Edgar Drache
@edgardrache.bsky.social
Here to talk SFF books, TTRPGs, mead, merriment, dice with too many sides, and feline friends. (Banner by Jeff Easley)
I'm not letting AI horseshit maneuver me into a defensive position with my writing. I write like I write. I love emdashes. I keep using emdashes. Whatever we write, AI will take and copy it -- all you can do is keep writing the best shit you can write in the form you want it to take, and fuck it.
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
Looking to add a beautiful dark fantasy tome to your collection? Idols Fall is live!
Mike Shel@mikeshel.bsky.social · last mo.Just a heads up to those who aren't already on the reminder list: we launch our Kickstarter for the third and final volume of the Iconoclasts Trilogy, Idols Fall, tomorrow morning, about 7a EST. Hope you'll help us out again! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...
‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.
Tell me 5 random things you love (that aren't people or pets) Fantasy Books Polyhedral Dice Blank Journals Hazelnut Coffee Blackberry Mead
Paolo of Lost Pages 🔜 Sequential Scotland@lostpages.co.uk · last mo.Tell me 5 random things you love (that aren't people or pets) Pizza Books Plants Buildings that defy gravity Trains
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Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2mo agoAdvertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons GIF:
Recently received my collector's copy of Sin Eater by @mikeshel.bsky.social, and it's an beautiful edition of a fantastic dark fantasy novel. Highly recommend the Iconoclasts series if anyone's looking for dungeons, horror, and characters with heart. #booksky #sff
"You may all go to hell, and I will go to Morrowind." -Davy 'Dagoth Ur' Crocket
Some personal favorites: -The One Ring RPG for Tolkien fans -Mork Borg for brutal dark fantasy fans -Dungeon Crawl Classics for old school TTRPG fans -Zweihander for Warhammer fantasy fans (with the serial numbers filed off) -Blades in the Dark for crime fans
Ian / Sìne@vonaether.bsky.social · 2mo agoReply or quote with your favourite non D&D RPG
My dream ride is a van with this spray painted on one side and the original Jeff Easley Unearthed Arcana cover on the other
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday's Classic Cover of the Day is The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon, illustrated by Jody Lee.
We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.
If no one ever draws a line, that's the ballgame. So clown the AI types every chance you get. Tell retailers you won't buy this stuff. MAKE IT KNOWN. Press back everywhere.
My Therapist: Bottomless Aragorn isn't real. He can't hurt you. Bottomless Aragorn glaring at me from a dark corner of the Prancing Pony:
I like mass market paperbacks because they're the perfect size to hold in a single hand while one or more cats are snoozing/climbing on you
If you were a video game character, what would your health pickup be? Don't talk to me until I've consumed my Elixir of Waking.
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Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you were a video game character, what would your health pickup be? I mean, obviously:
What is best in life? To clinch my partner, to see them teeped before me, and to hear the lamentations of my shin bones.
Really digging Knight of the Seven Kingdoms so far. Ep. 1 nailed the tone of a less grim/dark Westeros story, and the casting is spot on.
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Tastes like forbidden necromancy and diabolical incantations (and blackcurrant)--5/5, will imbibe more of this potion
But they were all of them deceived, for another board was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master keyboard with sweet custom keycaps and an anodized aluminum case.
