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A DIY digital magazine: VOID THOUGHTS...a Speculative Fiction Magazine!
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working class speculative fiction writer, will work for copious amounts of money, please check out my magazine! Issue 5 out now: https://www.patreon.com/c/VoidThoughtsMagazine
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Issue Five of my speculative fiction magazine has launched, digital photographics, an eXtreme(ly) amateur cover (see below!) 2 novelettes, 3 short stories, and 4 pieces of longer serialized fiction! Link in the bio, click it for a life altering experience (no returns accepted (its free!))
the main thing about Crumb is he is a huge fucking loser, and the second thing is most people who think he is some super insightful, visionary artist are also, most likely huge fucking losers, including, but not limited to, most of the staff at fantagraphics
Bob Crumb coming out of retirement just to say "RFK Jr. is right about vaccines and my ex-wife should've taken more advice from me" is such a fitting end to Boomer Americana and everything the "alt-comix" movement claimed to stand for
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
the main thing about Crumb is he is a huge fucking loser, and the second thing is most people who think he is some super insightful, visionary artist are also, most likely huge fucking losers, including, but not limited to, most of the staff at fantagraphics
Issue Five of my speculative fiction magazine has launched, digital photographics, an eXtreme(ly) amateur cover (see below!) 2 novelettes, 3 short stories, and 4 pieces of longer serialized fiction! Link in the bio, click it for a life altering experience (no returns accepted (its free!))
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Issue Five of my speculative fiction magazine has launched, digital photographics, an eXtreme(ly) amateur cover (see below!) 2 novelettes, 3 short stories, and 4 pieces of longer serialized fiction! Link in the bio, click it for a life altering experience (no returns accepted (its free!))
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The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
Tropes, in particular, are fundamentally flattening framing of art that forces unique, individual expressions, into a mass culture, even if they barely fit. The end result is a more marketable, less memorable, 'product'.
Tropes, and the language around it, was a precursor of AI slop, same instincts
Tropes, and the language around it, was a precursor of AI slop, same instincts
The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Tropes, in particular, are fundamentally flattening framing of art that forces unique, individual expressions, into a mass culture, even if they barely fit. The end result is a more marketable, less memorable, 'product'.
Tropes, and the language around it, was a precursor of AI slop, same instincts
Tropes, and the language around it, was a precursor of AI slop, same instincts
Biden gave ICE it's biggest payday ever, spent his entire term with dementia, funded and armed a genocide, and failed to implement most if not all of the progressive policies that won him the presidency.
Why do you think things would be fundamentally different if the Dems won?
Why do you think things would be fundamentally different if the Dems won?
Will someone please ask the 89 million Americans who didn't vote in the last election if they are being affected by anything this administration is doing to the other Americans?
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Biden gave ICE it's biggest payday ever, spent his entire term with dementia, funded and armed a genocide, and failed to implement most if not all of the progressive policies that won him the presidency.
Why do you think things would be fundamentally different if the Dems won?
Why do you think things would be fundamentally different if the Dems won?
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they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial U.S.- and Israel-backed company that provided aid to Gaza, said Monday it would shutter operations.
US-backed aid company in Gaza shutters operations
The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, has said it will shutter operations.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.
Because obviously campaigning for Liz Cheney was such a winning move it won the Democrats the White House!
i cannot imagine being so addicted to failure that you will not allow your enemies to deliver an unconditional surrender
The more important thing is that Mamdani is not the type of politician that Liz Cheney would want to campaign for. It was bad that Harris campaigned with her, it is even worse that she was someone Liz Cheney wanted to campaign for
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Because obviously campaigning for Liz Cheney was such a winning move it won the Democrats the White House!
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KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com
turns out that people who gleefully funded and armed a genocide don't give a shit about collaborating with fascists, who could have seen this coming
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
turns out that people who gleefully funded and armed a genocide don't give a shit about collaborating with fascists, who could have seen this coming
downloadable generic personality that is implanted into able, disposable bodies, a personality that degrades over time until eventually, under the weight of its internal contradictions, seeks death
fun scifi AND metaphor for what Bond represents
fun scifi AND metaphor for what Bond represents
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
downloadable generic personality that is implanted into able, disposable bodies, a personality that degrades over time until eventually, under the weight of its internal contradictions, seeks death
fun scifi AND metaphor for what Bond represents
fun scifi AND metaphor for what Bond represents
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Trasitoen Espiral
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20020
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20020
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trasitoen Espiral
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20020
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20020
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”
#historyofillustration
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November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
trying to make art, get better at it, whilst also trying to build an audience for it is like trying to live with a cancerous tumour
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
trying to make art, get better at it, whilst also trying to build an audience for it is like trying to live with a cancerous tumour
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Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.
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It was so obvious where these myopic politics of framing social positions are unimportant was going to go in 2016, but the amount of rightist masquerading as leftist it has produced is pretty astounding.
Rebecca Nagel, Matt Taibbi, Glen Greenwald, the Red Scare girls, Ben Burgers, etc
Rebecca Nagel, Matt Taibbi, Glen Greenwald, the Red Scare girls, Ben Burgers, etc
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.”
But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
Democrats Cynically Wield “Wokeness” Against Graham Platner
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
jacobin.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It was so obvious where these myopic politics of framing social positions are unimportant was going to go in 2016, but the amount of rightist masquerading as leftist it has produced is pretty astounding.
Rebecca Nagel, Matt Taibbi, Glen Greenwald, the Red Scare girls, Ben Burgers, etc
Rebecca Nagel, Matt Taibbi, Glen Greenwald, the Red Scare girls, Ben Burgers, etc
Is this based on anything or just a gut feeling Shakespeare would totally agree that his carefully written (and acted) art was just a bit he did because that's how you (not Shakespeare for certain) treat your own art?
![[Scene is a high school classroom. A teacher is writing on the whiteboard 'ACT 2 SCENE 3'.]
TEACHER:
OK class - open up Macbeth to Act 2 Scene 3...
TEACHER:
So - does anybody have any ideas on Shakespeares meaning behind the character of 'the Porter' in this scene?
[A voice comes from off-scene, behind the teacher's back[.
VOICE:
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
TEACHER [turning round]:
Sorry….. who are you?
[We see a wider scene that shows it is the GHOST OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, hovering over the heads of the startled students]
SHAKESPEARE:
I'm the Ghost of Shakespeare and I've come back to say: this scene means *absolutely nothing*.
The Porter is a funny drunk bloke I lobbed in to cover a costume change!
I mean like, not everything I did was genius OK? Stop giving me the ick.
TEACHER:
So um...what do you suggest we study?
SHAKESPEARE:
The most important text in British culture!
TEACHER:
Which is...?
SHAKESPEARE:
'Bollocks People Say on the Internet.'
TEACHER:
You think we should study... bollocks people say on the internet?
SHAKESPEARE:
Yes.
TEACHER:
But Mr Shakespeare... your Porter scene was a question in a past GCSE paper...
We need to analyse it so the kids don't end up failing their exams...
SHAKESPEARE:
Yes, and I'm just suggesting you should analyse Bollocks People Say on the Internet instead, so they don't end up painting flags on roundabouts.
[Silent pause]
TEACHER:
OK class - open up your phones to X...
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October 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Is this based on anything or just a gut feeling Shakespeare would totally agree that his carefully written (and acted) art was just a bit he did because that's how you (not Shakespeare for certain) treat your own art?
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drawing a comic.
October 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
drawing a comic.
'Purity tests' as an idea have essentially become a thought-terminating cliche that can be deployed to justify any behaviour imagined
It's a part of a parcel of beliefs that believe that nothing anything anyone does should have actual consequences attached
It's a part of a parcel of beliefs that believe that nothing anything anyone does should have actual consequences attached
You cannot defeat authoritarianism with purity tests. If you are actively working to splinter a unified front against authoritarianism, you are the problem.
October 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
'Purity tests' as an idea have essentially become a thought-terminating cliche that can be deployed to justify any behaviour imagined
It's a part of a parcel of beliefs that believe that nothing anything anyone does should have actual consequences attached
It's a part of a parcel of beliefs that believe that nothing anything anyone does should have actual consequences attached
I think people catastrophizing broadly minor annoyances and pretending they threaten the very social fabric of society is one the main through-lines of reactionary thought, and you probably shouldn't do that.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I think people catastrophizing broadly minor annoyances and pretending they threaten the very social fabric of society is one the main through-lines of reactionary thought, and you probably shouldn't do that.