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Sound on for sniff sniff! :D

So tiny!!!! 🥺

and you're just saying that out loud, huh

Speaking of weird shitty AI bros; GenAI is not conscious. But like. Why do they want it to be so bad. Why do they want total dominion over something sapient that’ll do a bunch of unpaid labour for them at their whims to make them money. Oh wait lol

AI generated image of a crow sitting on a nest with a lot of shiny things dangling from it. Red circles mark some typical AI artefacts and inconsistencies

No photographer because it's definitely AI, unfortunately. Lots of nonsensical lines that end where they shouldn't or melt into others - marked a few for anyone who wants to know the signs.

Three versions of the same drawing in different colours. A coastal path with stone steps and broken columns. Two tall trees by the side of the path. One version has small white flowers on a crisp sunny day - one has two hikers, and the weather is humid - one has a bird in it and looks autumnal.

Forever indecisive about colours, the curse of photoshop

Potato 🥔

I mean. Sure, why not 😂

Hi, I'm the youngest of two by...a lot. Enough that I was functionally an only child.

No matter how much I know about a thing, my opinion will be disregarded because I'm only a kid who knows nothing about anything. Including the thing I studied. Including my own life.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Making a tiny pot of fish stock for one (1) serving of pasta is def overkill but as they say,. treat yo self

they do indeed let you rawdog autism and adhd as long as you're good enough at masking and the grades are good huh

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Ah, "it's not that you can't, it's that you don't want to," my family's favourite when I was a kid 🙃

(Spoiler, it did the opposite of helping me do it)

This looks interesting.

So I feel (both as a reader & author) like discoverability of new books is down lately, especially for the midlist. Please tell me some recently published (past year-ish) SFF books you loved that are midlist/overlooked/deserve more hype! (And please share your recs/this list!)

My recs in reply!

(As an aside, look at me talking about my preferences on main, I've come so far 😊 A few years ago I would ONLY talk about my limited preferences when it comes to men (it's far less complicated with other genders) and the way it affects my experience with romance in vague allusions. If that.)

3) I was going to say that I really don't like contrived feeling stuff, but that's just a writing quality thing, really.

That said, I have an especial fiery loathing for fake dating.

Like I really don't have any gender preferences, open to whatever as long as it's good (and avoids the minefield of the tropes I hate lmao) but m/f is basically impossible because of the ubiquity of the whole "huge muscular guy with big strong hands/tiny delicate girl" dynamic. I don't like that!

1) Lack of agency gives me the squick. I find relationships where they actively CHOOSE to be with each other a million times more romantic than any soulmates, fate, etc scenario.

2) The whole entire thing where I prefer skinny guys and find muscles unattractive is apparently unfathomable to many

Yeah, I just. Even my queerness, lack of attraction, and happiness with being single aside, why would any self-respecting person want to be a practice relationship until someone better comes along?? Like what the hell.

It ruined a perfectly good friendship, too.

I...have actually been asked to once, "for practice." I refused. It's an absolutely awful scenario in real life and I could never stand the trope either, even before that, stretches the suspension of disbelief too much.

I mean, this sounds self-serving but I'm stating this as a person who reads romance, not only as a person who edits romance: YOUR INDIEPUB BOOK NEEDS TO BE EDITED. And, NO, HAVING YOUR SMART FRIEND READ IT DOESN'T COUNT.

Two colour illustration of Barad Dûr, with Sauron's eye at the top. surrounded with the ring inscription in elvish. the sky is red with sparks and ash floating in the air, the tower is above a fiery chasm. The front doors are glowing red with silhouettes of chains and armouries. A cloud of ash conceals the horizon. This will be a banner and riso print first. Digital prints coming later this year.

BARAD DÛR

screenshot of the game “librarian: tidy up the arcane library!” on steam

screenshot of the “ai generated content disclosure” for the game “librarian: tidy up the arcane library!” on their steam page the text reads: The developers describe how their game uses Al Generated Content like this: In this game, generative Al was used only as an assistive tool to refine a few visual assets, specifically some landscape wall art and some Ul. No assets were generated fully from scratch by Al. Game text content was also created with the help of generative Al, but all final wording was manually reviewed and adjusted.

was really excited for this game but then i scrolled down and saw the “ai generated content disclosure”... i’m so tired 😔

Oof I'm so sorry. What horrible timing. Wishing best of luck ❤️❤️

Only just noticed that the old pronoun labeller disappeared since I'm not here much atm. But! New one!

How come January was a thousand years long but February was gone in a blink

tree Bellybutton Mouth perfec t size for put you in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort you sleep soundly put you in Tree Bellybutton. Put You In Tree Mouth. no problems ever in treee mouth because good Sleep and Snuggle for weary traveler weak of walk in forest.

The cherry trauma is real 😭 I really like the taste, but I'm SO paranoid because worms.

Persimmon. Sickly sweet and HORRIFIC texture. They look so pretty but oh god no.

Cactus fruit as well unfortunately. All the effort to disarm it and it tastes like nothing much. Vaguely sweet disappointment. (And that was freshly picked directly from the goddamn cactus on vacation, NOT imported!)