Amy E. Casey | Writer

Yes! More of this!!

So happy to be here. 🎧

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Hoping for Milwaukee. 🥰

Same!

The views these days cannot be bested.

Absolutely.

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PSA: Everyone, remember that today we are one day closer to the November release of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein film. I am waiting in AGONY!!! 🖤
@realgdt.bsky.social

So STOKED to have a new flash fiction piece out in the excellent @major7mag ! 🎧❤️‍🔥💿

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

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Check the beauty of the 414.

Congrats!!

Also, if Ted Chiang spoke to me I would probably pass out. You look remarkably composed!

Fact one: fairies are real.
Fact two: fairies are bugs.

Hummingbird clearwing moth in my garden!

If secret theater troupe in a similar vein will serve... my query is already in your inbox! 🥹 Happy hunting!

The Passion of Creation - Leonid Pasternak, 19th Century

Wait... he used AI to "prove" that his shitty fake query got no action and that somehow means agents don't read? This is the stupidest thing in the world.

Do not give up your ability to reason.
Do not give away your need to struggle.
Do not atrophy your capacity to decide.
Do not confuse efficiency for goodness.
Do not monochrome the colors of your voice.
Do not devalue your body.
Do not hand over your mind.
Do not make a machine a god.

Today's one-word five star review: Discoveries

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS by Steve Brusatte
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If only every margarita could hit like the airport salvation marg does when your flight is delayed.

Something I love about older women is how they are relentlessly and adorably on theme. Is it fall? She's going with the pumpkin sweatshirt. Home team playing on TV tonight? Packers pin is on and prominent. Valentine's Day? You best believe she's wearing pink and red.

You are living my dream.

Poet @meghanor.bsky.social nails it. Full article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

The novel I am currently querying grapples with these ideas. I wrote most of it on a typewriter. #amquerying

Summer in Wisconsin is so damn lovely.

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Y'all have no idea how much self-control it is taking to not let my Jurassic Park meme game to eke out onto the Bluesky account. But do rest assured, I am having a Jurassic July.

I dare you to write a piece with a structure inspired by nature. Snail shell template. Fiddlehead template. Birch bark template. Wasp nest template.

#amwriting

In 2019, I was forever changed by hearing the luminous Andrea Gibson perform in a little theater in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Rest in peace, bright bright soul. ✨️

@andreagibson.bsky.social

I absolutely love this. There is huge value in the chaotic happenstance of ideas and literary voice as one part life experience, two parts brazen human confidence. I hope you'll watch for my literary query that responds intentionally to the pervasive knell of AI. It will not take us! :)

Art cannot be separated from bodies. Something to remember.

Throw a party for no reason.

Today's one-word five star book review: Intent

THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula K. LeGuin

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