Elise Estrella
@elisestrella.bsky.social
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Hello! My name is Elise, and I'm an author. ✨
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor.
stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.
they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.
fuck them, pay labor.
stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.
they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.
fuck them, pay labor.
August 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor.
stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.
they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.
fuck them, pay labor.
stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.
they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.
fuck them, pay labor.
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As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead!
So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.
So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead!
So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.
So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.
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Opened Twitter for the first time in a while just to dig up this tweet of theirs I adore
December 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Opened Twitter for the first time in a while just to dig up this tweet of theirs I adore
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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Love this so much. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Love this so much. 💜
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This year has been exhausting for all creative people and it's normal to feel burned out or unmotivated, because the daily grind is consuming us. But be kind to yourselves, get plenty of rest and come back whenever you're ready.Your mental health goes first
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This year has been exhausting for all creative people and it's normal to feel burned out or unmotivated, because the daily grind is consuming us. But be kind to yourselves, get plenty of rest and come back whenever you're ready.Your mental health goes first
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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I finally feel well enough, mentally, to start working again. Then I saw my to-do list with items from AUGUST!
So now, I'm back reading fanfics. 🙂↕️
So now, I'm back reading fanfics. 🙂↕️
October 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I finally feel well enough, mentally, to start working again. Then I saw my to-do list with items from AUGUST!
So now, I'm back reading fanfics. 🙂↕️
So now, I'm back reading fanfics. 🙂↕️
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
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This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
October 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Me on an hourly basis
December 16, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Me on an hourly basis
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People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
August 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
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Writers should never modify their own prose as a reaction to what stupid fucking generative AI is doing -- that shit stole from us, and it stole poorly, incompletely, and has none of our magic and zero of our humanity, our experience, our wonder and fear, and it never ever will. Fuck AI. You do you.
August 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Writers should never modify their own prose as a reaction to what stupid fucking generative AI is doing -- that shit stole from us, and it stole poorly, incompletely, and has none of our magic and zero of our humanity, our experience, our wonder and fear, and it never ever will. Fuck AI. You do you.
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The amount of psychological and emotional endurance required to keep going and doing your art and music in this day and age is Herculean.
Don’t forget to be gentle with yourself and pat yourself in the back.
Don’t forget to be gentle with yourself and pat yourself in the back.
July 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The amount of psychological and emotional endurance required to keep going and doing your art and music in this day and age is Herculean.
Don’t forget to be gentle with yourself and pat yourself in the back.
Don’t forget to be gentle with yourself and pat yourself in the back.
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i do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but i will defend to the death their right to publish it
July 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
i do not share the author's barely disguised fetish but i will defend to the death their right to publish it
Reading two fics from two of my favorite Daisuga authors. Their Daichis are so similar. Strong, reliable, unshakeable... And then there's their Sugas. One is a feral chaos gremlin and the other is the sweet, sensitive pillar of support. And they're both right about him 😆
July 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Reading two fics from two of my favorite Daisuga authors. Their Daichis are so similar. Strong, reliable, unshakeable... And then there's their Sugas. One is a feral chaos gremlin and the other is the sweet, sensitive pillar of support. And they're both right about him 😆
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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what they said ⬇️
April 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
what they said ⬇️