Chris Magilton

GENIE: what is your wish

ME: an ice cream cone from mcdonalds

GENIE: sorry the machine is down

THE SHINING is a horror movie because it depicts a writer having to get a part-time job.

have y’all read The Cruel Gods series tho? i read The Thirteenth Hour at a time when i was really struggling to read and write and it was just SO GOOD that it broke through. unique world-building, amazing characters, cannot recommend highly enough. go read, thank me later 🥰

(audio is great!)

The time to bring back Firefly was 2005-2007, when people were still whining about it and before Joss became irredeemable.

I cannot see a good outcome for it now. Can we please let some stories die with their dignity intact? These people would recuscitate a mummy if it could sign a check.

me: you think somewhere there's a taxidermist who uses a stuffed pig as a piggy bank?

wife: we don't actually have to talk about every thought you have

I'd be very interested to see the numbers on this, but have no idea where to find the data.
How many women athletes must now take this test x £185 = How much money drained from women's sport funding? In order to stigmatise and exclude how many on ideological grounds?

31 years ago today, Krusty the Clown first mentioned saying “the quiet part loud,” an expression which has since gone on to widespread usage.

#TheSimpsons episode “A Star is Burns” first aired March 5, 1995.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

So you’re saying you either die a Lenny or live to see yourself become a Max.

We all know that @thisishorror.bsky.social is one of the best interview podcasts out there, and @pseudopod.org is one of (the?) best short fiction podcasts. So don't miss @chronicleflask.katday.com on TiH episode 652. Gold mine stuff for short fiction writers especially.

🎶 i’m falling even more in looove with yooooouu, letting go of all i’ve held on tooooo, standing here until you make me moooove, hanging by a—🎶 wait what?

Shirtless skater dude throwing a peace sign says: "I hope 2026 treats you the way you treat trans women."

a grid of nine images row 1 - a pink and white flower granny square bag, pride bees, a trans pride dragon row 2 - Toilet and Knife from Inanimate Insanity, Junimos from Stardew Valley, a key chain of Rimuru from That Time I Was Reincarnated As A Slime row 3 - a Facehugger from Alien hairclip resting on my hand, a Fresno Nightcrawler plush, blue and pink crocheted potion bottles The text Sale and stitcheshandcrafts.etsy.com is overlaid

running a lil' 'oh nards it's electric bill time again' sale 🙃

and I'm promoting more than just my Junimos! (tho they are still dope and you should buy one)

I also make totes, hair clips, dice bags, dragons, and cryptids! (and much more, the photo template was limited)

stitcheshandcrafts.etsy.com

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

screenshot of an unopened email. from: Riley Halfassbookclub subject: Introducing We Ride the Storm to Engaged Fa... Hello Devin, In We Ride the Storm, you craft a story that moves beyond traditional epic confli...

love that the AI book club folks aren’t even trying anymore. literally calling it the halfass book club 🤣

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

Bro it’s like we living in midevil times. Everything is mid and evil. 😭

The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".

*sigh*

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

How to make audio drama: a guide to fiction podcasting

HI I WROTE A BOOK YOU CAN PREORDER DIGITAL COPIES NOW

books2read.com/u/bOgqNJ

An astounding project still. Basically two full remakes of TIE Fighter in one. A more straightforward one that just adapts the original missions to the new engine, and a 'reimagined' version that asks what it would look like if the game was completely unbound by DOS-era hardware.

Both are excellent

i was one of the editors on this book and it is SO GOOD!!! seriously seriously if you want to make an audio drama (even if you've already made one before tbh) this is going to be unbelievably helpful

Tal is a fantastic creator, check out what they have to say! I know each piece of advice would be worth the... weight of your e-reader in gold. Yes, even if you read on your desktop computer.
Huge congrats, Tal!!

A heavy metal wheel crank laid against a wrought iron fence among various other free items

*sigh* great. There’s obviously some sort of device nearby I’m gonna need to use this on to compete a puzzle so I gotta lug it to the leftist coffee shop and bookstore with me

FACT CHECK of the SOTU speech. We checked the president's speech for facts, and we found three.

1) Melania Trump is the 1st lady
2) He did meet Bullwinkle & Rocky in 1978. (Trump's claims that the moose has a 3-foot cock are unsubstantiated).
3) The U.S. men's hockey team did win gold this year

Sound is typically an afterthought because it’s misunderstood. It’s one of the most powerful tools in storytelling. It’s never too early to think about it. Make room at the table for your sound collaborators in pre production.

👇from Oscar winning sound designer, Randy Thom

If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.

I feel like midlist SFF is both vitally important and uniquely threatened right now because the midlist is where you find most of the queer, PoC, and otherwise marginalized authors. As well as a lot of really exciting books trying new things! Stuff that's not a "safe bet" but often a great read