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Novelist, author of sci-fi action series Architects Of The Illusion (and others to come!). Canadian. Find my media-analysis articles, novels and other links: https://thegamerslookingglass.com/?page_id=398
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www.amazon.com/dp/B09FF7XY66 My #scifi action/adventure epic Architects Of The Illusion is right here in physical & digital! Sweeping battles, derelict stations, emotionally compromised space birds and cosmic entities who are making life more metaphysically complex than said space birds would like.
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camroundabout.bsky.social
I'm glad I found media and groups in my teens that funneled & encouraged me toward creating, but I feel the Hellaverse would have done the very same if it'd been around when I was a teen. I'd have fronted as a hellhound fursona with art and everything, & the fanfics I'd make would have been insane 😂
camroundabout.bsky.social
Was at a friend's kid's birthday party and one of his relatives made a bespoke cake of @realgdt.bsky.social's Pacific Rim (everything one-of-a-kind handmade save for the figures). Talk about destructible art. 😀
Photo of a birthday cake themed around the movie Pacific Rim, with non-edible Kaiju and Jaeger figures atop an edible destroyed city of various chocolate. It's epic
camroundabout.bsky.social
Media "discourse" is a tire fire nowadays because so many people have become allergic to parsing the extremely important difference between 'it's terrible' and 'it's not for me'.
camroundabout.bsky.social
I legit didn't know this. It always confused me how Wins was so honestly passionate and far more media literate. I thought Sins was just a video creator making thoughtless, cynical trash despite being capable of so much more. But this makes so much more sense.
camroundabout.bsky.social
Man. That is beautiful. The universe is fucking lit (literal, but also)
camroundabout.bsky.social
I sincerely hope that when it happens, I find out via the Destiel meme
camroundabout.bsky.social
Friend of mine has two kids, 4 and 1, and I am lowkey terrified of accidentally giving them a detrimental core memory like this lmao
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists
camroundabout.bsky.social
Those first few nights after the weather turns and it's cold enough to finally put that extra layer back on your bed and you tuck in like HNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH YES
camroundabout.bsky.social
"Give our strongman the Nobel Peace Prize OR WE'LL FUCKING KILL YOU" sure is a stance
camroundabout.bsky.social
American Psycho does not need a remake but if they did, it should star a gen Z woman just so the tagline can be "SLAY, QUEEN"
camroundabout.bsky.social
It speaks to where we are now as a society that I find this out not from any news org but from the goth sloth. I know I spend too much time on bsky these days but literally this is where the actual news of the world is. Sigh.
camroundabout.bsky.social
Animation Creator Makes Shows About Hell; Discovers It For Herself At Cruising Altitude
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kylora2112.bsky.social
I am the very model of a modern queer millennial
I have a Bluesky and a prescription for estradiol
I'm shunned by Baby Boomers for a haircut asymmetrical
And for my views that they think can border on the heretical
I can list the industries that I've killed off in order alphabetical
camroundabout.bsky.social
While everything that falls under his purview is necessarily also Trump's fault, the direct impact from the destruction of USAid makes Elon Musk one of the worst mass murderers of the post-WWII worldstate and that is not a thing I will ever let go of no matter how hard captured media tries to do so.
camroundabout.bsky.social
Incredibly telling that CNN was able to provide more incisive and hard-hitting coverage of Taylor Swift's fandom experiencing what appears to be an honest St. Anger moment than about the fascist regime that has bought and sold their journalistic integrity.
camroundabout.bsky.social
>last winter I upload my objectively largest media analysis article ever in a fit of absolute hyperfixation
>followed by ten whole months of website silence
>today I get inspired for a Halloween-appropriate new article
>I write it all in a day
Looking Glass is doing a thing get in?!
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oisinmcgann.bsky.social
It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.
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It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)
camroundabout.bsky.social
God, Kid Rock is such an appropriate music person ("rock star" I feel confers too much unwarranted coolness) for MAGA: a born-rich asshole who managed to convince enough people that he's some trailer park hero, who chases every single culture war key-jangle to hide just how hollow he is as a person.
camroundabout.bsky.social
This is the part of the movie after an important character dies, but it turns out they've left a message to be released after death and it hits hard as hell. But this isn't a movie, and this is our one world, and its species, we need to steward better. Journey well, doctor.
kojamf.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
camroundabout.bsky.social
"The National Review first broke the story" is a nice tell that the origin of a thing is regime agitators trying to boil a tempest in a teacup.

Obviously he shouldn't have texted that at all, but knowing what they stand up and cheer for, I don't give a fuck about their crocodile tears on anything.
camroundabout.bsky.social
If someone actually got mad at that level of creator enthusiasm about their own work, that would give toxic fun-police asswipe and I'd be like, instantly done with them and would probably block them on sight. Sounds harsh but I know bad vibes to see 'em.
camroundabout.bsky.social
Al-Namrood, a Saudi metal band with anti-religion, anti-autocrat lyrics, whose albums are distributed out of my Canadian town (!) rather than their home country because if their identities were traced to their music their gov would fucking execute them, have bigger balls than Chappelle ever will.
camroundabout.bsky.social
The more I shamble through my thirties the more I realize that the people who said "you stop finding media you Really Really Love after age 29 or so" are really just talking about/telling on themselves and well, sucks to be them
camroundabout.bsky.social
Remarkable thread. One thing maddening about today's MAGA fascism is how it gaslights so many of its supporters into really, truly believing they're not fascist. But by the same token, those whose actual job it is to study the historical lineage of fascism saw this coming a mile off.
sethcotlar.bsky.social
In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.
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ORIENTATION
FACT SHEET
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.