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Pyke Redrock
@pykeredrock.bsky.social
Mountain Lion | Dad | Writer | 🇦🇺 | 41 He/Him
Tech level is Late Middle Ages / Renaissance, so no understanding of germs yet. Wolves have the best knowledge of how bodies work because their surgeons are working with / opening / disarticulating cadavers constantly as part of funerary rites. 1/2 #AnthropologyAugust
MYSTIC@mystic888wizard.bsky.social · 14h ago#AnthropologyAugust Today let’s get into some of the knitty gritty of your species. Which species in your setting has the most advanced medical technology? Have any of them developed medications or vaccines? Have any of the groups in your worlds figured out modern medicine? #promptgame
One of the fun things about writing anthros is bringing in their more animal traits. So anger for them includes raised hackles, snarling, baring teeth, etc. Of the mains, Dhivra is the most expressive when she gets angry—raised hackles, bared teeth, snarled speech, etc. 1/2 #AwesomeCharacters
🌱 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h agoTell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Technical question! What's your favorite way to indicate anger in a character? Do they yell? Or go silent? Tense their shoulders? Grind their teeth? Does it vary for different characters? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Okay, I'm too excited to wait any longer. My long awaited book Spectrum is out now thanks to Bewere books! If you're looking for a fun black and queer furry anthology that covers a broad range of LGBT characters then this book is especially for you, check it out! #furryliterature #queer #books
Bewere Books@bewerebooks.bsky.social · yesterdayNavigating the turbulent early 2010's music industry, queer wild-dog front man Darius Davis shows us the highs, lows, and experiences of it all in "Spectrum." Out now from Bewere Books: bewere.net/product.php?...
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only thing that would change about my work is that it would get easier and faster because I wouldn't have to waste time circumventing all the various companies attempts to railroad me into using AI.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Dragonborn Knight with Greatsword #sketch-a-day #art #graphite #dragonborn #DnD #Dungeons&Dragons #fantasy #dragon #sword #greatsword #knight
The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.
Rehni knocked something over. Not his fault—it can be hard for a bulky, 7.5 foot wolf to navigate spaces without bumping into things 🥺 Whatever he broke, he and others have the money to replace, so it’s nbd. We just want to know whom he was trying to sneak off with 😏 #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky
🌱 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · yesterdayTell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters You and all your characters are staying together somewhere! You hear a loud crash, then silence. Which one do you immediately suspect, and what do you think just happened? Are you worried or mad? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Because my cast is made of anthro canids, I’ve been leaning into their scents as they relate to character traits. Korrin smells like lamp oil (scholar), Dhivra like mulled wine (lavish), Rehni like bread (eats a lot). These change—I try to give each three—but those are basics. 1/3 #AugCharWork
DD Ward ..."Sapphic Dr. DOOM"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · yesterdayAugust Character Workshop Day 4. Flair #AugCharWork I’m calling this section Flair. What is unique about this character? Not every character needs to have something unique, but if they don’t then the audience will typically forget them as they walk off stage.
That would be the martens, who are rarely ever more than four feet tall. They tend to keep to their own communities and limit interactions to the other mustelid species. As such, they don’t appear much in the series; so I haven’t really fleshed them out beyond those details. #AnthropologyAugust
MYSTIC@mystic888wizard.bsky.social · 2d ago#AnthropologyAugust Once again doing the opposite, we just talked about the largest intelligent species, now what is the smallest? Does your setting have goblins or gnomes? Or does it have even smaller creatures like bugs or fairies? Does their size affect their interactions with other species?
The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.
Stop-mo PNGtuber for @foxander.bsky.social in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Foxander messaged me about the idea and it seemed so cool! He sent me drawings and screenshots for the idea I got to work, it took a bit, but I streamed most of the process and am happy with the result! #3dart #vtuber
May we never stray too far from the Old Ways 🙏
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoBluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
Here's the full second segment I did with Bloomberg last week, talking about the circular AI economy, SpaceX and how AI is a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Gc...
Zitron On Bloomberg on why people are anti-AI, SpaceX and OpenAI’s worrying price cuts
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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5d agoOne of the (many) reasons I think people are so anti-AI is that it’s a gratuitous display of wealth inequality. The average person’s life is difficult, expensive, and getting any kind of loan sucks - unless you’re raising billions of dollars to build an AI data center.
I showed you my trinkets. Please respond. 🐦⬛🪙 #artfight #artfightattack #artfight2026 #digitalpainting #birdart #humanart #birdillustration #crow #teammystery
This is actually a thing Korrin does towards the end of his arc and that gets referenced in future books. He at minimum acknowledges difficult events and decisions that went wrong, but he minimises his scandals and pushes off blame to other people whenever he can. 1/2 #AwesomeCharacters
🌱 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d agoTell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Your character is writing their memoirs! How honest are they being? Are they playing up their heroism and the drama? Are they leaving anything out? Why? What tone will it have? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Those would be the dragons, who are about the size of a city passenger bus. Gryphons aren’t too far behind, being about as large as a twin-seat airplane. #AnthropologyAugust
MYSTIC@mystic888wizard.bsky.social · 3d ago#AnthropologyAugust We have talked about the rarest, and the most plentiful but now let’s talk about the biggest. Do you have any intelligent species that could be considered megafauna? Or even larger that might be kaiju sized? #promptgame #prompt #writesky #writingcomunity
Korrin’s arc is, unfortunately, a negative one—and he takes a few others down with him. To his credit, he tries really hard to make it a positive one, and he gets super close. But then I step in and remind him that this is a story about how power corrupts 🥲 #AugCharWork
DD Ward ..."Sapphic Dr. DOOM"@ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d agoAugust Character Workshop Day 3. #AugCharWork Character Arcs A story can, in theory, exist without a character arc. I don’t recommend doing that. A character doesn’t necessarily need an arc, depending upon their role in the story though.