no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can
'why are actors striking aren't they all millionaires' here's a paywall free link to an article that mentions how most of the cast of one of netflix's biggest shows had day jobs bc they couldn't afford rent
Netflix blows
Pokémon TCG Neo Southern Islands illustrations by Keiko Fukuyama 😍
Much can be said about the babygirlification of middle age internet men but im kinda obsessed with how this pic of Jerma985 is giving 'idol anime/gacha waifu christmas promotional card'
an-oxford-comma-forever
You ever read something and realize you're thankful you understand none of the references to what was said
These gen z's have stunted lil babybrains
You ever wonder if god died and we killed Him, then who could be that sits at His Throne during these times we live in
^This user was swallowed whole by the endless maw of The Usurper God
the evil is defeated
Downloading guys off google Images and rubbing their tum-tum's is so relaxing and wholesome 🥺
reposting a favorite reddit moment of mine since god knows if ill ever see it again
Much can be said about the babygirlification of middle age internet men but im kinda obsessed with how this pic of Jerma985 is giving 'idol anime/gacha waifu christmas promotional card'
an-oxford-comma-forever
You ever read something and realize you're thankful you understand none of the references to what was said
These gen z's have stunted lil babybrains
silence fool i will smite you
red, yellow and blue
my favorite work memory from this store will always be “hey remember when the subway inside the store closed down and they let me take a bunch of their shit for free and now it lives inside my house?”
my life is a joke
Wow Tor really straight up released Christopher Paolini (Eragon author)'s new book without even hiding the blatant AI noodle arms on the cover. Disgraceful.
A bit more context for anyone that's new to this: Paolini is vocally against ai art. Unfortunately (by which I mean I am side eyeing the hell out of Tor right now) the publisher used a stock photo from what they called a reputable source (and did not credit the visual designer that tweaked it etc) (this is, to my understanding, a hell of a break in Tor's usual practice regarding cover artists)(open any other book published through Tor and there's usually multiple layers of credit given to all artists and designers involved) without realizing (the threads and news sources I was seeing about the cover when it was first released were written back in december of last year) (yes, I would think SOMEONE would notice that the stock photo was in fact ai generated)(ESPECIALLY since it is so clearly fucky)(however, we've also had 5-6 months of developing our eyes to spot ai art since then)(so)(you know)(it MIGHT have been an honest mistake)("might")(i reserve any judgement atm)(concern i do not reserve at all)(but judgement i'll reserve) that the stock photo was, in fact, ai generated.
Despite Paolini's uhhh distaste for ai art, and the lash back from fans and other concerned parties, the production schedule was already far enough ahead that to redo all the contracts, printing, etc. would have pushed back publication by at least a year. And, since it sounds like Tor wasn't exactly enthusiastic about making any changes, I would assume (and by assume i do mean assume)(someone correct me on this, i do not have many in's into publishing) the cost of making those changes would have been 1. high, and 2. pushed onto Paolini, who is, like every other author out there, not making anywhere near as much money as you might think.
Tor's lack of credits for the cover and use of ai art is concerning. I did just *skim* through some articles/threads, but I didn't see any reason for the lack of credit given. Cover artists are important. The number of folks in the notes jumping to conclusions about the ethics of the author + the quality of his work is proof enough of that, albeit maybe in a nontraditional way. I cannot stress this enough: even if there were no possible moral quandaries with using an ai stock photo, the people involved in turning the stock photo into a cover should have been credited. Additionally, one of the things Paolini pointed out is that eventually, we will have ai good enough to mimic passable fiction writing. Not good enough to be ~A New Modern Classic~ or whatever, but Good Enough. Good Enough to make pulps, or popcorn novels, or other forms of "Commercial Lit". Good enough to need only as much editing as An Actual Human Author.
And to me, if Tor is willing to forego giving credit + push using an ai generated cover now to save on costs, then I've gotta wonder:
what are they going to do when we get to "good enough"?
I want to say as an author that the excuses Tor has given for not changing the cover are extremely flimsy. I was able to get my publisher to make changes to the Iron Widow paperback 3 months before publication. My other publisher recorded a completely new audiobook for Zachary Ying with an actual Mandarin speaker when I discovered after the audiobook’s release that the original voice actor who they assured me could handle the Mandarin parts was in fact Japanese and definitely could not handle Mandarin. None of this came at any cost to me. There’s so much Tor could do if they wanted to remedy this, and I know Paolini could’ve pushed them harder. He’s one of the biggest names in fantasy, not a midlister with no leverage. Even if the first print was too far gone to be changed, they could promise to do a new cover for future prints. But they didn’t. They just don’t care.
the gasp i gusped when i just opened one of my words with friends games
it would have been 69 points too this is a hate crime