Third post for Sapphic Visibility Day. I am proud of my profiles of Jessica Amanda Salmonson (#3) and Janrae Frank (#6) for New Edge Sword & Sorcery @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social These matter to me as much as my fiction in the mag: I love to shine a light on the lesbian past in Sword & Sorcery.

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For the morning crowd

I've got a new short story out, this time in Exquisite Death Zine. First one published in like two years. It's a fun one. Please check it out! www.exquisitedeathezine.com/good-tv-alex...

READ THIS. Such a huge fan of this story.

My talk with @obrackenbury.bsky.social is up! I discovered his podcast SO I'M WRITING A NOVEL in mid/late 2024, where I was properly introduced to what what makes S&S fiction so cool. I was excited/happy to get to speak with him about all things S&S and @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social!

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@sievish.bsky.social youtu.be/6OKgdTXLWIg?...

I want to write a Sword & Sorcery poem help me out

Does a Bone wizard count? I reckon so! Here's the grumpiest Space Goth of all, Harrowhark Nonagesimus from GIDEON THE NINTH Charcoal & digital colour one day I'll get around to more fanart! Post a mage!

New Edge continues to be one of the coolest magazines out there.

dog musher gets inoculated with nanomachines and meets his shitty twin brother.

Some recent headlines to delight you (Links to articles in replies/comments)

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Illustration I painted for the new Jirel of Joiry story written by @mollytanzer.bsky.social that is coming out in @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social this year. ⚔️ Check out the crowdfund here www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Fuck all the way off, and then fuck off a little further, just keep going and fucking off until you're completely out of fucking off space and then fuck off just a tiny bit further.

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I think about this post a lot

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

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My first review of the year. Really liked this one.

I just made this protest gif. Feel free to share and/or repost. [bsky forced me to put it in a certain aspect ratio to attach it to the post (thus the black bars). You can grab the bar-less version here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/wp-content/u... ]

protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed. disgusting.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

I am over the moon with this Goatskin cover art by Jimmy Makepeace @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social

Hearing of the ICE escalations, my son, Emoji Fortnite looked up from his calculus and paraphrased Cicero thus, "Non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem finitimi vindicat." My wise daughter, Salomé Athena, replied, "Vrai. Un État ne peut être meilleur que les citoyens qui le composent."

#portfolioday: Hi! I'm Alex, an editor, narrative designer, and writer, and I'm #lookingforwork! I wanna make the story in your game ✨sing✨. I'm well-versed in writing dialogue, worldbuilding information, barks, and item descriptions: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

#PortfolioDay i'm isaac, a Game Writer and Narrative Designer ✨ Looking For Work ✨ i'm a proud member of the UVW-CWA, Small Loan Studios, The Game Co-op, and a secret fourth thing. i study theory & craft all day every day. you can find my story and my games at jisaacgadient.com

Day 3 of showing you the awesome artwork laid out in the pages of our very first print issue. Today @oldragingbarbarian.bsky.social brings Love's Mirror by @kyliu99.bsky.social to life.

Fuck yeah. Maybe I'll stream Rogue Trader after I finish Morrowind

Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.

Issues 5 thru 7 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social are now available in the Bodega! ⚔️ If you're longing for the scifi/fantasy anthologies of yore, with a heavy emphasis on Queer perspectives: this is your magazine⚔️

I'd ask why he keeps shooting himself in the foot but I don't think AI-likers can feel things anymore.

For No Reason in Particular Here’s a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis

Good job, boys. Go drink some water.

Anyway sorry if you’re a Larian dev and have to deal with your CEO publicly saying you’re cool with AI use, I’d be losing my damn mind

when the CEO is the one saying "everyone is fine with our genAI usage" i ain't believing u

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

I get so bored when people say AI is an "additive" to the creative process. Like, *who's* process? Companies telling employees to use AI tech in creative work is not an additive, it feels like an ultimatum: either work with this thing or don't work at all.

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

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The pulpy subgenre sword & sorcery still thrives.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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