Set Sytes
@setsytes.bsky.social
Piratical author & purveyor of all things fantastical, dark & weird (and silly).
India Muerte pirate fantasy. The Fifth Place weird west. How Not to Kill Yourself non-fic.
India Muerte pirate fantasy. The Fifth Place weird west. How Not to Kill Yourself non-fic.
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Set Sytes
@setsytes.bsky.social
· Feb 10
Greetings #booksky - I want to introduce my flagship (ahem) series, the pirate fantasy adventure India Muerte. Tropical islands & lost temples, mythical creatures & sea monsters, buried treasure & brutal corsairs, pirate towns & underwater grottos...
Set sail today ☠️
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Set sail today ☠️
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Girlfriend was telling me today how she realised most people start on 40k books with Gaunt's Ghosts or Eisenhorn, but I introduced her to the books/universe with Twice Dead King: Ruin by @frogcroakley.bsky.social as her first read, with no context. It's still her favourite.
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Girlfriend was telling me today how she realised most people start on 40k books with Gaunt's Ghosts or Eisenhorn, but I introduced her to the books/universe with Twice Dead King: Ruin by @frogcroakley.bsky.social as her first read, with no context. It's still her favourite.
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want ☠️
(India Muerte and the Hunt for Black Atlantis)
(India Muerte and the Hunt for Black Atlantis)
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want ☠️
(India Muerte and the Hunt for Black Atlantis)
(India Muerte and the Hunt for Black Atlantis)
Pleased to announce book 6 of my pirate fantasy series, India Muerte and the Dragonfire Pearl, is finally out!
#booksky
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Cover art by Martina Stipan.
#booksky
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Cover art by Martina Stipan.
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Pleased to announce book 6 of my pirate fantasy series, India Muerte and the Dragonfire Pearl, is finally out!
#booksky
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Cover art by Martina Stipan.
#booksky
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Cover art by Martina Stipan.
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Me putting on my publishing business hat to assure you a) if everyone did this no series would ever get past book two, b) as someone who just dropped installment seven into his long-running series a decade after book six, you may not know when a series "ends". Try to enjoy the books for themselves.
I'm not sure you're wrong, but that's also why I will basically never read anything from an incomplete series anymore.
August 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Me putting on my publishing business hat to assure you a) if everyone did this no series would ever get past book two, b) as someone who just dropped installment seven into his long-running series a decade after book six, you may not know when a series "ends". Try to enjoy the books for themselves.
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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This is called "going on holiday"
July 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This is called "going on holiday"
Just finished On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Did Dean Moriarty really need to sweat, giggle and rub his belly THAT often? He's a human being, not some demented hobgoblin.
June 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just finished On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Did Dean Moriarty really need to sweat, giggle and rub his belly THAT often? He's a human being, not some demented hobgoblin.
"No, YKA, which refers to the sizing system used by a clothing brand, is not bigger than horses. YKA is a sizing system for clothing, specifically for the brand "YKA," and is not a biological creature. Horses are large animals, while YKA is a sizing system used to categorize clothing sizes."
June 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"No, YKA, which refers to the sizing system used by a clothing brand, is not bigger than horses. YKA is a sizing system for clothing, specifically for the brand "YKA," and is not a biological creature. Horses are large animals, while YKA is a sizing system used to categorize clothing sizes."
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Absolutely applies to books too. People don't listen much to authors, but enthusiastic readers sharing their love for a book is a superpower.
I think people underestimate their ability to help support a game just by telling a friend about it.
If I hear a designer talk about their game, I'm not usually convinced.
If my friend Will tells me to check out a game, I'm looking.
Your words, oftentimes, are just as powerful as your wallet.
If I hear a designer talk about their game, I'm not usually convinced.
If my friend Will tells me to check out a game, I'm looking.
Your words, oftentimes, are just as powerful as your wallet.
June 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Absolutely applies to books too. People don't listen much to authors, but enthusiastic readers sharing their love for a book is a superpower.
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Brilliantly creative and uniquely dark worldbuilding - I really hope Nate Crowley writes more in this universe, its begging for it. I need to know about High Sarawak at the very least!
@frogcroakley.bsky.social
@frogcroakley.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Brilliantly creative and uniquely dark worldbuilding - I really hope Nate Crowley writes more in this universe, its begging for it. I need to know about High Sarawak at the very least!
@frogcroakley.bsky.social
@frogcroakley.bsky.social
This looks so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hwN...
Clockwork Revolution - Official Gameplay Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025
YouTube video by IGN
www.youtube.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This looks so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hwN...
Doom: The Dark Ages was so good. I think it's my favourite of the trilogy already, despite less glory kills. Love that shield and melee satisfaction.
June 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Doom: The Dark Ages was so good. I think it's my favourite of the trilogy already, despite less glory kills. Love that shield and melee satisfaction.
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Check and MATE! Your move, robot.
June 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Check and MATE! Your move, robot.
Got a bit worried about how AI might affect indie authors and ended up writing a great 2am screed about it on Reddit
www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
#booksky #AI
www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
#booksky #AI
Worried about the impact of AI on indie authors
www.reddit.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Got a bit worried about how AI might affect indie authors and ended up writing a great 2am screed about it on Reddit
www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
#booksky #AI
www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...
#booksky #AI
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The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
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OMG this. Authors are a group of people in which imposter syndrome runs rampant, creating work without a performance element so without immediate feedback from the audience, often with no idea how our work is faring, no control over it, often with out of date sales data. Prime brain weasels fodder.
Yesterday alone I, a person who writes books for a living, emailed two writers (one a friend, one more of an acquaintance) to tell them how much I'd liked their books.
One of them said I had *no idea* how much they'd needed to hear that right now.
It really makes a difference. 💗
One of them said I had *no idea* how much they'd needed to hear that right now.
It really makes a difference. 💗
I've met people who think telling fellow authors you're a fan is weird or cringe or fanboy-ish or whatever. I give zero fucks. I love books. I'm a fan of great writers. I've reached out to half a dozen just this week to say I loved something they wrote.
May 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
OMG this. Authors are a group of people in which imposter syndrome runs rampant, creating work without a performance element so without immediate feedback from the audience, often with no idea how our work is faring, no control over it, often with out of date sales data. Prime brain weasels fodder.
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
#landscape
#landscape
May 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
#landscape
#landscape
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as ever fascinated by the utter shamelessness of pretending 'toxic masculinity' means 'all masculinity is toxic'. If I tell this guy I saw a black dog does he think that means all dogs are black?
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
as ever fascinated by the utter shamelessness of pretending 'toxic masculinity' means 'all masculinity is toxic'. If I tell this guy I saw a black dog does he think that means all dogs are black?
Started my plunge into the original work of one of my favourite 40k writers Nate Crowley @frogcroakley.bsky.social
Zombie POV weird body horror sounded right up my street. Hoping for lots of body parts gruesomely dropping off.
#booksky
Zombie POV weird body horror sounded right up my street. Hoping for lots of body parts gruesomely dropping off.
#booksky
May 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Started my plunge into the original work of one of my favourite 40k writers Nate Crowley @frogcroakley.bsky.social
Zombie POV weird body horror sounded right up my street. Hoping for lots of body parts gruesomely dropping off.
#booksky
Zombie POV weird body horror sounded right up my street. Hoping for lots of body parts gruesomely dropping off.
#booksky
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If all porn is made illegal, you can also make illegal the expression of any person you hate by defining them as obscene and pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography.
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
May 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If all porn is made illegal, you can also make illegal the expression of any person you hate by defining them as obscene and pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
"Existing while visibly trans" will be argued to be pornographic. Women dressing insufficiently modestly will be argued to be pornographic.
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But speaking of SWERFs, this kind of legislation will obviously make sex work way less safe. We’ve seen over and over and over and over and OVER that criminalizing sex work drives it underground, helps trafficking flourish, and stops SWers from going to the police when they’re assaulted.
May 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
But speaking of SWERFs, this kind of legislation will obviously make sex work way less safe. We’ve seen over and over and over and over and OVER that criminalizing sex work drives it underground, helps trafficking flourish, and stops SWers from going to the police when they’re assaulted.
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I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography.
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards.
dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
EXCLUSIVE: New GOP Bill Seeks To Take Sledgehammer To Online Porn Industry
Congressional Republicans will introduce legislation Thursday that would severely crack down on internet pornography and upend the online porn industry.
dailycaller.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.
Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.