Renault 5 Diamant by Pierre Gonalons,

The Renault 5 launched in 1972, an ultra-compact hatchback that evolved the style of the popular Renault 4 with a cleaner, crisper aesthetic. Designed by Michel Boué, ‘Le Cinq’ was hugely popular, quickly becoming France’s best-selling car.

Over two generations and 24 years, some 5.5 million cars were sold, ensuring it has a place as an enduring piece of classic mass-market design.

Credit: Gaelle le Boulicaut

I rarely post personal stuff on here but irl I'm a writer whose work covers tech and AI quite a bit and with the WGA strike ongoing, I really want to stress that the reason Hollywood execs and higher-ups think they can just replace writers with chatgpt or have someone come and edit AI generated text is because they already think writing is that easy.

these people look at their shows, movies, etc as marketable (re, profitable) content so all they are watching for is "okay this show performed badly" and "this movie performed well" and I can promise you in a boardroom the quality, the time and effort that went into the actual writing is NEVER discussed as a contributing factor when it comes to the difference between those two things.

That's also the reason tools like chatgpt seem like magic to these people, because they've devalued the act of creation and everything that goes into making something that resonates with its audience, so naturally something that can scrape the entire digital world and spit something out that falls in line with what you asked seems like a wizard's spell, because they ALREADY think of writing as an afterthought, something where they just go "I need a show that appeals to the 16-24 age range" and writers can just fill in the blanks and they won't have to PAY PEOPLE for that.

There's a vast difference between art and content, and if you want to see more of the former, you should be furious they're trying to replace writers with what is essentially a programmable template generator. Pay your writers.

People who hate on male Shepard and insist that fShep is the default 🤝 people who hate on female Shepard and insist that mShep is the default

Annoying. And cowards. Embrace the fact that Shepard is a customizable character in a branching narrative, or perish. Also do non-binary Shepards mean nothing to you

I become 300% more of both a lover and a hater when I'm on my period. just a time of the month when I have strong opinions I would say

Not to be a hater but the romance book culture is in peril

I upgraded my Chrestomanci collection

their unmatched savagery during their feasts is why only 9 were ever made.

YUO WILL NOT BELIEVE YOUR EYES

me w the stupid garrus duck

These THINGS are in my ROOM. I keep covering my eyes and saying ARE THEY STILL THERE?, and then I look and they ARE. They EXIST. Be warned, this can happen to you too if you pre-order my SPLICE novelization from Encyclopocalypse Publications! Eternal thanks to the extremely supportive Vincenzo Natali for making my life much, much weirder.

I started this today!

i keep reading thinkpieces and critiques of current mainstream fiction & how fandom has influenced mainstream lit and vice versa, n some of them make salient points about how fanfic does and doesn't prime a person for writing original fiction, etc. and some of them are very "fanfic has poisoned and corrupted the youths" and "we are rotting our brains" and "old man yells at cloud." and throughout all of this i just have the unshakable feeling that no matter what side of the "culture war" (if.... it can even be called that....) u fall on, these thinkpieces are typically missing two of the most important explanations for Why The Mainstream Market Is How It Is. which have very little to do with fanfic.

1. publishers are looking for books that are easy to read, easy to hype, and easy to mass produce. great insightful well-crafted works of subversive literature are not this. cute romcom tropey fluff IS this.

and perhaps most importantly,

2. most professional writers are not very good.

the most random thing about me is that i have a deep undying love for mass market paperback, ESPECIALLY used mass markets and i just made my parents sit through me talking about all the reasons i love them. i love having parents who are lowkey just as neurodivergent as me because this is standard practice in my house

Citroën 2CV Type A, 1948. Conceived by Citroën Vice-President Pierre Boulanger to help motorise French farmers still using horses and carts in 1930s, the 2CV has a combination of innovative engineering and straightforward, utilitarian bodywork. It was quite literally designed a carry a dozen eggs across a ploughed field. Like the Beetle, it's purpose was to make a car affordable to the masses for the first time 

Boys (Chip JRWI) when there is no safe place for them because the outside world keeps hurting them and their head and heart and thoughts are only hurting them too

so i'm reading the crystal shard. it's going great. i go to order streams of silver. 8 dollar mass market paperback is sold for over 50. lmao lol. but great news! streams of silver being reprinted in september! for 18 dollars! bc who wants a cheap mass market paperback when we can have a 20 dollar paperback instead amirite?