L.L. Bryant

@llbryant.ca

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Author, father, retro-gamer, ancient Sonic fan, occasional funny person. I post as often as social anxiety allows. NEW BOOK: The Neonnis Knights: The White Knight and the Technosiah out now! https://llbryant.ca/books/

Screenshot of an email that reads: Hi Bryant, I just finished your book, and honestly, it's still lingering in my mind. It grabbed me right from the first page and kept me hooked all the way through. What really stood out to me was [mention a specific character, scene, theme, or writing style]. It resonated deeply and gave me a whole new perspective.
Promo image of the cover of "The Neonnis Knights: The White Knight and the Technosiah" with silly ad blurbs. The Blurbs include: A sci-fantasy adventure Medieval Knights in high tech power armor Irresponsable time travel without the worry about paradoxes Low magic setting with one minor exception Flirty alcehmist lady who is your new problematic fave (hopefully) Described as 'Terminator with sword lesbians' by beta readers Child of 'prophecy' in a hostile city Hyper competent MC with a (scribbled out damaging voice) friend in her head.
A screenshot of a pargaraph from a word document. it reads: In the end the choice was obvious. She looked at Cian. “You son of a bitch. I’m in,” She said. It was a line that would probably be cut in later revisions, but at the moment, word count was king, and even fucking around like this was putting words down. Still better than using AI to write your book.... probably."
Promo art for the Avatar characters being added to the sonic racing game. However, the text seems to mix up two different characters from the franchise. Image is of Aang and Katara, but the text reads "Master the elements to secure first, with Aang and Korra joining the race in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds!"
Image of the book cover, with a few sets of text with arrows pointing towards it. It's got: Knights in power armor. Odd couple stick in a hostile city. Flirt lady alchemist frienemy. Irresponsible time travel plot. Card themed factions. Main character with a snarky voice in her head.
A parody image of the old arcade "winners don't use drugs" screen, where it instead says "winners didn't use generative ai"
Kingambit, a red and black beetle/samurai
Online form, which has a skill testing question. It asks, what's 10 + 6. The answer is apparently not 16.
a customized version of the "aren't you tired of being nice" meme featuring two characters from the book. One's a redhead with a flame-looking scar on her face, while the other is a blonde woman in knight armor. Over 2 pannels, the redhead approaches a bit too close while asking "Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go apeshit?"
Image of a greeting card rack. The battery or card says "cope". The first card underneath which is partially obscured, just says "okay".
Parody cover of the "I prefer girls" meme/ 1960s book.
Image of the cover for the book. It also has added notes, such as: Knights in power armor. Odd couple stuck together in a hostile city. Flirty Frienemy Alchemist lady. Irresponsible time travel plot. Card themed factions. Main character with a snarky voice in her head.
A blocked by user screen for the technical advisor of Bluesky. I've really made it now.
Screenshot from Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown showing an in memoriam message for Neelix.
Cover for the book "The Neonnis Knights: The White Knight and the Technosiah." It's got a pair of playing cards on the front driving two characters as the ace of diamonds and a joker. The ace shows a blonde woman transitioning into power armor, while the joker shows a green haired man looking cocky and slightly unhinged.
Image of a set of Pogs with Mega Man X characters on them. Part of an old Nintendo Power promotion.
Image of a bunch of kids standing around with open books. However, the image is very obviously generated by ai as some of the kids have shirts that say 'Be Eind', 'Buoke a Dangle', and a scribbly mess that almost says 'Skeeskity' but it's illegible.
Photo of two books. The one on the left has a cover fine in an 8-bit style. The one on the right is more "traditional" but it's also washed out and has terrible composition. Both are ostensibly of the same book, "Masters of the system: Genesisters" but the one on the right is an older design by a very amateur Double L.
Entryway to a single floor building. Above the door is a glass overhang, covered in about 3 feet of snow that looms, ominously ready to fall and crush its enemies. I make my offerings and pray I am worthy, either to enter safely, or be crushed quickly.
High score table with sonic chargers and their scores in the game. Dr.Eggman is in 10th with a pitiful 7370 score
The word I got was 'perilous'.
fake screenshot of Manfred Von Karma saying "Oh, good. The defence knows what the word 'almost' means. Perhaps he'll be able to tell me when he's 'almost' done wasting eveyone's time."
Sonic meme where he is lounging, saying "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding"
Screenshot showing i dumped over 5 hours into Mighty No. 9
Scrape showing i had the 3ds Ambassador Certificate, given to folks with launch window 3dses.
word count of a thing. currently at 1095 words. if I were doing nanowrimo, I'd only be 2000 words behind.
An ad for 'Novel November' by ProWritingAid. Text reads "50,000 words, 30 days, 1 novel Introducing Novel November—the only writing challenge that takes you from blank page to first draft in one month for free." Purple monkey dishwasher.
Image of a tweet from the official Mega Man account saying the exact stupid thing I praised the official announcement for avoiding. Mega Man: "Guess our works are going to close! Why does that sound so familiar?" Fucking boo!
Image of an email. Text reads: Hi there! We’re thrilled to share some exciting news with you—your book has been featured on a curated list of indie content on Bookshop.org! Congratulations on this fantastic recognition!
Parody image of the old "winners don't use drugs" arcade splash screen, which instead reads "winners don't use generative ai".
Two Magic the gatering/Final Fantasy cards on a table. One titled "Town Greeter", depicting a guard from Cornelia, and "Warrior's Sword", depicting a red-haired bishi warrior who seems happy with the sword he's holding.
A blonde woman (Aurealis), wearing megaman-style power armour, carying a reg-haired woman in bridal style.
Screenshot from Majora's Mask. Black text on white reading "Dawn of a new day".
Screenshot from Majora's Mask. "Dawn of the final day. 24 hours remain."
screenshot from Majora's Mask. "Dawn of the 2nd day. 48 hours remain."
Screenshot from Majora's Mask. "Dawn of the third day. 72 hours remain"
4 emails with their subjects in reverse chronological order 1 - Disney + - We're sorry to see you go 2 - Disney + - We noticed a new login 3 - Netflix - We're sorry to say goodbye 4 - Netflix - A new device is using your account
Image of the crew from "Power Rangers in Space", in their non-morphed uniforms.
Picture of the book cover for Masters of the System: Genesisters, with the rankings below. They're not great in an objective sense, but I like them. The ranking are: #7955 in Science Fiction & Fantasy, High Tech & Military Sci-Fi #17399 in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure Sci Fi #42135 in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
A search result, leading to Amazon, which says "literary agents Canada - Deals on literary agents canada (ad)"
Ralph Wiggum "I'm in danger" meme. A screenshot from the Simpsons, with Ralph sitting in the back of the bus, matter-of-factly saying "I'm in danger," after chuckling.
The star wars Anakin and Padme 4 frame meme: Panel 1 - Anakin: My book is getting a relaunch after five years. Panel 2 - Padme (smiling): Wow. With five years, you must have put a lot of work into the sequel. Panel 3 - Anakin: (silently staring) Panel 4 - Padme (not so smiley): You put work into the sequel... right?
A normal book, not actually 3d printed. The title is "Masters of the System: Genesisters." And the cover depicts a woman in a jacket, back lit, facing the sky watching 2 spaceships fly into the night sky, all depicted in a pixelated style.
Book on a desk. The book, "Masters of the System: Genesisters" has a wide 'not for resale' banner across it.
A parody of the old "Winners don't use drugs" messages that would appear on arcade game screens in their attract mode. This version replaces the FBI crest with a similarly coloured book with the letters AI on it with a red cross icon over it. The text at the bottom reads "Winners don't use Generative AI." Atributed to "L.L.Bryant. Writer. Human"
Outdoor image of a round table, covered in snow. The snow is about 2 feet high off the table. The snow around is high, but you can still see the legs.
Screenshot of an email that reads: The Challenge: 2000 push ups over 18 days -move your body, support your mind. Why it matters: Suicide is the leading cause of death among youth (15-35 years old). Not included in the screenshot, but a bonus for Alt text readers: Better do them push-ups, or you'll want to kill yourself.
Slowpoke saying "Happy Halloween"
Cover art for Arzette.
Von Karma, saying "Yes, you nincompoop. That's what the word 'almost' means. Get to the point."
5 cards from a Pokemon tcg pull. Each one is a shiny full art card, which I've never seen before.
Knuckles the tv show nominated for best adaption.
Lanolin the Sheep from the sonic comics, drawn pencil on paper, in the "this is fine" meme.
Nintendo's music app set to play the wii shop channel music for an hour.
Geese/loons crossing a suburban street
A digimon 20th anniversary keychain/toy/video game thing.