Noah Chinn
@noahchinnbooks.com
Writer, Cartoonist, Gamer, Nerd. Here to have a good time and make you laugh. Visit my website at http://noahchinnbooks.com
I originally wrote "Ode to a d20" in England, but polished it up a bit for this comic (click to see the rest)
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January 10, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I originally wrote "Ode to a d20" in England, but polished it up a bit for this comic (click to see the rest)
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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another thing you can do is have the parent ask their preferred AI "how does AI check its facts"
January 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
another thing you can do is have the parent ask their preferred AI "how does AI check its facts"
Just like writers, you have "plotters" and "pantsers" ;)
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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January 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Just like writers, you have "plotters" and "pantsers" ;)
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
"Put on The Expanse, that'll shut him up."
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
December 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Put on The Expanse, that'll shut him up."
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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Money is zero-sum, actually. Unless we're just going to print more? Someone tell me, does that usually go well?
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Money is zero-sum, actually. Unless we're just going to print more? Someone tell me, does that usually go well?
As the Tournament turns into a War, Rebecca learns that there's a reason Moss is telling his story, and that it's not the kind of story she was expecting.
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
December 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As the Tournament turns into a War, Rebecca learns that there's a reason Moss is telling his story, and that it's not the kind of story she was expecting.
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
As the Tournament turns into a War, Rebecca learns that there's a reason Moss is telling his story, and that it's not the kind of story she was expecting.
fables.pro/a/series/...
#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
As the Tournament turns into a War, Rebecca learns that there's a reason Moss is telling his story, and that it's not the kind of story she was expecting.
fables.pro/a/series/...
#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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most attractive television character of all time
sorry, this is just the expanse appreciation thread now
sorry, this is just the expanse appreciation thread now
May 5, 2024 at 2:09 PM
most attractive television character of all time
sorry, this is just the expanse appreciation thread now
sorry, this is just the expanse appreciation thread now
I'm sure Ben sees himself as the gift that keeps on giving, too...
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December 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I'm sure Ben sees himself as the gift that keeps on giving, too...
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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“Write to the market.”
You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.
You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
“Write to the market.”
You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.
You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The Trump administration is censoring information. If you come across something before it’s censored, save it, download it, print it. Thank you to everyone preserving and sharing records, the censored Epstein files, and to Canada for helping us access Inside CECOT. Don’t let censorship win.
December 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The Trump administration is censoring information. If you come across something before it’s censored, save it, download it, print it. Thank you to everyone preserving and sharing records, the censored Epstein files, and to Canada for helping us access Inside CECOT. Don’t let censorship win.
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guess it is December so here is my single award-eligible thing this year. fuck AI slop, the baby food of fascism
New story from me @lightspeedmagazine.com, maybe the bleakest I've ever written. It's about:
-AI’s effect on teaching literature
-what literature can (& can't) actually teach us
-trans fatherhood
-the road to hell being paved with white saviorism
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tell...
-AI’s effect on teaching literature
-what literature can (& can't) actually teach us
-trans fatherhood
-the road to hell being paved with white saviorism
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tell...
Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness - Lightspeed Magazine
USER: this is a message for Milwaukee Elementary’s curator Jude Towers, I hope this is the right address. anyway thanks for the story you had RIGHTR generate for my 10th graders’ Empathy Week. it was ...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
guess it is December so here is my single award-eligible thing this year. fuck AI slop, the baby food of fascism
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This is the thing about the "shift" that led to the 2024 results. It was entirely fake. Our culture is determined by fake accounts operating within a blackbox algorithm. None of it is real, and I think we all feel that.
This cultural shift isn't even real.
It has been manufactured with social media.
They used fake accounts and bots to make the idea seem popular and a substantial chunk of the following is only there because they are sheep.
They created real support with fake support.
It has been manufactured with social media.
They used fake accounts and bots to make the idea seem popular and a substantial chunk of the following is only there because they are sheep.
They created real support with fake support.
December 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is the thing about the "shift" that led to the 2024 results. It was entirely fake. Our culture is determined by fake accounts operating within a blackbox algorithm. None of it is real, and I think we all feel that.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Saving the best for last! "The A.I. industry claims it wants to democratize creativity, but the real goal is dominance. It can seem inevitable that A.I. will rewrite the future of the arts...But the impacts of technological change are always shaped by human action." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion | The Starving Artist vs. A.I.: Guess Who Is Winning?
What A.I. imperils is not human creativity itself but the ability to make a living from creative endeavor.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Saving the best for last! "The A.I. industry claims it wants to democratize creativity, but the real goal is dominance. It can seem inevitable that A.I. will rewrite the future of the arts...But the impacts of technological change are always shaped by human action." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
The serial story Convictions continues! Aballa, Jenna, and Ema are making their final play to escape The Rock. But you can't plan for everything...
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#SF #scifi #sciencefiction #serial #convictions #writing #getlostsaga #noahchinnbooks #lostsouls #novel #getlost #spaceopera
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December 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The serial story Convictions continues! Aballa, Jenna, and Ema are making their final play to escape The Rock. But you can't plan for everything...
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#SF #scifi #sciencefiction #serial #convictions #writing #getlostsaga #noahchinnbooks #lostsouls #novel #getlost #spaceopera
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Also applies whenever a new playable character race comes out...
(The joke was initially supposed to be something positive that would have everyone rush out to see or get... but this was much more realistic ;) )
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(The joke was initially supposed to be something positive that would have everyone rush out to see or get... but this was much more realistic ;) )
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December 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Also applies whenever a new playable character race comes out...
(The joke was initially supposed to be something positive that would have everyone rush out to see or get... but this was much more realistic ;) )
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(The joke was initially supposed to be something positive that would have everyone rush out to see or get... but this was much more realistic ;) )
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To celebrate her 250th birthday, let's have a look at a time travel story about Jane Austen!
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#bookreview #books #fantasy #kodt #noahchinnbooks #offtheshelf #sciencefiction #scifi #sf #sff #janeausten #austen
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December 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
To celebrate her 250th birthday, let's have a look at a time travel story about Jane Austen!
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#bookreview #books #fantasy #kodt #noahchinnbooks #offtheshelf #sciencefiction #scifi #sf #sff #janeausten #austen
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Convictions, the serial story set in the Get Lost universe, continues! It's time to stop thinking about escaping The Rock, and actually do it!
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#SF #scifi #sciencefiction #serial #convictions #writing #getlostsaga #noahchinnbooks #lostsouls #novel #getlost #spaceopera
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December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Convictions, the serial story set in the Get Lost universe, continues! It's time to stop thinking about escaping The Rock, and actually do it!
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#SF #scifi #sciencefiction #serial #convictions #writing #getlostsaga #noahchinnbooks #lostsouls #novel #getlost #spaceopera
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This. AI isn't enabling learning, it's replacing it. It won't enhance creativity, it's supplanting it, using stolen regurgitated material. It's not providing more accurate search results, it's grabbing what it infers you want to know from multiple sources and spewing the combined hodgepodge for you.
Maybe it's because I learned musical instruments from a young age. Maybe it's because I'm a scientist by training. Maybe it's because I also do coding, but I struggle to understand how people don't get this:
In order to get good at something, you first have to suck at it. A LOT, in some cases. 2/4
In order to get good at something, you first have to suck at it. A LOT, in some cases. 2/4
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This. AI isn't enabling learning, it's replacing it. It won't enhance creativity, it's supplanting it, using stolen regurgitated material. It's not providing more accurate search results, it's grabbing what it infers you want to know from multiple sources and spewing the combined hodgepodge for you.
On the fourth day of the Tournament, everything changed. Check out the latest episode, Crossing the Rubicon, when a F.I.G.H.T. became a declaration of War.
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On the fourth day of the Tournament, everything changed. Check out the latest episode, Crossing the Rubicon, when a F.I.G.H.T. became a declaration of War.
fables.pro/a/series/...
#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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#webcomic #rpg #kodt #roleplaying #fantasy #SF #scifi #fuzzyknights #fables #comic
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so some AI mark made that same joke about how "AI purists shun everything but parchment and quills" and I shot back, "If all *I* had was parchment and quills, I could write a novel using them. You can't."
And I kinda feel like doing it now? okay with a fountain pen, but come on
And I kinda feel like doing it now? okay with a fountain pen, but come on
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
so some AI mark made that same joke about how "AI purists shun everything but parchment and quills" and I shot back, "If all *I* had was parchment and quills, I could write a novel using them. You can't."
And I kinda feel like doing it now? okay with a fountain pen, but come on
And I kinda feel like doing it now? okay with a fountain pen, but come on