Reposted by dathenSora🍁💘 @skaykey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Merlin and his two daughters 😌✨ #AFKJourney 264
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i feel this may be a good way to build confidence again if you got with a good group, kind of like how DnD helps a lot of people 010
Reposted by dathenDavid K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 24/09/2026My sitcom Wooden Overcoats has 4 x new episodes! RUDYARD RUINS EVERYTHING a very miniseries It begins today! You can listen to it for free on your podcast apps! Please do. I think it's the best thing I've written - and maybe the best run of episodes we've made together! 34920
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I tried putting ice packs at the foot of my bed before bedtime and it was fantastic for all of ten seconds before it warmed up again 100
Reposted by dathenSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75261179795
Reposted by dathenGazKerber ★ @gazkerber.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yeah that checks out #Yakuza #龍が如く #桐真 #真桐 #kazumaji #fanart #RGG #BL #LikeADragon #comic 47133
Reposted by dathenTAFCON — The Audio Fiction Convention @tafcon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🌹 Mark your calendars for June 2027! 🌹 Check out this sneak peak of our venue... 🤩 TAFCON 2027 location and dates be announced soon! 5196
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Just another reminder to go to your library bookstores 🔥🔥🔥 020
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026they only care about victims when it’s to drum up hate vs minorities but yawn and shrug and lie about further deaths they could have prevented 052
Reposted by dathenMatt Ramsey @onenerdyopinion.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Dandy has decided that the boxes Spike’s food comes in are the perfect boxes. I have been informed that we will be tiling the apartment in them going forward. 2998458
Reposted by dathenMurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I yelled, “ART, stop talking to my human behind my back!” 0696
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026HURRAY HURRAY HURRAY i knew you’d love my cranky little guy (gn) 010
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The opposite of ‘enticement with wealth’ is happening too: Tom squanders most of Edmund’s inheritance at the beginning of the book, so Miss Crawford is constantly conflicted abt if she can handle living a modest life by marrying him. The family is tightening their belts financially too. 010
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Yeah this doesn’t really track with what I just read at all. Everyone is tripping over themselves to get near them, and the only stakes for the entire climax of the book are the tarnishing of their extremely good name. The near-crisis mid book is if the neighbors heard they were putting on a play. 110
Reposted by dathenGazKerber ★ @gazkerber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Conflict #Yakuza #龍が如く #錦山彰 #fanart #RGG #LikeADragon 44221
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026EXTREMELY recommend!! It’s partly inspired by Cadfael and even has a shout-out to him, but in general is one of the most compelling and emotional games I’ve ever played. 010
Reposted by dathenWorkers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A clip from the Workers' Lit's episode on "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers, ft. @jonnysims.bsky.social, who frankly we'd gladly listen to even if he were just reading the phone book. Listen now on the Workers' Lit feed wherever you get your podcasts! 33412
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026adding this exact delivery of “and then he was crAAZy in a 😱SPOOKY WAY👻” to my personal lexicon 051
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I finished reading it last night and immediately hunted down essays to figure out where the “confronting slavery” idea came from, and it mostly stems from people personally disliking Sir Thomas (while the narrative is hell-bent on insisting he’s a Good Person) 000
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026the screenshots are the parts people constantly quote about it “addressing slavery” just bc the word is mentioned, but just because something is depicted doesn’t mean it’s inherently being criticized, no matter how much we wish it were. 100
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Oh it references them throughout, but in the same way you’d reference going to the office or going to London. It clearly establishes that he’s a slaver, then goes back to praising him endlessly. 100
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026it’s class war but taking the side of the rich. The adaption changes a ton, but the book dedicates several chapters on going on and on abt how Mansfield is heaven and perfection compared to the “evils” of her noisy inferior lower-class family. 000
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I just finished this book, and their neighbors admire them until the scandal at the very end? where are you getting “their neighbors look down on them”? 000
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026the segment where Fanny returns home, where her mother is villainized for being poor and lower-class in contrast to the glory and perfect manners of Mansfield, adds even more worship to the slave-produced wealth 000
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026the problem is the book doesn’t *treat* them as villains. Sir Thomas, the slave-owner, is constantly revered as the pinnacle of morality, and other loathsome characters like Edmund are the Ultimate Goal for the main character to yearn for 100
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026found this when looking up an article, and..how do you come to that conclusion from this exchange? nothing about it implies Fanny was criticizing him, and the “he wishes his daughters took pleasure in his information like I did!” aligns it more with her asking about her brother’s sailing ship 100
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026OH THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL WOW i was hyped out of my mind to find a hardcover of book 1 (my favorite) at the library bookstore, but the cover was dull as dirt. look at that ART!! 110
Reposted by dathenGothamist @gothamist.com · 02/09/2026New York City’s public school system plans to impose strict limits on artificial intelligence and screen time in classrooms for the upcoming school year, including a blanket ban on generative AI for instruction and tutoring for all students below high school: gothamist.visitlink.me/ch5xEi 15548169
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A friend finished The Everlasting tonight and thinking about it has cleansed my soul and renewed my spirit. I can go back to being a functional human again. 010
Reposted by dathenAud Connelly: transcribing #Dogwood3 (78.1/95k) @audconnelly.bsky.social · 01/12/2025*flings MANSFIELD PARK away from myself* Glad that's over. 181
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026it was the last austen book I hadn’t read so I forced myself through it and. it’s the first classic that I’ve actively hated. The heights of Even Worse it achieves just in the last few chapters and *last few pages* are staggering. 010
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Edmund: Well I DID practically raise my cousin so I know she sufficiently confirms with my morals…she’ll make the perfect rebound! 000
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026like if you made a bare bones summary of the story there are so many things you THINK it could be saying, but reading the actual text and it’s so loudly blatantly the opposite 000
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I just finished this book tonight and was hoping for this kind of conclusion, and was catastrophically let down by the segment where Fanny goes to stay with her birth family and spends several chapters deifying Mansfield Park as truly heaven vs this Low Class Scumpit 100
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026comments like this got my hopes up for the book “addressing slavery” and the only line mentioning it is immediately followed by how moral the slave-owner is. I don’t think that counts as “addressing slavery” 010
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I have a montage of confused disbelief at how at the point of the book you’d have a “half agony half hope” confession from one of the other Austen Men, he was still gushing at Fanny for pages on end about how he eternally loves her rival 100
dathen @dathen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026He’s INSUFFERABLE. He was kind early on, but is absolutely spineless for all the “so moral!!” hype the book gives him. He goes beyond imperceptive—it’s almost fascinating with how he constructs a fake version of every other character in his mind and will die on the hill that’s Really Them 110
