James Wylder aka arcbeatle
@arcbeatle.bsky.social
Writer, general enthusiast, IAMTW member... they/them
My friends call me Jeanne. You should back me on Patreon. No, really.
Http://www.patreon.com/Jameswylder
My friends call me Jeanne. You should back me on Patreon. No, really.
Http://www.patreon.com/Jameswylder
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Producer: You get that intro for our fishing game done?
Programmer: Sure did boss, real fuckin extreme just like you asked.
Producer: what
Programmer: Sure did boss, real fuckin extreme just like you asked.
Producer: what
Sega Bass Fishing (DC / Sega AM1, Sims / 1999) - intro
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Producer: You get that intro for our fishing game done?
Programmer: Sure did boss, real fuckin extreme just like you asked.
Producer: what
Programmer: Sure did boss, real fuckin extreme just like you asked.
Producer: what
This absolutely isn't a post about how 'oh I had it so hard', but I do think we don't talk enough about the difference between making it as a creative when you have financial support versus when you don't.
There's a lot of career choices I've made to pay bills I simply wouldn't have if I could.
There's a lot of career choices I've made to pay bills I simply wouldn't have if I could.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This absolutely isn't a post about how 'oh I had it so hard', but I do think we don't talk enough about the difference between making it as a creative when you have financial support versus when you don't.
There's a lot of career choices I've made to pay bills I simply wouldn't have if I could.
There's a lot of career choices I've made to pay bills I simply wouldn't have if I could.
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Only pretentious until you actually watch Die Nibelungen II – The Wrath of Kriemhild and gasp, ‘Fuck!’
(Or possibly just, ‘Are the straights OK?’)
(Or possibly just, ‘Are the straights OK?’)
November 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Only pretentious until you actually watch Die Nibelungen II – The Wrath of Kriemhild and gasp, ‘Fuck!’
(Or possibly just, ‘Are the straights OK?’)
(Or possibly just, ‘Are the straights OK?’)
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I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.
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On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast we learn the inside story on the exciting, ambitious new project ‘Clara Oswald: The Untold Adventures’ with the brilliant @undiscoveredadv.bsky.social
🍁 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/5f2z9c98
🍁 Spotify: tinyurl.com/4vzsk84x
🍁 Podbean: tinyurl.com/t35kaz8b
🍁 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/5f2z9c98
🍁 Spotify: tinyurl.com/4vzsk84x
🍁 Podbean: tinyurl.com/t35kaz8b
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast we learn the inside story on the exciting, ambitious new project ‘Clara Oswald: The Untold Adventures’ with the brilliant @undiscoveredadv.bsky.social
🍁 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/5f2z9c98
🍁 Spotify: tinyurl.com/4vzsk84x
🍁 Podbean: tinyurl.com/t35kaz8b
🍁 Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/5f2z9c98
🍁 Spotify: tinyurl.com/4vzsk84x
🍁 Podbean: tinyurl.com/t35kaz8b
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We got the confirmation on her operation for this Monday. If you can help us make sure her recovery process doesn’t have to involve us worrying about bills, please help any way you can!
Five years after her initial breast cancer diagnosis, my wife finally has her reconstruction surgery, but we’re looking for help in covering the wages in the month she’ll need away from work so we can focus on her recovery first and foremost. Anything helps!
www.gofundme.com/f/support-re...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-re...
Donate to Support Reanna's Breast Reconstruction Recovery, organized by Reanna Reid-Lobatto
Five years after being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, Re… Reanna Reid-Lobatto needs your support for Support Reanna's Breast Reconstruction Recovery
www.gofundme.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We got the confirmation on her operation for this Monday. If you can help us make sure her recovery process doesn’t have to involve us worrying about bills, please help any way you can!
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Because some of us are going to be trapped inside with the snowstorm passing through the American Midwest, the Book of the Snowstorm is now only 99 cents for a limited time while we try to stay warm!
payhip.com/b/OIkPi
payhip.com/b/OIkPi
The Book of the Snowstorm
Six months ago, a forest planet was the only world Coloth of the Ulk-Ra had ever known. He had never heard of books, or humans, or Christmas. Then he was killed. Then he was brought back. And then he ...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Because some of us are going to be trapped inside with the snowstorm passing through the American Midwest, the Book of the Snowstorm is now only 99 cents for a limited time while we try to stay warm!
payhip.com/b/OIkPi
payhip.com/b/OIkPi
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I'm in this! 'ON BEING AN ARTIST', ed. Caoilfhinn Geary, with contributions by myself and other artists.
A zine that aims to break down the artistic process and offer an insight into what being an artist can look like.
Available at Dublin Art Book Fair and Cork Zine Fest!
A zine that aims to break down the artistic process and offer an insight into what being an artist can look like.
Available at Dublin Art Book Fair and Cork Zine Fest!
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I'm in this! 'ON BEING AN ARTIST', ed. Caoilfhinn Geary, with contributions by myself and other artists.
A zine that aims to break down the artistic process and offer an insight into what being an artist can look like.
Available at Dublin Art Book Fair and Cork Zine Fest!
A zine that aims to break down the artistic process and offer an insight into what being an artist can look like.
Available at Dublin Art Book Fair and Cork Zine Fest!
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
Due to all the struggles and hospital related stuff this year, I'm not at Chicago Tardis this year, so if you're there please do just what I'd do and awkwardly explain Cwej: Odyssey to someone. Thank you.
Have fun!
Have fun!
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Due to all the struggles and hospital related stuff this year, I'm not at Chicago Tardis this year, so if you're there please do just what I'd do and awkwardly explain Cwej: Odyssey to someone. Thank you.
Have fun!
Have fun!
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I admit my expertise with Android Kikaider begins and ends with Keita Amemiya’s Mechanical Violator Hakaider, but sometimes you just gotta watch a half-hour movie of 70s Ishinomori toku without context and without a clue just to feel something.
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I admit my expertise with Android Kikaider begins and ends with Keita Amemiya’s Mechanical Violator Hakaider, but sometimes you just gotta watch a half-hour movie of 70s Ishinomori toku without context and without a clue just to feel something.
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Maybe one day I’ll make it through Planes Trains and Automobiles without crying, but not today. Thank you, John Hughes. <3 @arcbeatle.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Maybe one day I’ll make it through Planes Trains and Automobiles without crying, but not today. Thank you, John Hughes. <3 @arcbeatle.bsky.social
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boosting this again b/c it's been a couple of days since it moved and the clock is ticking down. also, i need to get a case of cat food friday (i have uh, played myself with that timing, sigh) and that's a lil pricey. (the cat only eats wet food rip)
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
i should have got this up sooner, but i was ashamed; need to try to raise money for rent again this month and i remain (mostly; might have PT work!) unemployed as we approach year end.
please help me keep myself and my partner housed.
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
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please help me keep myself and my partner housed.
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
boosting this again b/c it's been a couple of days since it moved and the clock is ticking down. also, i need to get a case of cat food friday (i have uh, played myself with that timing, sigh) and that's a lil pricey. (the cat only eats wet food rip)
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
#helpsky #MARequest #transcrowdfund
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
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There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.
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Preview of soemthing i'm working on!
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Preview of soemthing i'm working on!
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The Chain Story Project has just released a brand new story: Bryan Young's Ice Hawk's Aerie. This is the first of many stories about Pip Strongpaw, the last of the Great Catriders.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
Free Fiction, Round Eleven — The Chain Story
This week the Chain Story Project is happy to introduce Pip Strongpaw, hero, wanderer and mouse. Please enjoy his debut tale from the pen of Bryan Young, Ice Hawk’s Aerie .
www.chainstorycore.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Chain Story Project has just released a brand new story: Bryan Young's Ice Hawk's Aerie. This is the first of many stories about Pip Strongpaw, the last of the Great Catriders.
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Who wants to read about a warrior mouse who rides a bad ass cat and fights hawks to save his forest?
Ice Hawk's Aerie is Part 1 of the Adventures of Pip Strongpaw and is available FREE as part of @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's Chain Story project! www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
Ice Hawk's Aerie is Part 1 of the Adventures of Pip Strongpaw and is available FREE as part of @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's Chain Story project! www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Who wants to read about a warrior mouse who rides a bad ass cat and fights hawks to save his forest?
Ice Hawk's Aerie is Part 1 of the Adventures of Pip Strongpaw and is available FREE as part of @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's Chain Story project! www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
Ice Hawk's Aerie is Part 1 of the Adventures of Pip Strongpaw and is available FREE as part of @michaelastackpole.bsky.social's Chain Story project! www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
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I looooooove the Davison vibes take on the original Cusick hallways here. I like to think the Dalek spun them around itself like a chrysalis.
"IT IS THE DOCTOR! THE DOCTOR MUST BE DESTROYED!"
"Doctor Who: The Five Doctors" (1983). #DoctorWho #DrWho
"Doctor Who: The Five Doctors" (1983). #DoctorWho #DrWho
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I looooooove the Davison vibes take on the original Cusick hallways here. I like to think the Dalek spun them around itself like a chrysalis.
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Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
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Knights - comm work
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Knights - comm work
I think its genuinely very funny a lot of bad-faith media takes online will take a gag completely out of context and rage bait people by pretending it's supposed to be dead serious. It's watching people being mad Bugs Bunny didn't die from a piano falling on him, and that's funnier than the piano.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I think its genuinely very funny a lot of bad-faith media takes online will take a gag completely out of context and rage bait people by pretending it's supposed to be dead serious. It's watching people being mad Bugs Bunny didn't die from a piano falling on him, and that's funnier than the piano.