Carousel is such an awful UI feature. Why is everything a turd popsicle with you people?

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

For now

I realize this isn't one to one with the original point, MY point is: sometimes badass starfighter pilot girls gotta grab some tasty naan from a street vendor, and odds are your reader will dig it.

Sometimes conflict is rescheduling your week because a delivery was lost.
Sometimes character development is hitting the gym and calling your mom.
Sometimes everything goes fine and people get to be happy about it.
Life isn't NEARLY as plot-relevant as you think.

I keep having to shake myself because the book I'm writing has tipped into slice-of-life, and I've got such an ingrained conditioning to go "But where's the plot?!" when what my dumbass brain is really saying is, "Nothing is blowing up and I've been told that's bad."
Sometimes farmers farm, y'all.

This fear is normal but it is also the voice of the Devil in your mind and he must be destroyed. The way to destroy the Devil in your mind is to write despite his whispering.

Unironically yes.

Yay! Congrats!

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Disney has exactly two franchises that are made for endless sequels, and they've squandered them both. The first, Fantasia, because they're too cowardly to create real art. The second, The Rescuers, because they're too cowardly to go back to their roots and tell tales about child abuse.

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.

But then how can you see what you're dreaming of?!

Awestruck by the grandeur.

((I hope she had all the fun!))

Directly following a tender, passionate farewell between one couple with the coldly calculated, one-sided dissolution of another because I hate myself as much as I hate the reader, and fuck you, how 'bout that?! Huh?!
I'm not crying! Your mom's crying!
Because your face is stupid!

....I need a hug.

Hell yeah! Congrats!

I've written so much stuff that no one will ever see because it was just to feel myself write it. Pages of therapy just to sit back, sigh, stare at the screen for a bit before hitting CTRL+A, Delete and going on about my day.
Sometimes we just gotta get that shit out.

AI star symbol.

It's funny (not funny) how this ubiquitous symbol screams 'beware, incoming trash!' I have an instant reaction of revulsion whenever it pops up.

If you have a metro area over 100k people, you should be allowed to live as an artist without starving.

If you live in Toadfuck, Arkansas, pop. 400 and a mule, you should be allowed to live as an artist without starving.

Hear, hear!

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

Neat fox!
Get out there and find ya some adventure, fox friend!

This goes for writing, too.
The DOING is the point.
Oh, the computer stitched those words together? Good for the computer, it gets a cookie(heh), you get nothing.

Obligated to like this every time it makes the rounds

@dilfosaur.bsky.social just casually walking out onto the floor and tossing it in over her shoulder from half court

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com

"Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."

great popular science fiction is always weirdly horny. there are no exceptions to this rule.

I read much of this thread like 😬 so I'll reassure you it's not like that, BUT IT COULD BE, and that's why you should read and share it too.