If this is your first time at Club Fight [Zoom in on a child holding a wooden club; he stands in the midst of a group of variously aged aggressive-looking men] You have to club [cuts to a rave, in the foreground the child is holding his club ready to strike and is also crying]

if we want to find new paths, we need to start by looking at where the old ones aren’t.

okay, my latest Lord of the Rings idea: character movies. example: here’s Boromir’s story. the second half is familiar, and we’ve already seen the climax, but not with this perspective. it’s 90 minutes long.

an important story in our culture is “once upon a time, an adult was trying to relax, and that was all that mattered”

answer (or map or key or something) to a puzzle I’m working on

suggestion, courtesy of Weird Al

ai will never capture the human perspective, just like no human can capture another’s perspective — only their own. human : human :: human : ai ::: apples : oranges :: fruit : fruit

… There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Perfect day for the last 1/3 of @fondalee.bsky.social’s The Last Contract of Isako. Made me think Frostpunk (as an fps) x The Continental (with samurai) x corporate intrigue. Great action and conspiracies, and all bound together by a provocative perspective on disclosure. Had a great time with it.

“… and you have been classified as ‘high risk.’” (From Porosity Valley 2: Tricksters’ Plot, by Kim Ayoung, as showcased at the National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art in Seoul)

Okay, LotR re-interpretation: Hobbits as gangsters. Everything is what’s in the book — hobbit aesthetic, hobbit dialogue, hobbit shenanigans, hobbit clothes. But they’re not polite folk in an idyllic countryside, they’re crime lords who are out for blood and everybody who interacts with them knows.

If we (the humans) can’t find value in humans and humanity, everything is nothing.

my role here? protect the people from wonggles. some may say the wonggles are here only because i am here, and yes, that is true. honestly i’m trying to figure out what to do with all these wonggles. they follow me wherever i go.

Finally home after a perilous quest 🎨 Sarah Graham

Here’s a great rundown of writing contests (and publications) that are open RIGHT NOW. Now that it takes less than 3 years for me to finish a 5,000 word story, I might actually be able to use lists like these as inspiration rather than chore lists. Accidentally started enjoying writing again. Oops

why does my cocoa packet have pelican energy.

Notes from CJA’s blog Characters need: - Opinions & resentments - Favorite places - Memories - Disagreements at many scales - To do things they don’t like - A shifting relationship with the environment / external world - And also shifts happening in the internal world Go read the whole thing!

Safe for the moment… the robots can’t talk about us @faeriegoblin.bsky.social

“ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee” but it’s “sir, the marshmallow is upon *you*”

I keep forgetting that character creation isn’t endgame. It’s something you can change or continue at any time (in the menu, although the timer keeps running). You can also accept quests and set goals.

Studying up

My “Neir Automata ui” Firefox theme color-glitched while I was on YouTube today and for a second I wasn’t sure if it was actually part of the theme, and then reality itself crumpled around me but I relaunched the browser and it was fine

Yoko Taro on being miserable

Birdwatching on Mount Utsayantha, New York by Justine Gardner published in Prospectus, issue 4, Summer/Fall 2021

Remember, if you’re saying ohm, you are the resistance.

If however you WANT to say “om” with me at 11:11:11 local time Easter morning, here’s a sign-up page that will help me get you omsday-related support materials: forms.gle/AfPx86VaWyAA...

4-5 is the next 6-7. Trust be, mro. (It’s tomorrow)

Just a quick reminder about tomorrow, Easter Sunday

Yoko Taro on his first directing job and having strong opinions on things no one else cared about #yokotaro

List of things that, if you say yes to them, indicate you might like my new book, (technically a novella,) Teenage Orca Rampage. Out tomorrow or lmk if you want an ARC. #booksbooksbooks

Test footage. Disabling flashy thing next time. But I love slo mo liquid mixing.

I’ve been struggling with how to deal with *gestures vaguely at everything* and came to the conclusion that the answer was to write a story about a teenage orca with robot legs who goes on a violent rampage against the asshole human billionaire who killed her family. Here’s a preview!

Delighted to follow up to my previous post with the new, 100% human made cover to Teenage Orca Rampage. Will post a story preview later today!

Okay, here’s the deal. A while back a buddy of mine made these with an ai image generator and they’re both so dumb. I love them so I wrote a story about a teenage orca who makes a robot body (pictured) to get revenge on the billionaire who killed her pod. #artistwanted

Minnesota was about the files.

this world is ruled by the criminally insane. if you’re in charge and this is happening, you are criminally insane and should not be in power. if you’re in charge and you’re not doing anything to stop this, right now, you’re either criminally insane or you’re not in charge.

please enjoy my latest fully illustrated sci fi epic about Quumbi the Monkeyfish #shortfiction #digitalart #noai

In all truth, Good died this week. Renee Nicole Good was shot in the face through her car window. She was on her way with her partner to pick up her kids from school. 1/

(looking with disgust at a playlist i spent several hours putting together) this is just songs i like

fall.

If the @housedemocrats.bsky.social aren’t owning this shutdown — “We are shutting the government down in order to prevent your healthcare from tripling in price” etc. — and pouring money into telling Republican voters what to tell their reps about it, they’re just wasting everyone’s time.

Let’s do more together. Including pointless things. Just to remind ourselves that we still can. squidthebee.substack.com/p/experiment...

okay hold up @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social is the Southern Reach series really just an incredible riff on if “swamp gas and the reflection of Venus” was actually the reason for everything and they were telling the truth the whole time but it was way weirder than we knew?

nearly everyone has been to 7-11 or something like it, and in this way we are all the same. happy Human Day!

ok so since we just straight up have a Nazi party now can we also like come up with a super basic platform we can all agree on and form a party around it called Decent Humans or whatever? if the vote’s gonna be split let’s at least put the effort into making an alternative that people actually want.

i’m sorry Professor @annaleen.bsky.social i am really trying to finish the reading assignment but i’ve run into some difficulties #storiesareweapons

some of y’all got copies of my definitely not a cult pamphlet a while back. i put together a thing about it if you want to see the creative process: squidthebee.substack.com/p/making-the...

this is going to be the most important picture in the world. the fool of fools. kneel before it in understanding, but no more.

if a company wants to actually do something meaningful to support Pride, make your product free this month. free for everybody. or is your product not good enough that you can do that and know you’ll come out on top?