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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · May 2

A MONTH LATER...It's my birthday and that feels like a reasonable time to follow up on this. Because I want to. So if it's self-indulgent, GOOD. 🧵

Here's the backstory: The Books of the Usurper is published in the UK/Aus as an ebook through my agency for byzantine publishing reasons.

Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · Mar 10

Okay I am going to try and remember to post some art tomorrow (because I have some stuff I keep meaning to share), but if you doubt me, Bluesky (wise), there is a whole thread of fan art on the Dungeon Scrawlers/Writing About Dragons & Shit discord: discord.gg/EqNHR9aX

Kat ♠️🇨🇦✈️ @bookeroooo.bsky.social · Mar 3

Been reading this slowly on my lunch breaks and really enjoying it. It's a series I'd love to see fanart of because there's a bunch of original species that I have a hard time picturing in my limited imagination. #booksky

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ceej @ceej.online · 3h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 2d

Absolutely delighted to talk about MAKING ENEMIES and other topics with @thetreavor.bsky.social, @erinmevans.bsky.social and @bdavewalters.bsky.social on Writing About Dragons and Sh*t, out today. #TTRPG

Ep. 173: Monster Behavior with Keith Ammann — Writing About Dragons and Shit

This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis are joined by Keith Ammann! Together they talk about how monsters could behave and what narrative you can tell in D&D with combat.Join our ...

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Polygon @polygon.com · 3d

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

You’ll never see D&D monsters the same way again after reading this essential TTRPG book

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 2d

Writing is literally finding these transitions, thinking through the big picture and the little, making sense of the events. The idea of handing off this process to AI is just shocking, and the fact that AI guys don't understand that suggests they do not understand much about art or writing.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

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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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so sorry for your loss

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 3d

lol Wait until you see the skin that goes with it

Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 3d

It's a fresh #IdleChampions skin for fresh Farideh redesign! Tap into her dark side with Darklord Farideh and Ausir the White Raven familar. (Is this a reference to that weird dream vision of Asmodeus trying to bribe her? Of course it is!)
Get yours at idlechampions.com!
@idlechampions.bsky.social

Farideh, a tiefling woman, depicted in black robes with skeletal details, her hands dissolving in negative energy, a crown of stars orbiting her horns, stands behind a white raven. Beside, a portrait of the author, Erin M. Evans, a white woman with brown hair and red lipstick.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 5d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 5d

TODAY'S THE DAY! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, with cover illustration by @kroovv.bsky.social and interior illos by @jencmars.bsky.social, is now on shelves!

Get it at your friendly local game store or through one of these links: spyandowl.com/making...

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 5d

Tbh I think everyone’s dragging their feet reporting it because the last one they fixed got replaced with a bulb that feels like a stadium light.

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 5d

Also good, but @rustysellsword.com beat you

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 5d

YOU KNOW WHAT I’LL TAKE IT

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 5d

It’s so bright I thought they fixed our busted streetlight 😂

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 5d

It’s Halloween season which means time for me to stare at my name and will something more clever than “Scarin’” into existence until I give up!

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 5d

It’s okay, someone told me it’s a Supermoon and I love that for you.

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 5d

The moon is so bright it feels rude.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 5d

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 6d

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

dansinker.com/posts/202…

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 8d

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko

YouTube video by Kidzuko

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 9d

Stop trying to make Tilly Norwood happen. OOooooOOO a fake actress WOOOOWWWW. This is the blandest fucking most boring thing ever.

AND offensive. Real life women are earth shakingly fascinating, beautiful, smart and funny.

I get it. The world hates women and wants them subjugated. BUT I DON'T.

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Lens @lensart03.bsky.social · 13d

Fixed my setup so now more art!
Farideh from the Brimstone angels series 💛

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 9d

This looks amazing! I love her fire wings

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 9d

Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9d

Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 9d

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 10d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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