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I hope the january-february mass depressive episode doesn't continue into march

shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

I see you're liking all my posts and it's making me very happy, just wanted to say thank you!

You're welcome!

WRITE IT ANYWAY!!! EVEN IF YOU DONT THINK YOURE GOOD ENOUGH!!! WRITE!!! IT!!!! ANYWAY!!!!!!!

Are you serious, nanowrimo?

"You're"?? 🤨

Oh so it's classist and ableist to be against generative AI in creative writing? Nanowrimo is really out here implying that poor and disabled people can't be good writers without plagiarism and theft, and that's beyond words disgusting. Especially since the very demographic that's being the most negatively effected by AI taking over job roles in the creative fields are people who rely on keeping those jobs in order to survive. I.e, financially vulnerable and disabled people.

So it looks like NaNoWriMo are happy to have AI as part of their community. Miss me with that bullshit. Generative artificial intelligence is an active threat to creativity and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in creative fields.

Please signal boost this so writers can make an informed choice about whether to continue to take part in such a community.

It be like that sometimes.

(Source: @mysillycomics! I got this off Instagram so I didn’t know it cropped the artist credit out!)

“Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,”

— Jean Toomer, from Cane: Poems; “November Cotton Flower,” wr. c. 1923 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Finally.

has this one been done yet

I just saw a post on Tumblr asking if you're "allowed" to do something in a story you're writing. (In this case, a POV shift.)

I just want to sing to the tune of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, "THERE ARE NO RULES. THERE ARE NO RULES. There are no rules there are no rules there are no rules..."

being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."