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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️
@blammarie.bsky.social
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Graphic designer, comic book artist, author of The Blood Prince, Skin Deep & Kalipso. I reblog books with pretty covers She/Her. Follow my Patreon for free stories every week! https://www.patreon.com/BLAM_Marie Also visit my website at blanchetmarie.com/en
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A Selkie is sent to shore to find out who killed her siblings and stole their pelts, but finds more than she was looking for when she meets two suspiciously irresistible strangers.

Dive into a world of queer love and mystery -> blanchetmarie.com/en/books/ski...

#buycanadian #booksky #romance
It absolutely fucking does not, and the way AI spellcheck fails is *baked in with how the AI functions*. If it sees a word misspelled more frequently in its training data than it sees the correct version, it’ll think the misspelling is the correct version.
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And yes, this is a small round white pumpkin shoved (with quite a lot of effort, what a VERY ODD physical sensation) into a carved large orange pumpkin to make an eyeball.
I’ll post a clear daytime pic tomorrow but I’m just so proud of the Childe and my team pumpkin work this year, and it looks SO COOL at night.

I give you…the Jack O’Beholder!
At one point I went on a tangent about how the best thing to support workers and make us a true global power would be to invest in the mail system and also trains

I also told them to become the world leader in protecting artists and making sensible regulations around this shit
I really fucking wish google actually looked up the things I’ve typed and not the thing it wants me to have typed, ngl.

Every time it rephrases what I said I want to tear it apart with my bare hands
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2. Let's say we lived in a fantasy world where AI agents worked and could replace people. What is the end game? If no one is employed, you have no customers. You are trying to create a world with no revenue. You fucking dumb assholes
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Surprise! I finally got some new pottery available! ✨🍁
Lots of new critters, and I've also got some goods to help raise funds for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!

Shop here:
shop.lioninthetrees.com/collections/...

#art #pottery
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HEY

THEY ANNOUNCED THE PRIZE BEFORE THE ACTUAL CEREMONY

LE HOLY CRAP I WON THE JULIA VERLANGER PRIZE
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Book Cover Artists!

QRP with your book covers 📖
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“Fun, clever, sexy and utterly engrossing.”—All About Romance

“I just read a spy thriller, a comedy of manners, an action-adventure joyride, a post-war 20s class novel and a very turbulent romance. They were all fantastic. It’s astounding to me that they were all the same book.”—Samit Basu
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For many emo is just a phase. For others it's a way of life.
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I am very sure that every night the Vatican City interns are going home with a backpack full of free sports jerseys
This is a real: Pope Leo XIV was gifted a Buffalo Bills jersey.

The Diocese of Buffalo said Bishop Fisher met with the Pope on Monday to discuss the ongoing bankruptcy filing, among other issues.

Pope Leo was said to have "expressed his gratitude for this symbol of hometown pride." #billsmafia
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Just heard that my work is now featured on BC BookWorld, Canada's largest-circulation independent publication about books. Glad to hear it given that Canada has an ongoing issue where it likes to pretend translators/translated literature is not a part of CanLit...
abcbookworld.com/writer/wang-...
Wang, Yilin - ABC BookWorld
Yilin Wang is a writer, poet and Chinese-English translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her debut book is The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets (Invisible Publish...
abcbookworld.com
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Can confirm.
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.
I’m not gonna spend all my time saying “he gave her a look which she interpreted as being angry” like come on.

I’ll say “he gave her an angry look” and trust my readers to not be confused if later it’s revealed in his own POV that he wasn’t actually angry!

Is that too much to ask… 🫩
I also keep getting told that my MC “seems to know what other characters are feeling” and that I should take more care so that my 3rd POV doesn’t veer into omniscient POV…

But if my MC says this guy gave her a “satisfied smirk”, she doesn’t KNOW he’s feeling satisfied, she is ASSUMING that!
I had this very discussion with a beta reader recently… 🫩 a POV character making a ton of hasty assumptions early on in the book based on zero evidence and then encountering things that contradict those assumptions isn’t “the lore contradicting itself”… it’s just the plot happening…
I hope this goes well for them! I wish them all the success in their endeavour
Honnêtement je suis pas si tant fâchée parce que si on est pour être con pis traiter nos médecins tout croche, bin on mérite des conséquences.
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Oh some AI related bullshit for sure
Yeah I was honestly surprised that Laura didn’t do a double take on that one because WHAT agent?? Also I don’t understand how it would work to have an agent but also have your own publishing house. Like… who is the agent connecting you with then?
Yeah, the whole “we’ll carry your book if you change its title” thing DEFINITELY should have been backed by a contract
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Korra fans, the next official graphic novel is on the way!

Young Kya makes her way for the first time in the world outside Republic City in this upcoming comic by @kikuhughes.bsky.social @alexandriamonikart.bsky.social @dianasousaart.bsky.social @comicraft1992.bsky.social. More details soon!