Theoretically, ChatGPT can aid your brainstorming in the following fashion:

1. Brainstorm in the traditional fashion.
2. Ask ChatGPT to brainstorm.
3. If anything on your list is also on ChatGPT's list, cross it off.

Of course you can achieve the same thing just by knowing the market.

"Manosphere"... you mean this thing?

Great to meet you, too! And thanks!

Of course! Good to meet you!

Indeed! I’m pretty psyched!

Book haul from “One of Us” horror fest! @horrorsong.blog @patrickbarb.bsky.social @matthewmitchell.bsky.social @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social @filthyloot.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social @cursedmorsels.bsky.social @flameswallower.bsky.social @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

I have been enthusiastically following Thomas Ha since encountering “Window Boy” in Clarkesworld, a story so haunting I still vividly remember the rainy morning I first read it. Very excited for this.

People will try to shoot down social justice rhetoric saying it smacks of “elite universities” knowing damn well we all learned it for free on the internet.

Very pleased to announce that Redivider has nominated my most recently published story, “A Better Man,” for this year’s Pushcart!

Read it here! redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/

New story up in the Fall issue of Redivider! Riyl: dark fairy tales, fish monsters, bad men getting their commeuppance.

redivider.emerson.edu/a-better-man/

Great essay by Joe Koch on Turn of the Screw, a novel that has always confounded me.

Thanks so much!!!

And thanks for the share!

Lol. That’s bananas. I haven’t used my real face as a profile pic in over a decade.

The phrase “Vancian magic” always trips me up because it describes magical rules, when the actual magic in Dying Earth is so unruly.

“You have to memorize spells before casting them” strikes me as the least salient property of those books. It just incidentally made a good rule for D&D.

If you have a medical emergency they’ll just shoot you, like a horse in an old western.

Authorial intent is never the final word, of course. But I dislike this comic and I don’t think Poe would like it either.

Worth noting that Poe was vocally opposed to the idea of spontaneous inspiration implied by “I love ravens.” He claimed his process was rigidly mathematical and the raven was chosen to be “emblematical of Mournful and Neverending Remembrance.”

I think a lot of it is generational. I first noticed, and complained about, the shift in my 20s. “Dive” became the term to describe local or neighborhood bars. Since then, I surrendered.

“Frankfurt School” gets used that way outside the academy as well, perhaps even more explicitly. Anders Breivik used it in his manifesto, for example. It’s often invoked alongside Cultural Marxism as evidence of how “they” have taken over.

Is this a phishing attempt on my inner demons?

It’s just one of the many ways I am grateful I came of age in a time when I could only inflict my full arrogance on other drunk people at parties.

I often feel this way, but I’m not sure if this is a byproduct of “weird time” or just a weird thing that twenty-somethings have always done. Lol. I used to love coming up with wild arguments to argue why everything I hated was fascist. I just didn’t post them on social media.