An Easter Egg Hunt in a California Park Leads to a Human Skull

Okay, yes, it's ghoulish, but you have to admit this would be a badass scene in a #horror story.

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a dog wearing a blue beret is painting flowers on an easel ALT: a dog wearing a blue beret is painting flowers on an easel

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You don't get to force your product on users who don't want it AND THEN say "use it at your own risk."

Fenris Sales & Marketing Contractor Posting Marketing & Sales Position Furry Contractor Opening at Fenris Publishing, LLC About Fenris Are you passionate about furry media? Are you interested in a position at a large furry media company? Fenri...

Are you interested in furry media? How about a position in a large furry media company? We are looking to hire on a new marketing specialist! This is a contract position, starting at 500/mo. Please read the link here for more info! :) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Five Sci-Fi Stories About the Dark Side of A.I. - Reactor A.I. may be everywhere, but we don't have to like it...

Are you feeling exhausted or exasperated by the ubiquity of A.I. nonsense in the world? When you need a break from raging against the machines, here are five stories about the dark and dangerous aspects of artificial intelligence...

Sword That Rips All of a Man's Clothes Off by Penness F. F. Criffington

Today's Classic Cover of the Day is Sword That Rips All of A Man's Clothes Off by Penness F. F. Criffington!

Trump shares rendering of a presidential library | CNN President Donald Trump shared what appeared to be an AI-generated rendering of a future presidential library based in Miami, Florida.

And I'm sure he'll fill it top to bottom with Playboy, Hustler, and Highlights for Children.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/u...

In addition to being on Goodreads, I'm now on BookWyrm. Let's see how this experiment goes! Find me at:

bookwyrm.social/user/cambear

Block @attie.ai if you want no part of this bullshit. Nobody asked for or wanted this other than billionaires up to their eyeballs in bad #AI debt.

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Are you interested in furry media? How about a position in a large furry media company? We are looking to hire on a new marketing specialist! This is a contract position, starting at 500/mo. Please read the link here for more info! :)

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70 Years Ago, Forbidden Planet Changed Science Fiction Cinema - Reactor It's been seven decades, and the film's influence on screen sci-fi cannot be ignored.

"Forbidden Planet is—with the arguable exception of some early serials—the first major motion picture to truly channel the spirit, ideas, and imagery that had been prevalent in published science fiction for several decades already."

@donkaye.bsky.social on how Forbidden Planet changed film history:

Don't worry. There are a number of financial institutions who shall approach them, hands out, and say "so, about that trillion-dollar loan..."

Based on recent tech news articles, I think OpenAI may be the first to go. Meta seems a close second.

Just-released photo of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson from the live-action Moana

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Lungwort is in bloom/
Little pink and purple buds/
Hummingbirds eat them

And that means I can stop washing and refilling the hummingbird feeder every week. (Contented sigh.)

The letter reads: "DVS8: Top Secret. Community Submissions: Now Open! Intrepid Spacefarer, In preparation for our retrofitting and reopening of the Orbital Research Group of Yesteryear Space Station, we require materials to distribute to guests at our grand opening event, the Digital Villainy Summit. If you are up to the task, we encourage you to submit artwork and relevant writing for use for our orbital machinations. We are looking for both prose and images. Specifications for work are as follows: Images are to be 150dpi, 8.5"x11" or 8.5"x5.5" and can be photography, illustrations, paintings, or comics. Writing is to be limited to 1000 words or less and can be poetry, flash fiction, prose, or non-fiction essay. Submissions do not have to be Korpsrelated, and are encouraged to be in line with convention theming. Submissions should be sent electronically to conbook@d-v-s.online. You have until April 30th, 2026 to send in submissions. Good luck, and see you in orbit. DVS is an adults-only convention, and explicit adult submissiona re welcome, but not mandatory. Submissions are not guaranteed to be used. All submissions must be your original artwork (or else). We area group of villainous artists trying to do right by our community, that being said, "AI"/LLM Generated trash will not be tolerated under any circumstances. We will dropkick you out of the airlock if you try so do not waste our time. By submitting work, you grant DVS a limited license to use and reproduce this work in the conbook and/or website, for the purposes of promoting the convention, but you retain all other rights."

A letter slides under your door. The sound of yipping quiets as you approach. Life on a space station would be more peaceful were the minions not all fennecs.

The letter is top secret, for your eyes only!

You want your art or stories in our DVS conbook? Submit them according to our guidelines!

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I'm a fan of Lovecraftian horror, so... very. Very doomed indeed.

Six Standalone Werewolf Novels to Unleash the Beast Within - Reactor Each book brings something different to the classic werewolf mythos...

Werewolves can be friends and allies, dangerous predators, or folks just trying to survive. Here are six standalone novels that explore very different takes on life as a lyncanthrope...

Plott Hound Magazine is open to submissions!

Short stories, flash fiction, poetry, essays, and our new category RETOLD TALES (reprint fiction up to 10,000 words).

If you're writing animal, we'd love to see it.

plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

A book manuscript is like a stone in a rock tumbler: polish, polish, polish.

Just finished another pass over ~100,000 words. There's one last section I'd like to review again, then back to the publisher it goes. Here's hoping I hit the 🎯 this time!

The worst news: AI slop isn't art.

I may return to #Scrivener instead of using #Apple #Pages. The subscription-based #CreatorStudio model with #AI concerns me. They're emulating #Adobe's worst instincts.

Scrivener integrates with many tools in ways Pages cannot, anyhow. Also: fuck AI.

www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/ov...

Working hard to make "successful author" my next entry.

Thirty-plus years of IT work has not brought me peace and satisfaction. It's nightmare fertilizer in career form.

Oof. I was planning on sending a story with a big ol' vulture, but if you prefer bugs, I've got some polishing to do on an older piece!

We open again to submissions in eleven days!

One of our readers would especially like to see more

• jellyfish
• sponges
• parasitic worms
• insects
• birds like cuckoo birds
• aggregate organisms like the Portuguese man-o-war

Consider submitting come March 1st!

plotthoundmag.com/submission-g...

That leonine version of Superman is iconic. I'd have read just about anything with that art on the cover.

a black and white painting of a knight holding a sword in a dark room . Alt: a black and white painting of a knight holding a sword in a dark room

I’m SO tired m’lord

It's wild to me seeing furries of all people willfully dismiss and/or disregard artists' copyrights when it comes to print material.

The number of comics artists I've heard express frustration and hurt after they had to stop making their work b/c people scanned it instead of paying $4 is not small.

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Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.

And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.

Don't submit to this one, folks.

Yeesh. The local library literally leaves a pile of bookmarks out, many of them with useful information written across their length. There's just no excuse.

If someone folds a page in one my books, I fully intend to fold their anatomy into the same configuration.