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M. Belanger
@sethanikeem.bsky.social
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writer of books - wrangler of cats - creator of #TTRPGs - #intersex, introverted & feral - can’t read my DMs because Ohio’s retrogressive laws stink 😡
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · Oct 6
Just in case the inevitable happens to this platform -

Places you can find me & my stuff

#Zines & #TTRPGs

xoshdarkheart.itch.io
Darkheart Games
xoshdarkheart.itch.io
sethanikeem.bsky.social
There is, appropriately, a LOT of Lord Byron baked into @realgdt.bsky.social ‘s Victor & I love all the metatextual layers his Frankenstein has

I’m a purist, but every single change made for a better story and – I dare say – a far truer tale to the spirit of Mary’s original than anything yet
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
PSA

Due to Ohio’s restrictive online “safety” laws, I can no longer see (or respond) to my DMs because I don’t trust the people who run @bsky.app with my personal information

So, if we need to do business, reach out somewhere less sketchy than whatever this shit hole has become
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
If there are any of my games or zines on @itchio.bsky.social you’ve had your eye on over at Darkheart Games, today is a good day to pick them up (and a lot are free – make sure you scroll down) #TTRPGs #zines #sologames

xoshdarkheart.itch.io
Darkheart Games
xoshdarkheart.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Today’s cat has laser eyes #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky
Photo of a black cat sitting on the pillar of a heavy oak bedstead. A soft gray blanket covers the bed. Beyond the cat a window looks out onto the night. A black curtain partly covers the curtain. A flash has been used, capturing green and blue starbursts in the cat’s eyes.
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Today’s cat is guarding his peace. Alone time is healing. #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky
A round gray cat curls up nose to tail on a vivid red blanket.
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
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.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
It went from a balmy 52° F last night to 31° right now and the moaning of the wind has all the cats on edge
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Today’s cat is waiting for the snow to come. #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky
A sleek black cat perched on the top of a side table covered with a soft brown cat bed. Black curtains partly cover a window looking out onto a suburban yard with winter-bare trees.
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Doing some rearranging & Autumn cleaning

Pretty happy with the new configuration of the game room

I’m the #TTRPG player. My wife is the board gamer #Gamer #Goth
A room with one solid wall of floor to ceiling bookshelves built in. The shelves are of dark wood with ornate flourishes. They are absolutely packed with graphic novels and gaming books. Gargoyles, skeletons, and other Gothic tchotchkes peer out from various surfaces. The hardwood floor is a dark warm color. The walls are painted deep red. A cozy room with deep red walls and hardwood flooring stained a dark warm color. We see an ornate wooden table of rich, dark wood with three dining room chairs of a matching wood upholstered in ivory brocade. The window behind the table is covered with a long black curtain. A gaming room with a warm hardwood floor. The walls are painted deep red. The furniture – dining chairs, a table, a side table – are all of dark wood. Two half-sized bookcases are filled with an extensive assortment of board games. They are surmounted by a carefully arranged row of boxed sets of games.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Today’s cat is a flashback to when Watson and Lestrade were kittens 😻 #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky
Two kittens, one black, one gray, sit atop a cat tree upholstered in beige shag carpet. They are near a window and the sun picks out silver on all their hair.
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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stephenblackmoore.com
Two photos taken from Downtown L.A.

They're from the L.A. Herald Examiner in 1951 and 1952. One from the Herald's roof, the other, I don't know, west of Downtown, maybe?

Not particularly remarkable. Kind of boring, really. Unless you know what they are.

They're nukes.
A picture taken from the roof of the LA Herald Examiner in 1951 facing east showing a bright sky in the distance almost like a sunrise. Kind of boring, really. Another picture showing a bright sky in the distance almost like a sunrise, taken by the LA Herald Examiner in 1952 also facing east but from somewhere west of Downtown L.A., I think. Also, really kind of boring, really.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Today’s cat knows how to stay cozy in the cold #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky
A soft gray cat reclines amid the vivid folds of a scarlet blanket. His eyes are half closed and his paws are daintily crossed in front of him.
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
As another heavily marketed family holiday looms in the US, I want you to remember:

Not all blood relatives are worthy of your time

Sometimes the best way to celebrate a holiday is to ignore it completely

You have a right to your boundaries & it’s not a celebration if it feels obligatory
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Today’s cat is a perfect play of light on gray #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky
Close-up photo of a slumbering cat. The cat is soft gray. The light picks out silver tips on his fur. He snuggles his face into a deep red blanket of plush fibers.
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by M. Belanger
sethcotlar.bsky.social
In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.
CRESTRICTED] ORIENTATION FACT SHEET 64 WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM! Note For This Week's Discussion: Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis; (2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.
August 1, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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jayaprakash777.bsky.social
If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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samrosenthal.bsky.social
Held over 1 more day !!

Black Tape For A Blue Girl 35% Off Sale
CDs / LPs / Merchandise
Use new code " 35merchplus " at checkout
blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com/merch
Through 11:59pm EST on Sun Nov 23

Doesn’t include: Sam Rosenthal • ISLANDS or THE ROPE-face T-shirt #darkwave #goth #ethereal
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
For some inane reason, our small town has decided tonight’s candlelight festival on the Square must be capped off with a full 20 minutes of non-stop fireworks 😖
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
A very brief moment in which our new refrigerator has no stickers or other swag:
A shiny new chrome refrigerator in a kitchen with dark wooden cabinetry and gray travertine-style tile. The refrigerator has two top doors and a pullout freezer section at the bottom. It is not a “smart” appliance and for that we are thankful.
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Today’s cat is doing her favorite thing: riding people around like ponies #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky #Caturday
A sleek black cat with a blaze of white at her throat lounges across the accommodating shoulders of a pale skinned human with a salt and pepper goatee and a tightly woven braid of long dark hair. The cat looks very pleased with herself.
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Have a #CatBreak
A soft grey cat sleeps against the chest of his favorite human. The backlit keyboard of a gaming laptop is visible in the background, displaced by the cat.
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Today’s cat is enjoying her breakfast #CatBreak #BlueSkyCats #CatSky
A little white and black cat hunkers down in front of a blue food bowl with a cartoon black cat painted onto it. She looks her lips after eating some wet food, her long pink tongue curled all the way up to her little pink nose.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
Given the current political climate in the US, I’m surprised there aren’t cries for a White Saturday

Because, y’ know
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
sethanikeem.bsky.social
I cannot contain my excitement for this

Now, hopefully I can get my head together enough to finish up in time the piece that has been waiting for this specific anthology
tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 8d
🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices

A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Art by @mxmorgan.com

All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Cover art, a swan alights on a cosmic celestial sea, the sky in the colors of the trans rights flag
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM