Tale as old as time

Back in the old days of DeviantART, I'd dedicate a day to comment on new artists I found. Finding new faves, giving thoughtful insight on works I enjoyed, encouraging others.

The current artist website landscape doesn't feel as welcoming for that, and I'm really missing it.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

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Exactly one year ago today:

Boycott Target because their AI might randomly and falsely accuse you of theft and then have you arrested and upend your life.

Listen, you've never sobbed in your life the way you sob when you internalize that humanity is the means by which the universe understands itself.

An illustration of an amoeba, a coral and one of those kinda penis-headed worms, with the text "animals without backbones"

You can learn more about congressional dems at your local library

a man with blue paint on his face and horns is standing in a room . Alt: guy with blue skin and tail is teleporting into dust from white house room. nightcrawler in x-2 movie.

alan cumming does not get enough recognition for his nightcrawler role in x-2 people don't realize this but they didn't even have to use special effects he learned how to teleport for this role it's super exhausting so he doesn't do it anymore now that he's older but it was worth it for these shots

When did the "[noun] of [noun] and [noun]" book title format first start getting popular, I wonder?

Prof vs. the Tornado by Wertle The story of how young Prof learned to combat their fear of tornadoes.

A small win for me, I did this Twine story YEARS ago and even though I love it, it had my deadname in it so I stopped sharing it. However, today I buckled down and went in and updated it to my current name! Now I can share it again!

wertle.itch.io/prof-vs-the-...

me, a serious author: This scene is designed to give the reader intense discomfort and distress

my reader: gosh that was uncomfortable and distressing

me, a serious author: omg I AM SO SORRY aaahh!! sorry sorry!!! 😱😰😭

if your phone battery is below 30% and we can see that in your screenshot it's stressing us all out have some decency and crop that out even if only so we can actually pay attention to the thing you're trying to show us win win

All this talk about "The Shroud" makes me think some dark magic is going on up there

Ugggh they're talking about how they can see the moon out one window and the earth out another and the earth is just a tiny sliver 😭

I LOVE THE MOON

When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this

I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer.

This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level.

taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

This is so, so well-articulated.

Version control!

NOOOOOOO

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.

Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Gorgeous!

My heart goes out to every artist who just now realized they were working in the wrong layer.

A tarot card showing the nine of swords, representing "Nightmare"

Me: I'll do a tarot spread to explore my thoughts on how to cope with my changing industry...

*Draws the first card that represents "your place in the situation"*

I accidentally broke my jar of sourdough starter and started crying so I think I'm not doing so hot right now

I can believe it but I hate it

(say you're American without saying you're American)

Welp, time to reset my "days since I've had to super glue a wound shut" counter back to zero.

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Heads up narrative game devs! Turtle Rock has a remote possible role in the California PST time zone

Please share with your narrative game dev friends

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