TALES OF GRIMWICKE — Chapter I is 22 minutes of AI fantasy animation inspired by the many anthropomorphic animal stories I read as a kid, with a dark twist:
The model: Seedance 2.5 (@ByteDanceSeed_ ) via @Segmind_ai. 847 takes generated, mostly 30-second multi-shot prompts, over 5 hours of footage. 127 clips made the cut. About $4.5k in generation, four weeks from first take to publish.
Characters and locations came out of @midjourney. Using MJ for the location plates was a revelation: the cinematography and art direction are a level above, and it renders far better as a plate than Nano Banana or GPT Image. Nano Banana (@GoogleDeepMind run on @fal) did the heavy lifting editing those plates, building anchor frames and turning MJ characters into turnaround sheets. Then I let Seedance do as much of the framing and camera operating as possible. That gave the best results.
A lot of what I do in my Unreal Engine films came with me: a handheld, imperfect camera operator instead of smooth moves, focus hunting, and above all weather and atmospherics. The model does water, snow, smoke and rain really well, and leaning into that is what keeps it from looking like a Temu Pixar film.
The tools I built: a portal (Node on @flydotio) that holds the bible, the refs, every prompt and every take, with a Claude agent (@claudeai) that writes the prompts to the house rules. A Premiere Pro (@AdobeVideo) panel that browses the archive, drops selects on the timeline, versions the project, strips music, and sends fixes back to Seedance. Everything is done in 720p with no upscaling, because it looks terrible. Narration is my own voice through @ElevenLabs speech-to-speech. Music from @Artlist_io.
None of this would exist without @PJaccetturo and @Kavanthekid. Their narrative work, Nexus and Chronicles of Bone, proved long-form AI film was possible, and their podcasts, newsletters and X posts, updated constantly as the workflow changes under everyone's feet, showed how to actually do it.
Chapter II is currently in the works and I will release it initially on my YouTube channel, The Darkest Age (@CharlieDriscollAI). Consider subscribing there to see it as soon as it drops!
Masoumeh Ebtekar - also known as "Screaming Mary" - was the spokeswoman for the Islamic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days - subjecting them to beatings, starvation, and mock executions.
In 2014, the Obama Administration granted visas to her son and his family to enter the United States. In June 2016, the Obama Administration gave them lawful permanent resident status via the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.
This week, I terminated their lawful permanent resident status and today, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending their removal from our country.
Her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country.
America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families - and under the Trump Administration, it never will.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 An American pilot with 25 years of experience, a veteran of three wars and hundreds of combat sorties, spoke about Israeli military pilots. He published a post that quickly went viral:
“I’ve flown over Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. I thought I had seen everything.
But when I saw what the Israeli Air Force is doing in Iran, I realized I’m still a student.
Precision. Logistics.
200 aircraft in one night.
500 targets.
1,500 kilometers.
No aerial refueling from American bases.
All the fuel from home.
All the weapons from home.
It’s like flying from Miami to New York, bombing targets along the way, and returning—
while 200 aircraft move simultaneously without a single collision.
To the Israeli pilots:
You are not just the best in the Middle East.
You are the best in the world.
And that’s the final word.”
Today, I am proud to be Israeli.
Despite all the shaming.
Despite all the UN "resolutions".
Despite all the academics.
Despite all the online pressure.
Israel is cleaning the Middle East from radical religious terrorists. One by one.
They will not thank us for it.
But someone had to do the job.
@OmarHamadD Actually Mecca (Saudi Arabia) is the holiest city in Islam: Mecca is explicitly mentioned in the Quran, while Jerusalem is not mentioned at all.
🧵 Gaza Journalists Deaths Analysis
[Long-Updating Thread] Intro in the quoted post.
Journalist #1
📅 07-Oct-2023 | 📍 Rafah (Allegedly Israeli Territory)
Mohammed Sami Abdullah Jarghoun
محمد سامي عبد الله جرغون
📰 Journalist at Smart Media
🎙️ Role: Journalist
Praised repeatedly as a mujahid, “advancing and not retreating.” Died on the battlefields.
Izrael porazil Írán.
Izrael porazil Hizballáh.
Izrael porazil Hamás.
Izrael je náš štít před islámským terorem.
Česko Izrael neopustilo ani v nejtěžších hodinách. A neopustí. 🇨🇿🤝🇮🇱
في قصة مدفونة تحت ركام غزة…
عن ناس عا��وا فيها، وكان إلهم دور، واختفوا.
منسيين من التاريخ… وما حدا بيحكي عنهم.
اضغط وشوف بعينك - يمكن تكتشف شي ما خطر عبالك👇
There’s a story buried beneath the rubble of Gaza…
About people who once lived there, played a role, and then disappeared.
Forgotten by history… and no one talks about them.
Click and see for yourself – you might discover something you never imagined👇
Yesterday, October 8th, 2025: UNRWA claimed there’s “famine” in Gaza.
Today, October 9th, 2025: After Trump announced a ceasefire deal, UNRWA suddenly says there’s enough food in Gaza for 3 months.
Strange? Not really.
UNRWA's goal is not to help Palestinians move forward.
It is to preserve their refugee status and fuel endless war against Israel.
They lie. They manipulate. And they do it using your tax money - from the US, Europe, Japan and more.
At the same time, Israel is sending over 500 food trucks into Gaza every single day.
The media stays silent and perpetuates the narrative of famine.
Shut down UNRWA.
If Israel falls to jihad, it’s only a matter of time until we all do.
I will end islam in Texas once & for all.
The October 7th & 9/11 attacks will look like dress rehearsals if jihadist terrorists take over.
This is Americans Against Jihad.
On October 7th, this Palestinian terrorist, a monster, ran and shot everyone in sight.
He chased down two young Jewish women and shot one of them. The other begged on her knees, but he shot her in the head.
Don't you dare forget why Israel is at war.