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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 1h

Its fun that the Doctor has a completely inconsistent nonsensical tossed salad backstory thats impossible to make sense of with a straight face.

Its really annoying that characters like Ace have the exact same thing where you can't reconcile their appearances and they've died a bazillion times.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 2h

When developing Academy 27, we had to decide if we should keep the original tech-level of the WARSONG setting where you can travel to Mars easy but smartphones don't exist or just bite the bullet and retcon phones into being so the teenagers felt like teenagers for the reader. We updated. It worked.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Also, this cultural "uncanny valley" gets really weird for science fiction, which is supposed to be about "the future" but was written for a then-contemporary audience (with a then-contemporary understanding of tech/science) so it has two full vectors of cultural shift, running at different speeds

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Joan Marie Verba @joanmarieverba.bsky.social · 14h

Including my short story, "Fragment of a Sorcerous Crown" (this and all the others are free to read!).

Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 17h

If you want an easy, one stop page to check out all the fiction in the Chain Story so far, we got you.

(Please repost this so others can enjoy, too. Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/thus-fa...

Thus Far in our Story… — The Chain Story

Just to make it easy for you so you don’t have to dig through a ton of old posts, below we have a gallery of the Chain Story Project’s offerings so far. Just click on the images to head off to the web...

www.chainstorycore.com

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 17h

If you want an easy, one stop page to check out all the fiction in the Chain Story so far, we got you.

(Please repost this so others can enjoy, too. Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/thus-fa...

Thus Far in our Story… — The Chain Story

Just to make it easy for you so you don’t have to dig through a ton of old posts, below we have a gallery of the Chain Story Project’s offerings so far. Just click on the images to head off to the web...

www.chainstorycore.com

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 23h

Is this the movie where the alien guns were powered by copper pennies? If so i watched it on TV as a kid in the basement. It always felt like a bit of a fever dream!

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 1d

This cover rewired my brain.
youtu.be/ojWg6UqFkcA?...

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Faith ➡️ Lightbox Expo AA506 @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 2d

weird painting to test out my new inking pen ☀️

watercolor painting- a woman kneels behind a bush, carrying an approximation of an antique musket/rifle (I did not look at reference for this one so the shape is a bit off lol sorry everybody!). She is wearing a wildly impractical but fun outfit- a high cut onepiece with baggy ankle boots, a helmet and a big swan hat/cape.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 2d

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 2d

The best way to support my work, and everything at Arcbeatle Press from Academy 27 to Cwej to SIGNET and everything else is to back my Patreon. This is the core funding that keeps us afloat. Consider helping us make stories worth telling.
www.Patreon.com/jameswylder

Get more from James Wylder on Patreon

creating stories, poems, and live performances.

www.Patreon.com

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 2d

This may be the greatest post I’ve ever seen on this site.

Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 6d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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The Untold Adventures @claraoswaldtua.bsky.social · 3d

It’s been a long road, but our destination is finally in sight. We’re delighted to announce that The Untold Adventures will be launching with its first episode on the 5th of December 2025, marking a decade since the airing of ‘Hell Bent’. 🎸✨ #DoctorWho #ClaraOswald

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 3d

This is so good 😩

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3d

Patreon's changed stuff again

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 3d

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Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 3d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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clara @claralaherty.bsky.social · 3d

Limerick and Clare won the bid to host EuroPride 2028!

This is a HUGE coup. I'm very proud of Trans Limerick Community and everyone else involved in the push. You love to see it!!!

Clare and Limerick win bid to host EuroPride festival in 2028

Regional reports from the Irish Examiner team

www.irishexaminer.com

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations! Wow.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d

Bible, France C13th,
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Ms. Codex 724, fol. 272v. #Caturday

Illuminated MS small white cat straddling marginalia

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merritt @merrittk.com · 3d

if you're not where you want to be as an artist or entertainer and didn't come from money or an industry family try to remember that it was never an even playing field to begin with and you're probably doing great considering

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merritt @merrittk.com · 3d

s/o to everyone from working class backgrounds in the arts and entertainment who clawed their way to where they are without the benefit of family wealth, career experience, or connections

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes it's really telling when someone starts a statement with "obviously" before saying something that is very much not "obviously". You can learn a whole lot about how they see the world that way.

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Kevin @scribblesscript.bsky.social · 3d

I blink away from my Doctor Who hyperfixation and brilliant friends are volumes into awesome projects like this in the meantime. I love to see it.

Arcbeatle Press @arcbeatlepress.bsky.social · 5d

Cwej and Sang Mi continue their adventures across the Midwest encountering lost loves, 80's pop ballads, goatmen, anomalies, and mysterious Melonheads! Plus... Baseball?

Cwej30 Zine Issue 3 is out now!

www.arcbeatlepress.com/news-and-upd...

Cwej30 Zine Issue 3: The World Series

Everyone has secrets. As Chris Cwej and his friend Jhe Sang Mi explore the American Midwest, sometimes those hidden truths will come to light: mistakes concealed but never forgotten, love that...

www.arcbeatlepress.com

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