Nonplussed

Rose Landry is coming to the cottage...but the problem is leaving! AKA, the #Roselana Time Loop Fangame (ft. #Hollanov) 🔃 Fully voiced visual novel--your choices decide the story 🔃 Rated M (for half-naked Hollanov) 🔃 Vague spoilers for TLG archiveofourown.org/works/893208...

Nic and Reid's second duo minisode is here, and it's all about interactive (fan)fiction! From choose-your-own-adventures to fully voiced visual novels, we explore the vast and varied landscape of game-ified fanfiction. 🍎: apple.co/4skLIvN 💚: bit.ly/3TYlgLL

I don't goddamn know what the answer is here, except FOR GOD'S SAKE HOLD THE LINE. We do not use GenAI and we do not use people who use GenAI. And if you think you see AI on a cover, tell the author and let them and the publisher actually look into it before going ham on either.

Helloo, here’s your reminder that signups for the Songxuexiao exchange are closing in THREE DAYS, so there’s still plenty of time to get your prompts in!

Sticking to my aim of a monthly round-up of my romance reading, as an effort against the dwindling number of review spaces.

YOU GUYS. They're making My Rival x Me into a live action! It's RIOOOOO~~~~ www.reddit.com/r/DanmeiNove...

The #OTW October Membership Drive has concluded! We raised US$314,539.76. Thank you to everybody who donated and shared! For additional stats, read more at otw-news.org/5dyratjc

My final splash-artwork for the #HeatedRivalry Visual Novel: Cottage (En)core, aka "the #Roselana Time Loop Fangame (ft. #Hollanov )"🥰 find the project here: archiveofourown.org/...

i think a sv live action should actually be mockumentary style

I have to say, it was kind of terrifying sending Think, Write, Edit, Romance to people I respect as romance writers/teachers of writing, in case they were like "mate, seriously?" and then I would have had to crawl away and hide behind the sofa, BUT NO. Here's Alexandra Vasti!

The 2025 #OTW Annual Report is now available. You can read it, and all earlier annual reports, on the OTW website: otw-news.org/yckk5r6k

Bodies of Magic: OUT NOW! Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Buy US: bit.ly/BoM-US Buy UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

#WIPWednesday I wish I had more time to draw butI am working on something. #sk8theinfinity #langahasegawa

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

posting book #OttawaCentaurs before we get the new show looks👀 #heatedrivalry #thelonggame #hollanov

Not to insomnia-weigh-in on the concept of restorative justice, but I thought long and hard ten years ago about what I would say if someone asked what Alex Kozinski could do by way of restorative justice. (Nobody ever asked.)

www.oglaf.com/damselfly/

Blue Prince is now 40% off as part of the Steam Autumn Sale until 8 October. https://bit.ly/41AwPsB

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

wipes a tear from my eye

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

🎙️ this podcast does not exist: you have $50 💰

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

Yesterday we launched a kickstarter to print Oglaf Book 5. It's going pretty good! www.kickstarter.com/projects/top...

Brilliant human artistry makes us see humanity in nonhuman things. So does sticking googly eyes on a pencil. We are an easily confused species in this respect.

The second of my splash-artworks for the #HeatedRivalry Visual Novel: Cottage (En)core, aka "the #Roselana Time Loop Fangame (ft. #Hollanov )"🥰 find the project here: archiveofourown.org/...

when ai leaves u behind

da-ge learns about his didi's Just Fans. 💪🪭 💖 requested by @bcaugust.bsky.social ! #mdzs

three bowls of noodles #moshang

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

They’re inviting Liu Qingge for dinner & chill #svsss #bingliushen

I'd never tell you this, but lately I haven't been sleeping well (1/4) #idwtbamg 🌠

Anyway if you're trying to launch an exclusive literary network with just a smidge of AI, I refer you to the observation that a sandwich with just a smidge of dogshit is still a dogshit sandwich.

So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...) And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said.

09-15✨ HBD #Kakashi !!! #はたけカカシ生誕祭2026 #はたけカカシ誕生祭2026 #NARUTO

(I just think that if more dudes had been in the parts of fandom where people were reporting embodied, hallucinatory interactions with characters as real on the astral plane those dudes would be hyper aware that their feelings that insist AI is sentient are just a personal horniness problem)