Blackbird
@blackbirb.bsky.social
Web serial author and half of The Shadows Crew. Host of #LateNightWrite. She/her, demiromantic asexual.
Shadows Rise: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/24665/shadows-rise
Solo projects on: http://ko-fi.com/blackbirb
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Shadows Rise: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/24665/shadows-rise
Solo projects on: http://ko-fi.com/blackbirb
Profile pic by @oddlywynn.bsky.social
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Blackbird
@blackbirb.bsky.social
· Oct 11
Hey there, Bluesky! I'm Blackbird, a Brazilian ace/demiromantic web serial author and translator. I ramble about my characters, meme, bitch about life and occasionally have opinions™️. I also co-host #LateNightWrite every other Monday night! You can learn a bit more about my work in the replies.👇
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The council will decide your fate
January 6, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The council will decide your fate
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Folks I hate google as much as the next person but this is a fucking parody account, holy fuck.
January 6, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Folks I hate google as much as the next person but this is a fucking parody account, holy fuck.
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The birds taunt her.
January 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
The birds taunt her.
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Happy new year from Alyss and the gang! (they're doing a heist)
January 1, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Happy new year from Alyss and the gang! (they're doing a heist)
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Alright, let's try to talk about my person's favorite child too for a change.
I'll eventually answer all of them, but for now 1 like =1 answer like usual.
I'll eventually answer all of them, but for now 1 like =1 answer like usual.
December 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Alright, let's try to talk about my person's favorite child too for a change.
I'll eventually answer all of them, but for now 1 like =1 answer like usual.
I'll eventually answer all of them, but for now 1 like =1 answer like usual.
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The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
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Once again I must raccoon post.
1 like 1 answer :)
1 like 1 answer :)
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Once again I must raccoon post.
1 like 1 answer :)
1 like 1 answer :)
I'm not one for resolutions or goals and shit is still very very messy, but for fucks sake I want 2026 to be the year I finally have at least a completed Prologue for Chosen?. It's long overdue and I need to buckle down and get back into it.
Hey, #writingcommunity...
What's one big writing goal you want to accomplish in 2026??
I'd like to start cheering you on immediately, please and thanks 💜
What's one big writing goal you want to accomplish in 2026??
I'd like to start cheering you on immediately, please and thanks 💜
December 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I'm not one for resolutions or goals and shit is still very very messy, but for fucks sake I want 2026 to be the year I finally have at least a completed Prologue for Chosen?. It's long overdue and I need to buckle down and get back into it.
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To all the ppl alone on the holidays, I see you. I hope you're doing okay.
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
To all the ppl alone on the holidays, I see you. I hope you're doing okay.
Cheers and many many thanks for a stress free end of the year... And here's hoping I can get some work soon so I don't need to do this again. ❤️
Support Blackbird
Support Blackbird
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December 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Cheers and many many thanks for a stress free end of the year... And here's hoping I can get some work soon so I don't need to do this again. ❤️
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Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.
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All I want for Christmas is financial stability, but since I can't get that apparently meeting my goal would help a ton. I got last and this month covered with people's assistance, but a couple more while I continue to apply for stuff would be a huge relief.
Support Blackbird
Support Blackbird
ko-fi.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
All I want for Christmas is financial stability, but since I can't get that apparently meeting my goal would help a ton. I got last and this month covered with people's assistance, but a couple more while I continue to apply for stuff would be a huge relief.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I'm just sad today. I miss my mom.
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I'm just sad today. I miss my mom.
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The best way I can explain this is like
When artists use references, real-life photos, history, inanimate objects to draw inspiration from, it's like these are raw colors and painting an idea in our head with them.
AI images are ideas premixed into a muddy brown, which further muddies ideas
When artists use references, real-life photos, history, inanimate objects to draw inspiration from, it's like these are raw colors and painting an idea in our head with them.
AI images are ideas premixed into a muddy brown, which further muddies ideas
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The best way I can explain this is like
When artists use references, real-life photos, history, inanimate objects to draw inspiration from, it's like these are raw colors and painting an idea in our head with them.
AI images are ideas premixed into a muddy brown, which further muddies ideas
When artists use references, real-life photos, history, inanimate objects to draw inspiration from, it's like these are raw colors and painting an idea in our head with them.
AI images are ideas premixed into a muddy brown, which further muddies ideas
I honestly don't know what else to say about this shit that hasn't already been said, man.
Fucking AI has no concept of context or cultural nuance when it comes to words and correcting that shit is literally twice the work compared to translating it directly, but sure pay us even less to do that.
Fucking AI has no concept of context or cultural nuance when it comes to words and correcting that shit is literally twice the work compared to translating it directly, but sure pay us even less to do that.
December 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I honestly don't know what else to say about this shit that hasn't already been said, man.
Fucking AI has no concept of context or cultural nuance when it comes to words and correcting that shit is literally twice the work compared to translating it directly, but sure pay us even less to do that.
Fucking AI has no concept of context or cultural nuance when it comes to words and correcting that shit is literally twice the work compared to translating it directly, but sure pay us even less to do that.
Laughs in has barely seen any job offers that didn't involve training fucking AI for peanuts in over a year.
Anyway I have a ko-fi and medical issues, so ya know link in bio. 😑
Anyway I have a ko-fi and medical issues, so ya know link in bio. 😑
If they want to keep getting work, they can review (=rewrite) the AI slop, for 1/3 of their normal rate (which was already low to begin with)
Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books
Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Laughs in has barely seen any job offers that didn't involve training fucking AI for peanuts in over a year.
Anyway I have a ko-fi and medical issues, so ya know link in bio. 😑
Anyway I have a ko-fi and medical issues, so ya know link in bio. 😑
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French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
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Not only do I not want GenAI to help me with my writing or art, I am actively in fear of it barging down the door like some roaming know-it-all who knows nothing and grabs my pen out of my hand and starts scribbling nonsense all over my carefully crafted and hard won stuff. Begone, foul fiend!
December 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Not only do I not want GenAI to help me with my writing or art, I am actively in fear of it barging down the door like some roaming know-it-all who knows nothing and grabs my pen out of my hand and starts scribbling nonsense all over my carefully crafted and hard won stuff. Begone, foul fiend!
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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📢 ISO OF LARIAN WORKERS 📢
I HIGHLY doubt everyone at Larian is OK with Gen A/I.
If you work (or worked) for Larian, my DMs are open to you.
I’m a journalist and I’m happy to talk about and/or publish anonymously your thoughts on this.
If so, I’ll do a full piece about this.
🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁
I HIGHLY doubt everyone at Larian is OK with Gen A/I.
If you work (or worked) for Larian, my DMs are open to you.
I’m a journalist and I’m happy to talk about and/or publish anonymously your thoughts on this.
If so, I’ll do a full piece about this.
🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📢 ISO OF LARIAN WORKERS 📢
I HIGHLY doubt everyone at Larian is OK with Gen A/I.
If you work (or worked) for Larian, my DMs are open to you.
I’m a journalist and I’m happy to talk about and/or publish anonymously your thoughts on this.
If so, I’ll do a full piece about this.
🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁
I HIGHLY doubt everyone at Larian is OK with Gen A/I.
If you work (or worked) for Larian, my DMs are open to you.
I’m a journalist and I’m happy to talk about and/or publish anonymously your thoughts on this.
If so, I’ll do a full piece about this.
🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
#LateNightWrite Okay suppose I should answer this.
This writing year has been rough to say the least. I mean ever since surgery recovery late last year, which took longer and it was a lot worse than I expected, I've been running on fumes mentally. I've been thinking about Chosen? a lot and👇
This writing year has been rough to say the least. I mean ever since surgery recovery late last year, which took longer and it was a lot worse than I expected, I've been running on fumes mentally. I've been thinking about Chosen? a lot and👇
I wanted the last #LateNightWrite of the year to be a little more elaborate but I am once again not doing good this weekend. So we're gonna a do a "how was your writing year" free form prompt tonight and I'll be back with proper questions, at the right time, after the holidays!
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
#LateNightWrite Okay suppose I should answer this.
This writing year has been rough to say the least. I mean ever since surgery recovery late last year, which took longer and it was a lot worse than I expected, I've been running on fumes mentally. I've been thinking about Chosen? a lot and👇
This writing year has been rough to say the least. I mean ever since surgery recovery late last year, which took longer and it was a lot worse than I expected, I've been running on fumes mentally. I've been thinking about Chosen? a lot and👇