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Sunny. 36. Author of many stories, short and long - debut short fiction collection is Singing With All my Skin and Bone, available wherever fine books are sold (only fine books, you can't get it from those places with crappy books). Fanfic-wise, author of I'll Be Yours For a Song, Howl, The Good Stars, When It's Right It'll Find You, the Pacify series, Everything Where it Belongs, and Safe Up Here With You, among a lot of other stuff. Non-binary: they/them.

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November 17, 2020

I’m back.

Cautiously, for now.

I still feel profound antipathy toward this hellsite and everything it stands for, but I’m also feeling a need for social media platform affordances that Twitter doesn’t provide, and as much as I wish me and Pillowfort had worked out, we do not appear to have done. So yeah. I’m here more actively again, at least in some capacity. I’m still figuring that out. I’m still figuring out what this is all for.

For now the inbox is staying closed. I may at some point start inching it open. I do not want to let this place start damaging my state of mind again, and the degree to which I feel like I have control over my space is going to be the biggest part of that.

So yeah, wow. This year. In brief and in no particular order, assorted personal and professional updates:

I’m still writing Bethyl although much more slowly, and I’m mostly focusing on The Good Stars. The Keep Singing podcast is happening only sporadically but I refuse to give it up. Related:
Howl is going to come back at some point. Not sure when, but it’s still occupying my brain, and in fact it’s lately been tugging at me a bit more, in significant part because:
I appear to have become a Christian Druid and among other things am studying magic now, so that’s a whole thing.
Sort of by accident I finished one of the longest and weirdest and most fucked up pieces of fanfic I have ever written. Yes, waaaaaaay more fucked up than Everything Where it Belongs.
I didn’t write any books this year but my agent and I did manage to get one out on submission.
I got a short story about quantum mechanics and academic essays and existential crises published.
I got a short story about love and lust and loneliness during a pandemic published.
I got a short story about love and parenting and hope during a pandemic published.
I got to be part of a truly fantastic team of writers in creating season one of a horror-noir series about a queer Afro-Latina gumshoe WWI veteran who can see creeping fascism in the form of eldritch horrors destroying NYC.
I’m in the uncomfortable and annoying position of having a number of projects I can almost talk about but not yet because things are not in a sufficient state of officialness.
I’ve been in almost total lockdown, except for walks in the woods, since March. So far I haven’t gotten sick, nor has anyone in my family. We’ll see if we can all make it to Vaccine Day.
I actually take that back: I got quite sick, just not with COVID. Finally identified the mouth ailment that’s been plaguing (ha) me for four years. It is not candidiasis as I thought; turns out my immune system just thinks my tongue and cheeks are super sus. Anyway I’ve been soaking it in dexamethasone and I’m getting better. There’s no cure but the symptoms can usually be managed.
Everything sucks and is weird but I’ve done a lot of chilling out about a lot of stuff and am just generally in a better place overall.
I miss y’all. Especially you.

9:49pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wZGIT5OSq00

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June 19, 2023

stars-bean:

Batman Returns (1992) dir. Tim Burton

(via bob-belcher)

6:07pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4we04DVLie00

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June 19, 2023

peachygos:

sic-semper-hominibus:
sic-semper-hominibus:
i’m not the praying sort, but i’ll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut’s prayer
for those who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a possibly-spurious quote by alan shepard (and is thus sometimes referred to as the shepard’s prayer) on the launchpad of Freedom 7, immediately before he became the first american in space. it goes like this:
“Dear Lord, please don’t let me fuck up.”
[Plain Text: “Dear Lord, please don’t let me fuck up.” /end Plain Text]

(via knitmeapony)

6:06pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4we04Cu78m00

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June 19, 2023

hyrude:

(via shrimpsisbugs)

6:04pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4we04BBHaa00

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May 20, 2023

cal-kestis:

ANDOR
Episode 6: The Eye

1:30pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsMHCg8m00

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May 20, 2023

sweatermuppet:

vintage lgbt pins from the arquives: canada’s lgbtq2+ archives

(via bob-belcher)

1:28pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsMFh2GW00

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May 20, 2023

albius-mcloacch:

90377:
Bog Trail by Shane Garlock
Maybe I need to walk down the submerged bog trail and I’ll calm down

(via lunacyskin)

1:28pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsMFLkGu00

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May 20, 2023

aqueerkettleofish:

caustic-light:
mostly-funnytwittertweets:
Not me, I am pirating It’s a Wonderul Life image by image by having absolutely frame perfect pausing skills.
A lot of effort for a work in the public domain, but I respect the hustle.

(via knitmeapony)

1:27pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsMEbpCq00

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Filed under: always reblog

May 20, 2023

fatsexybitch:

salviapulchra:
vrabia:
vrabia:
absolutely batshit insane to me that omegaverse porn is an effective data poisoning method against gpt-based products. predatory language models getting tripped up by wolf dick was not on my 2023 bingo card but here we are i guess.
i want us all to take a minute and just. contemplate the possibilities.
I am concerned with the implication that an ai is somehow “poisoned” or tainted because it knows about porn while also being intended for non-porn uses.
Yes, it’s funny, and yes, ai models shouldn’t be trained haphazardly on other people’s writing without permission, but the whole thing reeks of purity culture.
Like, there are plenty of actual human beings who read/write smut while also working in customer service, or HR, or journalism, and much like large language models, those people don’t just bring up porn tropes unprompted.
One can argue that without safeguards and true understanding of the topic it would be easier for an ai to trip up and respond inappropriately, but it looks like GPT-3 needs a fair amount of context - it’s only explaining Omegaverse concepts to people who already know enough to ask.
I had written a bunch more about the fallibility of humans in accidentally referencing smut in inappropriate contexts but that’s beside the point. The notion that LLMs (which are here to stay, like it or not) are unacceptable unless sterilized of sexual content really rubs me the wrong way, and it should concern you too.
In this context data poisoning is a cybersecurity term which refers to reducing the commercial value for a LLM; it’s not a moral judgment on the part of the attackers, but on the part of the capitalists.

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May 20, 2023

daemonhxckergrrl:

arsonforcharlie:
egg-tats:
arsonforcharlie:
depsidase:
policymakers: the concern here is that people might want to continue to afford to eat, unreasonable
what if the worst came to pass and the crabs noticed the water temperature was raising?
the fact that the things people need to buy are getting more expensive is exaggerating perceptions of overall price increases, but if you look at this money line i drew that includes things people don’t need to buy, you’ll see it’s actually not that bad so people shouldn’t push to be able to afford the things they need to live. stop exaggerating by saying things are worse than the arbitrary line says they are
“exaggerating perceptions” some of my staple groceries have doubled in the last 18 months.
DOUBLED.
when you’re buying the cheaper brand stuff, a small increase of however much ends up being a much bigger % increase than on an equivalent more expensive item.

(via ysabelfaerie)

1:25pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsMD3sSW00

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May 20, 2023

wifegideonnav:

two very good fictional relationship dynamics:
1. i would find you and love you in every universe. our love is inevitable and transcends reality as we understand it
2. this is the only universe where the dominos fell exactly right so that we could fall in love. we have something unique and we have overcome so much to get here

(via ericsariels)

1:24pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsMCD7me00

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May 20, 2023

cryptotheism:

radiofreederry:
?
Oh he’s goin through it

Concerning.

(via lunacyskin)

12:00am | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsAhoaOm00

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May 19, 2023

stormesandshowers:

boag:
hisprettylittlefears:
berserklrina:
If queer people are under some sort of delusion that straight people are going to cease to exist and the whole world is going to be gay I’m here to remind you your total-world-domination plan didn’t work. It didn’t work back then. It’s not going to work now. And now we’re ahead of you. It’s never going to work. Not in my house and not in my family. My apologies to your *fEeLiNgS*.
Girl what the fuck are you talking about
Reblog to have straight people cease to exist and the entire world become gay

(via lunacyskin)

11:59pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsAhFtOm00

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May 19, 2023

vague-humanoid:

ALT
Megan Hunt doesn’t want to be your Democratic hero. She just wants to protect her trans son. | Semafor
The iconoclastic state legislator spent three months filibustering a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors. She talked to Semafor abo
semafor.com

(via ysabelfaerie)

11:56pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsAdv0Si00

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May 19, 2023

eldritchhbagel:

pocket-deer-boy:
pocket-deer-boy:
No kink at pride is so funny cause what is and isn’t considered kink is inherently ambiguous and based on a power structure of who gets to be considered normal in society. And here you are enforcing it, siding with it.
Like how it’s considered a kink to be into fat people and fat bodies are considered fetishistic in any sexual context but toned, skinny bodies are just for normal people? Yeah.
Like how it’s considered a kink to have sex with disabled people? Yeah.

(via ysabelfaerie)

11:54pm | URL: https://tmblr.co/Zj8f4wdsAckwme00

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May 16, 2023

fuckyeahgoodomens:

Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)
Neil Gaiman: Hi, I’m Neil Gaiman. I’m wearing the first red T-shirt I’ve worn since 1987. Because I’m a member of the WGA. I’m on strike. I care so much for the things that I’ve written but I’m out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.

(via neil-gaiman)

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