@keaalu
Self-taught author and draw-er, enjoyer of all things sentient+nonbiological, particularly zeroids and TFs. (Also NHS pharmacist, but don't expect anything work-related here.) Sticky: https://keaalu.dreamwidth.org/463975.html
Just a short chapter this time! Catching up with someone who SHOULD be back on Spacehawk already... hmm.
Join me for a fun little bit of zeroid-based body horror. (My poor 101, I do love you really.)
Square Pegs, Chapter 5!
(Does the title make sense now?) #terrahawks
Ninestein: All right, Zero. Just... explain what EXACTLY you mean by "seem to have accidentally sold 101"?
Zero: You seems to be asking a lot of questions about what I already covered the first time I said it, sah.
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Looking forwards to this! For a few years we had "Maritime Ipswich" festivals down on the waterfront, and they were really good - hoping this might be similar!
It's International Fanworks Day! And the theme is Alternate Universes! Of course I will (again) pick my fave @gerryanderson.bsky.social series as the subject! (OK no I need no excuses)
Two space besties discuss parallel universes, and why THIS one is DEFINITELY the best one.
#IFD2026 #terrahawks
Wasn't happy with the flow of the last chapter (in particular, 101 with the Martians; the boy was being WAY too wordy) so I spent a but of time reworking it and I'm happier with it now!
Now I can get on with the fun part of writing new stuff (and a little bit of zeroid body horror? 😬)
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"See it's democratic because EVERYONE now has access to YOUR ART for free."
"20 years ago, you wouldn't draw me porn for free, well FUCK YOU. Instead of grow up, I've resented you this whole time, and built a machine to copy you, so I can have as much of your art as I want, all for free. And because I'm prizewinningly vindictive, everyone else can have it for free as well."
I see "the slop generator is democratising art!" is doing the rounds again.
s i g h
Translation: I want THAT PERSON'S art, but fuck you if you think I'm paying for it.
Saw someone mention Pontypool, which reminded me I really must get around to watching that.
Always been a tiny bit disappointed to find out that it's not a weird fanmade horror take on Fireman Sam, though. 🤔
Aw, but my best boy doesn't get enough love ~anyway~. Let him be a hero ~just once~.
(But I agree that 55 is a cutie. And 21, with his sticky vocaliser!)
Looking at my stats for January and I seem to have hardly written anything the whole month. ☹️
I need to get back to stupid cubes trying to encourage their new bestie to play games, but new bestie is feeling sorry for himself and wants to go home to his humans and say sorry for being a screwup.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
"You thought this was a real person we busted? Or you thought they were a real person to be worried about because we released their face on TV? Well GUESS WHAT, SUCKER, we deepfaked her! YEAH that's right, the AI suckered you in real good!"
I don't feel like this was the intended takeaway.
Not a fan of Channel 4 deepfaking some other face on the top of the suspect's real face "to protect their identity" on 24h in police custody when they could have just blurred them out, like they have previously.
I understand what blurring them out means; THIS just feels like I've been lied to.
Today we're remembering the much-missed Denise Bryer, on what would have been her 98th birthday. Best known to Anderson fans for voicing Zelda in Terrahawks. Here she is in 2014 during the recording of Big Finish's Terrahawks audio revival - smiling, as she always seemed to be!
Lasercut Birthday Card!
Little robots want to make art for their bestie's birthday, but then get all awkward about the whole "robots shouldn't make art" part.
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Oh, the block is vanquished! Hurrah 😄
Wish this dictionary site would stop sending out their "Barksing Day" definition every Boxing Day when it's wrong and gets me annoyed every time. 🙄
First it was the "river Dibden" and now the railway line goes UNDER the A14. 🙄 Apparently.
It'd be nice if just one of the "Ipswich Star" journos were actually local. Or knew how to write an article without just rephrasing someone else's work.
I bought this one after spotting it on here earlier!
More weirdness definitely gets my vote 😁
Unexpected followup! (Thank you Flash Fiction Friday on tumblr)
101 realises something about the helpful little cat he met in Egypt...
Smoke blowing in different directions, no less.
Oh, that's rather splendid! 😃 Is it available?
The Way to a Zeroid's Little Round Heart... is with a hat, apparently? (Not that Hiro needed any help.)
According to canon, 101 was first brought online some time in November 2018. That makes him very very old- I MEAN seven!
Happy Birthday to my favourite little round fusspot.
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I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
I used to think it was depressing having no-one read my writing, but at least the occasional comments were from real people.
It's a million times worse to see the occasional trickle of hits and know they're all just bots, feeding your work into the slop machine.
"Big Mouth, Big Heart"
Certain zeroids have a big mouth, asking questions Hiro isn't quite sure he wants to face, yet? But they are usually forgiven for it, too.
(Hiro was given such a fascinating backstory! But then it seems to have never been used in ANY official media...)
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