Ph.D. in literary and cultural studies, professor, diviner, writer, trans, nonbinary.
Specialty in 19th/20th century transatlantic gothic and speculative fiction.
Tarot, literature, video games, occasional calligraphy, yoyos
They/them
The Captivity of Melkor and the Coming of the Elves. Brief comments on the perennial Orc Question as well as some links to other fine folks.
Of Aulë and Yavanna, or the Paracelsan spirits responsible for... ents
these are cats up for adoption at a connecticut animal shelter that's joined #artfight because they're hoping to get social media attention for some of their long term cases especially. which is incredibly sweet.
"center of attention" is Egg Roll, who has a liver condition but is very polite about taking his medicine, "golden years" is Garth, who is an eleven year old sweetheart with no teeth, and "survivor" is Google, who lost his eye to a very rough case of feline parvo but pulled through.
Movies I watched in June, featuring Clue and Night Moves and... that's it really. But also featuring a short rant about how to try to pay attention to the artifice of film, pushing against that natural tendency we have to think of them as "real"
If you're on mastodon.social, you might want to move your account to a different server:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server
The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier.
Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing.
Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.
I'm taking the plunge and putting my fiction online after years of the cop in my head telling me that it ruins your chances of ever getting "really published." Fuck that shit!
Read my story for 3 bucks! That's cheap!
https://gconleymagicart.itch.io/there-are-missals-everywhere
It's queer and trans -- cyberpunk -- fantasy -- and postmodern ennui. It's 4k words. I wanted to hustle this out for Pride month! I'd love if you read it, and even if you can't swing the 3 bucks, repost so other folks can find it 🥺
The fact that someone thought a gpt would be able to play chess demonstrates how little people understand about LLMs.
Reminder that if you like a website you should probably click on the "contact" link and tell the author you like their website
🐰 Oh I bet they get lots of email every day saying their website is cool, I'd just annoy them
🦝 Nope. I have a donations button and I'm not exaggerating when I say it gets hit a hundred times more often than my email address. People will literally transfer ten dollars from their bank account before saying "Hey cool website btw."
🐀 Wouldn't it be weird though
🦝 My learned friend, why do you think there's a "Contact" page on the website in the first place, it's so that you can say "Hey cool website btw."
🐴 This site hasn't been updated in ages, I bet they're not even interested anymore
🦝 Or maybe they stopped updating it because they had ten thousand people reading it every day but it felt empty and unfulfilling like shouting into a hole because only two of them ever emailed to say "Hey cool website btw."
🐹 But what do I even say
🦝 You say "Hey cool website btw."
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