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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 14h

Virtually everything exists. That doesn’t mean you can’t put a fresh twist on it, but if you start glibly asserting that you’re the very first, 999 times out of a 1000 you will look like a twit.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 14h

Yes. Also, if you ever find a phrase along the lines of “no one’s done…” or “[genre] lacks…” bubbling up in your brain or, worse, slipping out of your mouth or fingers, stop and consider for a few minutes that perhaps you simply haven’t *found* the thing you’re sure is missing.

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 14h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 4h

remembering the completely incoherent paradigm of 'more women should play games but every franchise that does better with women is for Gays so we'll use it as a punching bag' that persisted for, also, like a decade

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 4h

turns out the secret was always to actually make games women might like instead of adding a girlboss to War Crime Police XVIII

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Kris Wolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 4h

thinking about the decade long stretch where big publishers and their media surrogants stomped and cried and blamed everyone else for not enough women being into gaming and then the moment companies like nintendo started catering to them it became within MoE 50/50 overnight almost

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 15h

Just under half of gamers worldwide are women, according to a new report published by the Entertainment Software Association

www.gamesindustry.biz/esa-48-of-vi...

ESA: 48% of video game players are women

2025 Global Power of Play report also found that mobile is the preferred device for women and players overall

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 14h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 1d

I wrote a little about this. Moore drew inspiration from mythology and early fantasy & science fiction she read; she likely also was influenced by A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Lovecraft in her early career, remixing elements in her own fiction.

deepcuts.blog/2025/04/23/d...

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 16h

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 17h

Great piece: "Anything can be rejected, and for any reason, and there is pretty much nothing you can do about it. Certain rationales for rejection are forever beyond your control."

Yes! I have to send out a lot of rejections and there are So Many reasons, and none of them are personal. Keep going!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection

As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it. Here’s what you can gain from doing so too

www.theguardian.com

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LinearA @linearao3.bsky.social · 1d

The printer is tasked with moving the spiritual (digital) into the physical (ink on paper) and so it bridges the Cartesian divide.

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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vi ✿ @ikilledrobot.dftba.social · 22h

CR: What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller 💙📚

read by: Caitlin Davies & Aiden Snow

received this copy from a giveaway with @thestorygraph.com & @macmillanaudio.bsky.social ✨

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a screenshot showing the description of What Fury Brings:
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About What Fury Brings
#1 New York Times-bestselling author Tricia
Levenseller makes her adult debut in What Fury Brings, a sexy, empowering romantasy featuring a warrior general who must kidnap and train a husband in order to take her rightful place as queen.
"Listeners will fall in love with this compelling story and be loath to push the pause button." —AudioFile on The Shadows Between Us
There's a shortage of men in the kingdom of Amarra. After a failed rebellion against the matriarchy, most noblemen in the country are dead. Now the women of Amarra must obtain their husbands (should they want one) by kidnapping them from other kingdoms.
Olerra, a warrior princess vying for the throne, is determined to prove her worth by kidnapping a husband.
And not just any husband. To outmaneuver her treacherous cousin, she needs the best. Fortunately, the second-born prince of their greatest enemy is widely known for both his looks and his sweet, docile temperament. He's the perfect choice to secure her claim to the throne.
Sanos, heir to the Kingdom of Brutus, has nothing but contempt for the idea of a society run by women. Trained from birth to fight, lead, and follow in his father's overbearing footsteps, his path has always been set. Until he takes his younger brother's place in a drunken prank and finds himself kidnapped, carted off to the Amarran Palace, and informed that he is to become the husband of Queen Potential Olerra. Sanos needs to escape before anyone learns his real identity, but the more he gets to know his captor, the less sure he is of what he truly wants.
A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends”

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3d

What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.

Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/

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Erik Is Making A Fantasy Extraction Game @eriktheviking.bsky.social · 19h

Frankly I think is it extremely stupid to conflate hatred of AI, hatred which is good and cool and extremely necessary right now, with the Sci-Fi trope of bigotry of an artificial person. The thing that's not harmless is AI and we must make people too embarrassed to use it whenever possible

♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 22h

I felt like this was harmless until I saw someone mention they had no problem killing the Geth anymore after experiencing LLMs.

That is bad! That is a story specifically intended to broaden your empathy and challenge you and you're no longer experiencing complex human feelings about it!

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23h

"this is a bad thing that you should not be promoting because it is actually based on realworld racism and is used like realworld racism" is apparently the anti-woke position on bluesky right now, and everyone is rushing to show that they don't agree with it

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erin ౨ৎ @greenappletheory.bsky.social · 1d

commentary thread for Mate by #alihazelwood

#matespoilers #booksky #currentlyreading 💙📚

Quote, “She tore him apart and remade him. It took her less than a second.”

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Mik @muz.blacksky.app · 23h

Starting "Mate" by Ali Hazelwood, it's my first ever werewolf book, so I'm really excited about it. Because sometimes those little ads draw me in but I'm not paying for that app 😄 #BookSky

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

New contender for best first chapter title of all time

IRRESISTIBLE BASTARD
MEETS IMMOVABLE BITCH from Brigitte Knightley’s THE IRRESISTIBLE URGE TO FALL FOR YOUR ENEMY

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Deb @ sleep @lemonwerewolf.bsky.social · 21h

Trying to learn how to draw them #dmc #lemonwerewolfart

Drawn art of Nero and V from DMC 5 leaning against a railing. Nero looks exasperated and V is smirking.

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oakus pocus; 4!! 🍓 @oakie.pookie.gay · 20h

i love you predictable plots i love you cliche tropes i love you cheesy writing i love you comfort media

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tarzella is👌🏽OK at drawing @tarzelladraws.bsky.social · 1d

🗡️When my canonverse Reylo has some medieval flavor🗡️
inspo from Excaibur
(Can you tell her veil is supposed to be sand??)
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#reylo #reyloart

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

we are going to beat these people, eventually, and we are going to make a better world out of it.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 20h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Cam @mc7madrid7v.bsky.social · 18h

Just finished Alchemised and it huuuuuurrrtss the right amount of hurt(wich is a lot) I love this book and story and characters and everything so much it makes me cry even more.

I will never stop being gratful for such masterpiece.

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starwarstimeline.bsky.social @starwarstimeline.bsky.social · 1d

Marvel release-day (October 7, 2025): STAR WARS: LEGACY OF VADER Vol. 1 – THE REIGN OF KYLO REN

The shadow of Darth Vader looms large over the galaxy, and nowhere does it reach deeper than in the mind of young Kylo!

Check out all about this release at starwarstimeline.com/marvel-colle...

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Wisteria🪻🩷 @wisteriaandprose.bsky.social · 1d

CR: Mate by Ali Hazelwood

So excited to get into this book! Bride is my #1 Ali Hazelwood read so I have very high hopes for this one

#currentlyreading #booksky

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 18h

is a life event I don’t think I’ll ever recover from

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