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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today has been, all in all, kind of shit. But I am making dinner for my family, and I slept, and I'm alive. As long as I'm alive, there's always a chance for things to get better.

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Sharing again for the later crowd, you will continue to see me.

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Hey, guy I just blocked, I have never been anything other than anti-AI, why the fuck did you follow me when you're sharing "AI writing prompts" and AI generated images? Get the fuck out of here, okay? You're not a real writer if you use AI, just in case that wasn't clear.

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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

AI PUNKS FUCK OFF

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I cannot promise my readers that everything I ever write will be amazing, but I CAN promise them that everything I ever write will be something I have actually written and not, for example, a soulless pile of robot puke.

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noodle @noodleawesome.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

personally I like it when the media I consume respects my intelligence but that's just me

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In my long absence I haven't given up writing, I've just been writing more privately for my friends, for fun! But if you're looking for something to read, you like breaking bad, you don't mind OC/canon ships you should try my fic The Twilight of Gilded Roses! archiveofourown.org/works/84924786

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The Twilight of Guilded Roses - Chapter 1 - AtlasArisen - Better Call Saul (TV), Breaking Bad [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

AI-written books (and stories) are like the bed bugs of the publishing industry. As readers, we have to use our own brains to decide where to sleep, because that's the best we can do.

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Wyly O'Brien @wylyo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"If you're bored, I'll give you something to do" and they created hustle culture

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I can't ever imagine outsourcing the joy of making things to a plagiarism machine, but that's just me personally. All my art is human made and has human mistakes and I love making it. I say through gritted teeth, trying not to let the perfectionism grisp me again.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Seth Rogen has more artistic integrity and understanding of creating than … whatever this is jfc. Let me revisit his words and remember that not everyone is terrible. (Via: variety.com/2026/film/ne...)

"I don't understand what it's supposed to do," Rogen said when asked about Al in filmmaking. "Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked, what follows is the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life. And if your instinct is to use Al and not go through that process. You shouldn't be a writer. Because you're not writing.
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He continued, "Go do something else. And if you don't want to go through the process, you shouldn't be a writer. The idea of a tool that makes me write less is not appealing to me, because I like writing."

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The entire learning process informs your art. If you are doing it *right,* you never stop learning. You cannot simply skip steps because they're hard or you don't like them. It's like teleporting to the top of Mt. Fuji and saying you climbed it. You did not. Art isn't a photo op. Remember that.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

If you use gen AI to help you write, you didn't write. Instead, you leaned heavily on stolen words--it's a plagiarism machine. Instead, you made yourself less smart--it legit diminishes your cognitive function. Instead, you destroyed the environement. If you don't know how to write, you learn.+

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I don't have a brand. My brand is "I write whatever the fuck I am burning to write at that particular point and I don't give a shit whether that fits anyone's marketing plan or whatever happens to be trendy at the time."

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

archiveofourown.org

The Twilight of Guilded Roses - Chapter 1 - AtlasArisen - Better Call Saul (TV), Breaking Bad [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Full offense, but we shouldn't have to stop, hold your hand, and say, "That was a sad choice, wasn't it? Can you help think of a better one?" when writing for adults

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Guess who got scared and stopped posting on all their social media? It was me, but I'm back now. I'm taking a little break from original fiction and working on some fanfic projects while I recover from all of the fear. I hope everyone else is doing better than I am lmao

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 22/06/2025

Every third post on here

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/06/2025

things are! very bad! in the world! i have nothing to add significantly other than this sucks shit

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I took a couple day break from social media, I'm exhausted. It's hard not to feel like I'm not doing anything worth while in the current climate. I'm going to keep telling queer stories, I'm going to keep being alive. This is the only resistance I can perform, and it's enough.

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Dustlings is about a human rediscovering their roots, and since "Dustling" is a word used to describe humans in the magical world, it felt like a good placeholder, but I ended up liking it so much I couldn't change it. WO's titles all relate to the theme of familial trauma in an abstract sense.

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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s *mandatory* if you want to get better

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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Also, it’s especially important to do this in the hell-year 2025. Find small joys anywhere & everywhere you can. Put them on your desktop, in your pocket, clutch them to your chest and share them with others. It’s not toxic positivity. It’s seeking out beauty & joy, in defiance of a cruel world.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 17/06/2025

Do you really fucking think artists do better work stressed about making rent, or not having enough to eat? Do you do your best work that way? Of course not. It's total brainwashing scam bullshit.

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 17/06/2025

The "Starving artist" trope was started by ppl who didn't wanna pay artists (writers, painters, musicians, etc) & wanted it to seem a good thing. Artists suffering for art, starving artists, doing it for love only/shunning money - All myth turned folklore as reason to NOT FUCKING PAY US OUR DUE.

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Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This thread is the funniest own I've seen today. Also, good on Signal for vowing no AI shit.

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

#WIPSnips June 17th - Famous (popular) Sometimes you find the enemy you're looking for in a masquerade. Sometimes you stumbled into an enemy looking for you.

In his determination to keep an eye out, Alistair nearly knocked over someone else as they passed by. Their drink sloshed dangerously in the thin glass flute they were drinking from as a yelp of surprise burst out of their mouth. “Watch where you’re going! You nearly got wine on my suit!”

“Sorry, I didn’t mean—” Mid apology, he caught sight of a small detail on the man’s mask. The same symbol that had been so popular in Red Fort, a singular, angular, gold eye peered at him from the stranger’s cheek. Alistair straightened his back and began again, “I’m looking out for a friend of mine, I didn’t mean to cause any problems.”

The light eyes behind the strangely decorated mask blinked. Now that Alistair was looking at all of it, it was covered in eyes. Were they supposed to be a spider, or a monster? “The night’s only just begun, a little early to be so careless.”

“It’s our first party,” Ignatius cut in, his voice staying smooth and even despite the circumstance, “my partner is just excited, aren’t you? How many masquerades have you been to that you can keep yourself composed so easily?”

Well, it had been a good run, but certainly now this stranger, this follower of the father, was going to strike them down where they stood. Alistair was certain of it. But they didn’t draw their weapon, or cast a spell. Instead they laughed and smiled.

“I’ve been to three masques, though never one here. It’s a special occasion.” They carefully swirled their unspilt wine and stepped back, giving the pair a wider berth to pass. “I suppose there was no harm, my mistake.”

Ignatius offered them a little bow- which Alistair emulated quickly and without complaint- and a wide smile of his own. “I think it is easy to get caught up in your emotions on a day like today.” He leaned into the arm of the man accompanying him, squeezing his hand a little tighter. “Thank you for your understanding.”

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

#WIPSnips Lionel tells Alistair several hard truths in this chapter, the hardest for him to swallow is that his parents victory against The Father of Dragons was not as clear cut as he imagined it. But his mother, Ada, was never afraid until they turned up at her father's door.

“So it seems we’ve both got a few questions for each other.” Lionel had steady hands. They didn’t shake even a little as he poured them each a cup of tea from an ornate looking pot. “We were never very close, but you learn a thing or two when you save the world together.”

“I’ve never met her family, do you know anything about them?”

The mayor pursed his lips, carefully taking his cup and the accompanying saucer in his hand as he sat in a chair near the short end of the table. “I know her father was still alive when we went to Crooked Ridge. She didn’t have any siblings, and her mother had long passed.” He wrinkled up his nose. “I remember that her father didn’t come to the party thrown in her honor there.”

“She dragged all six of us to go find him in the rundown shack that she grew up in,” he recalled, stirring in a few spoonfuls of sugar into his tea, “All of Crooked Ridge was like that, falling apart and rotten. It was never supposed to be a long-term settlement, but the people were hardy.” Lionel paused to take a sip of his drink. “I’d never seen Ada afraid of anything. Not when The Father dropped half our team, not when she almost died herself, but as she stood in front of her father’s door, holding her hand out to knock without moving…”

“She almost died?” Alistair’s brow pinched together as he stirred his own sugar in with a touch of the cream from the tray.

“We all did.” The mayor’s gaze hardened and raised to the wall. “I’m still not sure how we made it. Some nights I still expect to find this is all a dream I’ve woven for myself before I breathe my last.” His eyes fluttered rapidly for a moment before he looked at Alistair again. “But I never wake up.”

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Quick writing accountability post before midnight! I've been struggling with migraines and a bunch of other stuff going on, but I wrote today! Yay!

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Serena of Broken Hearts for sure! She's a demi-god turned Actual God under strange circumstances and she's constantly getting tangled up in mortal affairs. She's the only god who isn't hunted down to prevent the father of dragons from coming to power again. She's the goddess of Vengeance/Revenge.

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

📝 name: Dante ♏ sign: Scorpio 🔢 age: 28 🐎 favourite animal: Panda 🍂 favourite season: Fall 📚 fav genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller, Horror 🎥 fav movie(s): The Menu, The Substance, Willow 📺 fav show(s): The Boys, Severance 🔖 i have published: One Novel 🔗 link: linktr.ee/danteatlas

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#WIPSnips June 12th - Respect A short feud between brothers today.

It drove Alistair to slam his hands on the table, clenching his fists against the wood grain as he bowed his head to shield his eyes. He’d had such a good grasp on his anger, and now it felt like Henry was digging at his ribs, trying to get a reaction. That was how this all started anyhow. Was Henry trying to provoke him into doing something stupid?

A deep breath in through his nose and out through his mouth. “I think that there’s only one way to find out, and that you don’t have to be there if you don’t want to be.” Acceptance was the only way out of this now, as he raised his eyes to his brother’s. The eyes of a dangerous stranger. “If you don’t want to hear from me again after this, I’ll respect that. Fine.”

Henry blinked slowly, resting both his elbows on the table. “I can’t imagine a world where I’d ever want to see you again after this.” He looked down at where Alistair’s hands had connected with the table and back to his face again, his dark eyes bouncing from feature to feature as though looking for something. “Not that I think you can survive without me.”

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Living the amazing yaoi fantasy of having to leave two countries and become a refugee because of transphobic laws, yeah. And before that being disowned by your family and told by your brother that mom died of a broken heart because of you being a freak I would make a fantastic yaoi character

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Everything Dice @everythingdice.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🌈 GIVEAWAY 🌈 It’s Pride Month, we’re having a giveaway of Prismatic Sea Glass to celebrate! Giveaway ends 6/25 at noon CT. To Enter: ✨ Follow this account 💌 Repost this post 💖 For an extra entry, tell us something cool about another member of your party! #dnd #dice #ttrpg

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#WIPSnips June 11th-Match Just before the masquerade Alistair realizes he and Ignatius have accidentally matched their outfits. Alistair is dressed as the moon, Ignatius is dressed as a starry owl.

Ignatius cleared his throat from further down the hallway, waving a gloved hand. “Looks like we match.” He was also dressed in something resembling the night sky, but the mask on his face donned carved feathers. “What luck.” The lilt in his voice made it difficult to tell if he was teasing Alistair or not.

He looked positively dashing with his hair loosely braided and pulled back away from the owl mask that adorned his face. The dark colors of a midnight sky made his eyes look like stars. Beneath his mask he had so carefully applied some lipstick to his mouth in a similar shade of blue, completely covered his upper lip and striping down the center of his lower lip.

“Wow-” The youngest of the group struggled not to let his companions hear the wind get knocked from his lungs. “-Ignatius, you look…” He cleared his throat and looked away, anywhere else but the elf’s soft lips. “Well, you look great.”

Ignatius grinned under his mask, his chin tucking into his chest as he allowed himself a moment to play it coy. “Well, your honeyed words are most appropriate, on this, the day of our reckoning.”

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Writing accountability post! Oh we're hitting the stride now, folks, here we gooooooo!!!

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I post ‘no AI’ on all my book boost posts and every. single. time. it appears. In like two cases, the authors were lied to by grifters and immediately got new covers when I reached out. Most of the time I get ‘oh, didn’t read that’ or ‘I thought my ai cover was fine and you meant writing’ and like,

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 10/06/2025

govt is putting up photos and rewards and people on bluesky keep posting photos of themselves and others on socmed stay safe dont share photos of protestors or yourself dont even take a phone with you to protests be safe be smart

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 10/06/2025

And nothing of value was lost.

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

#WIPSnips June 10th Ignatius and Alistair share a moment's reprieve before the masquerade, where each member of the party will take revenge against the same woman. Nerves are setting in, but it's probably not just murder on Alistair's mind.

A gentle hand found the small of his back, an intimate gesture he wouldn’t expect of anyone in their little group. As he turned to bark a particularly nasty set of expletives at whoever put their grubby hands on his body, he realized it was Ignatius. His jaw snapped shut, preventing the flood of what was probably going to be a truly atrocious accusation and cleared his throat.

The elf stared at him from behind the mask that obscured from his forehead just past his nose. His gaze was knowing and slightly judgmental if the long, slow blinking was anything to go by. “It’s going to be a nightmare of a party if you start going off on everyone who touches you, Alistair.” Ignatius’s dry humor always managed to pry a chuckle from within his chest, even if he didn’t want it to. “Try not to look like you’re going to rip someone’s arm off if they bump into you.”

“Bumping into me is a bit different than directing me with a hand so close to my ass,” the human man argued as they walked, “you’re lucky that I like you enough to give you a warning. I could have gone straight to arm ripping.”

They settled onto a bench against one of the walls, behind some shrubbery. Ignatius folded his hands in his lap as he watched each of their companions file in after them while Alistair rubbed his hands up and down his thighs.

“Nervous?” His yellow irises caught Alistair’s eyes as they peaked from the corners of the mask.

He hummed affirmatively. “I don’t think I’ve ever been so nervous in all my life, I feel sick.”

“Everyone feels that way,” the mage assured, “they’re just better at hiding it. You wear all your feelings on your face, even half covered.”

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

#SSFChat The 10th Alistair is incredibly reckless. This man hears a horrible flesh creature attacking someone (maybe) a hops up to go fight it by himself without waiting for anyone to come help him. In the middle of the night. With no light. He gambles with his life damn near constantly.

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Dante Atlas @danteatlas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Oh it's time for the scene I've been obsessed with since book one. It's time to write the masquerade. I'm about half way through book two of WO and it's fought me the ENTIRE way, but I'm finally getting there!

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