JayAck

JayAck

@jjackerknecht.com

Writer and lover of SFF/Horror/Whatever Fan of games, manga, film, autumn, and being excellent to each other. I frequently post pictures of my dogs. He/Him Books and other stuff here: https://linktr.ee/jjackerknecht

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To any new/would-be writers thinking they have to wait to perfect their world-building, magic systems, themes, characters arcs, etc... no you don't. Start today. Make mistakes, fix them on the second draft. Make a thing, polish it later.

ADHD Memes@adhdforreal.bsky.social

YO! I'll be exhibiting at MCM Comic Con in London Oct. 23-25. I'll be in the Writer's Block section, table WB-28. Come on by if you're in the area! I'll have signed books for sale and a few other goodies. Hope to see some folks there! #mcmcomiccon #mcmlondon #litrpg

Got some sweet commissioned work by the very talented Delfina Garino for bookmarks of a couple characters from my series. Extremely happy with how these turned out. I DO wish the thumbnails wouldn't just focus on the chest and butt though. #litrpg #oc

Every year I do a rewatch of Noroi. It's so creepy, man. I love the mood of the film, quick, creeping dread that builds and builds and builds. It collects all these seemingly random pieces and slowly puts them together in front of you. A+ movie.

Will always remember my college art prof who taught life drawing. He'd blown part of his dominant hand off with a shotgun years before, and had his thumb replaced with his big toe. The man could draw a damn-near photorealistic sketch of anything with that hand and a lump of charcoal in no time.

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The shotgun incident was a hunting accident, by the way. Practice gun safety kiddos. Anyway, the prof was really cool, liked to encourage everybody to draw regardless of whatever they thought was holding them back.

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Happy Friday! Claire's graphic novel launches on September 10th, with tons of awesome art, three covers, a bunch of free posters and my eternal gratitude for whoever picks them up haha Go check out the campaign! #LitRPG #comics #kickstarter #backerkit #graphicnovel #ProgressionFantasy

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea@aesonique.itch.io

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

Tim Curry in the same week as Dolly Parton is fucked up, man. I first recall seeing Tim in Clue, and then any time after that I'd get super stoked to see him, or hear his incredible voice work. This guy was in a lot of my childhood films, shows, and games. What a legend.

Rest in Peace, Dolly. Gutted at her loss, but will always be thankful that she graced us with her art, her compassion, and her joy.

To my fellow writers procrastinating for whatever reason, go do the thing you were born to do. I believe in you. Yes, you, writer of anthropomorphized household appliance erotica. And you, AO3 scribe. You too, first-timer, with the blank page before you. But not you, AI prompt chud. You are a dork.

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DnD is okay. I like Critical Role! But there are a ton of cool, weird options out there. Lancer, Mork Borg, Candela Obscura, and Shrines (shout out to @jamespianka.bsky.social ). TTRPGs have such a wide scope that it seems a shame to limit yourself to any one of them.

Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus@riseupcomus.bsky.social

Perennial reminder that the big corporation does not care about you and there are better alternatives.

Animorphs is a wild series and buying it doesn’t support TERF bullshit.

✨💜 king 💜✨@king-reinhardt.bsky.social

How about this: Instead of hyping up the piece of shit TERF queen and her exceedingly mid books, we point kids in the direction of K.A. Applegate and her fantastic, terrifying Animorphs series?

Just got a really sincere and heart-warming message from a reader and it made my week. So hey, if you're reading this, and there's an indie author out there you like, you should 100% message them and tell them you like their stuff. Guaranteed to make them happy, I swear.

I do not use AI in any of my writing; not in drafting, plotting, world-building, or the prose itself. Every word is mine. I hire a human cover artist. I have no interest in stories fobbed off on machines because the slop merchants were too lazy to do something themselves.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea@aesonique.itch.io

You better BELIEVE I'm going to mock and deride these wankers. We don't need slopmongers polluting LitRPG. Take your plagiarism machine elsewhere. Or better yet, reprogram it with an axe.

Having a book sale until July 25th for my LitRPG space opera series with sapphic romance and cosmic horror. the eBook for book #1 is free, and the rest of the eBooks are $0.99. Everything is also on audio. The sale is going... well. www.tiktok.com/@jjackerknec...

tiktok.com#litrpg #booktok #bookish My LitRPG space opera with sapphic romance and cosmic horror is doing really well! Yeah, I know it’s “only” the free store on the ‘Zon but I’m still pretty stoked about it! ...TikTok video by JayAck 📚

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Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

Post something that still traumatizes you. Maybe not this specific book, but one of these, had a story about a kid accidentally getting his parents killed, and then heavily implied he was now in Hell, in a loop of reliving their deaths and his own for eternity. This was for grade-schoolers.

Jessie Gender@jessiegender.bsky.social

Post something that still traumatizes you.

Waiting for the train when an announcement comes on over the speakers: “Passengers at platform 7, service for Wales calling at X, Y, Z, please make sure my sister gets off at the right stop. Thank you.” I love Wales.

Seeing people get elitist about LitRPG/whatever is so weird to me, especially these days. I’m just happy to see human beings make art, even I don’t jive with it. Pregnant Sonic/Magneto slash fic? That’s fucking weird, but you do you, boo. Express your weird desires as only living souls can.

Clarification: mostly referring to slop images. If you're using AI in your personal life to sort files or whatever, fine. Just sick of seeing dumb AI shitposts everywhere and on bookcovers. Learn to draw, hire an artist, or just make some stick figures. Fuck off with this AI garbage though.

So hype to see the Major as somebody with visible emotions who can be shy, goofy, flirty, and not just stoic. Gorgeous animation. I am officially Hype As Fuck.

Catsuka@catsuka.bsky.social

"The Ghost in the Shell" anime series by Science Saru is coming on July 7 (Prime Video). New trailer >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=yedJ...

Five books to get to know me by, three from young me, two from adult me: 1. The Talisman - King and Straub 2. Imajica- Barker 3. The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb- Bellairs 4. Between Two Fires- Buehlman 5. Perdido Street Station- Mieville

Jim Sharkey@jsharkey67.bsky.social

Five books to get to know me by, three from young me, two from adult me: 1. Guards! Guards! - Pratchett 2. Startide Rising - Brin 3. LotR - JRRT 4. Watership Down - Adams 5. The Hour of the Dragon - REH