You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social

look I made that!!

they invited me to nasa to watch the artemis iii core stage rollout and i got to draw stuff #yay #yippee #mysidequest

[2021] #ikesoren week! 💞 (4/4)
Day 7: Free day

Promare AU? Crossover? Anyway, here are some fake screenshots that I spent way too much time making, and I hope someone else other than me enjoys this 😳

This is Why.

This is Why's phone on water.

Any questions?

Screenshot of bluesky showing the why.bsky.team profile. The profile picture is blurred because they're blocking me. Two labels are shown: "User blocked by the Great AI - NFT - Crypto Cull" and "User blocking you"

lol I wasn't expecting this, but honestly feels validating XD

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

Whether or not the two things are actually correlated, it is incredibly funny that Bluesky started experiencing near daily tech fuck ups right after the team started bragging about using vibe coding

apollo justice: ace attorney is a 2026 period piece

I wish all the Hugo nominees have a great time with the experience. I'm excited for so many of them I know of - I've read several on the list and enjoyed them! I'm also taking the finalist list as a rec list and adding those I didn't already have on it to the TBR list. XD

Okay. Let's take a moment to talk about How To Be A Hugo Nominee And Come Out Of It Happy About the Honor. I realize this is relevant to like, twelve people. I don't care, those twelve people deserve my time. (You may have seen a version of this thread before. I do it every year.)

Best Novel A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape) Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow; Gollancz) Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US) The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (Tor US; Tor UK) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (Tor US; Orbit UK) The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape) 1,153 ballots cast for 555 nominees. Finalists range 126-210.

Best Novel
A Drop of Corruption by @robertjbennett.bsky.social (Del Rey; Hodderscape)

Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social (William Morrow; Gollancz)

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A drawing of Ardbert and Seto, both smiling at the viewer

no art juice so here is ardbert and seto from '21 that I still find cute... my babies #ffxiv

A young woman with dark hair flowing down her back wears a black choker and a black-sleeved top over a black dress with black suspenders connecting to a black belt with a large buckle.

A young man with spiky blonde hair wears a black choker and chained necklaces over a gray sleeveless top and a zipped black coat that falls aroudn his shoulders.

pt. 3:
• Gaia <FFXIV>
• Prompto Argentum <FFXV>

A man with spiky blonde hair wears a black leather coat with a wolf design on the sleeve. He wears a white t-shirt with black splotches and a loosely-tied black tie.

A woman with long, dark hair wears a light blue sweater over a black top and denim shorts. She raises one finger (not the middle one) in the air.

A young man with blonde hair parted down the middle with a ponytail wears a black vest over a white shirt that says "PRIMA VISTA".

A woman with pink hair that flows down her left shoulder wears a white leather jacket over a dark pink turtleneck.

pt. 2:
• Cloud Strife <FFVII>
• Rinoa Heartilly <FFVIII>
• Zidane Tribal <FFIX>
• Lightning <FFXII>

crude drawing of a smiling anthrpomorphic dog with a word bubble reading i want them to pay for what they've done

🤗

I love starting up a book and getting just enough into it to go "oh this is going to be good". Today's moment is the end of chapter 3 of A Legionnaire's Guide to Love and Peace by Emily Skrutskie. 💜

“Creativity, Writing, and Reading in the Age of AI: Survey Results”

Right y’all 😮‍💨 We worked our way though over 5,000 survey responses, crunched the numbers, and data’d the data—and now we’re ready to share our findings.

Who’s ready for some pie charts?! 🧵🧵

Full blog post: ellipsus.com/blog/survey-...

Another episode of Witch Hat Atelier that kicks off with a beautiful attempt to breathe life into the magic that Shirahama's illustrations imply, rather than merely redrawing them to lesser effect. The match cuts between sigils and the corresponding elemental magic spirits are soooooooo good

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

[squints]
@legaleagle.tv ???

Firebird/Bloodsinger - spicy, good if the summary is what you're looking for. I'm most curious for the third one - I do enjoy when books in a set like this do some switching around of the tropes for at least one of them, and the third one promises some change of pace.

Aetherbound has been sitting in my TBR for a while and I finally got to it and really liked it! I'm going to pick up the next book soon and I found myself wanting more when it got to the end. Slow start but not too slow, and always worked toward the payoff later.

Highlights:
Crash Landing and Steal a Galaxy are books 1+2 of 3 and I was looking hard for book 3 this weekend. Sadly had to order it online - I wanted to read it RIGHT THEN. If you like heists and clever women and don't mind/like sci-fi settings, you'll probably enjoy this trilogy. I for sure am!

Books I finished this past week:
- Aetherbound - E.K. Johnston
- How to Steal a Galaxy - Beth Revis
- The Hurricane Wars - Thea Guanzon
- Full Speed to a Crash Landing - Beth Revis
- Bloodsinger - Juliette Cross
- Firebird - Juliette Cross

#KesIsReading for the week of 4/20:
- A Legionnaire's Guide to Love and Peace - Emily Skrutskie
- The Spellshop - Sarah Beth Durst
- The Dragon Spirits Trilogy - L. L. Macrae
- Feeder - Patrick Weekes
- Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
- The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

A portrait shot of Mochi, a tortoiseshell cat with a white fur bandana chest and wide, yellow eyes. Her head is in focus, but the rest of her body and the floor and rug beneath her are not.

good meowning
#MochiMoment

Tomodachi life shadow quiz challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

Art of Gulool Ja and Neyuni walking together as they chat in the streets of Solution 9.

art of Gulool Ja and Neyuni playing video games together. Wuk Lamat and Sphene cheers for Gulool Ja while Neyuni's sisters, Yanna and Eutrope, cheer for her. Eutrope seems confused why both the King of Resolve and the Queen of Reason is at their home, nevertheless she cheers on. Koana seems to have arrived later holding three pizza boxes, taken aback by how the atmosphere in the room has changed compared to when he left the room.

I think Neyuni and Gulool Ja would make really good friends

[ #ffxivart │ #art ]

Adora & Catra
Congrats to the Apr art request winners🌟