# CSD
Reading up on CSD, client side decorations
Client side decorations give a lot of headaches when they're not improperly implemented many of these mods should just stay with SSD, server side decorations
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Hey I did a thing! You should reeeeead it. Or don't. I'm not the boss of you!
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Perrin looking at her Growlithe. Such an awesome connected Art!
#pokemon #perrin #twilightmasquerade #twm
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If you don't pull em, you buy 'em!
This Kieran is finally in my Binder!
#pokemon #twilightmasquerade #twm #kieran
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A stained glass style drawing of a black and silver robot fully facing the viewer, holding up a glowing yellow box, in blues, cyans, and dark reds in the background.
Two books, side by side, in paperback. The first is "The Warm Machine" featuring a silhouetted robot looking up at a sunset/sunrise. The second is "The Lucky Machine" featuring a silhouetted robot walking along a dark catwalk in a neon city.
I think they look pretty nice together ☺️
(It's a proof, a bit darker than intended, placements off, but that's what proofs are for!)
#TWM #TLM #Writing
#SFFChat Q4: Ooooo
Okay. I love this part in The Warm Machine where it's night and storming. It was one of my favorites to write
#Writing #TWM
Categories you could, theoretically, nominate The Warm Machine for on the indie ink awards. I’m not gonna force you to do shit tho you do you. • Best Book Cover & Cover Artist (IT’S ME) • Best Morally Gray Character • Prettiest Book Interior (I love my DM formatting ok?) • Side Character MVP (All you Inix lovers!) • Writing the Future We Need: Gay or Lesbian Rep (DID they have sex? ARE they in love and courting? YOU decide) • Writing the Future We Need: LGBTQ+ Representation (We can at least agree they’re some format of queer, right? Haha, format, see what I did there?) • Writing the Future We Need: Neurodivergent Rep by a Neurodivergent Author
👀 Nominate your indies by finding their story on IndieStoryGeek.com and clicking the "nominate" button
#TWM #Writing #Booksky 💙📚🪐 #IndieInkAwards2025
A black and white graphite drawing on bristol paper of a robotic butt and legs, with a shiny silver metal spine.
WOW we blew past 169 follows on my cozy sci-fi novella The Lucky Machine and... As promised. Here's a new robot graphite. This is what the robutt from last year looked like before I added the digital color!
#RobotArt #Art #TLM #TWM
The Warm Machine is SO close to 50 ratings on GoodReads... Have you read? Want to toss another one my way? :D
#TWM #Writing
A graphite pencil drawing of a robot taken from a low angle, looking up. Sketchy figures are drawn above it.
A while back I had posted that if we kept ahead of the Boombride campaign on follow number for The Lucky Machine I'd post this unfinished work
And then I couldn't FIND IT
I just found it!!!
#Art #RobotArt #WIP #TLM #TWM
Hardcovers are back in stock with me! I will sign it if you ask me to in the notes :D I was hoping to have some free bookmarks to send with but *SHIPMENT LOST IN TRANSIT* so best I can do is stickers
#IndieAuthor #TWM #Writing #Scifi #Books #Reader 📚💙🪐
A digital drawing of two "marble" busts, both in profile, facing each other. Both are robotic sculptures, and they are gazing into each other's eyes.
Welp, we hit 167 followers on TheLuckyMachine.com and I'm showing off a NEVER BEFORE SEEN robot artwork, as promised!
After being deeply disappointed with a commission, I decided to take things into my own hands. These 2 busts should never be separated
#TWM #Art #RobotArt
AHH y'all did it so fast! Here's the next robot graphite
I'm no Hajime Sorayama (I wish) but I gave it my best. I used @adorkastock.com 's glorious stock to get the angle right :D
Sub and get us to 167 and I'll post another! TheLuckyMachine.com
#RobotArt #Art #TLM #TWM
Just got 10 more paperbacks in right now for my Nov. 22nd signing event!
Sooooooo if you want one (signed) and can't go to the signing, you can order from here. Just lmk in the notes you want it signed (I don't like defacing books without permission haha)
#BSNM #IndieAuthor #TWM #Booksky 💙📚🪐
A drawing of a cyborg/android strung up amidst racks of computers/servers, gripping to various wires that are inserting into his body. It is drawn in graphite on bristol.
I said if there was 162 people following TheLuckyMachine.com I would post a robot graphite, and here is one! This is the drawing for "Server". A lot of these details get "lost" so to speak in the colorized version, but I just love how many I added.
#Art #RobotArt #TLM #TWM
Cat tries to visually located Zev and guess what? He was built specifically to blend in to a bunch of sci-fi junk
#TSM #TWM #Zev #Writing #TBBPrompt
GoodReads 5 star review from Sam that says: tl;dr Literally cried. Actual tears. Blew my nose into tissues. So emotional. That ending hits like a bus, I can't even describe it. Beautiful book. Not tl;dr (my thoughts as I read): Oh man, where to start! Right from the first page I was enamored. I can't think of a better way to explain it other than child-like whimsy. There's a fantastical element, despite the sci-fi genre, in how it's written that just feels so innocent and magical, and also very endearing.
This review is so long and wonderful. 🥹 Why are you all SO great? I try not to read the reviews, but sometimes I stumble into them when trying to retrieve a URL
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
#TWM #Writesky #IndieAuthor
Hey, do you know if you sub now you'll get the first chapter of The Warm Machine as a PDF for freeeeee? Yep. It'll take you to the free download area after you sub! (Click "no thanks, take me to the download") :D :D
#Robots 💙📚🪐 #IndieAuthor #TLM #TWM #Books
So, #TBBChat, this is such an issue in the books because there are rare form bots and virtual intelligences that don't have Laws of some sort. The rest of the bots have to figure out how to live a life of freedom within those constraints (of laws) or figure out how to shed them
#TLM #TWM #Writing
#TBBChat bots can actually be powered by a lot of different things! Zev, for example, has the coveted nuclear powered core, which makes him very independent.
Less independent bots are often saddled with batteries, and on occasion they'll get solar panels if they're specialty/outside bots
#TWM #TLM
TY reviewer for this lovely review! ❤️ TBH *that scene* was super fun to write and I couldn't wait to write it so I'm so glad you loved it!
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I asked Zev what he thought of @valwrites.ca gunning for Inix's campaign, and he did this
He told me he'd have used his plasma rifle for good measure, but it "was not worth the energy expenditure"
Inix is so lucky to have such great friends 🥰
Sub: TheLuckyMachine.com
#TLM #TWM #Scifi #Art
Mockup of a woman wearing a longsleeve shirt that is made to have a print on it like it is a robot's torso.
Mockup of a woman wearing leggings that look like robot legs.
GoodReads review with 4 of 5 stars from Debbie that reads: Excellent excellent. A thoroughly wonderful story about robots, life, love and everything. I really enjoyed this and looking forward to the sequel. Thank you to the author. Thank you to #netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.
TY so much reader :D Every review closes the gap just a tiny bit more to 50!
If you've read The Warm Machine and haven't reviewed yet, you can here: www.thewarmmachine.com/review
Haven't read my robot love story? Get it: www.thewarmmachine.com#order
#TWM #Robots 📚💙🪐 #Scifi #IndieAuthor #Writer
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Full Text: Thank you to the author and NetGalley for giving me an ARC. The Warm Machine follows Sterling, a construction bot, who starts having feelings and thoughts that are outside of his programming. Zev, a military bot, tells Sterling he's anomalous, and saves him from decomission. Together, they set off to find Root, a robot utopia with no humans. This was a really sweet and unique read. I really liked Sterling, his anxiety around Zev putting himself in dangerous situations was so relatable, and his journey to put names to what he was thinking and feeling was so lovely to see. His dynamic with Zev was great. I really liked Zev's insistance on upgrading Sterling and when he finally admitted that he liked Sterling it was such a fantastic moment. Although not explicitly a love story, in that no one says I love you, the care and gentleness that Sterling and Zev treat one another with is so heartwarming. As Zav says to be loved is to be changed, and both Zev and Sterling go through some pretty huge changes throughout the novel. I wouldn't necessarily call this a cozy read, as there are some pretty intense action scenes, but it was certainly wholesome.
Saw this one hit my inbox late last night and was scurred to open it and see what's inside but it was so nice and so sweet. TY reviewer ❤️
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A warm wooden background with text: "New Worlds, New Adventures A Bundle of Sci Fi and Fantasy Set in Secondary Worlds 22 books, 22 authors, $25 only! September 17 to 21" and 22 book covers in filmreel type frames. The covers are for: The Kalista Chronicles: A Brave Sacrifice The Spider's Friend Shadows Dark and Deadly War Heart A Light for the Dead to Follow The Dragon Next Door Undine's Blessing Love Tales from the Borun-Ma First Snow Usurper Thief, Acolyte, Consort The Warm Machine The Star-Crossed Empire Structural Integrity Inarora's Excursion Song of the Wolf Hallowed 1# Cosmonaut In Spite of the Inevitable The Healer: Tales of Pern Coen The Sarcophagus of Lamia The Flame of the Dragon's Oath
This is probably the last time I'm going to put The Warm Machine on sale before The Lucky Machine hits in November. So... you should totes get it now. Literally like $1.10! PLUS all these other awesome books! itch.io/b/3254/new-w...
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