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also i had thought the 'conan the barbarian' thing wasn't really psychologized or postmodernized very much until like the 70s, but fritz leiber is basically getting to the bottom of it within a few years of it being a culturallly intelligible type of story. it rocks

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 1h

the unevenly-republished magazine stuff was building the genre in ways as fundamental and enormous as, e.g., lord of the rings

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 1h

reading more fritz leiber... some of these fafhrd & the gray mouser stories are from like 1940; incredible stuff and totally altering my sense of the historical development of fantasy fiction!!!!

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 1d

paradise lost is more fun than the bible maybe lol

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 1d

taking a LITTLE BREAK

evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 1d

next 3v scene is up on patreon now

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kc g reen @kcg.bsky.social · 3d

Greatures Bible Stories
greatures.com/comic/154

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 2d

couple new songs on this go so fucking hard lol

evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 3d

thank you @topa.to , @proprietous.bsky.social for making it happen.... great fantasy-paperback logo by @andriylukin.bsky.social is finally in print on the cover lol

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 3d

around 20 pages of back matter: enormous bit writing about process and a bunch of related art. exciting to have it out there finally!!!! i printed 1500 of these!!!!

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 3d

really turned out great i think. i figured out how to do prepress finally and the color is more correct than anything else i have self-published. linework reads much better in print than on screen.... purple spot color on cover and edge of text block perfect, Loud

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 3d

3rd Voice 1st Passage BOOK is AVAILABLE NOW topatoco.com/products/ed-...

3rd Voice 1st Passage

3rd Voice is an ongoing fantasy graphic novel It concerns a world in a state of apocalyptic crisis, and the precarious lives of many people therein.

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 3d

now in fact

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 3d

3v book available online soon

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 4d

im Depressed

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 4d

i think the apocalyptic power of it is in how it's an enormous bubble that will destroy some huge amount of the world economy ??!? not what it can actually Do as a technology. eye on the ball materialists lol

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 4d

this guy has some good angles but seems unaware of how much he is playing into what are essentially marketing narratives re: the immense apocalyptic power of this stuff

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 4d

there are so many interesting dimensions to 'worrying about AI' lol it is so ideologically loaded www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d...

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 4d

i like doing it tho and mostly I am able to stop for the day when I don't like doing it any more

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 4d

inking comic is so hard lol. AND FOR WHAT

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 5d

no 3V update today.... resumes next monday... 2nd Passage ending soon and it will be better the more I can pace myself... third voice web comic rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/

3rd Voice

rice-boy.com

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 6d

there is an intelligible argument to me that verbally abusing something anthropomorphic might be bad for you; maybe that is a dimension of what is being talked about here. but it's not people and u must have some ideological discipline in that regard i will assert

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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 6d

the thing about people is they are people!!! i am a people chauvinist i'm sorry. i am unwilling to grant the large language model personhood in my personal world model. the bar is high as it has never been cleared in history ever by anything but people, u understand

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