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Comics, BL, fandom ethnography, and cats 🌟 18+ only 🌟 they/them 🌟 30⬆️ 🌟 a lot of Star Trek lately
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stinasdemons.com
Just ordered a shirt:
A parody of the DARE t-shirt that says "DRAW TO KEEP KIDS OFF GENERATIVE A.I."
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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dollarsanddragons.com
Our PDF for How To GM Romance is out! We did it @kiennas.bsky.social @naladraws.com @sailorsctaustin.bsky.social @erfjordan.bsky.social @metalweavegames.com

So proud of what we've done. 🥰

cover art by @defenestratin.bsky.social

Check it out here:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Kienna Shaw Friday Strout Nala J. Wu "How To GM Romance" A colorful rainbow colored heart shaped with characters drawn into the reflections to show romantic couples/groups. A small symbol in the lower right hand corner that reads "Metal Weave Games" A TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE THAT READS Introduction 1 SYSTEMS 1. Romance Tracking System 6 2. Dispute & Fallout System 28 3. Dating System 40 4. Serenade System 54 5. Intimacy System 68 ESSAYS 6. How to GM Romance: “But I’m Asexual!” Edition 92 7. Safety & Romance in Games: Dice-Rolling, Courtship, & Player Choice 98 8. Love Beyond White Supremacy: Liberational Romances in TTRPGs 110 9. Including the Sex Work Industry in Your Games & Settings 123 10. What Does It Take to (Pretend to) Fall in Love? 134 APPENDICES Appendix A. Example NPCs 143 APPENDIX B. Date Locations 144 Appendix C. Conversation Starters 149 Appendix D. Romantic Gifts 150 CREDITS CO-CREATORS Kienna Shaw, Friday Strout, Nala J. Wu PROJECT LEADS Friday Strout, Nala J. Wu ART DIRECTOR Nala J. Wu NARRATIVE DIRECTORS Kienna Shaw, Austin Taylor EDITOR E. R. F. Jordan PROJECT MANAGER Erika Hill COVER ARTIST defenestratin LOGO & TITLE DESIGN Softasvulvet, Nala J. Wu LAYOUT DESIGN E. R. F. Jordan, Nala J. Wu INTERIOR ARTISTS Asphodelles, Elena M. Benítez, Isabel Burke, Jaen Nighly Butler, Lydia Collins (Coyoteprince), defenestratin, Marty Tina G, Annalise Jensen, Amihan Johnson, Emory Kjelsberg, Adeline Kon, Kai Lysander, Savanna Mayer, Carey Pietsch, Ang Hui Qing, Jericho Rose, Diana Tsai Santos, Jay Arthur Simpson, Eldritch Smite, stevenprimed, Rosie Viirre, Nala J. Wu SYSTEM DESIGNERS Alex Roberts, Kienna Shaw, Friday Strout, Sebastian Yūe, Christiana Zambrano ESSAYISTS Dillin Apelyan, Connie Chang, Wesley “Nox” Crowe, Noordin Ali Kadir, Cate Osborn ADDITIONAL WRITING Kienna Shaw, Friday Strout, Austin Taylor, Sebastian Yūe MARKETING Amihan Johnson, Friday Strout, Ivy Tubbs PUBLISHER Andreas Walters Metal Weave Games TYPEFACES USED II Cover: defenestratin Inside Title Page: Elena M. Benítez Right: Isabel Burke Art Director’s Note: Throughout the book, artists’ credits will be listed adjacent to each work like below: GENDY FUTURA Gotham FRANKLIN GOTHIC DEMI Metal Weave Games and No AI symbol
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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orchisailsa.bsky.social
I'm sure no one remembers this shitpost but me, but I need y'all to know I actually did this, every time I didn't have a fic title picked out ahead of time. (There are, incidentally, more versions and editions of this label than you could ever imagine.)
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps label crammed with text. The following OrchisAilsa fic titles are superimposed: - If Not Now, When? - The Things You Have Given Your Life To - The Key to Freedom - Always Towards the Heart - Breathe Deeply - To Be Awakened - If You Can Dream - The Thirst of Lonesome Years
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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authorsguild.org
“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
frogjoshi: the story of a humble frog who dreamed of yaoi (part 1/2) #yaoi #fujoshi #frogjoshi #BL #boyslove
A little frog wearing giant glasses sits on a lilypad, reading a book and giggling to herself. Her thought bubble shows Naruto and Sasuke open mouth kissing. A large frog looms behind her from the water, looking at her suspisciously. The big frog snatches the little fujoshi frog’s book out of her hand. Big frog: [what are you giggling to yourself about!?] Fujoshi frog (Frogjoshi, if you will): [eek!] Big frog, angrily pointing a webbed finger at Frogjoshi: [this is ridiculous! What does a frog know about gay love? Go catch flies with your siblings, as any normal frog should!] Frogjoshi sits on a rock with three other frogs, snatching flies from the air with their tongues. Frogjoshi misses her fly, and sheds a tear. Frogjoshi, thinking to herself: [How I wish I could write yaoi instead…] Frogjoshi hops away into the night, a bindle slung over her shoulder. Frogjoshi, to herself: [No one understands me… I must run away!] Frogjoshi sits before a desk, pen in hand, set to an open book. Frogjoshi: [no one would read yaoi by a frog… I’ll give myself a pen name] Narrator: [The little frog’s yaoi books skyrocket in unprecedented success. It’s a BL phenomenon!] Frogjoshi writes at her desk. Beside her, an arrow rises, marked with yaoi books with various cliche covers.
December 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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lalelulelo.bsky.social
re my doujin post last night: I have a lot of thoughts on western artist alley culture and financial pressures lead to a lot of western fan zines feeling more commercial, which leads to self censorship which is against the spirit of zines etc etc...
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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lalelulelo.bsky.social
draw weird niche doujin!! Don’t think about marketability! Draw rarepair doujin!! Draw unpopular pair doujin!!! Free yourself from the shackles of capital— [im dragged off stage]
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 22d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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richamm.bsky.social
Free Disability Research zines, all made by the Disability Action Research Kollective (DARK) Find them and subscribe to new releases here : linktr.ee/disabilityark
Disability and film, horror, star trek, dwarfism, saints, ancient egypt, eugenics, gods, leaders, radicals, communists, anarchists, history, feminists.
August 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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keganexe.com
That motherfucker was canvassing at gay clubs at 2am on Halloween, man was on the streets talking to new Yorkers, running on a common sense platform folks could get behind. There's a lot Democrats could learn here, make better tiktoks isn't it
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
roses are red
big laughs are hearty
The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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jmritchey.bsky.social
Next Week's New Yorker cover, illustration by Edel Rodriguez.
Illustration of incoming Mayor Mamdani riding a crowded subway car surrounded by New Yorkers of various races, genders, ages, and ethnic identities. Again EAT SHIT EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU RACIST HOWLING ISLAMOPHOBIC GHOULS
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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heythisisbrian.bsky.social
It’s his day.
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Oct 23
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
bootprince.bsky.social
If you've enjoyed my Star Trek fandom history threads, I suggest you keep an eye out for my panel at Citrus Con next year~
citruscon.bsky.social Citrus Con @citruscon.bsky.social · Oct 16
For anyone who submitted a FAN PANEL APPLICATION, acceptance emails have started going out! Please check your email and your spam if you don't see something in the next few days.
Citrus Con 2026 programming update Acceptance Emails SENT!
October 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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5uki5en5or.bsky.social
reading a book called Boldly Writing, which is a sort of chronicle of the early Star Trek fandom's fanzines and fanfiction, and it's really interesting. It's a fairly plain chronological retelling but it still speaks to me all these years later, mainly because of how it makes me feel about fandom 🧵
October 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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jameswelker.bsky.social
Online lecture (book talk):

James Welker
Reimaginging “Women” in 1970s–1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans

Thurs, Oct 16, 7 pm New York/Toronto (8 am Friday in Tokyo)

Open to the public. (It will not be recorded.)
Zoom info is in the attached flier.
Flier for talk. Here are the full details. I'll be giving an online lecture next week about my monograph, Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (2024), hosted by Rutgers University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Global Asias. Thursday, October 16 at 7 pm New York/Toronto time (or Friday, October 17 at 8 am Tokyo time) The lecture is open to the public. Please join if you missed one of my in-person talks over the past year. (It will not be recorded.) Zoom Meeting ID: 9181599714 Password: 446539 (Or DM me for the link.) ---- Abstract: In the early 1970s, Japan saw the emergence of three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms: the women’s liberation (ūman ribu) movement, the lesbian community, and a sphere comprised of artists and fans of queer shōjo manga (girls’ comics). In this talk, James Welker will discuss Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls’ Comics Artists and Fans, which examines these communities and their cultural import. As he shows, individually and collectively, they found the normative understanding of the category “women” untenable and worked to redefine and expand its meaning by transfiguring ideas, images, and practices selectively appropriated from the “West.” They did so, however, while remaining primarily focused on the local. Welker argues that their transfiguration of Western culture into something locally meaningful had tangible effects far beyond these communities.
October 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
bootprince.bsky.social
Brought my own cinnamon toast crunch to the Costco izakaya to put on the soft serve. Don't dream it, be it.
A picture of cinnamon toast crunch on top of a cup of Costco's soft serve ice cream. Aka the ultimate decadence in these trying times.
October 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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fishttp.website
all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd
oregonzoo.bsky.social Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · Oct 1
let the gourd times roll
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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fm-synth.bsky.social
It's officially October 1st so that means you all have to repost Assorted cheese
hell.....yes
A package of assorted cheese with a cracker in a plastic container, from Westside Market, New York City on 77 Seventh Ave The label reads: Assorted cheese hell.....yes THE SKY IS DARK THE WIND IS COLD THE NIGHT IS YOUNG BEFORE IT'S OLD AND GREY. WE WILL KNOW THE THRILL OF IT ALL--BRYAN FREEY there is a barcode and it says 1 PCS Packed on: & Sell by: OCT 01 Total price $5.99
October 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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post-doc-club.bsky.social
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM