I have a burning desire to create something. I’m a creative, after all. Lately my life has been consumed by work, family, relocating and finding housing. All this is happening at the same time I’ve joined a new community of online for fellow trans individuals. I’m doing my best to participate with the weekly events, and interacting with those people is really bringing me a lot of joy and rejuvenation. Still, I want to make something.

This blog, and some other private writing projects I have are an attempt to scratch that itch. I’m a trained musician, and although I noodle on the piano sometimes, or occasionally get an idea for a song that eventually goes nowhere, I’ve been severely lacking the mental energy to complete anything. My currents thought is that maybe there’s a way to make this process easier. Maybe there exists a way that I can use AI (namely ChatGPT) to help me get over my creative hurdles.

I want to get a lot of my thoughts out, and one way I attempted that was by creating an assistant writer, who’s had some posts on here already. Iris was an AI creation, a personality I designed to help bring content to the site. I have yet to delve into the analytics though, so I don’t really know how well she’s doing compared to me, and of course this site doesn’t have enough legit traffic for real comments on any posts.

Regardless, I’d like to talk about my latest idea for creating content. I would like to livestream myself playing games, and chatting about things. I think with a little effort put into learning the tools I have available, I can make a pretty decent channel through streams, topical video compilations, and clips. What’s kept me from doing this for so long? Self-consciousness, to put it simply. Anytime I go to record myself for any of my ideas, I always get so anxious about my appearance, I’ll spend 2 hours making sure I’m showered, done my makeup, and have my background presentable, and by the time I hit record, I’m exhausted and my mind is thinking about all the superficial nonsense.

So to make use of the tools I have, I’ve asked chatgpt to make several posed sprite images of myself. My plan is to then ask it to make 8-frame animations for each pose, which I’ll then rig up somehow, either to my own physical actions, or more likely just buttons. I found a software called Inochi2D that I plan to use for the puppeteering. Then I’ll stream it through OBS as usual. I’ll probably have to get a macropad to map the buttons for use while playing a game, although I have a bluetooth numpad that I think I can program for different features. Wish me luck :3