Aven Tourtillot

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

Friendly reminder that when folks say that you "have" to follow specific writing advice, you do not, in fact, have to.

What they are sharing is what works for them, and while it might be useful, there is no one way to get your writing out into the world. Do what works for you.

#WritingCommunity

@hankgreen.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social the first lines of Smash Mouth's All-Star, turned into an illuminated manuscript with my original conlang and writing system. Hope you like it. #nerdfighter #nerdfighteria #crafts #conlang

Ok so I started a Wattpad . . .
most of the other content on there isn't super in my wheelhouse but the UI works for my brain and I can post my writing as much as I want so 👍
www.wattpad.com/user/AvenTou...

Just got my two current WIPs to 10k and 12k words, respectively, and I am honestly kinda proud of myself for sticking with it. Wishing y'all on here the best luck with your own WIPs!!!

Same! I thought I was the only one who did that!

cream & sugar pot knights

Sure, that's fine, you can have my soul. I can probably grow another one.

Drawings by Henry de la Beche in his personal journal, of ships in Lyme and fossil fish remnants. He was the first director of the Geological Survey and the first President of the Palaeontographical Society. Also, an artist, caricaturist and close friend to Mary Anning.

‘I popped your post into ChatGPT for links’

And I banned you on sight. Funny how that works, aye?

DO NOT PUT SOMEONE’S STUFF INTO THAT WITHOUT PERMISSION OH MY GOSH

Gonna be the first in a trilogy if I ever get the damn thing done lol 😅

Basically I put Firefly, Supernatural and the Nimona movie in a blender and sprinkled in some of my own humor, world building, and trauma to taste.

Between The Stars is a chaotically queer space adventure exploring reworked Christian mythology, the healing of parentified sibling relationships, and humans as a marginalized group in an intergalactic society.

Ok screw it, I'm gonna do some shameless self promo on my current WIP. Thread below 👇

#writing #scifi #fantasy #sciencefantasy #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq+ #spn #supernatural #mythology

You know what I really love about K-pop Demon Hunters? It shows Disney their model isn’t working. Let your creatives be creative, let them make things that resonate with them, because AI isn’t going to make something like this.

It's fine if you aren't in the space to read cozy/dark/depressing/hopeful/whatever right now. Take care of your health as a reader! However, writers are still allowed to write what their heart tells them to write. We need ALL kinds of stories right now!

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

This! Seeing others be happy has helped keep me going in recent months.

these violent nights by rebecca crunden kindle cover; image shows a neon city with four black figures, two men and two women; there's a moon in the background around the text.

👾 futuristic world
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📚 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine (m/f and m/m)
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships

🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

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You are not more likely to be killed by a coconut than a shark. This is a statistical error.

Coconuts Georg, who lives under a coconut tree and is killed by 10,000 coconuts a year is an outlier and should not have been counted.

I need all my electronics to realize that if I type or write something, they correct it, and I change it BACK, I probably want it that way.

🌈HAPPY PRIDE AND 🍰HAPPY (early) BIRTHDAY TO ME!

👋I'm tsu, a queer Chinese American with a love for original character design!

🍊Would love if folks could give a lil share or leave a lil comment as an itty bitty bday gift 🎁👉👈

Ppl will be like “how can we explain queer stuff to kids?” And I wanna know how you explain straight ppl to…anyone? “Yeah so they aren’t…ok they seem to only be attracted to one set gender? I guess? No I know! Seems fake! But they tell me it’s true.” The Straights - How do they work?

Nietzsche: “If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.”

2025: “What kind of nerd only /gazes/ into the abyss?? You gotta put your whole body in there.”

Okay, she says she "Super Duper Mega Ultra Looper Loves It!!!!"

Brb, gotta show this to my 6 year old who's obsessed with Jigglypuff and Miku. It's super cool 😎

Gay Demons

Gay Demons 2 of 3

This month my patrons voted on the theme Gay Demons

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Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.