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Writer of distressing stories and DnD adventures. Clarion West 2017, CWNWW 2025! Work in Dark Matter Magazine and The Deadlands. They/Them

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I’m so sorry. I know it hurts so much to say goodbye πŸ’œ

27.02.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i luv napping & sleeping & laying in my bed

15.02.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

15.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 1294 πŸ” 381 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 24

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 41469 πŸ” 14042 πŸ’¬ 658 πŸ“Œ 594

servant of imperial messaging upset by anti-imperial messaging, more at 11

16.01.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

making robots that look like people is almost always a choice to sacrifice efficient form for the feeling of owning a person

07.01.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

04.01.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 43467 πŸ” 16078 πŸ’¬ 326 πŸ“Œ 411
"They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation."
- Ghorman senator Dasi Oran, to Mon Mothma as the Empire baselessly justifies another atrocity.

"They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation." - Ghorman senator Dasi Oran, to Mon Mothma as the Empire baselessly justifies another atrocity.

03.01.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 3274 πŸ” 754 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 14

Dress for the gender you want, not for the gender you have

26.12.2025 19:03 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...

The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.

"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.

Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.

08.11.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 770 πŸ” 176 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1

me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself
me to me: wtf is wrong with you

04.11.2025 02:10 πŸ‘ 1209 πŸ” 455 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 8

You didn’t hear this from us, but the Old English word 'sibb' meant β€œrelated by blood.”

This is where we get the 'sibling.'

And 'godsibb' essentially meant β€œgodparent.”

Over time, it came to mean "close friend."

Now it is something we share w/ close friends...

'gossip.'

30.10.2025 18:16 πŸ‘ 1044 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 9

i think it's worth it to read Lovecraft, and not just because so much horror canon comes from him. his work embodies an extremely specific kind of modern american derangement syndrome, whereby someone can tell Something Is Wrong, but they aim their fear in the wrong direction, i.e. at minorities.

24.10.2025 14:08 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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I know inflation is bad but if this pricing is accurate and we can find thirty or forty more, we can take care of this nonsense the old school way

24.10.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
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This is how you blurb

23.10.2025 12:41 πŸ‘ 1177 πŸ” 289 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 25

tolkien: man I'm sure glad my book about how much industrialization sucks has found its intended audience, dudes who build war machines and want to kill the night sky

22.10.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 203 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

With great pride and pleasure I offer you this fiercely optimistic tale, informed by how bad everything sucks right now, beautifully read by christianaellis.bsky.social.

16.10.2025 23:47 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Narrative Designer Job Opening: Narrative Designer at CCP Games in ReykjavΓ­k.

Hey narrative folks my team is looking for a narrative designer to come work with me in Iceland! If you have solid storytelling fundamentals, some technical experience, and live ops or adjacent experience, we are looking for someone like you!

careers.ccpgames.com/en/postings/...

15.10.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4
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Lead Writer Company Description: To create revolutionary, story-driven RPGs which go straight to the hearts of gamers β€” this is our mission. Want to dive deeper into our company’s culture? Explore our social medi...

OPPORTUNITY Lead Writer - CDProjekt - US

Not affiliated. Shares welcome

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08.10.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

GREY GARDENS in space:

A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station.

He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience.

#DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

08.10.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6
Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.

Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.

Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #SpaceOpera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE.

Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.

04.10.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 1

Important to understand that many lies are not meant to be convincing. When a schoolyard bully steals your lunch money, he says "that's mine." The absurdity is the point. It's an assertion of dominance. It is to say "reality is whatever I say it is. You disagree? What are you gonna do about it?"

03.10.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 264 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6

Home libraries are more than books.
When children pass a wall of books and see parents reading, it has the unspoken effect of showing how much knowledge there is to know and how much they don't know.

I recall looking through my mom's books wondering what they were all about and created a curiosity.

30.09.2025 14:58 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 4

Stop buying Brandon Sanderson's books.

28.09.2025 15:16 πŸ‘ 897 πŸ” 411 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 11

i am gesturing at the democrats as well as the republicans when i stare straight into your eyes and ask you if you're tired of these freaks being in charge of you yet

23.09.2025 23:29 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first QNews LGBTIQA+ News

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

23.09.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 14655 πŸ” 4290 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 157

you don't make socially relevant/critical art expecting it to magically destroy all the evil in the world, you make it to let conscious people in the present and future know that they're not alone, to preserve our collective memory

18.09.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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