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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · May 2

A MONTH LATER...It's my birthday and that feels like a reasonable time to follow up on this. Because I want to. So if it's self-indulgent, GOOD. 🧵

Here's the backstory: The Books of the Usurper is published in the UK/Aus as an ebook through my agency for byzantine publishing reasons.

Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · Mar 10

Okay I am going to try and remember to post some art tomorrow (because I have some stuff I keep meaning to share), but if you doubt me, Bluesky (wise), there is a whole thread of fan art on the Dungeon Scrawlers/Writing About Dragons & Shit discord: discord.gg/EqNHR9aX

Kat ♠️🇨🇦✈️ @bookeroooo.bsky.social · Mar 3

Been reading this slowly on my lunch breaks and really enjoying it. It's a series I'd love to see fanart of because there's a bunch of original species that I have a hard time picturing in my limited imagination. #booksky

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1h

Good morning to everyone, but especially women who don’t like the vehicle

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Michael Varrati @michaelvarrati.bsky.social · 34m

Happy Angela Lansbury's Birthday to anyone who has ever popped out for a spot of tea and instead solved a murder because someone else's business was too damn interesting.

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Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 2d

With many authors treating writing as their second job, they should not need a third job as social media influencer and become a walking brand in order to have, yknow, a chance at a career.

Also bring back the midlist.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

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

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peoplenotpolsmo.bsky.social @peoplenotpolsmo.bsky.social · 14d

Your contribution will help our volunteers stay prepared with the supplies they need while collecting signatures, from pens to clipboards to bottles of water.
All contributions help aid Missourians in gathering signatures: secure.actblue.com/donate/missouri-people-not-politicians

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Vulgar History @vulgarhistory.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw that the new Bridgerton season drops on Jan 29 2025, meaning I am going ALL IN with the regency of it all to promote my book, which drops two weeks after that!!

Vulgar History @vulgarhistory.bsky.social · Jul 14

I wrote a book and it’s coming out in February 2026! REBEL OF THE REGENCY is a funny biography of Caroline of Brunswick, the lesser-known British queen. It will be published in North America by @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social @htpbooks.bsky.social

Get all the info at rebeloftheregency.com

Cover image of Rebel of the regency by Ann Foster

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 2d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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ceej @ceej.online · 4d

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Keith Ammann @ Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 5d

Absolutely delighted to talk about MAKING ENEMIES and other topics with @thetreavor.bsky.social, @erinmevans.bsky.social and @bdavewalters.bsky.social on Writing About Dragons and Sh*t, out today. #TTRPG

Ep. 173: Monster Behavior with Keith Ammann — Writing About Dragons and Shit

This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis are joined by Keith Ammann! Together they talk about how monsters could behave and what narrative you can tell in D&D with combat.Join our ...

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Polygon @polygon.com · 7d

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

You’ll never see D&D monsters the same way again after reading this essential TTRPG book

Keith Ammann returns with another invaluable resource for game masters and designers

www.polygon.com

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 6d

Writing is literally finding these transitions, thinking through the big picture and the little, making sense of the events. The idea of handing off this process to AI is just shocking, and the fact that AI guys don't understand that suggests they do not understand much about art or writing.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 7d

I’m so sorry for your loss

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Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 7d

lol Wait until you see the skin that goes with it

Eerie, Heavens! 👻 @erinmevans.bsky.social · 7d

It's a fresh #IdleChampions skin for fresh Farideh redesign! Tap into her dark side with Darklord Farideh and Ausir the White Raven familar. (Is this a reference to that weird dream vision of Asmodeus trying to bribe her? Of course it is!)
Get yours at idlechampions.com!
@idlechampions.bsky.social

Farideh, a tiefling woman, depicted in black robes with skeletal details, her hands dissolving in negative energy, a crown of stars orbiting her horns, stands behind a white raven. Beside, a portrait of the author, Erin M. Evans, a white woman with brown hair and red lipstick.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 9d

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

AABB Author Sign-Up Form

Hello! We're Authors Against Book Bans, a group of authors who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read on both the national and local levels. We’re creating a network of authors to...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 9d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Keith Ammann @ Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 9d

TODAY'S THE DAY! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, with cover illustration by @kroovv.bsky.social and interior illos by @jencmars.bsky.social, is now on shelves!

Get it at your friendly local game store or through one of these links: spyandowl.com/making...