BUY DIANE DUANE A COFFEE!? It would be an honor to us all who enjoyed the cream of the crop Star Treks book back in the day (💗My Enemy My Ally💗) and better wizard books than ole JK. ko-fi.com/dianeduane
Bumping this for the daytime crowd, as I'd like to get a heating-oil order in tomorrow if I can. 🙂
Both the TV remote control and the audio cassette tape have their origins as accessibility devices.
It’s the neurodivergent gravitational pull. Put two within a certain distance and they will collide.
It's been a while since I've seen Jo's guide to commissioning an artist go around. But with all the people returning to for Midnight, I'm seeing more people in WoW communities ask "how do I get art of my character?"
This is a GREAT place to start!
Want to get a private commission but you don't know how? Or are you a seasoned patron looking to iron out a few wrinkles?
Together with several artists and patrons, I've put together a comprehensive guide to private commissions, covering topics like first correspondence, feedback, and payment!
We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
To paraphrase Le Guin: fantasy is escapist, and we must take as many with us as possible.
There is no greater feeling than knowing something I wrote helped another soul escape during difficulties. I’ve been through many hospital visits with many books, myself. 💙💚💜
I don't think this is what is generally branded as "AI" though? Like this is just pretty standard deepfake VFX, they've had this for years.
They're trying to umbrella term "AI" as basically anything done on a computer to obfuscate the actually bad generative LLM shit.
Magdalena telling the story of Magdalena's March, a devastating counter-assault that is still talked about in military academies some hundred years after the fact. Technically, the raw destruction she wrought on the field could be considered a War Crime. #WIPSnips #WriteSky
Presented without comment, the technical explanation for the repeated AO3 unavailability windows over the last two days www.reddit.com/r/AO3/commen...
Blacklist Sentona Games from any future work or from buying any of their products, this is a scam company actively exploiting international workers.
Make sure to boost this information every.
Sentona Games is a Scam company.
FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.
[update] Investigating: AO3 is now fully down. After performing a software upgrade a few days ago, we've been unable to keep our server cluster healthy due to what we believe is a bug or issue with the new release of our database server software.
We're working with our ve...
And, once again, why I have it as a contract point that all art/translation/etc done for my work is done by a human, and why I write all my work myself (aside from the fact I can do it faster and better than if I used "AI" and then had to massage its extremely median text).
The only one doing this Gilded Age 2.0 thing correctly.
Them robber barons were also funding hella arts, sciences, and letters. The ones today just rob.
[update] Investigating: We are investigating reports of errors when trying to load AO3, including errors saying that AO3 is down, which seem to be related to the previous incident. We will update when we have more information!
“The three of you are mine, and you will never face abandonment from me. Never. And those who did abandon you so viciously had best hope I never know who they are.”
#WIPSnips #MagdalenaEllingtonDesrosina
well hey would you look at that
roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes
whoops
There are 12 new bunnies looking for homes in the shop. Each one is unique and incredibly huggable!
www.whimsystation.com/category/plu...
[update] Investigating: #AO3 will remain down for at least several hours until we can consult our database vendor's support team and resolve the underlying issue. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.
Tom Holland and Zendaya are now married, says stylist Law Roach
(via: @accesshollywood.bsky.social)
OK! OK!!! YOUR WISH IS GRANTED!
*PURPLE BEAM ATTACK*
Star Dust is here now 🔗 witchvamp.com/search?type=...
Hey, instead of throwing 96 bucks at midj0urney & getting only slop, ugly ass D&D portraits out of it…
I offer you 350+ handcrafted designs for just $1!
There's also a $5 tier with cute little variants now, thanks to us consistently hitting 500+ Patrons!!!
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check on your friends, you never know what they’re going through 💔 (ao3 went down on a sunday)
one of the funny truths you learn if you write in the cross-genre romance space is that people who don't like the sex will hallucinate massive amounts of it in your book, and people who wanted more sex will be able to estimate an exact sex word count within like 75 words.
They'll both be mad tho.
