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[olivermoss]

* I am trying to get into a regular schedule of writing and getting out of the house to do so. Yesterday I was at The Stacks coffee shop:



Weird that I'd never been there before. Now, I need to figure out my order at each of these places because if you are going to be in a coffee shop for a bit it's chill to also order food, but I can't eat food at these places, or the spendier coffees. And when I order an americano they keep giving it to me in a small mug?

Anyway, that is a project for next week since it's going to hit 100° this week.

* A while back I posted about a really shitty experience at the one trans-masc inclusive event I could find. I wasn't sure if I was going to go again. My decision was to wait until pride season was over and try again. I was planning out my schedule for this month and saw that the group is gone.

* Still amazed that Nano, allegedly a community of writers, went with 'some writers don't have community so AI is good'. D'Angelo has a good video on them trying to use marginalized communities as a shield and actually being very ableist while accusing others of it.

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[shipperslist]

Re: nano
What amazes me the most is the implied belief that poor and/or disabled people cannot write without AI. Like. What the fuck are you thinking over there??? How did you get THERE??

[olivermoss]

And that AI is what they need, not community or dictation software or anything else.

[mistressofmuses]

Another video for the watch later list! It really is an infuriating claim on top of the stance itself.

Looks like a cute coffee shop!

I remember how shitty the trans-masc event was. I wonder if it was generally kind of shitty for many of the attendees, for it to have completely dissolved like that. I'm sorry that it as a thing went away, because I know how rare those events are at all, but I'm not sorry it's gone if it was always garbagey.

[olivermoss]

It's very cute. I need to start taking aesthetic shots in these places for when I start social media stuff under whatever my pen name will be

Yeah, part of the problem is leadership as well. The guy I dealt with is one of the leaders and he'd be the one I'd complain to? I think this group running events is just falling apart

[mistressofmuses]

Ooh, good thought. Aesthetic cute writing spots will be perfect for that!

Ugh. There's no keeping a group together or making it work when the leadership sucks. I hope that makes space for something better to take its place, though I know that it's been extremely difficult to get anything like that going at all.

[olivermoss]

I'm going to build up a folder of shots. Might as well!

Yeah, that is part of why I used to put so much into running groups so they were well run, even if that was a bad choice for me personally.

[mistressofmuses]

That definitely seems worth doing!

Yeah... group running is SUCH a constant drain, particularly when you do want to make sure that it's done well. I know a lot of people who have gotten very burned out trying to do it for the long-term, and it's understandable. But it's also frustrating when groups are *badly* run, or are run by people who just kind of suck, ha. Good groups run by good people are definitely precious rarities.

[dolorosa_12]

What an absolutely gorgeous coffee shop!

[olivermoss]

It is!

[kay_brooke]

Ugh, NaNo just keeps fucking up. I haven't participated in years, but doing it in the mid-2000s was a formative writing experience for me, so this is sad.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Also, considering the cost of the AI tools that ProWritingAid offers, the whole 'classism' thing is just insane