If there are folks who would like to design a couple of "FUND OUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES" posters, holler at me at niapoetry@gmail.com and please tell me your rate for this. Poster size would be 11 by 17 landscape size.
I need to print some posters for a forthcoming event.
Very happy to reveal that Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector has been nominated for a 🚀Hugo! 🚀
I grew up reading Hugo winners and nominees, and many previously nominated and awarded books are among my biggest inspirations! www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history...
Something @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social and I have been working on in parallel is ways to communicate setting/lore/whatever in gameable, flexible, and (importantly) incomplete forms.
Truthfully, I would like it if someone invited me on a podcast to talk about Marathon.
I went on @adambecker.bsky.social’s new podcast and had a shitload of fun talking about Star Trek and yes, fascist shoes
Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE! By Gita Jackson Imprint: Mira Aftermath co-owner Gita Jackson's LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE!, a debut LitRPG romance in which an overworked game developer is transported to the cozy town featured in the farming simulator she's creating and falls for the town's snarky bartender-a character who wasn't even supposed to be romanceable -as she's forced to confront the fact that her career in the gaming industry wasn't what she thought it was going to be and figure out how to get back home, to Emma Cole at Mira, in an exclusive submission, by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency (world). Fiction: Romance April 21, 2026
Hello. I’m writing a novel. @editrixemma.bsky.social @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
You can read an excerpt from my Dragon Age II book on Aftermath!
I don’t think we quite appreciate how consequential Kotaku’s revitalization under new ownership, after being dragged to the absolute brink by Great Hill, is for the industry. It proves what many of us knew in our hearts; bad management is the beating heart of digital media’s woes.
An illustration of an outrigger boat cutting through rough waves on a green sea, beneath an overcast sky.
Moon Sentences
An illustration for Realis, a collaborative storytelling TTRPG by @austinwalker.bsky.social and @possibleworlds.bsky.social!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app already schooled us on this being the direct lineage of eugenicists.
its not just an article -- its acute social commentary
working from home
I am looking for environmental artists, particularly people with a strong background in concept work for interior locations
Atmospheric/ Liminal vibes appreciated
You can apply by dropping your art in the replies, or send your portfolio to:
regulareyepatchwolf@gmail.com
Humans only. no ai.
For the first time in our 9-year history:
WE ARE HIRING!
We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
i've been thinking lately about how i find "worldbuilding" distasteful, and just recently hit on a preferred alt concept: "worldpainting," by which i mean largely what it sounds like.
it makes no claims on the mechanical existence of the depicted world, only a perspective.
EP2 of our Realis One Shot is live! Join @superdillin.bsky.social, @austinwalker.bsky.social, @vidityavoleti.bsky.social, & @moreblueberries.bsky.social as they encounter The Immaculate Flotilla—a religious order of pirates who do, in fact, believe the floor is lava (drawn here by @chriskindred.com)
in the middle of this episode and the dynamic is extremely Red Dwarf coded
i say this is a free ttrpg idea but also i'm 100% going to just make it myself
also the reverse (Realis solo games using a prompt system ala Thousand Year Old Vampire) would fucking rip
free ttrpg idea: Thousand Year Old Vampire but replace the resources, characters, skills, etc with Realis style sentences. every time you're supposed to mark a sentence as used, you can optionally progress it to keep it usable.
Hey! Authorly types, especially disabled authorly types: I and a bunch of other much cooler people will be talking craft, process, and representation FOR FREE on May 30. Check out the schedule here. Join us!
weeknightwriters.com/2026/04/18/s...
racoon: nihilism, seriously teenage nerd shit cat: you just said that about deontology raccoon: PHILOSOPHY FUCKING SUCKS
when u think ab it, waluigi is just the version of luigi that fucks
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It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.
I've been independently sailing in and out of the strait of Hormuz with no incident for several weeks now. Sorry to hear that others have been struggling with this.
Big "DO NOT CAST PEARLS BEFORE SWINE" sign at the zoo. Yet people continue to shower the pigs in pearls. Children are jamming their little pearl-filled fists through the bars
Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4
ME: (shivering, stripped naked and tied to a chair) Drag queens have pretty privilege…
CIA AGENT: Again. Do another.
ME: Please, I can’t, I—
CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter!
ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…
technically red dwarf is nearly all this