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Simone Faré
Simone Faré
@cymon.bsky.social
Writer and reader. Software developer, gamer, old-style nerd. Expert in finding spare time for social networks. Webcomic (italian): https://www.therabbit.it Wattpad (italian): https://www.wattpad.com/user/SimoneFar
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I think something we should thank Huntrix for is K/DA resurrection. Thank you, thank you very very much
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Come on! Let BBC have another try with Doctor Who, how can things go wors.... oooooh fuck.
The BBC's new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as "pretty good," and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content "at the standard of a Hollywood studio." https://bit.ly/4rD8rmh
Your Honor... I have to admit... I liked It (It's true! It's still in my Spotify Eurovision playlist!) www.bbc.com/news/article...
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i cut my teeth as a coder writing perl, a language with a notoriously toxic community which i ended up witnessing from the inside for years, and which infamously shot itself in the foot when trying to design a future for it. here's a great essay about all of that www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/compute...
I liked this review a lot. Probably I didn't understand most of the subtexts as I'm not american but this analysis makes the movie way more clever than i thought seeing (and enjoying) it.
Film Review: The End of Oak Street Come for a bite of big lizard action, stay for the biting social commentary www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/film... @carturo222.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
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Replying to @goblinarchives.itch.io
watabou generators by Watabou is a collection of map generators (neighborhood, one page dungeon, mansions, medieval fantasy city generator, pixel dungeon, village, city, fantasy region) that can be used commercially in your work. watabou.itch.io
Thinking about this while watching For All Mankind s5 (five) finale. The series went from "accurately described lunar landing" to "space war using modified LEM" and most of the characters are now unbearable, but it's still written with so much respect for the audience it's still good to watch.
Netflix’s biggest shows have been losing 30-70% of their audience between seasons 1 and 2. Executives are in a panic because they can’t figure out why, but the answer is probably pretty damn obvious to anyone who’s paying attention.
Busy selecting images of Warhammer 40K to comment the latest news from the Vatican. www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
The very first time I met Utena was in an AMV of "E Nomine" (by E Nomine) that i can't find anymore on the internet so i'll share another AMV from the same group. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neq4...
post your favorite utena amvs
Francesca Michielin's new album charged of witchy power arriving in a period where I'm listening exclusevely to witches-like singers is my new obsession. open.spotify.com/album/0o4CGB...
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Rewilding the Internet >>>> walled gardens www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info
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As italian, I believe in few things. One of them is that Megan Gale will always be Vodaf... WHAT THE FUCK! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMku...
Three things I need for a good writing day. - My detailed notes written by fountain pen on graph paper. - A jug of iced lemonade spiked with mint syrup - Sunny day on my balcony #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #WritingQ
Three things I need for a good writing day. - Coffee - White Noise - An outline. What are three things you need for writing? #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #WritingQ
On dark days, look up at the sky.
After years of preparation, Artemis II has launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, sending NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen on humanity’s first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in over 50 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti2C...
I spent hundreds of hours on it (not considering the boring anime). I left it for the lack of updates but I enjoyed it enough to feel a bit sad right now.
Shadowverse will be ending service on June 30, 2026. The game originally launched on June 17, 2016. The game stopped receiving content updates in July 2024, but it was announced in March 2025 that it would continue to run alongside SV: Worlds Beyond. shadowverse.com/news/?announ...
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Trump Pisses Off Japan with Pearl Harbor Joke & Afroman Cucks the Police in Court youtu.be/rIEGz9LtF3I
(google translate) #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 28 We've reached the end of the month, friends! Thanks for playing 😊 For one last Snippet Share, show us a scene that features one of your favorite uses of magic in your story ❤️ Shout out other writers who inspired you with their magic this month! #writingcommunity #writesky
I like that witches' magic is also a physical thing: it makes you feel sick, it makes you feel good, it makes you feel horny :-) and being a good witch is also about learning how to dominate the feelings that constantly flow through your body. #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 27 Today is your day just to gush about what excites you about your own magic system! In your opinion, what makes your system particularly unique or interesting? If you don't feel it's super unique, then just talk about any aspect of it you find cool! #writingcommunity #writesky
Difficult to say. The four grannies are very powerful as they are ancient witches but the Vampire's Bride stood up against them nearly killing one... I don't know if she's the strongest, but surely the most fearsome. The power of the Black Queen is great but never showed in the book. #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 26 Who are the strongest & weakest members of your cast when it comes to magic? (Not including characters who don't use magic at all) As usual, this will depend on how you define "strong" or "weak." It doesn't have to necessarily be tied to fighting! #writingcommunity #writesky
Nearly nothing. She doesn't mind about it and the history of the witches is not written in any book. Witches are all a little paranoid about informations about themselves and they rarely speak about the past. #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 25 How much do your characters know about the history of magic in your world? Are they only just discovering it, or are they experts? Somewhere in between? What important events do they know about? How curious are they? *Have they been lied to?* 👀 #writingcommunity #writesky
Everytime I watch a new For All Mankind trailer I ask myself: is this FINALLY the prequel season of The Expanse?
Four old witches took care of Argenta while she was recovering from the amnesia that wiped her memory. They taught her all about magic on the isolated island where they live. She has such a deep bound with them that she call them "grannies" #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 24 For your characters who can use magic, how were they trained? Did they attend a magic school, or study under a mentor? Were they self-taught? Were they just born knowing it? Bonus: how have their skills developed over time? #writingcommunity #writesky
Argenta is a witch and obviuosly a magical wielder. Orlando, her companion, is just a thug (a very nice one :-) ) with no magical powers (in my world that's called "beltanno"). In every story there is always at least one other witch that uses magic, but no other characters, usually. #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 23 Which members of your cast can wield magic? All of them, or only specific ones? Or perhaps none of them? For those who can wield it, how has this ability impacted their lives? How has it shaped them into the people they are? #writingcommunity #writesky
Magic is the main engine of the plot as characters need to control it taking care of the witches that are magical users. At the same time magic is important for its absence. In the story there's also a truecrime podcast subplot where magic is (probably) intentionally ignored. #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 22 For our last week, we're talking a little more about the role magic plays in your story, as opposed to the world in general. First, how important is magic to your plot? Is it just an incidental feature of the setting, or is it a key story element? #writingcommunity #writesky
This always comes useful... (again: google translated) #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 21 It's that time again! For today's Saturday snippet, share a scene that shows off a casual or mundane use of magic. Obviously feel free to build off your answer to yesterday's prompt! Don't forget to read & interact with other peoples' snippets! #writingcommunity #writesky
Witches are constantly affected by magic in everyday life. Magic makes them sensitive to moon cycle, getting sick or excited or more at newmoon and under particular astrology configurations. They are also always affected by the sound of nature and living world. #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 20 Yesterday was about big ways magic has influenced the world, so today I want to know about *small* ways. Tell me about the mundane everyday places magic shows up - e.g. in household tools, common slang, certain locations everyone knows to avoid... #writingcommunity #writesky
Witches always existed and probably they had a role in human history more relevant than we know. Unfortunately, considering they always kept a low profile we have very little information about that so the only available answer is: who knows? #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 19 Discuss some *major* ways magic has shaped the culture. I'm not talking little everyday things (that's for tomorrow). I mean BIG PICTURE. This could be anything from technology, prejudices, government structure, the landscape itself... anything! #writingcommunity #writesky
Girls are commonly tricked to become witches. They live a bad life, they have some deep wound or trauma and somebody tell them they can change in such a way they can heal. In the end they obtain power, health, many advantages, but they're also bound to serve Mother Earth needs. #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 18 Why do people want to do magic in the first place? What benefits do they get from it? What makes magic worth the trouble or risk for people, especially if it's extremely difficult and/or dangerous? Do they even have a choice at all? #writingcommunity #writesky
Society doesn't know magic exists so nobody can consider it legal or illegal. Many witches believe that if you use magic to do evil magic will punish you, but there are many evidence saying this is not actually true... #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 17 What's the relationship between magic and the law in your world? Is magic illegal? If so, how is the law enforced? If it's legal, are there any specific techniques that ARE illegal or forbidden? Why? Is magic perhaps used to *enforce* the law? #writingcommunity #writesky
Magic is always about bending reality so probably the most powerful use of magic for a witch could be creating a place completely under her control, some kind of pocket dimension where she is in charge of almost everything, where hide or lure enemies. #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 16 This might be a tricky question, but in your opinion, what is the ✨️most powerful✨️ use of magic in your system? Of course, this all depends on how you define "powerful"! It may not necessarily have anything to do with how much damage is dealt... #writingcommunity #writesky
Only witches can wield magic. They can do it in many different ways, but there're not schools or disciplines. A witch find out her way to access magic mostly through personal study. People that are not witches and manupulate magic exists... but... well.. spoiler... #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 15 This week we're discussing magic's role in the culture. So let's start with different approaches to magic. Are there multiple different types of magic, or different philosophies? Are there multiple schools or disciplines? How do they differ? #writingcommunity #writesky
(sorry for google translation, as always) #Febchantment
#Febchantment Day 14 It's Snippet Saturday! Aha, you expected something romantic for Valentine's Day? WRONG! I want to see your scariest, creepiest, most unsettling uses of magic! (You can post something romantic too I guess 😂) Use spoiler tags & CWs as appropriate! #writingcommunity #writesky