Lauren the Flute
@laurentheflute.bsky.social
NO FOLLOWBACKS, I AM HERE TO HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS AND MAKE NEW ONES
Writes too many words & talk too much. Storyteller, writer, VGM flutist & singer, Twitch affiliate, Texan-Canadian. Leader of the Returners. Marketer by trade 🏳️🌈
Twitch.tv/LaurentheFlute
Writes too many words & talk too much. Storyteller, writer, VGM flutist & singer, Twitch affiliate, Texan-Canadian. Leader of the Returners. Marketer by trade 🏳️🌈
Twitch.tv/LaurentheFlute
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Hello, new folks! Might as well introduce myself. I do a lot of things (though less so lately due to chronic illness flare) so you might know me from:
+ Video game music, including my band The Returners
+ Streaming games on Twitch
+ Writing (mostly fanfic these days)
+ Generally talking a lot
+ Video game music, including my band The Returners
+ Streaming games on Twitch
+ Writing (mostly fanfic these days)
+ Generally talking a lot
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#store
There's about 6 hours left in our Small Business Saturday sale, so here's a quick roundup of what's left in stock in the US store at 35% off!
Midi Skirts:
Astronauts: 4XL-8XL
Candelabra: XS-8XL
Clouds: XS-M
Blackberry: 6XL-8XL
Gemstones: 6XL-8XL
Goldfish: XS-8XL
Horses: 6XL-8XL
There's about 6 hours left in our Small Business Saturday sale, so here's a quick roundup of what's left in stock in the US store at 35% off!
Midi Skirts:
Astronauts: 4XL-8XL
Candelabra: XS-8XL
Clouds: XS-M
Blackberry: 6XL-8XL
Gemstones: 6XL-8XL
Goldfish: XS-8XL
Horses: 6XL-8XL
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
#store
There's about 6 hours left in our Small Business Saturday sale, so here's a quick roundup of what's left in stock in the US store at 35% off!
Midi Skirts:
Astronauts: 4XL-8XL
Candelabra: XS-8XL
Clouds: XS-M
Blackberry: 6XL-8XL
Gemstones: 6XL-8XL
Goldfish: XS-8XL
Horses: 6XL-8XL
There's about 6 hours left in our Small Business Saturday sale, so here's a quick roundup of what's left in stock in the US store at 35% off!
Midi Skirts:
Astronauts: 4XL-8XL
Candelabra: XS-8XL
Clouds: XS-M
Blackberry: 6XL-8XL
Gemstones: 6XL-8XL
Goldfish: XS-8XL
Horses: 6XL-8XL
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The skull-faced dog shows you around the empty buildings. A cat watches from across the road.
WV
Kodak XX
Nikon n80
#filmphotography
WV
Kodak XX
Nikon n80
#filmphotography
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The skull-faced dog shows you around the empty buildings. A cat watches from across the road.
WV
Kodak XX
Nikon n80
#filmphotography
WV
Kodak XX
Nikon n80
#filmphotography
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i cannot believe i caught him stretching out his toesies under the tree
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
i cannot believe i caught him stretching out his toesies under the tree
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
— Tom Stoppard
— Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
— Tom Stoppard
— Tom Stoppard
I want either a roleplaying party or some silly fun story where all the d&d classes are filled by attendees or staff or performers at a metal show like this. There are such interesting people doing interesting things the whole time.
November 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I want either a roleplaying party or some silly fun story where all the d&d classes are filled by attendees or staff or performers at a metal show like this. There are such interesting people doing interesting things the whole time.
Blind Guardian, Toronto
Will they play And Then There Was Silence for me tonight? Probably not, but it sure would be great. More bands should have 14-minute long ballads about the fall of Troy...
Will they play And Then There Was Silence for me tonight? Probably not, but it sure would be great. More bands should have 14-minute long ballads about the fall of Troy...
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Blind Guardian, Toronto
Will they play And Then There Was Silence for me tonight? Probably not, but it sure would be great. More bands should have 14-minute long ballads about the fall of Troy...
Will they play And Then There Was Silence for me tonight? Probably not, but it sure would be great. More bands should have 14-minute long ballads about the fall of Troy...
My favorite playwright. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a masterpiece. The film he made of it was genius. He has certainly left his mark on the world.
BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
My favorite playwright. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a masterpiece. The film he made of it was genius. He has certainly left his mark on the world.
I'm not even a Tifa girl but there is no good reason why she doesn't look like this in the game itself
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm not even a Tifa girl but there is no good reason why she doesn't look like this in the game itself
Do not listen to this at work or out loud in a space where you wouldn't be comfortable listening to something kind of sexy
No one could ever accuse Rachel of cowardice or holding back
She's apparently up to something new in a similar vein and the world is not prepared
No one could ever accuse Rachel of cowardice or holding back
She's apparently up to something new in a similar vein and the world is not prepared
i always hated Michael Bublé's tepid, "no homo" recording of "Santa Baby"
you record that song, you better sing it like you're gonna treat Santa RIGHT
so here's the "yes, homo" recording i did with @purpleschala.bsky.social back before I transitioned
please enjoy 🙏🎄💖
you record that song, you better sing it like you're gonna treat Santa RIGHT
so here's the "yes, homo" recording i did with @purpleschala.bsky.social back before I transitioned
please enjoy 🙏🎄💖
Santa Baby
YouTube video by Rachel Garrett Steele
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Do not listen to this at work or out loud in a space where you wouldn't be comfortable listening to something kind of sexy
No one could ever accuse Rachel of cowardice or holding back
She's apparently up to something new in a similar vein and the world is not prepared
No one could ever accuse Rachel of cowardice or holding back
She's apparently up to something new in a similar vein and the world is not prepared
Everybody should have a cool cousin they stay up til almost 3 am talking to even though they have to be up five hours later to get to the airport
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Everybody should have a cool cousin they stay up til almost 3 am talking to even though they have to be up five hours later to get to the airport
Family shit, man
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Family shit, man
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
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Could it be… he ate a whole turkey today?
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Could it be… he ate a whole turkey today?
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Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
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Y’all have been very nice about this! Thanks!
Closest thing you'll see from me maybe ever to a personal essay about a video game vgbees.com/im-great-at-...
I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees
CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...
vgbees.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Y’all have been very nice about this! Thanks!
If you need a good cry as much as I do right now, read this beautiful thing
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
If you need a good cry as much as I do right now, read this beautiful thing
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Earthbound in particular should shame every single one of us into being funnier at every opportunity
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Earthbound in particular should shame every single one of us into being funnier at every opportunity
When I read this fortune out loud after dinner, my family laughed, and on one hand it's kind of cute and funny that they know something about me (that I'm very self doubting and very insecure) but on the other hand part of why I am that way is because they've always laughed and they doubt me
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
When I read this fortune out loud after dinner, my family laughed, and on one hand it's kind of cute and funny that they know something about me (that I'm very self doubting and very insecure) but on the other hand part of why I am that way is because they've always laughed and they doubt me
Taught my aunt to identify AI slop showing up on her IG feed
"I think this must be aimed to take advantage of young people" she says about someone clearly targeting boomers like her
We discussed the algorithmic pipeline to alt right radicalization, and Fox News affecting my dad 🙃
I hate it all
"I think this must be aimed to take advantage of young people" she says about someone clearly targeting boomers like her
We discussed the algorithmic pipeline to alt right radicalization, and Fox News affecting my dad 🙃
I hate it all
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Taught my aunt to identify AI slop showing up on her IG feed
"I think this must be aimed to take advantage of young people" she says about someone clearly targeting boomers like her
We discussed the algorithmic pipeline to alt right radicalization, and Fox News affecting my dad 🙃
I hate it all
"I think this must be aimed to take advantage of young people" she says about someone clearly targeting boomers like her
We discussed the algorithmic pipeline to alt right radicalization, and Fox News affecting my dad 🙃
I hate it all
I have a flight in eight hours and I cannot sleep, of course
This is the way it always goes, isn't it? 🙃
This is the way it always goes, isn't it? 🙃
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I have a flight in eight hours and I cannot sleep, of course
This is the way it always goes, isn't it? 🙃
This is the way it always goes, isn't it? 🙃
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Huge thread from Tyche Books, a Canadian publisher. Her authors are every day folks, with bills and rent and the physical requirement to eat every day.
Stealing the books she publishes is not a progressive act. It's not activism. It's not punk.
It's just stealing from people trying to live.
Stealing the books she publishes is not a progressive act. It's not activism. It's not punk.
It's just stealing from people trying to live.
Some of my authors are on disability. Some struggle to pay monthly bills. Some are retired & on limited income. Some were laid off in the past couple years & have yet to find new work. Some would love to quit the day job & write full time, but don't earn enough from royalties to do that.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Huge thread from Tyche Books, a Canadian publisher. Her authors are every day folks, with bills and rent and the physical requirement to eat every day.
Stealing the books she publishes is not a progressive act. It's not activism. It's not punk.
It's just stealing from people trying to live.
Stealing the books she publishes is not a progressive act. It's not activism. It's not punk.
It's just stealing from people trying to live.
Going back and forth between wanting to die to prove to people that I do actually have things wrong with me (spite!) or wanting to live to show that I don't need them to believe me or help me or anything since they're not going to anyway (also spite!)
This probably isn't great, but whatever
This probably isn't great, but whatever
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Going back and forth between wanting to die to prove to people that I do actually have things wrong with me (spite!) or wanting to live to show that I don't need them to believe me or help me or anything since they're not going to anyway (also spite!)
This probably isn't great, but whatever
This probably isn't great, but whatever
My dreams are never set in Canada even though I've been living here over 6 years. They always take place in Texas, either at my mom's in DFW or back in Austin (though I'm usually just visiting there)
Something is legitimately wrong with my brain. It doesn't realize the past 6 years have happened
Something is legitimately wrong with my brain. It doesn't realize the past 6 years have happened
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
My dreams are never set in Canada even though I've been living here over 6 years. They always take place in Texas, either at my mom's in DFW or back in Austin (though I'm usually just visiting there)
Something is legitimately wrong with my brain. It doesn't realize the past 6 years have happened
Something is legitimately wrong with my brain. It doesn't realize the past 6 years have happened
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“Lift yourself out of poverty by saving money”
“NO not like THAT”
“NO not like THAT”
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“Lift yourself out of poverty by saving money”
“NO not like THAT”
“NO not like THAT”