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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 17h

Tumblr poster: Why is the Fantasy Protagonist's Cool Animal Companion always a wolf, a bird of prey, or something cool? If you live in a medieval-ish society, even if you have cool powers to bond with an animal, it's probably going to be a farm animal.

What about a fantasy book where the heroine's Spirit Companion Animal is a pig. And not a cute piglet, but a huge fucking sow. As clever as a human, but absolutely as ruthless as pigs can be.

And the protagonist is like "should I quit eating pork? Does it disturb you, that milk piglet could have been yours." And the pig is like "bitch first of all the difference is that it *isn't* mine, and don't fucking pretend that - given the chance - I wouldn't eat a human child."

keuhkopussirotta: "What are we going to do with him?"
"I propose murder."
"Where would we put the body?"
"I volunteer."
"Are you suggesting we should kill him *because* you want to eat his corpse?"
"I'm sure there are plenty of other good reasons to kill him here, I just can't think of them all right now."

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 1h

Coming from Connecticut, this is why I refer to the 203 vs the 860.

203 is the area code down by NYC. Fits nicely with that "tri state area" ... 203 is the Stepford Wives part of the state. 203 commutes to NYC.

860 is proper New England. Old mill towns and colonial era stuff everywhere.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 2h

Submissions are open for one more week. Speculative fiction 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · Aug 27

Did you know I made an official playlist for Once Upon a Punk Show??

"She Thinks She's Punk Rock N Roll" by Hands Off Gretel (Delilah Bon's band before going solo) is one of the featured songs.

Rock the eff out and get in the mood for my punk af book!

youtu.be/EDUNsojKdoc?...

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 3h

Hard agree. Just because *my* program wasn't worth it thanks to the lack of support, doesn't mean the whole entire concept of liberal arts degrees needs to be tanked. They just need to be better.

Also capitalism can ruin anything 😁

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11d

The majority of the UN walked out of the General Assembly hall as Netanyahu, representing Israel, tried to brag about his criminal actions in Gaza and the region, loud booing ensued leaving Netanyahu visibly shaking in anger.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 8h

doomscroll break

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

There was an undercurrent of "if you're getting a liberal arts degree, you have rich parents so you can faff around or you're gonna go try to teach the thing you just did."

Got neither? Well sucks to suck then.

Pretty much how I ended up in the shipyard.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

I feel that. My film studies degree is basically modeled after an English degree just with movies. Most college film programs that date to the 70s were made my English profs.

At no point did anyone bother to council us on what to do after. No one pointed us into a direction we could use our skills

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

EA-NASIR!!!! *shakes fist in the direction of Ur*

A copper crayon but the copper oxidized all green.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 4h

some ppl who said this to me later asked me to help them write their cover letter, resume, edit their answers for applications.

Ppl who feel the same now are stealing the books and stories I wrote, which I used my knowledge of English lit to write, because cash.

Oh no we can't write email so hard!

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 4h

It's sad. Basic English competency improves everything.

My whole job as an instructor at the shipyard is because the engineers can't write a coherent paragraph into our procedures to save their lives. I have to translate from Engineereese to Real People.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, Microslop, I meant "shopped." She paused to so some capitalism around the corpse

Screenshot of a word document in which "she hopped around the body" is highlight and Word is suggesting "shopped" as an alternative to "hopped"

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 14h

Look, the world is falling apart, but my cover artist mocked up a logo for the band in Once Upon a Punk Show and I'm 100% gonna make t shirts.

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Aɴᴅʀᴇᴡ Lɪᴘᴛᴀᴋ @andrewliptak.com · 22h

October is bringing a huge batch of books to bookshelves. Here’s the latest book list from Transfer Orbit: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/sci-fi-fanta...

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 16h

AI people arguing that dismissing their imaginary computer friends is just like eugenics sure as hell aren't helping to dispel mental health concerns related to use of the technology.

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 17h

correct take

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie

A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

www.theguardian.com

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 20h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 17h

I have no idea why the print on demand books in Germany pay me 4x the same book in the US.

Math? Reasons?

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 17h

Ok legit interesting because it's not the same for me.

For me it's...

Direct from the box in my basement
European Paperback
Amazon ebook
Other ebook
Bookstore paperback
Amazon paperback

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

Self-publishing transparency post:

I make the most on an Amazon paperback.

I make the 2nd-most on an ebook from itch.

I make the 3rd-most on an ebook from anywhere else.

I make the least when you order a paperback through a bookstore.

tbc there’s no judgment on readers here; just facts ✌️

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 21h

There's a new The Oatmeal about AI art, which gets at the thing that ends up bothering me the most about AI art, which is that art that isn't the product of human creativity has no meaning or import.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 21h

The time traveller closed the book and stared blankly ahead.

"So," said the author, "was that what-"

"No! That wasn't at all- It's a warning!"

"Allegorical, but y-"

"It's not you I need to kill, it's the person who read this and still wanted to build the Torment Nexus!"

"Kill?"

"I must go!"

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Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · 23h

I ain't no thief! We just got the same stuff 🤪

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky Jay is still only blocked by 8,612 accounts, so she's got a ways to go to reach the stars, but I believe she has the juice to claim her throne.

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Keith from New England @wfutbolfan.bsky.social · 6d

Buy Kate’s punk book. It’s a terrific story. Fabulous writing - belly laughs; pick-the-jaw-up prose - the whole shebang. Listen to the playlist. Rock out 🎸

Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social · Jul 15

What happens when your new fling turns out to be a legit goddess? And her ex is trying to overdose humanity on old magic?

What to do, what to do.. 🤔

Once Upon a Punk Show. Sing together. Save the world together. Out now!

Full blurb and links below ⤵️

katelynforrest.com/once-upon-a-...

Once Upon a Punk Show

For Giulia Caesari, a small-time punk singer chasing a stage high, embracing the chaos of her life is a night in the mosh pit. Until she learns chaos is not an abstract thing. Chaos is a flesh and …

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