rosegoldthorns

I think the reason writers are so weird about their wips is because explaining a story before it's done is like showing someone a dream. it made total sense five seconds ago. it was vivid and real and it meant something. now you're saying the words out loud and watching the other person's face and the whole thing is just. evaporating. "it's about a woman who...okay there's also a house..." and the dream is gone. you killed it by looking at it. don't tell anyone about your wip.

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

This was my actual favorite part of working in a theater. People would come in and use a string of words no human had ever uttered and I’d have to be like “ohhhhkay let’s parse this out.”

Don’t… Don’t movie theaters have…the names of the movies… Right… There?

Ah, see, the problem here is that you’re making the common mistake of assuming people bother to read anything. At all. At any given point. When in the presence of customer service worker.

I love characters who seem really arrogant but then are actually That Good

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

I work at a library and we have 2 displays in the front lobby by the main desk. One is best sellers that gets changed out every month or so, and the other is recently returned items, where we literally just pull books off of the temp shelves behind the desk that were returned recently but not reshelved in their regular sections yet. Both displays are 100% human selected. I had someone come in the other day, look at the displays and ask me if they were AI generated. I admit, I short-circuted for a second before saying, "N...no. They were all picked out by people who work here."