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Wonderful Starfish
@wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
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Psych RN, writer, gamer, parent. Up late on the socials while rocking a fussy baby.

#ReportableEvents- a horror/comedy flash fiction project.

Also, don't use ChatGPT for therapy.
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What's the Bluesky equivalent of tying yourself to the mast?
colincarlson.bsky.social Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18h
!!! ATTENTION !!!

Welcome to the afterlife !!!

Bluesky is a home for restless spirits who never even had a first day on the Internet while they were alive !!!

Do not engage these faceless spirits !!!

They may become scared or angry !!!

Turn off replies for safe passage through this world !!!
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
dCember for 12/8. I assume the Goblin insists that it's the one who's legs turned into a jackass adventurer. What if the rest of the party decide they like the Goblin better?

#ttrpgs #ttrpg #dnd #d&d
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social Wonderful Starfish @wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social · 21h
8. Goblin Foot- your foot becomes an actual Goblin. 50% chance would survive amputation. 0% chance it knows that. May give advice (good or bad), yell for monsters to come kill you, drag you places while you sleep, demand a share of your rations. Will loudly complain about being stuffed in a boot.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
Its pretty cool when the state lets you take paid leave. But if your employer is going to eat your next paycheck for back payments on insurance, the state should take that into account.

[Freedom of speech guy or whatever]
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
Those D&D floor and ceiling monsters are so unrealis-
jeffyoungblood.bsky.social Jeff Youngblood @jeffyoungblood.bsky.social · 3d
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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By my standards, this was a runaway, but seems tacky to do a "well this blew up" in someone else's thread.
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social Wonderful Starfish @wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social · 2d
Works for medication names too:

And Levimir, son of Detemir, drew the blade Vistaril and slew the dragon Atarax.
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Reportable Events, episode 63

Original Post 11/29/2017

"R is for Restrictions"

In which I'm glad I didn't try to follow this rule in the blog.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
R is for Restrictions New policy from corporate: employees are not allowed to speak words with the letter R on Thursdays. Glad I don’t work Thursdays!
December 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
Getting caught up on dCember. Where do your hands go at night?

#ttrpgs #ttrpg #dnd #d&d
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social Wonderful Starfish @wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social · 21h
7. Wandering hands- your hands detach at night and go do things. Terrible things. 30 minutes after you go to sleep, your hands detach and wander off. They return in 1d10 hours each. Roll for the state each one is in when it returns:
1. Grave dirt under the nails 2. Covered in (1d10): 1. Slime 2. Mud 3. Honey 4. Perfume 5. Bruises 6. Lipstick 7. Blood, animal 8. Blood, human 9.Blood, other sentient 10. Blood, outsider 3. Wearing a strange ring 4. Missing 1d4 fingers 5. Has 1d4 additional fingers 6. Sporting a mysterious tattoo 7. Nails have been painted 8. Nails have been sharpened 9. Normal 10. Suspiciously normal
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Reportable Events, episode 62

Original Post 11/27/2017

"Try Before You Buy"

In which we can't have nice things, because that would be bribery.

#flashfiction
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Try Before You Buy Becky the pharmaceutical rep came in today to show off some new drugs. Apparently she used to bring by free lunches and concert tickets and the like with the samples. Now the government is cracking down on that sort of thing, so she can’t offer material incentives anymore. Today she had some immaterial incentives instead. Dr Hansen got the sensation of waking up when you didn’t realize you had fallen asleep, I got the last thoughts of a dying man. I feel a little weird about accepting that because isn’t that basically taking a bribe?
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
I finally finished up the Brine & Blood podcast from @pathofnight.bsky.social breaking my streak of drifting away from podcasts for the last few years.

I liked the story and acting but the tech side was what I appreciated the most. It's actually *edited* and everyone's mic works.
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
That stage of #parenting when you realize your kid saying they are too sick for school is probably the best indicator that they are fine to go.
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Reportable Events, episode 61

Original Post 11/24/2017

"Thanks But No Thanks"

In which we count our blessings

#flashfiction
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Thanks But No Thanks Worked Thanksgiving. Seeing this place on a holiday is always interesting. Here is what I am thankful for this year: Broad spectrum antibiotics. Eye wash stations. The wards keeping the Thing in the basement contained. Patient controlled analgesic pumps. IV tubing sturdy enough to use to zip line out of a fifth floor window. Cafeteria breadsticks. PRN antiemetics. Beautiful phlebotomists that apparently only I can see.
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
So in my dream, I was in my friend from college's dojo in a converted train station in the area between Santa Monica and Mordavia from Quest for Glory when ICE appeared and wrestled a student out of class. I helped him escape but fuck them for thinking they have jurisdiction over our dreams.
December 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Reportable Events, episode 60

Original Post 11/22/2017

"Anyone have a pen?"

In which we reveal the first rule of nursing.

#flashfiction
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#nursing
Anyone have a pen? A basic rule of working in a hospital is to never let your pen out of your sight because nurses will always steal your pen if given a chance. I’ve lost three pens to people on staff since the summer, and found that I’ve accidentally stolen two more. Everyone just reflexively pockets any pen they happen to be holding. I’m trying to figure out why this is. Arleen says it’s just because we always need to take notes. Svetlana says that it’s because the Thing fears knowledge and thus the written word so it won’t attack you if you have pens on you.
December 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Tempted to respond to a post with 6 likes by saying "well this blew up"
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
5:57 AM- Holy shit it's early

6:01 AM- What the fuck are you still doing in bed
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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For #WorldBuildingWednesday I'm looking at today's my December project: dCember, a 1d31 table of weird ailments.

What if Brain Mice were a thing?

#worldbuilding #ttrpgs #ttrpg #d&d #dnd
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social Wonderful Starfish @wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social · 5d
3. Brain Mice- a swarm of diminutive mice replace your brain. It still functions, just powered by tiny mice instead of synapses. Advantage against mind altering effects, disadvantage on initiative. Hunger for cheese, fear of cats.
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Reportable Events, episode 59

Original Post 11/20/2017

"Thanksgiving break"

In which we consider holiday options.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
Thanksgiving break It’s Thanksgiving break at school, which is great in theory, but in practice it just means that I’m going to be picking up extra shifts. I’ve never seen Thanksgiving in a hospital, so that should be interesting. I hear the cafeteria puts on a nice meal. Alternatively, I found this flyer for a dinner in the North Chapel. It invites people to attend “The Great Feast” and promises activities like “paeans to the horned one”, “the Great Rite”, and charades. I might check that out but it doesn’t mention if there will be vegetarian options.
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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And I was just about to resubscribe too. Guess not now.
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
Sick baby sleeping on me. I, like a villain, dare to move my leg in preparation for bringing him back to bed and he screams his head off. He settles down but he's breathing hard and fast like he's sleeping angry at me.

#parenting
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Reportable Events, episode 58

Original Post 11/17/2017

"Fifth Clinical Day in East"

In which alternative medicine is practiced.

#flashfiction
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Fifth Clinical Day in East Holy shit! I saw a ballpoint pen tracheotomy today! It was just like it looks on TV. So cool. Granted, it was in the OR so I’m not sure why the doctor used a pen instead of any of the sterile medical tools in the room, but still super cool.
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
So *both* kids are sick and waking up crying every few. Tonight will be something...
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
There's a lot of annoying questions nurses get asked. "Why aren't you a doctor?" is probably the worst.
mixedlinguist.bsky.social Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 8d
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
wonderfulstarfish.bsky.social
I mean, why not add a new daily project?

For the month of December, a (largely) system agnostic d31 table for #ttrpgs. I call it...

dCember

#d&d #dnd #ttrpg

dCember 2025: 1d31 Weird Ailments.

Starts today!
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Reportable Events, episode 57

Original Post 11/15/2017

"Today I Was Brave"

In which the first step is the hardest.

#flashfiction
#ReportableEvents
Today I Was Brave Well, it’s taken me a few weeks but I finally got up the nerve to talk to the girl in phlebotomy. I introduced myself and asked her name and she said “They took my name long ago, when they took everything else.” I asked if I could call her Phoebe since she works in Phlebotomy. She says that she doesn’t work there so much as is imprisoned there, but she’s okay with Phoebe.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM