Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "I'd be happy to help. What topic are you working on?"

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

I mean, I wasn't the BIGGEST of Pinterest users, but blech. Just blech.

I mean, sure, it'd be nice if everyone could hire and afford an editor, but even if you CAN, you have to be able to edit your own book, too--and editing POV is a huge challenge. Let's see if we can make it a little less daunting together! www.patreon.com/posts/self-e...

I just found out HBO is making a Baldur's Gate & it will be a "continuation" of Baldur's Gate 3. Just... just no. BG3 was good. It was fun. It was so enjoyable. I'm writing fanfic as I type this. But just please, different characters, new stories. Set it Baldur's Gate, sure, but stop rehashing 😭

Hope you all have a good night, everyone. Bad fatigue day means I am crashing hard.

Hideous licensing agreement from Red Ogre Review, but what really jumps out at me is the moral rights waiver

My poets especially, this 🧵 might be both of interest and warning.

My ebooks have landed at bookshop.org! What does that mean for you? DRM-free books, supporting a bookstore of your choice with your purchases, and more ways to get my ebooks!! My paperbacks are already here, so it's nice to be able to have my ebooks too!! 📚 bookshop.org/shop/earlron...

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

‼️ URGENT MUTUAL AID REQUEST ‼️ Please help me move out safely. I'm being kicked out of my current living space. I need to be out by April 1st. The details are in the post. I need a min.of 2000 CAD. Ko-fi link here: ko-fi.com/themythicbun... #mutualaid #trans #disabled #helpsky #disabledcrowdfund

Hear! Hear! Self-publishing IS publishing. It's not a last resort. It's not shameful. Just because industries set on controlling the narrative of society deign not to publish a story doesn't mean it is any less valid, interesting, or vital than anything else.

Yiiiiiiiikes.

Let's goooooo! 30 questions, need 30 likes.

apologies for lack of alt text but i am yoo tired to type all this again @ogre.red thinks terms if service are bullshit and licensing for poetry is unimportant because "who would steal a poem" my advice would be to avoid doing business with this person

This whole “baby box movement” is a PR stunt to try to shift social attitudes in the direction of the idea that relinquishment is an alternative to abortion. It’s intended as a place where antiabortion zealots and pro-adoption liberals can find common ground. 🥚

Saw this and thought I'd give it a go.

Amazon is again trying to shove AI down our throats. I mean, they're all doing it, but it's amazing the audacity that the 'Zon has after such a horrific failure.

Good night, Bluesky. May the horrors not find you, and should they do so, may you be the thing that brings them terror in the night.

so fucking stupid and short sighted. Adobe going all in on an AI system both worse and more expensive than OpenAi, a company that operates at a steep loss any time it is used, makes absolutely no sense

#Febchantment To cast you must carve the runes onto an arcane focus. Swords. Armor. Bows. Wands. Staves, etc. That *is* the spell book. Also, all spells though are in the seven elemental categories: Light, Dark, Frost, Fire, Poison, Water, and Earth #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

#Febchantment The 'magic' of Intersection is largely based around empathy & the idea that emotional/psychic energy is palpable. I just explored that idea, exaggerated it a bit.

#AllHandsOnDeck We're matching up our work to the Minor Arcana Tarot Cards. Tell us how your characters (or places, things, or events) match up! First, we need to define our suits! Today's suit is: WANDS #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

First information lit class is done for the semester and I'm feeling pretty good :D Plus, I informed a professor about the evils of AI slop and now she wants me to present to the faculty. I am MORE than happy to do so. 😈

no thank you I will not be engaging with an attempted neil gaiman redemption tour

Neil Gaiman is a serial rapist.

Hey fuck Neil gaiman

furthermore, fuck Neil Gaiman

Welp I’ve just seen the argument “autistic people aren’t sophisticated enough to be sexual predators therefore Neil Gaiman is innocent” which is a fun combo of ableism and apologia I don’t need to tell people that that’s fundamentally wrong, right?

#Febchantment D03: Everything based 😂 The magic system revolves around reality being malleable. It has a certain amount of give, of elasticity, and folks w/magic know how to arrange and rearrange it. #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #BookSky

Today is my 16th wedding anniversary, and at the end of October we will have been together (including dating, engaged, and married) for twenty years. Twenty years and we are still not sick of each other. Not too shabby 😂

no new pictures, where are you at mentally?

THIS THIS THIS Just LISTEN to trans people.

Y'all, please remember the absolutely horrible things he did and get yourself away from trash like that.

As a non-white person it’s hard watching some requests get fulfilled while mine hasn’t. I’m sharing this because I genuinely need help and I don’t always feel visible here.

japanese volleyball player makes the most genuine apology after accidentally hitting someone with his serve

You’ve heard “a good novel isn’t written, it’s REwritten”, but how DO you rewrite a novel? Find out on March 7th at our upcoming virtual deep-dive, Writing Roundtables: Revising a Novel, featuring @clpolk.com olk.com, @vriccithode.bsky.social, @clockhartwrite.bsky.social & Jade Benjamin 1/3

#QueerWriters GOALS! This week I really need to buckle down and get some things done. - Newsletter (it's February, ALREADY???) - Preorder info (must align ducks!) - Make it through the week at work (Simple, maybe. Easy? Ha!) - Start researching a few things for the Darius and Morgan 2 WIP

An alcoholic human Ambassador who worships the Stars Two fairy tribes trapped in perpetual day and night A very troubled fairy with a grand plan A couple who start out with a disaster but touch the Stars Total destruction of everything and renewal with the help of Gods who are not what they seem

#Febchantment D02: My magic system is SORT OF both? The way folks access it can be different, and there's a lot of wiggle room, but there are absolutely taboos and limits to what can be done without harm coming from it. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

What are five things in your upcoming release? 🥀Vampires and a fallen angel 🥀Angry woman seeking revenge on her sister’s murderer 🥀Gothic vibes 🥀Dark and bloody themes 🥀A sinister power couple

I've majorly deconditioned myself from colonizer myths in my schema, by teaching myself to be perpetually suspicious + critical of institutionalized charity, and any Institution/beneficiary that expresses anti mutual aid, anti wealth redistribution, anti financial autonomy sentiments at poors.

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💚Grass type PokéNap!💚 Which grass type starter is your favourite? Mine is the lil owlet, as you already may know.... haha You can see the full illustration below! This is also coming up as a mug soon 💚

What are five things in your upcoming release? Sapphic romance. Found Family. Cool Witch Sport. Secrets about pasts revealed. Monsters. #WritingCommunity.

Trying out another hashtag game! #Febchantment D01 I'm Addy and I'm currently focusing on the magic in my contemporary romantasy/PNR WIP (sequel to Where We Converge). Mages/magic users live secretly among humans and magic is guarded as it can have a bad effect on minds not ready to accept it.