Perpetual Motion
@perpetual-moti.bsky.social
Amateur writer and full-time bird just trying to get by. Genderqueer, He/They, Ace, ΘΔ.
I write a web novel about emotionally distressed ex-humans!
Check it out here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98840/transliterated-xenofiction-isekai
I write a web novel about emotionally distressed ex-humans!
Check it out here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98840/transliterated-xenofiction-isekai
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Announcing the relaunch my web novel, Transliterated! A fantasy novel about identity, adapting to new bodies, existential turmoil, and finding mutual support in an unfamiliar world. Read it on Royal Road here: www.royalroad.com/fiction/9884...
#writing #fantasy #animals #xenofiction #transformation
#writing #fantasy #animals #xenofiction #transformation
Ran into this sidequest in the new Pokemon DLC and if this had been made five or even ten years ago it would feel like the most “how do you do fellow kids” writing of all time, but literally anyone who would get this reference is an adult now so it’s wrapped back around to just being funny again.
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ran into this sidequest in the new Pokemon DLC and if this had been made five or even ten years ago it would feel like the most “how do you do fellow kids” writing of all time, but literally anyone who would get this reference is an adult now so it’s wrapped back around to just being funny again.
Kid Icarus Uprising is my favorite game on the 3DS and I will never recommend anyone play it if they value their wrists. We need a version of the game that won’t cause RSIs after an hour of play so much.
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Kid Icarus Uprising is my favorite game on the 3DS and I will never recommend anyone play it if they value their wrists. We need a version of the game that won’t cause RSIs after an hour of play so much.
With E33 now being the discourse du jour, I still find myself stuck on this. As a creative myself, I’m unable to discard so much beautiful and resonant art because of a piece of insidious non-art that infected a tiny corner of it. But I should, right? The rot always runs deeper than what’s visible.
Drawing the line is definitely where I struggle most. I can’t tell if the difference in my reaction to GenAI usage in Expedition 33 vs Arc Raiders is one of degrees (E33 used it for placeholders vs it being front and center in AR), or because E33 was an emotional experience for me and AR wasn’t.
The bigger any production becomes, the more likely it is to have reprehensible human being involved at some point in the chain. And knowing where to draw the line is difficult and a choice that I can't make for anyone else.
Being human is complicated. Things you love can cause harm in the world.
Being human is complicated. Things you love can cause harm in the world.
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
With E33 now being the discourse du jour, I still find myself stuck on this. As a creative myself, I’m unable to discard so much beautiful and resonant art because of a piece of insidious non-art that infected a tiny corner of it. But I should, right? The rot always runs deeper than what’s visible.
I don’t know what I did to end up feeling this anxious but it sure as hell wasn’t enough to justify feeling like the world is going to end and that it will somehow be my fault.
I wish telling my brain to fuck off actually worked.
I wish telling my brain to fuck off actually worked.
December 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t know what I did to end up feeling this anxious but it sure as hell wasn’t enough to justify feeling like the world is going to end and that it will somehow be my fault.
I wish telling my brain to fuck off actually worked.
I wish telling my brain to fuck off actually worked.
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these two characters have quite a bit in common, from a narrative perspective
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
these two characters have quite a bit in common, from a narrative perspective
Anyone have any tips on how to give your brain a break from constantly thinking about all the creative projects you want to do? I can't keep doing this. My brain is Always On and it's exhausting. But there's nothing physical I can stop doing, it's all just in my head buzzing and ringing all the time
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Anyone have any tips on how to give your brain a break from constantly thinking about all the creative projects you want to do? I can't keep doing this. My brain is Always On and it's exhausting. But there's nothing physical I can stop doing, it's all just in my head buzzing and ringing all the time
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me: I deserve a new final fantasy tactics game. I also deserve three to four franchises getting tactics games.
gf: they should make a shrek tactics game
me: what?
gf: you know
gf: it'd be real good
gf: call it
gf: *stares at me unblinking for a solid 20 seconds*
gf: tactics ogre
gf: they should make a shrek tactics game
me: what?
gf: you know
gf: it'd be real good
gf: call it
gf: *stares at me unblinking for a solid 20 seconds*
gf: tactics ogre
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
me: I deserve a new final fantasy tactics game. I also deserve three to four franchises getting tactics games.
gf: they should make a shrek tactics game
me: what?
gf: you know
gf: it'd be real good
gf: call it
gf: *stares at me unblinking for a solid 20 seconds*
gf: tactics ogre
gf: they should make a shrek tactics game
me: what?
gf: you know
gf: it'd be real good
gf: call it
gf: *stares at me unblinking for a solid 20 seconds*
gf: tactics ogre
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Crow Therian art for a bird friend~
Will be making this into a small batch of prints to sell at WHAM hopefully.
#Therian #BirdTherian
#Art
Will be making this into a small batch of prints to sell at WHAM hopefully.
#Therian #BirdTherian
#Art
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Crow Therian art for a bird friend~
Will be making this into a small batch of prints to sell at WHAM hopefully.
#Therian #BirdTherian
#Art
Will be making this into a small batch of prints to sell at WHAM hopefully.
#Therian #BirdTherian
#Art
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i spent way too long making this so you better turn the sound on and be nice to me. first verse by OP, second verse by me, third verse by @dekubrush.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
i spent way too long making this so you better turn the sound on and be nice to me. first verse by OP, second verse by me, third verse by @dekubrush.bsky.social
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Here's a paragraph you might not expect to find in a 1998 sci-fi/super hero paperback for babies.
Unless you're familiar with Animorphs, in which case you would know that the series is routinely like this.
Unless you're familiar with Animorphs, in which case you would know that the series is routinely like this.
![Cover for Animorphs #23: The Pretender by K.A. Applegate. Published in November 1998 by Scholastic. Cover illustration by David B. Mattingly.
A red-tailed hawk morphs into some common variety of brown rabbit. That is, the rabbit is on the bottom-left, the hawk is on the top-right, and there are three transitionary stages in between. Ears gradually emerge. The wings turn into arms. Talons become paws. Beak to nose. That kind of thing.
The background is a cloudy gradient, going from purple at the top to yellow-orange at the bottom. There is also a hazy, translucent boy seen directly behind the hawk.
Additional text:
"Tobias is about to discover the secrets of his past..."
"TV. Watch Animorphs on Nickelodeon."
[My own recommendation: Stick to the books.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vnzdrfrdw247cmojpv5vaza2/bafkreib46rxwcsvmlabsffk7h7m2sog4wqi7ypb4gon3lfkpqxikwpo2z4@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Here's a paragraph you might not expect to find in a 1998 sci-fi/super hero paperback for babies.
Unless you're familiar with Animorphs, in which case you would know that the series is routinely like this.
Unless you're familiar with Animorphs, in which case you would know that the series is routinely like this.
Doing an Animorphs re-read book club with @gyro.bsky.social because Tobias rewired my brain as a kid, but I was not prepared for just how *immediately* that kid was cooked. This is in book one, and he’s been a hawk like 2-3 times tops by this point. He’ll be one permanently by the end of the book.
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Doing an Animorphs re-read book club with @gyro.bsky.social because Tobias rewired my brain as a kid, but I was not prepared for just how *immediately* that kid was cooked. This is in book one, and he’s been a hawk like 2-3 times tops by this point. He’ll be one permanently by the end of the book.
Sometimes I lay awake in bed and wonder how I ended up with so much of my identity being made up of an absence of things rather than actual substance. Lack of sexuality, lack of gender, lack of visual imagination, lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem. So much of who I am is just… void. Empty.
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Sometimes I lay awake in bed and wonder how I ended up with so much of my identity being made up of an absence of things rather than actual substance. Lack of sexuality, lack of gender, lack of visual imagination, lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem. So much of who I am is just… void. Empty.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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My new essay, on Silksong, faith, and the Book of Revelation, is now available on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/jacob...
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My new essay, on Silksong, faith, and the Book of Revelation, is now available on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/jacob...
Legitimately starting to think I might have OCD, because there is no world in which “I can’t fuck around in tiny beginner projects because if I make something basic and derivative I will literally die” is a reasonable response to the suggestion. No idea what to do about it, though.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Legitimately starting to think I might have OCD, because there is no world in which “I can’t fuck around in tiny beginner projects because if I make something basic and derivative I will literally die” is a reasonable response to the suggestion. No idea what to do about it, though.
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Just a couple of besties hanging out (on za back of a laptop)
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Just a couple of besties hanging out (on za back of a laptop)
if you see this, post your bird art 🐤
It's not going to do my self esteem any favors to have my super simplistic beginner art right next to other, far more skilled artists, but I do have art of birds, and I saw the post, so...
It's not going to do my self esteem any favors to have my super simplistic beginner art right next to other, far more skilled artists, but I do have art of birds, and I saw the post, so...
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
if you see this, post your bird art 🐤
It's not going to do my self esteem any favors to have my super simplistic beginner art right next to other, far more skilled artists, but I do have art of birds, and I saw the post, so...
It's not going to do my self esteem any favors to have my super simplistic beginner art right next to other, far more skilled artists, but I do have art of birds, and I saw the post, so...
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Having Forbidden Thoughts again tonight.
Those thoughts are "I should pick up that abandoned web comic project I only got 6 pages into again." I'm still in love with the idea, I just couldn't muster the confidence in my own abilities to follow through.
A couple of pages for context:
Those thoughts are "I should pick up that abandoned web comic project I only got 6 pages into again." I'm still in love with the idea, I just couldn't muster the confidence in my own abilities to follow through.
A couple of pages for context:
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Having Forbidden Thoughts again tonight.
Those thoughts are "I should pick up that abandoned web comic project I only got 6 pages into again." I'm still in love with the idea, I just couldn't muster the confidence in my own abilities to follow through.
A couple of pages for context:
Those thoughts are "I should pick up that abandoned web comic project I only got 6 pages into again." I'm still in love with the idea, I just couldn't muster the confidence in my own abilities to follow through.
A couple of pages for context:
Having Forbidden Thoughts again tonight.
Those thoughts are "I should pick up that abandoned web comic project I only got 6 pages into again." I'm still in love with the idea, I just couldn't muster the confidence in my own abilities to follow through.
A couple of pages for context:
Those thoughts are "I should pick up that abandoned web comic project I only got 6 pages into again." I'm still in love with the idea, I just couldn't muster the confidence in my own abilities to follow through.
A couple of pages for context:
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Having Forbidden Thoughts again tonight.
Those thoughts are "I should pick up that abandoned web comic project I only got 6 pages into again." I'm still in love with the idea, I just couldn't muster the confidence in my own abilities to follow through.
A couple of pages for context:
Those thoughts are "I should pick up that abandoned web comic project I only got 6 pages into again." I'm still in love with the idea, I just couldn't muster the confidence in my own abilities to follow through.
A couple of pages for context:
This brightens my day every time is circles back across my feed.
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This brightens my day every time is circles back across my feed.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Saw someone arguing about the AI voices situation and their point in defense of using AI was “there’s a new Max Payne remake coming out, the main voice actor died, how else are they supposed to give him a voice?”
It is absurd to me that this is even considered a “good point” from either side.
It is absurd to me that this is even considered a “good point” from either side.
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Saw someone arguing about the AI voices situation and their point in defense of using AI was “there’s a new Max Payne remake coming out, the main voice actor died, how else are they supposed to give him a voice?”
It is absurd to me that this is even considered a “good point” from either side.
It is absurd to me that this is even considered a “good point” from either side.
Drawing the line is definitely where I struggle most. I can’t tell if the difference in my reaction to GenAI usage in Expedition 33 vs Arc Raiders is one of degrees (E33 used it for placeholders vs it being front and center in AR), or because E33 was an emotional experience for me and AR wasn’t.
The bigger any production becomes, the more likely it is to have reprehensible human being involved at some point in the chain. And knowing where to draw the line is difficult and a choice that I can't make for anyone else.
Being human is complicated. Things you love can cause harm in the world.
Being human is complicated. Things you love can cause harm in the world.
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Drawing the line is definitely where I struggle most. I can’t tell if the difference in my reaction to GenAI usage in Expedition 33 vs Arc Raiders is one of degrees (E33 used it for placeholders vs it being front and center in AR), or because E33 was an emotional experience for me and AR wasn’t.