I loved this one and still love coming back to it 🖤

Sticking with the maritime theme! This time a Minoan octopus vase inspired design. I'm hoping to display this one coming out of water, so I tweaked the angle. I have photographed this one, but I might wait and do it again tomorrow, because this is a very *wet* pumpkin (unintentional storytelling).

anyway it's always nice to remember there's only one law in writing, which is to get away with it. anything is legal if you look good doing it!!

it is chilly and I want to be in bed under a big blanket but instead I am doing my job and for this I deserve a medal

So, me, @sarareads.bsky.social and @dianthaa.bsky.social will be doing a thing over at r/fantasy. Please come join us! I AM VERY EXCITED AND VERY NERVOUS. #booksky

Today is a very good day to quit something.

I'm assuming @premeemohamed.com already knows this artist, but just in case: hinemizushima.com Sea creatures! Innards! Spiky things!

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

Only reason anyone cares that Avatar even exists is because of the VFX artists' work. Like does he think it made a billion dollars because of the script?

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

I've been sitting on a story about the absurdity of author income for around two years. I think it's time to tell it.

"[T]his is a solved problem. [...] No innovative solutions are needed; just common sense, and putting in the work in advance."

Can confirm. 100%.

Omg, that's the same guy??! Why* are people still taking him seriously?? *I know why, but come the fuck on!

"Just ones more things, precious..." Gollumbo.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

Random bug that made me think of @premeemohamed.com . Sweden seems to like SFF authors and I haven't even been to my favourite bookshop yet.

HOLY SHIT

Lots of love from Malmö city library for @clpolk.com and A Master of Djinn by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social

💙📚 Someone asked me this today, and it STRESSED ME OUT enough to make this handy graphic that I will save on my phone so that this travesty of a conversation never happens again. #booksky

Interesting to see the writing process! Still I like the final version better: 'It is a pity,' said Legolas, ‘that Gandalf cannot go before us with a bright flame, and melt us a path.' 'It is a pity about your STUPID FACE,' Gandalf replied.

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No one PROMPTS like Gaston Thinks big THONKS like Gaston No one’s prose deserves so many PLONKS as Gaston

OH WAIT WE DONT NEED A NEW ONE

Red Dead Redemption 2, in its insistence to prominently display horse testicles, continues the tradition of the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry, in which all depicted horses are stallions with very visible genitals, emphasizing the capability, control and masculinity of the riders. In this essay I will

These will fix me 🥹

Follow your toad 🐸

Is chat gpt still down? Are the others next?

Thei are goinge to put AI yn a toastere and it will tell lyes about bread

The premise of THE GRIEF NURSE was deeply interesting. Unfortunately, the book made more promises than it kept.

centrist: we need to focus on popular policy me: holy shit! you mean we’re finally going to support universal healthcare? centrist: no haha not that policy me: ok so…gun control? centrist: no lol not that policy either me: ok which policy? centrist: oh you know the ones

the everything app already exists. it's called fire. it cooks food heats your house cauterizes wounds lights up the darkness destroys vampires dries clothes generates insurance money signals rescuers repels bugs sets the mood preserves meat starts the olympics honors zorgon the all-burning hellgod

"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

A HARVEST OF HEARTS was comped to HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE which got me excited. Reading the book quickly made me realise it wasn't that. Then it got worse.

@logthatdata.bsky.social !

It is morally inexcusable for rich people to spend their money on things that are not me

Commission for @mjuffers.bsky.social of their delightful wee Owlin character. The hat was so fun to do!

Hello BlueSky what do you think is inside this strange woodland shed I found?

lmao #NamibiaCam has not one, but TWO wet owls 😂

This may genuinely be one of the most devastating things I've seen about a tech CEO in the mainstream media. Amazing.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I hope @premeemohamed.com knows this exists: youtu.be/-5lobdvz4k4

where are my fellow author pals whose craft was inspired by/shaped by/honed by love of Dragon Age? 🙌🏻

Just to show you how bad this system is, I did a quick test. First I modified the query to just focus on me:

OSTRAPOSTLES!!1!

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

The Worldcon Chair mentions specifically asking ChatGPT to look for sources. This doesn't work because ChatGPT isn't looking for anything. It can't think. It can't make decisions. It is making pretty patterns in the sand. They look like sources, but they're not.

I made a printable tracking thingy for myself for reading/ranking of the Hugo nominees, if anyone wants to use them too, they're not all perfectly aligned since I just made it for personal use off a school schedule template I used last year too. www.canva.com/design/DAGKp... Canva template link too