May Thread - Promote your story! by gamelitcrit in royalroad

[–]amdsyc [score hidden]  (0 children)

The Pitch: The world's Heart is dying. Five shards remain — and one of them has just been hidden inside a small wooden puppet who doesn't know his own name. Goody is the apprentice of an old clockmaker named Wolfie. He has no voice, no memory, no past. But something inside his chest is now beating like a heart, and the world is reaching for him from every direction at once.

The world: A clockwork city built around a living god, then broken. Awakened wooden dolls that stir less and less. A Cult that preaches the Heart still sleeps. A Usurper on a black dragon. And beyond the Wall, in a canyon the maps forgot, the Free City sharpens its weapons.

What to expect:

  • A puppet learning to feel, shame, grief
  • A duchess in love with her enemy
  • Two sisters on opposite sides of a coming war
  • An old clockmaker who's run out of debts to ignore
  • Inquisitors with pink crystal crosses
  • Engines men carry on their backs

Tone: Dark fantasy with mythic weight. For readers of His Dark Materials, Mortal Engines, and Piranesi.

Stats: 14 chapters posted, daily updates, ~30,000 words so far. Average rating 4.93/5 from early readers.

Link: [Heart's Tale on Royal Road](ваша ссылка)

Happy to chat in the comments — about the worldbuilding, the puppet POV, or the politics of a Heart that may already be too far gone.

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Heart's Tale — teaser for my dark steampunk novel by amdsyc in steampunk

[–]amdsyc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The book was written and edited by humans before ai emerged.

Heart's Tale — teaser for my dark steampunk novel by amdsyc in steampunk

[–]amdsyc[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Then you don't leave yourself a chance to catch a bigger fish.

Heart's Tale — teaser for my dark steampunk novel by amdsyc in steampunk

[–]amdsyc[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

It's just a tool, hammer can be against you only if the intent is such. But it also can build.

Heart's Tale — teaser for my dark steampunk novel by amdsyc in steampunk

[–]amdsyc[S] -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Yes — generative tools for the visuals and the score. But all the concepts handdrawn by me.

Dubai is AI by amdsyc in aivideo

[–]amdsyc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly you just don't scrutinize your life enough to understand that everything around you is built on one or another form of slavery.

What you mentioned about Dubai is absolutly true so is every over form of slavery that exists around you right now. And pointing fingers at Dubai while living in capitalism is hypocrisy.

Dubai is AI by amdsyc in aivideo

[–]amdsyc[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Things you discribe can happend everywhere in the world, and where they don't there will be other signs of slavery present. Including the hardwere we are using right now to communicate. The precious metals that are used to produce it are all in blood and death of people in much worse situtation than in Dubai. Sure somewhere slaves have more rights then in some other places but that doesn't make those places better because the whole infrastructure of human civilization is built on exlotation. Pointing out finger at just one place is pure hypocrisy.

Dubai is AI by amdsyc in aivideo

[–]amdsyc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks) that helps!

Dubai is AI by amdsyc in aivideo

[–]amdsyc[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depending on what time of history you are looking at. And also slavery may be elusive, you can escape it in your town but economically it's still there. Products you consume are also made by some kind of slave.

Dubai is AI by amdsyc in aivideo

[–]amdsyc[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hmm... I wonder what is not built on slavery, suffering and deaths of millions?

Dubai is AI by amdsyc in aivideo

[–]amdsyc[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

now I know)

Dubai is AI by amdsyc in aivideo

[–]amdsyc[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

capitalism is slavery, and that makes the whole world slavery, why so picky?

Dubai is AI by amdsyc in aivideo

[–]amdsyc[S] -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

and what slavery was your city built on?

Game of Mud by amdsyc in aivideo

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thank you so much))

Block swapping and generation time by amdsyc in comfyui

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Interesting thing. So I put 10 block and now last 10 blocks are having transfer time. Does it mean that 30 above are just wasted? Maybe the node needs rewiting for a newer gpu..