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he didn't want to be emperor, and he doesn't like being the victim of This either

howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

LET'S GOOOOOO!!! this was a herculean challenge that I have so much respect for you taking with full force. also, yes, poor lil guy. trust me, he is the receiver of whump. this is just in character

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"hes really feeling it now mr krabs" is the best addition i've ever seen to an alt text

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i have double checked and confirmed that ren will be okay. but it had to happen. it **had** to happen. i had a few ideas of who to bring that job to but i don't know if anyone at all would have done something as fun as you did!!

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you still do the writing freelance then more people have to know!! it's entirely up to you as i bet it's tiring and i bet it's just a lot to go through but man i'm still in awe at. your. everything. i treasure it deeply.

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i had trouble watching little shop without being possessed by thoughts about that thing and i've been told with authority by close friends that i SHOULD NOT go see the off broadway version because i would not survive a SECOND, the voices would win

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"damn why am i so tired and have no energy" FREQUENTLY says guy who hasn't eaten in 12 hours, i do NOT like being seen this much here today

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Shoutout to my gay princes and their AGONYYYY

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"sit in A18 Howie" "it'll be fun Howie" won't be doing that again. but, my first time seeing the show in any guise at all actually, and damn that was special

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the best part of the space was how if you were in the wrong place on the front row anyone entering stage left in the woods would trigger the instant spotlight of eye death directly at you for as long as it took

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if you don't want to use the built in one (which has become unbelievably good nowadays tbh) i always recommend sharex over gyazo, i always kind of hate actually accessing gyazo files (yes i had to repost this, i literally forgot which one i used before switching, oops)

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this one made me go feral and that was BEFORE i realised after you posted the last one that the little grab on the hand was added for this... CHAMPION stuff

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

whatever you do, do NOT build her an elevator

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

oh man, i've been forgetting to take my vitamin D.

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this "it's the punchline" nature was actually a reason i thought it was niche and shameful for a long time, which is deeply silly, i am aware. took me a while to realise just how normie i am. before i found my real self, i guess.

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

as someone who... sort of made this my only thing, it is odd, but if i were to spitball a reason, i think they became the "de facto" hentai related thing to the point where it literally became almost a punchline associated with anime as a whole

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i would pay extra to put ren in a claw machine.

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

having seen it, i can confirm it is beautiful.

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i'm pretty sure the body's meant to be in there. all according to plan!!

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

fun indeed!! loved how these came out (especially the next one) but I fear you're fighting for your life trying to make the rest work... I 🫡🫡 you

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This WOULD HAPPEN to estel

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

affinity is a desktop photoshop clone that's free to use and works well for me

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

my life was changed by getting one that uses a physical dial and just has a pleasant ping at the end of it. i like the little ping sound. it's nice to hear. beeps are infernal stuff.

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

he would like know exactly how to get into your game winning field or flip your city at the last moment but would also absolutely know exactly how much to extend himself and how to bait me specifically into overextending trying to chase your tail on this. he was absolutely, utterly terrifying at it

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Candy land would be a 0 but really the person who shuffles the feck inadvertently decides where the ice cream and gingerbread will be: the single card that makes and breaks dreams in a flip

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yes and they can predict who will win and on what turn exactly (there's up to 10 before the game times out) and if they're right they steal the win so they're inevitably incentivised to manipulate the game for it. I once pulled this off but it's once in a lifetime to see

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My ex was so ruthless as Carcassonne and absolutely destroyed me so hard at it that I can confirm that it absolutely can rise to something like a 7 with the most competitive opponents. But it's so so group dependent

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Root is no more than a 9 because Dune exists and it's your 10

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the CORE of what i'm doing is about characters who won't communicate well with differing motives bouncing off each other like rubber balls and the consequences being messy so i think my heart's in the right place. there's just a string of moments i want that are hard to land without risking this

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i really, really want it to not take people out. i know it ultimately all goes down to delivery and how articulate he really is, but i guess this conversation is so recent that i've struggled to find and latch onto concrete examples of writers doing this badly so i can know when i'm being a hack

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

quite where the line is, and i find a lot of the conversation around this subject very vague without many given examples, which makes me fear doing this badly. as much as i want to make him explain, i want to make it messy, i REALLY don't want to make it a preaching over moral values, and

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

as someone that's trying to write a protag under an immensely stressful situation at its core, i want to make him at least a couple of times really collapse about everything that's wrong and at least explain to someone why the situation is so awful to some people, but i really struggle to work out

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the grind is awful and all you can do is persist despite the awfulness and that doesn't make it any easier. best wishes, man. even if spite is the thing that needs to fuel you, you'll get it soon

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"spills all the pills on the bathroom floor to freak him out because i know he has ocd" is an orym type beat for real

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Being fed to the machine as a treat, as enrichment, after numerous horrors then. I dig it

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

oh he is being FED TO THE MACHINE

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

have a good one!! wish i was there!!! come back next year and i'll see what i can do...

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

multiple "uh oh, what is anna writing" flags here

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

you should quit on the spot tbh. kind of doomed now

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

can i be that friend :bucktooth:

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

local 58 is the absolute best of its kind and damn it still gives me chills but i also have no clue how it would work in longer form whatsoever. as much as i want more of it, i feel like the shortform format fits it better than anything else

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

honestly i've fallen for this problem at least ten times in my life, gotten migraines from hell, it was the water.

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

this post is actually my reminder that i needed to follow up my email with, idk, the order like you'd do in the form, oops, done. It only breaks my heart a little that you've come up with so many unbelievably perfect thumbnails and I can't have them all forever

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

hey!! adore these so much. have emailed though with some more specific questions and thoughts

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

orym tells zel this about himself in order to keep justifying not clothing him and he eventually believes it

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@astramachina.bsky.social i feel like this is where you can go to witness a real life tragedy and kickstart a new series of animatronic horror novels

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't think about puffins enough and this post is slowly making me more pro-puffin. Literally look at that little thing

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howie @blapibee.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I DON'T KNOW HOW AMERICANS EVEN THINK ABOUT ROAD TRIPS LIKE THIS.

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