Ashley Capes

Pinned posts are here! Here's a pic with most of my 'Never' books: epic fantasy, adventure and sarcasm :D Start with the free prequel story linked below! books2read.com/u/3RBg9Y

Happy Wrensday Wednesday! A splendid fairywren at Gluepot Reserve, South Australia. #wrensday

It's 4 days until Halloween... 🦇 Let's fill Bsky with spooky art. QRP with a spooky piece!

Long shadows drape patterns of light and dark across the snow-covered earth and still riverbed. This painting captures the tranquil beauty of winter. Prism Blues by Erin Hanson, 2024 Oil on canvas 60 x 72 in #winter #impressionism #art #artist #dailyart @bsky.art

When You Are Gone

The Halloween Sale is live on @itch.io 🎃 Almost all my stuff is marked down. Go check it out! 🏃🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♂️ itch.io/s/207312/-ma... #pixelart #gamedev #noai

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

Re: the most recent disappointment from Metallica, a few times I noticed posts along the lines of "this proves Megadeth is better" and I have to wonder whether these posters are aware of Mustaine's views at all? I mean, come on now.

Illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Story of a Mother" (c. 1910) by Kay Nielsen

Still trying to decide whether I use my sci-fi penname for this space opera or whether I stick with my regular name, as per my epic fantasy stuff. There's plenty of cross-over between the genres, so I doubt my existing readers would mind, but I'd like to catch the eye of new readers also...

How could I have forgotten to mute NFT? Quite the oversight, but it's rectified now.

Art by • Trustpixels

Exactly when did the "e" get added on to Zombi, I wonder?

Halloween in Hanbok 23

Seeing a lot of mentions about folks listening to 'Firestarter' and I was thinking wow, what's causing this renewed interest in The Prodigy XD www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin...

It's time for the annual SPFBO Finalists sale! 🎉 Check out the new finalists, complete your finalist collection, maybe your favorite writer has their whole series on sale or a new book out... it's all here! My Eterean Empire books are on sale, too! mlwangbooks.com/spfbo-finali... 💙🪐📚 #SPFBO

Definitely didn't see "Art Spiegelman using genAI due to laziness" coming, but I'm all out of 'surprise' by now, since some creative people just have a sickness when it comes to screwing over other creative people

The SPFBO finalists sale is on right now, with 50+ award-nominated books for $2.99/equivalent or less. Shadow of a Dead God is part of the sale, so go grab it if you're looking for a fun, funny fantasy mystery. books2read.com/ShadowGod #fantasybook #SPFBO #booksale

"AI democratizes creativity" - someone actually typed this out and posted it in a public space, lol

I'm obsessed with the translucent wings of Luna Moths 🌒🦋🌘 My original idea was to paint the moon phases on the wings and align it with her eyes but it became too many things. Next time I want to properly explore the moon phases on the wings 1/2 #LunaMoth #art #painting

Read SKULLRUNNER today and watch an idealistic 22yo with a deep-rooted autistic social justice sensitivity run headlong into the realities of revolutionary politics and find her way to navigate them, somehow.

Requiring everybody to use their full real name & location in all public comments would make a lot of women way more unsafe. So many men-commentators on 'society' don't consider that women often don't have the freedoms they take for granted. www.smh.com.au/national/i-b...

Having links on the profile is really cool! I just wish I had more places to send folks XD I thought about GR, but I don't use it heaps, so I reckon I'll just stick with my website for now. (It's nice to have the option to add these links, very pleased with this change to bluesky).

I’m enjoying this sculpture commission way too much mmmm textures

Re-watching 'Princess Mononoke' tonight and I forgot that Neil Gaiman wrote the EL adaptation, so that sucks

This afternoon, time for some heavy metal: 'Sacred Rite' from Honolulu, back in the 1980s: (Also, I love the awesome Michael Whelan cover art) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIr4...

David Shepherd’s fabulous original painting for the 1955 British Railways travel poster, “Service By Night”.

Got another one: "full disclosure" (My mute list is getting so long that I'm now worried about whether I'd be able to export it in case bluesky becomes full of fascists like twitter and I need to find a new social media space)

Going to keep using chapter titles in this book - this one might change before publication, but either way, it's really fun to use titles for a change: Plucking the Strings of a Golden Web

"She thinks she's tracking a beast…but is the beast hunting her?" Hello! My supernatural suspense, 'Crossings', is 99c for the lead-up to Halloween :D (You can see the blurb below) Cover art by the awesome @krmaamrk.bsky.social and text design by Christina P: books2read.com/u/4jWDlY

Years and years ago, two friends and I did a local radio show focused on rock, punk and metal every Thursday night. It was a lot of fun, but my main memory of the time was of all the asbestos warnings in *every* room XD

Found another one: "I don't make the rules"

Anyone else find that their mind *instantly* switches off when a selfie-style talking head pops up in the feed? I still can't figure out all the reasons that 'video' isn't for me (beyond the scope of a film, tv series of music video, etc etc). Maybe it's a Joe Rogan / influencer effect, lol.

At the Fall of Leaf, Arundel Park, Sussex, William Samuel Jay, 1843–1933.

I feel as though "Dad rock" and "Dad metal" are terms that can now be retired. Especially since people of all ages listen to all eras of music, and always have. Really, both phrases just sound ridiculous. I mean, is anyone going to call Miles Davis "Dad Jazz"? Doubt it.

Just saw a post that said "AI is a great companion" and I wanted to believe it was a bot, but sadly, a person probably typed it - and quite sincerely. This garbage is causing so much damage to the vulnerable (in so many ways).

Procession of Princesses by Vittorio Zecchin (1914).

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Wonder if I should mute the word 'cozy' next? (I think doing so would actually filter out a lot of bad takes about 'genre' in general, lol)

Draw a cat using only straight lines, 1910