👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 18mI haven't read anything by either of them but the Culture books by Banks are very beloved among my friends so they're also on my long-term to-read list! 000
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 43m(Also to be fair it feels like everyone talks about Neuromancer and sort of... Forgets Gibson has written other books?) (Which reminds me I should read Neuromancer) 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 43mI don't know if you ever get this but my particular flavour of ADHD includes "if I have recently discovered a thing, I simply assume nobody knew about it much before I did", which is an insane thing to think about *William Gibson* but here we are XD 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 53mLike idk why I always forget the "used to work in a bookshop" part !!! 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 54mI don't know why I thought you wouldn't have read it tbh 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1hOhhh I love this so much. It's like a cosmic version of The Town Musicians of Bremen! 000
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1hOh god, yeah. I recently read Pattern Recognition and it is such an ode to human art and an anti-genAI treatise somehow even though it was written 20+ years before genAI was even a thing. (It's very very good and I highly recommend it) 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 8hYeah exactly! Which is. Not great. Because these things are very rarely accurate 😬 020
Reposted by 👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻Wonder-Waffle 🦆 @wonderwaffle93.bsky.social · 16hDame and Elf #art #digitalart #oc 141159269
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 16hI mean imo with D&D every campaign / party is its own little individual fandom, with its own vibe and its own characters, so there's an infinity of possible variations. (I guess less so for pre-made campaigns like Curse of Strahd or whatever, which I assume you're less interested in?) 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 17hAh huzzah, I'm so glad this worked! :D 010
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 23hHonestly every version of "this cereal has been cooked until it is a delicious goo" is a banger and I don't think we say it loudly or often enough 010
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Just ask Claude Code to figure out the bug for you" bitch Claude Code is the reason we're here in the first place 120
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I am on burnout leave partly because vibe coding has made my work as a tech support engineer so much harder. The bugs have become bizarre and incomprehensible and so hard to reproduce and there are so fucking many of them 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Like, I'm on the discord of a novelist who writes historical m/m romance and seeing her work described as "gay Bridgerton" (no) or "Heated Rivalry meets Jane Austen" (what) is just as insane-making for her as it is for her readers, it really doesn't correspond with what's actually in the book. 130
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026For what it's worth, from hanging out with novel writers including a number of published ones, this isn't necessarily always true? Aside from the (very lucrative, true) "retellings" market, a lot of those comps are applied purely by the marketing department long after the book's been written. 100
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026oh god how do I do this again i am soooo rusty 020
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026i am downloading OmegaT right now, this is Happening, you are Warned 150
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There are at least two (2) people on my main discord server who are screaming at me to do it soooo yeah it is happening 010
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm thinking of doing it serialised so that 1. I'll actually do the whole thing because I get the feedback in real time from readers who want to read all of it and 2. it feels a little more manageable of a project 020
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026SO IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION that the main translations of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux are broadly considered to be Unsatisfactory and uh I have a lot of free time right now while I recover And I miss translating And Phantom is in the public domain I may be considering doing it? 460
Reposted by 👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Look at this posh skrunkleton. Postcard from my collection, 1912. 🎩 232222191
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Reposted by 👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Let him die”: the repeated phrase of the Sages when brought the case of a man who has become sick with passion for a woman. For me, the story holds important wisdom about whose problem it is when a man desires a certain woman — and it’s not the woman 🙂 (Sanhedrin 75a) 316944
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026especially for @sjgochenour.bsky.social: It's called cheesemaking, maybe you've curd of it. 0101
Reposted by 👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That's it, you're going on the List of Persons, Thieves and Broken-men (NLS 1.24.50) 13010
Reposted by 👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 06/10/2026I heard there's free shipping at Bookshop.org October 6-7, so here's a list of my books you can get there! Queer romances in fantasy and sci-fi settingsbookshop.orgBooks I wroteCheck out this list on Bookshop 12217
Reposted by 👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Now, more than ever, is the time to reject corporate-owned media and embrace the true sickos making weird shit in the corners 219283
Reposted by 👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Waiting To Start Again — helveticablanc.com/20261006-wai... — #helveticablanc #wormsong #tree #ayen 029355
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Also in my opinion it's a lot more fun to try and apply archetypes to character after you've got a good handle on them because it can often be really surprising in a super fun way! 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What the fuck rule says you have to create a character based on an archetype though, that's not a thing! And if someone says it's a thing they can get in the sea? Like if it works for others that's fine but you not using it in your process says nothing about others and how they do things! 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Is... is that a bad thing though? Personally I would much prefer a cast of characters who, you know, aren't archetypes. 110
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Reposted by 👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026reading/reciting and performing poetry is a skill and one people can get better at in various interesting ways, but because some people are either unskilled or reading in a way that some people don’t like doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen. it’s never been easier to avoid poetry readings :) 1102
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I also really want to know like. Why is the brother called Isukiri. Is the name Isukiri spelled with kanji? Is he supposed to be Japanese? What?? 010
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's extremely, extremely Air Bud. "Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus DIDN'T go live in Japan at the age of 21 years old!" 110
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah I will say the obsession with TLAs* is part of the problem, though also the way that people online have become incredibly averse to the entire concept of "making sure people actually understand what you're saying" is just. puzzling. 200
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't know if it's because I'm French and we have like a billion homonyms in our language but I *cannot* fathom the whole "this word/acronym is BAD because that combination of letters/phonemes already means SOMETHING ELSE" thing people! infer meaning! from context! AAAAH 240
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026tbh I feel like you might be More perceived if you go to a sauna with a swimsuit than without 000
👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've seen Conclave three times in the last year and enjoyed it every time and I... Can't argue with that, it's completely true. And yeah I'd happily watch it a fourth time if offered. 000
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