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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great stuff. As a translator and a Correspondence fan, this gave me quite a bit to chew on philosophically.

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Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"

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gundampixel @gundampixel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The Gundam ‘bits box’ is full once more - so here’s a giveaway for the lot! Plus, well, a new & unopened Metal Robot Spirits Wing Gundam figure..! 👉 To enter, follow + repost (or quote). Winner will be picked at random, next Monday 16th Mar, international post all ok! Good luck. 🍀

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Well, robots (Gunpla) it is, at least for now. Just finished assembling the Epyon -- my first RG. As usual, I'm not doing more than cleanup and some basic panel lining. (More of that to follow -- plus stickers. So many stickers. I begin to understand the need for right-angle tweezers.)

A Real Grade Gundam Epyon model with beam saber and heat rod, standing in front of its box art.

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gundampixel @gundampixel.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Time for a ✨ Holiday Special Giveaway ✨ (also to celebrate 6k followers!). Includes a Tamashii Nations 2025 Exclusive Gundam Mk-II figure, and lots more! To enter: Follow + Like + Repost. 🍀 Winner will be picked at random next Friday 28th November, international post all ok! Good luck 🎉

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Realizing that I haven't posted here in forever, and I kind of want to come back to it, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Try writing again? I've had a bit of an itch for it lately, but no direct inspiration, and *man* is it hard to motivate myself alone.

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gundampixel @gundampixel.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The 3.4 story got me to pull for only my second signature LC (after Aventurine's). I then ran Phainon in AS with a mediocre Sunday, a slapped-together E1 Bronya, and Tribbie, and *still* cruised through. Is this how the other half lives?

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

What. *What*. This was one of my first big anime fixations, and I'd thought the world had just kind of... collectively forgotten about it.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Apparently saying "my inspiration is returning" is the surest way to rid myself of it, because I've barely even had the urge to write for something like two months now. I managed a mediocre drabble this morning. I've been getting back into Gunpla instead, god help me. At least writing was free.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

... Man. The gacha has not been kind to me in Amphoreus (or I guess, given my luck earlier, it's reverting to the mean). 156 pulls for Castorice, then 157 for Anaxa... It's like Fontaine all over again.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Shwabadi doing an Aventurine rap was 100% not on my bingo card, but *wow* this is good (and that hook will be stuck in my head for the next week). "It only takes being sold to learn the value of gold is a step above your own life" is a hell of a line. youtu.be/N5nd_yTUvDA

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AVENTURINE RAP SONG! - "All In" | Shwabadi ft. Anoravt (Honkai Star Rail)

YouTube video by Shwabadi

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Ah, a proper non-Hoyo fixation. It feels like it's been a while. I've finally gotten around to In Stars and Time (just Act 4 so far), and it's kind of grabbed me by the throat. It doesn't help that certain aspects of the characters are painfully relatable.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

My inspiration is apparently returning, so... A #Ratiorine drabble, based on @csao3.bsky.social's wonderful "Fool". --- Those whom Aventurine bested at the negotiating table often derided him as a silver-tongued swindler. If anything, Veritas thought ruefully, he should be likened to a magician.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Another #Ratiorine drabble, written in an exceptionally self-indulgent mood. --- Aventurine could never quite get used to the fact that there was always an embrace waiting for him when he returned home.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just finished my first hike in ages, now that the weather is decent. I always forget how getting out to literally touch grass (such as there is right now) does wonders for my mental state.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Have you ever just... entirely forgotten that you wrote something? I found this in my drabble doc today, and apparently it's from a month ago. #ratiorine, 100 words as usual.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

After entirely too much time spent dithering, I have posted a chapter of my ridiculous HSR crossover on AO3. ... Time to spend the next month resolutely ignoring my inbox. archiveofourown.org/works/62852068

archiveofourown.org

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's days like today that make me regret getting sucked into gacha. Losing the 50/50 for Evelyn at soft pity, fine, but at least give me one of the *three* standard S-ranks I don't have instead of M2 Grace.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I have finally gotten the first chapter of this AU longfic to a point where it's more or less ready to post. Yet I keep finding new and exciting excuses not to do it. No clear plan for the next chapter, second-guessing my stylistic choices... I know it all just comes down to nerves, but even so.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

... Oh, my heart. There's something about the characterization in these comics that just feels so *real*, and the paneling makes the big moments hit that much harder.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Finally finished enough of 3.0 to feel safe going on social media again. I'm liking Aglaea and Phainon more than I'd expected -- I was initially quite meh on both, especially the latter.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The sheer quantity of fan work I've seen based on Rota Fortunae in just the past day and a half has been kind of extraordinary. ... And I guess I'm about to make my own tiny (100-word) addition to it.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Post-hiatus. Well, that's not inaccurate, in its way...

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Call of Cthulhu investigator cards for the HSR Hoyofair program. That brings back some memories. Man, I miss playing CoC...

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

... Oh, this is painful in the best way. Yet another comic by this artist that makes me wish I had enough confidence in my translation skills to try to do it justice.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Return of the Obra Dinn AU with Ratio as the inspector discovering Aventurine's fate. Two worlds I never thought would meet, but it's a brilliant idea.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Decided to get Balatro on my phone. I very nearly missed my stop on the train home. This may have been a mistake.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This week's DU has been hilariously terrible to me. I was going for the Rubert curios. It did not work out.

36 curios lost at once on a Divergent Universe run.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

No. No, goddamnit, I do NOT need another AU idea. ... Ratiorine Utena AU, with Aven as the Bride and a younger, less mature Ratio torn between saving him and respecting the autonomy of someone he doesn't realize never really had it, leaning more into themes of control than sex/gender... ... Argh.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Work holiday party tonight. 90% sure I saw an SD Yor Forger sticker on the phone case of my straitlaced 40-something coworker. Probably from one of his kids, but still, adorable.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Now that I've delved into shipping, I'm wondering whether there's an actual semantic difference between mutual pining and 両片思い. It feels like the latter fits this Aventio fic I'm working on, but the former feels too... active, somehow?

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

After playing through a couple of rounds of Cosmic Home Decor Guide, I was trying to figure out why this felt so familiar, and... This is Balatro. This is a super-simplified version of Balatro. Dammit, Hoyo.

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Saro 𓆏 @legendaerie.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

GIVEAWAY✨ the holidays are coming up, a hard time of year for many people, so I wanna signal boost my charity #Ratiorine pins with a little giveaway! Repost this and I'll pick one person from every 1k shares to get a free rerun pin & matching metallic sticker! #HSRFanmerch #aventio #raturine

A 1.5" enamel pin and a matching 3" metallic sticker featuring Dr. Ratio's letter with "Do stay alive." in English and "活下去" in Chinese on either side of the center scroll, surrounded by the Sigonia's Knot of Cyclicality relic in a pentagon frame to mimic the face of Aventurine's signature 12-sided dice

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Now that I'm back home (and fighting off jet lag)... Another pair of drabbles? I'd been batting around this Aventurine + Acheron idea for a while (entirely because I need to see more interaction between them, dammit).

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ugh, I've been meaning to engage more with content/artists/writers here instead of just lurking like I do on Twitter, but anxiety and travel have made that difficult, and I never know what to say...

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ironic that my gacha luck appears to be reverting to the mean on Aventurine's banner. 130 pulls for Acheron E0, and still no luck on Aventurine's LC.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Welp. I wanted to try to avoid politics and other heavy RL topics on here (I have more than enough of that elsewhere), and I'm still mostly going to, but I feel like I can't really not acknowledge what just happened. ... I'm so fucking tired.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Argh. I want to post more on AO3, but the problem is that my other works consist of: 1) Unconnected drabbles 2) A SFW kink fic that is *literally* titled "Self-indulgent nonsense" in my drafts 3) Another SFW kink fic that's a relationship study for a rarepair that I suspect people will actively hate

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Going back through my old MP3 collection from my misspent youth, and it got me wondering... Are anime image songs still a thing? The ones that seiyuu would sing as their characters? I honestly kind of miss them.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

All right, let's throw an Aventurine drabble on here (formal definition, 100 words). A synapse fired while I was rereading the Boothill part of the 2.6 story, and this wrote itself in about half an hour.

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

The comic was excellent to begin with, but this makes it even better. There's so much here I missed (not everything, but I feel like the meme about the ogre and Ulysses -- and, yes, I was also 100% fooled by the dance). With that said...

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I guess I may as well post the AO3 link to the one thing I have put online, for HSR, even if it is just a few drabbles. If I post any other short-form stuff, it may end up being here rather than AO3, at least for now. archiveofourown.org/works/59644657

archiveofourown.org

Getting numb to the price - letheia - 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Alethea @aletheasimon.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

New social media, new start. I wonder if it might be worth actually posting some fic on here...?

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