bm @brologue.net · 21/09/2026walking into the bar for that neck oil, the bartender says what kinda neck oil and i says that fruity kirkland signature over there with a slimline t, the way he woulda loved it 000
bm @brologue.net · 12/08/2026This *feels* like a bajillion, anyway. I go into Glasgow city centre and they're always behind my back 010
bm @brologue.net · 11/08/2026>nah i don't need to do pomodoros, I've got meds, i'm a big boy, i can do 250 words a day all by myself >sets up the pomodoro >550 words 000
bm @brologue.net · 10/08/2026one of the most lowkey infuriating ways ai has ruined web search is the gazillion ai-generated wikis that crop up whenever a new game comes out and there hasn't been a lot of time to discover things yet. when mewgenics came out i remember stumbling on a "wiki" with HORRENDOUS slop pixel art lmao 030
bm @brologue.net · 10/08/2026I've been thinking a lot about a point @doctorow.pluralistic.net made 2 weeks ago: AI - the bubble = plugins. Now I'm asking: what can we writers do with this framing? *Should* we talk about plugins? Vibechecking "AI is plugins" brologue.net/2026/08/10/a... Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read! 000
bm @brologue.net · 06/08/2026Zuck's strange little greenhouse can stay in his walled gardens for it is a social experiment I do not want to be a part of 000
bm @brologue.net · 06/08/2026>Kikky is my cat that won’t shut up. She gets incredibly noisy every second you don’t play with her. painfully true 041
bm @brologue.net · 01/08/2026born too early for the matrix born too late for MUDs and Usenet born just in time for RSS and copium 000
bm @brologue.net · 31/07/2026And once you've done that, writes Le Guin, it is up to *you* to draw the maps and build the cities you will be reporting on. At the absolute worst, an expert in the field will either miss your email or redirect you to some of their recent work. So email them. 010
bm @brologue.net · 11/07/2026you may disagree but i thought this one needed a mcmansion hell touch 030
bm @brologue.net · 11/07/2026This time around, a little AI psychosis (as a treat). I'm not saying someone who references Musk twice is Musk himself... but I'm not *not* saying, either. "We're all in, like, a kind of digital circus, or something" 000
bm @brologue.net · 09/07/2026Something I do think this essay could've expanded upon is the need for us to get out ahead of the argument that all LLMs do is recognise patterns and remix past data, and that is also what humans also do—ergo shut up, accept AI is here to stay, now lie in the road while it steamrolls you, luddite. 100
bm @brologue.net · 06/07/2026I also love that moment in F for Fake... but about fifteen minutes earlier than that, there's a spine-tingling example of art that was clearly designed to have effects on its audience. That was pretty magical, too. youtube.com/watch?v=yB6G... 1111
bm @brologue.net · 04/07/2026The way some folks have been saying that Chapter 5 besmirches the serious tone and stakes set up in Chapter 4, you'd think they got to the end of the chapter and saw this 010
bm @brologue.net · 29/06/2026i don't pretend my rankings make sense but i have to contain flower man because the groupchat keeps putting it in their top 5. i like it but i'm waiting for the pollen to settle before setting it free #deltarune 040
bm @brologue.net · 22/06/2026don't normally post teasers outside of The Groupchat but this week's brologue will be a tad piquant pikapiquant, if you will it's about the pokewalker 000
bm @brologue.net · 18/06/2026@ifbookspod.bsky.social treating us to a feast from the beast that lurks the self-help shelves 000
bm @brologue.net · 16/06/2026There is a certain type of 'you' I encounter in fiction often, but have never managed to pin down... until now. Who is ‘You?’ brologue.net/2026/06/16/w... Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read! 200
bm @brologue.net · 11/06/2026But what IS known is that the Pokewalker works just fine with more radical hacks that use hg-engine: xcancel.com/bluroseai/st... Yes, that is a Hisuian Zorua on a device that predates it by over a decade! 000
bm @brologue.net · 11/06/2026This Poliwrath came from @refinedplat.bsky.social's Refined Gold hack. While it is a 493 hack, and thus there are no mons I *need* the Pokewalker to catch, it feels like I get to have it both ways; it shouldn't work, but it does, and now I get to touch grass. 211
bm @brologue.net · 09/06/2026me and @maskedrazzle.bsky.social rubbing our two deltarune braincells together while i play #pronounpalace in the hopes that my tileomancy might reach toby fox 0103
bm @brologue.net · 09/06/2026i know what you are and i will use the ANGEL's feather to send you back from whence you came, you little— 000
bm @brologue.net · 09/06/2026 Your draft will look and feel a bit like this (1). But it will objectively be more of a story than... this (2). 73/ 100
bm @brologue.net · 09/06/2026That is to say, when someone asks a very specific question, then that question is all I know of their world. Their world, for all intents and purposes, is a black box. These questions are literally not for me. 63/ 190
bm @brologue.net · 09/06/2026I keep lurking, out of curiosity, because I don’t co-exist in AI-friendly spaces, and I figure this server’s a good a place as any to see what goes on. So far, I have been treated to such titillating discourse as: ‘Chapter Titles: Should We Have Them?’ I am NOT making this shit up: 47/ 120
bm @brologue.net · 09/06/2026A less cynical (and surprisingly simple) answer can be found in the title of Summoning Salt’s latest video (a channel entirely unrelated to fiction writing, I know). You see it, right? The STORY. 20/ 100
bm @brologue.net · 09/06/2026There's something about the online #worldbuilding discourse that makes me feel like I'm looking through a kaleidoscope at the wrong end. Your Worldbuilding Bores Me When They Tell You to Do This brologue.net/2026/06/09/i... Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read! 351
bm @brologue.net · 01/06/2026> I think modding tends to come in after you’ve mastered the game. You love it, now you want to try more. only those who have mastered silksong may try Blue Hornet mode (Blornet as I like to call her) 011
bm @brologue.net · 25/05/2026Magic presents itself as the ultimate source of unexplained agency. Does this mean fantasy cannot be weird or eerie like its genre cousins, sci-fi and horror? “The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled – Workshop #6: How Do We Keep Fantasy Weird and Eerie? brologue.net/2026/05/25/k... ❤ 🔁 etc appreciated! 010
bm @brologue.net · 19/05/2026>find a great video on worldbuilding >'join the discord for this free resource' >right fine i'll fucking join i'm an mfa student goddamn it >ai slop is allowed >there's a whole *channel* for it >one guy in the chat talking mad shit about how communism and fascism aren't actually all that different 000
bm @brologue.net · 11/05/2026someone yank me from those dogshit drafting blues please oh please take me from those dogshit drafting blues when my vocab is all prolapsed and the plot is running no laps come the most prolix sumbitch words to ever choose PLEASE— 000
bm @brologue.net · 05/05/2026the absolute agony of moving onto a plus-sized novel that can't fit into your jacket pockets (it's francis spufford's Nonesuch) 000
bm @brologue.net · 28/04/2026Brologue dot net in no way intends to slander the great literary works of A. M. Penman. Because he is me. 000