Blood Knife
@bloodknife.bsky.social
A digital magazine about science fiction, horror, fantasy, and capitalism. READ: https://bloodknife.com NEWSLETTER: https://knifepoint.substack.com SUPPORT: https://patreon.com/bloodknife
For 3 years in the 2000s, I was a virtual shut-in, living my life almost entirely online. I didn't go out, rarely socialized, and even stopped bathing. This is the story of how I got out, and my fears for a generation barreling headlong towards the same fate. open.substack.com/pub/knifepoi...
THE REVENGE OF THE REAL: MY YEARS AS A DIGITAL SHUT-IN
Young, stupid, and terminally online at the dawn of the digital era
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Why has Iain Banks’s Culture series – “a world where your Bezoses & your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out & disempowered” – garnered a billionaire fanbase? Kurt Schiller examines ultra-rich misreadings & delusions for @bloodknife.bsky.social 10/10 bloodknife.com/culture-war-...
The Culture War: Iain M. Banks's Billionaire Fans - Blood Knife
The Culture novels are far-future communist space opera from an explicitly socialist author. So how do we explain their wealthy, hyper-capitalist fans?
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Maybe really big publishers won’t care for a while, but smaller/indie presses fucking around with AI covers will soon learn that losing a few hundred readers is actually a huge loss. Saving a few bucks on cover art is nothing if you can’t sell the book.
one thing i think of a lot is on Cartoon Planet when Space Ghost believes the word "gracias" means "friend" and refers to Zorak as "my little green gracias"
I want to do an entire Hockeypocalypse book in this style, but apparently "this series has sold over 1000 copies with no support" is not a strong enough argument for the publishers that can afford a rate that lets me colour like this and also live.
hey buds - blood knife is taking a hiatus til the fall while I deal with some life things. more info in the post - just wanted to say I appreciate you all a great deal, and im excited to get back to the magazine as soon as I can. more soon! 🩸🔪 www.patreon.com/posts/98463696
And here is some 2023 artwork of mine for the wonderful @bloodknife.bsky.social and @interzone.press
carlydraws@carlydraws.bsky.social · 3y agoHello! Apparently my cover art for Fusion Fragment #19 means I am eligible for Best Fan Artist Hugo Award and Best Artist at the Locus Awards. So here I am shamelessly promoting myself :-) 'Olympus', is about the last Caryatid finally returning home. Charcoal, acrylic paint, digital
Anyway @kjy1066.bsky.social and Kurt of @bloodknife.bsky.social came on the podcast to talk about Omelas response stories: the genuinely good, the bad, and the inexplicable. No, you would not have the balls to rescue the child. www.patreon.com/posts/62671741
Book Club: The Ones Who Yell at Omelas | Rite Gud
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Still puzzled by publications that use AI art. If it's cost, you can create quite good illustrations yourself with a little practice & work. And moral angle aside there's something so unserious & insulting about it. Like going to the trouble of taking off your pants only to piss on your own feet
My biggest issue with AI evangelism in our industry is that it treats creativity like a problem to be solved, and not an adventure to be had.
It's #PortfolioDay again! I'm Jeff Martin, an illustrator and cartoonist. I've had 14 graphic novels published, and also done #ttrpg writing and illustration, with recent forays into video games. I'm looking for a lit agent, and also welcome illustration and comics work.
he folks we have some really cool news coming soon. next couple weeks. some articles to publish coming up and 2 themes to announce, also, but more to come soon! new knifepoint later this week as well. been a bit of a mad dash post holidays so thanks for the patience!
This is an absolutely terrific summary of something we have written about often: The way that, despite a nominally "human first" focus, Google's curation and presentation of the internet has distorted it toward a focus on machine readability and empty, boring, unhelpful marketing practices
Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · 3y agoNew from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs. The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
Listening to Sun Ra with the dog (who seems to be digging it)
I never expected Superhero Dicks and White Woman-on-Bear-Sex to become the defining pillars of my personal brand but I'll take it.
Arwen: Great news dad I'm going to marry my boyfriend who lives outside and doesn't have a job and does a lot of foraging and archery Elrond: uhhhhhh there is a, um, a magical reason you can't do that
Seth Dickinson spitting fire in his Clarkesworld interview. Let's hope we can prevent Bluesky from turning out the same way.
controversial opinion but authors shouldn’t be responsible for the marketing of their books
Huge sale on recent back issues from @interzone.press! Through Jan 14, Interzone 294 AND 295 are just $0.99! weightlessbooks.com/category/for...
BURGERPunk: The RPG is now available! I am blown away that this weird, funny game came out of a goofy discussion on the Rite Gud discord. preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
2023 was a weird year, creatively, with ups and a lot of downs, but the thing I'll remember it for is that in the last few months I learned how to program a video game, and now people can download it. Patrons at any non-0 level can play it right now. Please do! www.patreon.com/collection/2...
Space Jerks (Video Game) | Collection from Jeff Martin | 2 posts | Patreon
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With the internet age it's really not that hard for someone to crowdfund and pay to have 1-10k copies of a book printed. If you want to only give me 10-18% of the cover price for my book/comic, then it's YOUR job to earn it. I need you for the reach, not to get the books printed
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 3y agocontroversial opinion but authors shouldn’t be responsible for the marketing of their books
The short story of the day is Riley Tao's queer body horror piece "What It's Like" from @seizethepress.bsky.social . Intense, breathless, and brutal! www.seizethepress.com/2022/04/14/w...
"What It's Like" by Riley Tao - Seize The Press
Content warnings for gender dysphoria and self harm. …and my penis is growing out of the back of my throat, and it’s choking me, and Sarah says, “I mean, of course I wouldn’t be comfortable if...
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