Nolaa08

Well, I've been doing a lot of thinking. As you can tell, I've been still faving and occasionally commenting on stuff that I find, and apparently my CJ/Multihead/Fusion folder was featured on conjoineddreams? That's wild to me. Anyway, I've been thinking about coming back at a sort of halfway mark. The reason? AI. I've been tinkering around with AI image generation to see if it could jog my mind and get the gears turning. Sure enough, it's getting there. Now, let me make note explicitly: I am not an artist in any way, shape, or form, and I do not intend on uploading AI generated art and claiming it as my own creation. The way I intend to use it is as a behind-the-scenes tool that I can use in case I want to visualize a character or potentially randomly generate a character that can help me brainstorm. I've generated some funky stuff that has given me ideas for what I can write about. I probably will never upload the images I use to brainstorm unless, for some reason, y'all want it. Might just make a separate account for it if it ends up in demand. But this is all tentative. We shall see if I put something out. Happy start-of-winter, all.

I've been thinking about if I want to write about this for a long, long time. I've scoured this site looking for any sort of motivation to keep going, but as my life gets more and more hectic, I can't find it in me to continue to do what I used to like. Or at least, what I thought I liked. I've always been fascinated with the aspect of the communities that I've gotten myself into. However, as time has gone by, I realized that I wasn't doing it for myself anymore. I was writing for the people that have followed me. And even with the new-ish pieces that I've written, people still go back to the old, mediocrely-written works that I put out when I first started writing. And honestly, I'm ashamed of that stuff. All of it. The astutely sighted people will notice that in my gallery, there is a folder titled "Stuff I'm Actually Proud Of." Out of the 45 deviations currently on my profile, only 1/6 of them are in that folder. That doesn't include the countless bits and bobs I've put out on