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Mel

@cursesaway.bsky.social
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Ontario creature whose soul longs for the sea. AIA grad, PACC-certified appraiser, blogger, part-time vintage reseller, works full-time elsewhere out of necessity & hates it. Loves Star Trek, games, RP, writing. thepapergirl.ca

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 1h
please enjoy brand new tingler just in time for the season of scares. RESIDENT ANAL: POUNDED BY THE D-VIRUS is out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMP9JZBB/ or all patreon tiers www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...
handsome leom next to his d-virus antidote who is sentient and also handsome. behind them there is a whole zombie mob. it is the cover of RESIDENT ANAL: POUNDED BY THE D-VIRUS
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 52m
Kelsea's origin story was that she fled Lordaeron with her grandmother during the plague and eventually wound up in Stormwind with a boatload of trauma and a fascination with the Scarlet Crusade. She was a fire mage, eventually became a paladin. I'm likely gonna reboot her. 1/
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1h
i would be the Gandalf of scamming vegan landlords
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 1h
HAPPY CANADIAN THANKSGIVING TELL THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU LOVE THEM OUR TIME TOGETHER IS PRECIOUS BEYOND WORDS
Close up of Guinness the black cat resting on a couch, gazing thoughtfully off camera.
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AffirmationCoyote.bsky.social @affirmationcoyote.bsky.social · 2h
It is Indigenous People's Day! Affirmation Coyote's first human friends lived on the Coyote Continent for a long time before the Sea People arrived. Remember their history and contributions. nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations...
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY
On the second Monday in October, we pause to honor the deep roots, rich cultures, and enduring spirit of the first peoples of this land. Native American Day is a vibrant celebration of the history, co...
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 1h
more like bitchtopher columbitch
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 11h
Listed what's left of my Pokémon TCG collection. www.ebay.ca/str/thepaper... Shipping included in prices unless you're outside Canada, then the shipping is "cost to ship from Canadian eBay mailing centre to you". If you're outside Canada and can't see shit, let me know.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 19h
Every community manager/mod in the world read this story, raised an eyebrow, and realized there was another solution to their bot problem.
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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
GM. I have an unexpected medical bill for my child. All sales got to pay for my child’s bill. I have more beadwork I’ll post tonight/tomorrow. Potawatomi made. All hearts. Link below: www.melancholynow.com
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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 22h
Fellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: what would real solidarity from your thinner friends & family look like for you? (Once again, asking thin & midsize people to sit this one out & just listen. Take notes & take action!)
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stephen King: so as i was saying, salem's lot King: everyone in salem's lot is excited because a writer is coming to town King: everyone is so excited because he's so cool and awesome King: i mean, a writer is like a real life super hero Poe: yeah that scans Barker: no lies detected
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I really badly want to go back to bed Getting microchipped is kicking my ass
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The kind of comedy that's a string of miscommunication or lack of communication makes me cringe. I just can't deal
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At some point in Aurelia's career, she earns a Christopher Pike Medal of Valour and it fucking enrages her because: "You sons of bitches speak of him as if he's already dead, but he's RIGHT HERE IN THIS FUCKING ROOM." She spends much of her life fighting Starfleet for proper medical care for him.
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Starfleet being paramilitary but not very good at that that statement made more sense in my head
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
asdghjk magic h8 ball
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Becky @beckymew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OK who flipped my girlfriend's switch to Magic H8 Ball
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why does Starfleet often give me British Royal Navy during the peak of Arctic Exploration vibes
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Leah was born in 2233, the same year as James T Kirk. She never lets him forget it.
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fact that I never received trouble for shipping Leah w/Pike and Lorca b/c of the age difference was, frankly, a minor miracle. Or Leah and Butcher or Homelander, for that matter, lmao.
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Ratatosk the Norse Squirrel God™️ @ratatosk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s #SquirrelAwarenessMonth, and reddit is post squirrel videos every day! This one is from Japan. 🇯🇵🐿️🌏 #Sqrlpix #SquirrelsOfTheWorld #Japan
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
THIS WEEKEND I HOPE YOU GET TO TAKE IT EASY
Guinness the black cat rests on his human’s lap
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Leah's partners, in most universes, are much larger than she is even when they're 20-30 years older so, in short, yes. The primary problems Leah has across verses are: Trek: strong enough but not tall enough (she's 5', her captains are 6' or so) FFXIV: see above The Boys: arthritis
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 03/10/2026
Bluesky, proudly vibecoded since 202UNABLE TO CONNECT CHECK YOUR NETWORK CONNECTION AND TRY AGAIN
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🦇 ahhhh (dats me yellin) 🦇 @sorcererofeld.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have been rendering for 1,000 years
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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I ran an acorn foraging workshop today for a colleague’s food history class! Knowing some students would inevitably come face to face with their first acorn weevil while cracking nuts, I made a few little pins as prizes for weevil-finding 🐛
Four round black pins with smiling weevil larva painted on them, and gold lettering saying “fear no weevil”
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
relevant to all my interests thus still hangs in my home:
A Frank Kozik Guided by Voices poster with Spock's face prominently featured
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burning man should be a festival where they burn a shitty man Like an actual guy that sucks Then I would go
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There should be an animated series for kids called MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE BABIES and the gas station is a playpen but the Green Goblin truck stays the same.
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 28/09/2026
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also I have a headache ugh thanks tech support
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Troubleshooting a Windows Update issue on mom and dad's PC and have had to get to the "nuke all printer drivers and run command prompt scans" part HP I will devour you
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My bedroom is TINY. My belongings are generally stashed in boxes and drawers because I haven't had space to really own things since I sold my house in 2014. I've gotten rid of a LOT over the years, need to get rid of more, but have no room to organize. Siiiiiiiigh.
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
North of North is an utter delight. Beautiful.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If it seemed like a major newspaper making some conflict at a random dyke bar a national news piece in a push to depict trans and higher-risk folks as inherently unreasonable was suspect af...well, it was. Y'all who were breathlessly sharing that story? You were just being played. Have some sense.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Asked elsewhere how I think folks should respond: * Refuse to treat obvious bad faith hitpieces like they're a sign of any real wider issue that needs some internal reckoning. Reality check those falling for it. * Go on the attack against the real problem: propagandists who pull this kind of shit.
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Orchi @orchiscribbles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BEHOLD! I finally settled on the design of the ship. Presenting: USS Celeste (NCC- 74642) ✨✨✨ I wanted the ship to look sleek and organic, like a swimming sea creature, and I think I'm finally satisfied with the design. #StarTrek #OriginalArt #Celeste I almost forgot why I avoid drawing vehicles🫠
A few drawings of the spaceship from the artist's original Star Trek series. The ship is primarily steely blue, with accents of a darker grey and black that make it look like a swimming cuttlefish or a grey alien head.The color of the lights on the nacelles are yellow and blue

Top: Worm's eye view of the ship, but the viewer is getting the rear-right view of the ship, so, basically the underside of the nacelles and the right side of the secondary hull. Windows can be seen on the facade.

Middle left: Another worm's eye view, but this time it's the front of the ship. The bottom of the secondary hull has a black y shape, that surrounds the warp core. The bottom of the primary hull is lined with a thin golden line that makes a bat ears shape. Right under where the ears meet, the registry number of the ship is written (NCC-74642)

Middle right: Blue prints of the ship: Side elevation at the top,Top view at the bottom. The views make she ship look like an abstract cuttlefish with eyes on the side, and fountain pen like sign at its head.

Bottom: Bird's eye view of the ship, from the right. Top of the saucer section can be seen, it has two black eye like shapes at it's sides, a a black semi oval shape at the front of it's head, intersected with a tiny white circle and a thin while line. It makes the black shape look like the head of a fountain pen. There are two symmetrical geometrical grey accents to it, sort of like the back of a sea turtle. Right below the black shape at the front, the ship's registry number is written (NCC-74642), slightly warped to match the curve.

Background: Dark blue space, with lots of stars.
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Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have until Thursday to make rent and I'll still £614 short. You get literally 1000s of posts, over 1000 recipes for £5 and more added every day. 16% off if you sign up annually! Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nene Royal is SO GOOD
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Charlie is fine just slobbery but it was hard to tell until I caught up with him at home Thank the Gods he auto-runs the fuck home
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Neighbour's unleashed did came after Charlie while I was walking him and I had to drop the leash and let Charlie run home. I yelled at the other dog until it went back the way it came Neighbours walking by a few minutes later, yelled from the road asking "is he okay" FUCK YOU
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Mel @cursesaway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every day I'm fantasizing about quitting my job
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Alison @finger-post.blog · 23/09/2026
Start your day with a nice Beaver.
Image shows an absolutely gorgeous De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Mk1 sitting on a pontoon at Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories. The aurora is a shimmering green around her. Photograph: George Fischer.

Image is from a coffee table book on Canadian photography that I picked up for pennies in a local charity shop.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22/09/2026
Saying that UBI gives people "less motivation to find a place for themselves within the states and nations they constitute," and does them "a disservice" is ridiculous. Pilot after pilot shows that overall, people with UBI are more able to find a place for themselves. THEY DON'T NEED TO BE FORCED.
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Orchi @orchiscribbles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Had to redraw the spider critter because yikes, the anatomy was super wonky in that last one. I promised 10 legs, and there's only 9, one is coming out of the abdomen? AI ass mistakes😭 I also like when animals are animals and not bloodthirsty villains. So I had to draw it like someone's weird dog :3
A giant spider-like decapod, whose head and jaws look like a hippo skull. It has a lightly shaded fleshy body, the arms are slightly dark where they are joined at the body, and darker at the end. It also has spots, tumor like appendages and hair on its back. It's holding something (food perhaps) in its front T-rex like tiny arms, and looking at the camera like somebody's lost dog. The background is rocky.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Orchi @orchiscribbles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Top critter is what was chasing Ires and Egon on the rocky planet. However, they are simple carnivorous animals and not the main antagonists of that story. Bottom left is what Ires saw crawling in the Jeffries tubes. They are some poor officers on Celeste who had a terrible accident.
Top: Artist's OCs of USS Celeste- Betazoid First officer Ires Okai and Klingon Chief Engineer Egon Himmet are on a rocky planet surface, with alien desert plants growing out from rock crevices, They are both wearing backpacks, have phasers in their hands and running for their lives. Behind them, emerging from a pile of large rocks, is a pale giant spider-like animal.

Bottom: Ires's POV, We have switched to infra red vision in what seems to be a Jeffrey's tube. Several humanoid creatures are crawling towards the protagonist and growling.
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