avalonw.bsky.social
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When I knew it was more than just a cartoon
June 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
When I knew it was more than just a cartoon
Happy Pride y'all! Do what you can to thrive and if all you can do at the moment is persist, that is enough. Continuing to exist in a world that desires nothing less than your eradication is an act of rebellion in itself. Celebrate yourself, your family (chosen or otherwise), and your community.
June 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happy Pride y'all! Do what you can to thrive and if all you can do at the moment is persist, that is enough. Continuing to exist in a world that desires nothing less than your eradication is an act of rebellion in itself. Celebrate yourself, your family (chosen or otherwise), and your community.
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These feckers have already made off with my last almost-five-decades' worth of creative output to try to "teach" their hopped-up answering machine how to fake writing. If anyone ever *breathed* the suggestion to me that I should willingly use that soi-disant "tool"...it would not go well for them.
I'm not the only writer who doesn't use AI/LLMs for prompts, plots, outlines, synopses, writing, editing, images etc.
I don't use it at all, and I refuse to do so.
As @tiffaniangus.bsky.social points out - there are many of us. We are far from alone.
Everything I make is from my brainmeats.
I don't use it at all, and I refuse to do so.
As @tiffaniangus.bsky.social points out - there are many of us. We are far from alone.
Everything I make is from my brainmeats.
May 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
These feckers have already made off with my last almost-five-decades' worth of creative output to try to "teach" their hopped-up answering machine how to fake writing. If anyone ever *breathed* the suggestion to me that I should willingly use that soi-disant "tool"...it would not go well for them.
Canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
March 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
Oh boy, time for me to proselytize my beloved Young Wizards series by Diane Duane! A series that's been going since 1983 about, well, young Wizards. To me, it is broadly about how curiosity, creativity, and honesty are literally magic and are necessary to save the world.
Actually please recommend books/series that feel anti-HP to you, Percy Jackson is an already accepted great one, I know there's at least one other big one I'm forgetting. Recent ones ideally, tho the Worst Witch was there first and deserves better ✌️
I wish they'd do a TV show of something like the Scholomance books instead of HP because it feels like something written to be the anti-HP and I respect that
March 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Oh boy, time for me to proselytize my beloved Young Wizards series by Diane Duane! A series that's been going since 1983 about, well, young Wizards. To me, it is broadly about how curiosity, creativity, and honesty are literally magic and are necessary to save the world.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
I'm very bad at using social media consistently but here's my cat Hekate, as tax
January 6, 2024 at 7:25 PM
I'm very bad at using social media consistently but here's my cat Hekate, as tax
Oh right, I have a Bluesky! I should probably use it occasionally.....
August 22, 2023 at 11:37 AM
Oh right, I have a Bluesky! I should probably use it occasionally.....