Artemy Mandus (Ec) | in my horror era

@artemymandus.bsky.social

^ Pen name. Author of sci-fi, horror, and dark fantasy. Usually go by he/him, but call me whatever. Queer & AuDHD. NIN fanatic. Profile pic by @juniperlake. Find my work: https://www.patreon.com/c/artemymandus/about

Seeing someone in the wilds unironically calling themselves an "A*I ''''''AUTHOR''''''" has me sincerely hoping the nukes drop tomorrow 🙃 People like that have as much right to call themselves authors as the greaser asshole in a taco bell drive thru has to call themselves a michelin-star chef

#LateNightWrite I will return to working on Chosen?, I swear. But in the meantime there are teasers and even full chapter drafts on my Ko-fi and Patreon you can look at, if you'd like. If you're one of the nice people who donated recently, those are all available to you. ko-fi.com/blackbirb

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Blackbird@blackbirb.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Simple canva graphic displaying the same prompt as the body of the post.

I find that doing amount of reading or editing my own writing temporarily, entirely destroys my ability to read like a normal person. I suddenly can't read even the most basic sentence without thinking about how you could cut out all the filler words. Including this very post. Then I get grumpy.

Realistic take on Spec Ops: The Line featuring a chilling moment where, during a routine white phosphorus bombing of civilians, the player accidentally kills an enemy combatant

I feel the word "ragebaiting" has become so disgustingly overused these days that it's officially lost any meaning it ever had. I mean basically the entire internet is designed to monetize ragebaiting you, so it's redundant anyway because literally everything is ragebaiting (See what I mean?)

I know exactly who needs to hear this, but if a specific tag on something bothers you, you can just not read it lol. Nobody's forcing you. Feeling personally affronted because the author is expressing tastes that don't align with your and interpreting that as patronization is fucking bizarre

Make bad game? Layoffs. Make good game? Layoffs. Make a whole bunch of basically okay games? Layoffs. Make multiple award winning games? Layoffs. Make games that flop? Layoffs. Make multiple financial successes? Layoffs. Go indie and break free from publishers? Believe it or not, also layoffs.

Feeling weirdly left out of writer stuff on social media lately, cause a good 90% of it is people talking about their OCs, but there's just not much to talk about with Congealment because the MCs are just... dudes lol. There's very intentionally not much to them, which works for this kind of-