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april ghost

@aprilghost.bsky.social
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indie dev making cat & mouse, a psychological horror/stealth game with a 00s aesthetic i was also one of like five sadako mains in dbd (DM about our server!) 🏳️‍⚧️

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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if being a hypocrite stopped everyone from taking a stand on things, no one would take a stand on anything, ever. we are all hypocrites. we all have to accept that we aren't perfect and then do our best despite that. guilt is worthless if it's only blocking improvement.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 02/10/2026
“I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." 🩸 Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by the 1872 "Carmilla" novella by J. Sheridan Le Fanu depicting Carmilla leaning into Laura whispering passionately to her. Laura looks a little concerned by what she hears.
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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
God Save Colleen, Butternut Sage Ravioli with Dijon Candied Walnuts. 


Longtime fans of the blog may notice that this is the first recipe I’ve featured that calls for sage! For years, I’ve been gesturing at a vague distaste for sage. (For my White Bean Soup with Brown Sugar Garlic Bread, I said, “Those with a naive palate could also add some sage, and perhaps later, Brad will ask you on a drive to Lover’s Lane.” How unspeakably rude!) You see, it’s time I come clean. It’s my husband who doesn’t like it. Actually, it’s my husband who claims he doesn’t like it.

His list of professed dislikes is infinitely long and includes spinach, mushroom, lettuce, tomato, paprika, carrot, curry powder, corn, avocado, fish, tarragon, oregano, broccoli, and much, much more. As a food lover, it has been difficult to work within his parameters, but any good chef loves a challenge. And though it stings my heart, every meal…

ADS: Paper money being KILLED in 4 nights. 

Drinking trick. Appearance of amazing drinking. 

Stop squeezing your bags! Gentle munch dot com. sloughed off into the garbage is a chance to try anew.

Imagine my surprise, then, when a few weeks ago, while out to lunch with his boss, I watched my husband happily eat a Cobb salad.

Having chosen the venue, the boss, a domineering galoot, ordered for the table. Tomato! Lettuce! Boiled egg! Some of my husband’s most reviled things, I thought. But I observed as he cleaned his plate with a smile, and as he dutifully laughed at the horrid oaf’s unrepeatable jokes.

Picture a hopelessly picky unitiate, ducking under the napkin to come face to face with an ortolan! The disgust of such a person does not begin to rival what I felt that afternoon. I said nothing of the incident. But I have been running my own set of private experiments.

The trouble, I realized, often begins when my husband asks me what’s in our meal, before even taking the first bite. Chefs delight in relaying the provenance of a dish! The preparation! The technique! But he has been using this all the while to torture me. To latch onto one dash of an herb, as a frustrated cop might a pinch of jaywalking, to sentence the whole dish to the bin.

So I have been making fabulous, decadent meals, and lying about…

ADS: Lovable Mouse Fan. 

What’s in homes to choke everyone? Your gasping family begs for the butter technique. 

YOU CAN STOP THEIR BIRTHDAYS, YOU KNOW.

what’s inside. I’ve been preparing whatever my heart desires, but when asked, making sure to stick to only to those ingredients which I know are pre-approved. Curries! Gazpachos! Do you know I made a haddock stew and said it was chicken? All lustily consumed as if he‘d never eaten in his life. How could I have ever married this inattentive rube, who would rather eat half the ingredients of two “Woppers Junior” than an artfully composed meal made by his meticulous wife?

Now, I know my husband has been lying about his distastes to anguish and vex me, so he’d have found some objections sooner or later. For this reason, I built in release valves at regular intervals. I cooked some of his favorite things—things that he frequently requests and adores, and said I’d experimented with a grating of nutmeg or a sprig of sage. (He hates sage most of all.) So he got to criticize me, and I got to watch him sadly get up, and with legs animated by pride, fight through the quicksand of our kitchen to set his full plate back on the counter. 

Do not despair, foodies! Myself, my friends, and our neighbors have frequently eaten well due to this hideous habit of his. Though he does sometimes like to employ the trashcan for more severe offenses, he couldn’t bring himself to scrape his beloved meatballs away, as if his mind was hoping it would change itself.

ADS: HUH?? I guess you’re still using expired crud. 

It pays to behave. Yum!


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Move away from this geographic feature known for spewing who knows what.Then came today’s recipe, my butternut squash and sage ravioli with candied dijon walnuts, made just last night. A quick one, as I wanted to leave time for quite an after dinner speech.

Plates licked clean, I began coyly. “I’m surprised you liked that so much. It had quite a bit of sage in it.” He sputtered. I rose.

“Because of me, your life has been full of all good things. Your heart full of love, your home full of children’s laughter, your table full of friends, and for the past two weeks, your belly full of sage! And mushrooms! And everything that makes life worth living!”

He slept at a hotel last night. His boss wouldn’t answer his calls.

I dedicate this recipe to CarolFromBristol who scolded me months ago for referring to my Crispy Duck with Black Cherry Gastrique as life-changing. “please. a recipecan never change you[sic] life,” you said.

Carol, a recipe can make you cry. A recipe can put hair on your chest. A recipe can lift your feet off the ground. A recipe can make your cat leave home and a different one can make it come back. A recipe can take an actor to bed. A recipe can change your life.

ADS: Power line 6 feet from a tree?
How more in danger could you be.
Power line buried underground?
Funeral friends come from out of town.
ExtendYourOwnLife.biz.

Ne’er-do-well bait. Scofflaw trap dot com.
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i am fighting the millennial urge to make an inception 'bayception' joke so fucking bad rn
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ash s. @housegoblin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
rumination
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Permit data artistry with your stunning info? 😃 🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀 ✨ Surrender my personals ✨ 🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀✨🎀 🤮ᵃˢˢᵉʳᵗ ᵐʸ ᶜʳᵘᵈᵉ ᵖʳᵉᶠᵉʳᵉⁿᶜᵉ🤮
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You can't make this stuff up folks
some john brown pfp: "No Dem wants trans people to be erased or in danger. That's a caricature some people made up to justify their incohate rage."
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
today is one year of hrt :)
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Um it's a RED STATE so! What do you want them to do promise to defend everyone's equal rights..?
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They made you be mommy size
and me a little baby.
The fixtures of our gorgeous home are perfect for two ladies.

A tub for you and sink for me.
A bubble bath is wise.
For I’m a little baby,
and you’re perfect mommy size.



(bonus:
let the day just melt away,
rejoice as we recline,
i’ll snack on my kibble,
while you sip on your red wine!)
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I didn't say that, either :)
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I want to point out that no (0) liberal has answered the call of this comment to prove me wrong so far, but I've gotten no less than four "fuck off and let us erase you" replies
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
jesus fucking christ hahahahaha
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"The president is a stupid asshole" quickly became a trite observation but that's still the analysis that most accurately and succinctly explains almost everything that happens
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
when did I demand anything exactly
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
it kills me that literally no liberal will be like "you're right I hope our reps do better on this so we can get more people on our side" it's always "fuck off and let us erase you" lol
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
delete it again
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i am now the happiest i've been all week after seeing this
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As a Canadian, fuck off I hate you
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Lily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online · 06/09/2026
dreamt a bumper sticker that said "I ONLY BRAKE FOR WOMEN"
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
similar vibe
static.klipy.com
Shaking Crazy Halloween Animatronic Monster
Alt: Shaking Crazy Halloween Animatronic Monster
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I fucking love this movie so much
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Your favorite movie that came out when you were 20. I think I've seen it like... a hundred times? It's just a cozy one. The bit where he first meets the kids and he's trying to act confident while holding the scythe for some reason still kills me
The poster for Tucker & Dale vs. Evil from 2010 featuring Alan Tudyk crushing a beer can and holding an ax at the same time somehow, Tyler Labine with a chainsaw, and Katrina Bowden screaming. Also there is a cabin on fire and a scary person standing in front of it!
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i visited my parents this year and i can verify this
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just a quick tutorial. Watch in full screen landscape so you don’t miss any tips! ❌⭕️❌⭕️
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Old 3D game landscape of tall, rocky cliffs. A text box says, GAME OVER. condolences, my pet. Options below say, CONTINUE, and, EXPLAIN. A cursor hovers over EXPLAIN.Text: Solver LBY,
Were you not instructed to avoid settling your gaze upon Meliflora's Precipice Were you not warned, sternly? Lovingly?
Did you imagine a trophy atop the pedestal of your disobedience?
Did you really think great Mother fate would make a winner of a trickster and a liar out of me?
SHAME! Shame. Hubris and shame. You've no doubt known schoolmarms, fathers, or generous barmen who have rewarded your giggling oversteps.
But your snickers at the rules sound tinny in my primeval ears.When you are many eons old, as I am, another's joie de vivre does not excite. I seek a Solver whose expansive mind apprehends the seeds of my instructions and whose deft hand tends them into tender truit. I Iong for a dance partner who will first learn the steps before pulling me into a confident embrace.
You may think you are leading this waltz, but l am the music, the planet, and the room.
Do not look at the precipice.
There is no other way. You must attempt once again to best me in Sports Trivia.
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
i think this is the hardest i've laughed at a baybayfriend post
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It is, as it turns out, actual magic.
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KooTheBird @koothebird.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yeah it's not good
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
eat yourself CNN
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
spreadsheets. disgusting fake burrito ad. please. just stop
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
this whole sequence is so good lol
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Your daily Inland Empire screenshot @bluetomorrows.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
is this real :(
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"What is the name of the man on first?" "I already TOLD you, Sillyman!" *mugs to audience*
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Woman Who Loves Death By Charles Napier Kennedy
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ugh lol
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
he's like 😈
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
it's so hot that steam improved gaming for linux when we needed it the most. I am a valve fangirl idc
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
putrefaction curse way too slow trying a new one next time sorry guys
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
my doc is switching me over this week !
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 13/08/2026
Been getting a lot of messages like this and I really appreciate it! But I want to stress to everyone: I’m good, I promise! Karch’s coke rant was insanely embarrassing—just not for me. I know who I am and what I’m about, I’m proud of my work, and everyone who matters knows I was telling the truth.
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
😭this literally just happened my friend sent me a stonetoss comic like "this makes a good point!"
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Your daily Inland Empire screenshot @bluetomorrows.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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fearne @ gateway soon 👀 @almandines.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wish all companies forcing ai down our throats a very go out of business
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april ghost @aprilghost.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🫪🤚
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