Table, Smoking Cigars, Drinking Cocktails, And Having A Very Serious Conversation" AI "paintings." If you like that shit, I probably hate you.

tired of visibility how about a single day where we stop legislating trans ppl out of public life

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