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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 16h

Okay I just thought you guys should see exactly what the UK got as a Legends Z-A preorder bonus. Mug, baseball cap, three figurines, enamel pins and an umbrella.

Forgive the three years of bad luck but you also have to see the inside of the umbrella

A baseball cap with the mega evolution symbol, a mug, enamel pins and a diorama with Tepig, Totodile and Chikorita, an umbrella with blue Pokéballs around it and figurines of Mega Charizard X and Y

Opened up umbrella, showing Mega Lucario, Gardevoir, Ampharos and both of Charizard's Mega Forms.

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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 23h

Why don't airports provide bookshelves where people can swap books for free as standard? Surely it's the ideal situation where some people will have books they don't want to bring home, meanwhile some people there might be desperate for reading material.

Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 1d

Who wants to invest with me on a chain of airport lounges called the Four Hour Early Club?

It'll have a free library!

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Maxine Vee @maxinevee.bsky.social · 2d

Late Night Study 🦇🔮 #illustration

Three girls gather around in the center of the painting as the witch (middle) casts a magical spell in Scarlett’s room (vampire.) The character to her right is Frankenstein’s daughter. The character sitting by the window is a vampire. We see books, pages, drinks, spread across the floor.

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geneva / LBX 534 @gdbee.bsky.social · 1d

*Drag n Drop*
RIP Win10. I'm never upgrading 😭

Illustration of a witch in a pink hat, heart glasses and sweater dragging a mouse cursor magically across a desktop. There's multiple files overlaid across the desktop. Drawn by gdbeeart, Oct 2025

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 5d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 6d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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geneva / LBX 534 @gdbee.bsky.social · 7d

🌈 ramen noodles

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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 6d

Shame there was no-one Who could Doctor a solution for that

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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 6d

Fun fact, the Pokémon Exeggcute was going to have an alternate evolution in Galar called Eggsgerminate. This would have been a robot with egg-shaped spots on it's hull and a telescope-like branch coming from it's head.

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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 6d

What do you get if you dress yellow Pikmin up in denim and goggles? Pik-minions!

Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 6d

Neurodivergent life hack: forget to eat? No energy to cook? Just make food into your hyperfixation and never miss a meal again!
Side effects include:
- get distracted thinking up recipes
- daydream about your next meal
- impulsively drop money on seeking out new foodie experiences

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Dr. Phil Acula, Vampire @msico.bsky.social · 9d

A good friend's cat could use some help, or a share! gofund.me/afb6fd260

Donate to Help Henley and Her Mom with Medical Costs, organized by Ashley Sawatzke

Hi! I'm Ashley and I'm Henley's Mom. Baby Henley is 16 1/2 and is h… Ashley Sawatzke needs your support for Help Henley and Her Mom with Medical Costs

gofund.me

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Erika/Bun (eriartdotnet) @bunabi.bsky.social · Jun 22

I'm alive! Here's my Dragon Age Flower Zine piece! 🌼 🌼 🌼

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Maxine Vee @maxinevee.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Witchtober! 🍁🧡🍂 #art

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13d

www.booksthroughbars.org

Books Through Bars Philadelphia

Books Through Bars sends free books to incarcerated people in the mid-east United States. We are a volunteer-run nonprofit based in Philadelphia, PA.

www.booksthroughbars.org

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 14d

The reason the BBC works is that it hardly has to think about commercial interests or catering to a certain specific audience (aka affluent subscription users).

The people who should know this but don’t is really concerning.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 14d

Reason the BBC works is its universality. If you replace that with a subscription, it is gone forever.

Lisa Nandy: Replace BBC licence fee with mix of funding

www.thetimes.com/article/4f4e...

Lisa Nandy: Replace BBC licence fee with mix of funding

The culture secretary has ruled out using general taxation to pay for the broadcaster and is also planning to prevent politicians presenting news programmes

www.thetimes.com

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 16d

“Photos: The Colors of Fall” www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

“A motorcyclist rolls past trees whose leaves are changing color with the advance of autumn, on September 24, 2025, in New London, New Hampshire.” Charles Krupa / AP

“Soybeans are harvested on the Warpup Farm in Warren, Indiana, on September 17, 2025.” Michael Conroy / AP

“All kinds of pumpkins are displayed at a farm in Büttelborn, near Frankfurt, Germany, on September 23, 2025.” Michael Probst / AP

“Northern lights appear in the sky over autumn trees in Anchorage, Alaska, on September 29, 2025.” Hasan Akbas / Anadolu / Getty

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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 17d

Necessary: Never Eat Cabbage Eat Slug Sandwiches And Remain Young

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 19d

An essay about death threats, censorship, loss, and the silence of cis people. All of these events happened in one week. I'm exhausted.

www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...

Transgender Dystopia Blues

One especially dystopian week in the life of a trans person in 2025 USA. Things are getting worse.

www.rosalarian.com

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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 18d

Thunderbirds are 60!

When they replayed the old series when I was younger, it caused such a shortage of Tracy Island toys that they were impossible to get hold of. Blue Peter did a craft tutorial to make your own, and the demand for the instructions broke the website.

Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 19d

It's difficult to talk about her in the last book without getting into outright spoilers, but by the end of the series, she's able to perform some of the more complicated magic of any of the protagonists. She has a very satisfying character arc over the series.

Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 19d

Don't let her kindness fool you, though - she raises what is one of the strongest types of unicorn in the worldlore in terms of raw power, something that scared her at first, since her type of unicorn is so powerful they can often endanger their riders lives.

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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 19d

In the third book, during a discussion with the protagonist, she says that she never felt like anyone's first choice of friend, that people would hang around with her if they had no other option, but no-one was ever there for her when she needed them, and that resonated with me.

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Fiona @apple314.bsky.social · 19d

I've got to tell you all about my (second) favourite fictional character of all time, because most of you have probably never heard of her.

Her name is Florence Shekoni from the Skandar series.

She's one of those characters who is always kind, and starts the series quite insecure.

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