David J. Stuart

@djstu

Published SFF author! Games of all stripes. He/Him #NoAI #TransRightsAreHumanRights My website: djstu.art/ My newsletter: buttondown.com/djstuart Buy my novel here:

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David J. Stuart@djstu· 28d

A friendly reminder I have a romantic urban fantasy on sale for cheap. People say it's good. I believe them, and so should you! books2read.com/firewindsaccord djstuart.itch.io/firewinds-accord (only $2 USD on itch!) 🌈📚📢📚 #WritingCommunity #IndiePub #BookSky

A drawing of a half-Asian man in a gray hoodie and blue jeans with long black hair, blue eyes and an office badge on a lanyard around his neck. The lanyard is being pulled down by a shorter, dark-skinned elf-like woman with long silver hair pulled into a ponytail and dark eyes. She's wearing a silver necklace with a ruby pendant, a blue long-sleeved blouse, and black pants with her hand on her hip. They are framed by the outline of leaves and vines, and in the corners, L-R, U-D: a paper coffee cup, a black cat's head, a dagger, and a cracked smartphone screen. The title in the upper-right corner is Firewind's Accord, and the author's name on the bottom is David J. Stuart.

A dark elf-looking woman with dark eyes in a modern blue blouse, ripped black jeans, and black combat boots with her white hair tied in a ponytail draped over her right shoulder stands on the left. On the right, a taller, light-skinned man with long black hair and blue eyes in a gray hoodie, black tshirt, blue jeans, and black shoes stands next to her with his hands in his hoodie pockets. Beneath them is an excerpt from Firewind's Accord: "If Jordan hadn't been so horrifically depressed, he would have caught the over-the-top appeal to his better nature. Lucky for her, his depression made him as perceptive as Mister Magoo in a diving helmet. He thumbed the rim of his cup as he tried summoning the will to care about his job. But maybe it wasn't his job he needed to care about. Maybe he could do right by someone in unwanted circumstances. Maybe he could be a benefit to someone instead of a detriment. There's a first time for everything."

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jul 12

If you would like to celebrate the death of a bigoted war hawk US senator, might I suggest picking up my urban fantasy/office romance Firewind's Accord here: books2read.com/firewindsaccord djstuart.itch.io/firewinds-accord (only $2 USD on itch!) 🌈📚📢📚 #WritingCommunity #IndiePub #BookSky

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jul 11

This is Vanilla. That's the post. Happy #Caturday.

A gray and white kitten standing on her hind legs next to a bird bath featuring a statue of a kitten inspecting the bird bath. The real kitten has one paw on the rim of the bath while another tux kitten inspects it.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jul 5

Shade, the momma cat we adopted, braved the fireworks last night and brought her entire litter to our backyard! #Cats

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 30

Shade's first vet appointment! #Cats

A medium-hair tuxedo cat with green eyes looking up at the ceiling.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 29

Glad to see Tidal actually having a policy regarding AI-generated music. It ain't perfect, but it's a start.

Hi David!
AI music generation tools are changing how music is created and distributed. As this technology evolves, Tidal is introducing platform standards to protect artists, their craft, and inform listeners.
Here are the highlights of our new AI Policy:
Tidal will identify and tag AI-generated music in our app. Listeners will see an "AI" badge next to music we detect as wholly AI-generated.
Tidal will not tolerate AI-generated music that impersonates an artist or group, or that facilitates fraudulent activity. We're implementing automatic tools to remove these releases immediately and on an ongoing basis.
Tidal will not allow music that is 100% AI-generated to be monetized. No royalties will go to such releases, nor will AI-generated uploads be eligible for direct-to-fan sales.

We will expand these policies to music that is substantially AI-generated when AI detection technology is sufficiently reliable to do so.
You'll start seeing these changes from July 15.
Check out the full policy here. To learn more, please visit our FAQ.
For the music,
The Tidal Team

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 29

OP, probably.

Ew, maybe meme with SEX ON FILM shown as repulsive, and MURDER ON FILM as nice.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 22

Hey #WritingCommunity, I'm part of a bundle on itch for queer disabled authors. For $25 USD, you can get 25 books from 25 authors. If I can get the math mathin', that's a dollar a book! Get it, and show some love to queer disabled authors for Pride! tinyurl.com/queerabled #BookSky #IndiePub

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 21

The "I'm in this photo and I don't like it" meme.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 17

John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons.
"This is Joson" the radio crackered. "You must fight the demons!"
So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US" said the demons
"I will shoot at him" said the cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the demons" he shouted
The radio said "No, John. You are the demons"
And then John was a zombie.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 15

Introduce yourself with four games

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 14

THEY SEE ME ROLLIN'

An AI-generated anime lady riding a piece of motorized luggage. It's remote controlled, apparently. This is a real thing sold by real stores, I shit you not.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Jun 3

Lauren from Twitter saying:

"I'm not falling for that hot take. That's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion.

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 24

This meme should be everyone's guiding star.

Person says to a group "I do not like that thing." One person from the group answers with a giant thumbs-up then goes back to ignoring the whiner.

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 22

#FuckICE

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 22

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 21

Stream's done. Time for lunch.

Sautéed mushrooms in a pan next to seared pork tenderloin, some heavy cream in a bowl, and thyme.

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 21

I think I'm gonna set myself a sales goal: one sale a week. Seems reasonable, yeah? So who wants to be my sale for the week? books2read.com/firewindsaccord djstuart.itch.io/firewinds-accord 💙📚 🌈📚📢📚 #WritingCommunity #IndiePub

A peach-gradient background. The cover for Firewind's Accord is on the right (see other image's alt text for cover description). On the left are a list of tropes: "Office romance with elves and orcs and all that; Pro-immigration story; What's the trope where two people are forced to work together and eventually fall in love? Yeah, that one; Sex, drugs, and rock & roll!" And underneath everything: "Just think Warhammer 40k meets The Office, but without all the fascism."

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 20

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 17

I have over 1000 games on Steam. Try me.

Get to know my Steam backlog

1 like = 1 game I own but have never played.

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 11

STOP USING AI AND CHATGPT
(Think for yourself and pick up a damn pencil.)

AI IS A FASCIST MACHINE.

someone is slapping a personification of AI in the face.

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 8

me and the 5 ppl who read my posts

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 3

I named my first cat Saki because of that show!

David J. Stuart@djstu· May 2

What I woke up to this #Caturday.

A tabby's feet are close to the camera, toes curled. The cat is very much asleep.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Apr 29

THE CRUELEST GIFT Mood Board Ana was chosen by AWOL gods to bring peace to the world. She failed miserably, killing a young friend in the process. Meanwhile, a zealous death cult threatens her home, and psychosis threatens her mind. She can only save one. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF

Mood board for THE CRUELEST GIFT with images depicting (L-R, T-B):

A black woman and white woman, both in white wedding garb kissing, holding a bouquet of flowers.

Hinako from Silent Hill f, curled up in almost prostration before a pair of discarded geta (old-style Japanese wooden sandals) on a blood-soaked muddy path, surrounded by crimson flowers.

A female assassin in black garb and hood. All we can see of her face is a bit of black hair and one brown and one blue eye.

The capital city of Leyndell from Elden Ring.

A muscular anthropomorphic black cat man, clearly a warrior of some sort.

Jim Jones, late cult leader and architect of the Jonestown Massacre, in his faux-priest garb and aviator sunglasses.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Apr 29

The Book Eaters x Harrow the Ninth x Silent Hill f Ana was chosen by AWOL gods to bring peace to the world. She failed miserably, killing a young friend in the process. Meanwhile, a zealous death cult threatens her home, and psychosis threatens her mind. She can only save one. #QuestPit #Q #A #DF

The text reads "An Agent's Guide to THE CRUELEST GIFT, a 125,000 word dark fantasy." It is laid over a dark gray background, framed by silhouettes of barren trees and cobwebs.

THE PITCH

When Ana Blufelt, arguably the most powerful spellslinger in Tabaria, is offered a divine quest promising vast riches, she can’t resist. Setting out with her three fellow mercenaries to a world not their own, success is certain…until it’s not. The group not only blunder the quest; the world they were supposed to bring peace to erupts into chaos. Unleashing her magic, Ana inadvertently kills a young villager, which sends her into a spiral of despair.

Upon returning home defeated, they find the reverberations of their actions have begun to affect their own world. A death cult vows to take down the monarchy, sowing seeds of dissent and terrorism. The ghost of the girl Ana killed haunts her, causing morbid hallucinations. And the friend group is broken as a magical relic is discovered and its power revealed. As civil unrest takes hold, destroying everything in its path, Ana must choose which to save: her homeland or her sanity.

THE SNIPPET
Ana barely recognized the cragged, crimson face staring back at her, eyes haunted and searching. While Tola had gone to draw up a bath, Ana had become transfixed by the mirror on the wall. Her eyes scanned the tear streaks below them, flowing down while she struggled to block out the rushing sound of water filling a large wooden basin. It sounded too much like the staticky ringing that had filled her ears in Bayhesht right before she had —
No. That was a dream. Is a dream. I’ll wake up soon, in my own bed in my parents’ crappy house in the Cut.
Her once-blue robes were now purple, brown, and black. There was no amount of washing and scrubbing that would erase the stains, no amount of Divine Spark that would wash away what Ana had done to —
No. Still a dream. Mom and Dad are gonna start arguing, and they’ll wake me up. I’m sure of it.
She wished she would’ve drank the whiskey Baari ordered for her. Her teeth felt dry and tasted bitter from when she’d puked blood in Bayhesht. She was pretty sure there were bits of bone in there too. None of it hers. The only wounds she had were from fingernails. Plus the fists she took to her head from —
No. Luma’la isn’t real. She couldn’t be. I’d never kill a kid. A monster, maybe. And Luma’la wasn’t a monster. Or a kid. She was a dream. Is a dream.
Her hair was severely matted. If she didn’t look too closely, it looked a bit like Royce’s tangled mess of tight curls. Her hair was less coarse than his, thanks to her mother’s telyn heritage. Her father Bohd’s tight black curls were always kept short. Combined, they’d created a girl with black, silky, wavy hair that got her more than one compliment as a student in the Madrasa.
Ana leaned toward the mirror, giving her hair a closer look. There was something brown and white in it, near the ends. Her fingers clawed at it, finding it tangled. It took some work, but she got the firm, pointy mass out.
It was a small finger, severed at the...

The rest won't fit in alt text. :(

THE COMPS

On the left, the cover of the book THE BOOK EATERS by Sunyi Dean. Written underneath: Fantastical Psych Horror

In the middle, the cover of the book HARROW THE NINTH. Written underneath: Unreliable POV

On the right, the promo image for Silent Hill f, featuring the protagonist in tattered clothes wielding a pipe and surrounded by some manner of encroaching red plague. Written underneath: Body Horror / Distorted Reality

David J. Stuart@djstu· Apr 28

Vibe coding: not even once.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Apr 28

Lolno

Some scammer impersonating BlueSky mods telling me my account has been suspended.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Apr 28

It's got some real "So you hate waffles" vibes going on.

Twitter post by @BravoCoolee:

Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted.

You can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?"

No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.

David J. Stuart@djstu· Apr 26

Dude... my friend... this is not the way. Stop. #WritingCommunity