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lol holy shit

Hey @elementalamber.bsky.social your Xmas username is very funny

Literally no one respects the NY Post, do not take anything from there seriously except maybe weather and sports scores.

Buncha new followers, so hi there, ya freaks. I am a writer, I write weird crime/SFF/horror, sometimes I do essays. I have books for sale. I am also a college professor but I don't really talk about that much . I have two cats who annoy the shit outta me. Get more here;

She’s one of NYC’s most beloved trans legends 💕

It’s also essentially the sort of thing (and I swear this is true) I was taught by MY SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE NINETEEN EIGHTIES to be exactly what America was supposed to be all about. But of course 1980s South Carolina was a noted bastion of Woke

Start your year off right.

Happy MALTESE FALCON public domain day to all who celebrate

Personally, I feel if you show up at a daycare demanding to be let in and film children because of some dumb racist shit you read online, someone should be legally allowed to ________ you with a ______. But that’s just me.

MASINT #5388 from Topaz 3 (TOP SECRET) 1. Hopeless Clocks 2. Existential Fountain of Debt 3. Eldritch Spirits

This actually reminds me I don’t read any Kinky Friedman at all this year. Been a while, maybe I’ll dive into one of my favorite detective novels in January, ELVIS JESUS & COCA-COLA.

If you count short stories, collections, and some re-reads, I think 10? 15? It’d have been more but I read for work a lot, so sometimes I can’t make myself read for fun and need to decompress with shit TV instead.

Sci-fi author Gene Wolfe is the model for the Pringles guy because he helped develop the container for them (he was an engineer).

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

the tariffs are the best evidence we have that there's not a grand master plan and no larger machiavellian scheme, he's just really stupid

It boggles my mind that apparently the studio wanted to cut the scene that Ken wrote about here, because it’s so powerful and good and Jesus, executives really are just poisoned morons, huh.

Please. Please God.

My greatest flaw as someone really into genre fiction is that Western stuff is…just OK to me. Cowboy stuff really doesn’t interest me for the most part.

Ahhh, my homie Shigure from FRUITS BASKET.

On a completely different tangent if any smaller pixel artists (under 1000 followers, generally speaking) want to be put in my little starter pack, lemme know. I'm still in the process of setting it up but I wanna support smaller artists. Ditto if you have a Patreon/Kofi. #pixelart #pixelartist

In hindsight there is a significant chance that was Gerard Way I yelled at to get out of my way back in like 2001.

The King of All Cosmos in Katamari Damacy is Eru Illúvatar. The Prince is Manwë. The cousins are the Valar and Maiar

I have finally caught up on FALLOUT and man, I haven’t genuinely enjoyed a TV show like this in a while. Just a bang-up good time.

i will never stop. i will never moderate. i will never treat anyone forcing this shit down the world's throat as though they are anything but antisocial wreckers divorced from even the most cursory understanding of beauty and joy

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As Bluesky's official Greek Guy Who Likes History And Nitpicks Greek Stuff Guy, I am officially declaring that everyone should lighten the fuck up about the upcoming Nolan ODYSSEY movie's "historically inaccurate" armor.

Wordpress letting me know I've been using their service for 18 years and that my own personal blog has been going since 2009 on there. Huh.

I was gonna say something about that essay defending LLM/“Gen AI” in SFF but the author is a literal nobody I’ve never heard of, it’s really not worth it.

Folks, these ending explained videos aren’t for people too dumb to understand stories, they’re for people who don’t want to watch all that but also want to argue about it online.

Y’all, I promise, you can safely ignore anything the New York Post says about Mamdani.

If I was a hero in a JRPG I would simply shoot and kill my enemies with a gun without “waiting for my turn”. Easy, simple skill issue.

Everybody hates it and any claims that “this happens with any disruptive tech” are obvious and pathetic cope. Shut down your AI depts and take the L large corporations. This is not it

Dudes Rock

I'm not from Vancouver. Otherwise, co-signed.

My biggest unpopular opinion is that I think every complaint directed at the culture of Bluesky that either isn’t caused by the abject transphobic techbro libertarianism of its directors or isn’t present in all large groups of people anywhere is largely a skills issue.

PKD, Pynchon, RAW and Gibson walk into a bar:

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Fandoms to me feel like signing up for an HOA for your hobbies

"Can you say it truly matters if the parent company doesn't have an IP road map of quarterly releases for the next five years?"

Kathy Burke’s depiction of Connie Sachs in the TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY film adaption from 2011 is absolutely-perfect. It’s how I see her now, in my head, when I re-read le Carre.

If you keep sharing a fucking Stephen Miller twitter screenshot I’m gonna fucking block you.

Like, I cannot stress this enough: I am not academically underemployed because a non-white candidate or a female candidate or an LGBTQ candidate took 'my spot' (tbh, the jobs I wanted most, I was edged out by other white men!) but because 'my spot' didn't exist. It was not there to be taken.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but waits dreaming in his house at R'Lyeh...

merry chrimbo. move more copies of this so I can finish my sequel, which is a Christmas noir

Anyone saying this is just crazy. Like, what? If anything it feels like there is a boom in interest in history (and military-adjacent history!) over the last couple of decades, especially in the popular nonfiction sphere.

“Write to the market.” You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.