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Nerdy Catholic (OCDS). SF/F writer. Work at Locus Magazine. Agent: Eric Smith

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Ha! I like CS Lewis’s SF trilogy where the main character travels from earth, has confusing encounters with extraterrestrials, and realizes with some embarrassment that only earthlings fell from grace at all…

30.12.2024 06:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😭

24.12.2024 10:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Kind of a new genre. Deals with protagonists getting stuck in various RPG worlds where they get real skills and level up. Humorous and fast paced. I liked Dean Henegar’s Limitless Lands series. Dungeon Crawler Carl is very popular, as is The Wandering Inn. Mostly self pub and cheap on Amazon.

24.12.2024 06:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How do you feel about LitRPG?

24.12.2024 06:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

24.12.2024 03:11 👍 46291 🔁 21031 💬 256 📌 379
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Some Advent humor

22.12.2024 03:38 👍 895 🔁 86 💬 13 📌 3

What a country :(

20.12.2024 08:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just learned that in Isan, Thailand, Western foreigners are called “mangoes” and I can’t say I really mind that.

17.12.2024 07:05 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Article screenshot: Adobe's stock drop highlights a fundamental disconnect over AI. Adobe's management team is bullish on the AI opportunity in creative services, but Wall Street is growing impatient on the revenue Runway.

A chart shows Adobe is down 16% the past five days, a sharp decline and loss of $87 a share.

Article screenshot: Adobe's stock drop highlights a fundamental disconnect over AI. Adobe's management team is bullish on the AI opportunity in creative services, but Wall Street is growing impatient on the revenue Runway. A chart shows Adobe is down 16% the past five days, a sharp decline and loss of $87 a share.

A gentle breeze rocks the house of cards.

14.12.2024 01:39 👍 5891 🔁 1257 💬 93 📌 244
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Sun Fragments

14.12.2024 01:03 👍 197 🔁 30 💬 5 📌 1

??????

09.12.2024 08:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What could go wrong?

09.12.2024 04:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, I can’t think of any fallacy like that. It’s just straight up lying

08.12.2024 04:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever I see this come up, it reminds me of Twitter on Jan 6. There was the expected shock and outrage and a few jokes, and one little corner of LawyerTwitter going “Oh no you morons, stop incriminating yourselves!!!”

07.12.2024 02:43 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you're ever told to be outraged about anything having to do with health insurance and the sole source of the outraged framing is the American Society of Anesthesiologists, just move on because you're being played like a fiddle by the major cause of out-of-network balance billing

05.12.2024 15:51 👍 388 🔁 124 💬 12 📌 9

I remember seeing Sweet at on a convention panel once, and there was a lot of talk about inspiration and what kinds of work artists like to do, but he was all "Nope, don't care what it is. You pay me, I'll paint it."

05.12.2024 22:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s gorgeous!

Sorry about your poor fingers

05.12.2024 03:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What the heck?

04.12.2024 23:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I will never, ever get over this.

03.12.2024 17:49 👍 41426 🔁 5382 💬 1350 📌 515
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Issue 767 Table of Contents, December 2024 The December 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Paolo Bacigalupi and Vajra Chandrasekera, a spotlight on artist Christine Mitzuk, and a spotlight on book subscription box service Illu…

Issue 767 Table of Contents, December 2024 locusmag.com/2024/12...

01.12.2024 15:04 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 3

(But… you could probably just ask for a copy too….)

02.12.2024 05:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We are ready to take your order. 😃

02.12.2024 05:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free

02.12.2024 05:06 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There are a lot of different theories! But Catholics always believed he was buried in Rome, and a mausoleum and bones that seem very plausible were accidentally discovered during construction under St. Peters around 1950.

I can't guess who is really buried in Lebanon.

02.12.2024 00:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Catholics believe St. Peter was martyred and buried in Rome, at St. Peter's, in what is now the Vatican. This is a Muslim site.

That said, nobody should be happy about it.

01.12.2024 23:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In a rare alignment, the First Sunday of Advent *is* the first of December, so the “Advent” calendars are actually accurate this year. One less thing for me to annoyed about.

Until next year.

01.12.2024 21:41 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If I heard this music without the video, I would never have guessed that the instrument looked like that.

30.11.2024 05:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A full size truck hauling an extremely large yellow Lego.  The text at the top: The final weapon of mankind.  To deal with Godzilla.

A full size truck hauling an extremely large yellow Lego. The text at the top: The final weapon of mankind. To deal with Godzilla.

I love me some good memes.

27.11.2024 04:58 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0