LynMars
@lynmars79.bsky.social
Trainer & tech writer by day; fiction writer, gamer, lover of SFF always. 45+ She/Her. lynmars79 & autumnslance on Ao3 & Tumblr. Banner by Herssian. Avatar is my cat, Chel.
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Oomf discussing how m/f presenting couples are often assumed to be heterosexual & I’d like to add to that with something some may not like to hear: not being cis and not being heterosexual doesn’t necessarily make you queer either.
To understand this, we have to look at queer theory/history 🧵:
To understand this, we have to look at queer theory/history 🧵:
February 18, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Enjoy the orchestral arrangement of "Smile" performed at Eorzean Symphony last year! ☀️ youtu.be/3E98y1-tCzE
(⚠️ Be mindful of spoilers!)
(⚠️ Be mindful of spoilers!)
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Enjoy the orchestral arrangement of "Smile" performed at Eorzean Symphony last year! ☀️ youtu.be/3E98y1-tCzE
(⚠️ Be mindful of spoilers!)
(⚠️ Be mindful of spoilers!)
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if people call people's ships "het ships" that says alot more about them than they think honestly.
February 18, 2026 at 9:45 AM
if people call people's ships "het ships" that says alot more about them than they think honestly.
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🏮 Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 🐴
Continuing my tradition of drawing the Fruits Basket cast every year with the fieriest horse I know
Continuing my tradition of drawing the Fruits Basket cast every year with the fieriest horse I know
February 18, 2026 at 2:58 AM
🏮 Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 🐴
Continuing my tradition of drawing the Fruits Basket cast every year with the fieriest horse I know
Continuing my tradition of drawing the Fruits Basket cast every year with the fieriest horse I know
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✨ Ramadan Mubarak! ✨
May this month grant justice to all oppressed people, motivate us all towards acts of liberation, and bring peace to all those struggling. 🌙
#Ramadan #IslamicArt #Watercolor #SaplingArt
May this month grant justice to all oppressed people, motivate us all towards acts of liberation, and bring peace to all those struggling. 🌙
#Ramadan #IslamicArt #Watercolor #SaplingArt
February 18, 2026 at 10:21 AM
✨ Ramadan Mubarak! ✨
May this month grant justice to all oppressed people, motivate us all towards acts of liberation, and bring peace to all those struggling. 🌙
#Ramadan #IslamicArt #Watercolor #SaplingArt
May this month grant justice to all oppressed people, motivate us all towards acts of liberation, and bring peace to all those struggling. 🌙
#Ramadan #IslamicArt #Watercolor #SaplingArt
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The longer I spend in various social spaces (both explicitly geeky or otherwise), the more firmly convinced I become that the Geek Social Fallacies should be required reading for anyone who wants to moderate a Discord server/host a board game night/organize a fan event of some kind/etc.
The flipside of this, of course, is the Geek Social Fallacies, the concept of which I first encountered in this blog post that was written in 2003 and is perhaps more relevant than ever TWENTY THREE YEARS LATER oh god time is fake
Five Geek Social Fallacies
Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interp
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February 16, 2026 at 11:17 PM
The longer I spend in various social spaces (both explicitly geeky or otherwise), the more firmly convinced I become that the Geek Social Fallacies should be required reading for anyone who wants to moderate a Discord server/host a board game night/organize a fan event of some kind/etc.
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It's Aro Awareness Week! Shout out to my fellow Aros!
If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle.
The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships.
♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...
If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle.
The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships.
♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...
February 15, 2026 at 1:03 PM
It's Aro Awareness Week! Shout out to my fellow Aros!
If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle.
The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships.
♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...
If you like fiction about aromantic characters -with partners and or friends- 23 of us (mostly aro ourselves) have put a book in this bundle.
The aro(aces) in my book, Manipulator's War, are building friendships.
♠️🌈📚💙 itch.io/b/3517/aroma...
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Oh I know what my family & my bro will say, just sign the paper, go vote.
And they just doNt get it.
If I have to sign 1 paper u don't to prove I can vote, it's not fair. A document in my possession has become disqualifying to make the white men feel better about elections that are already secure.
And they just doNt get it.
If I have to sign 1 paper u don't to prove I can vote, it's not fair. A document in my possession has become disqualifying to make the white men feel better about elections that are already secure.
February 17, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Oh I know what my family & my bro will say, just sign the paper, go vote.
And they just doNt get it.
If I have to sign 1 paper u don't to prove I can vote, it's not fair. A document in my possession has become disqualifying to make the white men feel better about elections that are already secure.
And they just doNt get it.
If I have to sign 1 paper u don't to prove I can vote, it's not fair. A document in my possession has become disqualifying to make the white men feel better about elections that are already secure.
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One of the best sf shows ever made, Babylon 5, is being released on YouTube by Beyond Infinity in collab w/ WB. And it's upscaled!
One ep every few days.
Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now!
youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
One ep every few days.
Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now!
youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
Babylon 5 | Full Episode | The Gathering: Season 1, Episode 1 | Beyond Infinity
YouTube video by ClipZone: Beyond Infinity
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February 10, 2026 at 11:17 PM
One of the best sf shows ever made, Babylon 5, is being released on YouTube by Beyond Infinity in collab w/ WB. And it's upscaled!
One ep every few days.
Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now!
youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
One ep every few days.
Seasons 3-4 are masterpieces, but if you've never seen the show, you can start now!
youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
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Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?
February 15, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.
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Reminder I have a starter pack of Aromantic Artists with LOTS of room! If you create and want in, lemme know!! If you're looking for others, browse the list 💚 This is for any form of art, so long as it's human made. Illustrative, writing, music, etc
go.bsky.app/HSC1FjN
#AromanticAwarenessWeek
go.bsky.app/HSC1FjN
#AromanticAwarenessWeek
February 16, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Reminder I have a starter pack of Aromantic Artists with LOTS of room! If you create and want in, lemme know!! If you're looking for others, browse the list 💚 This is for any form of art, so long as it's human made. Illustrative, writing, music, etc
go.bsky.app/HSC1FjN
#AromanticAwarenessWeek
go.bsky.app/HSC1FjN
#AromanticAwarenessWeek
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Man, whenever I see people muse that they wish they could do the tradwife stuff like baking and cooking I'm just...
No you want UBI and workers' rights so you have the time to do those fun things, not return to a time where you're financially unable to leave a abusive relationship. x_x
No you want UBI and workers' rights so you have the time to do those fun things, not return to a time where you're financially unable to leave a abusive relationship. x_x
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Man, whenever I see people muse that they wish they could do the tradwife stuff like baking and cooking I'm just...
No you want UBI and workers' rights so you have the time to do those fun things, not return to a time where you're financially unable to leave a abusive relationship. x_x
No you want UBI and workers' rights so you have the time to do those fun things, not return to a time where you're financially unable to leave a abusive relationship. x_x
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💕✨No one should be expected to be online constantly and if you expect people to be, you’re fucking weird✨💕
February 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
💕✨No one should be expected to be online constantly and if you expect people to be, you’re fucking weird✨💕
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WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏
February 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏
Excellent thread on so many options. From the start Star Trek has been anti-eugenics & presented multiple plots about trauma & disability thru genetics, aging, illness, & injury w/creative takes on accessibility & aids. Not to mention all the aliens who don't exist in the same ways yet join.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 15, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Excellent thread on so many options. From the start Star Trek has been anti-eugenics & presented multiple plots about trauma & disability thru genetics, aging, illness, & injury w/creative takes on accessibility & aids. Not to mention all the aliens who don't exist in the same ways yet join.
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There's a meme I saw about this (off Tumblr?) that went
"The Utopia in Star Trek is not that disability will be 'cured' - the Utopia is that disability will be accommodated without stigma"
"The Utopia in Star Trek is not that disability will be 'cured' - the Utopia is that disability will be accommodated without stigma"
February 13, 2026 at 11:11 AM
There's a meme I saw about this (off Tumblr?) that went
"The Utopia in Star Trek is not that disability will be 'cured' - the Utopia is that disability will be accommodated without stigma"
"The Utopia in Star Trek is not that disability will be 'cured' - the Utopia is that disability will be accommodated without stigma"
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House Valentione is giving out seasonal cupcakes in the Jeweled Crozier.
Please be patient with the dragonets who are volunteering. They do not have thumbs and they're doing their best.
Please be patient with the dragonets who are volunteering. They do not have thumbs and they're doing their best.
February 14, 2026 at 7:24 PM
House Valentione is giving out seasonal cupcakes in the Jeweled Crozier.
Please be patient with the dragonets who are volunteering. They do not have thumbs and they're doing their best.
Please be patient with the dragonets who are volunteering. They do not have thumbs and they're doing their best.
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Hadn't planned to do any Valentione art but everyone's stuff is so cute that I noodled out something. :'')
#ThancredWaters #FFXIV
#ThancredWaters #FFXIV
February 15, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Hadn't planned to do any Valentione art but everyone's stuff is so cute that I noodled out something. :'')
#ThancredWaters #FFXIV
#ThancredWaters #FFXIV
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Old piece but Valentine is always such a handy excuse to paint tasty food.
February 14, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Old piece but Valentine is always such a handy excuse to paint tasty food.
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Today's vagueskeet: Any proposal that goes "Fire the [insert series name] writers & hire [well, *me*]" is not going to have my support. (a) They're my colleagues (and fellow members of my union!), doing what their producers want them to: and (b) that's not how to positively change a show's focus. 😑
February 14, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Today's vagueskeet: Any proposal that goes "Fire the [insert series name] writers & hire [well, *me*]" is not going to have my support. (a) They're my colleagues (and fellow members of my union!), doing what their producers want them to: and (b) that's not how to positively change a show's focus. 😑
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+1 damage every time I see Estinien get dogged for not washing his armor when he literally tells you the armor has been corrupted by blood so it can’t just be washed off and he would need to forge a whole new one gdhdkdh
February 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM
+1 damage every time I see Estinien get dogged for not washing his armor when he literally tells you the armor has been corrupted by blood so it can’t just be washed off and he would need to forge a whole new one gdhdkdh
To where the game devs have gone out of their way to position Estinien as an avid bather (stay at home art, Resto dialogue at the baths).
I have an old story about Estinien not having the best hygiene *while dealing w/ mental health issues & trauma* back when, but the "jokes" since good lord.
I have an old story about Estinien not having the best hygiene *while dealing w/ mental health issues & trauma* back when, but the "jokes" since good lord.
im also going to chime in and say the ‘estinien doesnt shower’ or smells jokes are really annoying and i am side eyeing ppl who make them
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 PM
To where the game devs have gone out of their way to position Estinien as an avid bather (stay at home art, Resto dialogue at the baths).
I have an old story about Estinien not having the best hygiene *while dealing w/ mental health issues & trauma* back when, but the "jokes" since good lord.
I have an old story about Estinien not having the best hygiene *while dealing w/ mental health issues & trauma* back when, but the "jokes" since good lord.
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Pâtissiers of Eorzea, the Valentione's Day celebrations end soon! 👩🍳
Be sure to complete the seasonal event quests by Monday, February 16 for cozy new glamour and rolanberry cakes fit for royalty! 🎂 sqex.to/KJRKA
Be sure to complete the seasonal event quests by Monday, February 16 for cozy new glamour and rolanberry cakes fit for royalty! 🎂 sqex.to/KJRKA
February 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Pâtissiers of Eorzea, the Valentione's Day celebrations end soon! 👩🍳
Be sure to complete the seasonal event quests by Monday, February 16 for cozy new glamour and rolanberry cakes fit for royalty! 🎂 sqex.to/KJRKA
Be sure to complete the seasonal event quests by Monday, February 16 for cozy new glamour and rolanberry cakes fit for royalty! 🎂 sqex.to/KJRKA
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oh captain our captain
There are some Star Trek fans weirdly obsessed with “decorum” and they really fixate on how Holly Hunter sits in the captain’s chair on STARFLEET ACADEMY. One guy left a comment on the official FB whining about it and so Captain Janeway herself responded to drop the hammer
February 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM
oh captain our captain