An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I will always love the song Feliz Navidad, because it will always sound like Big Bird ice skating to me.
This thought brought to you by the new Pentatonix holiday special and, of course, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street which is the best and most important Christmas special ever. Continue reading “Pentatonix, Sesame Street, Roblox, and Squid Game”
I’m not worried about AI replacing me as a writer, because the reason I write is that no one in the world was writing the books I wanted, namely Otters In Space. If I wanted to read them, I had to write them myself.
Even with an AI helping, I’d still have to provide that idea. Continue reading “The Possibilities with AI”
Taking inspiration from other works is literally not plagiarism, and while one can argue about the artistic value of AI art, I have yet to see a single case of an artist being able to point at a specific work that is actually plagiarism.
You can’t and shouldn’t be able to own a style. People copy each others’ styles all the time. Continue reading “Stable Diffusion is a Hammer”
Spouse: *expounds on how Warcraft these days encourages you to only play in areas that aren’t so hard that you die*
Me, who has recently leveled up a mage for the first time: “You only play druids. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
When I was a kid, I thought “The Game” was such a silly episode of Star Trek; as I got older, it started to seem more like a really prescient satire.
My feelings about my story, “Viewers Like You,” has gone through a similar evolution, just since last summer. Continue reading “Thoughts on “Viewers Like You””
Time to start rewatching Stargate Universe!
The last time I watched this, the only other Stargate I’d seen was the very original movie. So this should be fun. Already, I’m very much enjoying the SG-1 cameos, which I’d been totally unaware of before. Continue reading “Looping Through Stargate”
That feeling when you’re listening to a Beatles song you’ve known for decades with a lead vocal by John… and you suddenly realize, it doesn’t sound like John; it sounds like George.
So you look it up… and it’s Paul. Continue reading “Crossing Over from the Universe Where John Sang “Paperback Writer””
I’ve gotten so much joy from AI art over the last year.
But also some very real pain, because I’ve expressed my joy publicly. Maybe I could have been more measured, more cautious. The world has been telling me to temper my happiness my whole life. But that hurts too… Continue reading “Stray Sad Thoughts”
The universe gave me a present today — I discovered that Zooey Deschanel’s group, She & Him, has a Brian Wilson tribute album, and the choices of tracks are largely deep cuts that I also would have chosen. It’s absolutely perfect and beautiful.
The best part, perhaps, is that this album probably opens up the rest of She & Him’s music to me, much in the way that the TMBG kids albums made it possible for me to connect to them and Taylor Swift’s pandemic releases opened up all her earlier albums to me.
This is exciting!
I’m still struggling with the downbeat sadness of She & Him… but maybe if I give it another try on a different day I can manage to push past that and acclimate my brain to the sound more.
If I didn’t know myself that I wrote “The Dreaming Arm” several months before reading Animorphs #4, I would’ve sworn it had been inspired by them finding Ax under the ocean.
Anyway, check out my all new, just released today flash fiction, The Dreaming Arm! Continue reading “Thoughts on “The Dreaming Arm” and Animorphs #4″