A disgraced alchemist must work with a swashbuckling countess to salvage an ancient mech and save the kingdom in, THE CATAPHRACT OATH, a fantasy novel combining the rollicking adventure of Dumas with the hard-hitting giant robot action of Gundam. (Also there is a dog). Available on KU!

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 12h ago

Good morning! It's #WriterShareWednesday ! Share a pitch for your WIP or one of your published works (including links if you have them) and we'll give it a boost! Please use alt text in your images for accessibility & note that AI "work" will not be shared

this is the weirdest movie series ever

Played a little of the new Guilty Gear since my main Jam is in it now ... and got to a match with Lucy from the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime, and it's like "YOU DON'T EVEN GO HERE."

Saw the new #Spider-Man. It's fun! Definitely has that comic book "Oh hey, this guy's here too!" feel. At the same time, it's not the greatest flick I've ever seen (or even the greatest Spidey flick), but it does make me wanna play the PS5 game, so ... cross marketing works, I guess?

Douglas Adams: everything sucks and life is cruel, meaningless, and absurd Adams: i hate the universe and everyone in it Barker: boy this guy's a real firecracker Barker: so glad you brought him over, steve

"No, it's very important that the villains are in their underpants for the whole of the third act. Honestly. Integral to the plot." -Bruce Timm

Daniel Dockery@dandock.bsky.social · 4d ago

One of DC's most iconic connections was born in "Harley and Ivy." It's an episode that fires on all cylinders - top notch voice acting, great direction, and a crackerjack script. No wonder audiences latched onto this pairing like they did. Pure delight.

Been awhile since I've posted any pics of Zorro, hasn't it? (Guy likes to roll in the wet grass).

Cue the caper music.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

I tell you what, though, I've GMed every game I've ever run without AI, and my experience is that the more you do it, the better you get at it, so maybe don't foist off the creative endeavor onto the slurm faucet.

gencon fucking rules when you focus on hanging out with your friends and talking about games you like

Also, comic book people WAY overestimate how much the public at large knows or cares about comic book characters. Antman, Captain Marvel, even Thor would have been met with blank stares.

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

So I Kickstarted the #Mothership Crime & Bounty-Hunting supplement, Wages of Sin, and the hardback just came in! And, leafing through it ... man, this is BLEAK. Admittedly, it's a horror game, but the "hellish corporate dystopia" stuff is often worse than the greebly space monsters.

Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.

So, a friend of one of my tabletop crew has gifted them big-tiddy fanart of their RPG character. A character that's a pre-gen that -I- created. It's a bit of a stretch, but it kinda feels like a milestone as a creator? Rule 34, and all that.

If Marvel can't be bothered to make Blade they should put it out to tender like the BBC has with Doctor Who. A decent sized Vampire LARP could make Blade: The Series without rehearsal.

Honestly, it's even worse for "guy talking about video games on Youtube."

Kieron Gillen@kierongillen.bsky.social · 5d ago

When you’re listening to a lot of metal for a project and there’s a band you‘re digging and you’re considering whether you should google and find out what their politics are or not.

Ohshitohshitohshit. ... can I whip up 6k of submittable-quality 6k Swords & Sorcery story from scratch in the span of a month? Probably not, but now I wanna try.

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 5d ago

📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

Given the recent "Hank Green is an AI weirdo" controversy, it was only today I realized that we weren't talking about his brother John Green. Hopefully John, y'know, as a novelist, would come down on the anti-AI side of the discourse, but one never knows.

A video for absolutely nobody. All of the Dave Ryder names from the Space Mutiny episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 except with the highest level Warrior of Light I found on the Lodestone with that name. #FFXIV #MST3K

I wish people would just do weed about it instead of this shit.

For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

Dunno why I've been on a #MST3K #Gamera kick lately, but ... well, there are worse rabbit holes to go down, right?

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

Catching up on #XMen97, which continues to be super fun. One of my few complaints is that, with Bishop now included in the main cast, he's lost the bitchin' harmonica theme music he had in the old cartoon.

So, color me mildly curious. Except I found myself going "WHY ARE YOU GETTING OUT OF THE TANK? THAT DEFEATS THE PURPOSE OF BEING INSIDE OF A TANK." Guy's poking his head out of the hatch with nothing but a mustache and a Webley, and then he wonders why things went wrong.

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So, uh. I'm going to Japan in a little over a month. I got plane tickets/hotel reservations/etc nearly a year ago, so all that's squared away, but I'm definitely getting into the "oh right, this is actually a thing I'm gonna do" stage of things.

At no time while reading this did I anticipate what was coming next.

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.