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To go along with my book release, I and a friend put together this graphic to explain the main power system of Soul Burst, the Soul. Thanks again @sudmensch.bsky.social !

#book #booksky #SoulBurst #worldbuilding #superpower

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · 4d

Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWR1HD9...

Soul Burst

Soul Burst [Jean, Samhyr-Olivier] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Soul Burst

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · 4d

It’s here.

Dive into the world of Soul Burst, a world where your Soul, the very culmination of your being, is the key to your survival! If you like Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure or My Hero Academia, then check out Soul Burst!

#SoulBurst #Book #booksky #selfpublish #powersystem #jojo #mha

Soul Burst’s book cover, with the main character Oliver and a raccoon standing before a mysterious tower.

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · 6d

And now

We wait

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#soulburst

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · 29d

Welp

Got the test copy and while it’s bigger than I was expecting, it’s good.

I’ll be posting the link soon, but it’s almost here and I am so excited.

#soulburst #book #booksky

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Nealer 🇨🇦 @acanuck.bsky.social · Sep 11

Text heavy, but if you're a diehard Star Trek fan it's HILARIOUS! I look around for this thing every few years, and keep thinking I should FRAME it 😂

tldr: Aliens don't understand that the movie "Back to the Future" is a comedy because Doc Brown is how ALL Starfleet Engineers behave

Post by prokopetz
Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn't just an artifact of the television serial format. Rather, it's because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don't really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they're as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn't actually happen to anyone else; it's literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.
Post by writebastard
So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown.
Post by prokopetz
Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They're just like "yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience".
Post by roachpatrol
THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE'S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING
Post by roachpatrol
vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core
humans: we're going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast
vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast
humans: hahaha yeah
humans: it did tho
vsa: IT EXPLODED
humans: it exploded twice as fast

Post by dragon-in-a-fez
you know what the best evidence for this is? Deep Space 9 almost never broke down. minor malfunctions that irritated O'Brien to hell and back, sure, but almost none of the truly weird shit that befell Voyager and all the starships Enterprise. what was the weirdest malfunction DS9 ever had? the senior staff getting trapped as holosuite characters in Our Man Bashir, and that was because a human decided to just dump the transporter buffer into the station's core memory and hope everything would work out somehow, which is a bit like swapping your computer's hard drive out for a memory card from a PlayStation 2 and expecting to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your keyboard and mouse.
Post by dragon-in-a-fez
you know what, I'm not done with this post. let's talk about the Pegasus. the USS Fucking Pegasus, testbed for the first Starfleet cloaking device. here we have a handful of humans working in secret to develop a cloaking device in violation of a treaty with the Romulans. they're playing catchup trying to develop a technology other species have had for a century, and what do they do? do they decide to duplicate a Romulan cloaking device precisely, just see if they can match what other species have? nope. they decide, hey, while we're at it, while we're building our very first one of these things, just to find out if this is possible, let's see if we can make this thing phase us out of normal space so we can fly through planets while we're invisible.
"but why" said the one Vulcan in the room.
"because that would fucking rule" said the humans, high-fiving each other and slamming cans of 24th-century Red Bull.
there must be like twenty different counselling groups for non-human engineering students at Starfleet Academy, and every week in every single one of them someone walks in and starts up with a story like "our assignment was to repair a phaser emitter and my one human classmate built a chronometric- flux toaster that toasts bre…

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Aug 8

Ok so here’s a weird dream I had.

I had a power washing battle with Augustus from The Perfect Run and he finished it with the orbital laser.

I think I need to stop playing Powerwash Simulator and listening to Audiobooks at the same time. #booksky #book

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 29

Gonna make some graphics to explain how the power system of #SoulBurst works when I get some art for them.

#Book #Booksky

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 27

I found another good quote:

“So… you’re in?” Oliver asked.
“After you tell me everything you know so we can come up with an actual plan besides back alley oral surgery,” Lan nodded.

#SoulBurst #book #Booksky #Outofcontext #adventure #fantasy

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 24

Back to waiting on the book cover… so how are you all?

#SoulBurst #book #Booksky

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 21

Here’s my second favorite line:

“I don’t think you’re that impulsive…” the wolf went on. “I have too high of an opinion of you at this point for that.”
“Lady, we’ve had three conversations so far and two of them involved me trying to maim you.”

#SoulBurst #booksky #fantasy #adventure #Book

Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 20

Ok have my favorite out of context line:

“Then don’t stop us and let us stew in our failure?”
“You assaulted the Alpha and shot me in the chest!”
“You got better.”
“AAAAAAGH!”

#soulburst #book #booksky #adventure #fantasy

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ok have another:

“Shut. Up.” the mouse snarled, still glaring. “You think arson is ok, stringbean?”
“About as ok as breaking someone's arms and legs and locking them in your broom closet…” Oliver said, jumping back into the conversation.
#SoulBurst #Fantasy #Adventute #Book #Booksky

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 16

Well I’m running out of our of context lines that won’t give too much away…

So have a raccoon instead

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 15

Here’s another out of context line from #SoulBurst, and it’s one of my favorites:

“That… doesn’t sound healthy,” the raccoon pointed out.
“Is de-limbing him any better?”

#book #booksky #fantasy #adventure

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 14

Here have another line:

“Sean,” Lan cut him off, crossing her arms. “You’ve been looking at him like you expect him to rip your arms off any second since you brought him in.”

#SoulBurst #book #Booksky #fantasy #Adventure

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 14

She’s so fun to write, that’s not even my favorite line of hers

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 14

“A better explanation would have been nice—” Oliver started, before being cut off.
“Its name is THE DEATHBLOOM.” Lan reiterated, slamming her fist into the table they were sharing. “I felt the danger was implied!”

Here have more out of context lines

#soulburst #book #booksky #fantasy #adventure

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 12

#SoulBurst
“I was in a cage for I don’t even know how long and you think I have—”
Sean watched as the raccoon that helped Oliver out of that predicament by pulling a long sleeve shirt out of his stomach, offering it to the former prisoner.
“You look like a medium.”

#booksky #Fantasy #adventure

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 12

Have some dialogue:

“...I can lend you some stronger soap, if you’d like…” Sean says, as he walks back to rejoin the group. “I… know someone who makes very good quality soap for most living beings…”
“You have a soap dealer?”
“...I like to be clean.”

#Book #booksky #SoulBurst #Fantasy #Adventure

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Samhyr Jean @blackhairedpsycho.bsky.social · Jul 11

Another snippet from #SoulBurst!

“That was pretty fast,” Lan said, not giving her thoughts away. “Where and when are we meeting your industrious leader, and is she still mad about me shooting at her?”

#book #Booksky #newrelease #fantasy #fiction #adventure