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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 2h

greta gerwig really went off when she brought in bob odenkirk to say my little women in little women

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 3d

The best way to support my work, and everything at Arcbeatle Press from Academy 27 to Cwej to SIGNET and everything else is to back my Patreon. This is the core funding that keeps us afloat. Consider helping us make stories worth telling.
www.Patreon.com/jameswylder

Get more from James Wylder on Patreon

creating stories, poems, and live performances.

www.Patreon.com

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Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈 🎃 @barrackslife.com · 20h

Before you buy Girl Scout cookies you should know they support transgender girls and reject donations from anti-transgender organizations. Then buy a couple more boxes

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Expensive Fjord (Neovagina Evangelion) @gammarae.design · 1d

"Do you think it was having it lead by a widely hated cardboard actor who's also a sexpest cult leader who's every project in the last decade being record breaking bombs, and sprinkle it with cameos from some nepotistic rich shitheads?"

"No, it was the Tron that was wrong."

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

'Tron' Might Really Be Doomed After 'Tron: Ares'

A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.

gizmodo.com

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

The Chain Story Project has just released its latest offering: Two Stories this week, by gryphonrose.bsky.social and bobgreenberger.bsky.social

Please enjoy, like and repost. It really helps. Thank you.

www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-nine

Free Fiction, Round Nine — The Chain Story

For our ninth offering of free fiction, we invite you to enjoy two stories. The first is Aaron Rosenberg’s epic The Cursed Cuff , and the second is Robert Greenberger’s captivating Of Nightmares &am...

www.chainstorycore.com

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 23h

Yes.

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 23h

Welcome to BlueSky everyone! Its a friendly place. Say hello if you like.

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The Untold Adventures @claraoswaldtua.bsky.social · 1d

A very warm welcome to @b-j-oshea.bsky.social and @lesbiaudrey.bsky.social, who have joined the project’s creative team and are penning two exciting new stories for the series: Episode Five, ‘In Her Garden’ and Episode Six, ‘Salvation on an Endless Night’! 🥀💎 #DoctorWho #ClaraOswald

Digital art in the style of an old book cover entitled ‘In Her Garden’. A Mire helmet (as seen in ‘The Girl Who Died’) sits in a forest clearing, lit by a shaft of sunlight. It is being taken over by tendrils of blood-red roses. The image is textured to resemble cracked paint on embossed leather.

Digital art in the style of an old paperback book cover entitled ‘Salvation on an Endless Night’. An illustration of a clawed monster hand clutches a necklace whose pendant is set with a large, glowing, opaline gemstone. The background is a dark blue night sky scattered with stars.

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sarah @teganandsarahj.bsky.social · 1d

my friend was carjacked and her car was totaled, and she desperately needs to buy a new car to make it to work and classes to finish her degree! if you are able or if you hate insurance companies, please consider donating and sharing: gofund.me/2396793ec

Graphic showing a young blonde woman and the headline "Help Sammy buy a car after a carjacker totaled..." 2,230 to goal.

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 1d

Its fun that the Doctor has a completely inconsistent nonsensical tossed salad backstory thats impossible to make sense of with a straight face.

Its really annoying that characters like Ace have the exact same thing where you can't reconcile their appearances and they've died a bazillion times.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 1d

When developing Academy 27, we had to decide if we should keep the original tech-level of the WARSONG setting where you can travel to Mars easy but smartphones don't exist or just bite the bullet and retcon phones into being so the teenagers felt like teenagers for the reader. We updated. It worked.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

Also, this cultural "uncanny valley" gets really weird for science fiction, which is supposed to be about "the future" but was written for a then-contemporary audience (with a then-contemporary understanding of tech/science) so it has two full vectors of cultural shift, running at different speeds

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Joan Marie Verba @joanmarieverba.bsky.social · 1d

Including my short story, "Fragment of a Sorcerous Crown" (this and all the others are free to read!).

Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

If you want an easy, one stop page to check out all the fiction in the Chain Story so far, we got you.

(Please repost this so others can enjoy, too. Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/thus-fa...

Thus Far in our Story… — The Chain Story

Just to make it easy for you so you don’t have to dig through a ton of old posts, below we have a gallery of the Chain Story Project’s offerings so far. Just click on the images to head off to the web...

www.chainstorycore.com

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

If you want an easy, one stop page to check out all the fiction in the Chain Story so far, we got you.

(Please repost this so others can enjoy, too. Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/thus-fa...

Thus Far in our Story… — The Chain Story

Just to make it easy for you so you don’t have to dig through a ton of old posts, below we have a gallery of the Chain Story Project’s offerings so far. Just click on the images to head off to the web...

www.chainstorycore.com

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 2d

Is this the movie where the alien guns were powered by copper pennies? If so i watched it on TV as a kid in the basement. It always felt like a bit of a fever dream!

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 2d

This cover rewired my brain.
youtu.be/ojWg6UqFkcA?...

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Faith ➡️ Lightbox Expo AA506 @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 3d

weird painting to test out my new inking pen ☀️

watercolor painting- a woman kneels behind a bush, carrying an approximation of an antique musket/rifle (I did not look at reference for this one so the shape is a bit off lol sorry everybody!). She is wearing a wildly impractical but fun outfit- a high cut onepiece with baggy ankle boots, a helmet and a big swan hat/cape.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 3d

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James Wylder aka arcbeatle @arcbeatle.bsky.social · 3d

The best way to support my work, and everything at Arcbeatle Press from Academy 27 to Cwej to SIGNET and everything else is to back my Patreon. This is the core funding that keeps us afloat. Consider helping us make stories worth telling.
www.Patreon.com/jameswylder

Get more from James Wylder on Patreon

creating stories, poems, and live performances.

www.Patreon.com

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 3d

This may be the greatest post I’ve ever seen on this site.

Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 7d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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The Untold Adventures @claraoswaldtua.bsky.social · 4d

It’s been a long road, but our destination is finally in sight. We’re delighted to announce that The Untold Adventures will be launching with its first episode on the 5th of December 2025, marking a decade since the airing of ‘Hell Bent’. 🎸✨ #DoctorWho #ClaraOswald

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Jayce @jayceb.bsky.social · 4d

This is so good 😩

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 4d

Patreon's changed stuff again

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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It's Me, Mike Olson at Gamehole Con @devlin1.bsky.social · 4d

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