The Little lost fairy

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

The Message is of course my favorite but I have to give a shoutout to this track

Eridians are apex predators on their planet and Grace is technically being hunted by Rocky in this scene. The music and choice of instruments really evoke images of a big rock spider stalking and chasing its prey, but because Rocky isn’t actually trying to hurt Grace it has a playful edge.

New Sticker design! Featuring my Marigold Dragon declaring WAR to all English sterile lawns >:D LET WILDLIFE THRIVE! Plant native plants and flowers! ✨🌱🌿🌳🌻🌼🌷💐🐛🦋🐞

I'll be selling this one on Polaris later this year! After the convention in October, I'll update this post and put the design up for order on my Redbubble shop :)

If not would this be something you could do in the future?

Patches? :o Those you can sew onto something? No, I don't! I don't think I've even seen it much as an item on conventions, I wouldn't even know where or how to produce them...

But I'll have a lot of new sticker designs at the next convention! :) All produced and cut by hand at home 😂 Before that I mainly sold prints, postcards and buttons at my booth, I'm excited to finally have stickers and my custom trading cards "Herds of Epona" to offer at Polaris:

My friend has a plotter we used at first, but unfortunately it doesn't work properly, so now I'm cutting the stickers by hand since a good plotter is quite expensive and my workplace is already cramped enough, so I wouldn't even know where to place that thing :'D but crafting merch by hand has been a lot of fun too!

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Mom said it's my turn with the communal twenty bucks

The request is so urgent my boss needs it by the end of the work week. Which, y'know, is 5 PM on a Friday. So I have four hours to do it.

It's a forwarded request. Somebody contacted a member of the donation team asking for help, "I need a map from the Vietnam War to use for a presentation." It's somebody she's trying to coax into giving a five figure donation to the museum.

The request was asked to the donation team member, who then emailed my boss, who then emailed and called me urgently.

This map required:

North and South Vietnam in it

All four areas that South Vietnam was divided into for military purposes ('Corps') clearly delineated

Four cities, all of them horrifically misspelled, and only identifiable because I know what battle the requester is asking about (it’s in III Corps on the border with Cambodia) (the requester danced around the battle but I’m knowledgeable enough to identify it)

Has Laos and Cambodia in it

Has the Ho Chi Minh Trail in it

So. I was mad about the 'you have literally four hours to find a map with a lot of requirements.'

I was then mad at myself about finding a copyright free map from Texas Tech University within half an hour, proving her right for asking me to do it.

Then, after I found a map that perfectly met the requirements, I was equally amazed, baffled, and horrified when I read further into the forwarded email chain.

The donation team team member they were speaking to used AI to generate a map.

The above put half of North Vietnam in South Vietnam, made the Ho Chi Minh Trail a country, made 60% of Cambodia part of South Vietnam, put the DMZ extremely high up in North Vietnam, completely disconnected the southern tip of Vietnam, misplaced all of the Corps zones, etc etc

At the very last second the donation team member had a moment of divine clarity, remembering there's three historians on payroll to ask for this kind of thing from. So she contacted my boss while saying, "I had fun with this, but I decided I should check for accuracy before I send it to the donor! I need a fact check by the end of the day, then I send it"

My boss, while not the most knowledgeable on the Vietnam War, does know her geography. She took one look, and knew it was so off she called me to tell me how urgent it is that I look at the email and respond

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.