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Kyle Marquis

@moochava.bsky.social

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he/him. Writer and game designer. Silverworld, V:TM—Night Road, Pon Para. Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names is out now! https://www.choiceofgames.com/werewolf-the-apocalypse/book-of-hungry-names/

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · Oct 22

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names is a horror text adventure set in the World of Darkness. Face monsters and mysteries as a werewolf determined to rebuild a shattered pack. Play the first five chapters for free!

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names

Save the living earth with Rage and spirit! Can your shattered werewolf pack defeat a Wyrm Spirit who manifests as a lie that you want to believe?

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PHANTOM_SPECTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · Aug 1

It makes me so mad how Strange New Worlds wants to be aesthetically hopeful like Star Trek's TOS but has no actual ethos. It doesn't meaningfully expand Starfleet's mission, in fact it retracts and corrodes it, like gum disease or cancer. Deeply cynical liberal project. Stagnant as swamp-scum.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 7h

Welcome, latest batch of refugees from Twitter! Unlike other text adventure designers, I would never shame you for your shameful behavior. Instead, I offer you something that has been missing from Twitter for years: my text adventures!

Tower Behind the Moon

You are already an archmage–can you become an immortal? Use magic and cunning to thwart rivals, fight demons, and outwit gods so you can join their ranks.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · Jun 28

zooey the cat enraptured by tightly plotted legal thrillers

A little grey cat sitting still and watching Tom Wilkinson & George Clooney arguing in the film Michael Clayton

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 10h

I can't decide if Republicans, specifically, got worse during the Bush years or "Muslims should be killed on sight and without trial" just became a mainstream position for both parties

Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 10h

Those guys weren't Nazis as such but "lesbians should be correctively raped" was a pretty mainstream position among Republicans when I was younger

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 10h

I want to say 2 is true, but in the '90s, conservative UMass frat guys liked to march around outside Smith College chanting "no means yes, yes means anal"

Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15h

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 12h

don’t forget to cross your arms over your chest before you lower yourself back down into the bog for the night

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Ramon Villalobos @ramonvillalobos.bsky.social · 14h

damn

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 10h

If you can't accept Grant Morrison at their [worst take possible, expressed horribly] you don't deserve them at their [stuff you liked in high school that you instinctively know not to reread]

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candy corn's last defender @johnperich.com · 19h

re-upping my #1 rule of horror:

candy corn's last defender @johnperich.com · Dec 2

This album cover fucked me up as a kid not because of the skeleton but because of the dour guys in suits. Why are they just sitting there like that? Get out! It's a skeleton with a weird glowing gem!

A skeleton is weird; being cool with a skeleton is horror.

the album cover of Megadeth's RUST IN PEACE, depicting a skeleton in a suit examining an alien in a coffin or storage capsule of some sort, while five serious-looking men in suits sit behind and watch.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 18h

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 16h

Okay, one more day and I'll be done revising this chapter, but I'm calling it quits now as my brain fuzzes out. Might finish this Theodor Storm book before my dance class or, let's be honest, I might just fuck around online and maybe play some video games.

Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe the lack of an established aristocracy like in the UK or France (or Belgium; some good decadents in Belgium). Some guy who can trace his ancestry back to the Norman Conquest has more pervert potential than an American businessman whose granddad sold lamps.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 16h

This is actually a really good one of these; even my go-to examples of the early weird (Bierce and Chambers) weren't quite "decadent." Maybe there's just nowhere big and old and weird enough for decadence, as an impulse, to manifest in the US until the 1920s.

axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

the absence of decadent literature in the american tradition is as mysterious and flagrant as our lack of high-profile sodomy trials in the 1890s

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 16h

My pet theory is that there was some kind of large Invisible Beam that made Chambers start writing shopgirl romances and caused Ambrose Bierce to vanish into the desert. Not sure whose Invisible Beam it was.

axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

my pet theory is that everyone who would have formed the nucleus of the american decadent movement was instead harmlessly expended by the extremely robust american pastimes of crank politics, eastern mystic religious occultism, and print journalism

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 1d

the absence of decadent literature in the american tradition is as mysterious and flagrant as our lack of high-profile sodomy trials in the 1890s

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dandy G🍌 @dangyd.bsky.social · 18h

private group chats are awesome places where everybody sends all their best posts and funniest bits to that one guy everybody knows will be outed as a sexual predator in a few months

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 12d

one of the features everyone wants here is one of the features that consistently drives posters insane: group chats. absolute fetid breeding grounds for the most pointless folie a deux

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outsidewolves @outsidewolves.bsky.social · 1d

A four panel comic strip. An anthropomorphic wolf man runs into an office where three others are working at their desks. He says, "The fire marshal is coming for annual inspections!" In the next panel, a seated wolf is playing with a remote control airplane, and a smoke detector with an open battery compartment is mounted on the wall above him. The first wolf says "Put that 9 volt back in the smoke detector!" In the third panel, an anthropomorphic dog holds a power strip while standing next to a sculpture comprised of multiple power strips. The first wolf says "Hide your..."Daisy Chain Power Strip" sculpture!?" In the fourth panel, a bear proudly displays his t-shirt which reads "I love storing combustibles around radiators." The first wolf, in exasperation, yells "CHANGE YOUR SHIRT!"

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Jon Hansen @jonmhansen.bsky.social · 18h

Time to expand the Portmanteau Pentagram!

A pentagram connecting various emotional words to make new words. The base set, going clockwise:

stressed, horny, angry, sad, hungry

1st order set, the portmanteaus of adjacent items (clockwise again, starting from stressed):

strorny, horngry, sangry, sungry, strungry

(so strorny is stressed + horny)

2nd order set, portmanteauing items two apart (going clockwise, starting from stressed):

strangry, sorny, hangry, strad, hurngry

(so strangry is stressed + angry)

And 3rd order set, from a base item + the portmanteau of its two adjacent items (clockwise, starting from stressed):

strurngry, strorngry, horngrad, hungerad, strungrad

(so strurngry is stressed + hungry + horny)

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 18h

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 18h

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

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Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not the first person to raise this but one of the fascinating things about American politics and political reporting is how much a follow-up question short circuits the brains of the politicians (and is a shocking thrill to the audience)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · Dec 27

My Stephen King conspiracy theory is that he includes one absolutely absurd thing in every story, something so dumb that you don't want to talk about it, because somehow it compels you to talk about the rest of the story while talking around the dumb thing.

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