Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
@aesonique.itch.io
Author of #litrpg series The Age of Steam and Sorcery, snowboarder, coffee lover.
https://linktr.ee/patrickcharltonoshea
Book One: Death Becomes Him out now!
https://linktr.ee/patrickcharltonoshea
Book One: Death Becomes Him out now!
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Death Becomes Him by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
What do you do when your life is falling apart? Play games of course!
aesonique.itch.io
Good morning Bluesky!
I'm Patrick, the author of the series The Age of Steam and Sorcery. My first book is published here:
aesonique.itch.io/death-become...
ko-fi.com/s/dedefa2e72
amzn.asia/d/eYGjxG4
www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/...
And pre-release versions of my books are on Royal Road for free.
I'm Patrick, the author of the series The Age of Steam and Sorcery. My first book is published here:
aesonique.itch.io/death-become...
ko-fi.com/s/dedefa2e72
amzn.asia/d/eYGjxG4
www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/...
And pre-release versions of my books are on Royal Road for free.
A perfectionist walked into a bar, looked around and immediately left without ordering anything.
The bar wasn't set high enough for him.
The bar wasn't set high enough for him.
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A perfectionist walked into a bar, looked around and immediately left without ordering anything.
The bar wasn't set high enough for him.
The bar wasn't set high enough for him.
It feels weird. We woke up this morning about two thousand kilometres from where we are right now.
The change in climate is both jarring, and welcome. I had never intended on returning to North Queensland, and these three days have proven me right.
I like none of these people, & the weather less
The change in climate is both jarring, and welcome. I had never intended on returning to North Queensland, and these three days have proven me right.
I like none of these people, & the weather less
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
It feels weird. We woke up this morning about two thousand kilometres from where we are right now.
The change in climate is both jarring, and welcome. I had never intended on returning to North Queensland, and these three days have proven me right.
I like none of these people, & the weather less
The change in climate is both jarring, and welcome. I had never intended on returning to North Queensland, and these three days have proven me right.
I like none of these people, & the weather less
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This is very awesome. Mohamed Semra is now the Mayor of Maribyrnong
Need a good news story?
Mohamed Semra, 10 years ago was pulled up outside an Apple Store, because "he might steal something".
He's a Sudanese refugee, aged 27, who is now Mayor of Maribynong, Melbourne, where the Apple Store resides […]
Mohamed Semra, 10 years ago was pulled up outside an Apple Store, because "he might steal something".
He's a Sudanese refugee, aged 27, who is now Mayor of Maribynong, Melbourne, where the Apple Store resides […]
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November 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This is very awesome. Mohamed Semra is now the Mayor of Maribyrnong
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It is the stated policy of Magica Riot that Nazis deserve to be punched, so please enjoy one of my trans magical girls, Riot Blue (aka Nova) punching a sad, pathetic Nazi.
Thanks to @beedokfern.bsky.social for this delightful work!
Thanks to @beedokfern.bsky.social for this delightful work!
January 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
It is the stated policy of Magica Riot that Nazis deserve to be punched, so please enjoy one of my trans magical girls, Riot Blue (aka Nova) punching a sad, pathetic Nazi.
Thanks to @beedokfern.bsky.social for this delightful work!
Thanks to @beedokfern.bsky.social for this delightful work!
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Reposted by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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I'm pretty tired...
Age verification is a tool for control/ deny access later
AI dependance retraining peoples brains to teach them how to think - long term being swayed to buy a product or vote or be more malleable
Subscriptions in everything so we own nothing
People are not products.
Age verification is a tool for control/ deny access later
AI dependance retraining peoples brains to teach them how to think - long term being swayed to buy a product or vote or be more malleable
Subscriptions in everything so we own nothing
People are not products.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I'm pretty tired...
Age verification is a tool for control/ deny access later
AI dependance retraining peoples brains to teach them how to think - long term being swayed to buy a product or vote or be more malleable
Subscriptions in everything so we own nothing
People are not products.
Age verification is a tool for control/ deny access later
AI dependance retraining peoples brains to teach them how to think - long term being swayed to buy a product or vote or be more malleable
Subscriptions in everything so we own nothing
People are not products.
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Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
How does your character feel about nature?
Do they like the outdoors? Have good survival skills?
Or do they prefer the comforts and amenities of a city?
Some combination of both?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
How does your character feel about nature?
Do they like the outdoors? Have good survival skills?
Or do they prefer the comforts and amenities of a city?
Some combination of both?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
How does your character feel about nature?
Do they like the outdoors? Have good survival skills?
Or do they prefer the comforts and amenities of a city?
Some combination of both?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
How does your character feel about nature?
Do they like the outdoors? Have good survival skills?
Or do they prefer the comforts and amenities of a city?
Some combination of both?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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Reposted by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
Starting in ten minutes! hear the opening scene from Chapter One as read by RJ Bayley, an actual professional!
In exactly an hour, @the-book-bazaar.com will be hosting a pre-recorded reading of myself and @rjbayley.bsky.social from The Chosen One Con on Twitch!
www.twitch.tv/thebookbazaar
www.twitch.tv/thebookbazaar
TheBookBazaar - Twitch
NOT A BRAND: WE'RE A GROUP OF INDIES! A celebration of publishing and all things book! Crowdfunding group project banding together indie authors and publishers of all kinds - Funding NOW until Dec. 3r...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Starting in ten minutes! hear the opening scene from Chapter One as read by RJ Bayley, an actual professional!
Ugh. Can a whole state be cursed?
I'm sitting in Townsville airport, and it's plinthing down outside. I just want to leave and I feel like I'm stuck in Room 1408.
If I hire a car, will the earth split open in front of us?
If I get on a boat, will the kraken appear?
I'm sitting in Townsville airport, and it's plinthing down outside. I just want to leave and I feel like I'm stuck in Room 1408.
If I hire a car, will the earth split open in front of us?
If I get on a boat, will the kraken appear?
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ugh. Can a whole state be cursed?
I'm sitting in Townsville airport, and it's plinthing down outside. I just want to leave and I feel like I'm stuck in Room 1408.
If I hire a car, will the earth split open in front of us?
If I get on a boat, will the kraken appear?
I'm sitting in Townsville airport, and it's plinthing down outside. I just want to leave and I feel like I'm stuck in Room 1408.
If I hire a car, will the earth split open in front of us?
If I get on a boat, will the kraken appear?
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"Technically Edible: Why You're Missing Out By Not Boiling Shoe Leather"
Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Technically Edible: Why You're Missing Out By Not Boiling Shoe Leather"
Reposted by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
I'm Kelsey Josephson, author of strange steampunk and reinvented fairy tales. Genre mashups and sympathetic monsters are two of my favorite things. When I'm not writing, I'm taking care of my sons and two rescue cats. I'm partial to videogames, crafting, movies, and reading. 💖⚙️📚
#BookSky
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#BookSky
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July 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm Kelsey Josephson, author of strange steampunk and reinvented fairy tales. Genre mashups and sympathetic monsters are two of my favorite things. When I'm not writing, I'm taking care of my sons and two rescue cats. I'm partial to videogames, crafting, movies, and reading. 💖⚙️📚
#BookSky
📚💙
#BookSky
📚💙
Does this make sense?
"The blob shook like a jelly in an earthquake, then rocked back, curving its body like a jellybean big enough it would give Anish Kapoor a complex."
"The blob shook like a jelly in an earthquake, then rocked back, curving its body like a jellybean big enough it would give Anish Kapoor a complex."
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Does this make sense?
"The blob shook like a jelly in an earthquake, then rocked back, curving its body like a jellybean big enough it would give Anish Kapoor a complex."
"The blob shook like a jelly in an earthquake, then rocked back, curving its body like a jellybean big enough it would give Anish Kapoor a complex."
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Remind yourself today that you don't have to be prefect to be worthy. You don't have to be perfect to deserve to live. You don't have to be perfect to deserve safety, or love, or happiness-- or to deserve more than the bare minimum in life.
You deserve it all. Here, now.
You deserve it all. Here, now.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Remind yourself today that you don't have to be prefect to be worthy. You don't have to be perfect to deserve to live. You don't have to be perfect to deserve safety, or love, or happiness-- or to deserve more than the bare minimum in life.
You deserve it all. Here, now.
You deserve it all. Here, now.
I'm at the pub, post funeral.
It was an entirely clinical affair. Grandad knew what he wanted and laid it out in exacting detail. He penned his own eulogy, a dry recounting of his achievements, financial and social. The only person mentioned, other than himself, was grandma.
It was an entirely clinical affair. Grandad knew what he wanted and laid it out in exacting detail. He penned his own eulogy, a dry recounting of his achievements, financial and social. The only person mentioned, other than himself, was grandma.
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I'm at the pub, post funeral.
It was an entirely clinical affair. Grandad knew what he wanted and laid it out in exacting detail. He penned his own eulogy, a dry recounting of his achievements, financial and social. The only person mentioned, other than himself, was grandma.
It was an entirely clinical affair. Grandad knew what he wanted and laid it out in exacting detail. He penned his own eulogy, a dry recounting of his achievements, financial and social. The only person mentioned, other than himself, was grandma.
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
Do you have any side characters with their own adventures going on in the background of your story?
Do we get many glimpses?
Is it in the same genre as your main work? E.g. romance in the background of horror?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Do you have any side characters with their own adventures going on in the background of your story?
Do we get many glimpses?
Is it in the same genre as your main work? E.g. romance in the background of horror?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
Do you have any side characters with their own adventures going on in the background of your story?
Do we get many glimpses?
Is it in the same genre as your main work? E.g. romance in the background of horror?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Do you have any side characters with their own adventures going on in the background of your story?
Do we get many glimpses?
Is it in the same genre as your main work? E.g. romance in the background of horror?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The Nazis wore Hugo Boss while committing atrocities.
Dressing well does not equal behaving well.
Dressing well does not equal behaving well.
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The Nazis wore Hugo Boss while committing atrocities.
Dressing well does not equal behaving well.
Dressing well does not equal behaving well.
Reposted by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
Reposted by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
1. Girls in armor
2. Girls in armor flying about kicking ass
3. Girls in armor flying about kicking transphobe and fascist ass
Plot and logic fully established
2. Girls in armor flying about kicking ass
3. Girls in armor flying about kicking transphobe and fascist ass
Plot and logic fully established
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
1. Girls in armor
2. Girls in armor flying about kicking ass
3. Girls in armor flying about kicking transphobe and fascist ass
Plot and logic fully established
2. Girls in armor flying about kicking ass
3. Girls in armor flying about kicking transphobe and fascist ass
Plot and logic fully established
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This cover was even stolen ones by one of those T-shirt scam places!
Like, this book gets hit so much, so if you could show it some love that would be great.
Like, this book gets hit so much, so if you could show it some love that would be great.
Hey, can folks also look at this *amazing* anthology by @tychebooks.bsky.social that keeps being pirated every time it goes semi-viral on the internet: Swashbuckling Cats
Link with buy links all over the internet: tychebooks.com/swashbucklin...
Link with buy links all over the internet: tychebooks.com/swashbucklin...
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This cover was even stolen ones by one of those T-shirt scam places!
Like, this book gets hit so much, so if you could show it some love that would be great.
Like, this book gets hit so much, so if you could show it some love that would be great.
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Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
"Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl."
"Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl."
Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
“What’s the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can’t blow something up?”
“What’s the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can’t blow something up?”
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
"Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl."
"Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl."