the person who wrote "self-serving homeless industrial complex" should have their housing taken away, permanently. i am not even kidding lol. if there is one homeless person on earth, it should be whoever wrote that phrase in this statement

Write them out anyway, because bad writing can usually be fixed through revision and practice. Most of writing well happens through practice. It's a skill as much as if not more than a talent. Most people could write decently well, given time and effort.

I worry that people who do not write regularly do not understand that writing is hard for everybody? including writers? like I actually do quite a lot of writing, nearly every day I have written two books and a dissertation among other things writing is fucking hard!

*sigh* I should've gassed up before work. It's gonna jump another fucking quarter by morning.

Someone on this app said one of the biggest things that AI will steal from is our collective sense of wonder and I’ve never stopped thinking about it. Photos like this shouldn’t have to come with a caveat because nature is deliriously gorgeous and … wondrous.

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

Got this idea in a dream of a hot lady engraving armour on a butch knight , akin to a tattoo artist. Now im itching to draw a sapphic paranormal comic 😮‍💨. I gotta stop

death of the author is intended as a framework for literary analysis that entails disregarding paratext and the intentions of the creator in order to create an "objective" analysis of a text. it's not intended as a way to absolve yourself of guilt for financially contributing to a creator who sucks

So you're telling me that now, as game devs, we have to coddle players who refuse to read? Fuck that shit. Wall of text. Refuse to read it? Get fucked, the game is not for you. Read or die.

Through the Fryer and Flames 🔥 🤘🏿 🐔🤘🏻 🔥

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

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My woke opinion of the day is tying art to capital, and capital to survival, is fundamentally anti-art It inherently compromised the artists vision from the roots. its financial success is a factor that will always exist in the creators mind - informed or opposed Want pure art? Kill capitalism

"But wait, if I have imposter syndrome... and YOU have imposter syndrome... then who's--?" "I got this," says a mediocre idiot as he confidently settles into the pilot's seat. "Oh shit," we all say in unison.

LRP If anyone who actually knows me ever bothers to read my stories I'll know it, because they'll eventually realize my self-insert character isn't who they thought it was. Then again, I'm probably vastly overestimating how well even the people close to me know me.

What some don't understand about depression -- anhedonia specifically -- is that it doesn't just kill your motivation to do the hard shit, or to do the things you ENJOY. It can kill your motivation to *get better.* Because it just sounds like a fucking bother.

I'm so close to the finish line! I'm wide open for commissions! Hit me up on Discord. ko-fi.com/zitoisneato/...

Writing a scene where a character's very sweet, very promising relationship falls apart (Secret spy. Who knew?), knowing it will be 2+ books before he finds his meant-to-be. Sorry, bud. The right one's out there, and when you find her it's going to be amazing. Trust me. She's gonna love ya.

i have an AI idea for investors. i want to buy a house and ay I need you to pay for it.

Two surefire ways to please a creative: 1. "I like that thing you created. Very nice." 2. A giant gorgeous cartoonish cheque with the amount of "enough money to not worry about living while being able to create as much as you want."

This is writer therapy. Sometimes it's lasers and explosions. Sometimes it's an OC lightly brushing his fingertips across the small of his girlfriend's back just to watch her shiver in the cereal aisle. Sometimes it's feral, furniture-wrecking passion. With lasers and explosions. (Hell yeah, btw.)

I lost my job, oil is six dollars a gallon, my kids have measles, and secret police roam the streets, killing and imprisoning people at random. But at least now students at schools I've never heard of aren't heckling conservative speakers that I've never heard of.

Beautiful Dream About Blowing Own Brains Out Interrupted By Work Alarm

I can’t wait to see these shredded by a Toyota hilux from the 80s with a 50 cal mounted on it

The game industry’s obsession with graphics is so funny because every other year there will be some breakout hit called “Stick Figure Mansion” or some shit that outsells 90% of the market and runs on a toaster

This month is gonna be a doozy for fighting bills, I need as many coms as I can get. Don't delay inquire today while slots are still open. (Commission money fuels the Ko-Fi Bar.) ko-fi.com/zitoisneato/...

I know it's easy to fall into that pit and feel like there's no hope. Fuck that pit. That pit is a fucking nerd. Hold onto that hope because your future is bright. You just gotta keep holding on.

they do not want art, which often provokes and challenges existing power structures (in other words, theirs). they desire only content that soothes their fragile egos, that hides the simmering resentment everyone else in the world feels towards them

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Tomorrow is 3/16. Don’t forget to leave out a six pack and a can of whoop ass for Stone Cold Steve Austin tonight.

Physical media is proving more vital than most of us ever feared/imagined. Also, y'all'd be surprised how many folk don't have access to even DECENT internet.

Certain dudes are still upset with me when I said in 2012 that here in the US, being a straight white male is living on the lowest difficulty setting of life. From here on out I'm just going to refer them to these DOGE staffer depositions, and then tell them to go fuck themselves.

crime dog you gotta find some better wording for this

Oh, yeah, the space alien that infects all of life and absorbs all their knowledge and then destroy a whole planet and move onto another planet to do the same thing. No, yeah, that totally makes sense.

I rarely go for additive tweaks with interior decor, but she's got such a nuanced eye, and does so much with a limited palette!

The power of "fuck you, make me" and "prove it, then" against the witless, entitled crybabies running this thing cannot be overstated. I just hope to god more people realize it sooner than later.

The process, not the product, is the point.

Writing is thinking. Writing is a way of molding YOUR OWN thoughts. So when you hand over your "writing" to monstrous AI apps made by the most craven motherfuckers imaginable, you hand them the keys to YOUR head. AND you strip the work of writers. GRIND THESE APPS TO DUST.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

“You should be ashamed of where you work. Not just Grammarly or Superhuman or whatever comically dumb name you come up with next. Almost everyone running tech firms, most people in positions of responsibility … congrats, you’re all making the world a worse place.” - @moryan.bsky.social

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Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing. "But I don't think they make that much!" Halve that. Halve it again.

If anyone who writes from an actual outline ever caught sight of my pre-rough-draft process the Council of Writers would send someone to break my typing fingers.

Lolsob—imagine a world where Diane Wynne Jones and Diana Duane were THE Famous Wizard Writers and JKR is crowdfunding for heating oil. Probably that timeline has different presidents and less warcrimes too

I don't want to see apologies from creators for their choices to honor their morals. I want to see corporations respect artists' autonomy and consent, ESPECIALLY in regards to "policies" that would compromise the worker's moral integrity.

Hey, whichever one'a y'all's hoggin' the Trucker Braincell™️, could ya maybe un-ass it for a bit? These poor guys're out here STRUGGLIN' tonight. I swear five of 'em workin' together couldn't spark off a thought.

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Please, keep making art. Keep expressing yourselves.