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Orin Drake

@wickedorin.bsky.social

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Queer maker of things and professional thorn. Pronoun preference: whatever's funniest at the time. Practitioner of defiant hope and the sacred melancholy, dethroner of gods, servant to none. https://reignofangels.com/

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Orin Drake @wickedorin.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Music: blackdogsatmyback.bandcamp.com
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Orin Drake @wickedorin.bsky.social · 15h

Kinktober Day 14 drabble, very very mind the tags, don't like don't read.
archiveofourown.org/works/72474086

Remember What You Feel Like to Be Mine - wickedorin - Compilation of Final Fantasy VII [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

1. Maintaining our right to public protest is essential for defeating dictatorship.
2. There are more of us than there are of them.
3. You don't have to RSVP.
4. Do more after Saturday.
5. Maybe wear a costume.

Trump Determined to Remind Us Why We Say 'No Kings'

We have frogs everywhere—a few reminders for this Saturday's monumental event.

www.thefarce.org

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

if you’re cis, you probably don’t even know who miss major was and that sucks for you. you’re missing out.

it sucks for all of us that she’s gone.

her work actually *does* need to be continued. especially right now. you should help make that happen.

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Hanburger 🍔 @hanburgergal.bsky.social · 2d

Something I love about Trigun is how wolfwood can carry a like 200+lb weapon bc he's a genetically modified freak and milly can carry one because she just can

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 1d

Some books that get banned may see bumps in sales, yes

But the majority? This is what happens to them. Especially when books are being banned by the thousands

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 3d

Fun fact: last week I got my royalty statement. It was for the last 6 months, and it was for my two books that have been banned.

Just so you know how rich we get off banned books, that check was a whopping $51.

No, not a badge of honor. No, not money-making. KIDS JUST LOSE ACCESS TO BOOKS.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 2d

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Meek (Spooky) 👻 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.

If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.

#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon

Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...

alaskabeacon.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 1d

A little treat before the spooky days begin 🎃🤍

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 2d

If Gen AI has million haters, then I am one of them.

If Gen AI has 10 haters, then I am one of them.

If Gen AI has one hater, then I am THAT ONE.

If Gen AI has no haters, that means I'm dead.

If the world is pro Gen AI, then I am against the world

Until my last breath, I’ll always hate Gen AI

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cid garlond's wet jockstrap @garlethottie.etheirys.social · 1d

in a few days; you should PROBABLY provide feedback, even if they don't fucking listen to their userbase. i do not care if you don't consume NSFW content, this /will/ affect you anyway. please do better for the people who built your site that wanted a better alternative. #bskycensorship

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Ryan Miller // TFcon Chicago 2025! @tgping.bsky.social · 23h

#portfolioday !

If you need a creature/boss/kaiju/mecha designed feel free to DM me :)

My world building for Titanomachy:
#thor
#hermes
#anubis

Titanomachy Anubis, possesses the form of a jackal

Titanomachy Hermes, possesses the form of a tortoise.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Supreme Court officially declines to hear Alex Jones appeal of judgement against him for calling Sandy Hook a hoax.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

www.nytimes.com

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UndeadInkAndPaint (Comms Open!) @undeadinkandpaint.bsky.social · 23h

Hello #portfolioday! I am a multi-media freelance artist! my work tends to focus on art use of color theory and subject. I am also currently open for commissions via my Artistree which you can find in my Linktree in my bio!

#art #fineart #digitalart #coloredpencil #acrylicpaint #portfolioday

a pumpkin headed spook with a bright red ribbon floats above a pumpkin patch as a chilly wind spreads the leaves of autumn beneath a full moon

A colored pencil drawing of a red lantern

Acrylic painting of a horned and fanged skull, the background is alive with color and energy

A morose mouse in a Jester costume balances atop a ball with a smaller one balanced on the tip of its nose.

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HC•° @hollycircling.bsky.social · 22h

new standee uu

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Sex scenes are almost never "gratuitous" or "unnecessary." You learn things about characters and relationships during sex that you can't really learn any other way, such as whether they're into fisting.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 20h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 21h

Need to share for anyone who doesn't know the story of how Drew Struzan painted the poster art for The Thing in less than 24 hours

The Thing | The story behind Drew Struzan's iconic poster

Artist Drew Struzan created an iconic poster for John Carpenter’s The Thing. Incredibly, it was conceived and painted in a matter of hours…

filmstories.co.uk

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 19h

Big Tech is targeting vulnerable communities for its data centers. Residents incur a huge cost in water & power and airborne toxic chemicals. Town officials sign NDAs so citizens have no awareness of the threat.

New from me: data centers and their effects.
buttondown.com/creativegood...

Don't let the data center come to town

In southwest Memphis sits the Colossus, a giant AI slop factory owned by Elon Musk. Gas-powered turbines at the facility foul the air with “nitrogen oxides...

buttondown.com

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Mandamonium! but scary @amandariffic.bsky.social · 22h

Hats Off Entertainment does a great vid on him. Well, all that channel’s videos are great, but this one’s great too.

Jim Varney | The Original Viral Star | A Docu-Mini

YouTube video by Hats Off Entertainment

youtu.be

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Levy @levywrites.bsky.social · 20h

I think certain fandoms have a big problem with leaning into some hcs so hard that when official content comes out they're disappointed that it doesn't fit into their ideal when it was never going to in the first place.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨

We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · Dec 20

How did the Ghostbusters Cartoon have writing this good?

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