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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen

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Stories in F&SF, Strange Horizons, Apex, Tor, Shimmer, BCS. Repped by Caro Clarke The Shape of Monsters out now! https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Shape-of-Monsters-Audiobook/B0FGDJ5X1M https://clhellisenlanding.carrd.co/ They/them, Scotland

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · Jul 7

If you'd like to read my World Fantasy Award shortlisted story Godskin, then amble on over to @strangehorizons.bsky.social ...

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Godskin

Sometimes among the fish and crabs, we trawl squid and octopus, or little sharks, all added to the pots. Sometimes it’s a fish person, a thing we cut free and do not talk of, pretend we never saw. …

strangehorizons.com

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 3h

A Mari watching the autumn leaves fly past while sitting on an arch.

A mari sits on a lesge watching the autumn leaves blow past under the moonlight

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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 6h

My fourteenth piece for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social! Two more days to see my show in person!

#illustration #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache #fantasyart #storybookillustration #fantasyart #fantasyillustration

watercolor and gouache painting of a woman in a feather cloak standing before a series of standing stones in sunset, sword in hand, three crows alighting on her finger

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland generates huge amounts of cheap, clean electricity from renewables. That isn't reflected in our bills though, because the UK's energy system is rigged in favour of the corporations who control it, not the people who need it.

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 8h

this is too relatable 😭

CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 9h

omg children

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 10h

this is clearly me mentally preparing for Brighton World Fantasy Con.

It's ok, Big Naan will save me

CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 10h

All the cheese is gone
and the toast is dry
I've looked for a scone
on the breakfast tray
There'd be haggis on my plate
Were I in Dalgety Bay

Scottish breakfast dreamin
at the hotel buffet

(this is the most writing I've done today kill me now)

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 15h

Autumn kittehs!

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 1d

🐙 1 month till THE SALT ORACLE is out🐙

So here's a closer look at the fab oracle cards by @hibernalbeast.bsky.social. I am very in love with the digital ghost orca ngl, they *have some fun* in the book! 🫢

Check out the preorder giveaway below too 👇🏽

An oracle type card with a border that's partly octopuses, jellyfish and fish skeletons & the title 'judgement'. The image is of two flying ravens against a backdrop of sea and giant tentacles.

Same card design, title 'The Oracle'. Image is of a white teenage girl in tatty clothes, with long pale hair rising around her, lightning filled eyes and her hands raised as if in distress. Behind is a railing and the distant sea

Same card design, title 'vengeance'. Image is an orca surrounded by static and with patches of pixelation, swimming down, holding some burning wreckage in its mouth, with more in the background.

Same again, title 'the choice'. Image shows main character 'Auli', a white woman with black hair standing in a fog filled library holding a clipboard in one hand and a raised storm lamp in the other. She's looks a bit anxious

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 19h

Oh yes!

CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

Mmmmmm tasty

CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent news 😁

CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

god i really need some news that doesn't make me despair for humanity right now

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

film director George Miller can get to fuck

and stay there

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia

www.theguardian.com

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, I'm asking for governments and lawmakers to have the slightest idea about how the Internet does - and doesn't - work...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 2d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

And this

CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

I loved this one so much, I really hope one day I can get it in print 💜

CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck!

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

Fair, but I also suspect you'd have even less with kids. 😭🤣

I guess I just don't understand people who don't see their kids as humans, but some kind of investment.

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand people who say they have kids so someone can look after them when they're old.

Jfc just save the money you'd spend on these future servant-children, get a better pension plan, and accept that one day you'll end up in a nursing home anyway.

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CL Woke Cannibal Erotica Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social · 2d

Dave needs to run from this AI-addled woman as fast as his little artist feet can carry him

Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 3d

There are dome really horrifying passages in this, like how many people the author knows who, like her, rely on ChatGPT for relationship advice.

And yeah, if I was the guy in this, I’d be so outta there.

www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...