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So my brothers film class did a music video (wherein one of the boys in his class sang a christmasy love song to another boy, which i'm shocked was let slide in such a conservative area...maybe people really are changing and getting more accepting?)

This post is about how my brain won't stop going lAAASST CHRIstmas i GAVE YOU MY HEAAAART
AND THE very next dAAAY
you gave it awaAAAAYY
tho.
 

Svrtnsse

Staff
Article Team
Writing is fascinating The outline for what I'm writing at the moment can be summed up as "generic smalltalk" and then one of the characters goes and says something that's going to have ramifications for the remainder of the story - if not the entire series. I love it when that happens.
 

Tom

Istar
Freshman art majors are possibly the most annoying people on earth (I should know because I was one). There's a group of them cackling like hyenas in the studio next door while I'm trying to work on my final project and it's getting....uggghhh.
 
Me reading about horrific monsters, people dying in revolting ways, nightmare-inducing body horror and creatures made of repurposed human body parts, all sorts of abominations, gore aplenty, parasites, the screams of damned souls: nice

Me reading about a kid getting bullied or a parent being emotionally abusive: mood ruined for a whole day, struggles to even keep reading at all, probably starts crying while doing something unrelated because i thought about the book,
 
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skip.knox

toujours gai, archie
Moderator
Found today. The illustration comes from Maurice Sendak.
openhouseforbutterflies18.jpg
 
Because you're just a poor person, nobody loves you, ally-oop, ally-oop?

And for another thought, unexpected things to be learned at the Ranger Institute (week long school for parks people like me). Storytelling. And the base of it being told from over the camp fires. Nice little learning tidbit.
 

Demesnedenoir

Myth Weaver
And I just noticed a first (as far as I know) for one of my books... it picked up an also bought on Amazon of a writer/member of this forum: Michael J. Sullivan!

That was kind of cool, even if he doesn't seem to have the time to post here often anymore. Success has a way of robbing folks of time.

That's my strange randomness for the day, LOL.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
For those of us based in the UK. This afternoon's Money Box is about the economics of being an author. It is a phone-in so if you have questions... and will be available to listen to for 28[?] days after broadcast.
 

Svrtnsse

Staff
Article Team
Ooooh Double posting!
If anyone wants an image to go with their character, then this pace may be of interest...
thispersondoesnotexist.com
All the images are made by an AI. So the person does not exist. Just reload the page to get a new image.
I find it strangely addictive...
Strangely addictive indeed, and a little bit scary.
Would have been cool to be able to "save" a person in order to be able to get different expressions and angles - but I guess at some point there might be a paid version for that...
(what, me cynic?)
 

Demesnedenoir

Myth Weaver
Actually, I could see this opening a short story... somebody looking at pictures of people who don’t exist, and their photo shows up, heh heh. Maybe that’s why itsaddictive, waiting to see if you are the one who pops up next.

Ooooh Double posting!
If anyone wants an image to go with their character, then this pace may be of interest...
thispersondoesnotexist.com
All the images are made by an AI. So the person does not exist. Just reload the page to get a new image.
I find it strangely addictive...
 
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