DragonSinger

NOPE.

I use obtuse for anyone like you and Sponges who are stuck in fantasy land thinking that everything is hunky dory and stick your fingers in your ears when anyone tries to show you how this is realistically affecting people. And just because stealing art from people who have a lot more disabled among them than you think(there are artist memes about how broken their bodies have become over the years) makes it convenient for folks with health issues to make the art they want, that doesn't make it okay either. Artists already get shafted in pay, unhealthy work hours, disdain towards their work, and longterm health issues. They did not deserve to get screwed like this either.

I've done some weaning off the site. I used to have around 20 twitter tabs open at a time, but since traditional publishing is combusting, there's a lot less for me to research to stay up to date. Tumblr would be nicer if it had a better reply section.

I would like people to shut the fuck up if they think they're replacing artists in some meaningful way. Just because you want to play obtuse for whatever reason, doesn't change that this is stealing other people's work and claiming it as your own. Some of that art is shitty because it's a mishmash of parts with no actual thought into how they go together. Maybe it was Sponges who posted that hedgehog lady, but there was a jewelry piece that you could spot like 5 different parts of images jumbled together that just made it look ugly. Different shading, different lighting, different types of jewelry, and it just looked like a mess. These new A.I. art programs could have been done in a way that actually supported artists, but instead was thrown into the world by a bunch of assholes who think their 'democratizing' art.

Unfortunately, there aren't many places to go. Mastodon writing circles got taken over by annoying cliques who were the reason a lot of minorities in the industry use twitter. Spoutible is a no-go after the guy who runs it went into a full tantrum because Romance authors did what he asked folks to do and offered feedback on his site, e.g. the TOS. I don't know anyone who actually uses Hive, but I heard there were problems there too.

This apparently happened yesterday, and I suspect they left Dril alone after they brought up Epstein 😭.

Fumbling bags and pissing off entire demographics of fans is starting to become an art form. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with y'all?

White folks need to come collect their kids because I can't afford an epi-pen and don't need them fucking up my access to Benedryl.

They're both good actors so at least some of the hype is probably earned. This is why I'm shaking my head. You plan on going this far in your careers or higher, I'm sorry but you need to throw friends like Choe to the wayside and don't look back. I suggest that in general too, but doubly so if you aim to be a public figure.

It got scratched off for fuckery. Ali Wong and Steven Yeun got their friend who's an alleged sexual predator on their show because networks and streaming sites don't want to touch him. The rape confession he gave very specific details about that he claims was just him being edgy on a podcast, is being wiped off the internet due to copyright claims now. The video is even being taken off of news sites that reported about him years ago: Even if he was being 'edgy', there was no reason for Wong and Yeun to go out of their way to hire the guy and hurt both of their reputations, and the copyright thing is just spreading this further. No good decision making all around. I'm not holding it against you if you watch it. Shit like this just pisses me off on a personal and professional level.

Let me go scratch Beef off my watchlist.

As someone who has to deal with Amazon for multiple business reasons and constantly watches them throw money at the wrong thing while spending pennies on what they should be stuffing with cash, I BEEN KNEW! They swipe great ideas or companies to add to their brand, run them into the ground in record time by having the biggest fuck-ups they could find put in charge of them, they don't make the profits Amazon wants because again fuck-ups are in charge, and then they remove any real support from that project so it's run by a skeleton crew until Amazon totally forgets about it or shuts it down.

Watching people play RE4 has been a lot of fun just seeing their different styles. I've watched mostly okay and decent players and one really good one. The really good one is interesting to watch because he's mellow as hell and unfazed by anything coming up to surprise him. Like, when Also, they're all different in killing things. One is Stabby, second one is mostly shotgun blast to the face, and the really good one is sniper dude.

I never played the Resident Evil games and get FOMO evey now and then like while watching streams of people playing the Resident Evil 4 remake, but oh my god that bullshit with escorting Ashley would drive me up a wall. That bitch seems like she's straight up running towards the villagers to get captured by them. I saw comments saying that she's been more useful in the remake and braaaahhhh. She was worse?

I know I've been busy if I missed blind items that were circulating about a very popular actor in mid-February. That Depp shit is also to blame. Folks are being real careful with how they put out stuff or more are keeping quiet.

I got roped into watching Twitch streams. It's not bad if you can find interesting people to follow and stay in audiences under 200. I think God be trolling'. Why give Tyrese a voice like that if you gonna make him act a weirdo constantly?

I might as well just accept I'm gonna have to buy a big ass pack of Hebrew National hot dogs from Costco for any kind of decent price.

Why is it always my throwaway tweets I gotta mute and never the ones about my books? 😭

Folks don't know if they'll have careers next year, but author drama is still plentiful.

I'mma need someone to put ribeyes on sale 'cause I ain't had one for a minute.

I didn't know primetime shows did mutant kids. I saw NCIS playing on my mom's tv and they talkin about the medical examiner's daughter being a preteen. I was like holdup, that kid was a baby when I last saw her and I haven't missed over a decade of that show. That is so weird to me. Except for that time Young and the Restless did it with Nicholas Newman. One day he went up to his room as a kid I didn't care about at all and then new Nick came down the next episode looking fine as hell.

That’s a no-go. The balconies/porches are squirrel territory and I’ll feel bad if a raw plantain kills them or something. Ants outside also looking too darn lively.

Damn you, plaintain! How long are you going to stay green?

I'm definitely praying:

It's more that people are annoyed that they keep trying to make a big deal out of their shitty work in order to get headpats, and folks would just like for them to shut the fuck up and stay in their circle of tech bros killing off whatever useful parts of humanity that they can.