I'm so rabidly anti-AI that somebody tried to get me fired for it 🫠 (I'm fine, it didn't work).

I think a lot of my frustration stems from people viewing art as merely a product. To them, why wouldn't you want your product faster and with less effort? They're missing the point - art is a process and humans make art to connect with ourselves and with each other. Is writing my novel hard? Yes, it's a difficult and time consuming process. Would I want to skip to the end of that process? Fuck no, because that's the POINT. I'm growing as a writer, I'm making something with these two little hands that has my fingerprints in its very essence. I've written scenes that I love and scenes that I didn't like originally but slowly got to make better. And as a bonus, I didn't have to fuck over other artists or the planet or the folks living around those godawful data centers to make it!

Keep making your art, people. It matters, your process and effort and creativity matter. Don't let the machines take that from you.

I never made it through a dictionary, but I did read multiple editions of the Guinness Book of World Records cover to cover growing up. They were weirdly fascinating, OK? As an adult the weirdest thing is probably the enclosed user manual that came with my vintage Furby when I bought him (his name is Volpe and he's a 1999 special edition Valentine's Day Furby). Fun fact: the original 90s Furbies came with names - there's a certain pattern of belly rubs and head scratches that makes them tell you what their name is and the manual has a space for you to write down what they say.