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Writeblr Re-Introduction

I have been here for a long time now, but I've been very inconsistent through the panini, but especially this year. My studies have been very demanding and my mental health has been not great, which is why I've been writing barely at all during this year. But the uni semester is basically over and I finally got ADHD medication (yey!!!), so I feel like I can handle more things at a time now!

All that said, hello, hi, I'm Karkki (she/her)!

I write queer fantasy in different forms for adult audiences. I like to write dark, a little twisted and bittersweet stories with historical and mythological inspirations. I love doing meticulous worldbuilding and genre combinations. Outside of writing I do art (more on my art side blog), sew, obsess over dress history (more on my other side blog) and study architecture and architectural history. I miss doing tag games, it was so much fun, and I'm very happy to be tagged to them (do people still do them?) though as a warning I've always been bad at answering them in timely manner (I blame ADHD). My blog (and art blog too) is in dire need of some updating. Only WIP page I have up is for BCC and it's very out of date.

I know a lot of other writeblrs became inactive or less active during the panini, so I would love to hear who of my mutuals are still here or here again posting about writing, and find other active writeblrs too! So please let me know if you post about your writing, even if not very actively, and show me your WIPs! I want to check them out!

I've acquired some new WIPs even if I haven't been writing really so here's a quick little intro to my ongoing WIPs some of which I have talked about here before, some of which I haven't. I also have WIPs that are currently shelved but I might get to back to at some point.

In The Name Of Violence

status: outlining, on hiatus

Living in the poor side of the great port city Mearemin isn't ever easy, but more so, if you are an ex-assassin hunted by your former comrades of the crime organization you once called family, hiding in a forgotten and very sentient library, which doesn't want to let you go, working as a private detective to survive and watching by as the dead body of your father figure turns into something very monstrous while terrorizing the city. So Ainur isn't doing great. Things change though, and not necessary for the better, as a noble knight comes for their help to figure out who murdered her husband, son of the most notorious crime leaders of Maeremin, their former boss.

Bear Castle Cycle

status: drafting, re-outlining

Thirteen years after a civil war the four surviving children of the disposed duke are living in hiding. Valeri and Fiolev, the two youngest, have finally gotten out of poverty to a middle class life under a pseudonym, thanks to Valeri's military career. But that same military career separates them as the empire is heading into a continental war. Cassia, the second oldest, acts as an opera singer and courtesan to spy for the enemy of the empire. Faerathos, the oldest, is hostage in the imperial court trying to uncover the secrets behind the civil war while dipping into politics as much has he is allowed under the empress' watchful eye. Industrialization and war on horizon means big changes and maybe a possibility for revenge or justice.

WIP page | Masterpost | Maps

Cast: Faerathos | Valeri | Faélci

Songs of Veerelings - The Song Of A Golden Ghost

status: development

A mechanical maiden forged from silver and gold, Miävi, travels the foreign northern lands with her human protector, Tiera. She is on the run from a veere (demigod race) ruled empire, after her creator tried to dispose of her, when she didn't live up to his vision of a perfect bride. A curse that will slowly crumble Tiera's body starts spreading and the only thing that can stop it is releasing a god imprisoned in the imperial palace. To save Tiera in return, Miävi will have to face her creator again.

Be All My Sins

status: research and development

Mary falls into depression following her friend's untimely death. She's institutionalized for a short while after she thinks she sees her friend alive and has a mental breakdown. Her friend's family then invites her to their country manor in Scotland's cost to recover and share their grief. There she's drawn to a mysterious group of Spiritists, who believe her friend was a victim of vampires.

Aune is a young peasant living in late 16th century Swedish Finland, where military dictatorship is rousing a spirit of rebellion among the desperate peasantry. She meets a fascinating foreigner, who teaches her how to read and write and many other things in exchange for her blood. Knowledge is power, but as the tensions explode, it's still not enough to prevent the bloodbath.

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bibibitournament

Bi Awakening tournament - season 5 - Round 1

Who was your Bisexual Awakening?

Mulan + Li Shang (Mulan 1998)

Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David (NCIS)

Remaining time: 2 days 10 hours

Submission message for Mulan and Li Shang: no message

Submission message for Tony and Ziva: no message

#i'm so glad the “we love us imperialism” show is being murked by the most bisexual disney couple #i will admit the walking sexual harassment and the zionist terrorist did awaken something in me when i was like 10 and understood nothing #but thankfully not as much as mulan and li shang

cepn-archive

it’s too early for this

budaiproli

oks

dukeofedinburgh

budaiproli

me and the boys, felsírtam

sztupy

tegnapról

edgar-allan-possum

Flags Mashup Bot is really out here trying to start World War III

mccoppinscrapyard

UPDATES

pancoleon

My fav part is that it is genuinely just a bot. All it does is take two countries, puts the 2nd country's colours on the 1st country's flag and mixes their names together.

Literally the only other thing behind it is that the bot weights picking the second country based on how close they are to the first, and basic geography + history means that's also where you're going to get the most aggressive relations. This isn't some guy trolling by making things specifically to piss people off, it's some guy who likes flags going "wouldn't it be fun to mix flags together, let's write a bot for that" and accidentally creating a whole meme culture of "days since flag mashup bot last tried to start WW3 = 0" and the like.

#these are diabolical

vastblue

this is how it feels to make an oc and then get emotional about the situations you put them in

catchymemes

blue sunset on Mars is a real phenomenon caused by the way Martian dust scatters sunlight.

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

thatdisasterauthor

I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?

kyidyl

Oh my fucking god yes, and not just in things like word or Google docs. My fucking phone autocorrected me to the WRONG YOUR in a text message yesterday and I went on a good long tear about this to the recipient of said text message. I hate it. I hate it so much.

thatdisasterauthor

Exactly! It's literally just about everywhere you might type something now. It's not like Google where you can just choose to use another search engine or something. It's just THERE.

queerlypeaceful

This is why I've gone to turning off all spell check and editing 100% manually. I've gotten much faster at typing and much better at spelling since making the change to not use predictive text or spell checking, and I'm never bogged down by unreliable bs that doesn't originate in my own head (plenty of unreliable bs to contend with there as it is).

thatdisasterauthor

Proud of you for breaking away from it! The thing is, we shouldn't have to. We HAD a perfectly good system that was literally just a dictionary and grammar rules plugged into the system. It worked great. And now AI has taken that away from us.

the-semicolonoscopy

Biblically accurate bisexual

momoboyds

white europeans love to pretend like the united states and europe aren’t two cheeks of the same ass

hiimneptune

Listen, nobody who's ever opened a history book says we didn't do that shit first. Pick an atrocity and chances are there was a time europeans did it on mass to someone for the sake of profit. The difference, is that we have for the most part put that behind us, while the US is just sinking deeper and deeper into it. We're not perfect, and we were a lot worse in the past. But it has been a while since we were the problem

momoboyds

so the racism, antiblackness, islamophobia, and hatred for immigrants just disappeared huh

creatingblackcharacters

"its been a while since we were the problem" someone Black was murdered by police violence in Ireland last month

#it's a huge relief to me that fascists are not making anti islam laws all over europe currently #and there was not just now a second pogrom against immigrants and muslims especially in a short time in uk #and like anti-roma racism is not still widely accepted and normalised around europe #because man that would suck if those things were happening right now #just closing my eyes everything looks so much nicer this way

sztupy

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

ayeforscotland

Let’s fucking go

made-in-manetheren

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

alianoralacanta

5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.

chaser

We were feeling pretty chuffed about having the #6 trending post on this website until we saw number 7 was a Supernatural mpreg edit

chaser

Alrighty then

chaser

Yea that's fair

shimamitsu

some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

wholesomepostarchive

4/27/2024

daysleftofsecondterm

958 days left

cricketandmouse

the orb continues to perplex mouse

melodespiza

Pondering…

charlesoberonn

You named your cat "mouse"?

mindllessdreaming

and the winner of superwholock is officially??? no one. we all lost. congrats team

buggyhuman

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

I watched you die, Part 1

First part of a (probably) 3 part mini comic about my Tav Marcus having a teeny tiny mental breakdown. As a treat.

(I know Astarion should be wearing his armour when he's revived after a battle but like I wanted to draw the billowy shirt billow as he materialises 😂 also the contrast between him and armoured and bloodied Marcus, you understand)

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Act 2 is engineered in a lab to break Marcus. Which is funny because he was fully formed as an OC before I chose him to be my first Tav, so like that was not planned. But he is having a bad time, perhaps the worst time ever (but not really, he has had worse times). And so he is being the wettest, most soaked cat.

One of the reasons he is having such a bad time is because he has now actual romantic relationship with Astarion and he can't pretend he's not in love with him anymore. And this is bad because on some level he still believes that he's cursed to have everyone he loves die (he knows it's not true but it feels true). So he is slightly pathetic about it.

And very clingy.

catchymemes

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Act 2! My adventures with Tav!Marcus continue.

Astarion needed a hug after his confession (I wish I could like answer with basically all the options).

The beginning of their relationship was pretty awkward for Marcus. After Astarion admitted he was using Marcus (which he knew) and confessed he accidentally caught feelings anyway, they're properly trying out this romance thing so Marcus can finally reveal how clingy he is in private (not a PDA enjoyer).

I found it so funny when Marcus praised His Majesty (the best boy) and Astarion approved. Two times xD So I drew what I think happened.

Aaand Marcus testing out his cat!Astarion theory.

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