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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 12h

This one more than makes up for the stress of the previous chapter.

Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 15h

I'm glad Current Autumn isn't pushing herself too hard to meet arbitrary deadlines and is better at taking care of herself.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 15h

I'm happy for you to be more *you*, in any form you wish to present.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

This sounds a little too familiar

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Welcome to #TransTuesday! There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated. EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die

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TERFs, PART 3: NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION OF HARRY POTTER - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This is what it all comes down to, for trans people and the cis folks who actually care about us. Listen up, and show it to every cis person you know who does not get it. Her...

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Meanwhile, I don't put bad parents in my writing. They're just so not present in the plot they generally don't even get a mention. Can't imagine what inspires us to write this way.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

Dark Forces was one of my first FPS games, and while nostalgia may be a factor, I do appreciate that it was willing to write a new story within the universe, rather than just rehashing moments from the movies.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well, two and a half months later, it's gotten so much easier. Still feel it a bit, but for the most part it's no big deal.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 10/10/2026

In other words, "I hate colorblind people and want them to suffer if they play my games"?

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep, I definitely need to get myself compression sleeves. And a dress like that.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep. When my egg cracked, I was fine with it. Two years later, I desperately want to yeet this bit of flesh that is not *me*

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

You're really trying to give the Evelynne/Dash/Neve polycule shippers hope here, aren't you? Because you're evil and want to see our dreams crushed in the end.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Name Surname should have gotten more prominent billing, considering how much work they put into it.

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cunt orlok @t4tcisphobe.aboveall.love · 04/10/2026

the three best words a traumatized girl can hear from somebody close: i want you

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry Autumn, but I think Seba is my favorite character in this one now.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rick Astley will haunt us forever.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm looking forward to getting to read them again!

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just this morning I was thinking I need a meme of an eraser - one of those classic two-tone gray and pink ones - labeled "bi eraser"

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you have records from that endo? If you have documentation that you've already tried pills without success, maybe your doctor can use that to write an exception.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Canterbury Tales is Late Middle English, and that's at least mostly intelligible when spoken. Beowulf is Old English, and that's basically a different language entirely.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

If it wasn't Microsoft, I could see someone being a benevolent patent troll: patent an awful idea to prevent people from actually doing it, or at least extort them if they try. But it is Microsoft, so they're serious about it.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

I could watch you all day. 💚

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

James is barely in the closet.

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone out there feels a little less alone in the world today because you live out and openly trans.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

If they think there's no place for glorified violence, isn't the logical conclusion of that to eliminate the police?

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would argue that if it makes the Princess happy, it's Princess-sized.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

Clearly you need to get another set for your mother.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

That mask on the background player looks oddly familiar, like something nearly forgotten from long ago.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

Taking the time to savor something wonderful isn't a bad thing.

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niko ☿ niko @nikonikonek000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

art is about showing the world your soul, and sometimes you show other people their own soul by accident when they look at it

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am very concerned about what the aftermath is going to be.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

Okay, you didn't need to hit my RSD *that* hard.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 09/09/2026

Like a human? I'm sure Nephilopolis has some regulation against doing that if you're a cyborg.

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Coda is a very unofficial fancomic I made in 2017 about the ending of twilight princess. You can read the whole thing in this thread, and it's also in a public post on my patreon: www.patreon.com/careydraws/p... (1/x)

cover for Coda, a twilight princess fancomic by carey pietsch

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

One, I admire your willingness to commit to the bit and follow through on it. Two, the actual window cleaning was a small part of the story, and everything around it was more than worthwhile. You write with heart, Wolffie.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

This can be seen in how we celebrate the longevity of institutions and governments. Preservation of tradition outweighs anything else. Ancient laws are treated as sacred and forced to apply to situations their authors could never have dreamed of a quarter millennium ago.

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Emoria - Aftertaste is a Horror Novel @emoria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Seniors get it, kids get it, kind people get it. You know who doesn't get that trans people are just people? Fucking weirdos.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is there a reason my most-played Wii games were Twilight Princess and Okami? Of course not! And no further questions on this topic!

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

This post brought to you by Insomnimoria

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am very careful. I only deliver genuine, fully-deserved praise. Also, both names are correct, in their own way (as are a few others). No worries about that.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

From someone who (allegedly) saw the first chapter, it's very good, and well-worth meeting this goal for.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 02/09/2026

Entirely fair; I've never seen it either. But two books with P&F references would let you make a wonderful version of this meme.

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Ava Lily @lilyheart.northsky.social · 02/09/2026

Have you considered switching to putting Phineas and Ferb references in your books?

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