“The sky overhead was a blue watercolor wash, the clouds picked out in white gouache against it. Some skies look hard, but a Southern sky is usually soft, almost thready. If you pressed against it, you’d expect it to yield like cloth, or a soft network of roots.” — Man starting already with the absolutely delicious descriptions—I’m always so delighted by how evocatively Kingfisher describes things (particularly nature)

This author’s recent book is about how to write a book using ChatGP. What a bleak turn of events for an author of such recognition and teacher of creative writing, to turn to AI.

okayyyy i'm finally ready to find out why everybody and their mother considers this one of their favorite historical fantasy books 👀👀 also i already know the unicorn is innocent, has done NOTHING wrong their entire life and should NOT be hunted like this 😭😭 can we at least protect the magical creatures pleaseee?? this is also my first Katherine Arden book!! tbh she's not an author i hear about that much (am I sleeping on her??) so if you've read anything else by her that i NEED to have on my radar please let me know 👀

Hey everyone, I know we have lots of gamers in here so I wanted to share this resource I found with the community. It’s a list of video games that have used AI in development and to what extent. The list can be found linked 🔗here.

As far as I’m aware, it’s still being updated regularly. I’m genuinely so heartbroken over a few of these and I’m so, so tired of AI being everywhere.

I know there's been a lot of feelings going around over the past few days, so in the spirit of building community (and because I'm at home today!), I wanted to offer a thread just to chat and vibe because I love the community here and I want it to be a place where people can just feel free to be themselves. SO!

Send me a heart and you will get:

❤️ A compliment/shoutout/affirmation 🧡 A completely random question 💛 A completely random fact 💚 An encouragement or virtual hug (feel free to specific what you want encouragement for!) 💙 A book recommendation (let me know your preferred genre) 💜 A book-related discussion (will try and go off your currently reading or My Taste but if I don't know those books, may just be more of a general book-related topic)