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Phatburd 🐝🏳️‍🌈
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I like talking about fanfiction, writing, and Napoleon Bonaparte | Dead Frenchmen Enthusiast | Dunks on Temeraire and the Coalition | https://archiveofourown.org/users/whisper_that_dares
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If you’re a professional writer please do not read my AO3 drivel.
Being an adult is realizing you can have chocolate cake for breakfast and you don't have to justify yourself to anyone for it.
November 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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started sculpting my own dead frenchmen because they dont sell most dead french political revolutionaries as 28mm minis

oven baked clay + air dry epoxy clay + wire for armatures + beheaded plastic heads from other minis + modelling putty

danton, sj, desmoulins, robespierre, wip marat
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I'm not sure who turned my words into a meme, and included U.S. citizens (most of whom do not want a new war!), but I appreciate how many people are connecting with it.

May all of us, in all of our different situations, somehow help bring the justice this world so desperately needs. 💔
June 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Yup. When I read about folks getting book deals due to follower counts, I have to both cry and laugh. My 46K+ followers on Twitter and 28K+ followers here have not remotely manifested in massive sales lmao. The idea that followers mean you’re doing well monetarily - or will - is B A F F L I N G.
it is really weird that publishing decided that instead of having a marketing budget, writers should just become cult leaders
June 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
June 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Hadn't realized it was Dinosaur Day, in part because we had a Dinosaur Day last month.

But you can't have enough dinosaurs!
June 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Microwave Lasagna with Heineken: An Existential Crisis in Oil, 2025
May 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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My post on Facebook was too long for this space.

RIP Peter David, prolific writer as well as loving husband and father.
May 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Show us your writing style in a GIF.
a cartoon of napoleon sitting at a table with a laptop and the words typing intensifies
ALT: a cartoon of napoleon sitting at a table with a laptop and the words typing intensifies
media.tenor.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yeah, but some people out there are now taking it upon themselves to censor authors who don't fit a certain marketable profile. Behold the genre rot, late-stage capitalism, and BookTok trickle-down economics:

www.reddit.com/r/selfpublis...
May 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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In case you missed it live, you can watch the @soulofthestory.bsky.social Roundtable with me, Michael Jan Friedman, @kellifitzwrites.bsky.social and host @dattico.bsky.social talkin' story craft, STAR TREK, and more. Thanks to @syfysistas.bsky.social for hosting.

www.youtube.com/live/-9U8EkN...
Soul of the Story: Roundtable | Top Star Trek Writers Reveal Secrets of Sci-Fi & Storytelling
YouTube video by SyFy Sistas Inc.
www.youtube.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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One of the marks of a good installment in a long-running franchise is that it somehow makes better the things that inspired it.
Andor makes Rogue One, and the broader Star Wars saga, better by giving us a glimpse at the struggle beyond the laser swords and space magic.
May 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
#macbook decor. Uh, yes, I may be a little obsessed.
May 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I bought a #macbook this last Sunday. I wa using a iPad with a keyboard attachment but it's just not cutting it any more. So, say hello to Duroc the MacBook. He comes in midnight blue.
May 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Anyone using AI for anything should start by asking themselves two questions:

1) How often does the llm deliver inaccurate information?

2) How would it affect my business for these processes to be unreliable?
May 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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"How more Ohio can you get? No more Ohio."
May 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Artemis
May 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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This technology is basically an endless rabbit hole of confirmation bias. The drug is YOU, and it's entirely possible to overdose on yourself.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
www.rollingstone.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Hey, fanfic writers — heads up. Someone is cold-DMing AO3 users on Reddit pitching an “AI voice cloning” project to turn your fics into audio using celebrity and character voices without consent.
This is straight up theft.

#fanfiction
#ao3
May 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Sci-fi dreams with eyes open. It asks 'what if' or WTF? and it sometimes leads to 'what's next.’ It’s not just spaceships and pew-pew, it’s people, culture, hope, doom, resilience, rage, love. It’s the sandbox for the future we'll be stuck in whatever we make it.
April 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
r/kindle mod is spiraling.

If they were consistent, they wouldn’t be endorsing jailbreaking at all, regardless of what the user intends to use their jailbroken device for.

#piracy
#kindle
#selfpublishing
#reddit
April 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
r/kindle: “Jailbreaking is fine, but explaining things is bad.”
April 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
They banned me for showing how to sideload manga scanlations. Now they shill KoReader. I paved the road. Remember me.

#kindle
April 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM