In the last days of the year, acceptance count goes up one. Hurray!

Hahahahaha www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...

I just dont directly use LLMs because I have a functioning brain. Why should I let in corporations into that more than they already have?

"Never trust a fucking elf!" - Gimli

Preview of the cover for volume 12 of Bullet Points, with stories from @bogiperson.bsky.social , @sljohnson.bsky.social , @deborahldavitt.com , @joshuamannix.bsky.social , and more. Coming January 15. Please spread the word!

Imagine you go to a restaurant with a person. You sit down, there's idle chit-chat that that has to be heard over the other guests here, you both are browsing the menu. The server comes by and takes your order. Your acquaintance orders with a few customizations;

Its just gross they treat short story magazines this way. If you have to pretend to have talent and skill, go somewhere else.

Have llms generate a thing, only to have to rewrite the thing, so to make it sound like you actually put in effort and wrote it...all the while not knowing what the story it just shat put is... Id rather just write it and not let my skill be taken by a 3rd party plagarism corporation.

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Nice and fast. The speculative fiction commity doesnt let this fly.

Echoing everyone else: allowing this means you are allowing people who pretend to have talent and skill (by utilizing llms) compete against actual artists who have talent and skill. Why is there even a distinction needed? No llm utilization at all. Its that simple.

Stats for the year as of today: 84 rejections - 7 personal (of magazines that dont give feedback to all) 3 Acceptances 1 Maybe

"[AI] allows you to pretend to be creative" True words from Jay @redlettermedia.com youtu.be/IPitD1eYLiM?...

Note also its not about quality to Cuban, its about quantity. But that creative spark and insight comes from the time it takes, from the process. These people have never done anything creative in their lives.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Liked it substantially more than Glass Onion due to the characters. On par with the original in quality.

Tech companies forcing llms on us like... fuck that. I have a brain thats functional thanks.

Caught Stealing: B- Needed more Matt Smith. His character really gave the movie charm.

I've been a patron of BCS for several years now and they are well worth it to keep this bastion going. Paying $5 a month (or $2) for multiple memorable short stories from new and well known authors alike is well worth it. #fantasy #shortfiction #writing #reading #books

"We changed our minds after the Transline's resident AI read it." I slumped lower in the flowfoam. "Even the AI hated it?" "The AI loved it," said Tyrena. "Thats when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."

The Running Man: B to A- depending on your tastes.

A movie you’ve seen more than seven times in a gif.

New story day! Inspired by some IT customer service experiences I've had... #fiction #scifi #IT ift.tt/2ByQMbP

#nowreading #books

Then lets have people subscribe to short story magazines, new and old!

New story submission...

Re-watching DS9 while editing? Yes, please. #ds9 #startrek #writing #amwriting

Some days are just depresso days.

The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2

Is 20 rejections for one story warranting trunking it? Asking for a "friend"... #fiction #submission

50 rejections for the year? Sure. But two acceptances! Lets hope to grow at least one of those...

No kings in Cincinnati #NoKings

You know, at least all this out right showcases the little boys who wear "Don't tread on me" depictions love the boot when its up their own ass but don't feel it yet. www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/t...

One of the most offensive (lacking a better word) claims people make about "AI" is that they work the same as human creativity. As if someone writing a story just added a couple things we've seen before together and *bam* something new. That is not how it works at all.

135 hours later...Im finally at the Last Light Inn on BG3.

I just came to the realization that a short story magazine could, theoreitically, sue a person for damages if they inexplicably accepted a LLM generated story despite the submitter confirming on the submission that it wasnt. It fits all the criteria.

Sinners - 5/5 Are Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan the Scorsese/De Niro of this era?

Days away from having 10 stories on submission...

My flash fiction for Bullet Points, "A Hollow Victory", is scheduled for Jan 2026...!

How any editor could let this go by knowing that llms are a thing...for shame. It should get someone fired for letting this slop through.

Cheap choices make cheap product. No thanks to generated slop.

All Electric Ghosts by Rich Larson @clarkesworldmagazine.com Lots of things clicked after reading and analyzing it. Really this story is what brought me down the path of writing a lot of short stories and flash. clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_10_19/

Vernazza, Italy #photography #italy #travel

3 stories, 3 personal rejections in a row...

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements. AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

Nothing like a cold beer and a new #book at the end of a long day. Bonus Corgi.

Barcelona #photography

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Another one of Antibes, France. The opposite of the previous photo. #photography