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Some recent work

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My most recent bridal commission. Had lots of fun with this one.

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Some recent work

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GAURAV GUPTA Couture Spring/Summer 2025 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways

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Miss Sohee 2025 Spring-Summer Couture

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Going to try this soon…

20-minute smoked sausage and potato skillet

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Elie Saab / Fall - Winter Haute Couture 2021

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I apologize if you’ve been asked this question before I’m sure you have, but how do you feel about AI in writing? One of my teachers was “writing” stories using ChatGPT then was bragging about how good they were (they were not good) and said he was going to sell them. To put aside any legal concerns in that, I’m just trying to talk him down from that because, personally, I would not enjoy dream job being taken by AI.

The poor man.

Many magazines have closed their submission portals because people thought they could send in AI-written stories.

For years I would tell people who wanted to be writers that the only way to be a writer was to write your own stories because elves would not come in the night and do it for you.

With AI, drunk plagiaristic elves who cannot actually write and would not know an idea or a sentence if it bit their little elvish arses will actually turn up and write something unpublishable for you. This is not a good thing.

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Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from

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Insanely beautiful shooting of the beloved Sylvester Mako for Krikor Jabotian. Lorna Foran - Revived renaissance perfection. Rinse your eyes after the Balenciaga show. It's not relevant at all, but it's such an eternal beauty.

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Other somewhat recent work for all and sundry—enjoy!

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Somewhat recent work for all and sundry.

Enjoy!

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Finders/Seekers: Navigating a troubling employment landscape

Welcome to my first post of 2024 where I discuss the state of the job market and my experiences in it.

It usually takes me a while to come up with what to write or post on the blog. Most times, it takes weeks between uploads and sometimes, what ends up getting posted is so short, it qualifies more as a passage in a children’s book than a bog-standard blog post. Writing is a strenous and taxing job. The fact that I have managed to keep the blog going since my second year in the university and well…

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To looking back and looking ahead

To whatever readers I have left, welcome back. If you are new here, welcome. My own inability to keep to any kind of posting schedule has meant that at some point after June/July, uploads reverted to the usual misfortune of just not happening. Anyway, I can’t keep apologizing for my habits. By now, if you have taken the time to look through the blog, you can tell what my patterns are or predict…