Minty Pineapple

Just a writer trying to exploit their brain for profit. linktr.ee/mintypineapple

[gifs-of-puppets]

The Muppet Show (1976-1981)

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[novelconcepts]

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

[beachgothgay]

For Sale: Baby Shoes. Heavy wear, almost as if the baby had been hiking.

[mintypineapple]

What can I make that people will pay me for? Work is making me so very tired.

[mintypineapple]

If only I could turn my obsession of consuming things in chronological order into a profitable venture.

[mintypineapple]

What can I make that people will pay me for? Work is making me so very tired.

[mavity]

fumbled the interaction

[babushkaat]

[mintypineapple]

Consume All Media! Batman and Robin: "Chapter Twelve: Robin Rides the Wind"

Joe Heath is a big fan of comic books and watching things in order. So they made this spreadsheet containing every serial, short, film, tele

In today's Consume All Media, Batman and Robin ride the wind. Whatever that means.

[mintypineapple]

Consume All Media! Batman and Robin: "Chapter Eleven: Robin's Ruse"

Joe Heath is a big fan of comic books and watching things in order. So they made this spreadsheet containing every serial, short, film, tele

In today's Consume All Media, Batman buries a man alive.

[nerdicornthetrekkie]

[gamechangershow]

Sorry but it's not complete without...

[moveslikekeithrichards]

this might be kind of a reach but is there a way for printers to connect to devices so that documents can be printed from them

[generaljenobi]

[mintypineapple]

Consume All Media! Batman and Robin: "Chapter Ten: Batman's Last Chance!"

Joe Heath is a big fan of comic books and watching things in order. So they made this spreadsheet containing every serial, short, film, tele

In today's Consume All Media, Batman gets electrocuted. Again.

[noirandchocolate]

I think this is still my favorite set of panels from Ray Friesen’s “Small Gods” comic adaptation.

[Image ID: Three panels from a comic adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s “Small Gods,” by Ray Friesen.  The scene takes place in a melon patch.  In the first panel, the Great God Om, currently in the form of a small green and brown one-eyed tortoise, says, “Go and fetch someone more important than you.  I’ve got Godly Things to sort out.”  Brutha, a young man with medium brown skin, a large nose, thick eyebrows and wavy dark brown hair, replies, “But if you’re down here…who’s listening to all the prayers?”  In the second panel, Om, with a blank look, asks, “Who did it before?”  The third panel is a closeup of Brutha’s face, with an expression that somehow manages to convey an entire emotional journey all at once.]

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Doctor Pepper Seargent Who by raisegrate

[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?

[thatdisasterauthor]

"Use Libre Office."

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.

[thatdisasterauthor]

:| :| :|

Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I am going to light something on fire.

[thatdisasterauthor]

And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.