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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 9h

You really gotta keep your mind sharp by reading all kinds of different things. I felt so smart about politics and theory when that's all I was reading; I felt like a history expert when in grad school and that's all I was reading; and now that I'm reading mostly fiction I feel like a great writer

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 17h

Current WIP. This is fixin' to be the best book I've ever written, if I do say so myself

“Abby…”

“Yeah?”

I swallowed a painful lump. I wanted to ask a million questions, give her a million warnings, beg her a million times to never go back to Samantha. But she didn’t want me fretting over her. Didn’t want me talking about it.

So I said, “I, um. You look really good with the blue hair.”

“Mmm,” she said, but I heard the smile on her face. I breathed steadily, trying to calm myself. It was almost four in the morning. Sleep, I needed to sleep.

“Oaklynn?”

“Yeah?”

Abby waited so long to continue I thought she’d fallen asleep, or changed her mind. When she spoke her voice was quiet, almost mousy, like she was terrified.

“Downstairs…when you talked to, um, Tabitha…you called me ‘she.’”

“Y-yeah?” I said.

“I…” Abby said. “I use they-them pronouns now. I’m nonbinary.”

“Oh…” I said, my head spinning. “I…”

“It’s okay,” Abby said. “I know you’re not used to…I mean, it’s okay if you still–”

“No,” I said. “Abby…thank you for telling me.”

They nodded. “I missed you.”

“I missed you, too.”

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PVincent (Table Cat Games) @tablecatgames.com · 04/10/2026

Aliens is a great movie and I'm glad they didn't ruin it by continuing Ripley's story in any sequels.

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My current WIP is horror-adjacent and has a lot of themes like homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc...I believe in the story, but it's so hard not to be affected by writing about this shit and also second-guess how I'm handling it all the time. Writing is hard lol

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is kinda like what I write!! Give 'em a follow!

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

literally would not have been able to write my master's thesis on John Brown without them. They had digitized copies of primary source texts I literally would not have been able to access otherwise. They deserve the world

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my job would instantly get easier and more productive

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are you trans? Wrong answers only: to piss off the worst people on earth

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Young Turks and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Love every single review I get that I can tell took the time to really absorb the book, no matter how much they liked it. People are reading Seed of the Black Oak and it's making them feel things and that's what being an artist is all about.

Promo image for Seed of the Black Oak featuring screenshots of a few positive reviews. One even called me "The next voice in queer fantasy" which made my heart melt!

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This shit gotta be a psyop because I had literally never heard of this song or artist until this dross popped onto my feed. No way this is organic, I know the CIA's fingerprints when I see them

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

me, a Chicagoan, any time I see news out of New York

squidward staring out the window forlornly at spongebob and patrick having fun

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The world kinda sucks right now. Read a good old-fashioned fantasy where good triumphs over evil and love is the most powerful force in the world, and be inspired to keep fighting to make it better

promo image for Seed of the Black Oak by me, featuring the quote "A grin came upon the girl's face that made it impossible to mistake her for civilized."

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

an economic system that allows people like this to have any modicum of power whatsoever is irredeemable and must be abolished

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 24/09/2026

* A sidelight from another angle of the anti-intellectual movement of capitalism in decline is afforded by the following extract from the technical journal, The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder:
"Nowadays admission to many factories depends on passing 'intelligence tests.'... These tests are not always designed to select the most intelligent of applicants; for in a certain Continental factory the management admit that they use intelligence tests to eliminate the alert and intelligent among the applicants, because the work is so sub divided and mechanised that its monotony has the effect of turning intelligent workers into Communists."

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my WIP has a side-villain inspired by Tim Tebow lol

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My antipathy towards cops is fighting my burning desire to find out what made someone like both my book and this one

goodreads screenshot of the page for my book, Seed of the Black Oak, with a "Readers also enjoyed" panel showing a M/M romance novel called "Fire and Snow" by Andrew Grey in which one of the MCs is a cop

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

is there like. anything in the world, anything at all, that doesn't just kinda...y'know...suck?

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

sucks that it has to be Playboy shining a light on this but I genuinely think it's an issue worthy of our collective consideration (just not for the reasons that demographic-obsessed fascists like JD Vance say)

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They should give Josh Sawyer an office right next to Todd Howard's

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Doom was the first (my grandpa taught me to play it when I was like 5), but Fallout: New Vegas was what got me into CRPGs (indirectly by getting me to play Fallout 1 and 2) which have been my obsession ever since

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*transphobes bully democrats* *democrats do increasingly transphobic policy and comms* "you have to be nice to democrats if you want them to do what you want" ball knowledge levels off the charts

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's already public knowledge that I will never, ever vote for a Democrat again, but those of you who are still on the electoral bandwagon should be announcing loudly and frequently that you will not be voting for Gavin Newsom for president under any circumstances because of this

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All of my pants are too big for me now (thank you Vyvanse!) so I snagged some belts. I'm a Belt Person now

Belts from hot topic. One is the trans colors and the other is pink and black studs

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Got this garbage in my inbox today. I didn't think it was possible to string together so many "It's not X, it's Y" sentences in a row

a slop marketing email clearly written by ChatGPT trying to get me to purchase services for my novel Seed of the Black Oak. I'm not gonna retype the whole thing but the subject line is "Seed of the Black Oak is asking what most epic fantasy won't: is the self you buried to survive still yours to give away?"

(This is not a major theme of my book btw)

AI slop text from the body of the email. Literally a majority of the sentences in this email follow the "It's not X, it's Y" pattern, it's overwhelming. It's like a parody of a ChatGPT email

more AI slop text. I like that the source of the main villain's magic, human sacrifice, is described as "a moral fact of the world, not a stat block." what? lol

the ending of the AI slop email. The marketer wants 20 minutes of my time for "No pitch deck. Just a real conversation about the book." pass!

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

well then you're electing the wrong political party lol

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote Seed of the Black Oak because I want stories that combine the old-school grit and action of classic sword-and-sorcery (Conan, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Jirel of Joiry!) with modern sensibilities and a heavy dose of romance and passion. I think there's a lot of us out there! 🌈🚀💫

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 17/09/2026

An excellent and thoughtful piece on failure in RPGs, which I got to contribute some words to: "I'm putting you through failure in order to give you something that I think you will enjoy. I try to earn that trust from the player."

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Joe Biden, who liberals like to claim was "the most left-wing/progressive president of our lifetime," got on national TV and lied about having personally seen "40 beheaded babies" to manufacture consent for a genocide, and I have never met a single liberal who is bothered by that

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?

Ceasefire scene from Children of Men. Theo, Kee, and the baby are surrounded by soldiers awestruck at the baby

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is true, but also, every single human rights issue deserves an unabashedly maximalist approach, full stop. How is this even a question

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

no realistic way to get the other funny number so this'll have to do. nice

screenshot of the goodreads ranking for Seed of the Black Oak by me, showing an overall rating of 4.20

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ppl defending Sheeran like "it's the venues' fault he can't control them!" literally do you hear yourself? it's Ed Sheeran there literally is no tour without him. He can get any venue he wants, or he could postpone the tour in solidarity because he does not need the money

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wonder if like half of all Democratic Party politicians were "flaky" on whether or not busted white men with faces that look like Meltman from Action League Now deserve human rights, if W*ll St*ncil would still say it's foolish and short-sighted not to support them

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Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shamefully, I can't help but electoralism-post, so here goes: I think it's ghoulish, no exception, to be smug about people not wanting to vote for a person or party that keeps showing its infinite capacity to neglect others as some kind of "strategy."

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 26/09/2025

dana scully gay as hell i would've gone crazy

David Duchovny lounging in a bed with the leg of bicuriosity, he looks like a whore

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Amazon is no longer saying the book is out of stock!!! Yay!

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

at a certain point we're gonna need to move past the idea that we have to cater to and tiptoe around murderous sociopathic freaks so they don't get somehow even worse. abuse-apologetics logic. these people need to be systemically disempowered

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Will never understand "there is no place for political violence in our country" from liberals. Brother this entire place was founded on political violence, it's in our DNA

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Christian Chiakulas @christianchiakulas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good evening to this random drummer playing Sk8r Boi with Avril Lavigne at the 2003 BRIT awards and only this random drummer playing Sk8r Boi with Avril Lavigne at the 2003 BRIT awards

Screenshot of a guy playing drums with Avril Lavigne at the 2003 BRIT awards. He is wearing a shirt with a prominent hammer and sickle on it

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