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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 5h

Good night, ducks.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 5h

The low tomorrow is 39!!!!

This is NOT a drill!!!!!

a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 5h

I am Big Mad that writing the last half of my book in two weeks is no longer a thing I can really do reliably.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 5h

a woman with red hair looks at the camera in front of a wall with shields and a sign that says resub x63

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 5h

Right????

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 5h

Someone asked me if I do marketing consulting work, and the answer is:

Absolutely not 💃🕺

I am extremely good at that job, but reason I started fiction Patreon was so I DIDN'T feel need to do MORE corporate work as my side hustle.

I do enough for capitalism 😆

Let me write about sentient plants.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 5h

I've never been a "rules" magic system person. I prefer that shit to remain somewhat mysterious. Gandalf school of magic. But having an idea of what's done most often with it serves as a baseline. Then when I need weird shit to happen it's as startling to the characters as the reader.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 5h

Trying to figure out how exactly I want the symbiotic plant magic to work.

Woe.

a man is holding onto a pipe in the desert .

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 7h

I tried about three times. Def tough but I felt it was worth it

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 17h

I love this so much.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 18h

Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, adding explanations arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, adding explanations

You absolutely, definitely cannot play it.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 18h

All of the above. That BBC funding is glorious. I grew up during the golden age of PBS here and it was also a treat.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 19h

We REALLY want a goat so we can make homemade cheese, but that's one animal the zoning still expressly forbids 😆

Jimmy @supporthumanity.bsky.social · 21h

I love your zoo

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 19h

An astonishing amount of character work done in very few lines.

dgold @dgold.eu · 22h

I just adore Akram.

The narrative complexity of the character given such wonderful life by the screenwriters and actor. Just an astounding piece of work by all involved.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

Gremlin

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

Fierce

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

Biscuit was super chill today, hangin' in the pool by herself, vibing

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

MC is short for "Main Character" in this instance

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

The writing was just glorious

Bryon Quertermous @bryonquertermous.com · 1d

YES! he was brilliant and I loved Rose’s growth. Scott Frank is one of those writers I just always trust

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

W E L C O M E

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Reposted by Kameron Hurley

James L. Sutter @jameslsutter.bsky.social · 1d

When we were doing the first Pathfinder Bestiary, I was up very late one night writing a death-gaze variant of the cockatrice.

The next day Wes Schneider came into the office and yelled "SUTTER! Did you seriously just name this thing "the deathcock'?!" 😬

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

Two or three episodes in, I realized Akram was the ACTUAL main character, and it made the show much better for me 😆

Patrick Habecker @seloriste.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah the other characters kept me along more than MC

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

This is why humans make stories. We need them. We wouldn't survive without them. They keep us going.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

That feeling of being at the absolute pinnacle of excellence in your profession - same as when I finish a book! - and then to realize I have to get up and ....write another one. That's some real Old People Feels right there. And it captured it perfectly. Just what I needed. All the feels.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 1d

The feeling at the end, where you just did something absolutely incredible, and then you have to get up the next day and just.... Go back to work and do it again was especially resonate. I had a huge win at day job today that left me high as a kite. Tomorrow, I go back and... We do another one 😆

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