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As a patreon member, "that's where it ends?" has been the vibe for the past... uh.... couple months. Deffo gotta go back and relisten to these as episodes.

And also flail a bit because the open discussions with John? Without comment from anyone else? I imagine everyone in the background like "oh there goes that man again with his undead brother's talking skull having a full on argument with a seemingly different person. This is fine."

It makes me imagine that everyone else's backstory is even more batshit insane, to be so copacetic about what's going on. I mean, what we've seen of the world IS batshit and everyone accepts it. Maybe they know Arthur has a silent and invisible companion as well as Yorick and are all just too polite to mention it.

Ok TODAY I’ll listen to the new episode I promise

As usual block the ‘malevolent liveblog’ tag if you don’t want to see my immediate thoughts

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Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry

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Mad about politics again

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Source

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A story to boost the morale of a broken country.

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Hey, you reblogged that AI post and I was surprised to see something so mean on your blog. "If you cant write unassisted, fuck you, youre a disgrace to the community." Is that really something you want on your blog?

Just in case this isn't a spam message:

Posting AI-generated content to a platform intended to be an archive for writers is not appropriate use of the platform. On a platform intended for human creation, it is rude and inappropriate to clog search results with AI-produced content which often plagiarizes the work of human authors.

Use of generative AI is also horrible for our environment, leading to massive waste of fossil fuel energy and water. We should not be doing damage to our planet for the sake of generating (robot-produced, often plagiarized) fiction, especially when the joy of fiction comes from the creation and emotion of real people.

Rather than giving a prompt to a generative AI, people should consider attempting to write their own work, or asking another writer from the fandom if they would be interested in writing it. Anyone who is capable of typing a prompt into ChatGPT is capable of writing a story. The first attempts may not be amazing, but that is true of any skill, and anyone can improve with time and practice - and while ChatGPT may give you big returns in your time, it doesn't give you practice, growth, or creativity, which is where the joy of writing should come from.

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if we want the teens to quit thinking life & fun & fandom ends at 25 maybe the rest of us need to stop calling ourselves epithets like "old" "ancient" "elderly" for jokes / internet clout

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headcanon that a ferengi tradition is putting your new baby up for sale at a ridiculous price to show how valuable they are to you (everyone has to be polite and not actually buy them or hands will be thrown, people will be sued, etc etc)

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there's always a bigger fish images except it's "there's always a transfem who knows MTG rules better than the last one"

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Someone: How are you doing?

The fractured piece of an eldritch deity that I keep in my head at all times: lie.

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sent an email to someone for reasons unimportant, but they sent back an irate email like, "I ran this through AI, and it says you used chatgpt to write this!"

I most certainly Did Not.

what were you doing at the devil's sacrament?

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nuthatch doing nuthatch things

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Peace and love on planet honk

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A true son of Philadelphia.

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I’m writing scenes which are good, and I don’t know where they are going to fit in the book. But it’s what I call ‘The Valley Filled With Clouds’ technique. You’re at the edge of the valley, and there is a church steeple, and there is a tree, and there is a rocky outcrop, but the rest of it is mist. But you know that because they exist, there must be ways of getting from one to the other that you cannot see. And so you start the journey. And when I write, I write a draft entirely for myself, just to walk the valley and find out what the book is going to be all about.

-- Terry Pratchett - A Slip Of The Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction