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My local writing group has strict rules about how we critique the story, not the author.

Nonetheless, when I put “Anger is a Porcupine, Sadness is a Fish” through, the then-leader decided it was about her & I was subjected to several senior-most members—people I thought of as friends—picking apart every aspect of my feelings & intentions. It was humiliating, heartbreaking, and my trust in the group never really recovered.

Honestly, I’m still kind of broken up and angry about how I was treated over it to this day.

My sleeping brain, apparently, can’t tell Topher Grace and Noah from the Scream series apart, so it tried to do a Home Economics dream last night… got as far as Topher Grace, thought, “oh, he always hangs out with Audrey,” added her character in, continued trying to write a sitcom dream, but kept adding in characters from Scream until the killer showed up, at which point my brain was like, “this one is clearly a secret murderer!” and the whole dream snowballed into a Scream-style murder mystery.

I looked for a book about a kitten who would come running “hurry, scurry, worry” that I remembered from my childhood for yeeeeeears before a kind commenter on Twitter, responding to a post from seven months ago, helped me find it. ❤️

I’m so happy to be able to read this book again!!!

When the 15-year-old was little, we entertained them sometimes by giving them imaginary ponies. We’d describe a pony, and their imagination is so strong, it was like a real gift.

Lately, I’ve been rewarding them for doing difficult schoolwork with ponies drawn by Midjourney…

Continue reading “Pony Rewards”

This is my favorite example so far of an AI trying to write text while I was working with it.

The cat ghost looks so hopeful and maybe a little pleased with itself, like it hopes you’re proud of how well it tried to spell “ghost.”

I… accidentally made my dragon a Horde character and didn’t notice until I got to Orgrimmar…

*sobs*

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Well, I briefly had nine max level characters in Warcraft… Continue reading “Evoker, Take Two”

I’m helping my kid work on schoolwork today instead of making a dragon character in World of Warcraft, and I keep feeling this irrational fear that if I don’t hurry, somehow all the new dragon characters will get taken.

We got sushi takeout, and my elderly cat—who has grown accustomed to sharing a little of the salmon with me—got overly pushy and stepped in the soy sauce.

So I gave her a whole lecture about how she had GONE TOO FAR and cats who step in the soy sauce don’t get any salmon…

And then I gave her some salmon.

I now have eight max level characters in World of Warcraft!

With multiple weeks, probably, before the max level goes up!

This is clearly a very important accomplishment. Oh, they’re all different classes. I’m gonna have a lot of leveling to do when the expansion comes out to maintain this…

It came up that the younger child didn’t remember the Square One song about Roman numerals, so even though it’s way past bedtime, everything had to stop until they’d seen “The Mathematics of Love,” “Anti-Hero,” and “Nine, Nine, Nine.”

Square One may have been the best show ever made.