Have recently thrown open the flood gates and am querying all I have left who are open. It's a damn good book and I've been getting good replies so here we go. Head hurts, heart sings, madness abounds! Damn the torpedoes, and all that, too!
Laura Keating
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This one is so mindbogglingly stupid that I'm honestly starting to believe that the RAPID increase & variety "AI indicators" are intentional ops to devalue/create suspect in all writing to the point of exhaustion so that no one thinks it matters/cares which is which. It matters. It matter so much.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d agoI saw someone say that sentence length variation is a sign of AI. I’m just out here like, no:
Archie's from the grocery check-out line (I accumulated about 200 of them; Farside Galleries; assorted Calvin and Hobbes collections. They rewired my brain for the hopeful, the bizarre, and the imaginative. Three words I'd use to describe myself to this day.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3d agoIf you’re a comics fan, what’s the earliest comic book you can remember reading? And what kind of impression did it make on you?
Clearing my calendar, your calendar, all calendars. Give me the date and I'll give the studio fistfuls of money. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjVM...
WICKER Trailer (2026) Olivia Colman
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We should all be sending more funny little postcards just because. Or a scrawled out little letter, with a dried flower or one printed out picture, a picture of a nice time had together. An envelope, a buck a stamp, and an exchange between friends that THEY can't hone in on, take, and devour.
Bought a cinnamon/chai candle that smells incredible but gives almost no scent when burning. Words of comfort and solidarity are appreciated at this dark hour.
Watching "The Burbs" for the first time ... I was a kid in the 90s but I grew up in a bit of a strange town so am having a hard time remembering ... is this just what "average middle class" looked like? Would these folks have been considered upper middle-class? Because right now this is WEALTH
Me? I just love a summer day that also feels brooding & cold where I can go for a long walk & watch nostalgic favourites about witches but also that contemporary domestic drama & read the latest indie novel & the NYT bestseller & paint again & work out & try that recipe while relaxing in my garden -
Eventually someone is going to accuse me of being an AI construct and I am going to lose my mind. You will never take my em dashes from me.
Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2w agooh come on
This is killin' over on threads I don't want to have to start posting more on the other place but I'm just a girl trying to have outreach. Still, Bluesky ... it's just nicer here 🥺
Laura Keating@lorekeating.bsky.social · 2w agoJohn Carpenter's THEY LIVE John Carpenter's THEY LAUGH John Carpenter's THEY LOVE
Sin that must be eternally punished is a culturally Christian idea that you can and should reject. If someone admits wrongdoing and changes their behavior, that's the desired outcome. You don't continue to punish because you then signal there's no point to contrition at all, you're damned either way
John Carpenter's THEY LIVE John Carpenter's THEY LAUGH John Carpenter's THEY LOVE
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Hollywood baffled at largest ever feline attendance at opening night,
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3w agoI am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
Writing Stats - New (good) words: 2,140 Bullet-point notes for tomorrow: 340 (I know where this scene is going, but I ran out of steam and I rather hit it fresh tomorrow)
Once upon a time, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994) was on Netflix Canada. Oh, ho, I said. I'll watch that soon. Then they took it away, it never came back anywhere streaming in Canada (I keep looking), so F*ck It, We Do It Live money is tight but I'm buying the DVD because I don't think I'll regret
My 5-year-old: Do you know this place JAPAN? Me: I do. Mommy and daddy lived there, have we told you that yet? 5-year-old's literal face:
THE FAMILY STONE. So many people I know love it; I cannot stand it. Beloved Christmas perennial my left cheek.
inthefade@ihavethatonvinyl.com · 3w agois there a movie you truly despise? if you come across it while changing channels you'll throw the remote at the tv. or if people are talking about you will leave the room. once in a while you will watch it with someone just to point out all the parts that make you angry. for me it is dirty dancing
"You come up with a slogan for the ice cream shop?" "Sure did boss, real fuckin haunting just like you asked." "what"
People really do not appreciate the importance of the "do nothing" phase in the creative process. We are all about the kinetic energy, and forget its duality with potential energy.
Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · 3w agodeeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”
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