Here is a quick thing I did that shows I am not very smart. I will start this with the caveat that I don't use AI, good? Good. Last night, I wrote a pitch, a fairly long pitch for a major event. It wasn't a full-on pro document, but it was still six pages of concepts and notes. I was on fire.

TOY STORY 2 was released 27 years ago today. The second entry in Pixar’s beloved series, and regarded one of the great animated sequels, the story of how it was made will make you realise you can’t rush art… 1/51

Munich by Vasily Kandinsky, 1901 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137502

I can experience those without Bluesky

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Every romance writer I know: “Oh, all the planes are grounded, you say? That swoony person over there just nabbed the last rental car? ARE THEY GOING MY WAY? WILL WE STOP AT A QUAINT INN WHERE THERE IS ONLY ONE BED?” God, I love a one-bed situation.

Pond Naravit .....🥵🥵

trying to muster up enough interest and energy for my final assignments when I have mentally checked out and am now living in my elite European uni, writing about boys crushing, kissing, and generally being messy and down bad for eo.

The first election a Pope has ever voted in and Republicans get wiped out. It's truly a sign from god.

The Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social publishes some fascinating articles. Here's one that discusses the use of fujoshi voices in Thai BL narratives from a literary angle. jprstudies.org/wp-content/u...

New Issue Alert: Very pleased to share the latest issue of JPRS!📢 With articles on trauma in popular romance by Alicia Leigh, cuteness in Thai boys-love novels by Bancha Rattanamathuwong, notes on defining the 'trope' in romance fiction, and many others🎉 www.jprstudies.org/issue-15-1/

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Throughout history, a headpiece has been a status symbol, a fashion statement or simply a way to steal the show. These portraits from our collection show just how much personality you could express through a headpiece. ✨ 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

A friend of mine took this pic a few years ago of a local station’s error. He sadly died earlier this year. While this isn’t exactly his legacy, it left a huge mark. So everyone please turn your cocks back tonight for Mike.

Please ask permission from fic authors before you share their work on other platforms than A03! Downloading for personal use is fine if the writer allows it, but that doesn't include sharing it publicly with none of the security Ao3 offers. It's no better than AI theft! I don't trust any other site.

Mundane Halloween returns! Halloween is great, but the greatest part of Halloween is the annual "mundane Halloween" costume contest sponsored by Japanese website @dailyportalz Here is a thread of some of my favorites from this year...

Nathan Pyle always makes me chortle.

Mark Truesdale@marktweedale.bsky.social · 3w ago

Name a piece of comic art that occasionally wanders into your head unannounced and makes you smile. #comics

It’s a Fair Question…..

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Good morning! #TheUntamed 🐰🐰 #CQL #WangXian

And what are you supposed to be? #writingmemes #writinghumor #writingsky #halloween

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Our latest is live! ✨ Almost exactly 10 years after our big fanfiction tropes survey, @elizabethminkel.bsky.social looked back at the results—and was struck by just how much has changed around tropes since then. Featuring interviews with the brilliant @oliviawaite.com and @dianapho.bsky.social:

Every Trope Everywhere All At Once

A decade after our big survey on fanfiction tropes, they’ve spread, evolved, and been co-opted by capitalism.

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Oh ffs I’ve been migrating over to Proton mail and now I have to find another home? So fucking inconvenient. 😡

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: “Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.” 404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.

Currently the most played songs on my playlist.... City by Gemini and Fourth wins by a landslide if you add together the two versions 👍

Frog and Toad ate many cookies, one after another. “You know, Toad,” said Frog, with his mouth full, “I think we should stop eating. We will soon be sick.” “You are right,” said Toad. “Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

...another assignment submitted! Only five more to write in three weeks before the end of semester *collapses in a heap on the bed*

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I often think about how we accept and absorb new technology because it comes *on top* of existing things. Email as well as post, online shopping as well as stores, app banking as well as high street banks. But then the original infrastructure is slowly taken away and it’s suddenly so much worse.