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It's an amazing place to visit. I'll try to dig up some pictures to share.

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It's especially spicy when you know that the guy who built Mont-Saint-Michel claimed that he did so because the archangel came to him in a dream and--frustrated with the bishop's stubbornness--poked him in the forehead. Michael doinked him so hard that he left a hole in his skull.

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Yep! I forget what kind of critter it is, but some butterflies/moths use other bits of things in their cocoons. Google is telling me it's probably a bagworm? Which sounds dope as hell, but who can trust google search, heh.

I was already going to read this, but now I'm really REALLY going to read this.

Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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By 40, you should have a shirt you can’t bear to throw out, an animal you over-identify with, a bad 90s movie that makes you weep due to unresolved issues with a parent, an apotropaic charm to ward off The Curse, inexplicable memory lapses, blood on your hands, so much blood, & shoes w/ arch support

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me: check, check, *sob* check, ch—uhhh…hm. Welp. That explains some things.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Gareth Hanrahan’s The Dungeon Book. Wickhills on deck.

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really dug this one, definitely one of those "why aren't more people discovering this book" books.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I won't, actually? I don't follow children on social media. I'm not even ON the children's social media. "You won't *believe" what they're saying on Tik-" "Believe it? Honey, I don't even *care* about it."

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, some of that texas song/monoculture discourse had me conflicted. Like, am I now That_Old_Guy who can't appreciate new things? But I heard half of Sienna Spiro's performance on the VMAs last night, then found her music this morning. So, Principal Skinner gif but: "no, it's the NYT who's wrong."

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A. T. Greenblatt @atgreenblatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Three-Lobed Burning Eye Magazine is currently running a Kickstarter and one of the rewards is a short story critique from me, among other cool rewards. Please back if you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

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Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Swag out the ass, I’m the man, fuck Chico Took the G out your waffle all you got left is your ego.

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Today in "Things I Didn't Know I Had Opinions On": Darkwing Duck remake. Okay, I'm listening. Mark Hamil as Darkwing. Oh? OH? Well I could really be-- Seth Rogen as Launch--No. No thanks. Nope, nah, I'm good. I'm not even a Rogen hater, but that's just not remotely the voice of a himbo-duck.

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I started to write a reply about this, but ran out of characters. Realized I was saying "acronym usage" too often, so I started writing AU. We should just all write AU from here on out. I forsee no problems.

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I'm just imagining his (hopefully ex) wife getting up to "get something from the concession stand" and then prompting her own (unworn) glasses "Send David a message as if it's from you and ask him to stop shouting and criticizing and just be there for his son."

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Of all the things that never happened, this isn’t the most never-happened-ish, but it’s definitely high on the list.

But I thought ai could do everyone’s jobs. I thought if you don‘t use ai, you’ll get left behind. I thought ai was inevitable.

Oh wow, what a [comment that shows that you read the post]. I sure [pithy witticism that will make people like me].

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If you have even the remotest interest in D&D, Dimension 20's The Unsleeping City has a treat for you...

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I heard you're not writing a novel but you really should be."

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Happy Monday! There's ONE WEEK (and one day) until the release of THE ONLY WAY OUT IS UP, so it's time for me to start shouting about it regularly. SHOUTING! PRE-ORDER! www.amazon.com/Only-Way-Out... Sorry. Too loud.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Engines Beneath, U.S. -- My upside-down folk-horror-but-in-a-housing-estate novella is now available in the US thanks to the good folk at @influxpress.bsky.social. It's a very handsome book that would look lovely in your absolutely giant American bookshelves.

Cover for Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin (lots of gears and cogs under some nodesript houses. One of the cogs is a big old eyeball. It looks great. Luke Bird did the cover and I'm very chuffed with it.) The book is on a table in a New York park.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you ever find yourself feeling lightly bored when you’d rather be briefly but intensely annoyed, try logging on. Logging on! It’s like licking a battery with your soul.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

P. Djeli Clark left a brief, complimentary comment about my first novel on Goodreads, and the sense of relief was so profound that I have never felt the urge to look at Goodreads again.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me: Heh, so like Warehouse 13 meets The Davinci Code meets MCU Damage Control...wait, no. Dean_Pelton_from_Community_I_hope_this_doesn't_awaken_something_in_me.gif

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Icarus was the first dude who mistakenly believed he was wearing plot armor. Sun Wukong from Journey to the West was the first himbo...

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I got no fear, me. Fear gone kilt dat mine. Fear dat ti deff, pullin a hurricane wittem. I look trew that storm’s eye, me. Let it blow right on by, don’t make no never mind. Turn round oncet passes? Only me left, podna.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“I did it 35 minutes ago.”

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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I have a cousin who was constantly putting me on game with ways that I could get out of my J-O-B and not do all that “smart shit cuz.” I finally explained to them that I LIKE all the smart shit, did in fact choose to do it for a living, and I am very good at it. They never really believed me.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. "Like many who would one day become Reliquaries, the man the Realms call the Sunset Shield rose from relative obscurity."

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wake up, babe. The new iteration of “ma’am, this is an Arby’s” just dropped.

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Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lots of writers talk about those books they read as kids that hit them with the “wait, you can DO THAT!?!” epiphany. Reading Vellum and Ink did that for me as an adult writer.

Bryan Camp @bryancamp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is especially fun when you‘re the DM. I love when my players are like, “does this character have a different accent now because they’re actually the doppelgänger we’re hunting, or do you think you’re doing the same voice?”