Steen Comer (oom bop oom bop bop)
@mediapathic.bsky.social
Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Chicago Manual of Style enjoyer; sword swinger. Recreational taxonomist.
"Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear
#sf
"Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear
#sf
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Disney and sora is a perfect example of the two feeding off each other. Filmmaking as crude puppeteering, a child making two favorite dolls kiss. If you think of movies as anything more, this holds no appeal. I want to see professionals doing their thing, not Goofy making out with Ironman.
January 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Disney and sora is a perfect example of the two feeding off each other. Filmmaking as crude puppeteering, a child making two favorite dolls kiss. If you think of movies as anything more, this holds no appeal. I want to see professionals doing their thing, not Goofy making out with Ironman.
Art And Strategy
There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve.
If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel.
Just. Keep. Writing.
If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel.
Just. Keep. Writing.
January 2, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Art And Strategy
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when im forging the thesis: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
when it inevitably incubates the antithesis: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
when it inevitably incubates the antithesis: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
September 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
when im forging the thesis: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
when it inevitably incubates the antithesis: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
when it inevitably incubates the antithesis: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
I would probably bring back the golden age of piracy practice of swearing oaths over an axe. HOWEVER the idea of swearing in to any government office over a copy of Illuminatus! is pretty hilarious.
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 4:36 AM
I would probably bring back the golden age of piracy practice of swearing oaths over an axe. HOWEVER the idea of swearing in to any government office over a copy of Illuminatus! is pretty hilarious.
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If you ever wondered what love looks like, it looks like a man who just triumphed in one of the most difficult political battles on the planet—steps from receiving the prize & power for which he fought & the accolades he deserves—checking that his wife is descending the stairs safely in those heels.
January 1, 2026 at 9:31 PM
If you ever wondered what love looks like, it looks like a man who just triumphed in one of the most difficult political battles on the planet—steps from receiving the prize & power for which he fought & the accolades he deserves—checking that his wife is descending the stairs safely in those heels.
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Hey, we saw you from across the political divide and we dig your vibe. Can we entice you into more affordable housing?
January 2, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Hey, we saw you from across the political divide and we dig your vibe. Can we entice you into more affordable housing?
Props to the PG&E tech I just spoke with who took one look at me and clocked me as the kind of person he could say "sequential realignment based on thermal imaging" to.
January 2, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Props to the PG&E tech I just spoke with who took one look at me and clocked me as the kind of person he could say "sequential realignment based on thermal imaging" to.
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Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
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The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'
January 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'
We going Full Walpurgis (I.33) this year.
January 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM
We going Full Walpurgis (I.33) this year.
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A message for you all to carry through the year
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 AM
A message for you all to carry through the year
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January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Like everything the UAE does, it's technically incredible, and has no sense of pacing, dynamics, subtlety, or indeed any aesthetic beyond "impressive".
somehow it’s not surprising that the UAE just pulled off a drone show that is both the coolest and the most dystopian-future menacing that I’ve ever seen
www.youtube.com/live/S8g0lsl...
www.youtube.com/live/S8g0lsl...
New Year 2026 | Ras al-Khaimah in UAE attempts 'record-breaking fireworks and drone display'
YouTube video by Sky News
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January 1, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Like everything the UAE does, it's technically incredible, and has no sense of pacing, dynamics, subtlety, or indeed any aesthetic beyond "impressive".
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Welcome to 2026!
The Trollbreath submission queues are now wide open, and will remain open until October 31st. Short stories, poetry, and all types of non-fiction pitches are welcome.
This is our first year testing an "always open" policy, so please help support our work with a subscription:
The Trollbreath submission queues are now wide open, and will remain open until October 31st. Short stories, poetry, and all types of non-fiction pitches are welcome.
This is our first year testing an "always open" policy, so please help support our work with a subscription:
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January 1, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Welcome to 2026!
The Trollbreath submission queues are now wide open, and will remain open until October 31st. Short stories, poetry, and all types of non-fiction pitches are welcome.
This is our first year testing an "always open" policy, so please help support our work with a subscription:
The Trollbreath submission queues are now wide open, and will remain open until October 31st. Short stories, poetry, and all types of non-fiction pitches are welcome.
This is our first year testing an "always open" policy, so please help support our work with a subscription:
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do you think god lives in fear of her own creation entirely because she forgot to include a little lol in the post at the core of creation, above malkuth in the great tree
January 1, 2026 at 5:24 AM
do you think god lives in fear of her own creation entirely because she forgot to include a little lol in the post at the core of creation, above malkuth in the great tree
Having the day before NYE be four airports across three time zones really guarantees having no idea how or when to celebrate it.
January 1, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Having the day before NYE be four airports across three time zones really guarantees having no idea how or when to celebrate it.
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
@tadethompson.bsky.social hey, I just discovered this (via Joseph Matheny) and thought you should know about it: an interesting looking film about Mark Fisher closeandremote.vhx.tv
We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher is not a documentary. Less biography than collective memory-work, the project inhabits the gaps and glitches in cultural time where Fisher’s voice still resonate...
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January 1, 2026 at 2:52 AM
@tadethompson.bsky.social hey, I just discovered this (via Joseph Matheny) and thought you should know about it: an interesting looking film about Mark Fisher closeandremote.vhx.tv
New SFF writers! Apply for this if you can. It’s life changing and career defining, not to mention good for the soul.
Writers! How are your workshop applications coming?
I have good news and bad news…
The good news is that we have a STELLAR group of instructors this year! Fonda Lee is back this year after a break, joining Arkady Martine and Valerie Valdes, and new to the faculty: John Wiswell! FOUR amazing alumni!
I have good news and bad news…
The good news is that we have a STELLAR group of instructors this year! Fonda Lee is back this year after a break, joining Arkady Martine and Valerie Valdes, and new to the faculty: John Wiswell! FOUR amazing alumni!
January 1, 2026 at 1:53 AM
New SFF writers! Apply for this if you can. It’s life changing and career defining, not to mention good for the soul.
Not actually being enough of a jerk to respond to “happy new years” with “WHAT IS THIS GREGORIAN FOOFORAW?!”
January 1, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Not actually being enough of a jerk to respond to “happy new years” with “WHAT IS THIS GREGORIAN FOOFORAW?!”
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I am the Dronax I speak for the drones, which you must shoot not with guns but with phones. Of federal crimes I’m telling you there, as you keep on posting like “how very dare”.
January 1, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I am the Dronax I speak for the drones, which you must shoot not with guns but with phones. Of federal crimes I’m telling you there, as you keep on posting like “how very dare”.
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Top 10 of 2025 – No.9
🏛️⏳ @adapalmer.bsky.social tears apart “Golden Ages” like the Renaissance — vague, selective, and different depending on who you were and where you lived.
🔥 Still using the term uncritically? This episode is coming for you.
🎧 pod.fo/e/3401b1
#HistoryRage #Renaissance
🏛️⏳ @adapalmer.bsky.social tears apart “Golden Ages” like the Renaissance — vague, selective, and different depending on who you were and where you lived.
🔥 Still using the term uncritically? This episode is coming for you.
🎧 pod.fo/e/3401b1
#HistoryRage #Renaissance
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Top 10 of 2025 – No.9
🏛️⏳ @adapalmer.bsky.social tears apart “Golden Ages” like the Renaissance — vague, selective, and different depending on who you were and where you lived.
🔥 Still using the term uncritically? This episode is coming for you.
🎧 pod.fo/e/3401b1
#HistoryRage #Renaissance
🏛️⏳ @adapalmer.bsky.social tears apart “Golden Ages” like the Renaissance — vague, selective, and different depending on who you were and where you lived.
🔥 Still using the term uncritically? This episode is coming for you.
🎧 pod.fo/e/3401b1
#HistoryRage #Renaissance
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taught a slime mold heliocentrism and now it grows in concentric circles. an expression of reverence? who can say
January 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
taught a slime mold heliocentrism and now it grows in concentric circles. an expression of reverence? who can say
I’m apparently an intelligence agent operating under derp cover in occupied territory. Also I read a book about that.
December 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I’m apparently an intelligence agent operating under derp cover in occupied territory. Also I read a book about that.