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@thatzommy.bsky.social

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Christian Quaker fellow in their mid-20s. big on ttrpg and small on writing. typecast as the crab person. i can work with that.

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dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · May 5

(peppy and optimistic) I'm sure it'll be fine! (suddenly dour) it always is...

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dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 5m

oh i'm really excited for this one! love the Nightsoil comics

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 1h

that was a good movie

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 1h

did amy just do a donald trump impression

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 2h

got back to it. first scene of today was the vigil. goodness gracious.

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 13h

It's also fitted with four laser turrets (for comms and debris deflection only, of course), four mass drivers (definitely not railguns), and eight probe launchers (it only carries torpedoes for emergencies). On the back side it's got a shuttle and four small transport pods.

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 13h

It's pulled along by a Tachyon Drive, which is set so far forward to avoid giving the crew sunburns and to set it outside a made up inertial dampening field. It can hit absurdly high Gs without liquifying its crew for this reason.

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 13h

this one in particular is a Chandler-Class Relief Vessel. The hull paint would be a mess of murals, poems, quotes, etc chosen by the crew over the ship's lifetime. The Union *loves* that sort of stuff.

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 13h

Hey yall look at this new art i got! A 50kt Union Starship from my Novikov setting, without and with the hull painting (here abstracted). Beautifully depicted by @ncc-60205.bsky.social !

A spherical spaceship, coloured a bluish-white, and set against a starry background. It has a structure at its front that looks like something between a radio telescope and a cell tower, with a disc at the end of it emanating a thin blue pillar of light. Around the base of the tower are several smaller features, including four laser turrets, four railgun ports, and eight probe/torpedo ports. Around the sphere is a seam separating the front and back hemispheres, and along this seam are more visible ports, distinct from those near the front.

Same as the prior image, but a jackson pollock-like pattern covers the hull behind the forward structures. It gives the impression of chaotic, busy paint work.

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 14h

more like texas held em ha ha. i droped my cards

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 15h

same tbh

screenshot from a wikipedia article. The section is titled Legacy, and the first sentence reads: "While broadly based, the movement was unstable."

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 15h

i don't think i can finish Gone Girl tonight it's so difficult to watch. it's good tho

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dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 16h

should i watch gone girl

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dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 18h

always be glazing...

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 19h

Andrzej Sapkowski understood this! the Witcher books are my favorite fantasy series because they are not afraid to stop everything and talk about the local charcoal industry

dANTE @thatzommy.bsky.social · 19h

more books should be like moby dick in the sense of just being a series of things the author wanted to write about. more books should pause partway through to exposit the author's special interest. more books should put the plot on hold to tell a different, only loosely connected story.