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disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

submitted 6 hours ago • 61 comments

Roko's Basilisk is a trap to horrify guys who've never experienced hardship and don't know what it looks or feels like and don't have the emotional intelligence to outmaneuver their desire to reason everything instead of understanding.

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

what if this was the moment you found out that horses have internal society with a caste system plus also your friend knows the president of horses AND FURTHERMORE your friend has been on SO MANY adventures with the president of horses that he will drop whatever he’s up to when your dude whistles

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

On the private channel between ART and me, I said, I apologize for calling you a fucker. It said, I apologize for kidnapping you and causing potential collateral damage to your clients.

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I still believe in Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children." - Ursula K. Le Guin (2012) [Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

These same people will then go and use newtonian physics to describe the world around them. Unbelievably problematic, we must never engage with past theory. Don't you know he snorted mercury and didn't talk to women? His laws don't even work on a quantum scale smh.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Cinephiles watch a 6/10 movie and will champion it for the rest of their lives. Gamers™ play an 8/10 video game and deem it garbage that only shills like. This is because Gamers™ are unsophisticated morons who don't understand or appreciate the very art form they chose to consume

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

“Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without insisting upon a Great Man interpretation that actual historians rejected ages ago?”

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Me when I see someone losing their shit because they proposed a mildly unusual story premise and their comments were immediately flooded with dipshits going "what about [the exact conventional premise the original post was riffing on]" in the apparently genuinely belief that they're improving it:

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

i'm having that thing where you're doing a supernatural story that also has deeper meanings and then you're like "i wanna put a giant spider demon in it," because that'd be cool, and then you zoom out, and realize you've accidentally created some kind of horrible ableist metaphor for euthanasia

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

The mental image I got:

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

submitted 5 days ago • 289 comments

I've said before that the core storyline of film noir is "an amoral person meets an immoral person and must, reluctantly, make a moral choice." Europe got ravaged by two wars. People wondered if classical morality meant anything in a modern era. Noir said, "Yes, it does."

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

The other website is pretty much done

submitted 6 days ago • 710 comments

People who think they could defeat predatory animals hand to hand are out of their goddamn minds. God save us from men who are like "you just have to take control of the head, and then the wolf is easily subdued"

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

Okay that's it. I want everyone who likes mecha to give me suggestions for good round n chunky bois. It can be the general mecha design of a series or an individual suit or bot. I just wanna see the goalies and linebackers of the mecha genre

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

it's frustrating to me when people say they're making art inspired by ghibli or lynch or whomever. i understand the marketing utility but sometimes it feels like we get these shallow aesthetic takes on these materials because people aren't drawing from their firsthand experiences, just other media

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

The saddest thing is the constant failure by the system to have any empathy or flexibility. Dealing with people who almost by definition have difficulty integrating with bureaucracy by being harsher would be darkly humourous satire if it wasn't so depressing.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

society if shinji had transitioned right before the end of the world advancing the timeline for toxic handler/mech pilot yuri by multiple decades

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i see and love you all, my people.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

all my favorite games are 7/10s losing 3 points because they are made unabashedly for little freaks just like me for real

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

I regret to inform the TikTok Zillenials that rumors of an international standards committee of queer identity terminology definition are grossly exaggerated and you can in fact say and do whatever the fuck you want. And it's ok to do so. And it's ok for you to not understand something.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

like honestly in this time of dire attack on trans and queer peoplein games if im not working on a game with queer mech pilots fighting for their best lived and their community what am i even arting for bro

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

obviously not the main thing but I would like Potter to die off culturally so I can talk about wizard staffs and spells without some midwit quoting it at me tbqh

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Since my fursona is consistently more popular than I am, I figure I should share the Original Mattie Post here

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Girl, I think we should date and tragically suffer together for all eternities. 💕 #signalis

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

"Stop romanticizing toxic tropes in fiction" Bro literally never heard of 'Romanticism' (1790 - c. 1850) and how it's a deliberate rejection of order, harmony, balance, and rationality and celebrates the irrational, personal, emotional, weird, occult, and monstrous by design, how embarrassing 😞

submitted 10 days ago • 59 comments

i woke up in a bad mood i better look at the object that shows me all of the ongoing nightmares and also today specifically all of the love in the world that other people have

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

planning and plotting a book with a beautiful woman, letting her see all my insanity and watching her go through all 5 stages of grief only to realize she wants to fuck me still… actually she wants to fuck me even more than before. lesbianism

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

a little jumpship with an axially mounted railgun just a little too big for its fusion reactor and engines a little too powerful for its frame could fix me

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Every product has a story. A million design considerations. Concessions Arguments Hacks Cheats Cleverness Politics. Attitudes Doctrines. These are human stories. I want fiction about a garage dealing with bodged fixes, or an office arguing inner politics of mechanical design. I want that grunge.

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You're misunderstanding what "realism" means in fiction. What audiences want is the narritive principles of hard SF, even if they shirk the functional demands. That's emotional realism, and that the suspension of disbelief itself is fable-like -- that the techology tells a story.

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we are depriving generations of kids of the formative experience of stumbling upon some weird horny sci-fi or fantasy book that was absolutely not written for them, which is the kind of thing that makes reading feel exhilarating, like you are unlocking the grownup world’s fun secrets

submitted 14 days ago • 118 comments

Illustrated one of my favourite short horror stories for fun. The Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson!

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

writing is hard because you flip back and forth between "I am a literal fraud and this book will never be completed" and "I am a literary sex goddess and this book will earn me the affections of seven comely lasses" or maybe that's just me idk

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

I think that, in the modern age, we've had a speciation event for a Certain Type of Guy: the Novel Guy. While he still has an amazing idea (somehow eclipsing your own actual work), they no longer are just writing semi-autobiographic streams of conciousness. They are also doing cultivation novels.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"I have such a great idea for a novel, how do I--" Sit down and write it. If you can't produce finished work, your ideas aren't worth the neurons you had them with. Do it, do it, sit down and do it, or it doesn't get done.

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

My ride is here. Yes, the meme is that the gif is supposed to be a spaceship. I say that this legal because it is a vehicle in space. It just happens to be inside of a space station . 😂

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

it’s only called smut if comes from a woman author, otherwise it’s sparkling prose

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

life cycle of replies on Bluesky 2025 1. people who got it. replies mainly bangers 2. people who missed half the point but not the other half. replies mainly scolding 3. Karyl, Fisherman of Souls. mainly threats, mainly credible 4. people who follow the people from phase 2. all static

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

TERFism isn't "radical" at all, you're a middle-class white woman engaging in violent bigotry against an innocent minority, a thing middle-class white women have been doing for at least four times as long as we've been legally permitted to have our own bank accounts

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments