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@wreybies.bsky.social

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(He/Him) Secular humanist, polyglot interpreter, veteran, scribbler of stories, maker of maps, deeply aggrieved that I'll never know the true nature of Neanderthal language. Active on AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/users/Wreybies

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Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · Apr 18

My avatar image is a rendering of a young Homo heidelbergensis man done by Brazilian Paleo-Artist Julio Lacerda. His work is phenomenal and has been regularly featured in PBS Eons.

Check him out: @lacerdajulio.bsky.social

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Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 6h

“Grammy, how did you and Pawpaw stay together so long?”

“Well, bless your heart, dear. You say it like there was a choice.”

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 9h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caguana...

Caguana Ceremonial Ball Courts Site - Wikipedia

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Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 9h

These petroglyphs are a small part of the Caguana Ceremonial Ball Courts in Utuado, Puerto Rico.

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Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 1d

In celebration of the Taino woman who resides within every cell of my body.

A row of Taino petroglyphs carved into small monoliths in Utuado, Puerto Rico.

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Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 2d

#fanfic #ao3

A screen-cap of Newt and Ellen Ripley from the film ALIENS captioned: Kudos... They mostly come at night. Mostly.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 4d

There is no Antifa.
But if they SAY there’s an Antifa…
And only THEY get to define what it is…
Then it’s YOU.
YOU are Antifa whenever THEY need you to be for THEIR purposes.

Water is Wet
Forks are found in Kitchens

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 7d

My fics are never going to attract crowds. I have little interest in popular tropes or ships where everyone is clamoring to get aboard. Worse, I write OC x Canon. *insert dramatic clutching of pearls*

But every once in a while, I get a comment that makes it all worth the while. 🙂

#fanfic

Comment left on a Stranger Things fic I wrote that reads:

Look. Listen. This isn’t a complaint or anything, but man. You tagged this as porn without a plot and I was expecting that… only to find there very much was a plot. A small one, sure, but nevertheless a tender and amazing plot. I’m on board for this trickery. Fuck man, this was CUTE as all HELL! The build up, the energy and then the kiss. You got me down bad for this pairing, I wish there was more like this. I hope someday you get in the mood and write more of this lmao. This is a good start on them getting together, especially hinting at long term feelings and going slow sexually (and maybe other ways too mmmmmm???)! Perfect fic. Usually short ones drive me crazy but this didn’t feel it. No, no, I every word and sentence had purpose. Beautiful.

Don’t even get me started on the body worship and adoration for bigger and unusual body shapes. I could write a novel of praise on that. You don’t see that often so honestly, thank you so much for this. This one is gonna stick with me.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 8d

We all have good days. Don't let that be what defines you.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 12d

Them: Hey, Uncle Wrey. What did you do during "the bad times to feel better?"

Me: Oh, I wrote smutty fanfiction.

Them: ... what?

Me: Yeah, when shit gets weird, shit gets weird. Don't beat yourself up too much over your coping mechanisms. Just don't hurt anyone else, yeah?

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 12d

Offered without caption.

An image composed of two juxtaposed photos. The top image is Pete Hegseth having a tittie-baby meltdown in front of seasoned, professional soldiers. The bottom image is remarkably similar and is of a blond toddler boy having a full-on kicking, screaming tantrum.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 12d

“Committed so many hours to…”

It’s just shy of 4k right now. Are they reading a word a day?? I am reminded of the never-ending flood of spambots that would assail forums in the earlier 2000s that would post literal word salad.

Now it’s thought salad.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 16d

I'm not really a Star Wars fan, but a friend kept pitching the Andor series at me and I finally relented, for which I am glad. If you live in the USA and have thought about watching this show, I suggest you move it to the front of your TBW list before it becomes illegal to even mention the show.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 19d

So, in short and general - I tackled the monster under the bed and then gave myself a project that already had a structure, which just made getting back into it so much easier.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 19d

The fact that the mythological story has a structure that I will be following allowed me to worry less about structure (already there) and more about the delivery.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 19d

Then, I did something I’ve wanted to do for a while - my own personal self-prompt. I’d been toying with the idea of filtering a GoT story through the plot line of a mythological story, in this case Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 19d

Just my 2p, but I was gone from posting for over a year. I got back into the grove by a) tackling that unfinished multichapter story that was haunting me and making it hard to want to look at my AO3 account.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 21d

As regards this conversation, the em-dash is flashy but, alone, hardly diagnostic of AI. It's easy to spot, though, so it grabs the limelight. If anything, AI is reviving its use. There are other, syntax-driven tells that much more diagnostic.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 21d

Poppet, most days I even have a hard time liking me. What makes you think I have to time to deal with you not liking me?

And how the fuck do you have so much spare time on your hands?

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 23d

When you like it, it's called "free market".
When you don't, it's called "cancel culture".
Dear Global North - Collapse faster, ffs.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 26d

And DUNE.
It's a cautionary tale.
Paul is NOT the hero.
He's a warning about the rise of charismatic leaders and how the systems that create them are rarely able to contain them.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 27d

The modern-day scion of the Crawleys is a young woman who works at a Nando's at the cash register. She gets tapped by the boutique hotel owner to help solve the mystery of the "Eyeroll Lady". 😉

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Hal Hickel @halhickel.bsky.social · 28d

The producers of the new Downton Abbey film have really missed an opportunity. Should be set in modern day. The Abbey is now a boutique hotel, which the Crawley family now haunt. Proper hard R horror. Titled "Creepy Crawleys"

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27d

#thiswritinglife #booksky

As prescribed in scripture:

1 screeching handbrake turn in plot underpinning

2 yawning existential doubt as to quality of text so far written

3 despair

4 yawning existential doubt as to quality of self

5 profound sympathy for writers who abuse drugs

1/n

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Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · 27d

Indeed, Pooh. Indeed.

Wrey 🏳️‍🌈✍️ @wreybies.bsky.social · Sep 14

😊 Another Scrivener fan. ❤️🖋️

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