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Kaitamwa @kaitamwa19.bsky.social · 1d

#dmc5 #nero

Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 3h

Behold the foggy mornings of the Dead on Albions cliffs!
Ye know that if the Emanation remains in them:
She will become an Eternal Death, an Avenger of Sin
A Self-righteousness: the proud Virgin-Harlot! Mother of War!
And we also & all Beulah, consume beneath Albions curse.

Jerusalem, William Blake

Illuminated manuscript - plate 50 of Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion, by William Blake

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 7h

We're reading Howl's Moving Castle for the first time and wow I was not expecting Howl to come from Wales and wear a rugby jersey but here we are and no this is not a shit post this is canon.

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Mike Draco’lantern 🎃 @digitaldraco.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a fan of Andor but also think people should be damned forever for the choices of their past, I suggest that you broaden your attention to the rest of #StarWars where:

- Vader is redeemed
- Ben Solo is redeemed
- Han Solo was an Imperial for a while
- Agent Kallus joins the Rebellion

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 6h

YES HAHAHAHAH YES www.tumblr.com/eternalgirls...

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

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Amanda Lane Cumming @amandalc.bsky.social · 14h

Mass market paperbacks were the very best book form humanity has ever invented and it’s a travesty and a crime against the book-reading public that they have disappeared.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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✨Lota✨ @ryulota.bsky.social · 7h

This last week I’ve read #Alchemised - I suffered, cried and was craved inside out 😭

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 7h

Found a new artist to investigate, today.

James Tissot, "Jesus Ministered to by Angels." 1886-1894.

James Tissot, "Jesus Ministered to by Angels." 1886-1894. A painting of Jesus prone on the ground, surrounded by gray shades reaching towards him.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 12h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Lisa Tirreno @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social · 7h

It is both the first birthday of Prince of Fortune AND the paperback release day so obviously, I had to make a cake #booksky

Image is a piece of cake with blue icing to match the tiny toy copy of Prince of Fortune on top of it. There is a big copy of the book behind it

Image is an elaborately iced cake saying “happy release day”

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🦊FoxEaredDevil🦊 || ~ Lord Elgar'nan's personal foot rest ~ @foxeareddevil.bsky.social · 8h

every gratuitous, gory, disgusting rape scene in every bad indie horror movie is FINE. i may not like it, but i don't have to look at it.

art doesn't need to be "high art" or to "say something" to justify its existence.

as soon as we require "justification", the censors win!

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Ceddie 👽🍸💕 COMMS OPEN @ceddie.bsky.social · 8h

Hello #portfolioday
I'm Ceddie, and I'm an illustrator based in the UK! I draw historical inspired work and would love to be involved in some fun projects!
✉️[email protected]

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Jen-o-lantern 🎃🌙 @jenbunnee.bsky.social · 8h

MY OWLCRATE THE IRRESISTIBLE URGE TO FALL FOR YOUR ENEMY IS HERE AND I AM IN LOVE

#booksky

Front cover for the owlcrate irresistible urge to fall for your enemy

A woman in white poking the chest of a man in black

Back cover for the owlcrate irresistible urge to fall for your enemy

Naked front cover for the owlcrate irresistible urge to fall for your enemy

Naked back cover for the owlcrate irresistible urge to fall for your enemy

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 8h

all adaptations are in a sense fanfiction, as they're plainly derivative/transformative works, especially when a change of medium is involved.

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📚 r.e.a. / smols 🦇 @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 8h

To me there's no such thing as a necessary or unnecessary adaptation/remake/rebook, just whether the creatives involved have something new or relevant to say, & everyone's getting properly paid in good working conditions.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 9h

Modern Americans, modern citizens of the developed world, hell even probably modern citizens of the developING world, are *unfathomably* less chained to subsistence poverty than basically any premodern civilization. The wealth has been spread enough rule through pure elite capture is unfeasible.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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maximum robespierre @seeemilyplay.bsky.social · 8h

can’t remember who im badly paraphrasing here but: we keep our medicine cabinets stocked so we’re prepared for the possibility of illness or injury. treat books like paracetamol, and bring them into your home even if you aren’t reading them Right Now

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 8h

Taking a chance on a pulp sci-fi paperback with a lurid cover you find in a thrift store's book section is always worth it. Either it's a hilarious collection of mid-century neuroses or it's The Einstein Intersection.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Mogwaei @mogwaei.bsky.social · 8h

my brain worms love #hades2 and Solas #dragonage

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 9h

No one has to read your writing for you to be a writer. Writing for the joy of writing is time well-spent, no matter what happens to the project after it's finished (or even if it's finished). Spending time making art (grand art, meaningful art, silly art) is one of the best parts of being human.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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That Guy James (But Spooky) @jroberts.bsky.social · 9h

Every story ever told exists in a grand tapestry that stretches back to the earliest humans telling stories about their hunts and the stars as well as forward into an unknown future, tying all humans together in a work that illustrates who and what we are.

Story is the most human of the arts.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 9h

story of my life tbh 😭

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Tilly🦋was successfully manipulated by a wizard @tillywizard.bsky.social · 9h

she was supposed to kiss ME not him

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