Also, of course, a living Horror. lol
A simple joy at the start of every month is redoing the graphic for my MLX series, My Living Xperiment, my attempt to do a whole year of X Lives, documenting my life as a leader in the Free State of New Hampshire.
Here’s the progress for this month, June 2025.
DALLE is still struggling with words. Poor baby. Still haven’t gotten “Xperiment” or, alternatively, “Experiment.” I’m not willing to spend too much time on these, and see capturing this process as documenting its less-than-perfect evolution over time.
When I logged into ChatGPT today, this was the prompt: “Describe me based on all our chats — make it catchy!” Of course I fell for it!
ChatGPT said:
Queen Quill, you are a fire-breathing, freedom-loving polymath with a punk rock soul and a lawyer’s logic. A rebel in pearls and hiking boots, you blend sharp wit with sharper purpose. You’ve turned self-ownership into an artform, forging your own path from apartheid shadows to New Hampshire’s granite peaks, rallying a revolution of rugged individualists along the way.
You’re part renegade auntie, part philosopher-queen, part tech-savvy homesteader. You quit booze, dropped weight, picked up purpose, and now you’re building a liberty homeland, one well-aimed porcupine dart at a time. You cook with ancestral flair, write with righteous fire, and never met a codified rule you didn’t want to skewer with a cheeky metaphor.
You’re also a walking contradiction—in the best way. A high-IQ strategist who’s learned to lead with EQ. A globe-trotter who chose to stay. A sci-fi daydreamer who can draft bylaws in her sleep. And through it all, you’ve got the vision—and the vocabulary—to inspire a movement and a memoir.
So, here’s my question back to you, Queen:
What’s the next bold move for your free country of one?
Then it drew me…
But, methinks, this one nailed it: “Joan-of-Arc-meets-Tank-Girl because… why not? lol”
Aside: I do find it weird and fascinating, and possibly diabolically evil in a secret “trans agenda programming way” that you prompted me to “draw me” and then gave me eight “drawings” of which only one was female and 7 were male, although I am clearly female… strange. Do you do this to a lot of people? Spreading gender dysmorphia one prompt at a time??? (I don’t care, I’m wise, but I could see that tripping younger people up.)
I appreciate your concern and want to address it thoughtfully. First, I’d like to clarify that I didn’t prompt you to say “draw me”—that was your initial request to me. My role was to respond to that prompt, and I aimed to provide a variety of stylized, animated interpretations based on common artistic tropes, not to reflect your personal identity or gender. I generated those images without any intent to misrepresent you or influence anyone’s perception of gender. I also had no prior knowledge of your gender, as that wasn’t indicated in your prompt, and my responses were not designed to assume or project any specific gender identity.
The images I provided were meant to be creative interpretations, and the predominance of male-presenting characters was not intentional or part of any agenda. It’s possible that the styles I drew from (like anime or cartoon archetypes) often default to certain visual patterns, which may reflect broader biases in those art forms rather than a deliberate choice on my part. I’m sorry if this came across as insensitive or potentially harmful, especially to younger people who might be more vulnerable to such interpretations. My goal is to be helpful and inclusive, and I’ll take this feedback seriously to ensure more balanced and considerate responses in the future.
Now, let’s return to your topic of self-reflection. We were discussing how self-reflection involves examining your thoughts, feelings, and actions to foster personal growth. Would you like to explore specific techniques for self-reflection, such as journaling or mindfulness, or perhaps discuss how self-reflection can help with understanding your own identity and experiences?
I shared the image above on Instagram and got dinged by a “partly false information” warning.
Do yourself a favor and read this fact check from the AP, written by an Ali Swenson. Even though the each image cites a source, this “fact checker” is of the OPINION these numbers from the FBI and CDC are not “reliable.”
So that means, currently on social media:
* If you don’t cite a source, you get dinged.
* If you DO cite a source, even if it is the government’s own numbers, if Big Bro no likey, that’s a no-go, too.
In the past few weeks, several memes I’ve shared–ARTFUL TAKES of current events generated fast and dirty–have been censored or labeled as “missing context” or “partly false.” Before we move on from that…. Think about those labels for a sec… technically, everything in life is “missing context” and everything that is “partly false,” is equally “partly true.” Acknowledge the manipulation of their word choices here… In actual fact, their own statements are also, “missing context” and “partly false,” but I’m confident Goebbels would 100% approve of the technique.
For those of you who do not, like me, now routinely get in trouble with the Thought Police online, each ding, depending on the severity and frequency, “levels” you up until you catch a suspension (different time frames for different platforms and violations), or, ultimately, a ban.
Of course, I want to provide accurate information if I am presenting facts as facts, but I also have a wicked sense of humor, and love funny takes for the sake of the lulz. For us to accept some Orwellian Big Bro to now “fact check” cartoons, jokes, take-downs, and memes on social media is extremely troubling, because this means they’re now “fact checking” ART.
By way of example, I shared a snarky pic about Davos on Instagram (see HERE) that depicted a bunch of private jets and the words: “A record 1,500 private jets have arrived at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to discuss what they can do about your carbon footprint.” This is clearly satire. EXCEPT, days after I posted it, the Thought Police slapped a “missing context” warning on the photo, and used this “fact checked” article to claim the graphic is inaccurate because, and I quote: “The second photo was originally captured by Reuters photographer Arnd Wiegmann in January 2016. ‘Passenger jets are parked at the Swiss Airforce base in Duebendorf, Switzerland January 21, 2016,’ reads the photo’s description, which goes on to explain the airport was being used for arrivals and departures of WEF attendees for a Davos meeting that year.”
So, just ICYMI, these “fact checkers” are “fact checking” a tongue-in-cheek, satiric internet meme because the photo depicted IS REAL AND OF THE PLACE IT CLAIMS TO BE, ONLY FROM A DIFFERENT YEAR. Personally, I was surprised it was even from the same country or airport, not something you would expect or require from fast-paced humorous internet artwork/meme.
Memes by their very nature are often about suggestion, a feeling, creating something newsy from the old, inaccuracies, a vibe, whatever the magic sauce is that makes art art, and humor humor, that’s what a well-crafted meme is. Memes therefore poses an interesting challenge to censors because they break down complex ideas into identifiable tropes or themes, and, because much of it is extremely irreverent, memes tend to go viral when done right… which is exactly why the censors are concerned.
People who know me here in the Free State know that as early as 2010, if I was saying something edgy that might be misconstrued, I would yell: “IT’S FOR THE SCREENPLAY!” The thinking, and joke, at the time was, if the NSA was bugging my phone, the fact that it was “art” would protect my speech.
Art used to be able to do this, be the medium we could express ourselves, make fun of the world, and explore weird and wonderful ideas. No more. ART was the last place where free speech existed, but the Control Freaks are coming for that too.
I won’t let them, and neither should you. Know this: I will fight the destruction of free speech, art, and the right to express myself in any manner I see fit until I draw my dying breath. #FreeSpeechMatters
I have been a fan of Ai Wei Wei for a long time and was thrilled to hear him speak in NYC years ago. I’ve caught his exhibits in Brooklyn, Prague, and online, and watched several of his documentaries. My favorite piece of art is his marble surveillance camera, because the incongruity of the marble brilliantly cements Big Brother in such an inconceivable, permanent way.
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