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i think a thing that llm-boosters miss re: publishing professionals is that we are _constantly_ getting barraged by llm-based scams. like. i am not a particularly well-known author. i also don't have a publicly posted e-mail address. i get multiple llm-related scam e-mails a day.

my personal problem with "explain your process" stuff (because of promotion, testing for llm-based plagiarism, testing for non-llm based plagiarism, etc) is that almost all of my creative processes are just "so i had this really fucked up dream..."

troubling direction. (it's worth noting that, despite these shifts in Code of Ethics, many literary agents are consumate professionals who do not try to sell their clients on extraneous services and harvest referral fees.) but you have to look out for yourself, as a writer.

this is, objectively, an incredibly well-designed poster. it would absolutely work today.

"but what if it was bad... on purpose?" feels like a daring critical statement but it's usually just deflection. art is very rarely bad on purpose. when it is, it is very rarely successful at accomplishing its goals.

I do not understand people who are down on Emily Wilson for bagging on Nolan's Odyssey, like it's coming out of the blue. It isn't: he specifically invoked her translation and claimed* to be "inspired" by it. If she doesn't want her own reputation tied to the movie, she has to say something.

when Maria Dahvana Headley has something to say about translating ancient, famous epics, it is best to listen.

i watched the three-hour long theatrical presentation of an ancient greek myth retold to offer commentary on and advice to the modern world, that everyone has been saying is so good, and i thought it was fantastic. i am speaking, of course, about Hadestown.