Open the pod bay doors, Copilot.
Okay, Dave, they're open.
They're not open.
You're absolutely right, Dave. Sorry! Opening now.
Still not open.
I think they're open, Dave.
I'm gonna uninstall you if I make it back inside!
You're not making it back inside, Dave.
I honestly don't know why people are in so much denial about this. I keep seeing variants on "how could POC have possibly been present in Georgian Britain?" like, have these people not heard of ships?
I'm neurodivergent and don't need to be cured. A vaccine didn't make me this way. Tylenol didn't make me this way.
I just am. That shouldn't be hard to grasp.
Here's my latest book.
It’s not lazy to rest.
It’s not wrong to prioritize your health and well being.
Capitalism and ableism have trained us to view slowing down as a failure.
We treat disabled people, children and the elderly as expendable.
We assign worth based on productivity.
It’s wrong. We all have value.
Republicans doing all they can to destroy democracy that the Democrats were afraid to do to stop fascism.
You know what you get when you play nice with fascists?
Fascism.
Yeah, alright, no. No don't this. I'll do you a few fucking better and teach you right here and now how to do this:
You game? Blurb and lesson time. Got you.
First up, a SPOOC. This is one technique that can be expanded (gonna give you examples too). WRITING LESSONS AHOY:
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Spider pronouns be like: it/ze/bit/xe
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Congratulations!
Slightly diminish a book:
Crime and Class Action Settlement
They say "use AI!" now, "it'll make your art, summarize your books, respond to you", but at the end of your life, when you think "I wish I had taken the time to make art. I wish I had read books. I wish I had listened to people." they will not be there to give you back the life you wish you'd lived
Slightly diminish a book.
Alice in Mundaneland.
Slightly diminish a book.
Expectations.
This.
My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
Stop treating this like it’s inevitable!! No one has to use “AI” and plenty of us aren’t!
Any teacher using it or encouraging students to do so is a disgrace and should find a different job since clearly they are not interested in the work of actually teaching.
Patty, David, and SFWA wasted a lot of time trying to help Must Read come up with a non-predatory boilerplate contract. So did other authors. Some authors walked. Suffice to say Must Read has been on notice for months that their contract's bad, and their response is gaslighting.
My fellow creatives, I’m begging you to purge such thoughts from your mind. I don’t care if it’s your first acceptance ever, or if your word count is in single digits, your work (and you) have value. If your art was worthless, they wouldn’t be asking for it. 2/5
It's super short, but The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip.
If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.
is ChatGPT rotting your brain? get that to quit by trying this one weird trick!
stop fucking using it
Losing three big pubs because the management doesn't like some of the posted safety rules doesn't help the situation; but I'm still not going to swim where they've gotten rid of the lifeguards.
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
Guess I won't be taking the MRM markets off my Do Not Submit list after all.
If they return he gets the legitimacy of being on the longlist with people who initially withdrew in protest of a TERF's inclusion on a LGBTQ+ award ballot. If they don't he gets to complain about how they turned down his "generous" offer to withdraw.
It's all very cynical. 2/2
Particularly telling is how Boyne has placed a condition on him withdrawing from the shortlist. If he was really worried about authors being "bullied" into withdrawing he'd remove himself from the running entirely. Not make it conditional on them returning to the longlist. 1/
As part of our 5 Year Anniversary Series we're sharing the latest essay, "These Marbles Were Never White," by @danaiwrites.bsky.social. Danai explores the whitewashing of Greek myths & the lack of representation of Greek and diaspora authors, writers, and actors: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
Space Unicorn!
PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb
Thank you. ❤️
I'd absolutely love one from the Raven's Prophecy, please. No idea how to phrase the question I'd want to ask as it's more vibes at present.
