Real Deal Pumpkin Spice Energy (C.A. MacLean)
@camroundabout.bsky.social
Novelist, author of sci-fi action series Architects Of The Illusion (and others to come!). Canadian. Find my media-analysis articles, novels and other links: https://thegamerslookingglass.com/?page_id=398
If you're wondering how oligarch-owned media is framing the act of stating, objectively, that soldiers don't have to obey illegal orders. The framing of literal facts as 'controversial' plays right into the endgame of making a population so gaslit that baseline reality is whatever Trump says it is.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you're wondering how oligarch-owned media is framing the act of stating, objectively, that soldiers don't have to obey illegal orders. The framing of literal facts as 'controversial' plays right into the endgame of making a population so gaslit that baseline reality is whatever Trump says it is.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
As much as I love the holy trinity of Land through Powerplant, this album hitting at just the right time in my life created a one of a kind nostalgia storm. That fall/winter was a special time for me and this was a perfect album for that period.
As much as I love the holy trinity of Land through Powerplant, this album hitting at just the right time in my life created a one of a kind nostalgia storm. That fall/winter was a special time for me and this was a perfect album for that period.
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
As much as I love the holy trinity of Land through Powerplant, this album hitting at just the right time in my life created a one of a kind nostalgia storm. That fall/winter was a special time for me and this was a perfect album for that period.
As much as I love the holy trinity of Land through Powerplant, this album hitting at just the right time in my life created a one of a kind nostalgia storm. That fall/winter was a special time for me and this was a perfect album for that period.
Right? Woke up yesterday to all these weirdos hyperfixating on a thing you can literally turn off in the menu (pic included) when the rest of the footage looks like classic vibes. These people want to doom. They want to be miserable.
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Right? Woke up yesterday to all these weirdos hyperfixating on a thing you can literally turn off in the menu (pic included) when the rest of the footage looks like classic vibes. These people want to doom. They want to be miserable.
Lute hallucinating Adam as a dark passenger, same energy
October 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Lute hallucinating Adam as a dark passenger, same energy
This is Kalayaan from @talesofthebatala.bsky.social, who comes to learn that she can do horrifying things with her blood when under extreme emotional duress, like crafting bespoke weaponry of her own blood and bone. After years of slavery she knows just who to use this on. (Witch-adjacent enough?)
October 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is Kalayaan from @talesofthebatala.bsky.social, who comes to learn that she can do horrifying things with her blood when under extreme emotional duress, like crafting bespoke weaponry of her own blood and bone. After years of slavery she knows just who to use this on. (Witch-adjacent enough?)
I feel like this is the kind of statement that if posted in a popular discord would definitely cause one of those SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE TYPING... moments
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I feel like this is the kind of statement that if posted in a popular discord would definitely cause one of those SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE TYPING... moments
Was at a friend's kid's birthday party and one of his relatives made a bespoke cake of @realgdt.bsky.social's Pacific Rim (everything one-of-a-kind handmade save for the figures). Talk about destructible art. 😀
October 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Was at a friend's kid's birthday party and one of his relatives made a bespoke cake of @realgdt.bsky.social's Pacific Rim (everything one-of-a-kind handmade save for the figures). Talk about destructible art. 😀
On a wander and cut through a schoolyard, was not aware measures had been taken to deter hoodlums from breaking out a quick nine of street golf on school grounds
September 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
On a wander and cut through a schoolyard, was not aware measures had been taken to deter hoodlums from breaking out a quick nine of street golf on school grounds
This Hades II run at @framefatales.com is immediately sending me because of the Beelzebub plushie behind the runner, just...happily observing one of the other underworlds in silence
September 13, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This Hades II run at @framefatales.com is immediately sending me because of the Beelzebub plushie behind the runner, just...happily observing one of the other underworlds in silence
Same buddy, reposting this convo with permission because I just want to highlight how special it feels when your work gets vibe checked and it lands on the exact vibes you were intending for. (The novel is from 2012 but you always love hearing stuff like this.) #booksky #amwriting
August 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Same buddy, reposting this convo with permission because I just want to highlight how special it feels when your work gets vibe checked and it lands on the exact vibes you were intending for. (The novel is from 2012 but you always love hearing stuff like this.) #booksky #amwriting
I would rather hear 41 minutes from the lady who demanded to know the price tag of fascism than hear 4 seconds from the fascist who refused to answer
August 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I would rather hear 41 minutes from the lady who demanded to know the price tag of fascism than hear 4 seconds from the fascist who refused to answer
The other day I wore one of my Iron Maiden shirts (A Matter Of Life And Death tour 2006 fwiw) on a coffee run and one of the baristas REALLY liked that. And now today I receive this
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August 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The other day I wore one of my Iron Maiden shirts (A Matter Of Life And Death tour 2006 fwiw) on a coffee run and one of the baristas REALLY liked that. And now today I receive this
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My cats don't leave the house. This subdivision has pushed deeper into former woodlands until the coyotes have nowhere to go but into the suburb, and they're completely unafraid of humans; this fella was just happily walking along the road a block away. So yeah. Cats stay in.
July 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My cats don't leave the house. This subdivision has pushed deeper into former woodlands until the coyotes have nowhere to go but into the suburb, and they're completely unafraid of humans; this fella was just happily walking along the road a block away. So yeah. Cats stay in.
She acts so differently most of the time when the phone comes out and getting a good pic can be difficult, but here is this little lady just for y'all.
July 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
She acts so differently most of the time when the phone comes out and getting a good pic can be difficult, but here is this little lady just for y'all.
Yes yes yes yesss 👀 (though I measured the book for my shelf and it seems to be a bit bigger inside than outside? But I'm sure that won't be an issue nor will it derail my life in any meaningful way) #booksky
July 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Yes yes yes yesss 👀 (though I measured the book for my shelf and it seems to be a bit bigger inside than outside? But I'm sure that won't be an issue nor will it derail my life in any meaningful way) #booksky
If graphic novels count, here's my copy of Myre 2 by my close friend @alector.bsky.social. Both because it's fantastic as a story, but also because the message she left for me inside is so special to me and represents the things we went through during the years she was making this book.
June 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If graphic novels count, here's my copy of Myre 2 by my close friend @alector.bsky.social. Both because it's fantastic as a story, but also because the message she left for me inside is so special to me and represents the things we went through during the years she was making this book.
I just got an email about Mucho Burrito bringing back the ghost pepper burrito and the advert is this, I know these things make you thirsty but goddamn
June 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I just got an email about Mucho Burrito bringing back the ghost pepper burrito and the advert is this, I know these things make you thirsty but goddamn
(I got too excited to make a very stupid shitpost and forgot to add alt text so here is the alt text version if someone needs it)
June 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
(I got too excited to make a very stupid shitpost and forgot to add alt text so here is the alt text version if someone needs it)
Absolutely priceless sequence of posts in my feed just now
June 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Absolutely priceless sequence of posts in my feed just now
Worked at the other end of this plaza for years and never knew this actual hobbit hole of a storage place was here
June 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Worked at the other end of this plaza for years and never knew this actual hobbit hole of a storage place was here
Great! This is Ashy, one of the protags of my sci-fi action series Architects Of The Illusion. Her arc is lowkey sapphic generally but as of Elysium Protocol, it becomes highkey with a lesbian romance. It starts as a sort of "for tomorrow we may die" sort of thing, but will blossom into much more.
June 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Great! This is Ashy, one of the protags of my sci-fi action series Architects Of The Illusion. Her arc is lowkey sapphic generally but as of Elysium Protocol, it becomes highkey with a lesbian romance. It starts as a sort of "for tomorrow we may die" sort of thing, but will blossom into much more.
Yesss just got in the collector's edition of Freedom Planet 2 from @limitedrungames.com. Love this game inside and out, up and down, all around. #FreedomPlanet #FreedomPlanet2
June 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Yesss just got in the collector's edition of Freedom Planet 2 from @limitedrungames.com. Love this game inside and out, up and down, all around. #FreedomPlanet #FreedomPlanet2
You know, I really think they might be underleveled for this area (no additional context from me, buy the book)
June 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
You know, I really think they might be underleveled for this area (no additional context from me, buy the book)
New fox criminaless just dropped but she's really, really mean. Like really mean.
June 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
New fox criminaless just dropped but she's really, really mean. Like really mean.
As soon as the author shouted out Guillermo Del Toro and Hidetaka Miyazaki in the opening pages, I knew we were in good hands. And these fellas in particular...I see you, fellow Soulsborne acolyte, I see you 👍
June 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
As soon as the author shouted out Guillermo Del Toro and Hidetaka Miyazaki in the opening pages, I knew we were in good hands. And these fellas in particular...I see you, fellow Soulsborne acolyte, I see you 👍