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Ghoulfluencer

@goblinfluencer.bsky.social

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They/them I'm mostly here to look at cool human art and photos, and sometimes post silly birds. Software tester and general nerd. Views my own and not those of my employers, partners, friends, or cats.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 28m

12.5 chapters in and I've only just figured out the Consensus app is a play on Discord, so still not feeling particularly smart today.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 31m

I used to be one of them then I got a job where I need a couple of hundred tabs open across a dozen windows, and habit has bled into my home life, until I now have about 200 tabs open in Firefox.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 20h

How is the story about the torture basement also one of the most sticky sweet things I've ever read?

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 22h

Already gone through one cycle of:

If you need to RP toxic masculinity, have you considered punching Aaron in the face.

Sadly that's probably a bad idea.

Wait, am I feeling sorry for the little shit.

But maybe he still needs to get slightly punched in nads as a tread.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

Me: "I'm loving all of these serialised novels I'm reading, but I now have about 8 books on the go, I should finish some of the published ebooks I'm partway through now that I'm mostly caught up."

Also me: immediately give in to the urge to start Sisters of Dorley

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

Well that sounds like technically I fight, so one point to the ferret I guess

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

True, but they're just a lil' guy

Photo of a small green lizard in a patch of sunlight, poking its head out from behind a block of wood

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

Looks good! And if you can't pull any of the out by hand it's still better riveted than a bunch of stuff I've seen people pay money for.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

I knew I had a dramatic sunset picture of it somewhere. Also reminded of the thematic black cat that likes to hang out in that graveyard.

Photo of the crossroads between 2 asphalt paths paths surrounded by 4 yew trees described in the original post. There are 3 gravestones along the path on the far side. Evening sunlight is hitting the top branches of the trees.

Photo of a black cat perched on an old gravestone in front of a hedge looking over it's shoulder with its tail trailing over the stone.

Statue of an angel with raised wings on a cross, illuminated from behind in orange sunlight. There is a single stand of illuminated spiderweb running from the front branch of the cross down to the trunk, level with the bottom of the angel's robe.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think I have one of those nearby, but can I interest you in a crossroads surrounded by four yew trees, in an old graveyard?

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

People who complain about the death of "chatting about last night's TV episode by the water cooler" have clearly never experienced "following an online yuri writer and all going feral in the comments together when she drops another banger update".

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

I've yet to try with my family even though I'm sure they'd be cool about it. On the bright side my friends' response was mostly a chorus of awful puns.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

So having Sara supervising is definitely going to reduce the levels of chaos and confusion, and definitely not do the opposite of that.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

I like you've carefully detailed how Mercie has come out to Sara 3 times already, to make sure the inevitable 4th time is maximally awkward.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 4d

25 according to my spreadsheet, I might have missed a couple from before I started keeping track, and counting things >~ 15k words. Also excluding a ton of stuff I've read on Scribblehub for the sake of my sanity.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 4d

Is a "A Rotten Girl" as cringe-inducing as the summary implies? Yes absolutely.

But also as someone incredibly susceptible to second hand embarrassment I still read the entire thing in a day, giggling the entire time, 10/10.

Jemmargh! Topaz (halloween edition) @jemma.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yeah, book promo.

"A Rotten Girl" is my literary satire that features the worst transfem getting involved in the worst industry, publishing. Serious, funny, angry, cringe-tastic; I am very proud of it.

jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#rotten

The cover of "A Rotten Girl"; a woman's face, with her eyes hidden by a rough band of white.

Text reads:
Pearl is a trans woman writer on the cusp of literary greatness... or so she thought until her agent informs her that her first book has sunken like a stone for its failure to "connect with normal people". Normal people. Heterosexual people. Cisgender people.

Jaded from the knowledge that this industry rarely lets in people like her, Pearl comes up with a plan: write a commercial male/male romance. Except the market's all about authenticity these days, isn't it? The plan gets complicated, drawing her into a web of escalating deceptions where she poses as a cisgender gay man and comes ever closer to destroying all her relationships, and her own life.

A Rotten Girl is a satirical drama that explores gender, public personas, the commodification of queerness—and the reality of what it is like to be a trans woman in a hostile world.

“This entire meditation on the pseudofeminism underpinning this market is so focused and cutting, you can't help but marvel at it.” - Talia Bhatt

jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#rotten

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d

"How I met my Mistress? Funny story, she used to be my ex-husband's mistress."
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"No, no, the other kind of mistress! Although come to think of it I don't actually know if..."
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"No, I am absolutely not going to ask her!"