Lauren Brian @lbrianwrites@computerfairi.es
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
And here begins 2 weeks of no acid reducer pills. I started it with fudge and Alka-Seltzer. I'm so screwed.
Look at me, being genre savvy. I am NOT investigating the loud, insistent beeping that's coming from the unused corner of the breakroom where the holiday decorations are stored.
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From a live tweet of the proceedings around the lawyer caught using ChatGPT:
"I thought ChatGPT was a search engine".
It is NOT a search engine. Nor, by the way are the version of it included in Bing or Google's Bard.
Language model-driven chatbots are not suitable for information access.
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#WritingTheOtherResources Video: Who's Consuming Whom?
Award-winning authors and editors Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, and Michi Trota dig into the dynamics behind cultural appropriation in speculative fiction and publishing. In this discussion they touch on colonialism, consumption, and how it all relates to writing the "Other".
#WritingCommunity #WritingCraft #WritingSkills #WritingTheOther #writing #BIPOC
Technically, one of the major authors would be a lesser queer too, by the ex's reckoning, but part of being an abusive ex is being charismatic when the inferiors have something you want. I want to warn them, but I know they wouldn't listen. I wouldn't have listened.
Maybe they are good mainstream, gatekeeper gay and lesbian rep, I wouldn't know. They made very clear I am improperly queer, and as one of the improper, lesser queers my place was serving the real queers and being grateful for being let in at all.
And there's my abusive ex getting boosted by not one but two major authors, and claiming all the while to be good queer rep. Why does it still hurt so much?
Today I learned what an artfight is. I will have to figure out how to participate when I have no OCs and can't draw (and am old. I am very much feeling like an Old).
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Join @writingtheother for Crafting Diverse Relationships: Family & Friends, Lovers & Life Partners, a class for diving into the heart of character relationship development no matter your genre.
Piper J. Drake, Lauren Jankowski, and Jae Koyanagi will explore the richness of family bonds, lifelong partnerships, and the friendships that shape unforgettable narratives.
#WritingTheOther #WritingCommunity #DiverseRelationships #CharacterDevelopment
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Even if you don't read court opinions this preliminary injunction overruling FLs stupid ban on gender affirming care for minors is worth a read.
"The elephant in the room should be noted at the outset. Gender identity is real."
"Any proponent of the challenged statute and rules should put up or shut up... Dog whistles ought not be tolerated."
"If ever a pot called a kettle black, it is here. The statute and the rules were an exercise in politics, not good medicine."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.460963/gov.uscourts.flnd.460963.90.0_1.pdf
Babel-17 is the kind of balls-to-the-wall, explain nothing wildness I would love to be able to get close to writing someday.
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Day 1 of 30 Days of #QueerBooks:
REFUSING COMPULSORY SEXUALITY: A BLACK ASEXUAL LENS ON OUR SEX-OBSESSED CULTURE by Sherronda J. Brown
Thorough, insightful, and honestly life-changing. This book comes from a #queer, #asexual perspective with clear analyses of what we consider "normal" amounts of sex and formulations of romance, and why, and how that's enforced by straight culture.
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30 Days of #QueerBooks
Day 2: BABEL-17 by Samuel Delany
Hugo Award winner in 1967 and deserved it. Enthusiastic, energetic, and joyfully imaginative, it takes #linguistics ideas Delany clearly thoight were So Cool and absolutely runs with them.
Captain Rydra Wong is #bisexual, #polyamorous, Asian, autistic, and the greatest and most famous linguist, poet, and codebreaker in the galaxy. And she’s great I love her.
(also all starship pilots are 10-foot-tall furries)
Well, that was a disappointing novel. Free-on-amazon, so it's not like I had high standards. You advertise Sci-fi vampire shifter romance (explicitly! Those words!) on the cover and deliver whiny steam-flavored Omegaverse fantasy that is *really* (but not effectively or interestingly) struggling with the noncon inherent in that setup, and yup. That's a disappointment!
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“There’s no clever handling of the system, no scrying out of loopholes, no incisive interpretation of the law. There’s just ignoring it and daring someone to do something about it. SCOTUS’s new motto is basically Lol What Are You Gonna Do About It? in Latin.”
@catvalente on American fascism: https://open.substack.com/pub/catvalente/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-smart-fascist?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Read an article today about why Americans think alcohol has health benefits and it's apparently another "well the French are healthy and they do X so it's healthy to do X."
So here's your periodic reminder that France (and Italy, and Sweden, and Japan, and basically every country you've seen in a "this country is so healthy, what's their secret?" headline) has universal health care.
The secret is access to health care. It's always access to health care.
The long bones in my legs ache. I really dislike this feeling.
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Join us for Crafting Diverse Relationships: Family & Friends, Lovers & Life Partners, a class for diving into the heart of character relationship development no matter your genre.
Authors Piper J. Drake, Lauren Jankowski, and Jae Koyanagi will explore the richness of family bonds, lifelong partnerships, and the friendships that shape unforgettable narratives.
#WritingClass #WritingCraft #RepresentationMatters #LoveHierarchy #RelationshipArcs
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I acquired (with help) a killer audio cassette digitizing rig, and then IMMEDIATELY had to spend over 2 months digitizing 90+ cassettes from the 1999 Game Developers Conference (via a slow-and-steady workflow that got the job done without being too disruptive to any other work I was doing).
So, here we are, it's done. Go enjoy 70+ hours of presentations about all aspects of game making and producing, in 1999.
https://archive.org/details/1999_Game_Developers_Conference_Audio
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
