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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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candy corn's last defender @johnperich.com · 7h

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 · 7h

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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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 7h

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 · 17h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

"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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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

Internet pro tip! Sometimes people will make wry observations about current events without specifically naming the event or linking to a complete explanation. While this may be alarming, responding "huh?" will not solve the problem

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 8h

Look—it's never wrong to steal a Rolex. But you gotta be consistent. You gotta accept the Categorical Imperative here.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19h

the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth

Rolex subreddit post:

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

nancy no!!!!

(recipe: Hamburger Steak with Onions and Gravy)

recipe review

Nancy Wood
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Do NOT use vanilla in place of sherry! I just made this exactly as written and used vanilla since I didn't have sherry. It is now down the disposal. The smell alone was a huge indicator of what it would taste like. Whoever thought of vanilla with meat? Nasty.

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Istrandar @istrandar.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hey #PortfolioDay !

I'm Maxime a french freelance illustrator. I love painting creatures and animals.

I'm open for work ! Feel free to contact me

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 9h

"So we all hang out before the Comet arrives? I'm sorry, I can't join your cult. Yeah, no, I'm a bad hang, no I can't do that."

Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 9h

I'm about Amanda Marcotte's age and when she was a Young Republican, the Young Republicans I met at UMass said things like "Black people should all be slaves because of their low IQs" and "it should be illegal for Jews to leave Israel" except they used slightly different nouns.

Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 10h

You are out of your mind if you think young republicans in the early aughts weren’t bigots. They were saying the n-word all the time, too, they just didn’t have group chats to get leaked.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 12h

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 10h

You are out of your mind if you think young republicans in the early aughts weren’t bigots. They were saying the n-word all the time, too, they just didn’t have group chats to get leaked.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 12h

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 10h

Your brain has to be pre-weirded to survive the cognitohazard that is online, it's not an age thing, it's that the inherent shape of online is weird (both pejorative and non-); it's been built from the start as a place for the nonconforming

Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 19h

For years I resisted the urge to say "everyone get off my internet" because it always felt snob-geeky, oh it's the September That Never Ended, "these n00bs," but seriously: most of you shouldn't be here. You should be at a football game, or yelling at your kids. Online is driving you mad.

ceej @ceej.online · 1d

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Video Games Out of Context 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @indiegamesooc.bsky.social · 1d

Okami

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