Alanna Smith

@alannawrites

Science fiction and fantasy writer, Marvel Comics editor, crafting enthusiast, hobby artist, mother of cats, Captain America's boss

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Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 12d

Also a great case for staying far, far away from X in the replies

A reddit reply reading: Hey Hank, no offence, but I think you might need to add an item to your resolutions list that says "Stop interacting with X.com bluecheck AI bros."

You shared a podcast a few months ago about how people's social circles inform their opinions on things, which I thought was really interesting (and more true than most would like to admit)

I think part of the creepiness of your recent AI usage has not only been the AI usage itself, but the way you seem to want to "impress" random chuds on Twitter instead of your actual audience of Nerdfighters. The constant "this post is only for Twitter" is making you hang out in social circles that are influencing your opinions on the permissibly of AI usage, methinks.

No one is immune to propaganda

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 12d

Please don't go looking for this poster but this is *exactly* why Hank using AI for research is so dangerous. People trust him to be able to sort through BS, but if he's so crunched for time, there's no earthly way (imo) that he's double-checking all the facts that the misinfo machine spits out.

hankgreen just said that he uses #AI to make his videos, I *think* as a research tool, and he's so knowledgeable that IMO, it's fine. He can tell when an LLM gives him shit information.

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 13d

This is not a bit, Jim smoked thay guy

Jim makes his way to the Hispaniola and cuts the ship from its anchor, drifting it along the ebb tide. He boards the ship and encounters the pirate Israel Hands, who had been injured in a drunken dispute with one of his companions. Hands helps Jim beach the schooner in the northern bay, then attempts to kill Jim with a dagger, but Jim shoots him dead with two pistols.

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 13d

Ah yes the internet's evil boyfriend Izzy Hands

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 13d

Hey did you know that in Treasure Island Jim Hawkins straight up kills this guy

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 17d

I have a strong opinion on this matter

Ilsa Faust from Mission Impossible holding a sniper rifle while wearing a golden dress

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 18d

A board where someone has written "whoever sees this stinks" and someone else has written "nah bro"

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 23d

Could a depressed person make this??

A macrame dream catcher wall hanging shaped like a crescent moon with long hanging knotted cords

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· 23d

When you're upset so you start painting about it

A watercolor of a thin man's face rendered in yellow and purple

A watercolor of a smug man in blues and oranges

A watercolor of a smiling woman in red and blue

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Jul 13

I went to use my new mouthwash and

A bottle of mouthwash on a bathroom counter

A closer view of the bottle with a part of the label shredded off that just says help

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Jul 11

All of it is in nearly perfect condition??? Bonus: there's a nose in here!!!

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Jul 8

My lil guy

A black and white cat sleeping on a pair of shoes

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Jun 28

I made it to Woe's Hollow without attending an ORTBO

Sam's point in minnewaska state park, beautiful cliffs surrounded by trees

Sam's point in minnewaska state park, a cliff with a fluffy cloud over it

Sam's point covered in snow as seen in Severance season 2

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· May 17

A drunken Bong-Soon from Strong Woman Bong Soon saying when life gives you difficulties...

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· May 17

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

Screenshots from Justified in which a suspect tells Tim "maybe help you with your menstrual cramps then" and Tim responding "nah those went away once I got on birth control"

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· May 13

What a gift to have Widow's Bay and From airing at the same time. I AM FEASTING!

Widow's Bay characters look at something offscreen in horror

From characters also look at something offscreen in horror

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Apr 30

28. Pokopia and Tomodachi: Living the Dream! When you're having a rough year, sometimes you just need to build an island about it. Really grateful for these two incredibly silly and charming island builders that came around at just the right time, much like Animal Crossing did in 2020.

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Mar 13

She woke up and instantly struck this pose

A calico cat laying on her back sticking her back foot toward the camera

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Mar 10

I'm gonna be so normal about this, like previously unrecorded by science levels of normal, I super promise

The season 4 trailer for the show from featuring Harold Perrineau and spooky children

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Jan 4

26. Spartacus: House of Ashur This is SO not my usual, but I loved Spartacus and I am ENTRANCED by House of Ashur. Nick Tarabay, always good, is a revelation here. Tenika Davis is a star. Graham McTavish is a babe. A splashy sexy gladiator show AND a razor-sharp examination of class and power.

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Dec 31

New year new hair!

Me smiling in a car with calico style hairdye and a fresh bob cut

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Dec 12

I just think they're neat #HouseOfAshur

The main characters of Spartacus: House of Ashur dressed in classical garb and armor in the gladiator training area.

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Nov 6

Jang Eun-Sil the icon that you are #PhysicalAsia

Jang eun-sil on physical asia straining powerfully during an endurance weightlifting challenge

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Nov 5

I am feeling things!!

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Oct 22

Jon Lovett you deserved what he did to you

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Oct 1

Thinking about this a lot lately.

"We drive. And as we drive, I realize. We’re not alone. All of these people, all of these people in all of these places, they are waiting to be good. They are waiting for the world to be good. What they need is a way forward.

It’s not that they’re choosing not to know. It’s that they don’t know what to do with what they know. I had thought it was a matter of knowledge, but it’s a matter of organization. It’s a matter of Praxis.

I thought about hands. I thought about thousands and millions of hands, reaching for the spatula on our eight at the grill top of a diner, and reaching into a toilet at hour twelve at the gas station, and reaching up to put the can of beans on the shelf at the supermarket, and reaching down to help their child cross the street.

I thought about millions of hands and what they could do if they all reached the same direction and grasped. And that’s when I knew. It was as clear to me as a memory, as unshakeable as my own breath. We were going to organize, starting with us and moving from there.

This was a country made up of a distance of people, and they could not be changed through headlines. They had to be organized, one by one by one.

And maybe some part of me had spent the last year waiting for Praxis to save us. But not anymore. We would have to become Praxis ourselves.

That was it. That was it then."

-Alice Isn't Dead, Part 3 Chapter 6

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Oct 1

And more! And onward! #postcardstovoters

A handwritten voter turnout postcard for NJ governor candidate Mikie Sherrill

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Sep 24

I checked back and somehow the google AI result when you search "Spent: A Comic Novel" has gotten weirder. The source just links to a video of Alison talking about the book which obviously does exist!! Wtf?

There is no book titled Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel; however, Alison Bechdel is the author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother?, and she also wrote the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It's possible there's a misunderstanding or a misremembered title, as Bechdel's work is known for its autobiographical and often humorous content, but Spent is not one of her published works.

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Sep 18

The world may be going mad but we post!!! We card!!! And so can you!!! #postcardstovoters #turnoutpac turnoutpac.org/postcards/ postcardstovoters.org

Alanna Smith@alannawrites· Sep 14

Get your shots, NY!