Chelsea B. (Chisuto)

To fix her people's poor reputation, Lux must stay ahead of the queen's army and free the sealed gods. If she succeeds, the gods will calm the recent wave of natural disasters, but if she fails, she'll be labeled a traitor, and the hatred towards her kin will turn deadly.

#YA #F #BVM #WOC #DVPit

1) Free the supposedly evil gods—they can stop the recent natural disasters! (✅)

2) Avoid the army that will kill her to keep the gods sealed. (In progress.)

3) Convince the gods not to kill the queen for sealing them. (Easier said than done.)

4) ???

5) Try not to die!

#YA #F #BVM #WOC #DVPit

LITTLE THIEVES x A DANCE OF LIES

18yo Lux’s path was fixed when the gods-touched mark bloomed: she must free the "evil," sealed gods and return the power the queen stole. If she fails her quest, the queen will use her actions as justification to eradicate her people.

#YA #F #BVM #WOC #DVPit

Lux is gods-touched and hated for it—the "evil," sealed gods caused the recent wave of disasters, after all. But Lux thinks the gods are the cure. Now, she must unseal them so they can fix the damage before the queen, the true culprit, kills Lux to keep her stolen power.

#YA #F #BVM #WOC #DVPit

When the queen banished the gods for causing natural disasters, the gods-touched, like Lux, were shunned.

But Lux believes her gods were framed. To prove this, she must free them before the queen escalates the hatred and claims the only good gods-touched is a dead one.

#YA #F #BVM #WOC #DVPit

LITTLE THIEVES x A DANCE OF LIES

The gods want Lux to free them and return their power.
The queen wants to kill her to keep her stolen power and save her people.

Lux is sick of people deciding her future. Gods and royals, step aside—*she's* in charge of her destiny.

#YA #F #BVM #WOC #DVPit

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.

i aspire to be jeff the land shark
that is all

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It was nice knowing you 😂 (GOOD LUCK! ❤️)

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To the people who didn’t ask, Flute Guy is the best part of The Game Awards, hands down. 🪈

have you attempted Nutella hot chocolate 👀

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Is it even possible to forget???? 😂

…uh oh
y’all… remember me as I was

Feels on brand (as the founder of Melanin in YA) to make a starter pack for Traditionally Published Black YA Authors & Black Publishing Pros (Lit Agents, Editors, etc...) in the YA space. I'll be adding to it constantly as more people join the app.

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PSA Everyone who uses Canva: they have opted you in to training AI, you will need to get into your privacy settings to stop these assholes scraping your stuff.
#WritingCommunity

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...Sounds like double Thanksgiving is in your future???

Hellooooooo!!!! 👋🏽💕

Hi Bluesky! I’m Orlando, a Mexican-American author of my first children’s book, The Last Tamale. It tells the story of three kids who compete in a hilarious battle for the last tamale during their family’s tamalada. Excited to be here 💙 #kidlit #childrensbook #latinxauthor @harperkids.bsky.social

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Well, this is awkward 😬

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ICYMI, here's a searchable directory of Starter Packs... Back about a week ago there were under 5k. Now there are well over 15k Starter Packs to choose from!

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