My desire to write My need to recover otherworldly horrors from worldly horrors ( •_•) (•_• ) ( ง )ง ୧( ୧ ) /︶\ /︶\

[Ongoing thread] Metal Gear Solid: The Movie "Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Final Destination: Bloodlines) will direct Sony’s Columbia Pictures adaptation of Metal Gear Solid, the pioneering video game created by Hideo Kojima. It would mark the first time the blockbuster title, a stealth..."

Trump needs removing.

I prefer my intelligence local and artisanal and situated in my own brain, thank you. No subscription required!

[Upcoming game] Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars (late 2026, across VR and MR platforms) An immersive game where you pilot the Hail Mary alongside Rocky! 🤗 With an original story. By @maze-theory.bsky.social (Doctor Who: The Edge of Time). "Step into the role of Ryland Grace at..."

At @starsandsabers.bsky.social, we're almost halfway to our funding target for our amazing Oz anthology, with stories set in the magical world of L. Frank Baum's books. Help us reach the 50%!

We should read more Actively attack the TBR pile and swear it will be defeated

go baby go

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

Post an image of your current mental state.

The AI Overview actively gets things wrong about me and my career, how can I trust it with things I don't already know about

News used to be better

Got out between the showers with my daughter to the park. Unfortunately it's all downhill weather-wise from here.

Shoulder presses done. I managed 7 sets x 10 reps and then 3 x 8, which is an improvement on my last session before my break.

I think they should make Trek way cheaper per episode with more episodes per season and let the writing and performances carry it.

Is "Mantasy" like LOTR minus Arwen, Galadriel, and Éowyn because three dimensional female characters with agency in a story is too harsh on those with Fragile Masculinity Disorder?

This Saturday, I’ll be appearing on a panel at Fiction Fest in #manchester. See some of you there!

Nothing makes me side eye someone and block them faster than when I learn they knowingly used gen AI when their beautiful brain was RIGHT THERE. Just do it yourself. Writing isn’t ‘gate kept’ you just don’t give enough of a shit about it or yourself to try and grow.

These types must think the F in Fantasy stands for FEEEEEEMALES.

“If it’s already happening now, then what does a future that is two or three degrees warmer hold?” www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climatechange #climate #globalwarming #heatwaves

They’re not ignoring evidence because they trust Putin, they’re ignoring because they’re in bed with Putin. US-Russian political links are becoming more clear.

If you see this, post a character that starts with the letter K

There's less than 1 week to vote in the final ballot of the Nebulas! I'd be glad if anyone loved my novella as their favorite, but vote on what you loved if you're able to vote. Don't forget it!

Happy Thursday all! I stayed up to a ridiculous hour last night, again doing not much of anything, and now I'm a bit wobbly and in need of caffeine! About to eat out and combine lunch and dinner, then there's gym, then chill. Hope you're all having a good one!

Drop some masks

Caught up with reading over Easter. The Dawn of Everything is fantastic. Alien Clay second read. Recommended. Service Model is great. Tchaikovsky hasn't the right to be this consistent. The Anomaly didn't work for me. DNF. Dark Patterns seemed like standard Batman. Not terrible, not great.

Assisted pull-ups done. Back at it after taking a break last week because my job finished up. I think it might have done me good because I got 7 sets x 10 reps, then 2 x 7, and 1 x 6.

BREAKING | Strategic genius ends war by cunningly giving enemy everything they want.

Without saying how old you are, say something that shows your age "Hit me baby one more time!"

Name a random song from the 90s youtu.be/Ls0WfopgR9k?...

Absolutely fed up of seeing shitty AI images, or stolen images from astrophotographers pretending to be from Artemis II. Stop that shit. Stop reposting that shit. You're drowning out the real images, which are spectacular enough on their own. Go to the primary source.

‘Even if readers didn’t make it all the way to the ends of the papers, they would have encountered red flags early on, such as statements that “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”.‘

Being an atheist, I sometimes find it hard to comprehend why people like this think an omnipotent being capable of thinking an entire universe into existence and molding it at will would give a damn about what glory WE could bring THEM.

Just out at the park. A really nice day, but I'm a pure Irish mammy because my first thought was "Crap, I had a load of washing I could have hung out!" Anyway it appears we're getting another blast of crappy weather for the weekend. 🙄

‘Eternal Darkness’ sounds like the kind of term you’d use if you’d chosen to walk the path of evil in a video game.

Whoever you are, you have my deepest gratitude. May your Kindle be always charged, your chosen butt receptacle soft and cozy, and your reading time be restful.

Jitterbug has been out a month now, and it's been attracting some great reviews. And given the current interest in the Artemis II mission, I should probably mention that the story's partly set on the moon! #sciencefiction #books

When I'm wandering the post-apocalyptic wasteland and I run into some asshole who says "this would have happened under Kamala" I'm gonna kick that dude in the nuts so hard.

AI and GOP rot your brain, yo.

Where are all the Lee Harvey Oswalds and John Wilkes Booths when they're actually necessary?

"I don't want to do this, but you made me." - every abuser, ever. We fucking told you so.

man, i'm sympathetic to the nerves, i am a walking raw nerve, but when we're reacting to reactions of other people's reactions about whether or not other people are appropriately reacting, it's time for me to unplug and get the energy out any other way

I have done no original writing today. Everything has been revisions and editor responses. The state of the world also makes me want to write fanfic. Regression to a less complicated time can be soothing.

It’s just another Taco Tuesday…

One man should not have the power to make all our lives hell. Two week pause, and then presumably the next excitement to prod the markets to make him some more money. Enough. Fuck all of us are billionaires, nor will we ever be. Make noise (many have) and be a nuisance. Enough. Is. Enough.

“Scion” and “Scion: Afterword.” Clarkesworld, Issue 234. March 1, 2026. (19,800 words and 3,700 words, Sci-Fi/Dark Fantasy.)

Good work everybody, how about we don't do this again tomorrow? What if we just never did it again at all?