Reading

• How Many More Times by HelloStarlingFics
• Expedient by gracerene

Writing

Still working on the fuck or die that distracted me from Seventeen Months.

I entirely handwrote chapter 2 and now I have to find the motivation to transcribe it.

Handwriting is a completely different experience to writing directly on the computer. There's a lot less second guessing and far far more 'vomit it out and fix it later', which is a good thing actually.

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Desperation is 10 years old. Like, I have older fic, but I never really noticed when milestones came and went. I feel like I should do something but I'm not sure what.

Watching

Woops I devoured season 6 of Outlander in two nights and now I have nothing to watch 😭

Fandom

@pearwaldorf writes about AI fic...

We knew that ChatGPT had scraped AO3 but this TIME article is the first confirmation from a news organization I know of that has explicitly confirmed a fic was used in training.

...and also implores fans to update their blanket statements after a podficcer was discovered to be monetizing the work of other fans without explicit permission.

Social Media

I have far too many fediverse accounts, but I went and made a new one on Takahē. It's still in development, but it looks especially promising because it allows you to have multiple (and entirely separate) identities with just one account.

I haven't seen that kind of function on the fediverse since Hubzilla, and off the fediverse on Fanexus.

It could be rather attractive to fandom, because we often do have different identities for different fandoms, or for different tropes or pairings, or just for separating our 'wholesome' and NSFW fanworks.

The Open Web

Zonelets is a nifty tool that can make a blog out of your static Neocities (or whatever) site.

Zonelets is a simple, free blogging engine for everyone! Plenty of services can help you to “create a professional-looking website without writing a single line of code.” Now, thanks to Zonelets, you can create an UNPROFESSIONAL-looking website by writing NUMEROUS lines of code!

I dunno, that sounds kind of awesome to me.

Website Updates

Yet another complete redesign, because I'm never happy 🙄