Life is a constant balance between the primal need to create things and the primal need to nap for 4 hours.
Rowan
@rowankozlow.bsky.social
aspiring novelist & author of sci-fi and fantasy. tarot reader. adhd & autistic. chronic pain & anxiety. non-binary. 35. (they/them) https://rowankozlow.carrd.co/
Reports vary on whether it is World Armadillo Day or International Armadillo Day, but either way, I've got you covered!
I'm sick of people who refuse to accept difficult subjects in art as legitimate. You don't have to engage with what makes you uncomfortable, and that's the beauty of content warnings. But absolutely go fuck yourself if you think trying to police and sanitize expression is ever acceptable behavior.
I'm warming up today by rewriting a #DragonAge fanfiction that I posted a few years ago. Time travel + memory loss + #Solavellan, anyone?
I do think, on a fundamental level they don't want to examine, many people are still unlearning both individual and societal Christian messaging that anything whose primary function is making things easier or more comfortable is a moral weakness, and it's more virtuous to soldier on through
Mina Li (she/her)@codenameminali.bsky.social · 4mo agoin addition, people acting like we don't need A/C apparently a) don't have medical conditions that get triggered/aggravated by heat ::raises hand:: b) thinks we should suck it up or c) both
the version of hannibal lector from the novels is funny because he's a total oc. he has red eyes, he has physical abilities that border on superpowers, he has six fingers on one hand, and he's a super genius
i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)
sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door
The Discord "teen by default" shit is insane. It feels so much like corporations want everyone to be in a state of arrested development. That we should all be children they can control. That we have to be sanitized and childlike. Hating this shit so bad. Please call your reps.
It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
Palestinians have the right to live in dignity and safety.
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last yr.AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Starting a reread of the entire #OctoberDaye series at work this evening, in preparation for Silver & Lead coming out. I can’t wait to delve into @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s world again!
yeah basically. like, if you want trans people in things it starts with trans people behind things. the reduction of 'representation' entirely to the stated identities of onscreen characters misses the entire point!
Dragon Cobolt@dragoncobolt.bsky.social · last yr.here's my scorching hot take: I want less trans characters in mainstream fiction and more trans *creators* working in mainstream fiction
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
ultimately the way this world treats trans women as utterly disposable even despite so often sounding the alarm early for abuse done, and people not listening or mocking it, is why my politics are so concerned with their wellbeing and political subjectivity
Same stupid censorship has been happening for YEARS online. "Oh we cant tell what age this anime styled person is in this drawing, better ban you just in case" We are in Hell
For anyone who thinks that is a lot of money consider that their last round of funding was for 13B, and that normally big copyright infringement costs like 150k per, not the 3k per they are gonna pay. A fine is a price. For 1/10th of their funding they will keep and use this data. Fuckers.
Anthropic tells US judge it will pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action
Anthropic told a San Francisco federal judge on Friday that it has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the artificial intelligence company of using their books to train its AI chatbot Claude without permission.
reuters.com
Dear big tech overlords, may I please buy this copy of 'sentient banana's stole my virginity' or is that too kinky? How bout this vibrator? This lingerie? This print of Lady Godiva? This funny mug with boobs on it? Please master, I need your guidance on what I'm allowed to purchase with my money