Godspeed You! Woke Moralists

PSA for my writer followers -- so long as you can be chill, if you need writing advice or help, my DMs are open. And I mean like, real advice, don't just tell me "hey I had this idea how's that sound" and I'm down for helping rookies/ameteurs/etc, no matter if we're moots or not.

Why I hate "comfort" language is best described by this woman hearing a story about a child being disciplined for drawing a zombie scene at Halloween and bringing up worries of school shootings. People can be wrong and also act like you're stupid for it. You shouldn't be nice to them.

So the "advice" doled out in this column makes me INCREDIBLY fucking angry as a former kid who was repeatedly taken to task by teachers for "inappropriate" drawings, culminating in a 9th-grade suspension spurred by Columbine paranoia and residual Satanic Panic. Arionne here says that was JUSTIFIED.

So Hamas monopolizing power for 20+ years is a sign of change?

The more time the passes the more I want to go back to that line in my Darkblade Assassin review that joked "are we SURE this wasn't written by an AI?" and delete it. That book is terrible but it could only come from a human mind.

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

I think everyone SHOULD read Ninth House. However I think everyone HAS to read Throne in the Dark. The former is immaculate and brutal in a way that makes you feel alive - Throne, however, immediately shoves you into being a 15 year old girl giggling and rolling around in bed in delight

"Be gay do crimes" crumbles before "but this person is icky and deserves to be punished"

Extremely funny type of guy is "prison abolitionist communist who keeps getting suspended for saying 'we should just kill people like this.'" I'm not sure you believe and I don't think you do either.

This is worth noting for a lot of people, really. If you're following artists who aren't putting stuff behind paywalls, consider throwing them some tips anyway as a thank-you to ensure they keep making the stuff you like!

I feel uncomfortable about the new look for The Lorax.

Flávio brought a bag lunch, smart.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

a weapon to surpass metal gear *unveils a robot girl with huge knockers*

*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

The worst thing a book can be is a five out of ten and I'm always going to get a big smile on my face at some real incompetent trash that lives its truth boldly, way more so than yet another middling swords-and-sorcery novel that has nothing to say and loves fight scenes.

Me: I don't see any reason to use AI Slop peddlers: You know how you want to sell books but you hate writing? Me: No, I love writing. The only reason I care about selling books is so I can afford to write instead of getting a real job Slop peddlers: Oh. Well... You know how you hate your kids?

I was trying to remember the name of the new Capcom feudal Japan samurai game, and I said, "Inuyasha"

Throne in the Dark and Andor are teaching me the best way to make someone charismatic is to have them say something shockingly sincere with utmost confidence and have 0% idea how much that method of communication just melts people's hearts and gets them what they want.

This cat has been impossible his whole life, timid and scared and people avoidant, but he had a urinary blockage and was on sedatives for two weeks and I guess it reset his brain and now I'm his best friend in the world and he'll peep at me to pet him while he eats.

Current mood

watching Squeak and Corvo fight and going, "Yes, fight for my love! I shall cuddle the victor!!"

I'm glad Hila is a bad person because every time I see more pictures of her with this extremely suspicious and pained squint at Ethan and Tamara, I just think, "Oh that sucks, oh god this sucks," and I know she deserves it.

I'm reading a fine fantasy novel right now and there's a prophecy the cast is trying to understand as it's growing closer while hopping around locations and escaping danger and I just keep thinking yeah. but. y'know. rice boy.

Me, reading literally any fantasy, which is my favorite genre; "........yeah, but. it's not Rice Boy."

much 2 think about

Chat GPT, I'm feeling creatively motivated. Come up with some ideas for me.

Person who undergoes a horrific transformation into a werewolf only to be puzzled why everyone keeps petting them and giving them little cups filled with whipped cream

This is good but I once again have to point out how ridiculous it is that Congress holds the power of the purse, and now Democrats are using it, and this is treated as "novel" and "aggressive", rather than something that should have happened 2 years ago at least

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

it’s monday

Gen AI is trying to make labor a F2P system, isn't it? Claude pitching a software company on a contract and there's a big shaking golden chest full of 'tokens', in big glittery letters, "BEST VALUE!!"

Fluffy hair Elster #SIGNALIS

Ver. Ke X #megamanx