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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️

@blammarie.bsky.social

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Graphic designer, comic book artist, author of The Blood Prince, Skin Deep & Kalipso. I reblog books with pretty covers She/Her. Follow my Patreon for free stories every week! https://www.patreon.com/BLAM_Marie Also visit my website at blanchetmarie.com/en

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · Mar 10

A Selkie is sent to shore to find out who killed her siblings and stole their pelts, but finds more than she was looking for when she meets two suspiciously irresistible strangers.

Dive into a world of queer love and mystery -> blanchetmarie.com/en/books/ski...

#buycanadian #booksky #romance

A promo graphic. Blue background. On the left, the cover of the book Skin Deep. On the right, the following text: the St. Lawrence river is hiding dark secrets. dive into a world of selkies, magic, and suspiciously irresistible strangers. A proudly canadian novel

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 5m

It absolutely fucking does not, and the way AI spellcheck fails is *baked in with how the AI functions*. If it sees a word misspelled more frequently in its training data than it sees the correct version, it’ll think the misspelling is the correct version.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 16h

And yes, this is a small round white pumpkin shoved (with quite a lot of effort, what a VERY ODD physical sensation) into a carved large orange pumpkin to make an eyeball.

Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 16h

I’ll post a clear daytime pic tomorrow but I’m just so proud of the Childe and my team pumpkin work this year, and it looks SO COOL at night.

I give you…the Jack O’Beholder!

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 18m

At one point I went on a tangent about how the best thing to support workers and make us a true global power would be to invest in the mail system and also trains

I also told them to become the world leader in protecting artists and making sensible regulations around this shit

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 24m

I really fucking wish google actually looked up the things I’ve typed and not the thing it wants me to have typed, ngl.

Every time it rephrases what I said I want to tear it apart with my bare hands

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Joseph Fink but Spooky 🎃🎃👻🎃 @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 1h

2. Let's say we lived in a fantasy world where AI agents worked and could replace people. What is the end game? If no one is employed, you have no customers. You are trying to create a world with no revenue. You fucking dumb assholes

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“Surely, she dies first” Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 56m

Surprise! I finally got some new pottery available! ✨🍁
Lots of new critters, and I've also got some goods to help raise funds for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!

Shop here:
shop.lioninthetrees.com/collections/...

#art #pottery

Family photo of the pieces in this current pottery update. There's a jackalope, a wolf cerberus, a strange long cat looking creature, and various little guys like a whale, a kaiju, wolves, and dragons.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 4h

HEY

THEY ANNOUNCED THE PRIZE BEFORE THE ACTUAL CEREMONY

LE HOLY CRAP I WON THE JULIA VERLANGER PRIZE

books of THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS and WE SPEAK THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN with a red banner reading PRIX JULIA VERLANGER 2025 on a table with other books

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 9h

Book Cover Artists!

QRP with your book covers 📖

Cover art for a 2nd book in the series called 52 HZ
It shows a young man with black hair and his eyes closed floating in water and a huge whale is visible behind his head.
Another man with read hair is sitting in the director's chair in the front plane as if he's imagining the first young man as his creative vision.

Book cover art for "His Glorious Monster" by D. N. Bryn.

A portrait of a young man with long blond hair dressed in a feathered masquerade costume resembling of a white swan. He holds a dramatic pose on a dark background with nighclub like lighting.

Cover of "The Mage and his stolen prince" by J.E. Ridge

A young man in black clothes and long silver hair sits on a stone ruin. Another man with bright red hair sits near his feet and leans his head towards the blond man's knee.
They both hold magical purple flowers in their hands.
A beautiful mysterious garden is in the background.

Book cover art for "Blood Sails" by Sierra. J. Meril
Two white men caught ina dynamic fight on a deck of a pirate ship.
They are both dressed in richly decorated pirate clothes. One is a mage and has a fire spell ready to launch that is in a shape of a fiery bird. The other hold a sabre. Despite them fighting some erotic tention is palpable between them.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 8h

“Fun, clever, sexy and utterly engrossing.”—All About Romance

“I just read a spy thriller, a comedy of manners, an action-adventure joyride, a post-war 20s class novel and a very turbulent romance. They were all fantastic. It’s astounding to me that they were all the same book.”—Samit Basu

Flyer with Slippery Creatures cover. Text reads: Soldier. Spy. Shenanigans. This weekend only 99p!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7h

For many emo is just a phase. For others it's a way of life.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 15h

I am very sure that every night the Vatican City interns are going home with a backpack full of free sports jerseys

Nick Veronica @nickveronica.bsky.social · 19h

This is a real: Pope Leo XIV was gifted a Buffalo Bills jersey.

The Diocese of Buffalo said Bishop Fisher met with the Pope on Monday to discuss the ongoing bankruptcy filing, among other issues.

Pope Leo was said to have "expressed his gratitude for this symbol of hometown pride." #billsmafia

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 14h

Just heard that my work is now featured on BC BookWorld, Canada's largest-circulation independent publication about books. Glad to hear it given that Canada has an ongoing issue where it likes to pretend translators/translated literature is not a part of CanLit...
abcbookworld.com/writer/wang-...

Wang, Yilin - ABC BookWorld

Yilin Wang is a writer, poet and Chinese-English translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her debut book is The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets (Invisible Publish...

abcbookworld.com

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 16h

Can confirm.

Frank Cvetkovic @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 22h

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

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Manda @mandaamsbt.bsky.social · 18h

inuyasha fanart! #artpost

fanart from the anime inuyasha of the main character

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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 20h

Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 18h

I’m not gonna spend all my time saying “he gave her a look which she interpreted as being angry” like come on.

I’ll say “he gave her an angry look” and trust my readers to not be confused if later it’s revealed in his own POV that he wasn’t actually angry!

Is that too much to ask… 🫩

Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 18h

I also keep getting told that my MC “seems to know what other characters are feeling” and that I should take more care so that my 3rd POV doesn’t veer into omniscient POV…

But if my MC says this guy gave her a “satisfied smirk”, she doesn’t KNOW he’s feeling satisfied, she is ASSUMING that!

Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 18h

I had this very discussion with a beta reader recently… 🫩 a POV character making a ton of hasty assumptions early on in the book based on zero evidence and then encountering things that contradict those assumptions isn’t “the lore contradicting itself”… it’s just the plot happening…

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 18h

I hope this goes well for them! I wish them all the success in their endeavour

CTV News Montreal @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 1d

A First Nation has filed a title claim in Quebec Superior Court to large swaths of territory across the western part of the province.

First Nation files lawsuit demanding Aboriginal title over lands in western Quebec

A First Nation has filed a title claim in Quebec Superior Court to large swaths of territory across the western part of the province.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 19h

Honnêtement je suis pas si tant fâchée parce que si on est pour être con pis traiter nos médecins tout croche, bin on mérite des conséquences.

Émilie Gougeon-Pelletier @emgpelletier.bsky.social · 1d

«Appelez le 1-800-DOUG», a lancé le premier ministre de l’Ontario, Doug Ford, en s’adressant aux médecins du Québec qui envisagent de déplacer leur pratique dans sa province. #onpoli #AssNat #PolQc
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Doug Ford prêt à «dérouler le tapis rouge» pour les médecins du Québec

«Appelez le 1-800-DOUG», a lancé le premier ministre de l’Ontario, Doug Ford, en s’adressant aux médecins du Québec qui envisagent de déplacer leur pratique dans sa province.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 19h

Drawtober Day 27: Deception
#drawtober #Halloweenie

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 19h

Oh some AI related bullshit for sure

Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah I was honestly surprised that Laura didn’t do a double take on that one because WHAT agent?? Also I don’t understand how it would work to have an agent but also have your own publishing house. Like… who is the agent connecting you with then?

Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, the whole “we’ll carry your book if you change its title” thing DEFINITELY should have been backed by a contract

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 1d

Korra fans, the next official graphic novel is on the way!

Young Kya makes her way for the first time in the world outside Republic City in this upcoming comic by @kikuhughes.bsky.social @alexandriamonikart.bsky.social @dianasousaart.bsky.social @comicraft1992.bsky.social. More details soon!

Teaser cover art for the next upcoming Legend of Korra graphic novel, featuring young Kya running through what appear to be the bones of a huge creature.

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