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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 11h

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 10h

Monaghan, Maria

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 1d

Well no one has told me to kill myself here... can't say the same about X.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 3d

Me too

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 3d

Traumatic me in theatres. Took me close to 20 years to watch it again. Now I love it.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 3d

The first of my posts featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards is up! Featuring: @carsonwinter.bsky.social, @emnays.bsky.social, and Damien Casey.

@specawards.bsky.social

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Small Spec Book Awards - Semi-Finalist Feature #1

Welcome to the first of many posts featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards! Every few days between now and when the fina...

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 3d

By your metric, then nothing should ever be done by humans because we can't guarantee 100% safety at anything.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3d

Creatives aren't anti-technology. They are anti-THEFT! Especially when the people stealing from them have millions and they don't even know how they are going to make rent if they can't get another gig.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 3d

And your answer is abuse a robot/image built on stolen pieces of actual women instead of safeguarding real women in their jobs with real protections, proper payment, and safe options?

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 5d

Ok. If you want to cover your walls or collect signed first editions of prompts, go right ahead.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 5d

I am also not getting into what is and isn't "art" because that's a whole other discussion. My point is they may have made a "prompt" (whatever that's worth) but they did NOT make the picture/writing. The machine makes it.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 5d

That's a better one. I have also used the analogy of asking someone else to do 10 push ups. Sure, I "prompted" them, but they did the push ups.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 5d

Photographers often arrange things, pose people/things, pick angles, adjust lighting, etc. They do more than just randomly aim a camera and hope for the best.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 6d

Disabled people already make art.

Also if someone feeds a prompt into a generator, it doesn't mean they created anything beyond the prompt. By your logic, when I Google something, I "created" the web pages it finds for me.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 7d

Ralph = the best

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 7d

I have a bunch. All Ralph.

I dressed myself

Sleep? Oh boy! That's where I'm a viking.

It tastes like burning

(And more lol)

Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 10d

Gonna be real upset if this one isn't about sentient goats!

;)

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Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Find out more about Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah. I loved the first of the new movies so much. The second was weak but still fit. I am not into this Welcome to Derry. I am more willing to try the Carrie miniseries.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 11d

I take it Welcome to Derry isn't that great, then? Not that I had high hopes. I do love telling people that Pennywise is actually a female spider-thing. They get so confused.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 11d

Definitely going to keep an eye out for this one. Love Greek myth and I don't think I've ever read an adaptation of this myth since Euripides.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 11d

The SSBA semi-finalists have been announced. I'll be doing a series of blog posts featuring these awesome authors over the next several weeks. See below for more information and to follow along!

Follow the awards in general: @specawards.bsky.social

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Small Spec Book Awards - Semi-Finalists

In February, I announced that I was an official influencer for the Small Spec Book Awards. What are the Small Spec Book Awards? You can chec...

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 12d

The ads actually don't bother me. It's the aggressive AI "suggestions" that do.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 13d

As someone who can't play (most) first person games, I understand why different settings are needed and often not provided

Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 13d

This isn't a review of Silksong, since I physically can't play. Instead, this is a reflection of the Metroidvania genre, particularly exploring Silksong's failures and minor successes. Read my latest Access Designed on @ign.com here:

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Reinforces the Metroidvania Genre’s Accessibility Barriers - IGN

There are overarching accessibility problems in the Metroidvania genre, and Hollow Knight: Silksong is just perpetuating and reinforcing inaccessible barriers.

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 15d

New review - The Castaway and the Witch by Ioanna Papadopoulou

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The Castaway and the Witch by Ioanna Papadopoulou

While this is only the second work by Ioanna Papadopoulou that I have read, she has already become one of the authors I keep an eye out for...

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HWA Ontario @hwaontario.bsky.social · 15d

This weekend is the first annual Little Ghosts Fest at Little Ghost Books in Toronto hosted by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social . Two of our members will be on a panel on Saturday! @andrewawesome.bsky.social and @sillysyntax.bsky.social

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