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@jaredgoring.com

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I write, and more. No AI here. Many labels apply, including but not limited to: Canadian Ukrainian nonbinary bi/pansexual polyamorous anticapitalist autistic etcetera... Possible content:📖📷🐈🐕💩😂🏛⚧️🆒️🛠🔞 etc. DMs open, all feedback welcome! <3

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 21d

Updates!

I have a website now! There's some free writing there, and other things! Rants! Raves! Reviews! Free stories! jaredgoring.com

I have some stuff on itch now! (Only one for now but hey) jrade.itch.io

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 23m

Oh no that's terrible! I'm glad there's at least some recourse for you, but that sounds so deeply unfortunate - fruits and veg are so tasty! 😭 😭 😭

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 2h

Agreed, I have Mint on my writing laptop and it's carefree and easy!

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.bsky.social · 4h

A L W A Y S

ao3 tags @ao3struggles.bsky.social · Mar 21

the real villian is late stage capitalism

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 4h

Me, for the nearly ten years I couldn't eat apples:

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4h

There is no anguish quite so sweet as learning about an apple that you hadn’t heard of and likely won’t taste

Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social · 4h

Had to go to Scotland to taste these #apples for the first time
adamapples.blogspot.com/2025/10/rajk...

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 8h

One keeps you going for tomorrow, for next time - the other? Not so much…

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 8h

a black and white photo of a robot with the words danger will robinson written on it .

Alt: a black and white video of a robot flailing with the words "danger will robinson".

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 8h

Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, and all that!

Thank you!

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 10h

Very good, illustrates a lot without a lot of words. Little phrases that unfold and blossom into a lot of impact. Well done!

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 10h

"Go fuck shit up, mom," is an excellent inspiration!

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 10h

#WIPSnips "Hope" from Fight or Flight

Anything *can* be dangerous. It's all a question of context…

Ebook screenshot from Fight or Flight:
"“Hope can be very dangerous,” she murmured, looking down at her worktable as she picked up a crystal of some sort between tweezers and soldered it into place in a little metal socket. “It can be dashed, and leave one bereft in the aftermath.” She took a deep breath, her nostril slits closing for a few seconds before she let it out in a sigh. “Perhaps it is better not to hope, and spare oneself.”

For some reason, it sounded to me a lot more like she was talking to herself than me.

With a shrug, I slid into the workbench beside her and took up a few pieces in hand. “Yeah, maybe. I’ll tell you though, I’ve been in a few grim places, and I think I might say hope’s all gets us through sometimes. The times it gets dashed might hurt, sure, but the ones who give it up… well, they’re the ones I feel really sad for.”"

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 11h

Right? A good name - doesn't have the same imposing weight, I like it.

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 19h

No ADHD here (though my partners: yes, to varying extents) but a lot of this feels like it might be handy for my executive dysfunction too. Also just generally cool to see the process unraveled!

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 20h

So I have a thing that I do to help manage my ADHD where I keep a daily spreadsheet that I call Consistency. With it, at the end of the day most days I track a dozen or so things that I want to be doing regularly.

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 19h

Bisexuality wasn't invented until 1987, that's why, so historically it's never the answer - kinda like how in those black and white photos, they're actually colour photos, just the world was greyscale back then. True story*.

(*Not a true story)

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 19h

~magical world which has magical healing, and our world is not that world
- also if you wanna advise me on what to do about my own shit I'm always open to hear things XD
- i dunno how many bullet points to do here
- I'm going to sleep now

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 19h

~doing something, research is a good idea
-I do not always follow the former rule and kinda quite like getting choked actually which puts me now in an awkward position which irks me, because there are these health concerns, but also, ugh, I like it
- remember this is fiction and takes place in a~

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 19h

*a few notes:
-as with most things with most people at this party, I rolled for Izzy's kinks
-I was unaware of the seemingly breaking wave of (valid) pushback against choking due to its health concerns
-I do not want anyone to do unhealthy things, certainly not without knowing it in advance: before~

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 19h

#Kinktober #IndieKinktober #NSFW

Izzrannyk's back (with a new moniker) to have some fun with yesterday's Gurt! Iz has a special request: she likes to be choked*. Gurt is at first willing - and then, happy - to provide.

Read more free here if you like: jaredgoring.com/kinktober-da...

<3

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"Gurt shook her head, but when she spoke again she disposed of any suspicion that she was denying. “Keep- keep talking. Please. I d- I don’t. I don’t. Talk. Much.”

“You make yourself known through things better than speech,” Iz insisted, pressing a kiss firmly to Gurt’s lips with a groan slipping from her nose, “but of course, if that’s something you desire I can gladly furnish you – I feel at times as if there is a rope within me,” she hissed, “twisted too tight perhaps to the point of fraying, I can feel every little inconvenience or misalignment crank the ratchet tighter; it manifests as a tension of worry, an ever-present knot of anxiety, but I have found something which relaxes that rope.”

Gurt nodded, sharply and forcefully, and Iz smiled as she stroked at her lover’s cheek, down her arm, and took one hand in hers. She raised it, placing Gurt’s hand over her throat, and then leaning back against the headboard with a sigh as she squeezed it a little."

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 20h

Oh fuckdammit

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 20h

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 23h

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 21h

Asimov’s 3 Laws of Muppets:

1: A Muppet may injure a human

2: A Muppet must not obey orders given by a human

3: A Muppet must protect the existence of The Muppet Show Theatre as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 1d

I've made some new Diverse Book feeds.
-Trans & Nonbinary Books 📚💙💕
-Black Booksky 📚🖤
-Black Queer Bookworms 🌈📚🖤
-Disabled & Neurodiverse Books ♿📚

They're linked with emojis & or keywords they pick up/to put your posts on them, in this thread🧵👇

Also in thread: Queer SFFH 🌈📚🪐. Aro & or Ace Books

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Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 22h

I did this to myself. Only I am to blame.

Yes that is me 1v5ing my players at 4-level hybrid checkers/go.

Fellow #TTRPG #GMs, listen to my follies and avoid my sins…

(Rules in ALT text for those curious)

A four-level game board, each level having a four by four grid horizontally, with pieces in various colours on it as well as several metallic pieces.

Rules:
Each player selects a colour or style of piece. The game begins with each side placing their pieces on one side of the board, opposing the side of the other player. They then take turns, selecting one of their pieces and moving it one square - valid moves are only linear, no diagonals allowed, but may be forward, backward, up, down, left, or right.

If a player captures a single opposing piece between two of their own pieces - diametrically opposed, including diagonals and vertically (and vertical and compound diagonals) - then that opposing piece is "captured" and becomes one of their pieces instead.

Players cannot move a piece into a position that would cause their piece to immediately become captured (e.g. moving between two opposing pieces separated by a single space). Any piece with friendly pieces is considered "reinforced" and cannot be taken by the opposing side.

Play continues until one player owns all of the pieces, until one cedes the game, or until a player cannot make a valid move (this is called a "siege victory").

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 1d

"Like a shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean" - excellent simile, love it! Evocative and also apt given that it's an aquarium. Good little excerpt, packs a lot of impact into a small space!

Jared, goring (people with my horns) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @jaredgoring.com · 1d

I was gonna say - very convincing, yup