The Quantum Realm

Zach London: you know that sinking feeling that you get when you click on a youtube video that looks cool but then you realize it's AI slop made by an unfeeling machine? London: what if you could also get that feeling in a movie theater? London: gentlemen i give you gossip goblin

London: we're making a fully AI horror movie! Poe: Barker: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker: fuck ha ha Barker: this fuckin sucks Poe: clive Poe: no never mind Poe: this does suck

Barker: this is shit, man Barker: real bad Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Barker: they're making an AI horror movie Shelley: ned ludd was right all along Shelley: we shoulda broken that fuckin loom when we had the chance

London: look, there's no reason to be afraid of AI movies London: in fact, you need to watch them!! London: Because they're here to stay whether you like it or not!!! London: in fact, that's our film's tagline

London: see our demographic research indicates that what people really want to see in a movie is uncanny lifeless humunculi that mock humanity by their very existence London: and they want them filmed without a coherent light source London: this is the market that gossip goblin has evolved to meet

London: gossip goblin is the totally AI-generated horror movie studio that will revolutionize film London: finally, movies made without actors, writers, directors or pesky artisans of all kinds London: we're also thinking of replacing the audience

London: thinking maybe we'll just show it to another AI that simulates how an audience would react AI Audience: Wow! This is great! More slop please! London: well, that seems pretty straight forward! London: how convenient that it wants me to do what i was going to do anyway! London: the future is now!

London: that's right London: i invite you to imagine a future where art is not made by man but by machine! Poe: yeah that's been imagined Poe: many times Poe: by many people King: yeah, it always turns out bad! London: yeah well London: it'll be different irl

Frank Herbert: I've told you 100 times Herbert: if only you'd listened to me about having a butlerian jihad and also finding the guiding light of islam, then maybe none of this would have happened King: wait how is islam related to this? Herbert: inshallah

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

This has by far been the most laborious part of reconstructing the DDCom website: importing and correcting the images and meta for the novels.

I've kept having thoughts like "Will this never end?", "Why did I write all these books?", and occasionally "HOW did I write all these books? When dd I eat? When did I pee? When did I... " ...well, never mind, when you're married to @petermorwood, some things damn well take precedence. :)

But look at this. (I can't fit the whole "Books/Novels" page in here at the moment: but this is the bottom of it.)

The bottom line there contains books 55, 56, 57, 58, and 59.

That gap-without-a-novel-60 is going to drive me around the bend. I am now feeling around in my head for a book I could write in a week or two. (Short fiction will NOT work for me. I don't care what other writers call “books” [and the all-too-willing conflation of the terms “book” and “ebook” frankly embarrasses me]. In my head, novels are at least 70K words. I have standards to uphold.)

I am currently weighing several different projects in The Hand Of The Mind to see what, if completed, might fit into that empty spot in the next couple of weeks.

Don't mistake me. I will ABSOLUTELY write to spite that empty spot. :) (And one possibility that I'm now weighing carefully is [mostly] a Carmela story: Young Wizards: The Chocolate Wars.)

Let's see where this goes. Meanwhile: want to assist this effort? Reference this post and see what it suggests to you. And thanks! 😄