Jay Wolf
@jayxwolf.bsky.social
sff writer & dev editor, author-illustrator, lapsed podcaster, sculptor, fabricator, Viable Paradise alum, online community specialist, queer as in here, they as in them, kennywood enthusiast. writes books as @mdanielmcdowell.bsky.social
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I'm canvassing for some book comp titles for a project I'm working on which contains:
* high fantasy princess-in-a-tower m/f romance; distinct from other princess-in-a-tower stuff I have already written
* overt spicy on-page "yes-mistress" femdom
is there anything similar out there?
I'm canvassing for some book comp titles for a project I'm working on which contains:
* high fantasy princess-in-a-tower m/f romance; distinct from other princess-in-a-tower stuff I have already written
* overt spicy on-page "yes-mistress" femdom
is there anything similar out there?
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One of my first journalism professors would give you a zero if you had even one error of fact. It happened to me. Sucked so much. He was one of the best professors I ever had, I took three more classes from him, and we’re still in touch
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
One of my first journalism professors would give you a zero if you had even one error of fact. It happened to me. Sucked so much. He was one of the best professors I ever had, I took three more classes from him, and we’re still in touch
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Next novelette & novella have women casts: there's a man or two in each with talking parts, but the first three spots go to women.
Thinking of the few shows where women and their relationships to each other do the heavy lifting, where they toss the thematic weight between them in their interaction.
Thinking of the few shows where women and their relationships to each other do the heavy lifting, where they toss the thematic weight between them in their interaction.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Next novelette & novella have women casts: there's a man or two in each with talking parts, but the first three spots go to women.
Thinking of the few shows where women and their relationships to each other do the heavy lifting, where they toss the thematic weight between them in their interaction.
Thinking of the few shows where women and their relationships to each other do the heavy lifting, where they toss the thematic weight between them in their interaction.
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imagine being the fedex man in latveria
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
imagine being the fedex man in latveria
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People I knew who were really excited by the possibilities and how it might take tedious tasks off their plate (like transcription) have soured at having it always forced on them, the impact on students, the lack of limitations in use, security holes it creates, how often it's wrong, and the ethics.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
People I knew who were really excited by the possibilities and how it might take tedious tasks off their plate (like transcription) have soured at having it always forced on them, the impact on students, the lack of limitations in use, security holes it creates, how often it's wrong, and the ethics.
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Every neurodivergent couple has to have one person whose safe food is instant ramen and one person who gets murder in their eyes when they hear slurping.
May 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Every neurodivergent couple has to have one person whose safe food is instant ramen and one person who gets murder in their eyes when they hear slurping.
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Classic indie publisher, too tired to do much more than sleep through Black Friday weekend - and yet!
AND YET❗
Tired from working with brilliant people to publish the new edge of Sword & Sorcery across our magazine and growing book catalog!
Check it out, pass it on ⚔️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com ⚔️
AND YET❗
Tired from working with brilliant people to publish the new edge of Sword & Sorcery across our magazine and growing book catalog!
Check it out, pass it on ⚔️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com ⚔️
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Classic indie publisher, too tired to do much more than sleep through Black Friday weekend - and yet!
AND YET❗
Tired from working with brilliant people to publish the new edge of Sword & Sorcery across our magazine and growing book catalog!
Check it out, pass it on ⚔️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com ⚔️
AND YET❗
Tired from working with brilliant people to publish the new edge of Sword & Sorcery across our magazine and growing book catalog!
Check it out, pass it on ⚔️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com ⚔️
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I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.
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this reminds me of the Bridgerton response and how people were so confused that the main characters *changed* after season one, like writing essays about why that was a bad choice
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
this reminds me of the Bridgerton response and how people were so confused that the main characters *changed* after season one, like writing essays about why that was a bad choice
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
which seems like a logical thing to them, but an *insane* thing to say to anyone who understands genre romance.
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but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
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Fun fact: none of my writing, audiobooks, or art uses generative AI.
Just thought I'd put that out there because while I don't enjoy talking about it, it's also increasingly apparent that we need to.
Just thought I'd put that out there because while I don't enjoy talking about it, it's also increasingly apparent that we need to.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Fun fact: none of my writing, audiobooks, or art uses generative AI.
Just thought I'd put that out there because while I don't enjoy talking about it, it's also increasingly apparent that we need to.
Just thought I'd put that out there because while I don't enjoy talking about it, it's also increasingly apparent that we need to.
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"In space, no one can hear you scream, and that's why we filmed on a soundstage instead"
Also, despite the movie's famous tagline, you might be surprised at how little of Alien was actually filmed in space.
Fun fact: For the movie Alien, they actually used a man in a practical suit because the studio was unable to afford a real Xenomorph.
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"In space, no one can hear you scream, and that's why we filmed on a soundstage instead"
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Also, despite the movie's famous tagline, you might be surprised at how little of Alien was actually filmed in space.
Fun fact: For the movie Alien, they actually used a man in a practical suit because the studio was unable to afford a real Xenomorph.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Also, despite the movie's famous tagline, you might be surprised at how little of Alien was actually filmed in space.
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Musicians that I can't imagine a single person in the world disliking:
1. Robyn
that's all I have so far
1. Robyn
that's all I have so far
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Musicians that I can't imagine a single person in the world disliking:
1. Robyn
that's all I have so far
1. Robyn
that's all I have so far
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Hey @support.bsky.team I was never told why I was put in time-out and as a result no lessons have been learned
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Hey @support.bsky.team I was never told why I was put in time-out and as a result no lessons have been learned
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Nothing like the ADHD x OCD hybrid fear of not finding your keys in your bag for two (2) seconds and immediately being certain you left them in your door
(They were in my bag)
(They were in my bag)
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nothing like the ADHD x OCD hybrid fear of not finding your keys in your bag for two (2) seconds and immediately being certain you left them in your door
(They were in my bag)
(They were in my bag)
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It's Thanksgiving, which means I promote again one of the videos that I am most proud of, on the greatest movie ever set on the holiday: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Qp...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: The Road to Empathy (ESSAY) | Why it's the best Thanksgiving movie
YouTube video by Film Brain
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November 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It's Thanksgiving, which means I promote again one of the videos that I am most proud of, on the greatest movie ever set on the holiday: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Qp...
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A “shift to looser regulation is ‘likely to reduce the resilience of the banking sector to systemic market shocks.’”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A “shift to looser regulation is ‘likely to reduce the resilience of the banking sector to systemic market shocks.’”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
A key lesson from 2008 was “heavily indebted banks lacked the equity capital to absorb large losses, leaving regulators [to let] banks fail or bail them out to protect depositors.”
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If your family really sucks this holiday season, I am your new family and I think you're great and deserve love, a job, shelter and safety.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
If your family really sucks this holiday season, I am your new family and I think you're great and deserve love, a job, shelter and safety.
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It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
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All of which illustrates how infuriating it is when dipshits say that AI can 'help me to brainstorm ideas'. It can't do that. It can plaster a deepfake smile onto the corpse of zombie capitalism as it shambles towards the precipice of climate catastrophe, but it can't create meaningful literature.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
All of which illustrates how infuriating it is when dipshits say that AI can 'help me to brainstorm ideas'. It can't do that. It can plaster a deepfake smile onto the corpse of zombie capitalism as it shambles towards the precipice of climate catastrophe, but it can't create meaningful literature.
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You can't just write the book, you also have to buy food and pay the rent and look after your mental health. You can try to ignore these things in the service of your ART but you are very unlikely to flourish or succeed (unless, of course, you have inherited wealth or a spouse who earns millions)
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
You can't just write the book, you also have to buy food and pay the rent and look after your mental health. You can try to ignore these things in the service of your ART but you are very unlikely to flourish or succeed (unless, of course, you have inherited wealth or a spouse who earns millions)
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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The Great Way is a TERRIFIC epic fantasy trilogy.
Harry Connolly (@byharryconnolly.bsky.social) is one of my fave authors.
He needs $ help. harryjconnolly.com/17553-2/
For a good binge read, grab his completed epic fantasy trilogy The Great Way.
His "A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark" is the best standalone urban fantasy I've read.
He needs $ help. harryjconnolly.com/17553-2/
For a good binge read, grab his completed epic fantasy trilogy The Great Way.
His "A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark" is the best standalone urban fantasy I've read.
A Very Bad Month
Okay. So. I need to update everyone on where things stand for me, why I have made almost no progress on the new novel in the past month, and how things are looking for the future. What I don’…
harryjconnolly.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The Great Way is a TERRIFIC epic fantasy trilogy.