I wish I had the money to just commission things I don't have the time or patience to do myself.
Like I want to have a cozy fantasy genre book about an ork and a minotaur teaming up to open their realm's first weightlifting gym.
@taber I've just started to get Into cozy fantasy stuff.
It's surprisingly nice to have stories with the same kind of tension and excitement as the great British bake off, but with works and magic.
Today I have been using the way back machine to look at my predecessors work on the old msclondon website.
Gosh, the listings for all the LGBT and kink specific businesses like bed and breakfasts and hotels makes me feel a bit sad.
Like, maybe it's because we don't need them as much, or maybe it's just not feasible to maintain niche businesses in this economy, but I feel like we lost something.
I feel like my most dangerous habit when speaking Spanish is my brain inserting the Japanese "ano...." when I'm looking for a word, and I think people might assume I'm saying "anus" constantly. 🫠
So I know it's a pain to once again pick up another messaging app, but I really would prefer it if people could try and use signal instead of Whatsapp or telegram
The details here are a lot like when crypto firms started collapsing at a pace - the revenue model never got beyond the underpants gnome phase while the bills for the computing resources went into the extremely real lien-able debt phase https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/stability_ai_bills/
@taber in really hoping we see the bubble burst on this swiftly.
I think people are far more skeptical of this trend and primed to reject tech bullshit after crypto and NFTs
Well, hubby asked if I could do a stew before winter fully left us, so I've got a lovely beef stew going on the slow cooker.
Now do I do dumplings or American biscuits with it?