iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The grit and complexity bears comparison to Terry Pratchett’s Ankh-Morpork" Mt. TBR grows a few inches taller

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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 24/09/2026

A new issue of Neon & Smoke is out, and one of my body horror story (cw) is part of it! Check out the issue and my story! The Arachnitect of Jaala-Ghar neonandsmoke.com/september-sm... #WritingCommunity #NewStory #Horror #BookSky #Horror

A story card with my photograph on top half (black and white photo of a bearded man wearing glasses)

And below is details.

Neon & Smoke
In this issue
Suvajeet Duttagupta
"The arachnitect of Jaala-Ghar" — fiction
September Smoke
Half genre • Always lit

Read it at neonandsmoke.com

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lighthouse Keeper Scooby (1981) and its consequences

Visualization of 20k LLM-generated stories broken up into clusters by LDA topic, as well as another view where stories that include lighthouses are highlighted in red

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm in this picture and I like it

Screenshot of top 3 stories in the NYC Midnight 2026 short story competition. 3rd one is me!

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every time someone brings up the EA/HPMOR connection is a "there but for the grace of god go I" moment for me. (More accurately "there but for the grace of being too broke and too far away from the epicenter of this plague" but swings and roundabouts)

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nadu's Odia food collab with Lufu is easily one of the top five meals I've had in Chicago

Leaf plate with a bowl of dal and malpua

Blurry photo of a leaf plate with assorted Indian foods on it

Two bowls of fish curry and mutton curry

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It genuinely blows my mind the degree to which people in power do not grasp (or just refuse to acknowledge) that encampments are preferable to shelters for a whole lot of people, for a long list of reasons.

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Unclear to me how "And wolde asked hym for to chaunge ower places" translates to "two avocados for ten bucks"

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In BCS #465 "Seneschal of Shattered Tor" Abhijeet Sathe @bingingout.bsky.social "the shackles slipped off our hearts and the scales lifted from our eyes. Before we knew it, our hands were our own, our deeds ours alone. There is power to that, and terror." beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/sene...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Seneschal of Shattered Tor by Abhijeet Sathe

The foals don’t recall the age of enthrallment because we never taught them of that dark eon when the kin marched on the cities of man. I do. I was in that horde scouring the land, mindless tools of t...

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Went to my first renaissance faire today with @awkwardresearcher.bsky.social (also first time) and @drhazzard.bsky.social (regular fairhead.) Shit rules. I've been missing out.

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Seneschal of Shattered Tor" is a postcolonial high fantasy about a society trying to Be Better* and the leaders dragging them into the future. I hope you enjoy it! * T&C apply

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My issue of @tasavvurnama.bsky.social is in this! Thank you @mariahaskins.com for your time and your kind words.

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They're calling it the easiest pre-order decision in recent memory

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My very talented friend Micah has a story in the latest Strange Horizons and it's well worth your time, especially if you love-hate the internet

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MR_MR_CENTICORE

In the screen glow of the witching hours you see a silhouette flit in and out of the doorway. Your first meme and your first violation.

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Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For the night crowd: A dead grandmaster resurrected as an AI chessbot. Imprisonment of the digital soul. Techlords owning us forever. Can we get a happy ending? Kings_Gambit.exe by @yelenacrane.bsky.social www.adventitious.net/stories/king...

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Kings_Gambit.exe by Yelena Crane

A Grandmaster is resurrected as AI and forced to play forever. Free sci-fi story by Yelena Crane at Adventitious.

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Food and caste in colonial #India, with real historians and cool illustrations. Lovely video. Excited for more from this channel.

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Ep 12- Food and Caste in Colonial India

YouTube video by Historically Tempered

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Me reading the Economist article as it dunks on Acemoglu's malaria paper

Man staring sadly into the camera. Headline over him says: "heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point"

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just got my pre-ordered copy of @amalsingh.bsky.social's Slow Burn. If you have even a tangential interest in Bollywood, this one is for you. One of the best Indian SF writers writing in an underexplored setting. Good use of your time IMO

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Slow Burn

When Rishi Tripathi, a failed actor, falls through a mirror in an inverted Mumbai, he invites fame like he has never seen before. In this inverted city, he’s a superstar and a critically acclaimed dar...

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Finally felled the banana plant so we can hand the pot over to its clone. Behold @awkwardresearcher.bsky.social researcher's jury-rigged stem drying stand. Hashtag women in STEM.

An upside down stool stuffed with banana stem strips

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Calling LLMs as a DDoS attack on human-supported infrastructure gave me a new wrinkle in my brain. What would be peer review's Cloudflare or reCAPTCHA? What about magazine submissions?

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 17/08/2026

No one, ever, in all of history, has believed everything written in a religious text or performed all of the actions dictated therein, not because people are imperfect but because that is simply not how religion works, anywhere, ever, for anyone.

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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

ime nonviolent communication can solve a lot of relationship problems. but, um. not all of them. at least, not problems that ride in with the storm and settle into the whites of your girlfriend's eyes ...anyway, please enjoy Kaitlin's and my cowritten sapphic horror story, it's free to read!

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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...

poster with the words “revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”, “fantasy”, “3500 words”, “history from the bottom-up, emperors get decapitated, but we keep farming rice” “@thelialao”

on the left side are picture of rice paddies and on the right side are two men wearing hanfu

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Recent transplant NRIs, heed my words: if you miss cold coffee you want a regular iced latte with an extra shot

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is true. I have a brick-shaped hole in my bookshelf where I kept Dune before it mysteriously disappeared. SpooOoOoOOOOooOky

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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

WorldCon schedules are up! Come listen to me talk about being queer and fighting (in fiction) (but also IRL)

Where to find Rio at WorldCon:
The Bi Standard: Respecting Bisexual Identity in Storytelling - Thurs Aug 27 6 PM
Anything You Can Do: Women and Nonbinary Warriors - Fri Aug 28 12 PM
As You Are: Identity Acceptance in SFF - Sat Aug 29 9 AM
And Now, I Die: Fight Choreography for Writing - Sat Aug 29 12 PM

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My knee doesn't hurt but squeaks like a cheese curd when I press the tendon-y bit. That's good, right? Means it's fresh?

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Westland Books @westlandbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

An update regarding the second volume of the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF. We will be opening a second round of submissions soon and hope to read more from all of you. Here’s the detailed note from the editor @gautambhatia88.bsky.social: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I've aged so far out of receiving lolla ads that I only know it's here when I see hordes of dressed-up youthses on my morning commute. Like seeing a demoiselle crane and knowing winter is here

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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We are thrilled to reveal the cover art for our summer issue #36, coming out in August! More here: www.orions-belt.net/issues Cover Art “SUN II” by David Alvàrez, with design by @ashsmash.bsky.social. To subscribe & read it as soon as it’s released, & support our work: bit.ly/orionsbelt-patreon

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Emily Wilson is just like me frfr

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm going to piss off everyone involved but BEHOLD my mexican biryani going in to dum

Dutch oven full of rice, herbs and orange sauce

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C.M. Sullivan 🍉 is querying @cmsullivan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Excited to finally share my novel, THIEF OF THE VASTBORN, for #questpit!! THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI x THE SONG OF ACHILLES: Fate swap. Drowned world. Queer M/M romance. Enemies to lovers. Sea-dragons?! And more! Read the agent’s guide below. Querying soon! #F #A #RF #Q #W

An agent's guide to Thief of the Vastborn by C.M. Sullivan, adult fantasy + romance, ~112,000 words. The graphic shows a dragon and a sailboat with charts and maps as the background vector.

TEXT: Pitch: In a flooded world survived by waterborne cities, young Zev is given a prophecy that he will die by the same illness that killed his mother. A decade later, when a dying Zev decides to take fate into his own hands, he accidentally swaps fates with the Prophecied Divine, a handsome and sheltered man destined to end the worldwide flood. The graphic shows a sailboat and more charts.

TEXT: Tropes: Queer M/M romance, fate swap, drowned world, sea-dragons, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, slow burn, animal companion, prophecies, pirates, cults. The graphic shows a leaf, an hourglass, and more charts and maps.

TEXT: Comps: The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, high seas adventures; The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller for mythical doomed yaoi; The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon for dragons; The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart for drowned world. The graphic shows columns and charts.

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Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Starfall: a queer space opera heavy on the intimate-stakes character drama, elfy science-fantasy, and swashbuckling starship adventure about a telepathic space elf who joins off-brand Starfleet. He's a stabby cinnamon roll who doesn't want any friends! (This is a lie.) #Questpit #Q #A #SF #SFF

Title slide that reads "Starfall, Queer Space Opera Adventure, 139,000 words, R. J. Howell."

Slide that reads: "Pitch: Erendesirel was raised for two things: political marriage and political skirmishes. Sadly, the galaxy doesn’t have much call for a well-trained ornamental husband or sword-wielding duelist. Banished from his technologically-hostile homeworld, unskilled, and entirely broke, he applies to the Galactic Survey and Security Fleet,
a company of space-faring scientific contractors.

He just has to somehow pass a basic competency exam he is woefully unprepared for. And agree to a 10-year debt contract to pay for his tuition. And avoid being driven insane by the thoughts and feelings of a crew of a hundred and twenty souls serving on a very small starship. And navigate all the well-meaning people trying to be his friend.

Oh, and not get kidnapped by pirates." There is another section below it that reads "Comps" and show the covers of Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, Slow Gods by Claire North, and Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. There is also an illustration of a space elf named Eren.

This slide reads: "Excerpt: Erendesirel—the nameless, the houseless, the planetless—had tracked his quarry down to a victuals shop on the outskirts of the space station’s medical district. From his hunter’s hide on a public bench opposite the establishment, he glowered at the incongruously-wooden door, breathed in the smell of roasted nuttiness and sticky sugar wafting out through the open bay window, and fought for equanimity.

His hand tightened on the hilt of his family sword, the blade pressed against his leg to accommodate the rather unfriendly design of the bench. Galactic architecture was, as always, crafted for comfort and unobtrusiveness but singularly failed to take into account a full-length sword at one’s hip. It didn’t matter that of all the peoples of the galaxy, there was only one that insisted on carrying true steel swords instead of some technological marvel that, oh, made the sword shrink or disappear or be constructed entirely out of light.

He would never stoop to touch such a thing. No, the sword and dagger set of his clan would serve him for this purpose just fine.

No matter that they were considered contraband. By both his people and station security, if for rather different reasons."

This slide reads "The Trope Nebula" and contains a series of trope-related terms: All the feels, found family, to boldly go (but contractually), swords but space, touch-adverse telepathic space elves, starships!, stabby cinnamon roll, disaster bisexuals, qu3eer, student debt?, lesbians with laser canons, and friendship! (whether you want it or not).

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Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

wrapping up edits so here's an updated agent's guide for #questpit! :)) [BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN #A #Litfic #SF #LGBT #OV #Q

slide that reads "an agent's guide to FACELESS". line under reads "literary speculative fiction / 95,000 words @thelialao)

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Pitch

[BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN

the opulence of CRAZY RICH ASIANS
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the futuristic atmosphere of LOCAL HEAVENS & THE BOOK OF RECORDS
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the socio-satirical tone of THE IMMORTAL KING RAO

set in a floating city owned by tech conglomerates, in a world ravaged by climate change

inspired by Silicon Valley & East/Southeast Asia

@thelialao

Background picture is a black robot in a glass box

First Page

It’s a beautiful night to die.

From the balcony, Fay Soon stares down at the celebration: the silken gowns, the crystal chalices, the laughter resounding like shattered glass. It’s the end of semester which means yet another overpriced soirée for Chang’E National University’s elite. After seven years here, the scene is hardly unfamiliar. She studies the expanse of the university gardens.

There’s a cyclical nature to it. Young and eager minds unfurling: the undergraduates, loquacious in their attempts to impress one another, each conversation, each gesture, carefully selected like the finest blossoms in a greenhouse.

There are those on the other end of the cycle too. Senescence. The doctoral candidates wilting in the shadows. Hoping for their ideas to be transfigured by wind or water or even the sorghum wine they’re cradling in their hands.

But no matter how many times Fay experiences it, she doesn’t think she’ll ever get used to the spectacle.

No one in the outer circle speaks like that, not in those sprawling, unmanicured streets. It’s opulent; it’s hypnotizing. It’s—

—a complete and utter waste of funds.

@thelialao

Background is a chandelier in dim lighting

Epigraph

As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever

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We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.

– Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

@thelialao

Background is a white wall with the shadows of leaves

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My short story "New Game Plus" will be in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social soon! Keep an eye out if you like video games, wobbly fourth walls, or knowing why you can't play cards in the jungle

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One of the best books I've read in recent years, even if turning the page takes forever seconds of clicking and walking

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Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

THE BLESSÈD EVER-CHANGING MAP An autistic demi-girl nun and her golden retriever boyfriend track down God to demand They explain the invisible wall shoving her across their magical shifting world. Two disaster bisexuals, trapped in a sidescroller. Will they kiss? #BluePit #📖 #Q #F #A #LGBT #ND

Pitch: Remi's peaceful life as a nun is interrupted when an invisible wall appears, sweeping her across her magical, shifting world like a 3D sidescroller. To escape this curse, she’ll have to break her vow of silence, not fall in love with (or murder) the chatterbox traveling with her, and confront the Mapmaker Themself—the god who created her world.

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE x DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL X THE WIZARD OF OZ

FIRST LINE: The monastery's map had just gone out of date again when Remi found another crack in the world.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New Issue: BCS #461 out today, featuring stories of food and restaurants that are more than they seem by @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social and Louis Morris, From the Archives story of a ghostly restaurant by @nghivo.bsky.social, cover art by Tyler Edlin: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #461 by Scott Andrews

The Teahouse by Prashanth Srivatsa. They Rob the Hybla Bees by Louis Morris.

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Abhijeet @bingingout.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Reading The Unaccountability Machine, by Dan Davies, after hearing about it from @maxgladstone.bsky.social and @r-emrys.bsky.social. Currently a fifth of the way through and it's the same kind of unputdownable as Seeing Like A State*

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Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hey, it's your girl with a horror on the Rumpus! therumpus.net/2026/06/28/s...

The Rumpus. Sunday Scaries: Lu's Laundry and Other Services

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