Willow used a fucking Gannosuke Clutch tonight. That's awesome.

Feel like I need to do a Terry Funk retirement from spec fic.

Etched in the scheme of nature's own hand

The C2 has been pretty good since its inception, but this year was when absolutely everyone involved just turned up the volume. Probably the first year where you could argue "What G1?"

I can’t stop watching this Vegeta/Bret Hart edit

'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring holy shit is that mark cuban

This. You don't need an LLM to do these things. Sometimes they aren't your favorite thing, but it keeps your mind sharp and yourself capable.

For far too many years, I'd say a bulk of my 'career' as a fiction writer, I did my damnedest to, within my personal taste, 'write to market.' In truth, I'm an eternally picky person when it comes to things I enjoy. Most of my professional output has not been to my taste. I made money, but...

it's awards season and i've had a great year! when you're filling out your ballots, please consider my work! #booksky more here: thodestool.ca/blog/2025-awards-eligibility-1

It's really interesting that people are talking about Expedition 33's use of AI prior or whatever, when one of the very first things I said when exploring early dungeons was, "man, I wonder if this game used genAI, because some of these textures don't make sense." This was apparently when 'fixed.'

This.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Don't you just hate* when you're vehemently against something for years, then go back to it later and can't deny how good it is? I really just dismissed Daft Punk for years and now one of my sons is really into them, so I gave them a shot, and I'm a total convert.

C'mon. We all love Merc.

you won the RJ book of the year award already bsky.app/profile/arrj...

Zero LLMs used. Just my strange, labyrinth of a mind and my AlphaSmart Neo2. You should probably at least read my work.

The weirdest rejections you'll receive are ones that cite 'typos' in the text, and then you sift through the document you sent over afterwards and there are none. Really makes you wonder.

I now realise Sean Penn was actually underplaying Col. Lockjaw

It's deeply unfair to WWE that SI maliciously excluded Saudi Arabian Show of the Year as a category.

Finish this novel about a pro wrestler being haunted by an executioner, dive back into the novel I started about a guy seeking a transcendent wave of guitar feedback, and write a bunch of short stories.

Allowed myself to finish reading Shadow Ticket and feeling unmoored. It was almost like a passing through the Gethsemane moment where Pynchon is putting a punctuation mark on his exploration of the American Experiment. This is where we lost. What follows is losers hanging on, stoned and afraid.

Seriously. It's so not for me.

I suppose better late than never! Still more spine than most people.

when a keebler elf dies the other elves take it to the entrance of the tree and dump it on the ground outside like how bees do

It's not surprising the CBS show bombed. Neither Bari Weiss nor Erika Kirk have any name recognition whatsoever, outside a tiny niche of Twitter-brained weirdos. Nobody tuned in because nobody knows who the fuck these people are or why they should care about them. Twitter is not real life.

Periodic reminder that RFK Jr already did this in American Samoa, leading to the death of 83 people. This was just in 2019. He’s a menace who spreads pestilence!!

Quite a few people have asked me where would be the best place to get my debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, and I appreciate this question a lot because it shows people’s desire for ethical and meaningful consumption. So I'll answer that by giving a prioritized list of places that I get my books from.

The funniest thing about all of these people hoarding wealth like this is if they are responsible for destroying civilization, enough so that they need to 'escape,' then money would have no value anymore and they wouldn't be rich or powerful.

Don't worry. They'll be punished by made to do fiction acquisitions where they'll sign 100 debut authors writing romantasy. One will catch on with early reviews, so the 99 get zero support and all the marketing goes to the 1 book that sells 1m copies, then said editor is heralded as a genius.

One of the funniest things of the social media era has been watching the entirety of western journalists fall into the trap where they think they're celebrities because people followed them on twitter for breaking news or blue wave grandmas followed them because they said 'Trump Bad.' Nobody cares.

It was the voice thing, wasn't it?

Chekov's Hook.

FICTION: Blanquitos by @kjy1066.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/12/05/b...

Seriously. I cannot stress enough how great this match was.

This year's C2 is absolutely bonkers good. Just incredible. Speedball vs Fletcher was awesome.

He's wearing a leather jacket. You can't push back against a Cool AI Dad like him.

Each time someone reviews Uncertain Sons, there's little moves in the books. There are like 7 people on reddit, no idea who they are, who talk about it. That moves the needle too. They say "is anyone talking about this, I like it," but they are the ones talking. Hope they find eachother/become buds.

With "Blanquitos" being a late bloomer (pun intended), I can now make my Eligibility Post: If you're reading for awards, please consider these two stories. FYI even if you're not voting for awards, I'd be honored if you read these (links to follow)

Everyone’s boss thinks A.I. is cool and I can’t think of anyone cooler, smarter, or more in touch than everyone’s boss. kotaku.com/mcdonalds-ai...

Thank buddy christ.

I don't trust them.

Hey! Some fun news. "The Sort" (orig. @clarkesworldmagazine.com) was picked up for @wilwheaton.net's podcast. Went live today! Narrated thoughtfully and w/a kind shoutout for SFF mags at the end. And a surprise(!) mention of Uncertain Sons 🙏. Many thanks to Wil and his audio team. What an honor.

I've never done an eligibility post before. Be gentle. Share and share alike. Any consideration when it comes time for awards is greatly appreciated.

This is what makes it personal. It's not just my work that has been stolen, but that of all of my friends who do creative work. Every artist, writer, designer, musician has had their work stolen and their ability to work targeted in this way. That's on TOP of the hundreds of other reasons.

Oh my god, we're finally getting the Tony Shalhoub episode.

I've had a very long week and wanted to post this on Tuesday, yet I'm doing it on Sunday. Figure it out. I don't know. It's a short story I wrote in July of 2023 and it's been collecting virtual dust. No longer. Enjoy.

Modern gaming lacks the tactile feels of stacking cartridges to expand games.

My aftermath of an exorcism-gone-wrong flash story was published today. Beware the gory ending for the priest. Not that the other people get off much lighter. 😅 www.gavagai.com/posts/489