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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 29/09/2026

Curry Barker's next film ‘ANYTHING BUT GHOSTS’ releases on May 7, 2027 in theaters. • Follows 2 con artists whose fake ghost hunting business spirals out of control after encountering a real ghost • Starring Curry Barker, Cooper Tomlinson, Aaron Paul & Bryce Dallas Howard

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Took my MIL out for her birthday on Sunday to a little Oktoberfest celebration :) Really liked my outfit for the day - now that it's sweater weather, I've finally had the opportunity to wear this knit out. #ooc

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stream was shorter than I'd like since I didn't completely download CONTROL (oops) but I will be back on Friday and I am very much looking forward to it!

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

oh yeah, we are so back :) ♥️「 twitch.tv/stephanie_stone 」

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𝖔𝖝𝖈𝖔𝖝𝖆 ✨🔜 Roundhouse | Evo France | Youmacon @oxcoxa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) 🤍 I will try her in Street Fighter 6 next year ☺️

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's been 6 months since I've posted one of these... but I am coming back from my hiatus next week ❤️ 「 streams week of 09/27-10/03 」 🕯️ twitch.tv/stephanie_stone 🕯️ ✶ Monday 09/28 ✶ ✧ 1:00PM PDT ✧ 🔻CONTROL Resonant ✶ Friday 10/02 ✶ ✧ 7:00PM PDT ✧ 🔧 SILENT HILL: Townfall

A graphic depicting Steph's streaming schedule. It states September and October 2026, all times PDT. The two streams listed are CONTROL Resonant on Monday September 28th and SILENT HILL: Townfall on Friday, October 2nd. Streams are available on twitch.tv/stephanie_stone.

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Remedy Entertainment @remedygames.com · 23/09/2026

Berlin and London have been graced with murals of the Artist, one of the Resonants you will face as Dylan Faden in CONTROL Resonant. Watch how we made her come to life! CONTROL Resonant releases tomorrow, September 24th. #CONTROLResonant

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Juby @jubyart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wanna watch the new Madoka movie #art

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jtav4.bsky.social @jtav4.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

A forested region of the crater rim slopes down to the lake. One of the tree trunks hosts some moss. In the lake the Phantom Ship rock outcrop rises from the water. The sky is mostly cloudy with a streak of blue running through it.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Didn't mean to take a 6mo break from this #craft project, but I had a particularly busy summer! Picked this up again last Friday and we are at 127/900 I believe :) Really love how it's turning out ❤️ #knitsky

A work in progress photo of a scarf with a dragon motif.

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SOVKA ✶ @monstersovka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#craft update ❤️ I believe I started this nearly two years ago for my MIL, and at my husband's suggestion I've finally finished it for her birthday this year 🌻 She had loved mine, so I'm very glad to make one for her. Fun fact: this pattern is what started my crochet > knitting pipeline 🧶

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

XBOX and KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS Expand Partnership to Publish PHYSINT news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

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Munkao @munkao.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gossip-godlings: Extroverted deities so addicted to human drama, they pivoted to govern over secrets, scandals and stories.

Southeast Asian Fantasy: 4 adventurers hover over a bronze statue, statue is talking to them.
Text below: "So I told her, I said, girl, these offerings ain't nowhere near enough to tell you where the ruby is." - Gossip-godling Sanba.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Long time no #craft update, but it's been a very busy and very social summer! I started this before summer, but I haven't been able to dig in until recently. This photo is outdated as well - the sleeves are separated and I'm working on the torso decreases now.

A navy and white knitted sweater in progress. Crescent moons and swords encircle the neckline.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

somehow I'm not particularly jazzed by all the Switch 2 game offers. I was talking with my dnd group about it and I think the only thing that would truly make me cave is if Twilight Princess got the OoT remake treatment tbh 🤔

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mike Mignola, “The Inspired” (2026).

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I improved this guy a little

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The itch to stream has been strong lately. Hoping that things can settle enough for me to return around the end of the month!! There's so much I want to play with y'all still!!

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

after what feels like decades I'm finally visiting my closest SoCal friends in a few months!! my husband is in the wedding party of a close friend of theirs, and the wedding is in a popular location in SoCal, so we've managed to squeeze some time for it into our trip 🥹🥹🥹

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I feel like having Hobbies is like a 6-slot maximum and boy life is tricky when you're fully equipped 😳 my brain is firing on all cylinders rotating between them 💀

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virgil (school hiatus) 🫆🔮💫 @vigilnaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

daily reminder ✨

DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD. instead ask: is it SINCERE, is it CATHARTIC, was it FUN TO MAKE, is it MADE BY ME, and don’t forget to stay silly

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André Guindi 🪷👹🪷 @andreguindi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

this one is especially egregious

A single panel comic hand drawn illustration of Barret Wallace from FF7 gesturing disgustedly to a screenshot from nvidia's atrocious DLSS 5 slop that leaked, showing a photo of what was once Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is now a yassified Al model standing in a flatly lit Instagram environment. Barret's text box reads "We're killin' the planet for THIS shit?"

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Tonight was my DND group's last (main campaign) game for a month as one will be out of the country 🥲 it will be the longest break we have taken from the main campaign since we started in the spring of last year!! I think the "habit" of setting aside the time really made a difference.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 29/08/2026

Digital illustration with a traditional appearance with iridescent coloring. The setting is Clocktown, from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. A low view of Link stepping away cautiously while looking up past the clocktower at the massive and menacing moon that will soon crash down on Termina.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm actually so fucking sad 😭😭😭

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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I decided to try committing to reading digitally~2 weeks ago, and I have flown through ~10 books so far. My current 5/5 star books are The Blacktongue Thief + The Daughters' War by Christopher Buehlman (since TBT and TDW were on Kindle Unlimited, I smashed through them) - anyone else read them?

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

this was supposed to be torture, but our topeka improvisers made it neary impossible not to laugh. it takes very clever comedians to do "bad comedy" funnily. switching seats? going through a drive-thru? all their ideas. big ups to - for one day only - "your little dog too"

Sam takes a selfie with our makeshift Topeka improv group "Your Little Dog Too" on the set of Game Changer - What's the Catch: Tamiah Coffee, CJ Williams-Herrera, Dylan Hart, West Kester, and Isaac Bird.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I JUST beat TW3 for the first time like a month ago LOL but, I did not play the DLC......

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 25/08/2026

‘BACKROOMS’ will release on HBO Max on September 25. See which other movies are coming soon to HBO Max: bit.ly/HBOAug26

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

more relevant information of what I've been up to: lots of working, but I've become close with my coworkers that we are Friends now that do stuff outside of work often. For example, we're carpooling to work at our sister clinic tomorrow then heading into the woods in the evening for a lesbian rave.

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 21/08/2026

I love when fantasy series have a dude called something like Stephen the All-Seeing, Keeper of the Demon Sword, hero of the Volcano Age. But in some tiny village, he's known as Bees Steve, that weird guy who loves beekeeping. The more uppercase titles the legend has, the funnier the contrast is.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've gotten into the habit of stretching with maybe some light exercise before bed and I feel like it helps me sleep much much better. I miss the times when I would do yoga in the mornings, but that stopped when I got a day job 😂

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Being able to play D&D and have a crochet circle in Mistria is really pushing this game to my top of all time tbh

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

anyways my dnd group is coming to visit this weekend and im really really excited to play dnd in person and cook and hike and just focus on having fun for days and days :)))

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

who the hell is in charge of designing these

The Supergirl promo cup. It is meant to mimic the torso of Supergirl, where the tall cup has the costume covered in a tan coat. However, the color of the jacket (at least in the lighting of the photo) unfortunately also very strongly reads as flesh-toned, so the back of the jacket with the hood is very suggestive of a penis.

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My activity online has diminished significantly these past few months because I've been so focused on 1) my DND campaign & 2) my job! I've worked hard enough that I've progressed to the maximum level technician already :)))

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I thought I posted this! I apparently haven't uploaded anything about it but I took a bit of a break recently... anyways, this is my first steeked project and I think I quite like the technique even though it's a little intimidating 😳 Made with Wool of the Andes Bulky on 8mm needles 💖

A dark gray and red sweater laid on a foam mat by Steph's cat, Persephone.

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

These armour studies have been great for getting me out of a creative funk! All done on Procreate @procreate on the iPad Pro

A collection of realistic armour studies mixed with linework illustration

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steph🫀(she/they)🌿 @stephstone.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My responsibilities at work have ramped up a lot the past couple months at work (notified of my third raise already in my 6 months being here) but I'm hoping to have time to return to streaming soon!! I hope everyone has been enjoying their spring 💖

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