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@UrsulaV
Sep 10, 2022 • 16 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows. (Technical notes in another thread, linked at the end.)
And a thread on the making and why it was not terribly straightforward here:

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Sep 11, 2023
So a Weird Fact that I suspect many people aren’t aware of…the passenger pigeon’s vast numbers were probably a wildly unnatural result of the loss of indigenous management of the landscape.
The east coast was an extensively managed landscape when Europeans first showed up, not a massive unbroken forest. In my neck of the woods, it was called the Piedmont Prairie—a fire-controlled oak savannah with an unbelievable ecological carrying capacity.
You had copses of nut trees like the American chestnut, berry bushes, wild game, a couple domesticated crops like goosefoot that we’ve now lost, the lot. But this kind of landscape doesn’t just happen. If you don’t burn it or graze it, trees eat it.
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Sep 5, 2023
So last night, at 2 AM, the doorbell rang. I staggered out of bed, went downstairs, and found a bedraggled Kevin, in a bathrobe, holding a dead squirrel. He looked at me and said “So I’ve had an adventure!”
Just in case anyone thinks that I’m always the weird one in this relationship.
Apparently Hound wanted to go out, got him up, and then came back to the porch with something that resembled a bundle of leaves. (He wasn’t wearing his glasses.) He tells her to drop it.
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Jun 8, 2023
Okay, since I haven’t told this one in awhile… *ahem*
*sips water*
Cast your mind back, lo these many years, to the strange world immediately post 9-11, when Americans were convincing themselves that their tiny town was of desperate strategic importance and the next logical target of terrorists. I was visiting my parents in rural Pennsylvania.
They lived near a town called Oil City. We went there looking for antiques. My cousin, my then-boyfriend and I were driving around aimlessly, because Google Maps wasn’t a thing.

And lo! We saw a Really Cool Building.
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Jun 6, 2023
It’s D&D night! The party faces off against the Serpent of Ages, an invisible mage, and an increasingly traumatized cultist. Also a trussed-up paladin sacrifice.

GM: The Serpent heaves himself out of the water and looks around with vague interest.
The evil mage drops a fireball! The affected party members are, fortunately, standing in hip-deep water and only take half damage, but that’s still a lot.

WARLOCK: YOU KILL MY CHICKEN AND NOW YOU BURN OFF MY HAIR?!
BARD: I know it took you so long to grow those three hairs…
GM: The Serpent puts its flippers up on the edge of the pool, over top of the sacrifice. You hear a muffled “oh shit” from its armpit. The Serpent appears puzzled.

PARTY: So it’s stupider than the Paladin?
GM: *checks attributes* …sadly, no.
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May 18, 2023
I’ll say it again—ideas are the LEAST important part of a book. The plot of HOGFATHER is that someone assassinates Santa Claus by stealing teeth from the Tooth Fairy, which looks utterly inane when typed out and is also one of the best books of the last hundred years.
MOBY DICK is about some guy the narrator knows being mad at a whale. JURASSIC PARK is just Frankenstein with dinosaurs. PERDIDO STREET STATION is King Kong but with scary butterflies.
I can think of barely a handful of genuinely original “oh, hey, genuinely haven’t seen that before!” ideas that I’ve read in the last decade. (ANCILLARY JUSTICE with the troop ship narrator, and…uh…

Shit, okay, apparently I can only think of one.)
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May 17, 2023
Hey internet copyright lawyers, I have a question re: AI, in light of Adobe billing their Firefly AI as copyright safe for businesses.

I have heard—from people I trust!—that many companies are avoiding using AI like the plague because of copyright fears.
Which, I mean, legit! Absolutely! It’s the Wild West right now but sooner or later the sheriff comes to town.
But I find I am curious about the SHAPE of that fear. Is it…

A) there’s gonna be a lawsuit and I’m not dealing with that

B) any assets we use cannot be copyrighted and other companies could steal our branding with impunity
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