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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 8h

???? Haven't ya'll ever heard of multitasking? Besides, grief and dread are besties. Why would I want to tear such a close relationship apart?

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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

Oh; I concur that this is not my circus, but those ARE, in fact, my monkeys. And therein lies the problem, constable: this circus has obtained my monkeys by nefarious means.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gonna file this one under: Blessings in Disguise. Locusts are surely cheaper than gas for the mower or hiring a service. 🫠 Eat up, you delightful six-legged fiends.

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M. J. Gallagher (Final Fantasy mythology) @mjgallagher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Norse mythology, Odin is a master of sorcery, but he learned the art of witchcraft and seidr (glimpsing the future) from the goddess Freyja. The FFXVI LOGOS book confirms that Barnabas’ mother - who of course raised the Dominant of Odin - is similarly named Freyja. #FinalFantasymythology

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Shinra Middle Manager @shinramidmanager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They're having a Bi Visibility Day discount at the Honeybee Inn!! I gotta get to Wall Market!!!

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wait. So, you're saying that I need only devise a way to fold space and time? Things are looking up!

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I feel pretty good actually

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Minar 🍉 Suberu Solterra @fantasydaniel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

finally got around to playing ff16 dlcs hydrogen bomb vs 80 year old baby

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Rom🍙 @rom-20over.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

攻めでは❓

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nathan @wiseposter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

just stole fire from the gods lol. maybe i'll give it to these stupid ape guys.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Listen, after 40, a more enhanced skincare routine becomes necessary. And sometimes, that means keeping a variety of morbols in the basement. (FF fans will understand. 😃)

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As someone who lives in a state that's seen >200 tornadoes this year, the idea of a handful of billionaire tech bros tied up together on an altar with some kindling doesn't sound too irrational to me. At best, it's a meaningful spiritual experience. At worst, it's ritualized problem solving.

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"but if i write that it'll be sooooo silly..." NO. SHUT THAT THOUGHT DOWN. THE WORLD NEEDS MORE WHIMSY

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fully intent on continuing through Logos & posting thoughts, but I returned from vacation this week to find that a lot of IT stuff that was broken had largely been fixed while I was gone. Which means a massssive backlog of work for me to catch up on.😵‍💫 And no freedom to stay up until 5am reading.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

*Looks up Lyle Lovett.* Hm. Not really my jam, so I don't know about that, but knowing how dolphins can be, I suppose it could have been so much worse. It's nothing that'll haunt me in my sleep anyhoo.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"How can you like Ultima?! Are you some kind of fasci--" *Covers your mouth." The word you're looking for is misanthrope, and the prevalence of that disgusting thing you were about to call me and all it represents in human history is no small reason why. I also just find him fascinating. 🤷‍♀️

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Low key sometimes find myself seething over someone I saw years ago justify their persistent, bullying, negging behavior with, "I'm a known hater. It's my brand." ...And a lot fuckers just accepted that as good enough. As if it was 100% cool to be an abusive asswipe so long as they owned it. +

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ひさし @hssnki5393.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

兄さん

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M. J. Gallagher (Final Fantasy mythology) @mjgallagher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Minotaurs are a bovine race of beastmen in Final Fantasy XVI, with named figures such as Asterios, the white-furred brute who is fought at the Sagespire. In Greek myth, there is only one Minotaur - his real name is Asterion/Asterios and he was fathered by a sacred white bull.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My 5 year plan is to get more weird

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leemanish.bsky.social @leemanish.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

jokes on you - i was already gonna push a rock up a hill forever

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

*Snaps on nitrile gloves like I'm preparing to give someone a roto-rooter proctology exam.* I think I got this...😏

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There's a post-game scene with Jill in Logos, when she finally goes to bed after sunrise and snuggles up with Torgal. She has disturbing dreams/ visions where she sees what Torgal experienced between Phoenix Gate and meeting Cid. This raises a looot of questions, but for now: Poor fucking Torgal. +

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New anxiety hack(?): Doomscrolling Ravelry.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Bonus points if the obsession lasts several years. 😅

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Haaaahahahaaa...wheeeze....cough....fist pounding. According to Logos, Cid awakened as Ramuh while drunk and defending a merchant's cart from orcs! Tragic traumatic thing? Not this time, and not this guy. Just a little too sauced. Must have been the good stuff! 🤣🤣🤣

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just...this whole passage about Jill. When I take account that the game itself also shows her to have a latent knack for diplomacy, I can't help but side-eye some headcanons that imagine her soon pregnant, relegated post-game to the same domestic fate as women in past Dominant-bearing families... +

Excerpt from Logos on Jill called, "Jill The Creator."

(I will spare everyone my rant on Jill-Ultima parallels, but that header sure does tempt me! Alas, that's best left for an essay that explores several of Clive's allies in that curious light.)

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Regarding that last post: A major skill I've honed professionally over the past two decades is the ability to extrapolate from incomplete data to create a highly accurate estimate as to what the complete narrative behind that data might look like. It's always encouraging when I find I can +

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Below are an excerpt from a fic I posted back on November 23rd, 2024, describing an interaction between Ultima and Jill wherein he causes her to have a vision, and a passage from Clive's journal in Logos, describing how it felt when Ultima primed him into Ifrit the first time. *Pats self on back.*

My fic, "Solace". "A sensation like a million sewing needles lancing her skull from the inside out".

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Friendly reminder that critiquing a character's perspective =/= saying that they're poorly written. Well written characters have flaws. A "good guys" character I can't occasionally disagree with would just be boring.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Overall, one of the most illuminating things I've found in Logos so far is with Harpocrates' perspectives. While most entries contain the calm, curious, and clinical tone I'm accustomed to, there are a few flash-in-the-pan moments where high emotion seems to overrule. ...I think Tomes may have +

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Feels like even Clive agrees with me here. 🤷‍♀️ Each individual is accountable for their own bullshit. "'God' made them/ me/ you do it!" just doesn't pass muster, no matter how horrible the former may be. Lot of people tormented Clive, and it may have served Ultima in the end, but it was their choice.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ahh, finally deleted my Tumblr account. It had become a bit too much of an emotional baggage liability, and I had something of a stalker there. (When you're ~really~ into a villain, there's the risk that someone who shares the interest but has a loose attachment to reality will think you're neat...)

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M. J. Gallagher (Final Fantasy mythology) @mjgallagher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In Final Fantasy XVI, Torgal is revealed to be a descended from Fenrir. His level 7-9 pedigrees are 'Leyding-looser', 'Dromi-striker', and 'Gleipnir-cutter', respectively. These are named after the 3 chains used by the gods to fetter the giant wolf Fenrir in Norse mythology.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

*Takes a peek over at the bad bird site.* (Not that there are really any good ones...) *Sees folks arguing and fussing over the quality of a trailer the same way they might the actual game.* Hey...hey...ya'll do realize that life is short and we all presumably only come this way once? Right?

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just turned 42 two days ago, and here's a dirty secret: It's not unusual for women in particular to slam the hard reset button on some portion of their lives in their 40's. For some, it's because they're done raising kids. For others, it's because we've finally reached a place where we realize +

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Re-upping this because any time I call an observation or rhetoric in Logos "dishonest", I'm not speaking of bald-faced, premeditated lies. I'm talking about the very biased omission of uncomfortable truths that Harpocrates speaks of at the end. (Yes, I read both the foreword and afterword first.)

Critical thinking is one hell of a drug, kids. Right up there with irony.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There are some of Harpocrates' Logos takes on Ultima that make me sigh a bit because they verge on dishonesty. This one, for instance. While Ultima did engineer many of Clive’s dire circumstances to test and hone him, there's a chunk of these sins that belong at the feet of Anabella & others... +

Screenshot from Logos wherein the loss of Rosaria, and all of Clive’s mother's sins against him are instead attributed to Ultima.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Been on a Star Trek binge with my husband and sister in the evenings. (Made it through Lower Decks, Next Gen, and Voyager. Now close to finishing DS9, which has to be one of the most Final Fantasy-coded things I've ever watched.) Her Royal Hineyness also enjoys it.

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ATwistedYarn @atwistedyarn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've read far enough into Logos to have gathered some more information on Anabella's background, and combined with the attitudes displayed by Elwin, Clive, and Joshua, I've come to the conclusion that we really can't talk about the upper echelons of Rosarian culture without an understanding of +

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