Andy Best
@andybest.bsky.social
Writer and musician. Current thing: fantasy novel Aertelis is live and 'wide', including all library services. UBL: https://books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
Blog: write.as/aertelis/
My stuff is at andrewbest.net
Blog: write.as/aertelis/
My stuff is at andrewbest.net
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Andy Best
@andybest.bsky.social
· Mar 14
Do you want a character-driven adventure echoing classic Sword & Sorcery film and TRPGs, but also the literary style, worldbuilding and themes of the New Wave writers like Moorcock and Le Guin?
I've got you covered. And it's wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky
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I've got you covered. And it's wide + available to libraries.
UBL: books2read.com/u/bz9BOE
#booksky
📚💙
Mr. Beast answers the question, what if the satirical movie idea of entertainment in a corporate hell future came true. Now all we need is Kristi Noem to film ICE raids as reality TV and we make it to Death Race/The Running Man.
January 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Mr. Beast answers the question, what if the satirical movie idea of entertainment in a corporate hell future came true. Now all we need is Kristi Noem to film ICE raids as reality TV and we make it to Death Race/The Running Man.
A thing: people who are incensed at an adaptation that strays from the book, but are really comparing it to their own *wild* head cannon.
January 8, 2026 at 3:26 PM
A thing: people who are incensed at an adaptation that strays from the book, but are really comparing it to their own *wild* head cannon.
Putting people out of work ceases to be a counter point to shuttering awful things if we provide basic food, clothing and housing to all who need it, which the world has the ability to do easily.
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Putting people out of work ceases to be a counter point to shuttering awful things if we provide basic food, clothing and housing to all who need it, which the world has the ability to do easily.
A 2016 promo image for the D&D podcast (Polymorph Self) with the style and characters as Stranger Things. Cast member Elaine Chow created it after seeing season 1.
(I was the DM on the podcast)
(I was the DM on the podcast)
January 7, 2026 at 11:16 PM
A 2016 promo image for the D&D podcast (Polymorph Self) with the style and characters as Stranger Things. Cast member Elaine Chow created it after seeing season 1.
(I was the DM on the podcast)
(I was the DM on the podcast)
Accidental 'album cover' shot from a session of the Polymorph Self D&D podcast around 2018, which I wrote and DM'd. It's an interesting story ...
January 7, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Accidental 'album cover' shot from a session of the Polymorph Self D&D podcast around 2018, which I wrote and DM'd. It's an interesting story ...
okay, back to work on my fantasy books, where I continue the New Wave style made famous by writers like Le Guin, Moorcock, and outsider art like Tanith Lee's stuff.
current work in pinned post.
current work in pinned post.
January 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
okay, back to work on my fantasy books, where I continue the New Wave style made famous by writers like Le Guin, Moorcock, and outsider art like Tanith Lee's stuff.
current work in pinned post.
current work in pinned post.
the meme that is never out of date
January 7, 2026 at 6:26 AM
the meme that is never out of date
Why are ppl doing weird replies on a short-form, context-collapsed parasocial platform?
- Bsky complainers lately
- Bsky complainers lately
January 7, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Why are ppl doing weird replies on a short-form, context-collapsed parasocial platform?
- Bsky complainers lately
- Bsky complainers lately
Yup. Billions of dollars get thrown down the toilet monthly to prop up GPT apps, while artists struggle for resources and millions of people have no healthcare. We're already living in the 70s/80s scifi vision of a dystopia.
Man, what the fuck? 🥲
People will finance slop, but not a sick ass vampire movie from one of the best modern horror filmmakers...
People will finance slop, but not a sick ass vampire movie from one of the best modern horror filmmakers...
Panos Cosmatos' ‘Flesh of the Gods’ Still Can't Secure the Money to Shoot, Despite A-List Cast — World of Reel
Kristen Stewart, Oscar Isaac, and Elizabeth Olsen are attached to star in “Flesh of the Gods,” a vampire thriller to be directed by Panos Cosmatos (“Mandy”).
www.worldofreel.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Yup. Billions of dollars get thrown down the toilet monthly to prop up GPT apps, while artists struggle for resources and millions of people have no healthcare. We're already living in the 70s/80s scifi vision of a dystopia.
Reposted by Andy Best
Also , fun fact, my 15 year Twitter account was perma banned for sharing a YT music video, a day after Musk made a new rule banning embedded video from sites with advertising. I didn't bother appealing it, just moved on from that hellsite.
January 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Also , fun fact, my 15 year Twitter account was perma banned for sharing a YT music video, a day after Musk made a new rule banning embedded video from sites with advertising. I didn't bother appealing it, just moved on from that hellsite.
Oh, the Gunship music video I shared is labelled. That's fine, but first time I have had that on a thing I posted, the video is animated and harmless but there's a bunch of cartoon core and vampire fighting.
January 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Oh, the Gunship music video I shared is labelled. That's fine, but first time I have had that on a thing I posted, the video is animated and harmless but there's a bunch of cartoon core and vampire fighting.
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels In honor of Music Videos, please share one of your favorite music videos.
Dark All Day is Gen X mana from heaven.
Dark All Day is Gen X mana from heaven.
January 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels In honor of Music Videos, please share one of your favorite music videos.
Dark All Day is Gen X mana from heaven.
Dark All Day is Gen X mana from heaven.
Reposted by Andy Best
Streamers and fake journos who lauded Trump as anti-Imperialist are the most historically illiterate, laughable oxygen thieves to have existed.
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Streamers and fake journos who lauded Trump as anti-Imperialist are the most historically illiterate, laughable oxygen thieves to have existed.
Reposted by Andy Best
this is making such a mockery of the FIFA peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM
this is making such a mockery of the FIFA peace prize
See also: Trump orders US military to do thing it has done continuously since WW2. They literally have a school for training replacement leaders and would be junta, the former 'School of the Americas.'
January 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
See also: Trump orders US military to do thing it has done continuously since WW2. They literally have a school for training replacement leaders and would be junta, the former 'School of the Americas.'
Finally, Venezuela's oil has been liberated.
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Finally, Venezuela's oil has been liberated.
One unintuitive part of life, which I know as a photosensitive person, is that dark mode is worse for your eyes. The overall darkness opens up your pupils and then the screen text shines bright light into them. I get instant glare and a long text afterimage/pain.
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
One unintuitive part of life, which I know as a photosensitive person, is that dark mode is worse for your eyes. The overall darkness opens up your pupils and then the screen text shines bright light into them. I get instant glare and a long text afterimage/pain.
The nazi's site, home to the nazi's AI, has a current viral use as history's most efficient creator and spreader of CSAM, and tons of you are still like 'but I need to keep my account there,' as well as posting screens from there. It only dies when no one looks at it.
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
The nazi's site, home to the nazi's AI, has a current viral use as history's most efficient creator and spreader of CSAM, and tons of you are still like 'but I need to keep my account there,' as well as posting screens from there. It only dies when no one looks at it.
Reposted by Andy Best
The Dispossessed by LeGuin.
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The Dispossessed by LeGuin.
Going into 2026. Actually Ratcatcher 2, as portrayed in that one film only, is my most related to superhero character, as she is constantly in need of a nap and she loves animals.
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Going into 2026. Actually Ratcatcher 2, as portrayed in that one film only, is my most related to superhero character, as she is constantly in need of a nap and she loves animals.
Happy New Year. If you are a writer and you have ever finished that first full length draft and got it to place where it's finished: then you have succeeded, you've made it. So now get creative, craft and enjoy yourself. Everything else is a lottery.
December 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy New Year. If you are a writer and you have ever finished that first full length draft and got it to place where it's finished: then you have succeeded, you've made it. So now get creative, craft and enjoy yourself. Everything else is a lottery.
Even 80s B-Fantasy looked better than Netflix slop visuals. Also, follow @dungeonlust.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Even 80s B-Fantasy looked better than Netflix slop visuals. Also, follow @dungeonlust.com
Free SFF books. Discover a new writer, discover Smashwords. Do all the stuff we talk about when annoyed with corpo overlords and platforms, but, you know, actually do it.
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
My entire library of ebooks are COMPLETELY FREE right now for the Smashword sale! That's the first FIVE books in my ongoing scifi/fantasy epic! Don't let this opportunity pass you by! #ebooks #sale #freebooks #bookseries
My entire library of ebooks are COMPLETELY FREE right now for the Smashword sale! That's the first FIVE books in my ongoing scifi/fantasy epic! Don't let this opportunity pass you by! #ebooks #sale #freebooks #bookseries
December 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Free SFF books. Discover a new writer, discover Smashwords. Do all the stuff we talk about when annoyed with corpo overlords and platforms, but, you know, actually do it.