An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
A couple times in my life, I’ve had men say to me that they wondered whether I cared about anyone else at all. And it’s such a deeply weird thing to say to someone. Who doesn’t care about anyone else at all?
In retrospect, I guess I kinda have to wonder if they were projecting.
It’s a pretty big red flag. I don’t really see a friendship coming back from that.
Gravity continues to be the hardest thing for me to remember to mention in my sci-fi…
As such, I’m going back and adding references to and description of the low gravity on the back of the world turtle in earlier chapters of this Tri-Galactic Trek novel that’s almost done.
I’ve heard the line, “Amateurs borrow, professionals steal,” since I was a kid. It looks like it’s a permutation of something Picasso said.
I don’t know how so many artist/writer/creator/whatever communities have drifted so far away from that. Continue reading “Just Block Me”
The advances in AI these last few years have been truly magical, the absolute best thing that have happened during my lifetime.
For this piece, I experimented with pasting the whole damn story into ChatGPT & asking it to come up with an illustration. It took a lot of editing to fix it up right, but DALLE3 captured the heart of the story on its first try! And it complimented my world-building! So, win-win. Continue reading “Illustrating “Summers on Sylverra””
I read a beautiful post on Twitter about outgrowing social groups that used a repeated refrain about those groups each having a hierarchy and a ceiling. So, I used Suno AI to make this short song inspired by it.
Oh my goodness, Genie (2023) is such a gift!!!
Starring Melissa McCarthy + written by Richard Curtis = guaranteed excellence.
It’s kinda frustrating that the way AI-extremism has fractured communities means I’m now more likely to hang out with people who share my philosophy about what tools are okay than my aesthetic about what art to make with those tools.
Still I’m so very grateful for those people.
I’ve long held that Yoda is actually a frog/fennec fox hybrid. So this is basically his origin story.
Number of episodes for each successive Doctor to win me over after Eccleston…
Tennant: 1
Smith: 4
Capaldi: 30
Whittaker: <1
Gatwa: <1 Continue reading “The Doctors Who”
I see I’ve lost one more human connection I enjoyed due to the fact that I won’t be quiet about my beliefs about AI being a positive thing.
I love what’s happening with AI this year. But it has been painful seeing how fast people will throw me away over their hate for it. Continue reading “Loss and Gain”
