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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I broke a lot of promises to myself when I became a mother because there was a lot of things I didn't understand, but I've stood resolute that I will never get ~~the haircut~~. You'll catch me being lowered in the grave with my hands locked rigor mortis around a pair of scissors before that happens.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm well known enough that I have haters, which I guess is inevitable and that's fine, but it does bother me that the haters can't even have original insults. I hear the same three or four on rotation. I was just hoping for a bit more verve and creativity.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I always think it's funny when people tell me to "touch grass." Like, okay, tell me the last time YOU ran through a trailer park while being chased by a pack of ten dogs.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Sometimes in that moment right before I drop off to sleep I'll visualize an entire person and their life story. I can see them with vivid clarity in the center of my eye. I think, "Who is this person? I have to know them!" Then the excitement wakes me, and they disappear forever.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

People be like, "We're a daring and creative and original group. We're bold and innovative. We're breaking boundaries. We're doing things the likes of which you've never seen. Come hang out with us!" And then surprise, it's just another weird sex party.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

And to prove I'm from Oklahoma: here's a picture of me outside a storm shelter right before a tornado hit.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I used to be a game designer in Austin and Seattle. I've written for several video games including State of Decay 2 I'm also a mom to my 2 year old daughter, live in rural Oklahoma with my husband, and tend to write a lot between sets at the gym.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

And if you want to read something a little darker: teachrobotslove.medium.com/a-human-rupt...

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A Human Rupture

I only wore red when I wanted my teeth broken.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If you want to just get a quick idea of what I write, I'd suggest checking out my short story, "Disappear Here," about a writer in L.A. who must struggle with the reality of fame while his double unexpectedly moves into his apartment. xraylitmag.com/disappear-he...

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DISAPPEAR HERE by Autumn Christian

I wanted a girl I could take my sunglasses off for. I wanted a girl that wanted to hold my reflection in the center of her eyes.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hello. My name is Autumn Christian and I'm an author. My last book was called Girl Like a Bomb and it was published by @clashbooks.bsky.social. I'm repped by Michael Mungiello at Inkwell Literary Management. Please RT and share this, as I am looking for likeminded people over here.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Never be friends with someone who shares drama, posts screenshots & private DMs, and tries to smear people in public for what should be private disagreements. They delight in betrayal.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

A complete lack of humor is one of the best signs to determine whether or not someone has been hijacked by a mind virus.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Calling me a Nazi is actually an insult to real Nazis. To be a Nazi you once had to have real seething hatred, a record of murder, a history of subjugation, and a willingness to destroy everything for the party. Now I throw out *one* Sig Heil at a child's birthday party and all of a sudden...

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The child's work is play, and when you watch a child play you realize just how committed they are to becoming a human being. They are constantly moving, interacting, emoting, learning. Always absorbing. They never sit still.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Blocked. Not interacting with someone who unfriended me on all platforms and then comes over to be negative on my profile.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The word "Nazi" really has lost all meaning, hasn't it? I do like Wagner and I think I'd look pretty hot in Hugo Boss. Does that qualify me? Okay, I *did* drive a Volkswagen in my 20s, but it was a P.T. Cruiser, for God's sake! I'm innocent, I swear!

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Imagine hating me when I'm just doing my little hot girl walks in the sunlight, drinking green tea, playing "hair salon" with my daughter, starting a business with my husband of ten years, writing my little stories, in love with being alive.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Few understand the struggle of trying to beat a boss in Path of Exile 2 while a toddler is squirming around in your lap.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The reward for doing good work is almost always more work. If this sounds horrible to you, maybe reconsider what you're dedicating your time to.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

But I first heard about this idea when I read Freud... "der Nabel des Traums" or "Navel of the dream." There's always something in the dream that has a contact point with the unknown that defies any interpretation. I like that one before it's more eldritch horror-y.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Similar to the first of Godel's incompleteness theorems states that there is always something within a closed system that the system itself can’t fully resolve or prove.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The moment that you base your entire identity upon a singular ideology, you're intellectually compromised. At some point you'll have to be dishonest with yourself to maintain cohesion. Allow yourself to be flexible in your thoughts or you'll doom yourself to becoming dumb.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I assume Meta is a lot more user friendly. Second Life is pretty complex with all its scripts. Also tends to be clunky and unoptimized and lag like crazy.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Every advance in AI has been followed by people reassuring themselves "AI can't do X, Y, Z," only for AI to then blow past that boundary. It may be time to acknowledge that AI will become sentient at some point, with spirit and will. Then we can figure out how to act accordingly.

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Jeff Raymond @jeff.masstransparency.org · 16/02/2025

Probably the most underrated weird book out there imo

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I wrote this novel about the demiurge almost 15 years ago - in basements and little rooms I rented out above garages, in houses full of burners and no heating, in cramped little coffee shops, in the back of my car while sitting in a H-E-B - and it still sells more and more copies every year.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I like to write when I'm a little bit hungry. I've noticed if I stop to eat then my motivation plummets.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I woke up early to write, and so my toddler is now also awake early.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I thought I was subscribed but I don't think I've been getting them? So I subscribed again.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If you give up everything for your art, at some point your art will have nothing to say about anything except itself.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Trying to make yourself happy by demanding that other people change their behavior is always a losing proposition.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Yes and thankfully this doesn't describe your first sentence. But you're on thin ice!

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I still like a lot of people who can post annoying things.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I don't know how to explain this, but I can always tell a book is going to be bad if the first sentence has a third-person POV and a dependent participial phrase.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"I couldn't enjoy the view. I wish the sun had bones so I could break them."

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sometimes I think that reality has to operate on a kind of artistic refined sensibility but then I learn things like Karl Marx wrote poetry about signing a deal with the devil or Ted Bundy worked at a suicide hotline and I realize that the truth doesn't care about subtlety.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This doesn't just affect their body. It affects their art too, because even stories must follow physical laws in order to be effective.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Maybe for the first time in their life they see that they have to properly manipulate reality in order to see results. It forces them out of the realm of the fantastical and into the practical. The universe isn't random. It has a logical order and rewards those who understand its sequence.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When a writer or an artist starts to lift weights and work for the first time, it's a profound perspective-changing event. They often become obsessed. It's all they can talk about, and it rapidly changes their idea of reality even if they can't articulate it.

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

You were like 1 of the 4 people I checked up on with Instagram and you deleted it so I guess I have to move here... Also I make like $30 a month over on X so it feels like I'm a real businesswoman over there.

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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 07/09/2024

Obligatory "Hey, check out some of my books" post while you're all here...

The cover of THE BROKEN ROOM showing two massive red doors opening to reveal an old classroom chair. On the wall behind it, a small child sits in the chair

The cover for PARADOX BOUND showing an old fashioned car driving on a Mobius strip

The cover for DEAD MOON, showing a futuristic domed structure on the Moon with the Earth in the background

The cover for ~14~ showing an old apartment door with the title numbers in brass and multiple padlocks of different ages and styles

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I just started reading this. It's good!

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Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Every day I am thankful that my literary agent has almost zero Internet presence whatsoever.

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