I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

1. people reflexively blame AI for problems because it's obviously harmful in many domains
2. Bluesky (now "entirely AI-coded" acc. to staff) keeps breaking
3. AI is blamed. Devs say no, it's web service issues, scold AI-blamers for their ignorance
4. devs admit it was actually AI code at fault

lol

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

I hate AI so much.

So. Much.

Please stop trying to make me use AI.

I will never use your ChatGPT, your Copilot, your Grok 🤮

I will die on this hill.

It is unethical. It is error prone. It is predatory. It is destroying us.

I hate it. I hate it all. I will hate it forever.

I gotta find a decent strawberry shortcake for dessert today to celebrate too, otherwise they will be very sad

Two siblings, one girl and one boy, stand in frame as if getting their photo taken. The girl has long hair, rams horns, and heart-shaped sunglasses resting on her forehead as she makes a peace sign and winks at the camera. Her brother stands cross-armed, giving her a muted, annoyed expression.

April 2nd is the twins' birthday!! They've existed for 16 years now, my oldest kids <3 no clue if I'll finish this piece by the end of the day but I will try. for them

I love character writing because I find PEOPLE fascinating. How circumstances can lead people to walk different paths. How the same event can have different reactions. What can change one's views, beliefs, or nature. I wanna capture that in my work.

Anyway I designed this character with a big ass,

GhoulDreams - Twitch Just a ghost who writes, draws, plays games, and eats entire red velvet cakes in one sitting.

Been a minute! I'm back to my regular schedule with Chosen Garden, a cute little roguelike! Come hang out!
www.twitch.tv/ghouldreams

breaking out the sticky notes and string to fill my wall with insane scribbles like charlie from always sunny

writing GODSPELL has been an uphill battle and I'm starting to think something is fundamentally wrong with what I'm trying to build... like I need to change SOMETHING in the framework...

their son was almost completely a man though he, too, was as silver as a falling star and he could breathe in water as well as the air and when an invading navy came to their shores he sang the warships onto the rocks he married a princess with cornsilk hair and sapphire eyes and then they had a son who was not silver but could still breathe in water and learned his grandmother’s songs even though there was no magic in his voice the king grew older but the mermaid queen remained as young and radiant as she’d been on their wedding day though perhaps a little taller a little wider and when her husband died she took his corpse and swam away from the castle and never returned i suspect i know why she left the moats were growing too narrow for her the ballroom too stifling after all her kind do not die they only grow larger

but time twisted onward there were new kings, new children new generations they lived and they died and though they all loved to swim in the moats and the pool that was once a ballroom none of them had silver skin and nobody could breathe water or sing warships onto the rocks for there was too much human in them now and not enough of anything else but they were joyful, and they were good and when an invading navy came to their shores they were unprepared he wanted their princess, the man in the warship for what men like him want most is for others to be unhappy and if she did not marry him he would tear through her kingdom like a wolf tears through meat and the blood would be on her hands and so the princess put on her great-great-great grandmother’s crown of coral and her veil of jellyfish arms she said, “before we are married, i wish to sing an ancient song as my wedding gift to you.”

and she stood at the bow of his warship and smiled and though the stories do not say if she inherited her grandmother’s teeth i like to think she did and as her song carried over the water in the darkness the surface rippled and a great head emerged waterfalls poured from ancient shoulders ebony eyes gleamed like a moonless ocean and a mouth opened to teeth the size and shape of lateen sails and behind them the abyss after all her kind do not die they only grow larger

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once upon a time there was a prince and he loved a mermaid do not picture her incorrectly she was not as mermaids are in the paintings and indeed the prince did not love her for her beauty for though she was as silver as a fallen star her hair was tangled with seaweed her skin was scarred by fights with sharks and whales and her claws sometimes pierced the prince’s skin when they kissed too passionately (the sea does not breed kindness, after all) but her heart was noble and her stories enthralling they planned their wedding on the golden shore of the southern coast of his kingdom near the place where they first met but his father said, “it is a sin unnatural and even if it wasn’t you cannot have children and even if you could she cannot sit on a throne and besides her kind do not die they only grow larger.”

and the queen shook her head gently and said, “my son, oh my son you do not even know what she is.” but time twisted onward and the old king died and his son’s coronation day was also his wedding day the mermaid bride radiant in a carved marble bathtub wearing a crown of coral and a veil of jellyfish arms and if any of the priests had anything to say about it they kept their mouths shut then they ripped out half the castle dug great, wide moats replaced the ballroom with a swimming pool all for the new queen and then she had a son (do not ask me how they managed it i expect it must have been magic or else some quirk of biology if the method was ever known it is lost to time now)

This is a poem I wrote a few years ago. Tumblr really liked it. Maybe you will too? 1/2

ok there we go. moving my streaming stuff to this page, go follow!

wait hang on there's a typo. hang on. hold it

I fully endorse effie calvin's books btw. I am constantly trying to get people to read them they are wonderful with a v rich world and well written characters. and gay people.

Tales of Inthya is a high fantasy series set in a queernormative world. It follows different f/f couples who do magic and go on adventures. This is the first book! The other five are not currently in print (long story) but I am actively rereleasing them with new cover art and bonus content and other fun stuff. There is a picture of a typical high fantasy novel map. It is brown. Here is the obligatory high fantasy novel map.

okay i lied i also want to talk to you about this book There is cover art of a lady knight in chainmail holding another lady in a red and white dress. They are surrounded by white flowers. Book two is called Daughter of the Sun. It’s about Orsina of Melidrie, a paladin who is big on killing evil things with her sword but not so big on critical thinking. It is also about Aelia, who is a chaos goddess without any followers. When Orsina mistakes Aelia for a young woman escaping an abusive family, she offers to escort her to safety and Aelia is like, “Um okay?” They have adventures and kill a monster shark and fall in love while Orsina repeatedly fails to identify Aelia’s true nature. It should be out this summer!

okay that’s all thank you bye!!!!!!!! These books are fun and optimistic and nice and they make a lot of people happy. Getting them back into print is super important to me, but it’s also super expensive. So I want to say a special thank you to everyone who has supported me so far!!!!!

Purchase here: linktr.ee/effiecalvin

hi i want to talk to you about this book i promise i’ll be fast just hear me out There is a book cover showing a tall skinny brunette girl in a purple dress and a shorter chubby blonde girl in a pink dress. They are standing in a moonlit garden full of purple roses. its purple babey!!!!!!!!!!!!! Basically it’s about two princesses who are trying to get married to each other and also trying to not get eaten by dragons. And both of these things are difficult. There is a picture of the same cover art but this time it is square shaped because it is for the audiobook. it also comes in square

Okay let me explain So Princess Esofi has been engaged to Crown Prince Albion since basically forever. But she’s never met him because they live on different continents, just like you and all your mutuals. Esofi and all six hundred of her ballgowns travel to Ieflaria for the wedding, but when she gets there it turns out the prince recently died in a tragic plot contrivance. Now she’s got to marry Albion’s younger sister, the new Crown Princess Adale. The world runs on video game rules when it comes to romance and sexual orientation* so this isn’t a big deal. Except Adale doesn’t want to rule the kingdom or marry a stranger because she’s afraid her undiagnosed learning disorder will lead the kingdom to ruin. Also there are dragons. *The reason why the world works this way is slowly revealed over the course of the series.

It's purple babey

I COULD, feasibly, turn to my other computer and write between calls... but I fear getting so sucked in that I vanish on my team for two hours straight in favor of my silly little guys

Want to write, forced to work....

You bet I am disrespectful of anyone who would claim using AI Slop as cover art is even kind of acceptable, but especially of the claim that it's in some way essential or even a net good for authors!

I am so much more than merely disrespectful of that sanctimonious and self serving horseshit!

Fuck ICE.

So I uh ... helped make a thing.

100% AI free platform. Created in part because those of us want a way to share without big tech ripping our work into LLMs. We'd be honored if you give it a try.

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I guess it is moreso that I don't want to play a balancing act between two things that I want to spotlighted in their own ways. and separating them feels like the best solution, to give them their own space to breathe instead of fighting for it

like I FEEL like I should have my icon set as Ghoul here. I FEEL like Ghoul should be promoted in my pinned post. but I don't want that. I want my art to be first. but I don't want to neglect my streaming stuff either, it's also important to me

I think it is because I am v much performing when I stream and therefore I put on a different persona, hence the avatar and everything in the first place. it's not shame related bc I love doing it, I think I just want writing to be my focus in my writing place yknow

relevant to my last repost I am thinking of making a separate page for my vtubing stuff... not only to keep things focused but bc having it linked to my writing/art stuff feels weird?

waves. hello hello I am a tired ghost bird who loves to write fantasy! my current novel in the works (my first one!) is GODSPELL, a story about a god trying to find purpose again after his planet was destroyed. I'm trying to remember to use social media to talk about writing still lol

PSA for Discord's new age verification!

If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it.

Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+

It's really that simple. Give them nothing.

spring is coming and there is MUCH to do... come vibe with me
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