M. Lonie
@mlonie.bsky.social
A little writing goblin. Writing weird things. Technical writer by day. Consulting on Scots and Scottish Culture. They/She. Scottish. Autistic. Human/Goblin/Dwarf art only. No to AI. Profile pic by https://bsky.app/profile/rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social
I don't seen the point in GenAI for writing. Writing is a craft. You get better by struggling with it. By doing the hard bits. By SUCKING A LOT. GenAI is like me making a microwave meal and then claiming I'm a chef. (Except I'd be closer to a chef than GenAI makes you to an artist/writer/etc.)
Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!
Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind
An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG
kickstarter.com
Fuck your ChatGPT, if I want to see a caricature of myself I will make the effort to go to the seaside and pay £15 for a cruel man to give me body dysmorphia like we’ve always done.
Goldilocks by @lrlam.bsky.social focuses on four female astronauts who steal an interstellar spaceship in pursuit of an exoplanet that can sustain a new civilization, as society on a dying Earth becomes increasingly oppressive toward women. Loved the hard sci-fi elements and social commentary. 💙📚
Hey! I am Sio from Owl's Tale, and I want to tell you about the book I have been co-authoring! Fen's Guide to Myriad Realms was a great project to work on, forming worlds of our own to be used with the DnD Rules! #Worldbuilding #DnD2024 #Author #humanart www.kickstarter.com/projects/ska...
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
✍️ We’re hiring! Link to apply in our stories and the link in our bio. For the first time in over two years we are looking for an individual (maybe you!) to join our team as a bookseller and social media manager. Apply: forms.gle/UUKUjuis1ZSum9gT7 (1/3)
i'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about how funny it is to write a song called "the fate of ophelia" and have it be an upbeat pop song about your quarterback boyfriend. thank god I found a man so I don't have to kill myself
Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · last yr.OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz' • Goal is to finish production in 9 months • Budget is ~$30M • Plan is to debut the film at Canne • 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script • Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models (via WSJ)
HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
Wayne Wu@waynewu.bsky.social · last yr.HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
Saw a psa last night about how pirate streaming could let people steal your private info and ID, and I have to say that's rich coming from the UK government who are mad for AI and want to feed it all our art for free
The monster that @efaru.bsky.social and I have created for #FensGuide is based on this lil guy :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/ska...
Stephen G. Rae@stephengrae.bsky.social · last yr.Shellycoat is a type of Brownie from Anglo-Scottish Borders folklore, found near rivers and other water bodies. His name, from the coat of shells he wears. He is relatively harmless unless humans trespass on his territory bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #folklore #goblinweek
one of my FAVOURITE language things is hearing words from different languages and being like wait are they related. welsh "ceffyl" and french "cheval" (horse) are cousins! theyre both descendants of proto-celtic "kaballos", which got to french through gaulish!
160 more Blizzard staff have unionized, this time across the Story and Franchise Development making it the "first in-house cinematic, animation, and narrative studio to form a union in the North American game industry."
Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne. Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.
Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Grok 4 is going into private preview, for now
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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
I have some more £10 commissions available now, please let me know if you would like one, thank you very much! I also do character sheets for £40, where I will draw the character and items that they carry or things they like
Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish. Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.
My Illustration for @damesprod.bsky.social ’s current kickstarter, CHARIVARI - MASKS AND SWORDS Based on a certain infamous helmet from the Royal Armouries Museum. 3 days left to back the kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dam...
If you're a writing community org that also wants to stand with creators of adult content & LGBTQIA+ content, we'd love to hear from you and potentially find ways to work together to fight censorship You can reach us at weeknightwriters@gmail . com
Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last yr.Official #WeeknightWriters statement on Itch, payment processors, and censorship We do not condone censorship of adult content or LGBTQIA+ voices, and creators of adult and/or LGBTQIA+ content will always be welcome in our community spaces
