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Ashe Thurman
@pixelsandpins.bsky.social
SF/F writer 📚
Voice actor (Milaine-Kumax3 Bear, Nora-My Time at Portia, One Piece, Fire Force)
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Pictures of cats, crafts, and bugs.

✏️SFF Books & Blogs: pixelsandpins.com
✏️Alien Romance: loreleihavok.com
🎙Voice: ashethurman.com
We love good looking books in this house.

Just got in my hardcover of the complete Harrow County by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook from Dark Horse.

Super gorgeous drawer design. Also has a ribbon bookmark!

#booksky #comics
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This is a bit of a champagne problem, but in case you're also in this scenario, I don't want you to feel alone.

I'm in a weird present cold war with my mom, and she doesn't even seem to realize it. In the sense that: I don't want any Christmas presents, and she REFUSES to comply.🧵?
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Who better to tackle the massive topic of HIV, AIDS and PrEP than @silverbd.bsky.social, a French Planned Parenthood volunteer who also happens to be gay, polyamorous, and on PreP himself? 1/2
www.ohjoysextoy.com/aids-hiv-pre...
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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In the 1950s, the world went after comic books for having material that was too intense. You'd never see anything like that in the Sunday funnies of the time...

Except for in the Eveready battery comics ad campaign that ran at least 1950-1960.
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Episode 4
On Sunny's homeworld, carnivorous plants are the least of Lidea's concerns as their relationship gets weird.
#booksky 💙📚🪐

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Episode 4- Homestead
There were a few interesting things about Tomar that set it apart from anywhere else in all the connected worlds. It was the only large permanent city on the entirety of Latolan; a city-state of so…
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December 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Episode 4
On Sunny's homeworld, carnivorous plants are the least of Lidea's concerns as their relationship gets weird.
#booksky 💙📚🪐

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Inkitt: www.wattpad.com/story/401040...
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Episode 4- Homestead
There were a few interesting things about Tomar that set it apart from anywhere else in all the connected worlds. It was the only large permanent city on the entirety of Latolan; a city-state of so…
pixelsandpins.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
If you've never been told: the influencers you might be seeing doing #christmasdecor hauls right now are not...like...normal.

Most people have the same decor they pull out year after year and maybe add to bit by bit. That's "real life."

It's always good to remember how much fake shit you're fed.
December 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
As a kid, we used the same advent calendar every year. It was a wooden Christmas tree with drawers that my mom put candy and stickers in.

As an adult, I just use this "countdown clock."

I don't understand the modern gachapon style ones when they consistently don't deliver good products.
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Interesting advertising strategy, Mr. Cheeseman.
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New episode (4) this week.

Sunny and Lidea head back "home," a city-state on a planet covered by carnivorous plants.

Catch up with the episodes so far.

#writsky #booksky
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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AI dubs aren't just an attempt to replace voice actors. Engineering, mixing, writing, directing, and QC are also cut, narrowed down to a single prompter.

When I write dub scripts, it is an exercise in musicality, translation, and personal life experience. A prompter understands none of that.
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If you're investing in a pre-lit faux tree, I recommend ones with two light color schemes. We've only used multi-color, so far, but it dramatically changes the feel of the tree to give options should we want them.

#Christmas #Christmasdecor
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends

Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.

Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀

IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I did Conversion Therapy for YouTube.
youtu.be/g1lg8ixkN8w
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Special henna request at the Renn Faire this weekend. Absolutely enamored.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This goes out to everyone who's going to have to explain Dispatch or Date Everything! to their extended family this holiday season.

(Originally written for VN Game Den in 2021)

#blogs #visualnovels #gaming #datingsims
pixelsandpins.com/2025/11/19/h...
How to Talk to Your Family About Visual Novels
Originally written for VN Game Den in December 2021 Oh no. You’ve done it.The conversation had been pleasant enough when you all sat down for a holiday dinner with the family. Then Aunt Sheryl (bec…
pixelsandpins.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Bookmail today brought Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social.

The packaging from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social press is just lovely!

#booksky 💙📚🪐
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Still looking for South Asian fem print actors to voice Nora! Compared to the other characters, she had the least auditions.

We extended Nora auditions till the end of the Nov 20.

Those that previously submitted for Nora can resubmit
👇Send below👇
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This goes out to everyone who's going to have to explain Dispatch or Date Everything! to their extended family this holiday season.

(Originally written for VN Game Den in 2021)

#blogs #visualnovels #gaming #datingsims
pixelsandpins.com/2025/11/19/h...
How to Talk to Your Family About Visual Novels
Originally written for VN Game Den in December 2021 Oh no. You’ve done it.The conversation had been pleasant enough when you all sat down for a holiday dinner with the family. Then Aunt Sheryl (bec…
pixelsandpins.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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We lost some work because some authors who showed their weirdness and rough edges asked uncomfortable questions about the power structures too many people accept as given, and then a bunch of the "community" tormented them until they hid away.

Isabel Fall was one for starters.
I think we lost some work because authors were afraid to show their weirdnesses, rough edges, to ask uncomfortable questions.
We can debate all day about who got cancelled and whether or not they deserved it, but one thing I have noticed is that a lot of queer YA written from ~2019-2022 has a kind of sterile after-school-special vibe where you can just tell they sanitized the fuck out of it to appease the Twitter hivemind
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This one particular muscovy duck at the park.

That is all.
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Needed to make some belt straps for my husband's new (upcycled?) Renn Faire bag. Made new ones for mine while I was at it.

Need to figure out a way to cover the branding on the new bag.
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms.

‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Venom 251 references Iron Man's roller skate era. Ewing's deep cuts come outta nowhere every time. #comics #venom
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM