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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 4h

That moment when you realize that an entire scene is just Completely Fucking Borked.

An LibreOffice comment reading "Alright, so, here's the fucking problem I've created."

Haven't filled this out yet, obviously.

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 4h

Now Playing: Rush - Grace Under Pressure

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 5h

I made some odd calls with the world building on the first pass through this book...and then some that are going to require me to do heavier research than I'm used to if I'm going to keep swinging as high as I am.

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Now Playing: Rush - Signals Finished one scene, onto the next.

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 6h

He may have made a lot of bad movies for the sake of making money, but the man is still an artist. Even in the worst movies, the man showed up for work. I am still bewildered by Left Behind though. I thought for certain that Nic Cage in a movie about the biblical rapture would have been nuts.

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 7h

Now Playing: Rush - Different Stages (Disc 3) Back to the edit. And maybe some art and programming. I don’t know. The edit has been reminding me of My Infinite Well of Authorial Failings for the last few days and progress has gotten slow.

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 7h

Perfectly said. The third act of Until the End of the World came to mind while watching your clip, depicting people who were so enamored with their own memories and dreams that they became addicted to a machine that fed those sensations to them until they became sick from withdrawal without it.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 9h

"why can you not just enjoy AI art?"

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 11h

Precisely. The customer service chatbot that I have to tell to fuck off and delete itself does not care that I said any of that. It just gets a human into the chat after that. I think. Probably.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 11h

I might need this as a poster in my office @catsynthspace.bsky.social

a cat version of the open of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but in stead of apes it's cat and instead of the obelisk, it's a synthesizer

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 12h

I’m looking at my two game projects and realizing that my plans to sell my weird ass games are not the dumbest and in the industry.

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 13h

As the saying goes, a fool and his money are easily parted. And it sounds like this dude is going for record.

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William B Hell @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have been getting fliers every single day telling me that the democratic senate candidate is a socialist communist terrorist or some word salad nonsense. I’ve received not a single flier from her. They’re spending a fucking fortune this time around.

My daughter has decided that I have to play Kingdom Hearts. A lot of Kingdom Hearts. Toooooooo much Kingdom Hearts.

I was not prepared for that quest. Not in the slightest. Also, collecting his weapons was a constant source of purely stupid joy. Weird game, Shadow Hearts 2.

Between the upcoming election, the ongoing untethered insanity coming from the White House, and the non-stop barrage of AI hell, it’s near-fucking-impossible keep my focus on my artistic efforts. I’m trying. I’m doing it. But fuck, I am just overwhelmed at the moment.

Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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I need to add this to my list of things to not watch until after a certain event occurs

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Veronica Bailey (she/her) @empheliath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

QRP with your moon art 🌕 #art #watercolor #moon #fox

A watercolor painting of a red fox sitting in the snow with its back to the viewer. There is a very large moon just at the horizon, and the sky is dark blue and filled with stars.

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Anyway. This is still in progress, I have some layers hidden that I'm not thrilled with, but I'm posting it anyway because why the hell not. A small promise to myself that I'm still on my way to this goal.

A pixel art moon with text reading "An Observation from Glass Moon Games."

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Detaching this from the thread going around because those artists deserve better than to get tied to my bullshit.

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I'd very much like for you to be wrong. I'd also like to be wrong that they'd probably do it before the election if they did.

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Just as impressive are the changes they would make to songs that did make it to live albums. This album has a recording of Cinderella Man where they push the tempo a bit and it's fucking electrifying. The bass solo break in Closer to the Heart...too much to mention.

Now Playing: Rush - Different Stages

I, too, laughed way too hard at that.

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Watched Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple. As a result, I will be listening to nothing but Rush for an undetermined period of time.

Seventeen comments in three pages. I have left the semi-cozy realm of second/third draft editing, and entered the cold harsh waste land of first draft. … Choosing to think that this is evidence that I am capable of editing my own writing to improve it, and not that I am a total hack.

Yep, fully in the part of the book that has never been edited.

Two comments for a single sentence. Yes, it was that bad.

"I kinda hate the phrasing. It’s just a weak damn thing.

Oh. Oh. Sweet Christ, what happened when I put this sentence on the page?"

Now Playing: Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Two cats have chosen me as furniture tonight.

One orange Jones and a puff of smoke named Pumpkin.

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Throwback to when I made a Simpsons take on Skinamarink by editing backgrounds from the show

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Make art. Make bad art. Learn. Get better. Fuck AI.

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Thirty more pages marked up for changes. Lots and lots of changes to be made in those thirty pages.

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Now Playing: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (Disc 4, Live 1969)

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Hey, I got to say something sorta nice to myself in the comments again.

A LibreOffice editing comment reading "Tagging this to say that I am glad that I wrote it like this. It ties nicely into some of the chapter 2 stuff, and maybe that means I am not entirely bad at writing things!"

Same moon, half the pixels. Actually going to go work on my book now. I still have to figure out what to do with the rest of this thing.

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I think I figured it out. I made a brush out of the exact pattern I'm erasing in. That said, I'm not sure if it's faster.

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If anyone can fill me on the fastest way to erase strips of pixels out of this thing in rows rather than pixel by pixel, please do tell. Otherwise, I will be erasing pixels off of this moon for hours.

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It's an okay start. Back to book editing because I need to mull this over and obsesses about what I don't like about it for a few days.

A moon and clouds drawn in sepiatone. Illustrated using Aesprite. Text cut from image.

This is utterly gorgeous, and I have to also thank you for inspiring how I might draw some of the lunar art that I have been thinking about for weeks.

Tonight's creative endeavors will be: --Illustrating a "studio" splash for my games. --Putting another chapter or two worth of editing notes into the manuscript. I slept more today, but fuuuuck am I still not 100% ready for more intense revisions tonight.

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Now Playing: Dream Theater - Live Scenes from New York (disc 2/3) Work work work work work. I am ready to sleep tomorrow and tomorrow night. Bring it to me.

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