Tina Carleton

@oreganospice.bsky.social

Today's historical accuracy research for my novel: when did the idea of a "little black book" as a phone book a bachelor kept his partners numbers in start? Answer: Was being used as short-hand at least as far back as 1953. So I'm good using it in my scene that happens in 1975.

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 

Just finished Fern Brady's memoir. At one point she talks about going too far when she tries to connect with people and accidentally info-dumping. But I for one would love to hear her monologue about Kim Cattrall's feud with the rest of the cast of SATC.

I have never heard that song. Because I have an entertainment machine in my pocket, and I don't care about music, everything I hear is something I curated. The only way I hear new music is if it becomes a TikTok sound. (And even then the algorithm is giving me sounds based on my tastes.)

the whole 'i dont like AI but THIS i can get behind' when its a story about someone pounding a trex or a minotaur is such a bad take. camp is art. real legitimate art. honestly kind of astonished to see anti-AI folks just ignoring their stated values because someones AI erotica cover made them laugh

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

If the only thing you have to note about the rising tide of fascism is that we have to let it rise far enough to be over someone else's head in order to stop it, I don't think your strategy is particularly good.