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Nova
@novusscarlet.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Animator. Call me Nova! She/Her.
I think I need to come to terms with the fact that I'm not gonna meet the deadline for the writathon.

It's my first time ever attempting it. I've written 32k words in a bit under a month, when my pace all year was... Well. /Zero./ Going from nothing to a sprint like this has been eye opening.
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Y'know out of all times to be hit with executive dysfuntion depression I think the day before black friday weekend, where I work for four days in a row, while I'm behind in a writathon where I have until the 5th of december to write 22k more words is probably the worst I've found yet
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"I'm struggling to design the characters from my novel"

My brain: Here, you can doodle the cyborg pimp who doesn't show up till next chapter. Not the protagonist though
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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#FFXIV FanFest is neither a safe nor accessible convention.
-People asking for disability accessibility need to have a phone call to prove their needs
-they then must agree to specific accessibility accommodations within 24 hours of a follow up email or schedule another full phone call.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Our new favorite analog horror series:
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"I earn enough money that I'm allowed to enjoy baby food." -Doomy
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think this is the most infuriating thing I've ever fucking seen.

What the fuck do you mean the word is "POTENTIALLY" MISSPELLED? IT LITERALLY IS. YOU KNOW IT IS. WHY ARE YOU NOT CORRECTING IT, OR GIVING ME CORRECTIONS? Why are you saying 'look u messed up btw... Might wanna retype that urself...'
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I still can't believe we can't even trust 'No-AI allowed' products/platforms made by anyone who isn't independent because the only reason tech companies/billionaires ban AI on their services is so they can harvest new training data for their other services that do use AI
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.
"I code so others can dream."

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.

Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Maybe the real CloudFlare was the friends we made along the way
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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yes please holy shit please be as good as it sounds please
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If anyone is curious in regards to the story I've been posting about, you can check out my writathon project, Forgone Connection, on Royal Road: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1382...

At 26k words rn. 55,555 words doesn't feel as unattainable anymore.
Forgone Connection
A woman awakens in a seemingly abandoned laboratory with no memory of her life leading up to the present. With no leads or clues as to her identity, she agrees to work alongside her savior's private i...
www.royalroad.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Me: Types "hustle and bustle" while writing

AI: "okay so you meant 'hustle and muscle' right? You totally did. I changed it for you while you were typing without telling you. DW about it I got you."

Me:
a cartoon character with a hooded jacket and a sweater
ALT: a cartoon character with a hooded jacket and a sweater
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November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Please dear god don't let this be the whole fucking game. Oh my god. Fuck. Dude if we got Metroid Prime 4 in a monkeys paw scenario where it has a marvel movie dialogue spewing tutorial bot dispshit in my ear 24/7 I am GOING TO END IT ALL.
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The protagonist of my story is really fucking gay and I'm having so much fun writing it lmao
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I love Dispatch a lot.

Insane how bad the infighting in the community is over Invisigal and Blonde Blazer though. It's a video game romance option guys. Wild how quickly this stuff goes from 'I prefer this one!' to 'The one you like is a (insert slurs and insults) and you're bad for liking them.'
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Who asks for shit like this? Worse, Disney+ is a streaming service, not a video platform- why the fuck are we even contemplating adding user content to it, let alone *AI GENERATED* user content????
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM