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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now
@understatesmen.bsky.social
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Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social

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have you MET us?
A sign saying: MTF your local money experts
December 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
understatesmen.bsky.social
i found him, my old friend/foe, the Execrable Fiend who Screams like a Man
a taxidermy monkey with huge and completely dark eyes and a haircut that looks way too human
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
no trip to Dunedin is complete without visiting the hall of fucked up taxidermy
Two vile and strange squirrels plotting violence A stoat snarls at you with blood red eyes as it straddles a dying chicken A monkey that wears an expression of one who knows suffering A puffin with a thousand yard stare
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
nice argument, too bad I have depicted you as a long-haired commoner and myself as a handsome priest
Two stone heads, one small and missing it’s nose the other larger and with a HUGE chin
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
understatesmen.bsky.social
tag urself
A bad taxidermy monkey with a pitiable expression An anteater taxidermy that looks full of joy and/or malice I don’t know what animal this is but it’s fluffy and looks like it has just realised it has committed a horrible social faux pas A monkey taxidermy that looks devious/depressed
December 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
understatesmen.bsky.social
the pot plant, just out of reach, unnibbled … a tragedy
A painting of a sad horse with a pot plant in front of it
December 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
Hangin out with the girls
Two seals lounging on the rocks
December 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
found a creature
a model of a gangly four-legged creature with birdlike feet and bulbous protruding eyes. It wears a gold chain connecting its ears, and has more dangling from its saddle.
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
Take me to trurtch (train church)
A stained glass window showing a train Train floor mosaic Another train floor mosaic, this time a locomotive front on Floor tiles showing train company logos
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
Butchers’ Shop sign from the 60s, showing a capitalist in his true form, begging to be devoured
A neon sign showing a pig dressed as an olde timey banker
December 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
lads I thought we were very clear, this is how you LOSE the time war
A mural showing a blue flower man riding a red robot horse
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
understatesmen.bsky.social
PRAISEHIM
a sort of combination of a grey alien and a praying mantis, wearing a robe and holding up a scroll. a man in chains kneels before him. in the background are heaps of skulls, just so many skulls, skulls vanishing into the background until only their eyeholes are visible
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
understatesmen.bsky.social
god this man HAS to be doing a bit

right
i-am-cybersmith asked: I am generally anti-censorship, but I think it might be best to leave the Epstein files alone, I'm not sure people are ready for what's in them. Remember, Epstein wasn't just into human trafficking, he also spent time with physicists such as Stephen Hawking. Tell me, have you watched the Doctor Who episode "Extremis"? And are you familiar with something called "simulation theory"? I suspect that Epstein found evidence that strongly suggests we live in a simulation. This is why multiple Administrations, Democrat and Republican, in the USA have kept it secret. Even people who said they would reveal it, the moment they read what was in it, they changed their minds. Insane as it may sound, I think maybe Epstein DID take his own life, or at least didn't put up a fight when Bill Clinton arrived to silence him. I think he couldn't live with what he learned.
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
behold, my silliest commander deck: it's 70% chefs and innkeepers and I make my opponents lunch until they die
an MTG deck built around Rocco, Street Chef, and various food producing cards
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
like I knew it was woo I just didn't realise it was WOO y'know
Innate intelligence is defined as the inner organizing force of all living systems.55,56 It is a piece of universal intelligence, the inherent organizing force of all matter. DD Palmer writes of Innate: It continues to care for and direct the organic functions of the body as long as the soul holds body and spirit together. Innate is embodied as a personified part of Universal Intelligence; therefore, co-eternal with the all-creative force. This indwelling portion of the Eternal is in our care for improvement. The intellectual expansion of Innate is in proportion to the normal transmission of impulses over the nervous system; for this reason the body functions should be kept in the condition of tone.14(p19) Innate was also referred to as spirit, whereas Palmer wrote, “the body as an organism, is directed by an intelligence known as spirit.”14(p33) Innate intelligence was also described as the director of the soul, which was defined as “intelligent life” and “the product from uniting intelligence and material, spirit and body; the result of a combination of the immaterial with the material.”14(p31) The soul was defined as the link between spirit (Innate) and matter.55-57 In his later years, BJ Palmer developed the concept of II to include a hierarchy of personal development. He believed II could be developed biologically,
November 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
gonna start a conspiracy theory that this is the same guy with a time machine
Eddie Burback, a young white guy with glasses and a bushy moustache, holds a microphone Marc Maron, an older white guy with glasses and a bushy moustache, holds a microphone
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
understatesmen.bsky.social
lazy sunday, did a buncha mechs, feeling pretty good about these
a slender, almost biomechanical mech strides confidently forward, two energy swords held low at its sides a flesh-coloured snakelike mech emerges from a portal. it seems to stop existing further from the portal. it has no head, just a hole into nothing a bulky four-legged mech with a lot of big guns
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
man, has a great verse EVER aged this poorly
You can feel the lyrics, the spirit coming in braille Tubman of the underground, come and follow the trail I made “Sunday Candy,” I'm never going to hell I met Kanye West, I'm never going to fail
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
"what if Ancestral Recall was legal in standard again?"

with Gran-Gran is it
Accumulate Wisdom {1}{U} Instant — Lesson Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Put each of those cards into your hand instead if there are three or more Lesson cards in your graveyard. “To prove your worth as scholars, you have to contribute some worthwhile knowledge.” —Wan Shi Tong the art shows a traveler kneeling, proffering a book to a great owl spirit
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
building a simic shell around these two and it actually cooks, grandma tribal is real
Gran-Gran {U} Legendary Creature — Human Peasant Ally Whenever Gran-Gran becomes tapped, draw a card, then discard a card. Noncreature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast as long as there are three or more Lesson cards in your graveyard. “It’s been so long since I’ve had hope, but you brought it back to life.” 1/2 the art shows a friendly older woman waving Hermitic Herbalist {G}{U} Creature — Human Druid Ally {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Lesson spells. “Wounded Earth Kingdom troops still come by now and again—brave boys—and thanks to my remedies they always leave in better shape than when they arrive.” 2/3 the art shows a nice old lady in a greenhouse. she is saying something to a fluffy white cat
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
I love the devon rex, as far as cats go it's just the perfect venn diagram of princess and goblin
a devon rex, a cat with huge eyes and ears and a wonderfully textured coat
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
understatesmen.bsky.social
the bleak realisation that you can chart her radicalisation through her book covers
The Soulful Traveler (2013). A black and white photo of renee jax looking to camera DON'T get on the Plane! Reasons to reconsider your sex change (2016). the cover shows a plane at an airport, the colours are ominous Dark Ages 2.0: a survivor's guide to life after america (2022). A farmer works fields in front of a ruined white house Transgender killers: the monsters that walk among us (2025). the cover is a bloody knife
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
inexplicably a real plot point from Treason's Harbour, Stephen Maturin is such a good character
the meme with the couple in bed, except she's saying "we are made! the good doctor has spotted us! he knows the assassins are closing in!" and Stephen Maturin is saying "I bet that spooky abandoned tower has cool bats in it"
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
understatesmen.bsky.social
oh yeah also I think it's rubber?
the handle of Shadiversity's quote unquote Katana, which lacks a wrap entirely and seems to have a rubber menuki glued onto it
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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losing it over the official Shadiversity Katana, designed by the man himself. "yeah I want it to look as cheap as possible, even the metal should look like plastic, and make it racecar colours"
a red and black katana. the guard is shadiversity's channel logo
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM