PSA for writers: This emoji is described (accurately imo) as “smirking.” Is this what your romance hero is doing? IS it???

Lion & Snake resumes tomorrow! Get ready, everyone!

Oooh, I’ve been waiting for this one!

I am once more in that overwhelmed and tender state of “have just finished a book by @ajdemas.bsky.social and i don’t know what to do with myself until the next one is released”. My heart is bursting at the seams yet again, her romances feel like crafted in a lab for me, like a designer drug.

Some brave souls choose to face the feare of failure and the terror of a blanke page. Thrugh harde worke and luck thei come back wyth storyes that bringe us mirthe, or horror, or thrilles, or beautye, or wisdom, or delighteful surreal confusioun. Gen A.I. ys nothinge lyke that. Long live artists.

OTOH, if you have a SHOPKEEPER say, “I could sell a lot of these,” that might be worth listening to.

Chapters of Lion & Snake Book 2, The Summer Pass, will go live on Ream, Monday mornings starting November 10! Need to reread Book 1? Follow along in the forum on Ream, where I’ll be posting new notes and extras daily. reamstories.com/ajdemas

B216 Knowledge of animal languages.

Congratulations, New York!

Sometimes I see something on here and I’m just filled with love for humanity. 😊 Click through all the quote reposts; it’s so worth it.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

You don’t put the jinni back in the bottle, you trick it into getting back into the bottle itself to show off. Sheesh.

Photo by Thierry Ardouin. A clematis seed in flight.

Chapters of Lion & Snake Book 2, The Summer Pass, will go live on Ream, Monday mornings starting November 10! Need to reread Book 1? Follow along in the forum on Ream, where I’ll be posting new notes and extras daily. reamstories.com/ajdemas

Good morning to my friends in NYC! I don’t think I’ve ever been so invested in a mayoral election, much less one in a place where I’ve never lived. Here’s hoping today your amazing city gets an amazing mayor!

Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here! (I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.) www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...

My serial Lion & Snake starts up again on Nov. 10, next Monday! reamstories.com/ajdemas

I'm excited to start subjecting my merry band of readers to the continuing adventures of Lill and Vanu, starting next Monday, November 10! You can sign up now to get in on the fun: reamstories.com/ajdemas

Someone with access to high quality sign making facilities!

Me, very naïve: I have a passing thought about a popular media property! How whimsical. I wonder if anyone else has … The internet, predictably: Fun fact! This has already become the basis for a literal religion!

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

For #Halloween, here's the reclining skeleton mosaic from San Gregorio on the Via Appia. The Greek aphorism ΓΝΩΘΙ Σ(Ε)ΑΥΤΟΝ ('Know Thyself') is said to have been inscribed at the Temple of Apollo on Delphi (Pausanias 10.24.1). 🏺🦇 Image: Museo Nazionale Romano (Baths of Diocletian)

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane The Calyx Charm by May Peterson Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check…

Starting soon, only on Ream … Stay tuned for details! (no I'm not tired of that pun yet)

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

B191.1 Weasel as conjurer.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

Truly this is the “hold my beer” level of S-tier P&P retellings — took about three pages to get me from the classic “ugh, that horrible little Collins man” to “I would lay down my life for him”

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

Fish sauce. sextonscottage.com/products/swo...

What if corporations talked about other things we don't want the same way they talk about AI? "Poisonous mushrooms are here to stay, so here's 10 delicious poisonous mushroom recipes!" "Mosquitoes are here to stay, so our new line of laptops are filled with live mosquitoes!"

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

In ponds, pools and rivers, Stay Belows feel the cooling, notice the littering of acorns and leaves upon the surface. We feel the first chill as desire for gloves, hug of sweater. They feel it as a hunger. An instinct for one final feast before taking to the mud for the long sleep of winter.

I think he means his third mom…

I was a world-class procrastinator in university (I still am, tbh), but it didn’t make me cheat on assignments, which is what using AI is.

Newfoundland. (I’m not from there, but my mom is, so I grew up pronouncing it correctly.)

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

I'm sorry, but for budget reasons, your chariot to the afterlife is scheduled to be pulled by a chicken.

So this is one kind of AI (Adobe’s prediction software) hyping another kind of AI. But only one of them is making money off of this scenario.

[holding my phone in my hand and opening a social media app to make a post] i would simply resist the cursed amulet's tempting whispers of power and infamy

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

Today's artist w/out a known birthday: Luis Egidio Meléndez, brilliant still-life painter from Madrid. Also quite able in other areas, as displayed in his self-portrait w/ an academic drawing, 1747. Plus Historical Hottie du jour!

I was very lucky this morning to capture on video one of the juvenile pots venturing out into the art studio for the first time. As you can see It’s still a bit skittish and has a lot of growing up to do before it can join the other pots on display. #pottery #art #ceramics #ceramicart

If you're looking for a spooky read this October, my entire Sacred Dark trilogy is dripping with gothic drama, featuring three queer romances about witches, shifters, and ghosts. Buy the series: tinyurl.com/j2jjvucx Book pages: www.maypetersonbooks.com/books/