John Markley
@johnmarkley.bsky.social
Writer. Streamer. Science fiction in @analogsf.bsky.social and @escapepod.org. Has been in an actual fistfight over River City Ransom
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There's also the not-terribly-well-hidden revulsion towards autists and things that smack of us that tends to drip off the invective against worldbuilding and people who like it, but Bluesky will never, EVER be ready for that conversation.
I am *bone-weary* of peers who denigrate fellow writers who have spent plenty of time and effort on world-building/lore, claiming such creativity is inferior to storytelling. They do so out of jealousy because their own world-building, usually, is *horribly* mid.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
There's also the not-terribly-well-hidden revulsion towards autists and things that smack of us that tends to drip off the invective against worldbuilding and people who like it, but Bluesky will never, EVER be ready for that conversation.
Publicly announcing that you've pressured an author you publish into give up the royalties you owe him so that you can redirect them to recipients of your own choosing SHOULD be absolute suicide for a publisher. What's sad is that it probably won't be.
October 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Publicly announcing that you've pressured an author you publish into give up the royalties you owe him so that you can redirect them to recipients of your own choosing SHOULD be absolute suicide for a publisher. What's sad is that it probably won't be.
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Starting in 2008, I first started talking about my experience as a survivor of a female predator. I switched from national activism to volunteer advocacy to paid advocacy as a career. Incompetent, derailing online activists do so much real-world harm to survivors looking for help and community.
September 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Starting in 2008, I first started talking about my experience as a survivor of a female predator. I switched from national activism to volunteer advocacy to paid advocacy as a career. Incompetent, derailing online activists do so much real-world harm to survivors looking for help and community.
Remarkable number of anti-zionists on Bluesky are very insistent that the Boulder attack was not anti-semitic, just anti-zionist, and it's really weird watching so many people saying, "No, this maniac setting the elderly on fire DOES represent us, how dare you suggest he doesn't."
June 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Remarkable number of anti-zionists on Bluesky are very insistent that the Boulder attack was not anti-semitic, just anti-zionist, and it's really weird watching so many people saying, "No, this maniac setting the elderly on fire DOES represent us, how dare you suggest he doesn't."
Minor optional boss fight in a cave somewhere: Exists
Clair Obscur Expedition 33:
Clair Obscur Expedition 33:
May 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Minor optional boss fight in a cave somewhere: Exists
Clair Obscur Expedition 33:
Clair Obscur Expedition 33:
Anybody else encounter issues with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 freezing and crashing after you've been playing 3-4 hours?
May 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Anybody else encounter issues with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 freezing and crashing after you've been playing 3-4 hours?
Very sad to hear that Peter David has passed away. When I was a kid I loved Star Trek novels and his were always my favorites. Rest in peace :'(
May 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Very sad to hear that Peter David has passed away. When I was a kid I loved Star Trek novels and his were always my favorites. Rest in peace :'(
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It's kind of a shame M. John Harrison did that revolting "scifi worldbuilding is fascist" Clomping Foot of Nerdism essay so many years ago, if he'd dropped it now instead the Empathetic Advocate for Social Justice Who Thinks Autists Are Creepy and Evil crowd would lap it up.
May 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM
It's kind of a shame M. John Harrison did that revolting "scifi worldbuilding is fascist" Clomping Foot of Nerdism essay so many years ago, if he'd dropped it now instead the Empathetic Advocate for Social Justice Who Thinks Autists Are Creepy and Evil crowd would lap it up.
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Autistic people behaving autisticly - e.g trying to figure out the nuts and bolts of how a fictional world works- is kinda what you signed up for when you started writing in a medium with a disproportionately autistic audience.
If you're over the age of ten and arguing how powerful or not powerful a character is you might be reading comics wrong.
May 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Autistic people behaving autisticly - e.g trying to figure out the nuts and bolts of how a fictional world works- is kinda what you signed up for when you started writing in a medium with a disproportionately autistic audience.
Clair Obscur tip for those struggling: Ignore "dodging is easier than blocking." The window for blocking may be shorter, but it's far more legible- block just before you're hit- than dodging, which can take some frustrating guesswork and feel arbitrary.
May 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Clair Obscur tip for those struggling: Ignore "dodging is easier than blocking." The window for blocking may be shorter, but it's far more legible- block just before you're hit- than dodging, which can take some frustrating guesswork and feel arbitrary.
The world contains more cruelty and evil than is visible on a surface glance, but also more good. Don't abandon hope in the latter.
If you’re over 30, quote this with some life advice 🤌🏼
May 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The world contains more cruelty and evil than is visible on a surface glance, but also more good. Don't abandon hope in the latter.
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It's my Bday today!
Doing a free art post. Will randomly select from comments what I'd like to draw for yall.
♡comment bellow with what you want drawn.♡
♡lasts from 11-12♡
Art in my cute style!
Here are examples
Doing a free art post. Will randomly select from comments what I'd like to draw for yall.
♡comment bellow with what you want drawn.♡
♡lasts from 11-12♡
Art in my cute style!
Here are examples
May 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It's my Bday today!
Doing a free art post. Will randomly select from comments what I'd like to draw for yall.
♡comment bellow with what you want drawn.♡
♡lasts from 11-12♡
Art in my cute style!
Here are examples
Doing a free art post. Will randomly select from comments what I'd like to draw for yall.
♡comment bellow with what you want drawn.♡
♡lasts from 11-12♡
Art in my cute style!
Here are examples
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The FFR-41MR from Yukikaze, fully rendered.
#art by Kwai-Meng Leong.
www.artstation.com/artwork/oJBnAJ
#art by Kwai-Meng Leong.
www.artstation.com/artwork/oJBnAJ
May 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The FFR-41MR from Yukikaze, fully rendered.
#art by Kwai-Meng Leong.
www.artstation.com/artwork/oJBnAJ
#art by Kwai-Meng Leong.
www.artstation.com/artwork/oJBnAJ
Communism can't actually produce the prosperity needed for the former, so to justify itself it resorted to the idea that what it CAN provide- impoverishment- is actually good.
how did fully automated gay space communism lose to degrowth “all technological developments are bad” personal consumption minimization communism
May 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Communism can't actually produce the prosperity needed for the former, so to justify itself it resorted to the idea that what it CAN provide- impoverishment- is actually good.
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every time i hear the phrase "tech bro" as our society is mercilessly ripped apart, possibly permanently, by right-wing elites with philosophy degrees and crunchy antivaxxers who don't believe in science, i go just a little bit more insane
May 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
every time i hear the phrase "tech bro" as our society is mercilessly ripped apart, possibly permanently, by right-wing elites with philosophy degrees and crunchy antivaxxers who don't believe in science, i go just a little bit more insane
People who've spent the last decade telling themselves that their loathing of nerds, autistics, and the socially awkward is actually a sign of how progressive and empathetic they are in shambles
May 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
People who've spent the last decade telling themselves that their loathing of nerds, autistics, and the socially awkward is actually a sign of how progressive and empathetic they are in shambles
Last Jedi discourse is always revolting because it brings out the people who think abusing and almost murdering a teenage boy is some sort of minor foible that makes the perpetrator more relatable and sympathetic.
May 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Last Jedi discourse is always revolting because it brings out the people who think abusing and almost murdering a teenage boy is some sort of minor foible that makes the perpetrator more relatable and sympathetic.
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"Coomed yuri" had me in fucking tears
April 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"Coomed yuri" had me in fucking tears
Last saturday during our Cursed Halo stream I told my friend @vieventar.bsky.social that they were bringing back Marathon as an extraction shooter and I could literally hear his soul die in the discord call
April 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Last saturday during our Cursed Halo stream I told my friend @vieventar.bsky.social that they were bringing back Marathon as an extraction shooter and I could literally hear his soul die in the discord call
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Ova Magica is truly a loving game.
I had some blob ideas.
I might draw more tomorrow.
I had some blob ideas.
I might draw more tomorrow.
March 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ova Magica is truly a loving game.
I had some blob ideas.
I might draw more tomorrow.
I had some blob ideas.
I might draw more tomorrow.
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I spend a lot of dev time for the cross-breeding feature in my game Ova Magica.
Hard work, but it's one of the features players enjoy most. And i'm very proud of it💪
Here are some possible blobs 💚 + a lot more in comments⏬
#indiegame #JRPG #creaturecollecting #gamedev
Hard work, but it's one of the features players enjoy most. And i'm very proud of it💪
Here are some possible blobs 💚 + a lot more in comments⏬
#indiegame #JRPG #creaturecollecting #gamedev
March 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I spend a lot of dev time for the cross-breeding feature in my game Ova Magica.
Hard work, but it's one of the features players enjoy most. And i'm very proud of it💪
Here are some possible blobs 💚 + a lot more in comments⏬
#indiegame #JRPG #creaturecollecting #gamedev
Hard work, but it's one of the features players enjoy most. And i'm very proud of it💪
Here are some possible blobs 💚 + a lot more in comments⏬
#indiegame #JRPG #creaturecollecting #gamedev