Maija Koivula ⌘
A Finnish video game writer specializing in fairytale fantasy and historical fiction.
Arts and crafts type 🧶 🖌️ 🩰
She/them 🌈 ♠️ 💙💜🩷
My portfolio can be found at https://maijanlainen.neocities.org
Arts and crafts at Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/maijanlainen
It's apple season alright. I also have three litres of jam. And some more apples.
Prunus padus is blooming right now in East Helsinki
I make blackout poetry in the morning sometimes over coffee, it wires the brain nicely for the rest of the day. I have a broken and torn paperback for it I got from my local library for free.
Recycled words.
Selective editing poetry from a discarded, broken paperback:
Testing KDE Connect between my KDE Plasma Linux and iOS this morning for file sharing. I can turn my phone into a remote controller now.
Wish my next phone were from Jolla, I'd love to try Sailfish. Might have to settle for a smartless brick though, that's ok too.
The sun shines on my African violet, which I've had for three years almost exactly to the date since gran passed away. Next to it are propagations and a Mexican spiderwort I got from my friend a few years ago.
No flowers yet in clivias or rose hibiscus or hoya.
#TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens on how institutional psychopathy in symbolic systems support certain behaviours
Crosswords over cold coffee
My friend is worried about the 3D model community they used to rely on for game and other projects being flooded with poorly made genAI assets, and they sent me a picture of a static human model that had one breast, two arms blending together into one hand, and three legs (two stacked on top of each other on one side) 🤔
I don't go there myself, but I can imagine how annoying and time-consuming it is to have to check for generative horrors when you're looking for something useful, especially how with generative things they can post I guess a dozen things like this per day.
(So I suppose the question becomes, will it be easier and better for them in the end to just model all their assets by themselves?)
Lovely ideas here 🩷
This week I have really been enjoying Ursula Le Guin's poetic translation of Tao Te Ching.
Writing for an audience (lovely condensed info)
A game of solitaire. Hurray I win.
Someone uses trading cards to explain Foucault's Order of Things
Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards
Sat on my balcony garden last night in my thickest wool jumper, listening to soft rain and birds sing, there was a nightingale in the choir of blackbirds for a little while. Air has been dusty and dry for so long, it was a pleasure at long last to breathe easy.
A friend and I passed by the windows of some art studios earlier in the evening while it rained a lot, the rooms filled with people in black shirts and colourful beanies, they'd flung their windows wide open, and we admired their walls and interiors, prints, cat-shaped bottles and Ceylon creepers.