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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1d

Yoda Stitch is complete!

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 3h

To be fair, is Mario not on drugs? Dude is convinced he turns into a giant whenever he eats mushrooms

Super Mario Wonder really drives it home he sees some trippy shit

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M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 6h

Tonight! I'll be reading "Interstate Mohinis" (originally published in @diabolicalplots.com) for the first time ever! Be there, or be square 🖤🌃▪️

Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 1d

Spookymonth continues apace! This week, two favorites return: M.L. Krishnan and Gemma Files. Yes, really. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! @emelkrishnan.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Head-and-shoulders red-tinged color photo of writer M.L Krishnan, a woman with light brown skin and straight, glossy hair pulled back. Her hair may be black or may be purple; the red light makes this a mystery. She wears large plastic-framed glasses, a red silk tank, gold earrings with ornate hearts hanging from sunburst decorated with red hearts, a gold ring in her septum and several gold rings on her fingers, red lipstick, and black cat-eye eyeliner. She rests her chin on one beringed hand, her face in three-quarter view, and regards the camera with a serious expression.

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 9h

Right but it doesnt really do anything well (except scamming) and it fails to do what computers have done well for decades.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 10h

the Apex kickstarter is at $8728 out of a $20,000 base goal

this is all or nothing! You gotta fund Apex by October 31!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 10h

True! I am am one of those humans that could not do that!
And this is the incredible machine we invented that can't do simple multiplication tables, a thing which much simpler machines have been able to do for more than a half century!

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 10h

Lol what do you mean the bullshitting machine does not make accurate chemical diagrams *shocked Pikachu face*

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 20h

wasabi, so that the book is technically a medical device (for clearing your sinuses) LOL

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 20h

Oh thats neat a fun little bonus!

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 21h

Dorito, Frito, and KC Masterpiece

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 21h

Someone has shared an excellent video of someone taking apart a Gameboy to clean the battery terminals, I do not have time to get quite that involved at the moment, but I will certainly use that video to try!

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 21h

Oh thank you that's super helpful! I was afraid to take it apart that far so I just stopped at opening the clamshell

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 21h

Oh thats good to know! I had no idea what it was, I thought it was a little weird that it was so featureless without circuit lines on it so that makes sense!

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 22h

Ok,just try to dab away at the green patches with it?

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 22h

what do you clean it with? The green patches on the copper seem suspect?

copper part of game boy with maybe corrosion?

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 22h

Here is the inside. I, uh, don't know what I'm looking at here. Those green patches on the copper seem not intentional, are those corrosion? How do I clean them up? Am I missing something that looks out of place?

A Game Boy opened up like a clam shell with chips and copper and stuff inside

closer view of half the clamp shell that maybe has some corrosion on a big copper pad?

the other half of the clam shell, nothing seems marred here?

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 22h

still maybe a little something to clean up here? I dont know how much actually matters

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 22h

So a while ago I was like oh I will open it up and see if anything looks damaged inside and found that they use a specialty screwdriver with a tri-point head. So I had to order the screwdriver somewhere and by the time it arrived I was busy doing something else

screw in the Game Boy with a tri-point head

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 22h

Original Game Boy, stopped working after leaving batteries in there too long and they corroded. Have tried cleaning up the terminals but still wouldn't power up

an original game boy, gray rectangle with square green screen and direction pad, select and start and A and B buttons

the back of the Game Boy, mostly gray and featureless

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1d

Ooooh neat! what kind of stitching is that, i dont know much about embroidery :)

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James Stanton @critical-wit.bsky.social · 1d

I keep deciding this one isn't done yet. I started filling in the word sections all with a light blue so the words stand out more.

Stained glass style embroidery of a spider web with an eye in the center, and at the bottom in web segments, the words You Will Not Break Me.

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1d

Ooh that seems like a nice place for a writers retreat!

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1d

I so rarely have real free time that I am finding that when I do I have sort of forgotten how to use it.
Maybe I... write that Deadlands article they approved my pitch for more than a year ago and see if they still might want it?

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1d

Hell yes!

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Evelyne Park @evelynepark.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #portfolioday to all who celebrate!

I'm Evelyne, painting book illustrations in acrylics... especially for Gothic horror, fantasy, but also colourful sci-fi, always focused on characters.

www.evydraws.com/portfolio
✉️ [email protected]

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1d

I kept calling the other one "HBO Max" while it went to "Max" and back again LOL