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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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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · Nov 19

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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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 4h

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"

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 4h

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.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 17h

Animation Creator Makes Shows About Hell; Discovers It For Herself At Cruising Altitude

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KyliEEK Woyote @kylora2112.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 1d

>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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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 2d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 3d

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🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 4d

"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.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

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Katnay 🇲🇽 🦜 @katnay.bsky.social · 6d

The Sign

#art #furry #anthro #horrorart #horror

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 6d

Don't make me tap the sign

*finger goes through the sign*

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 6d

I'm in Canada, but the situation is much the same here; I recently re-attained my old job (but only seasonally, so far) after 144 positions applied for since last January. I strongly feel there are more job-seekers than real jobs for them and society has not caught up with this need.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 6d

The regime's jackboots are dragging people naked from their homes kicking and screaming, beseiging whole apartment complexes. "Official" story is almost certainly just lies. Captured media will bury the shit out of this so I'm doing what I can to spread it. ICE and MAGA are enemies of free society.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 7d

The work of creation is so hard (there was one summer I pushed myself to the point of, um...call it temporary self-inflicted psychological damage while doing final edits on a novel) but the result is so, so worth it. 💙

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 7d

The Life And Times Of Blorbo Pterosaur at half off is a right steal.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 7d

What I wonder is which low-level person at the JGI decided to put one of the world's most beloved cartoonists on absolute blast before consulting the very person the foundation was named after and whose honour they were supposedly defending. Wild stuff.

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 7d

I'm so very happy the Hellaverse has become a "yes, the music is available physically" kinda series.

Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 8d

If you like furry art or high fantasy or both, you need Alec's graphic novels in your life and on your shelf. Get in on this!

Alector MYRE October Shop Sale is On @alector.bsky.social · 8d

Hey, everyone! I'm having my first sale in my Shop! MYRE Vol. 1 & 2 as a bundle are 37.5% off, and I added a few more goodies like prints & variants, including original sketches in your book, which are 25% off. Each order will have extra cards and prints!

Happy autumn!
www.yriachronicles.com/shop

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Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean) @camroundabout.bsky.social · 8d

I would say these "journalists" would fall for a wallet inspector, but I suspect many of them know exactly what they're doing by normalizing every lie.