Marie 🇨🇦⚜️

I once went to a funeral where the priest asked everyone in the crowd to shout out one word for a positive quality the deceased had —

— followed by the silence of about a hundred people trying to come up with a polite synonym for “pig-headed”

Fancy gouda cheese from Denmark

Husband bought me a gift 🥰

An image split in half, titled “sketch vs final”. On the left: a sketch so rough its funny. On the right, the final comic panel, in which the character is being threatened by a sword and has his hands up

Okay but could AI do *this*?

#art #humanart #sketchvsfinal #webcomic #cartoonistcoop #comiccoop

Facing My Daemons

I hate AI. Nearly 3 years ago when AI came out, I was scheduled to do a book cover for a major author, and they canceled with me and I checked their page and they had AI that they were using prompted in my style. I broke down in a parking lot in tears.

That’s a GREAT cover!

A cropped part of an illustration (lineart). Showing a woman with long hair and a medieval dress holding the face of a guy with deer antlers.

In-progress redraw, showing her head and torso, as well as part of his face. Her head is slightly bigger in general but her skull is smaller compared to her face. Her ribcage is also thicker.

Proportions on the original were off, and also I’d used the wrong brush…

#sketch #bookcover #art

Also let’s not glorify putting even more of the crucial work of book marketing on the UNPAID shoulders of every random individual with a social media account. The grind isn’t cute and it isn’t funny and the industry already depends way too much on it.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

I’m not done reading Thyme Travellers but so far it is very good!

I tried to follow you because of this post but it turns out I’m already following you lol

I am also overthinking textiles.

You 🤝 me

Big day for the most annoying people I know

"You need a LinkedIn account---"
No.

hare linoprint

plague doctor linoprint

hill/sun linoprint, from Everything Will Swallow You

otters linoprint

My mum, Jo, did some really beautiful linoprints for the seven books I wrote for Unbound. She was never paid for any of them. In one book they even forgot to credit her for her work then, when I gently pointed this out, they sent her some flowers as an apology...

For the anthology currently open for submissions, we’re receiving queries about “do you mean this trope or that trope” & “would this compare to x,y,z movie genres”, & folks, that reads like people wanting help with ChatGPT prompts. We’re not gonna help with that.

We don’t want AI stories.

Like at this point even Worldcon’s slapdash “vetting process” would have been able to figure out that maybe that guy is bad news.

The fact that they apparently took pension money from employee paychecks but then it didn’t get deposited into the pension accounts *and nobody noticed* for several months like what the fuck. What the fuuuuuck.

Another red bird for #avianaugust 🔴

What gets me about the discourse re: inclusion of John Boyne in the finalists of the Polari prize is that many of us went “you mean, the guy from [controversy]?” But we all named a different controversy

hello sunshine, sunflowers, and horrible girls

my books* look so nice together

*my books that happened to be within in arm's reach

OCs Atlas and Wendy

Which is annoying as all get out, ngl, especially as often I have no idea what word tripped my muted list.

Yeah because often my muted words trigger on like, post #3 of a thread and that breaks the thread. Like, makes it look like OP stopped writing there, no visual indication that there’s more, unless I click on “show hidden comments” and then it shows the next post in the thread w/ the warning on it

During a live broadcast of Big Brother in Israel, members of Standing Together rush the stage wearing “Leave Gaza” shirts and calling for an end to the genocide and against Netanyahu’s plan for permanent occupation.

Omg that cover. I wanna touch iiiiit

What's it like posting to Bluesky.

Another instance of Bluesky labelling something that doesn’t need to be… 😒 Belly dancing is gorgeous and expressive and it’s ART, not something to be hidden away from the eyes of kids.

That sentence is up there with “Tumblr will become the new PDF” in terms of absolute word salad someone’s managed to sell to a CEO

Fuck this AI shit

It’s unprofitable dogshit that doesn’t work, nobody wants, and makes everything actively worse??? But I’m not an Economist so what do I know