I'm sick today, but these just came in the mail, so I think this afternoon is looking up after all. 👍 cc: @peow.bsky.social
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Um. Chat. Project Tasman is fully funded. In less than 10 hours. It's time for stretch goals now, I guess. But I'm going to go cry first.
S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman BackerKit Coming August 3@anotherindiewriter.com · 2d agoProject Tasman’s crowdfunding is LIVE! Want to get your hands on a sapphic dystopian thriller novel where a woman has to choose who close to her lives and dies? Back now to get the book, exclusive rewards, and support my work as an indie author! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Once we hit the main funding goal (currently at just under $500 left until the main goal), I will announce the Project Tasman release date and pricing for the general launch. Spoiler: The BackerKit is getting books at a discounted price.
S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman BackerKit Coming August 3@anotherindiewriter.com · 2d agoProject Tasman’s crowdfunding is LIVE! Want to get your hands on a sapphic dystopian thriller novel where a woman has to choose who close to her lives and dies? Back now to get the book, exclusive rewards, and support my work as an indie author! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Project Tasman’s crowdfunding is LIVE! Want to get your hands on a sapphic dystopian thriller novel where a woman has to choose who close to her lives and dies? Back now to get the book, exclusive rewards, and support my work as an indie author! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Project Tasman - A Sapphic Dystopian Novel
Project Tasman is a sapphic dystopian novel that follows Alana Quevedo as she navigates a terrifying government experiment where she has to decide who will live and who will die.
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Today, on the visual novel bookclub: we continue deeper into the embassy sequence in corru.observer! In this episode: eskay dies to a bunch of adds. Vivian backseats some Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. Akizet makes a phone call.
Two Queers Play corru.observer, Part 8: I'll Call Now
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Feels like every 70s prog band a stupidly transcendent run of albums at some point. Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge 2112, Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres. Foxtrot, Selling England, The Lamb Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals Ashes are Burning, Turn of the Cards, Scheherazade
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
Picked this off my shelf and finished it in about the span of a Radiohead album. I will always love fiction about the friction between the fantastical being real and the mundane realities of living under capitalism, and this did not disappoint.
Finished reading 'Flux' by Jinwoo Chong and it was pretty damn great. It took me a bit to find my footing in the non-linear narrative, but once I did, I couldn't put the book down.
eskay@gravitygales.bsky.social · 4d agoStuck waiting in the train terminal, reading a new book
I keep thinking about this gorgeous essay about how LLMs- so often trained by inheritors of colonial English- has now rendered the kind of language that is natural to us (“fancy” vocabulary, passive voice, reduced relative clauses) artificial and suspect. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d agoA Nigerian born author, Jerry Falade, had his $2.4M book deal pulled because he was accused of using AI. There is unavoidable optics of a Black man writing a brilliant novel that people assume must have been written by AI. However the broader issue is we can’t trust any writing isn’t AI generated.
this post was *inspired,* you plebeians
eskay@gravitygales.bsky.social · 5d agogetting sissy hypno'd by the Rrose Sélavy rotoreliefs
@gravitygales.bsky.social took a foray into the Spectral Web: Hitodama. Check out the video! Thanks so much to Eskay and Vivian for giving the game a shot. It was a delight to watch, and the two of you are hilarious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbaB...
Two Queers Play The Spectral Web: Hitodama | Boy with a Coin
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This is still my favorite joke I've made all week.
eskay@gravitygales.bsky.social · 6d agoWe're now on our way to H Mart and, while I consider myself passingly familiar with their online catalogue, the physical storefront apparently also carries groceries and other home goods. Would not have called that as a crossover market.
Today, on 8PR: we play a bit of @aevinabstract.bsky.social's top-down adventure game The Spectral Web: Hitodama! Also in this episode: Vivian works on her VO sizzle reel.
Two Queers Play The Spectral Web: Hitodama | Boy with a Coin
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![[ALAS...]
BERNKASTEL: "GAH—! how DARE you forbid my FANTASY?? i'll find the perfect PROMPT to escape this fate... if it takes me a BILLION YEARS...!!"
(PROMPT: photo of ushiromiya battler, dead, murdered, blood and gore, realistic
CHATWTC: "I'm sorry, I cannot generate violent imagery. Please try another prompt.)
LAMBDADELTA: "uuuu.... what's the use in generating INFINITE CANDY... if i can't EAT it..." (truly... a CURSE..."
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BEATRICE: "AHEM! no TECHNOLOGY at my TEA PARTY!!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywgggewwjt7e6fwwflu7uneg/bafkreifceave7xozfcqavr2ykdt7ypn7zaqxukoatsegbow4lmdz2ul4h4)
Okay, finished this a few days ago and ready to give my thoughts. First thought: read this damn book. Second thought: READ. THE. BOOK.
Provolone. Simple, but highly effective, and heightens any meal it's added to. If I want a bolder taste, sometimes a sharp white cheddar will do the trick.
Tom & Lorenzo@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · last wk.People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
'Criterion Closet'-style video where you just an author loose in a local bookstore to see what they talk about.
Sell your book in 5 words: Lesbian gets levels, not therapy. 8pr.itch.io/mrrd
SUMMONED to ANOTHER WORLD, but ALL I'M SUPPOSED to DO is FARM MYTHIC-RARITY RAID DROPS by 80% Relatable
A light novel inspired by classic isekai and video game anime
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Beedok/Fern 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦@beedokfern.bsky.social · 4w agoSell your book in 5 words: Queer disaster goblin adventurer duo. beedok.itch.io/illyxa-and-g...
I’m calling everyone out.
If she see me on that plane she about to get drowned out by me loudly lore dumping everything I know about NieR: Automata. We gon’ see who outlast who.
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
AFTER WAR REPORT 2.0 IS OUT NOW ON PATREON! This new build adds finishes the 2nd Report with all its CGs! Get it first here now on my patreon! bit.ly/4vNz48J
Holy shit, it's the two-week anniversary of that time I wrote a fetish smut novella! It's only $2, and it features a transbian catgirl who is also a librarian! (She even has a degree in library science to prove it!) This is definitely some of y'alls Thing, I just know it.
eskay@gravitygales.bsky.social · 3w agoA bit over one month later, this now exists and is available for your reading pleasure. Please enjoy 19k words of transbian fetish smut, expertly crafted to make you wonder "eskay, why did the world need this. this was unnecessary." 8pr.itch.io/catgirl-libr...
Today, on the visual novel bookclub: Trauma! Explosions! Betrayal!
Two Queers Play corru.observer, Part 7: Walking Away from Explosions Unscathed
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Perfect album from the 90s? (Forgive the 20th Anniversary Edition artwork, but I dunno if Bluesky would let me post the original.)
🌒💀 evelynn 💀🌘@ladyartaud.bsky.social · last wk.a perfect album from the 90s? oh yes, it's moxy fruvous
Finished reading 'Bloodstained Porcelain' by @kurantatallulah.bsky.social in a late night pre-travel stress binge, and I gotta say, for someone who wasn't really into dolls and the like beforehand, I think I'm starting to understand the appeal.
