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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I heard/saw a crow right after I finished this animation of Helena, a good sign 😌💖

Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't know why I felt so overwhelmed looking through my notes for of gods and death before, they're actually very well organized for once 😅😅

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

FINALLY I finished the art for another post I'm BACK BABY WOOO

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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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Solaire 🔜 GATEway FATE 🐏 @solairelunaire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i hope we all write, oomfs

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The strap for my strawberry bag has been completed 😌

Close up of a dark green crochet bag strap

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Tapestry needle has changed my life I should've gotten one sooner

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

buy my books but fear me

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's come to my attention most people do NOT know what ARFID actually is, they're either talking about sensory issues or picky eaters. No shame on people who don't know, I just wish more people actually looked into it instead of spreading misinformation

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This isn't up to date with how it looks currently but, Strawberry bag progress 😌🍓

A faded red colored crochet circle on a metal crochet hook

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Does anyone have a good alternative to google maps? It literally never works for me anymore I need a replacement

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They should not put the merge layer button right next to the delete layer button, this has become a problem

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Okay wait I forgot how cool the back of the cover for of gods and death is

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thinking of editing the video I made a bit differently for youtube, I'm not overly pleased with it so I might end up redrawing it at a later time, or rather just animate it differently once I've learned the movements a bit better

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Got my new (secondhand) dresser stained and I am HYPED it looks SO COOL one step closer to my vampire/fantasy/medieval room

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sometimes you have to physically see your characters duke it out in the sims

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

when you make a craft store before you move so you can start selling crochet stuff but then after the move you forgot what you named it and can't find any trace of it besides the date in your calender marking that you made it 💀

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Right so there's been some hiccups with the art shield, so posting my character art is gonna take a little longer than anticipated

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Upgraded from a craft sack/several clear plastic boxes to a craft treasure chest 🥰 I can feel my power building

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Scheduling posts on youtube is making it way easier for me to focus on creating more stuff it's taken such a load off already

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Pleased to finally announce... Abdication, the last Southern Reach novel! "There will come the days of the watcher, the drowned woman and the shadow of a man who keeps falling apart with each step, but first comes the moment the birds appear at night from the gaps between the stars, far from home."

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report, August 6, 2026:

Jeff Vandermeer's ABDICATION, the last novel in the Southern Reach series, in which an ornithologist exiled to a remote coast stumbles on a terrifying secret, a self-proclaimed king pursues a mystery hidden in a strange weather station, and a man who can become a cormorant is tasked with a deadly mission through a future landscape transformed by Area X, for publication in October 2027, in a significant deal, to Jenna Johnson at Farrar, Straus, by Joseph Veltre at the Gersh Agency and Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine (world).

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So close! Just 12 away now!!! But can I get there by midnight? 👀💫 [ #booksky ]

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A very, uncomfortably close preview of my current wip drawing of Enzo

A close up of a digitally drawn face, mainly of the eye and eyebrow

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

paused my writing to say it's actually remarkable how accurate mike and ike are with their flavors

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

now that I finally updated this app I'm gonna get back to posting art of my characters from ogad

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Finally got around to fixing my carrd, I did not realize how out of date that was

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm gonna try and start posting on YouTube more, I have the account all set up with a ton of drafts but completely forgot its existence 😅

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A shout out to everyone defending the last ancient cottonwood in Arizona. 💚✊

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The screech owls are back fighting outside my window again

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Need to transfer all my photos and videos to clear storage on my phone but then I realized I don't have the right cord to be able to do so 🙃

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Should be obvious, but I will never use AI in my work and will not partner with organizations that do so.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green. Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you genuinely get upset about always finding the characters you relate to are autistic, maybe ask yourself why that matters

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I love stardew valley but I feel like there's just way too much overlooked ableism in the fandom sometimes, idk if I'm somehow ending up on the worst side or what

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Saw a comment somewhere saying a moment that happened with a character was him doing weaponized incompetence like no babes that's very clearly an autistic coded character and it's very clear he did not intentionally misunderstand the other character, he has moments he's a jerk but this isn't one

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

thetimes.com

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

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Jim Furbranes @unlox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

can’t find a night when everyone’s reliably free for it, huh

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Luna .R. Owens @sprnkleofsorrow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Made five pumpkin leaves and counting so far today, that makes a total of around 50 something... only a couple hundred more to go I think??😭😭

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026

Sharing for any Indie Authors who haven't seen this Ingram Spark gen ai opt out, so they don't sell your books to gen ai companies. If you do print books via DrafttoDigital, they use Ingram Spark print and distribution, so you may still want to fill this form in.

ingramcontent.com

AI Opt Out

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Republicans just approved a budget blueprint that does far more than fund the war with Iran. Buried inside the $95 billion package is $10 billion to implement new nationwide voting restrictions demanded by Trump.

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