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Dorian Dawes

@doriandawes.bsky.social

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They/Them Author of A Dream of Saints I thirst trap award winning authors patreon.com/doriandawes

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · Aug 7

Have you read my icky little book? It features werewolf and tree related violence and a lot of body horror.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

i’ll never get over this

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 5h

simultaneously one of the funniest and most badass uses of magic in fantasy fiction

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 5h

sometimes i think about Granny Weatherwax catching a sword in her hand out of the air and smiling smugly at her attacker

and its only a week later when her hand is bandaged cause she decided she didnt have time to be injured that day so rescheduled it to some point in the future

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 7h

a man says i actually quite like it in front of a staircase

ALT: a man says i actually quite like it in front of a staircase

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 7h

I am also just not inclined to believe anything Ezra Klein says as the man is a grade-A moron

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 7h

I'm gonna be honest, when we all rightly called AI a tool of fascism, I really thought they'd be using it for propaganda to trick civilians, not themselves

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 9h

“You imagine that” is actually the most devastating part of this to me

It’s such a poignant wtf is wrong with you that you think that is smart response

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 23h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 8h

"The consumers won't care if it's AI."

Ah yes, horror fans -- y'know, the people who famously ask "Are the FX Practical?!" about literally every movie -- definitely won't care that you're feeding them prompt-generated slop. Good call there.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 8h

this is so many layers down on fascist conspiracy brainrot holy shit

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 8h

yeah this is my first book i've used it for and uh

a man is making a funny face and saying `` oh my god '' in front of a crowd .

ALT: a man is making a funny face and saying `` oh my god '' in front of a crowd .

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 8h

it's kind of an annoying step but basically means going through and reading your draft, and making notes on the weak elements you want to tidy up or rewrite entirely. also helps to make an outline of your current draft so you know which scenes are which. that's where scrivener has been a boon

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 9h

also scrivener is very very good for this

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 9h

All those annoying posts about how you need to have a revision plan when you go back to edit your novel are absolutely correct, I fear. It has simplified my life immensely.

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 11h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ice-Pick Lodge @icepicklodge.bsky.social · 11h

New demo arrives on October 13th.

How is the new demo different from “Quarantine”? In every way! The new demo is a slice from the beginning of the full game.

🕗 Starts Oct 13, 10:00 PDT

Read the full announcement below.

Last chance to add Quarantine before it’s gone!

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 11h

not quite but still a spooky good time!

Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 11h

Still currently my favorite horror game of 2025

It's like playing through a classic gothic horror story.

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 11h

Speaking of archaic, the new game from the developer of Scratches finally came out earlier this year, and it plays like nothing else from this era, an almost Myst-like first person Point & Click adventure. It's not for everyone, but tremendously atmospheric, deeply engrossing, and gloriously janky.

ASYLUM on Steam

An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horr...

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13h

As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 14h

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 13h

The idea of the IDF using royalty free assets (meant to help artists build out scenes for concept art etc) for genocide is so sickening.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 15h

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

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Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 15h

We are all Zach.

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 15h

Say the line, Bart! three panel meme but it’s SAY THE LINE, ZACH and then then I HAVE A COPY OF THAT BUT HAVEN’T GOTTEN AROUND TO READING IT YET and then the cheering

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 17h

You can talk to Mohamed on +972597655375 - please help him and his child if you can:
gofund.me/4f2edf6d

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 12d

An essay I wrote last summer about Yara Asmar's surreal puppet video series, Mr. Samuel's Teatime Stories for Good Kids and Confused Adults. This is an essay about time, grief, and memory, written after the death of Mr. Samuel's performer, Dr. Michael Dennison, which felt very appropriate

Where We Go When We Go

The middle of the year snuck up on me in a way that I didn't expect. That's on me. One moment, it was March and I was just beginning to warm up after a...

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 17h

it's like the vulgarity of american fascist aesthetics but with a union jack.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 17h

it's really great that Brits and Americans are united in their young conservatives being complete buffoons

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 21h

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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