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J.A. Prentice

@japrenticewrites.bsky.social

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He/they. SFWA Member. Stories published with Big Finish, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Magazine of F&SF, Cast of Wonders, and more! [email protected] is my work contact email.

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 8d

It’s New Story Day! “The Little Deaths of Autumn,” my very seasonally appropriate short story about fungi, is out now in the new issue of Kaleidotrope.

kaleidotrope.net

“Come one now, come all ye, this story breaks free here…” – The New Pornographers, “Go Places”

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 27m

(Monroe specifically attracts this attitude, because these people don't respect her as an actress or a human being, but that's a whole separate discussion.)

J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 30m

One of the many things I hate about AI is how it reduces everything to an (superficial) aesthetic. You can't see "Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones," even if (big if) Sora managed to perfectly recreate her, because you're not seeing the choices she'd have made as an actress. There's no substance.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a fun interview? 👀 Definitely got to answer a good many questions I’ve never been asked before!!

Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com · 2d

Just wrapped a lovely little interview with #horror #author @aijiang.bsky.social (Linghun, I Am I, A Palace Near the Wind)! Full audio's been uploaded to Patreon, and we're about to start editing. Looking forward to getting this out for you all to enjoy :)

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Nuzo Onoh "Queen of African Horror" @nuzo.bsky.social · 18h

FUTILITY is published in the UK today! Mega-thanks to @cathtrechman.bsky.social & @titanbooks.bsky.social for giving this story a platform to shine. I dedicated this story of rage & vengeance to myself because it let me freely express my own rage over a horrible incident in my past.
bit.ly/4q90dky

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 47m

Worked 12 hours today. My hallucinations have started seeing things.

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 54m

But to be clear this is what I would spend the large amount of money on with or without a curse.

J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 56m

Torn between "full size replica of a hillfort" or "weird fantasy movie with lots of stop-motion/puppet guys based off Medieval manuscript illustrations."

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 21h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 8h

<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 2h

this would not be *my* immediate response to seeing a dead raccoon in my yard but the human experience is vast

a picture of a snow-covered lump that is purportedly a dead raccoon with a long rambling caption about how the coyotes around her house are indications of trickster energy and that this dead raccoon somehow symbolizes her growing psychic power idk

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 11h

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · 10h

Season 1 of this show is absolutely perfect atmospheric audio horror. I knew I was going to enjoy it, but I was surprised by how emotional, deep and genuinely creepy it was. It properly grapples with the themes of Dracula, not just the iconography, and is my favourite take on a sequel. Backed!

The Holmwood Foundation @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social · 12h

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION SEASON TWO IS NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!

Help us reach our goal of 40k to create Season Two of our found footage horror fiction podcast, The Holmwood Foundation.

Click the link below for more information, and an array of exciting tier rewards!

tinyurl.com/THF-S2

Coming soon: The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two

Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!

tinyurl.com

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 10h

The in-universe existence of FOXY SHAZAM implies that Eric Nally has some awareness of, an affinity for, or a connection to the Wizard at the Rock of Eternity

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 15h

Just Jack Kirby in 1939, reminding us not to make deals with Nazis

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 12h

Jack Kirby: "I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness."

MARK: So the capacity for great good and evil is inherent in everyone?
JACK: Of course. I was dating my wife at the time Hitler was coming on, and I did this editorial cartoon which showed Neville Chamberlain patting a boa con-strictor, and the boa had a bulge called Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain had just given Czechoslovakia to Hitler, okay.
And the boa had Hitler's mustache. I showed it to my boss at the syndicate and he says, "How dare a 19-year-old like you do a cartoon like that? What do you know?" I says "Well, I was raised in an area where you had a lot of gangsters. I know what gangsters do. Hitler's gonna want war. You start jumpin' around and giving him what he wants, he's gonna feed on your weakness." And Hitler wanted more and more until there was a face-off.

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · 10h

LOOOVE that snowy roofscape.

Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 16h

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 22h

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 11h

Of course Kirkman thinks Superman sucks. After all, when confronted with a comics creator who tries to cheat his co-creator out of money and who voluntarily works with Max Landis, Superman would probably throw them in jail.

DC Updates @updates4dc.bsky.social · 3d

Invincible and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman says Omni-Man could easily take down Superman, adding, “Superman sucks.” (via Collider)

#OmniMan #Superman #Invincible #TheWalkingDead

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Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.social · 13h

I'm not sure why every iteration of the Gorn aside from TOS has misunderstood the original.

NuTrek make them fast mindless bigoted brutes.

But the Gorn Captain in Arena is slow and tactical, setting many traps. He speaks eloquently, calling Kirk out on principle, not race.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 11h

New cover art for THE DEADLANDS

a pleasure to illustrate this issue full of gorgeous stories! Here is 'Golden Maze'.

oil pastel, china graph pencil and digital colour

#art

golden maze
a gold skull on a maze with a pile of coins

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 13h

It finally feels like autumn in our neck of the woods, and you know what that means — our Kickstarter exclusive hoodie has arrived! 🧥✨

Bundle up in our 2026 design, featuring an eco-inspired take on our iconic alien head logo 🍄🌿👽 Available only on Kickstarter! ⬇️

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

"KS Exclusive Hoodie"
A black zip-up hoodie with a small upper righthand design, and a larger back design, both in white.

A closeup of the right breast-pocket design: A celestial Hercules beetle on top of the text: "APEX MAGAZINE"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

"‘I shall deal with the matter momentarily,’ he said. It was a good word. It always made people hesitate. They were never quite sure whether he meant he’d deal with it now, or just deal with it briefly. And no-one ever dared ask."

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1d

My neighbor told me neptune
keeps
eating his
submariners
so l asked
how many submariners he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets
a new
submariner
afterwards so l said it
sounds like he's just feeding
sub-
mariners
to neptune
and then his jefferson davis
started crying.
10:03 • 2019-09-30 - Twitter for iPhone

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 17h

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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