Lesbian samurai fantasy. That's basically what my three Izumo short story collections are all about. If that sounds right up your alley, then by all means, grab yourself a copy. Or five. 😂 #shortstory #sapphfic belligerentsnake.itch.io/paper-crane-...

Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist. Embarassing.

Oh no. I just had the most evil idea. The Age of Steam and Sorcery is an MMO. Of COURSE it's going to have escort quests. They're a staple. I'm going to have the NPC run speed HIGHER than the player speed, and have them complain loudly every time they have to stop and let you catch up.

genAI ain’t coming near this. So please support all our lovely fandom artists who’re working really hard to make this happen. You’re getting 14 pieces of original artwork for a really good deal - and it’s all for charity and helping to feed hungry children.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

Stupid covid. It's ten thirty in the morning, two weeks after I'm supposedly "better", and I'm exhausted. Two coffees and a pre-workout gummy in me and I'm head-on-desk dead.

On a whim I just checked where the ship carrying my rims was, it was supposed to come straight from China (yeah, I know) to Oz. It's in Lebanon. WHY is it in Lebanon? No wonder expected delivery is June.

Fiction is a great place for humour. The themes & overall tone of my books are too serious to market as 'comedy fantasy/ SciFi-Fantasy.' But let's just say I have characters blowing off nerves before a major crime bust by joking about running around in their underwear as a diversionary tactic 😉.

Building a Rim-Driven Jet Engine

Modded Server PSU Provides Plenty of Current

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De "Mark of the Fool", de J. M. Clarke

I hate my brain at the moment. I was out mowing and thought of an absolute banger if some banter for my book, and knowing I have the fog I ran inside to write it down straight away. It's gone. The whole thing. I got nothing.

There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "reload." - Schlock 70:37

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

If you wanna inject some positivity into this world, my request to you is: If you like a creative person (artist, musician, craftsperson, literally anything), tell them you like their stuff. Doesn't have to be me, in fact I'd prefer it if it wasn't, but you'll make their day, I promise.

I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

Making a Bronze Mirror From Scratch

Good to see NSW's high court doing its job. Related: Chris; stop violating the constitution, you dickhead!

Fantasy & SciFi Authors Selling Direct, It seems we need direct sales visibility, so I'm setting up a blog (inclu. small press) to share our stores! See the screenshot for eligibility. Q's welcome! If you're not on my Author Discord, I'm happy to DM you the sign up form. It'll be open 3+ months.

PS. Paging Aussie, Kiwi, Islander and Asian Authors, I'm going to do an Asia-Pacific Direct Sales Blog Post too. The Asia-Pacific one will ALL fiction genres, Kidlit-Adult, shorts to novels. Let me know if you'd like a sign up form for that too!

If I every won the lottery, I'd stay quiet, but their'd be signs. I'd open something like Auntie and Uncles here in town but so much better. Space for gaming, actual Indie authors, a huge section just for Queer books, a small patisserie that doubles as a bar at night. Open 24 hrs a day to everyone.

I love reading novels. I’m always amazed by folks who don’t read fiction. There is nothing better, to me, than being in the middle of a book that you can’t wait to return to. It’s like living two lives at once.

Mistbind's Noobkitty on Royal Road is a fun slice of life litrpg about a cat beastkin lesbian baker And comes with the single best description of LGBT I've ever read, it's so nuanced and yet so simple and easy to understand Also go read it if you want a nice chill story, it's relaxing, cute & gay

Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.

My books are set in the near future, so I'm going to have to include The New Art Of War, which is basically the original book, but read as though you're explaining it to the Jaeger Bomber himself Imagine every statement said while pinching the bridge of your nose, and starting with "for fucks sake"

My extremely pretty paperback has arrived! First Mage on the Moon by @cameronjohnston.bsky.social and it sounds great - industrialised magic, heresy and space travel? I'm in!

Thanks to how it was made, I'll probably never play Arc Raiders. But I can't deny some of the emergent properties. Criminogists and behavioral psychologists are using it to study how people react. The pkers are getting ganked and people are working together against the clankers.

I know Ace Awareness Day has recently passed, but fuck it: I'm ace, my book is ace, and I'll continue being ace for the rest of my life. The Outsiders of Orkland contains multiple a-spec characters and a society that has its own set of cultural norms. Check it out. kennethfeller.com 🌈📚♠️ 🩸📚 🪐📚

Jaws. Definitely. Mostly because I had no idea I'd seen it, I just spent the first 20-ish years of my life deathly afraid of water I couldn't see the bottom of, until one day I saw the movie as an adult and went... This is weirdly familiar?!?! Have I seen this before?

the way i've gotten over being parasocially starstruck when it comes to other niche microcelebrities is not to think of them as friends but as coworkers who are all just better at their job than me

My gaslamp #gothic murder mystery short story, Honoria, is out! At the request of his prince, Owen Rosedown investigates a woman's mysterious death... But is everything as simple as it seems? vincentlore.itch.io/honoria payhip.com/b/oP8Qj ko-fi.com/s/50e65acb09 📚💙🎉 🤏📚 📚🏳️‍⚧️

It is always fine to torpedo the career of another writer if you find out they're using ai to pretend to do their job because it's trivial to avoid, destroying the planet, and destroying the entire industry. If I find out your name I'm telling everyone and making sure to draw as many people to it..

just had to go ONE BY ONE disabling ai remix on all of my videos on tiktok, there doesn’t seem to be a way to mass edit and this has been retroactively implemented on ALL videos, i’m livid

This! My motto is "Normal is boring." I'm happily weird

Second this! As a chronically ill author I don't have the spoons to go direct with multiple stores, but Kobo is one I'll happily do so with. I also love that they have partnerships with nationally owned stores, like Booktopia here in Australia.

Opens slush pile. Reads generated story... Bans. Reads generated story... Bans. Reads generated story... Bans... Screams. Closes computer. Screams again. Runs off into the woods. Sees squirrel. Hmmm... Squirrels have never submitted a generated story. Squirrel gets treat.

Places my ebooks will likely be staying - Store.dax.ink - Kobo (incl. Kobo Plus) - B&N - Campfire - Itch - Yearn - Google Play - Amazon - Overdrive/Libby Everywhere else is... Not looking great. So Apple, Hoopla, Everand, Fable, BorrowBox, CloudLibrary, Odilo, etc.

I actually need privileged (able bodied cishet white people) to please sit their asses down during this conversation about D2D fucking us over because someone on Threads decided it's a great time to give us 7 tips on how to get your books to rake in $100 in revenue like it's literally THAT easy...

With regards to that last repost, reviews can mean a lot to smaller developers, so I'm gonna put out a little call to action. Everyone following me? DO THIS NOW! I'm asking for replies so more folks pick this up, and continue it. Please take this graphic and ask your followers to do the same!

I've been reading a list of dumb kanji tattoos on people who have no idea what it means and most of them are pretty funny, but it gave me an idea for a deliberately cringe ink that I kinda want now: 六七 I'd tell them it means Forty Two in Hakka.

ME: time to sleep BRAIN: have you ever noticed that Huey Dewey and Louie all rhyme but nearly every syllable is spelled differently

Hey! Techsky! all you nerds and birds and other fun nonbinary words! Let's talk tech and the future of digital communities together! Please signal boost, tag anyone you think would be interested and let's actually talk this through ourselves, without any billionaires present

My goodness; good politics news! Its Victoria-state level as opposed to national Aussie, but still good news!

great work everyone keep it up they are pigs and fascists and they should be reminded of it every day forever

Oh lmao ofc he was also one of these guys. Nazis overdosing out of shame is good. There isn't any grey to this at all. They all should do it. They want to do it to the rest of us anyway. They say in the turner diaries directly. It's fair play.