Greetings from the edge,
Been busy here in the broom cupboard, but all three branches of the site are now live. Tattoo inch markings along my side because I rule.
I put the last article live on Rambles & Whimsy today, and with The Chop Shop and Crying is a Free Action finished, I’m going to leave the hideous but eye-catching lime green headline screaming “Now Live” up for a week, then take it down.
In the meantime, I’m working hard to purge the dreaded AI art from Crying is a Free Action and The Chop Shop. The Chop Shop will be easy, but when it comes to fantasy and TTRPG imagery, I’m going to have to dig deep. Still, my Google-Fu is strong. Even if I end up taking a dozen glamour shots of dice and minis, I’m determined to scrub away the Mark of Cain that is AI art.
I don’t personally have a problem with it, but I’ve had two people independently tell me that when they see AI art, they assume the writing is AI-generated too. Now, it should be fairly obvious my work is written by a nicotine-addled, tea-drenched human rather than an algorithm, if only because of the typos. But the point stands: if people assume it’s AI, they may never read it at all.
So, for better or worse, I’m switching to stock images, my own photography, and whatever I can dig up through good old-fashioned searching.
In other news, I’ve been thinking about writing up some of the adventures I run for my Sunday group. It would be fantastic if another GM stumbled across something from my homebrew and adapted it. Clockwork Kobolds, Stone Elves, maybe even chunks of Valtheraine itself. I could make it a weekly thing, or just release parts of the setting for free. There’s something very satisfying about the idea of other tables playing in a world that started in my head.
I’m going to take a couple of days off from site migration now. I’ll still blog, but at this point the WordPress interface is burned into my retina, and I need a break from the digital coal face.
See you in the margins,
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