How about just … NOT using AI? Be the lack of change you want to see in the world.

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LAST DAY TO SUBMIT FOR ISSUE 2 🪐🗡️

If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ author of speculative fiction or poetry, send us your work! We can't wait to read it! You have until 11:59 pm Eastern!

LGBTQReads Bookshop Queering up your shelf, one rec at a time!

Looking for a queer bookshop with really specific sections? LGBTQReads has got you covered, with over a hundred different lists for finding your perfect next read: bookshop.org/shop/LGBTQRe... 🌈📚

𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂 📖 1990s Nostalgic Atmospheres (Music & Ambience) ✨🛰️🌍🦒🌿 YouTube video by Kester Spach

On today's edition of random playlists to write to, please enjoy this selection of music that makes you feel like you're in a DK science documentary or a Science Store.

Anyway here’s a thing I made with own two human hands 🧶🪡 #embroidery #stumpwork

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

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Transformation:
man
to figure
on ridgepole
of house.

If you are currently writing a pseudo-medieval romantasy and are an agricultural novice, I do expert copyediting for a very reasonable fee that includes checking things like this.

Mum: You're going to grandma's today.

Little Red Riding Hood: Cool! She's got a Playstation and lets me...

Mum: No, grandma who lives in the woods.

LRRH: Oh, fuck.

The picture shows a fibula (a brooch) in the shape of an owl, decorated with enamel in different colours: The large are orange with blsck pupils, the wings are green with red circles.

A charming #Roman enamelled fibula (a pin for fastening garments) in the form of an #owl.

Found in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort.

Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg / Peter Knierriem

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E712.4
Soul hidden
in box.

I am once again asking

Just went to order from my local store when something prompted me to check my order history, and yes, I preordered a long time ago! Looking forward to it!

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Rebuke
for telling a poor
and long-winded story.

Oh interesting. Quick question: What happened with the Romans tried to conquer Persia? bsky.app/profile/crai...

This being Transgender Day of Visibility, I would like to note for the benefit of those Anglicans who unaccountably not encountered his work, @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social is a fine poet and many of his poems are good Holy Week reading.

McDonald lay ybounden,
Bounden on a farme;
Four thousand oink-oinks
Thought he do no harme.

And all was for a piggie,
A piggie that he stole.
As clerkës singeth
Ee-aye-ee-aye-oh.

Queer-friendly books about magic, fantasy, witches, wizards, etc.: book covers: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston A Marvellous Light (and its sequels) by Freya Marske Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder by K Valentin Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole

Queer-friendly books about magic, fantasy, witches, wizards, etc.: book covers: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Sword Dance by AJ Demas Magician by KL Noone Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace Voyage of the Damned by Frances White Thornfruit (and its sequels) by Felicia Davin

Queer-friendly books about magic, fantasy, witches, wizards, etc.: book covers: Starling House by Alix E. Harrow The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton Spellbound (and its sequels) by Allie Therin The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane

In light of a certain TERF-authored HBO series getting more press lately, here are better stories you can read: LGBTQ+ friendly books w/ magic, witches, fantasy, etc! I could go on and on with more slides honestly—I love this genre, and there are SO MANY fabulous books out there.🌈📚💙

That is totally what it is!

Makes as much sense as anything.

A logo on a shopping bag showing a cute creature. It has round ears and stripes on its face but not on its body, and there’s a line around the face suggesting that it’s wearing either a mask or a hoodie.

Is this a tiger wearing a bear hoodie or a bear putting on a tiger mask or some third, unknown thing? Wrong answers only. (There are no wrong answers.)

All the indie authors who use AI for their covers because “what am I supposed to do, I can’t afford an artist” would probably have a melt down if artists did paintings and had AI write books to go with the paintings.

Anyway, shout out to indie authors who have really bad photoshop covers.

I find it less immersive than third person because of things like this, actually. Obviously that’s not the majority response, though.

I agree. Flashbacks can be a real mess. The pluperfect isn’t even necessary when your main narrative is in the present, but people still use it, and it just calls attention to itself awkwardly.

Yep. Too early in the morning to slog through that much scorn.

Oof. Couldn’t get through the first paragraph.

Change your clocks tonight! Change them into doves. Release them into the cold March sky. A single feather drifts down, but your clocks are gone. Hold onto the feather, keep it safe. One day the clocks will return, if they love you.

Elements from Egyptian and Greek mythology are combined in this delicate figure. The view taken here is that Anubis is represented, wearing military costume and breastplate that signify his role as a fighter against the enemies of Osiris. He holds a staff topped by a cone-shaped object - the thyrsus carried by followers of Dionysus with whom the Greeks equated Osiris. In his other hand he carries a falcon. On the other hand, the snout and ears appear short for Anubis and more like those of a cat, and the short dress can be worn by Artemis who is associated with Bastet. The identity of the figure is, therefore, not certain. Roman, from Egypt, 2nd-3rd century CE. Height: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm) Met Museum, New York (67.190)

This l’il fella is a gold amulet from Roman Egypt, possibly representing the Egyptian god Anubis as a defender of Osiris-Dionysus. He wears a military tunic and breastplate, signifying him as a defender of Osiris; he also holds a thyrsus of Dionysus, equated with Osiris. 🏺 1/

📸 me #MetMuseum

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology