darthj.uno
SF/F writer & narrator. Hugo-winning podcast editor at Strange Horizons magazine. Lapsed film critic & perennial theatre kid. BSFA's theatre columnist. Team ADHD. Greek!
📍 London, UK
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Into turning your shippy feelings into original ideas 👀
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😍
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omg the art is GORGEOUS! /puts in wishlist immediately
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Yeah I also had to go through the back issues and pick one. Ended up picking a cool interview from as far back as I could.
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Renaissance painting, 10/10, no notes
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Smashing 👌
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Happiest of birthdays!! Hope it's full of fun things and people you like, and also cake (if that's something you like).
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But they're only asleep because of Jigglypuff's singing! Do they deserve it when your power did it to them in the first place?
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I would argue there is potential for the opposite
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Nothing like your spoken words on a page to realise "wait, that's what I talk like? Oh my."
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Wet academia 🤭
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There was a great interview by @chrisco96.bsky.social on my old stomping ground @moviemarker.bsky.social that first turned me onto looking at the score more closely.
Between this and EEAAO, I'm so excited to see what they get up to next. Not for nothing, but band-composers are so rare!
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... Might look into selling that system as a package for other ADHD creatives who struggle 🤔👀
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After my coach gave me that advice, I was like "no 😠" and instead developed a super robust template system that has since evolved and become even more automated. I don't even have to look for gaps in my calendar anymore: a booking form handles that for me! Looks good, works well, easy peasy.
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As was I, and I got really emotional trying to explain why, in particular, as a writer and creative I found using that shit insulting. Also that the couple of times I tried it out, I ended up having to do all the work of fixing the garbage it gave me, so why not do it myself?
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—outlook on the things I struggle with, and helped me reverse a lot of negative self talk and unhelpful thought patterns that held me back. So I am very grateful to her and to the agency for doing this work, but the AI stuff... big miss there.
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Yes, she is ADHD as well, and said that's what she does when the symptoms are flaring and she can't get things done 🙄 I sought out a coaching agency with all ADHD coaches for that reason, and tbf this was the only bad advice I was given. It was otherwise extremely helpful and has changed my entire—
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the thing is, if i have to spend time drafting the prompt and then fixing the result, might as well do the whole email myself in the first place!
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for my creative work though i started doing templates after that convo with my coach because i refused to resort to ai, and now i'm so organised i get compliments from my podcast guests for being so well-prepared 😅
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oof that's garbage.
at my day job thankfully we're very anti-AI and have templates in place for everything. the one time i'm grateful we're a lil bit stuck in the past and still do everything old school!
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ngl I started crying out of the frustration in that conversation while I was explaining why that was a bad idea, and that was a full year ago
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Me @ Marvel/the MCU
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Someone with more musical knowledge might have better words for it, but now I can't stop listening to the first 15 seconds of each song and squeeing internally (I'm on a train and squeeing externally is generally frowned upon)