the worst part of piracy discourse is when i start seeing things like “reading is a luxury” or “reading isn’t a necessity”. we’re living through a literacy crisis and the fact that this is rhetoric is being parroted keeps pissing me off.
I don’t care about book piracy discourse coming from American authors because they will never understand what it’s like living in a third world country with no public libraries, books that costs 3x your salary, or bookstores that don’t even have recent books in their inventory
Remember that SpongeBob episode where King Neptune made thousands of patties at once using magic and they tasted like slop, whilst SpongeBob’s single patty tasted amazing because it was made with love and dedication?
This is a post about AI
THE SECRET WORLD OF BRIAR ROSE is officially out in the world! what started as my wish to sleep forever & never wake up transformed into a reimagining of Sleeping Beauty inspired by my experience with depression & suicidal ideation. i hope it reaches the readers who need it. <3
I hope storygraph will not listen to these people saying the app is boring, I want to it stay boring pls, don't want it to be social at all, it's a reading tracker app not a social media !! As for the design, I swear y'all so obsessed with wanting everything to look aesthetic.
i'm so discouraged by the fact that the use of ai has become normalised to the extent that a literature nobel prize winner feels comfortable saying that she uses ai to help her write her books... put down the pen and go outside, get inspired by your surroundings not a computer…