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she/her, 30+ disabled queer fem. ttrpg and podcast sicko (f@tt and friends, ranged touch, etc); collects gay little nail polishes; dyes own hair; steward of a deeply neglected tbr. 1/3 of Three of Hearts podcast.
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· Oct 9
Have been doing my nails but haven't had energy to post. Happy with how these turned out!
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If you are in NYC, and you're interested in volunteer court accompaniment, the group I work with is The New Sanctuary Coalition (@newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social). I know DSA and Courtwatch also has people in the courts; I'm sure there are other groups across the country mobilizing.
December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you are in NYC, and you're interested in volunteer court accompaniment, the group I work with is The New Sanctuary Coalition (@newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social). I know DSA and Courtwatch also has people in the courts; I'm sure there are other groups across the country mobilizing.
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Speaking of pretty quilts, I just got this pride flag done!
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Speaking of pretty quilts, I just got this pride flag done!
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
I've never read anything by Scarlett that didn't make me hoot and holler and cry and fan myself like a southern belle and laugh myself into a stomachache. Buy her books!!
Hello, Bluesky! I had a VERY busy start of December so I didn't have time to get this going earlier:
Welcome to Scarlett's (Slightly Belated) Big Holiday Sale! Use the code GAYAPPAREL25 on my website thru Jan 15 for 25% off ALL books, including audiobooks and ebooks!
scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop
Welcome to Scarlett's (Slightly Belated) Big Holiday Sale! Use the code GAYAPPAREL25 on my website thru Jan 15 for 25% off ALL books, including audiobooks and ebooks!
scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop
December 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I've never read anything by Scarlett that didn't make me hoot and holler and cry and fan myself like a southern belle and laugh myself into a stomachache. Buy her books!!
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Over the weekend I got very frustrated, & wrote what is probably my most feminist piece to date.
This is what happens when I don’t get to the Mawr when traveling to Philly, clearly.
This is what happens when I don’t get to the Mawr when traveling to Philly, clearly.
As always, free to read/listen.
As is more rarely the case -- I pop off a bit.
As is more rarely the case -- I pop off a bit.
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Over the weekend I got very frustrated, & wrote what is probably my most feminist piece to date.
This is what happens when I don’t get to the Mawr when traveling to Philly, clearly.
This is what happens when I don’t get to the Mawr when traveling to Philly, clearly.
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"ai" art is done from the perspective that art is about having a vision and executing it with no interest in the process and incidentals that lend the art the texture it gets by being part of a world; it is on conversation with nothing, it is devoid of context
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"ai" art is done from the perspective that art is about having a vision and executing it with no interest in the process and incidentals that lend the art the texture it gets by being part of a world; it is on conversation with nothing, it is devoid of context
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Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center
Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...
news.feinberg.northwestern.edu
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
Was really enjoying a book until we got to the chapter describing a fatty fat fat person with a repulsive body that's sooooo horrible because it's heavy and awkward and everything is 2000 times harder for him because he's fat
December 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Was really enjoying a book until we got to the chapter describing a fatty fat fat person with a repulsive body that's sooooo horrible because it's heavy and awkward and everything is 2000 times harder for him because he's fat
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I'm 42 today. As is tradition, here's a free zine about the books I read in 2025: erinking.itch.io/notable-book...
Notable Books 2025 by Aaron King
A zine about notable books I read in 2025
erinking.itch.io
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I'm 42 today. As is tradition, here's a free zine about the books I read in 2025: erinking.itch.io/notable-book...
Hey @rangedtouch.bsky.social, do we have a Hobbit schedule yet? I'm setting aside my holiday time reading and need to know how many dwarves I gotta meet before 1/2/26
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hey @rangedtouch.bsky.social, do we have a Hobbit schedule yet? I'm setting aside my holiday time reading and need to know how many dwarves I gotta meet before 1/2/26
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Quinns really underselling the volume (and unhinged-ness)
As I’ve noted before, there’s a fascinating craft/process thinking for creators behind the paywall.
As I’ve noted before, there’s a fascinating craft/process thinking for creators behind the paywall.
We got a lot of content back here now! There are like 25 podcast episodes, 10 videos, dozens of blog posts (some of them unhinged!). Come enjoy, then cancel your membership in the New Year. 🙏
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Quinns really underselling the volume (and unhinged-ness)
As I’ve noted before, there’s a fascinating craft/process thinking for creators behind the paywall.
As I’ve noted before, there’s a fascinating craft/process thinking for creators behind the paywall.
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Hey all!
I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.
Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️
www.patreon.com/qquest
I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.
Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️
www.patreon.com/qquest
Get more from Quinns Quest on Patreon
Covering tabletop roleplaying games
www.patreon.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Hey all!
I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.
Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️
www.patreon.com/qquest
I know from personal experience the holidays can suck.
Until Jan 10th, if you sign up to the Quinns Quest Patreon with the code 239CE, you get 90% off, which is the most I can discount. I make $0, the final 10% is Patreon's cut 🎄🎁❄️
www.patreon.com/qquest
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Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:
A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.
Unlock and upgrade in the Return to Metroidvania rebundle, read up on exciting Sci-Fi with Matha Wells’ Murderbot & more, and add character to your game environments with the Best of Synty 4 Game Dev Assets rebundles! https://bit.ly/4oxXmjd
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:
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Friends at the Table - Sangfielle (2021)
So I just found this thing beneath a cave. I’m not sure what it is but when I touch it, it gives forth a sound. What do y’all think I should do with it? Is this something I should show the Priests?
December 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Friends at the Table - Sangfielle (2021)
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Meme of two buff people clasping hands. Text over their hands reads "I'm not interested in new clocks." The left person is labeled Antique Dealer. The right person is labeled Blades in the Dark Player.
Meme of two buff people clasping hands. Text over their hands reads "I'm not interested in new clocks." The left person is labeled Antique Dealer. The right person is labeled Blades in the Dark Player.
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Image ID:
Meme of two buff people clasping hands. Text over their hands reads "I'm not interested in new clocks." The left person is labeled Antique Dealer. The right person is labeled Blades in the Dark Player.
Meme of two buff people clasping hands. Text over their hands reads "I'm not interested in new clocks." The left person is labeled Antique Dealer. The right person is labeled Blades in the Dark Player.
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Take the crystal— I cannot hold open the Patient Portal any longer! You must validate your insurance provider at least 10 minutes prior to your appointment!
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Take the crystal— I cannot hold open the Patient Portal any longer! You must validate your insurance provider at least 10 minutes prior to your appointment!
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Ever want to make a parser-based interactive fiction game but didn't know how to get started? Of course you have.
Good news! I've created a small and very basic tutorial to creating IF in TADS 3.1.3 using the adv3lite library and Inform 7!
Find out which works best! #gameDev #interactiveFiction
Good news! I've created a small and very basic tutorial to creating IF in TADS 3.1.3 using the adv3lite library and Inform 7!
Find out which works best! #gameDev #interactiveFiction
Interactive Fiction 0 - The Basics - Michael Coorlim
In this series I’m going to be talking about parser-based interactive fiction, and showing you how to develop it. There are a great number of
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December 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Ever want to make a parser-based interactive fiction game but didn't know how to get started? Of course you have.
Good news! I've created a small and very basic tutorial to creating IF in TADS 3.1.3 using the adv3lite library and Inform 7!
Find out which works best! #gameDev #interactiveFiction
Good news! I've created a small and very basic tutorial to creating IF in TADS 3.1.3 using the adv3lite library and Inform 7!
Find out which works best! #gameDev #interactiveFiction
Woke up crying with a migraine today. Staggered out of bed for meds, found that I missed yesterday morning's meds. (TEN PILLS. TWO ANTIDEPRESSANTS. TWO PAIN PILLS. SUPPLEMENTS TO PREVENT MIGRAINES.) fuck my stupid baka life.
December 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Woke up crying with a migraine today. Staggered out of bed for meds, found that I missed yesterday morning's meds. (TEN PILLS. TWO ANTIDEPRESSANTS. TWO PAIN PILLS. SUPPLEMENTS TO PREVENT MIGRAINES.) fuck my stupid baka life.
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listen. listen to me. libraries are getting indie TTRPGs in circulation. high school teachers are bringing weird stuff to the teenz TTRPG club. we continue to be in a beautiful moment for showing more people the full breadth of what games can be. nurture it by playing & loving games!!! a gift!!!!!
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
listen. listen to me. libraries are getting indie TTRPGs in circulation. high school teachers are bringing weird stuff to the teenz TTRPG club. we continue to be in a beautiful moment for showing more people the full breadth of what games can be. nurture it by playing & loving games!!! a gift!!!!!
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it is the day yet again! buy my songs about the things that hearts do (beating, breaking, stopping forever, etc). my stuff is not on any music rental services at the moment so it's extra meaningful to me when people purposefully choose to listen to it
it's bandcamp friday! at the end of last year i put out an EP & in february i put out a full length album for record production month. for $10 you can either buy both of them individually or get all 18 EPs & albums i've ever put out peopleyoumeetoutsideofbars.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
it is the day yet again! buy my songs about the things that hearts do (beating, breaking, stopping forever, etc). my stuff is not on any music rental services at the moment so it's extra meaningful to me when people purposefully choose to listen to it
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This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Doughnuts and Bullets: The Absurdity of Working for RFK Jr.
What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?
nymag.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Anyhow, TeaSource is awesome and you can use the code GINGERSNAP25 for $10 off your order and it's a struggling small business like everyone else but holy shit this inflation is unsustainable.
TeaSource | Buy Quality Tea Online
TeaSource brings you the highest quality teas and tisanes from around the world. Buy tea online or at our store in St. Anthony Village.
www.teasource.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Anyhow, TeaSource is awesome and you can use the code GINGERSNAP25 for $10 off your order and it's a struggling small business like everyone else but holy shit this inflation is unsustainable.
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You’re telling me these antibiotics are for broads on the spectrum?
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You’re telling me these antibiotics are for broads on the spectrum?
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ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful
ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men
PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
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Wow. Easily the best movie of the year for me.
Rolling Stone didn't put Sinners on its top 20 list of films for this year and I'm appalled.
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Wow. Easily the best movie of the year for me.