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Dec 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
me: I swear to god this next book will be more straightforward and less experimental than #InTheWatchfulCity

also me: hmm, AS I LAY DYING feels like a solid comp title for #RazingBabel
AS I LAY DYING meets PRINCESS MONONOKE in this expansive secondary world tale of linguistic dissimilation #RazingBabel
#InTheWatchfulCity : biocyberpunk :: #RazingBabel : solardieselpunk
if one of my characters does not say at one point “my mother is a fish,” I will have failed myself
one of my mermaid characters all deadpan “my mother is a fish” and the archivist character laughing because he’s read things from other dimensions, but everyone else just blinks

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I’ve never wanted a license plate frame… until now. where can I get this frame says <license plate> ...
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my executive dysfunction has been so bad lately that I’ll work for 12 hours on a weekend and not be able to eat, and I haven’t been able to really eat on days doing labor at the dayjob either
and I’ll work 12 hours straight on something that is less of a priority than something that takes 15 minutes, but be unable to do the switchover even while my brain keeps pinging me, and then it’s a shame spiral of avoidance, but at least it’s less intense than it used to be
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Dec 5
like… yes… the reality is that people don’t value artistic labor and will exploit artists, including by using AI to do so

the solution to that is not to take it as a given, but to imagine other ways to do things, so their hold on the market weakens to begin with
people have lost work undoubtedly, but I don’t think that’s the entire picture

I think it’s too early to declare something, including whether people will use the tools to create entirely new ecosystems we can’t even think of right now, because they don’t exist
it just really irritates me bc it feels like people would treat my “hi I’m a translator” as me being confrontational or devil’s advocate or whatever, when it’s more like… I have relevant experience that it does not have to be a doom spiral
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Dec 5
I always feel like that south park episode where kyle is like “if this anti-bullying video is so important to you to get a message out, why don’t you put it on the internet for free” and stan who’s been reaping the benefits of the popularity from producing a video is just like
if it’s so important to educate authors… then why don’t you do it… for free
I’ve realized though that I don’t have to wait for a course to be complete to start releasing it, my college courses where instructors freely put material online were built over the semester as instructors created the material
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Dec 5
as a translator who is already working post-AI being able to do some degree of my job, this is indeed a very alarmist thing to say, people who are content with reading shit aren’t your audience anyway, unless you want them to be, in which case I can’t help you there
ken liu’s already done this. the actual work of writing is not the creation of the initial draft, but the discernment needed to revise the draft into something good.
imagine thinking AI could ever reflect complexities of marginalized experiences too, actual humans can’t even do that
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Dec 5
hole that is the spiciest for changing jewelry: labrets
wild how my labrets are so much spicier than my philtrum even
but then again, my upper labret has been annoyed at me for blowjobbing too hard. it's a tough life
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