Author: Ada Hoffmann

I love to do yearly retrospectives / top 10s and this year I’ve done one using my own proprietary formula! (Not all that proprietary, really. Substack has its own idea of which are the “top posts,” but it strongly favors paywalled posts, doesn’t integrate with WordPress – necessary when my Autistic Book Party posts, for backwards compatibility reasons, are still posted there – and doesn’t automatically separate the posts by year, so I just ran my own numbers for the visible stats on each of my 2022 posts and guessed wildly at how to weight things like hits vs comments vs likes.)

So what were the best posts on Everything Is True this past year? Let’s count them down!

(Read the full post on Substack)

I showed you the heroes quiz already (if you missed it, it’s here: https://uquiz.com/pfir1B ) But I, for one, am also a fan of the villains! So if you want to know which villain from the Outside series you are, that quiz is up too now: https://uquiz.com/XxIe6D

Possible results include the four most major angel characters, Ev, Sispirinithas, or Ushanche se Izumo.

(Mine is Elu, which does not surprise me…)

I’m thinking more about image- and text-generating AI, and one point I want to make is that this current mess isn’t just a failure of ethics – it’s a failure of evaluation more broadly. It’s not just that the tech industry didn’t think carefully enough about whether producing this kind of AI would be harmful; it’s also that the other questions we asked ourselves – whether a creative AI was effective, whether it was “really” creative, and so on – were the wrong questions.

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Merry Christmas, all, and happy Week 4 of our THE INFINITE Advent calendar! I’m delighted to share a cute little, maybe-canon-and-maybe-not story with you today. Think of it as autofanfiction.

(This story contains spoilers up to the first couple of chapters of THE FALLEN, but nothing later.)

(Read the full story on Substack)

I’m not going to do an award eligibility post this year, because the only new thing I published in 2022 was the poem “Google Glasses.” (A LOT of big things planned for 2023 though, so stay tuned! Sometimes writing careers are like this, just unpredictable cycles of boom and bust.)

I would very much like, though – as we move into award nomination season – to share with you some of my favorite things I read. There’s a lot of ground to cover, so we’ll do books this week, and short stories / poetry in the new year.

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This week is maybe a little less light-hearted than other weeks, but I know it’s something some readers really need! I’ve finished a list of content warnings for THE INFINITE, which is now up on my official website. (I also realized that my official website… did not actually have a page for THE INFINITE yet. Whoops! That’s fixed now.)

The list of content warnings comes in two versions – a short list of topics, and a longer list explaining what happens that involves each of these topics. The longer list may, of course, have spoilers. You can choose whichever list suits your needs better.

I love these silly little quizzes, so I’ve made one to help us count down to THE INFINITE! Find out which hero from the Outside series you are, here:

https://uquiz.com/pfir1B

Possible results include Yasira, Tiv, all seven of the Seven, or Qiel Huong.

(If you’re more of a villain person, don’t worry – the villain quiz is coming in Week Five. 😀 )

For the characters of the OUTSIDE series, it’s only been a day since we left them. For us as readers, it’s been a year and a half! Here’s a quick refresher on who’s who in THE INFINITE, and what they’ve been up to most recently.

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