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Melody E. McIntyre

@melodyemcintyre.bsky.social

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Canadian writer of short, speculative fiction. Also a Legal Assistant, Martial Artist, Classicist, Pet owner, and Time-traveller. She/They. https://linktr.ee/melodyemcintyre

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 14h

Once had a cat attack my head to pull it out of my hair

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 14h

Just get a few dustballs of their own hair. Set for hours.

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 16h

Wuthering Heights was the worst thing I ever read.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes reviews ARE for authors, not just readers (ducks)

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 17h

Part 2 of my series featuring the Small Spec Book Award semi-finalists is up! Featuring: J. A. Mortimore, Penelope Hill, @scriblit.bsky.social, and @samflynnwrites.bsky.social.

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Small Spec Book Awards - Semi-Finalist Feature #2

Welcome to the second post featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards ! Check out the first post here ! Today is Thanksgivin...

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 5d

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 5d

Monaghan, Maria

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 6d

Well no one has told me to kill myself here... can't say the same about X.

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 8d

Me too

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 8d

Traumatic me in theatres. Took me close to 20 years to watch it again. Now I love it.

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 8d

The first of my posts featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards is up! Featuring: @carsonwinter.bsky.social, @emnays.bsky.social, and Damien Casey.

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Small Spec Book Awards - Semi-Finalist Feature #1

Welcome to the first of many posts featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards! Every few days between now and when the fina...

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 8d

By your metric, then nothing should ever be done by humans because we can't guarantee 100% safety at anything.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 9d

Creatives aren't anti-technology. They are anti-THEFT! Especially when the people stealing from them have millions and they don't even know how they are going to make rent if they can't get another gig.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 8d

And your answer is abuse a robot/image built on stolen pieces of actual women instead of safeguarding real women in their jobs with real protections, proper payment, and safe options?

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 10d

Ok. If you want to cover your walls or collect signed first editions of prompts, go right ahead.

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 10d

I am also not getting into what is and isn't "art" because that's a whole other discussion. My point is they may have made a "prompt" (whatever that's worth) but they did NOT make the picture/writing. The machine makes it.

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 10d

That's a better one. I have also used the analogy of asking someone else to do 10 push ups. Sure, I "prompted" them, but they did the push ups.

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 10d

Photographers often arrange things, pose people/things, pick angles, adjust lighting, etc. They do more than just randomly aim a camera and hope for the best.

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 11d

Disabled people already make art.

Also if someone feeds a prompt into a generator, it doesn't mean they created anything beyond the prompt. By your logic, when I Google something, I "created" the web pages it finds for me.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 12d

Ralph = the best

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 12d

I have a bunch. All Ralph.

I dressed myself

Sleep? Oh boy! That's where I'm a viking.

It tastes like burning

(And more lol)

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 15d

Gonna be real upset if this one isn't about sentient goats!

;)

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah. I loved the first of the new movies so much. The second was weak but still fit. I am not into this Welcome to Derry. I am more willing to try the Carrie miniseries.

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 16d

I take it Welcome to Derry isn't that great, then? Not that I had high hopes. I do love telling people that Pennywise is actually a female spider-thing. They get so confused.

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