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You may be intrigued and/or disturbed to know that a lot of the ideas I put into Grindstone’s Affection are adapted from my 40k fanfics. Like the “Melita’s narration casually refers to her hearts” thing is very 40k.

She’s talked for almost an hour about the origin story of the CPR. Just fully giving a rags-to-riches hagiography of these two random gilded age businessmen

Political science professor is doing a lecture about the Central Pacific Railroad and having to do a whole lengthy disclaimer about how she‘s “not trying to be anti-corporate”

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Mind-controlled thrall who's smarter than her mistress successfully arguing that she's not actually mind-controlled, but rather the psychic blast attack merely altered her behavior due to life-threatening trauma, so it's perfectly ethical for mistress to rail her.

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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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“How many men must we kill before they stop raping us?” —Mona Eltahawy I think about this quote all the time.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Currently abandoned because we couldn’t figure out a good way to structure it, sadly, but maybe this’ll be what it takes to pick it up again. The big twist was that the main character was an undead thing who would resurrect every time she died, and also there were matchlock guns and stuff.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

…so, we have two drafts of a novel which fits that description exactly

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I mean, Cuba would be doing great if they weren't sharing a border with genocidal imperialists

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Part of the whole argument of communism is that "human nature" as we know it is a malleable thing. This perceived stupidity is not inherent or natural, but rather a product of capitalism, and examples of non-capitalistic systems show that high-participation societies can function effectively.

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Apparently my pecs are close enough to my heart that when I work out enough to make the former sore my nervous system freaks out and assumes something is wrong with the latter

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Would it be disrespectful to literalize Cerro Potosí by having my fantasy!Spain discover a slumbering elder god that literally produces unlimited silver in exchange for industrialized human sacrifice?

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Also I think youtube added AI to its recommendation algorithm and genuinely broke itself, it's been showing me the same collection of ~50 videos on the main page and in every sidebar for like three days now, genuinely colossal downgrade

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Realizing that I'm gonna need a second bottom surgery revision, because the skin bridge that necessitated the first one just... healed back as though nothing happened.

*soviet national anthem grows steadily louder*

Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, like, part of the reason why interests are "gender-segregated" is the massive amount of sexual harassment, no?

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The outline for the as-yet-unnamed sequel to Chained Flame is now complete. I’ll be juggling the start of that manuscript with the second draft of Grindstone’s over the next few weeks

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alright, which one of you fuckers made the total on the GO anthology (itch.io/b/3756/mecha...) uneven. C'mon, fess up now and I'll only destroy you a little for making it so unsightly.

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Being a trans woman is awesome because I just remembered a bad breakup I had and started wondering how many people would shut me out if their lives if she started talking about how I “gaslit“ her by, uh, correctly remembering that she wanted to be polyamorous because I couldn’t fuck her enough.

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Secret Switch 🔞 @secretswitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Body swap art is so good and then you stumble across some hardcore misogyny and you realise some guys are into it for very different reasons than you are Everyone has to get woke now because I said so, okay?

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In case you're wondering: yes, obviously they say the devil has a small penis.

THERE IS A SECTION WHERE THE BOOK TALKS ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE DEVIL'S PENIS. I REPEAT, THERE IS A SECTION OF THIS BOOK THAT TALKS ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE DEVIL'S PENIS

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The other thing about the dogshit art trend (which is so dogshit I can't even say the name because the name is a slur) is that, is it just me or is it not incredibly misogynistic to assume the gender-bent version of the nazi rival would be a tsundere secretly in love with the hero?

All of society is dykebreaking. It’s the world’s favorite kink.

Aliens living on a planet with a ring would probably have gods of meteor strikes the same way humans had a god responsible for lightning

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026

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The reason most lesbians are so fucking cagey and angry about this topic is because all of society is gagging to tell us how much more enlightened and moral and inclusive it is for us to include men in our sexuality, and refuses to take no for an answer. So take the hint.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026

You don't need to trip over yourself to tell lesbians that "it's okay to sleep with men!" Every institution, cultural norm and social pressure is constantly telling us it's okay to sleep with men. Most of our families would be ecstatic if we slept with men. We got the message. It's fine. Shut up.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/10/2026

Don't be so rigid. Insisting on how gay you are just reifies the hetero-homo binary. Isn't it transphobic to say you don't date men, since trans women are basically men? Not dating men as a woman basically makes you a conservative queerphobe.

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Carro1001🇧🇷 🔞 @carro3dsculpts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

all it took for artists to forget harry potter is made by the most evil mf is some stupid r63 thing bro oh my goddddd just leave that franchise to die dont ever draw fanart or anything related to it dude come on

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No you're using that gif in the wrong place. What should really disgust you is the bit where he explains that the reason why judges are never harmed by the witches they capture and execute even though witches have huge powers is that God is personally protecting every judge

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More fascinating lore about the Devil, sourced from a lunatic who murdered 900 innocent women: the reason why demons can only bribe people with fake illusion-money is that if demons could bribe people with real money, there would be no good people left, so God doesn't allow that to happen.

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If you've been hearing about this Gunmetal Olympus thing but don't know where to start, good news, as you can now find most of the setting (including both main series and spinoffs) in one place, for one month only! Also has a preorder of my own book, Grindstone's Affection! itch.io/b/3756/mecha...

GUNMETAL OLYMPUS BUNDLE
27 novels, novellas, and artbooks for $20.

Underneath the main title are the thumbnail-style covers of a dozen different books, featuring wildly variable artstyles and themes.

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I wonder which character is gonna get tgtf'd towards the end of season 3 of Dorohedoro if/when that comes out, now that we've established that that's the rule, I guess. I kinda hope it's Shin.

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Grindstone’s Affection is sadly only a preorder it won’t be out for quite a bit

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It has to be some combination of “people trying to compare the four phases of matter to the Aristotelian elements as a Cool Physics Fact” and “textbooks grasping at straws to talk about plasma with a real-world example”

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Saffron @dragonsaffron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the next Legend of Zelda should be set in a modern city but all of the technology is LoZ mechanics. Flying to work by holding onto a chicken's legs and passing over a series of updrafts. Need to answer a question and you pull a fairy out of your pocket. Cops carrying their service bomb-bags.

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