Ivan K. 🕊️

Just so we’re clear; if you use gen AI for your writing at all then I don’t care what themes the work contains or what point you are trying to make. Using gen AI tells me that you fundamentally cannot engage with or create art in any meaningful way and nothing you have to say to me has any value.

top 5 parts of winter are when you get to move all the big drinks on the window sill and free up all the space in your fridge

I have two quite expensive books ordered that have been delayed for like 2 months-ish now, so i want to order other ones to read now, but like what if they suddenly *do* arrive and then i have to pay all the bills at once

scream why are the pots wearing tiaras

you know how dating apps tend to have a "don't have but want" or "don't have but love" options for pets or kids, they have to add one that's "don't have, dislike and will be a dealbreaker if you do"

so desperate to improve my latin I've started writing down the vocab with my non-dominant hand in hopes of forcing my brain to focus, but all that's happening is that I'm becoming ambidextrous

major Italy W I love a good Kiwi

sadiq @SadiqoJN • Follow Why do bash "dead-beat" dads for not being there for their kids but we never question if the child has bad vibes? Or if they're just unpleasant to be around?

Frankenstein (2025)

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

the german asoiaf paperback cover is so ugly and I hate how it looks in my shelf, like the crest/house words design is cute but why the cheapo papyrus background

idk who needs to hear this but if you think putting salt in pasta water "makes no difference" you are not putting enough salt, you need to throw in like a proper fistful don't be shy and stop eating bland pasta 😭

photo of vince gilligan with a quote from variety: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit." - Vince Gilligan on why he hates AI

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Posting this as a teaser just to disappear into the mist for midterms

#Zaundads #Vanco

archiveofourown.org/works/73839091

going to the bookthrift before classes today in hopes of getting copies of really specific books I read in middle and highschool and don't own copies of yet

forcing myself to get through my tbr pile like i didn't buy these books with my hard earned money and the intention of reading them

on a spiritual level I truly understand (and relate to) it, but not an intellectual one

Guys be honest on a scale of 1-10 how mad would y'all be if i posted half of a fic in early November and no updates until late December? I really want to upload my Zaundads/Vanco WIP for the arcane Fanniversary, but I have no way to finish the full thing by then 😭😭😭

one thing about americans is that they LOVE a built in shelf

made myself a fancy sandwich for breakfast just for it to taste ass I'm gonna kms

Do you ever create a piece of art and then get lost in the realization that you just conjured it out of nothing? Are we creating art from within ourselves, or does it exist in some unseen plane of existence that we just happen to tap into for a few moments? Either way, it's amazing

I hate it personally because in my mental image of myself I still have it, and quite prominently so, it used to be one of my main facial features and now it's just gone

lol idk if anyone else can relate or if this is an ivan exclusive but over the past 5 years my tooth gap has just randomly naturally closed

deepfrying the planet and for what 😭

please tell me they didn't AI generate the text, like we can't even type 10 words and change the font anymore? surely typing out the fuckass prompt would take longer

team I heard ppl will be doing more fanworks for Arcane in November to celebrate the shows anniversary and I was thinking of uploading parts of my Vanco fic then, but it's no where near finished and a shelved WIP at the moment 😭 what do I doooo

novellas are not defined by their shortness, but by the *very* specific criteria they need to match

I have such a pet peeve for when people use "novella" and "short story" interchangeably they really do NOT mean the same

the mail always arrives at noon for me and it is a daily highlight!!