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R.A. Young

@raynos.bsky.social

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20+ writer, writing for 15+ years. Current WIPs: original fic of a hidden tactician fighting aliens that copy human appearance & fanfic for #MadokaMagica / #魔法少女まどかマギカ Profile pic: TOON ME! picrew by hellosunnycore

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R.A. Young @raynos.bsky.social · 10d

Finally figured out my #FirstDraftFall project so I redid my Oct spread.

Collage with header "Happy Halloween", and cartoon pumpkins, bare trees, ghost, bats and buildings with lit windows.

The pictures in the collage, from top right to left, then down:
1. Akemi Homura from Madoka Magica episode 12 with the corrupted wings. Godoka is hugging her shoulders from behind.
2. #FirstDraftFall banner.
3. #TimeTravelAuthor prompts for October 2025.

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 52m

This week my newsletter is a response to @davekarpf.bsky.social's "It's Giving Enron," which I think is a helpful narrative but not sufficient to explain the the current state of the industry

www.leahreich.com/you-are-inve...

You Are Inventory

Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we ...

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ivy 🥚 sly @ivysly.com · 10h

idk how to make this clear without getting screenshotted out of context but I really think you should be able to make fiction that unilaterally portrays [MOST DEPRAVED SUBJECT YOU COULD THINK OF] in a positive light and, if you want to, sell it for money

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the haver of it🔞 @taylortitmouse.bsky.social · 6h

kinktober 15: furniture

"Don't move so much."

romick lays in bed, with the doll sitting in his lap. he rests a book on her ass. "FURNITURE" in the top left

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oobi 🐶 @mingimoes.bsky.social · 8h

is that..

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 10h

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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R.A. Young @raynos.bsky.social · 10h

2 but I'm mad cos they took me out of my lighthouse.

Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 23h

Which Halloween costume best suits you?

1. soup goblin
2. gently mad lighthouse keeper
3. fog beast
4. feral & flirty research scientist

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 1d

There's actually a reason for that!

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R.A. Young @raynos.bsky.social · 11h

#FirstDraftFall A world I've created, though we see most of it from the inside of a space battle ship. So there'll be a lot of contained bustle and air locks.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 13h

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall

Is your story set in our world or a world you've created? Give us some setting vibes!

These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...

Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall - October - Planning
Is your story set in our world or a world you've created?

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R.A. Young @raynos.bsky.social · 11h

Madoka Magica has a lot of fun visuals like the one in the gif, so I attempted to describe it!

a girl in a pink dress is surrounded by pink lights and sparkles

Alt: Madoka, a girl in a pink dress, fires an energy arrow that breaks through the clouds to reveal blue skies and an energy array.

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Julie Bihn (Titanic Voyage free on Hoopla!) @juliebihn.bsky.social · 12h

Hey #TimeTravelAuthors, it looks like the feed at bsky.app/profile/did:... might show all of the authors, including me and @ringles.bsky.social. Check it out!

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R.A. Young @raynos.bsky.social · 12h

#TimeTravelAuthors Oct 15: Snippet with give.

From the glare of the sun, a barrage of energy arrows rained down to dispel the mist and give Homura a pretty good view of Dave's awestruck expression.

R.A. Young @raynos.bsky.social · 10d

For the #TimeTravelAuthors Oct 2025 prompts by @juliebihn.bsky.social I'll be answering as different characters from my crossover fanfic "a question of time" on AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/28605702

#TimeTravelAuthors
October 2025
Answer as a character!

1. Introduce yourself and the story
3. Your first appearance and/or line of dialogue in the story
5. Why are you important to the story?
7. Something odd/weird you've experienced
9. Favorite person
11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: most)
13. What does someone else in the story think of you?
15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: give/gave)
17. What life advice would you give?
19. Proudest moment
21. If you got to write the story, what would you change?
23. Tell us about your enemies
25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: back)
27. How do you feel about time travel?
29. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: now)
31. Character's choice/promo

All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome!
To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors
On even days, post what you like!
Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social

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R.A. Young @raynos.bsky.social · 14h

Love story!!!

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mio @misteor.bsky.social · 1d

#コピック

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katjr @katjr.feywilds.art · 18h

I’ve lost friends over masking or not masking and tbh it’s very baffling how mad people get about masking.
Masking in hospitals or clinics: why do you WANT other people’s germs?
Masking on mass transit: again, why do you want people’s germs?

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secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 1d

Fall [part 1/3]

A cartoon crow is looking up as orange, red and yellow fall leaves dance in tje wind around him.

The crow is walking on the crunchy leaves, saying "what a perfect day!"

The crow is marveling at how lovely all the leaves are, new seeing a stone in his path.

The crow trips on the stone right on his face.

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maria @mariartpasta.bsky.social · 1d

a little date 💕

#namgi

namgi on a lil date wherein namjoon take yoongi to endless museums while yoongi listens to him yap forever while just holding his hand and we all ugly cry but me mainly i could fill a sea with my namgi tears

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clarz 🥛🚀 @clarz.bsky.social · 1d

from "second body" by catherine pond
www.aprweb.org/poems/second...

If there was some mistake, I don’t mind.

Here is the lake
you will learn to love. Here

are the lilies, the cattails, the reeds.
Meanwhile, the sun is growing

larger, large enough
to fill my arms. Don’t make fun

of me. I’m not used to miracles.
I’ve lived here all my life

and I never knew
what the light could do.

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AdorkaStock - Pose Reference for Artists @adorkastock.com · 6d

You won't be disappointed in this pack. Lauren Ashley has SO much swagger. Get 64 images of Lauren Ashley sitting and being awesome for $5+. ko-fi.com/s/ccd6fc967c

#Pose #PoseRef

Majority aqua graphic featuring a fat white woman in various seated positions. Text reads: Pack alert! Lauren Ashley Sitting pack. 64 images. $5+ Ko-fi.com/adorkastock.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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ろく @63der.bsky.social · 3d

#魔法少女まどか☆マギカ #鹿目まどか

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西乃桜@スケブ募集中 @sakura-nisino.bsky.social · 3d

夕方5時の日曜日、
どのほむらちゃんと一緒に見る？

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水月 @mondgarten.bsky.social · 3d

まどかさん
久しぶりに描きました〜

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𝒮𝒽ℯ-ℛ𝒶 @riptodeesse.blacksky.app · 1d

I miss passionate sex. Lots of foreplay and kissing and touching. Feeling like you wanna be in each other’s skin. If it’s not like this, I don’t want it

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

People rightly complain that a lot of TV dramas are "copaganda," but those shows have set some expectations in the general public about how law enforcement is supposed to act. Lean into that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

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