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Apologies for being toxic on main, but the whole "Andy Weir loving genAI" is good news for me, because I've been, like, 50 pages into The Martian for years now, because the main character was just so...smug, and I feel genuine relief I can finally give up on it forever 😌

This was last week?! I give a pass to people who experimented with stable diffusion when it first came out, but there has been so much discussion since about the ethical/environmental impacts, and also "im a caveman dur hur" AI art is just...super fucking lame in the year of our lord 2026 🙄

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That is…so fucking weird and lame on so many levels

I don't like the word "stupid" because it's more about defining people as outside society norms and values rather than an analysis on their "intelligence" (whatever that is), but that said --

If you think the probabilistic-word-choice machine can improve my writing, I think you're fucking stupid.

Moby Dick is such a fun read. One of my favorites. Hope you enjoy!

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Argentum in Aqua: An Introduction ARGENTUM IN AQUA (Blood on the Snow, Silver in the Ashes, Fire in the Sky) All student magician Jonathan Fest wants is to keep his head down and finish out his first year of university without fail…

Thank you for doing this (and fuck ICE)!

In terms of sharing, if wintry gaslamp fantasy's up your street, you can find my serial over on my site for free (along with a whole pile of side stories and worldbuilding for the same 'verse because why the hells not): saranadosfiction.com/2023/12/11/a...

Yay! Glad you are excited! Wish I had the fortitude to sit on things and do big reveals rather than post right before falling asleep, but maybe that’s what’s IG is for 😂.

Thank you! I might still poke at the light edges, and maybe adjust firefly composition but I think this is about as good as I can make it at my current level 🙂

A work in progress (or maybe finished?) version of the cover for Triple Strike: Starfarer's Dream. It shows Alan and Sven standing across from each other, hands cupped together as the look up smiling at fireflies rising into a night sky.

I think the cover might be done??

If the words "lesbian samurai drama" appeal to you, you'll want to chdck out A Path of a Thousand Blossoms.

It's the third in a series of short story collections built around a shared fantasy setting and a shared theme of lesbian samurai drama.

Out on Valentine's!

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They could fight each other for the crown, or they could fight the man dangling it between them. Revolutionary Fantasy, Sapphic Romance.

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STARS AND SOIL

Leading on the crown prince so you can get information for the rebellion is hard enough as a lesbian, but even harder when you have the biggest crush on the other lady the prince is courting.

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Triple Strike’s true hero 🫡

#snippetshare so late, but who's counting and Eric deserves way more snips than I give him 🦎.

Alan adjusts to life with an iguana for a roommate.

Pyreans consider red the color of fate and freedom, which is why Hilde's epithet is The Crimson ❤️.

Omg Cirina and Sadu in the Valentiones event are giving me life right now 😭. Though Jacke hanging out with Oboro in twink clothes is pretty on point too.

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Wands would be represented by something related to the Gate engines. I deliberately don't explain how Gating works, but I mention pillars that connect different parts of the engine, and I think these would work well as futuristic representations of fire and creative pursuits!

Ahhh! These are all so beautiful!!

Heads precisely matches an eight-escudo minted in Lima, Peru in 1712 CE and the back is the Jolly Roger from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

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Pentacles often represent material wealth, so they'd be the Republic's coin currency that Alan disparagingly describes as “half painful attention to detail and historical accuracy, and half pirate theme-park ride.” Alan does need to lighten up, but he's not wrong because --

I am extremely bad at playing horror games for this reason. I even like the psychological plot elements and want to play more in theory, but in practice I get too flustered and nervous to actually get through them. Death Standing is at my limit =.=;;.

SHOP IS PERMANENTLY CLOSING THIS MONTH OF FEBRUARY! Last chance to get all Art Tutorials and Processes from my shop! Get them all before my shop officially close this month! 🥹🥹🥹

Alright! 🥹 SHOP IS PERMANENTLY CLOSING THIS MONTH, FEBRUARY ✨️ Folks have this month to get ALL Art Tutorials and Processes from my shop! 👈✨️✨️✨️

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Love that the minor suits are getting attention. Overwhelmed at the thought of how many cards there are 😅

Imo short grain rice is more forgiving (and that's mostly what I use), but yeah, mushy rice is definitely more salvageable than crunchy rice...rough :(.

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That sounds good too! My plan was congee with chili crisp, so same idea in different ratios 😁.