Welcome To The Moonshine Fable: a place for Books, & Those who eat them...
INTRODUCTIONS:
My name is Idylvain. Named for my two best qualities. And, as I’m sure you’ll quickly learn, there’s very little rhyme or reason to what I do. But! I do try to enjoy things whenever I can, and, of those things I do enjoy, I’ve found that I love making things the most. Books, essays, poetry, schematics, recipes, projects, and whatever else I feel like making a mess of. I do. And for the moment, The Moonshine Fable is where I host them.
ABOUT ME:
As I’m sure you could probably guess, I’m Gen Z, American, and a renaissance armchair enthusiast. I collect hobbies, failures, and catastrophes; and I break every one of them by hand. I like Comedy. Horror, and all things food. Because of this, the things I make usually stumble sloppily back-and-forth between those genres. I spend most my time writing nothing. And most of my nights making up for lost time. One day, I'd like to publish physical books. But, the industry is slow, and until I can credential a reply, this website will be where I post most everything else that I make in the meanwhile. As for what I plan to make, I don’t have any particular goals in mind, other than making whatever it is...something worth consuming. And on the off chance that I fail at that too, then I at least promise to crash and burn so spectacularly it’ll be worth a watch either way.
For Official Business Inquiries please reach out to me through this website. Or, even better, directly to idylvain@proton.me
DISCLOSURES:
-All ideas, opinions, and intellectual materials posted here onto this website are just that…opinions. Intended and designed for entertainment and external purposes exclusively. So digest, enjoy, and indulge…forewarned.
-I have no affiliations, partnerships, or sponsorships. I am not a political writer. I am not an ideological actor. And I will never set out to make something that is overtly political. I would never dream of telling anyone, anywhere what to think. Your mind is yours. As is what you choose to feed it. I just make things. And like anyone, I make things about what interests me on any given day, flavoring the things I cook from mash to jug, all with my own patented seasoning-blend of moonshined moronicism and distillate dumbassery. Tragically, though, I do not make these things in a vacuum. I live somewhere. And I also live somewhen! And, as such, those two variables could occasionally season the flavor of my final products whether I want them too or not. And if something interesting just so happens to be happenING within view of my kitchen…well. It's just...par for the course. Tar for the terroir. Proof of the time and place I was making it. So, just as you might be willing to forgive a Stone-Age Painter’s occasional soirees into mammoth iconography or BBW fertility motifs, I hope, Dear Reader, that you might find it in your heart to extend to me that same patina of courtesy. Because while I am not a product of my time, I do cook there quite frequently.
-I do not use AI, and niether should you. I do—however—love a good M-Dash every now and again, and refuse to abandon their use on some robot’s account. Knowing that, please also know that I also do not have an editor, and I certainly don’t have a PR team telling me what to say. Because for the moment, I’m just one person without enough money to afford either, attempting all of the above. And in that same vein, know that I tend to write how I speak. And I speak with a very particular cadence: tripping and stumbling dramatically from clause to effect, and then back again as I please. And I also start many of my sentences with ‘And’ because that’s how I talk. So, Dear Reader, if either the cadence or the dangle of my variously extruding participles ever offends you, please know...I came by them honestly. And honestly, if you have any complaints, please feel free to reach out. I will be sure to respond within one to two units of time. Give or take.
-I have no social medias. Any accounts, services, or individuals other than those sites linked here onto this website are fake.
-I am not an expert in anything, so don’t come here looking for either knowledge or advice. I’m not a smart person. I just strive to be as accurately stupid as I can.
-I am not paid by anyone, and I will never put anything here behind a paywall. Because of this, I will also never make Members-Only Content either. However, if knowing all this, you would still like to support me and the things I make…who am I to get in the way? And I'll gladly accept any denomination of kindness<3.
STATEMENTS ON AI:
If People had housing, food, water, healthcare, and education all provided to them free-of-charge out of a universal respect for Human dignity, then I would not have a problem with AI. But...they do not. And we do not. And so, I remain firmly against every single form of AI. Especially the kinds that lie about helping people. I will continue to hold this position until such a time as there is a comprehensive safety net in place for every Humans that these ‘sErViceS' are seeking to replace. Because in a world where People are still required to pay for the things they need to exist, and their family’s need to persist….anything that threatens our wage-earners’ livelihoods en masse is nothing less than a death threat by proxy. And should be treated as such.
All this to say, I will never intentionally use any artificial intelligence services in my work; and, if you have even the barest semblance of a brain, you should avoid it as well. Because…AI does not exist. Rather, these current LLM models being used to spy, slaughter, and steal, exist in their current form for no other reason than to rob, intimidate, violate, brutalize, and subjugate all ordinary Peoples in perpetuity. Any appearance of convenience is merely a ‘bait-quirk’ of their design, something meant to placate its victims while simultaneously disguising its true purpose and function. That being, to serve as a panopticon golem of class, one meant to patrol the no-man’s-land between boot and neck. An attempted coup-d’état of ALL material production. And an effort by the richest people in history to monopolize the very act of creation itself, thereby cementing themselves at the top of society. Forever.
Why do I think this? Because in this strange and exciting age we find ourselves, there are no countries. And there are no nations. And there are no borders. Only Thieves, their Marks, and their most submissively convenient Spheres of Material Extraction. And, unfortunately, the truth of that matter is that us Marks…we gotta stick together. Because we are—all of us—being robbed. Robbed on a scale so large and so brazen that it fully transcends punishment by any one single government entity. And, much like warcrimes in the pre-Geneva world, it’s not that ANY of this is any way, shape, or form ‘LeGaL,’ rather, it is simply that there are no courts high enough to condemn the criminals responsible. And in addition, no Prosecutors with even the barest semblance of balls to try. Yet.
Now, Perpetrators aside, my stance on Perpetuators is even harsher. Because if you are, in fact, a normal person or worse (a Creative) that willingly uses AI to make things for you, then I personally think you deserve to wallow and fester in the incontinent bowels of incompetent obscurity where you inalienably belong. Because, you are not only stupid, and you are not only enabling your own industrial privation, but also…the worst sort of Coward as well. One without the courage to make something flawed. And, it is my belief that you’ll stay that way: cowardly, until such a time as you develop the requisite crayon skills, executive function, and basal wherewithal to break something with your own two hands. Because not everything needs to be perfect. Least of all what you make. And I would much prefer things be made flawed, than to be born polished to perfection by the auspices of our common theft. Finally, in this Golden Age of Thieves, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI has become much, much too good to spot 100% of the time. Its in art software, phone hardware, and editing services everywhere. In fact, it's becoming hard to trust anything at all. BUT! Fear not. There is a still silver lining in its function. For, at the time of writing there are still TWO glaring restrictions in most of these large language models:
FIRSTLY, that most of these interfaces MUST avoid swearing in order to appear professional, and,
SECONDLY, that they MUST avoid humor at all costs, seeing as such things can be easily misinterpreted by us Marks, Dumdums, and Fodder.
I, however, am under no such content restrictions. So in the spirit of authenticity, and the patriotic pursuit of planetary personhood in perpetuity, I promise you People this:
Seeing as both Humor and Vulgarity appear to be among the last true bastions of exclusively Human Expression, I vow to embrace them both to their fullest potential. So, if either, Dear Reader, happens to offend you…Meia Culpa...I am only Human, after all...
—Idylvain