Humanist+Humorist

Leif & Thorn Volume 7 Cover (art | Leif/Thorn | worksafe) Forest Thorn (art | Thorn | worksafe) Ninth Leif-and-Thorniversary (art | Leif/Thorn | worksafe) Get In, Loser (art | Russ | worksafe) Mo...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/11/05/works-roundup-11-5-a-normal-day-when-everything-is-fine-with-no-existential-anxieties-at-all/

Previously, in responses to the Quick AO3 Metatag Survey.: the results for question 1, and the results for question 2. Now it’s a trilogy, because here’s a writeup of question 3! A lot fewer ...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/metatag-survey-results-part-3-the-combined-tags-people-want/

The Leif & Thorn Volume 7 campaign is almost funded! As in “we are literally $20 under the main goal.” So, hey, tell your friends. Got a stretch goal to shoot for, and a week left to go. —...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/three-things-make-a-post-backerkit-instagram-shadow-man/

Yesterday was my birthday, so in the spirit of positivity, today’s post will be all Fun Moon Knight Stuff. (FFA fandom threads + Tumblr asks.) fail_fandomanon , comicverse threads: “Which of...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/10/27/fun-moon-knight-link-meta-roundup/

The chatbots are not your friends: April 2023, video: “The Rise and Fall of Replika: A cautionary tale about love, heartbreak, and our AI overlords.” I first heard about this through the fram...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/10/24/ai-news-that-runs-the-gamut-from-inconvenient-to-traumatic-to-multiple-civilian-casualties/

Share your OC boundaries: Is fanart ok: Yes! Tag me to get resharedIs shipping ok: Yes, encouragedIs kinning ok: In your own head, sure, but don’t tell me about itIs fanfiction/writing ok: YesC...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/oc-meme-for-writers-nabbed-from-bluesky/

That’s right, it’s a Thursday works roundup. We’re living on the edge, here. Leif & ThornAutumn Leif (art | Leif | worksafe)Magical Selfie (art | Cedar, Ivy, Holly, drone | worksafe)Hand ki...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/10/17/works-roundup-10-17/

The long-awaited sequel to the results for question 1 in the Quick AO3 Metatag Survey: results for question 2! As before, this is only a summary of the first 50 responses. You can see the full da...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/metatag-survey-results-part-2-the-all-media-types-tags-people-want/

Trying something new: On Tumblr, I’m queuing a set of 30 past Leif & Thorn strips, with a bit of director’s commentary for each. No particular order, and I’m not trying to find my Favorite ...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/30-days-of-leif-thorn-the-social-media-cage-match/

Finished off the Moon Knight rewatch! With a detour in the middle to watch episodes 1-2 of Agatha All Along. I’ll put those at the end, for easier spoiler-cutting. MK observations, episodes 4-6...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/stray-thoughts-from-rewatching-moon-knight-part-2-plus-agatha/

“Yahoo: “Oh thank god, someone’s actually using our search engine! No, we’re not just Bing!” *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* “NO DON’T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!””...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/20/negotiating-licenses-with-publishers-artists-musicians-and-the-news-industry-would-take-too-long/

All six episodes of MK s1 on my D+ profile are paused in random places mid-episode, from times when I was looking up a specific scene to double-check something for fic purposes. Not counting targ...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/stray-thoughts-from-rewatching-moon-knight-part-1/

Venom Always heard this was good, never got around to seeing it. Now I have, and it is! Well-drawn characters, solid plot, fun jokes, one of the few Sony movies that can stand toe-to-toe with the...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/erin-watches-last-of-disney-venom-the-santa-clauses-moon-girl-phineas-and-ferb/

Leif & Thorn Other Side of the Mountain, part 2 (art | Leif, Kale | worksafe) Mauve cuddles (art | Leif/Thorn | NSFW-ish) Pascentia in gold (art | Pascentia | worksafe) Elementary (wallpaper | Ar...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/16/works-roundup-9-16-moon-knight-marvel-webcomics/

I was planning to post a synthesis of the Quick AO3 Metatag Survey results once they hit a nice round number. And, hey, we got to 50! Going to split this across separate posts, because each batch...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/metatag-survey-results-part-1-the-tags-people-use/

In light of all the discussion about how AO3 handles fandom metatags (more background in this post)…here’s an idea I’ve been thinking about for a while, seemed like a good time to write it ...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/if-i-ran-the-zoo-ao3-metatags-edition/

Some time recently, AO3 tag wranglers de-canonized the “Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms” metatag. This involved detaching the fandom subtags for almost 100 different Holmes-related adaptati...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/holmes-related-fandoms-is-dead-long-live-holmes-related-fandoms/

Disney+ hiked their prices for an annual subscription, so mine is going away in mid-September. (My family splits up the streaming accounts — we each have profiles on my parents’ Netflix, my H...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/erin-watches-the-acolyte-taylor-swift-ducktales-miraculous-ladybug/

This essay has already been shared all over the place, I’m sharing it again, it’s a masterpiece: “And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resp...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/ai-bots-dont-do-accuracy-we-have-the-receipts-literally/

Xitter’s AI-generated headlines are going great: Masterpost of vetted fundraisers for Palestinian victims and refugees. Sharing for the benefit of anyone else who’s gotten DMs about individua...

https://erinptah.wordpress.com/2024/08/22/dnc-era-politics-link-roundup/