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catch me showing up to work in a vicuña wool sweater with handmade lace at the sleeves

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🦄 Yesterday we added a new stretch goal to FEAST OF THE UNICORN! At 30K, we'll add a sticker set to all physical reward tiers! Backers crossed the previous goals, so these prints will be added to physical reward tiers! Thanks so much for your support, everyone! www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 4h

I think more books should be honest and actually advertise themselves as « one-sided enemies to lovers »

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10h

the best part is about 50% of the people you talk to on the phone will SWEAR that the site is not being updated in real time at all, and then when you tell them your portal info has changed, they get very flustered.

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 12h

TrueRef x Loish is here! 🤍🌟 @loish.bsky.social and I teamed up to create her own refernce pack. Together, we developed mood boards, chose models and shaped the direction of the shoot around her exact preferences. Featuring models Hope and Ivy.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 9h

Great, a car that makes its own pot holes

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 9h

The fact I saw a headline in a major publication about the casting of Fourth Wing that said « actor name and actor name will be riding dragons and each other » 🫩 like oh okay we’re just making it culturally acceptable to sexually harass them right off the bat, I see.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, yes, bring that to a dirt road and start spraying gravel at bullet speed all around you. Great plan.

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

Gambit standing on Mister Fantastic’s foot 😂 hidden behind the letters like that, they could have just erased that white foot and nobody would have known lol

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 11h

Readers complaining about a fantasy book using « champagne » but not lodging the same complaint about « turkey ». Okay. Sure.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 12h

Tsé si t’est pour rouler deux roues dans la voie inverse pour éviter les trous, fait le pas à 70 dans une zone de 50 plein de croches maybe???

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 12h

Les taxis dans ma ville aussi c’est insane comment ils vont vite dans les petites rues résidentielles. J’ai déjà pété un des mes rétroviseurs en l’accrochant après un bac de récup parce qu’il a fallu que j’embarque sur la pelouse de qqn pour éviter un taxi qui roulait dans le milieu de la route

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 13h

The thing is that photoshop has a slop AI tool that automatically « adjusts » the lighting and colour of various copy pasted elements now, and they couldn’t even do that! They’re not even doing the effort of using the shit machine!

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 13h

Oh and Black Panther is just floating in space, NO attempt to align the feet on a similar-ish horizontal plane

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 13h

Omggg the complete light direction change on the rock man 😭

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 16h

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

honestly one of the reasons I'm so vehement about finishing chasing rabbits (and hopefully also run in the shadows) is that I don't want people to stop at "psychotic teenagers deserve empathy". I want them to realize that people have a future and a life even with psychosis, a life that /matters/

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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 15/10/2026

brb gotta go cry in horse girl

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Every once in a while I'm trying to use some new shortcut, I look down at my keyboard, remember half the symbols have faded off, I get a touch typing brain fart, and I end up having to google "qwerty keyboard image" so I can locate the letter "e" or something

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One time I was at a comic book festival and I saw a cover with a car AND a horse. I still tell fellow artists the legend of the guy who could draw both

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

One time in my comic book program at university, one of my fellow student drew a great crowd panel. I literally do not even remember what *I* turned in, or what the assignment was about. I just remember the whole class going « OOOOOOOOOH » about that one panel

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It really feels like big publishers don’t give a rat’s ass about their midlist, and that sucks so much.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It’s always the same story with these « replacement for Adobe » softwares. Oooooh this fake photoshop can open psd files! Okay do you also have a fake indesign, illustrator, bridge, acrobat pro, & dimension and can they all also import and manipulate the psd file? No? Shut up.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

🫠 that specific line is such a pet peeve of mine

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Something I am attempting to hammer into my children’s heads - and they are a lot younger than these kids so I still have the luxury of getting to them largely before the AI does - is that they *do not have permission to feed anyone else’s work into AI*.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

to branch off of this, part of the reason these two things are happening here is because white supremacy sees non-whiteness as incapable, as stupid. and they program and evaluate everything based off of how whiteness thinks it should look

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

« We used AI at every step of the process and reduced our team of ten to just one person, but look! We published TWO (2) marginalized writers! So actually we are doing so much good and helping authors so so much 😇 » sort of shit

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yep sounded like a clear « fuck translators » to me

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쿠남 HappyLifeSims 🇰🇷 @koonamsims.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Korean Modern Hanbok #dressmaker

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."

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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you think good artists never need references, try to draw a bicycle from memory

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think if fans are going to complain about the canon-compliance of a tie-in novel, they should place it on a scale of « Barbie Dreamscape » (full AU, only two named characters from the lore) to « ROTS novelisation » (literally the movie + added stuff) for context.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Love reading about the history of some natural dye and then reaching the name « William Henry Perkin » like here’s my boy!!!! :)

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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Translators deserve better. Anyone who wants to replace them with AI 1.) Doesn't understand the work. 2.) Willfully, visibly disrespects their audience. Poor end product, alienated consumer base, screwed workers. That's the grand future so-called "AI" serves us, again and again.

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🌙Lumeria🌙 @lumeriadeborel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ngl I let out a little tear, or a few, after watching the first episode of the new adaptation of Magic Knight Rayearth. My childhood 🥹😭💕

Magic knight Rayearth poster showing Hikaru, Umi, Fuu Emeraude and Zagato

Promo poster showing Hikaru, Umi and Fuu alongside their mecha

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yuko @aidosaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🦄 "Once upon a time, there was a miraculous creature, and a stranger from a distant land..." 🍑 Feast of the Unicorn is our new 18+ fantasy romance comic: the decadent tale of a Unicorn & her bodyguard, on the run from a world that would devour her. Back here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Because in all that training data, language indicating that machines have feelings IS what is statistically likely!

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This. From the start, they fed a ton of scifi books to the training data, then asked a software that does not understand the meaning of questions or answers but just spits out what string of words is statistically likely to follow another string of words « are you sentient? ». Obv the answer is yes!

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So... I get a bunch of publicity emails and a lot of the Harper ones feel like they've been run through the plagiarism machine. It's not lovely. Tor, Orbit, not a whiff so far. The difference is palpable.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One of these days I wanna write a book where one POV is like « the blue curtains » and then you switch POV and the other character describes them as « the green curtains — a colour verging on aqua, but still FIRMLY in green territory, no matter what character A said about it »

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

wow. Way to shift the blame onto authors.

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 09/10/2026

The proper response to being upset about the way a story is written is to write a story of your own that does it RIGHT, be it direct fanfic (“fix-it fic”) or an original that uses similar materials in different ways The latter is like a fifth of my fiction!

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And it’s always some « You wrote thanksgiving before halloween »-ass type of feedback

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have had someone at a festival say, to my face, that my « french translator » fucked up the translation of the title of my book. I wrote the book in french first then translated it to english myself. Both titles are idioms I chose on purpose.

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Marie 🇨🇦⚜️ @blammarie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Prudence Dressmaker: I want to be hip with the youth Me: 👍 (She is my favourite character btw)

A video game screenshot of a pink dress with a burlap corset

Same dress from the back. I used piping to write JUICY on the ass

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