Not That Chris Brown

THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD Jordan is named the leader of a techphobic cult. His mandate: find a third way between isolation and battle with the system AI. Ash is an android woman who reveals the system’s lies. Together they explore love, faith, and what it means to have a soul. #BluePit #Q #📖 #A #SF

Thank you for hosting! As always check out my blog at cfreak.dev I'll be in the Fark Fiction Anthology again this year with my short story MIND'S TIME. (if you subscribe to my blog, you can read it early! Completely free!) #SFFChat

So far I've stuck to stories in the same world. In all cases there are characters who are trying to understand what kind of afterlife exists. I enjoy keeping the truth ambiguous, much like real life. #SFFChat

Jordan would be rewarded for this faith and love. If he's punished for anything it would be his doubts. Kind of a fun exercise because THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD does not answer the afterlife question. It leaves it up to you, dear reader 😏 #SFFChat

The theme of THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD is whether uploading your brain is a type of immorality. Different characters have different beliefs. The religious believe in a supernatural heaven. The FMC believes in living forever through the AI. The MMC starts in one direction and changes his mind #SFFChat

Oh this should be fun. I'm Not That Chris Brown, querying my speculative sci-fi romance THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD. Fav afterlife: Maximus returning to his family after death in Gladiator. Truthfully, I like most representations of an afterlife. Life and death play a big part in my work #SFFChat

I'm starting a fight club, but it's just for writers who need to get the wording right during fight scenes

I rather like this bit of world building with great verbs such as "surveyed", "snaked", "subsumed", "divorced", and "cradled". (THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD, Chapter 2) #LitHodgepodge #writingcommunity

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My parents bought a laser pointer to entertain our cats: The sisters: Tux: "I do not believe in the dot." Tortie: "I can see the dot but it is unattainable." The brothers: Tabby/White: "OUT, OUT DAMN DOT!" Orange: "I ACCEPT THE DOT AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR"

100% on brand

I grew up in the evangelical church. What I learned is that it has very little connection to theology and a very real connection to making excuses for being a bigot.

Hmm. Most of the brain uploading ones. The seeming utopia that isn’t really (except for the very rich) Maybe less trope and more reality? #LitHodgepodge

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Jeroen Fritz (@jeroen.fritz IG) captured two aquatic kangaroos on Lake Cootharaba, a brackish lake that's the gateway to the Noosa Everglades. Let's answer the question that all right-thinking people are wondering right now: can kangaroos swim? THE ANSWER MAY SURPRISE YOU. Also, it's "yes". 😉🦘🏊

I always enjoy these. Thanks for hosting! Nothing super recent to pitch, unless you're an agent looking for some cool sci-fi :) #SFFChat

A bit of conversation about the husk: #SFFChat

The cult community is set up on the idea they are the last pure humans. So yeah, collectively they believe it, though there are skeptics which gets into the plot :) #SFFChat

In THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD, the religious cult we meet at the beginning, tells tales of "husks" - half machine / half human hybrids who's minds have been subsumed by AI. They are technically correct, the best kind of correct! #SFFChat

Hello! I'm Not That Chris Brown querying THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD, a near future dystopian sci-fi! I'm a huge fan of Chupacabra. #SFFChat

I swear they did this as a trial balloon to see how well it would go over with the public

Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal

I wasn’t a member and sure as hell won’t be now that they’ve sold out. There is no ethical use of AI.

These people are deeply stupid.

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Jordan: loves Ash’s calm demeanor and her take charge character. He’s attracted to her sarcastic humor and her unrelenting sense of justice. Ash loves Jordan’s quiet humility and his desire to serve others even if it seems old fashioned. #LitHodgepodge

I appreciate that Tyler Huntley has made a nice little career for himself as the Lamar we have at home

Look, I’m not proud. I’m just going to say John Williams and call it a day. I want something epic and orchestral. #LitHodgepodge

the AI industry is full of people who would automate away playing with a kitten

How I arrived on Bluesky

Fun game. Jordan would probably like to travel to the past to undo his family’s mistakes. #lithodgepodge

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

You can find the Holy Grail in the Castle of Aaaauuuggghhh...

We live in a world where Ken Paxton has never NOT sucked, and where he will continue to always suck. Like the Northern Star of Sucking.

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

Thanks for hosting! The new time works well for me though I'm posting a bit late. As always check out my blog cfreak.dev or just follow me for dystopian sci-fi, tech rants, and pictures of cats. If I have any hope of getting an agent I probably need to get these numbers up! #SFFChat

I won't go into detail because CW but in THOSE WHO SPEAK FOR GOD, someone is branded like a cow for their "sin". It was difficult to write, but one knows exactly who these characters are. #SFFChat

I'm not a horror guy so I'm going with the cop-out answer of Poe. I don't regularly read horror. I do enjoy haunting sad stories. I think Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is not horror in a genre sense but it is horrible and haunting is a very unsettling way. #SFFChat