Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

Asking children aged 9 what they think they'll be like when they're 40.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

Concept art by Wayne Barlowe for the film Pacific Rim, 2013

I saw the one for Mac computers, but there's one for PC too, and this should put the fear of god into anyone who isn't familiar with the command prompt window to immediately stop lol

Everyone is SO SURE they know, they run their mouth and they don't know shit.

all for one☀️

glow | elf 166/365 | #art #illustration #elfyear

Omph

Art Nouveau door, Brussels Belgium, photographer unknown

New personal painting. Inspired by the scene in Fantasia that I feel like I’ve built my entire art style and personality around.

July 2023 was when I, @brynhammond.bsky.social, and @draq.bsky.social had our first conversations about Double-Edged Sword & Sorcery, dreams of stand-alone adventure, S&S novella series dancing in my head. Love finally being able to see multiple installments side-by-side.

Guys after 10 years of searching thru my files and hard drives and old computers, I finally found it again; the single best Missed Connections listing I've ever seen

⚔️🤼SUPLEX & SORCERY by @breadsonja.bsky.social is now available for pre-order! 🤼⚔️ Shipping July 14th, this novella-length tale will turn you upside down and slam you into adventure! Learn more and grab yours here 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/supl...

Please please let the village girls fawn over her. They deserve it. /I/ deserve to read it.

Reading classic 1980s sword and sorcery novel and the MC is a 6ft swordswoman with broad shoulders and "a neck like a man" who crops her hair short and wears a tunic without pants. And the in-world reaction to this is somehow 😬🤢??

Every now and again, we "unlock the vault" to dig into our archive for something that resonates—and there's always something. We think these are times for poetry. Here's a piece from Jane Hirshfield, along with five more at the link. orionmagazine.org/article/from...

old man yaoi as in yaoi featuring two old men, or Old Man Yaoi as in an old man who represents the concept of yaoi, sort of in the vein of Father Time

Thinking about her (The Fuckening).

got far too into the sauce at work today and now there's another 30 page powerpoint out there that i'll probably have to present to hundreds of strangers at some point in the fall

⚔️📣NEW STRETCH GOAL ALERT📣⚔️ If we break $15,000 then @azuremeraki.bsky.social will paint a whole back cover illustration for Blue Fire! Learn more and back us here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

What a final line. From @nancyland.bsky.social's book, Inconsolable Objects: bit.ly/inconsolableobjects #poem #booksky #writing

The queen's gone, but not forgotten. Reread the entire story from the beginning here.

Dragon's Dogma is a comedy game

Another New Edge Sword & Sorcery fan doodle, the gigantic Voe from @obrackenbury.bsky.social's short story in issue 3 ⚒️

A black & white practice featuring Astartha from @breadsonja.bsky.social's short story, 'How Many Deaths Till Vengeance' ⚔️

from japanese wikipedia (autotranslated to english)

thank the earth for fat sagging breasts! | elf 165/365 | #art #illustration #elfyear

Do you like Karl Edward Wagner's immortal shithead KANE? Then you're gonna love my girl Audrey's LATHRA in her debut novelette DARK SEA SILVER in which Lathra and her fleet are absolute terrors to the realm but mostly those closest to her. Available here: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/dark...

Bluejay for fun! There's a bit of an animation to tattoo industry path that I've seen a lot of people follow. I know I tried to find my way into it years ago. I still kind of regret not trying harder, but I'm just too picky with who I'd like to learn from, so that's on me. 🖤 #SciArt #art #bird

My darling Audrey's LATHRA, from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

Methinks the integration of AI has made Microsoft Word's spellcheck a lot dumber. But of course they are allowed to make company decisions at their own 🤌 discrezioni.

George Washington and Gilgamesh had a Gilgamerican girl who loves bouncy long pork

He’s fragile :( I don’t remember why i drew this, but i found the sketch and decided to finish it

Homing pigeon joke hehe

something about that little green guy crying with his rice just calls to me

Poem sent around at work for Poetry Wednesday (a tradition of the English dept). I thought people here would appreciate.

📚Our New Edge Sword & Sorcery novella set is on the move!📦 Backers get all four books at once as a thank-you for making them possible. They're being gradually released to the world at large, starting with WHAT ROUGH BEAST? by @brynhammond.bsky.social 🐐👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-tag/...

❓❔⁉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

yeah, you could say I’m an ally

There is not an editor in the world that would let you get away with this in fiction, the notes would be EXCORIATING

Burgers and anti-anxiety meds really will save the day every time

noisy | elf 163/365 | #art #illustration #elfyear

slouchy | elf 162/365 | #art #illustration #elfyear