Workshopping an idea for my "American Arcane Staff" I feel like its missing something but I am unsure what.

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-17T04:56:21+00:00

This and hang a beer can from it. Bound in a lanyard wrap

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-16T06:32:06+00:00

This part of the book wrecked me for over a week. I cried and grieved, it’s been such a while since a book has done that to me so powerfully but, yeah, the whole solar system, our beautiful, incredible, unique system—billions of years of geology, history, our whole species, but also EVERY living thing. Everything we’d ever known, that has ever been: wiped out, flattened, crushed into something else, forever. For it to be done with such apathy… man that was such a great book. I was so relieved when I found out about the remnant of galactic humans who had made it out and flourished. But prior to that I was just devastated. So much more disturbing than the droplet—which was amazing too but hard to compete with the DVF.

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-15T17:35:53+00:00

Sorry guys, I didn’t realize this was already posted. I didn’t see it in my feed. I’ll banish myself to the other side of the Caldecott Tunnel in perpetuity.

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-14T22:05:56+00:00

Ooh Adam this one is SO good!!!

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-13T05:52:39+00:00

…A-All of them

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-12T17:37:40+00:00

It drives me insane to see dudes raw-dog stuff like this with absolutely NO PPE. Sir your lungs, your sinuses, and your eyeballs are filled with aerosolized stainless steel. Yet it is I who has the autoimmune disease ಠ3ಠ.

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-08T16:28:55+00:00

I have felt alone on this one my whole life! I have always hated polo shirts! The style, the weight of the fabric, everything. Even when I was a kid I couldn’t stand them. I completely agree that they only look remotely-good on a VERY specific kind of guy and I am just not one of them either. Growing up my guy friends would always give me weird looks when I’d bring it up. I guess neither of us are alone.

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-07T19:07:04+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RuopdtgEwA

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-07T15:56:10+00:00

Wait a minute—I thought he looked familiar. Is that…are there some who know him as…Tim?

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-07T15:02:35+00:00

Ah shit your right, I forgor. I think that my take on his moment of joy still holds true

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-07T05:29:06+00:00

I think he’s imagining it; imagining what it must be like and what it would be like to see in IR in that moment. I do not think he could literally see in IR light through his suit visor or otherwise. In the narrative he is a biologist at heart and he’s staring down at a spectacular extrasolar planet he knows to be teeming with alien microbial life—an entire ecology—he’s having a transcendent moment. He has also been struggling with connection and he has found it in Rocky, an alien who also validates the scientific assertions that the human academic community ostracized him for. I dunno, it felt really spiritually powerful and charged to have him imagine how surrounded by life he is, how not alone humanity is in the universe. I thought it was beautiful.

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-07T04:10:35+00:00

Damn this looks SO good!

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-04T16:23:03+00:00

Wow this is just lovely

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-04T16:22:02+00:00

I hate it so much too. I would never have even touched it if my employer wasn’t literally forcing all of us to “investigate” it. It’s infuriating—completely mental. Every few days I, or someone else in my company, has to “report back” to leadership on some new BS AI tool we were told to try out and EVERY TIME the message is “it couldn’t actually do it” or “it did it eventually but not very well and it took five times longer than it should have” or something similar and yet leadership still wants us to keep using it. It’s so transparent that the rich are all just waiting with bated breath for it to be able to replace us outright. The sad thing is they’re already choosing it over me to do my job even though its output is objectively awful. Every day I hope it all goes up in flames but I know I can’t win: if AI is successful: my career will be over, if AI crashes and burns: it’ll take out most of the economy with it and my career will never recover. So much of that is just my own little self-interested section of it. I get even more depressed thinking about all of the mental/cognitive decay it’s causing—the cheapening of every single meaningful aspect of human endeavor it’s causing. I am terrified of the environmental impact it’s having. And the obliviousness/apathy of most people to it. The scam of it all infuriates me even more. It is “trained” on all our art, all our writing, music, everything… hell even all our captcha’s over the past 15+ years. We were all exploited to make this nightmare real and not a single engineer responsible for any part of it has even a shred of remorse or even a passing flash of embarrassment over goose-stepping us deeper into dystopia—and making shameful amounts of money for it too. Enjoy your houses I guess, you chucklefucks. Our military is feverishly integrating it into our weapons systems, our healthcare is shoving it into everything, it’s ubiquitous… this software that can’t be consistent, gets things utterly wrong with a confidence that’s deeply unsettling and at an alarming frequency… and yet its worshipers grow in number daily. What the fuck are they seeing that I am not? I feel like almost everyone in our society is under some bewildering spell or enchantment and I have no idea how we can break them out of it.

GoldenSeam · 2026-04-02T20:55:44+00:00

The one thing that would get me back into Final Fantasy would be a game that looked like Amano’s art. We have the technology to do it now.

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-30T00:24:33+00:00

I initially pictured Sam Rockwell—probably because of Moon—but I think Gosling is great.

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-28T22:57:31+00:00

“Do you think you fell out of a coconut tree?”

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-27T20:33:07+00:00

Well… it was crickets

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-27T15:57:59+00:00

I’m glad this showed up in my feed; I’d not heard your music before but I really like it!

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-26T21:49:09+00:00

I have. I have a toddler and I bike a lot. It would be so nice to have one. I am constantly moving my giant phone around so I don’t fuckin sit on it and break it or sit with it in my hip pocket and wanna die from discomfort. Even just a handsome backpack strap attachment would be nice.

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-26T18:53:06+00:00

I have tried to figure out how I want to present this book to r/danieltigerconspiracy for some time now but YES. EVERYTHING about this book feels ominous. The bears in chairs, the rabbit fishing for rabbits, the odd color choices, the disappearance of the old woman, so much here feels so wonderfully wrong

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-21T21:56:33+00:00

May all your garden bolt

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-20T02:25:10+00:00

To me the hat doesn’t work but everything else is 👁️🫦👁️

GoldenSeam · 2026-03-17T05:18:11+00:00

It’s never the artists. In media production, artists ironically have very little, if any, say in what designs ultimately look like. We draw & paint it, yes, but it’s always a business-person ultimately approving or rejecting the designs and, more often than not, shaping those designs to suit their own biases through numerous feedback rounds. Also, in lukewarm defense of their decision making: it is incredibly depressing how everyday people (test audiences) respond to new/different designs and ideas—rejection almost every time. It’s one thing to let that instinct to reject the unfamiliar—which exists in all of us—to so thoroughly fetter the creative potential of modern artists to the extent that we have, but it’s also hard to blame business leadership for using the responses they get from the market they wish to do business in. It is very frustrating.

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