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Thankfully, this only took 5 minutes

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“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

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Oh, noes, true story: my fiction is in present tense so when I went to write field notes for an ethnography class in past tense (retelling what happened to me at the event) it. messed. me. up. I don’t even know how many hours I spent fixing just the notes.

Present and past tense are like the two lurking fists, waiting to get you if you step out of line.

You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

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I have to buy the couch someone else made because I don't want to make my own. I'm not taking that to mean I should open a furniture store with stolen settees.

Unpopular opinion but if you don't enjoy the process you should find a different thing to do.

And I think this is true in general but now I'm talking about it in the context of AI.

If you don't enjoy making art and only care about the end piece and how it'll look and how much traction it"lol get online then making art is not something for you, find something you enjoy from start to finish.

Same goes for writing: if you do not enjoy writing and rewriting and then some more and instead want AI to write for you, being a writer is not something you should pursue.

Sure, not every part of creative process is going to be equally enjoyable but you should get satisfaction from solving the problems along the way and you should get a sense of accomplishment on your way of "making the piece yours" and you should have a sense of ownership once you are done.

None of these things will come from typing in a prompt into chatGPT. And I am sad to see so many people are missing on the opportunity to experience the joy of making something with their own hands and brains.

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(Don't) love what they've done with the place.

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Tesla stock going down

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More lingo for the times.

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Feeling the spirit

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Over on bluesky, S. E. Smith put out a wide request for some No King Only Trains art, so I had to make some.

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One way to make it through.

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More updates from the darkest timeline, this time with some vocab I think we need.

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Again, because not giving them undue reverence is important right now.

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I made this in response to reading about more bullshit fake dealmaking over on BlueSky.

In all seriousness, we have some deeply petty and childish people who want us to treat them like they are the adults in the room and the best thing we can do right now is point that out. It chips away at their perceived power.

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i sit down to write and suddenly i am the most distracted human alive. the chair is uncomfortable. my coffee is too hot. my playlist isn't quite the vibe. i need to research what victorian houses smelled like in 1872 for exactly 45 minutes even though my story takes place in space. and yet the moment i'm trying to fall asleep? every single sentence i've ever needed just lines up perfectly in my brain like some kind of creative parade i'll never get back.

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I’m going to hold onto my community, friends, and loved ones as tight and as close as I can. We have to be there for each other. We are all we have, and that is the most important thing to me.

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Another example of why art that speaks truth to power matters. Something simple like this wouldn’t be blocked if it didn’t say something

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Nothing worse than being obsessed with an ocs ship you haven't even properly written down yet