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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Forgot to post it here but I wrote another flash piece for COS' latest Warhammer fiction contest. Excited to share that my entry 'TRACHINIAE' was selected as the top entry! This was one where I felt like all the parts were arranged meticulously and it feels good to learn readers / judges enjoyed it.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Just finished Pretenders myself and I think it’s my favorite thing I’ve read in a very long time. I had a sense for where the story might go, but @aptshadow.bsky.social always manages to surprise in the best way.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I was a Paul Tassi defender for the longest time but his latest Marathon article reads like the caricature critic he is so often accused of being that I truly cannot. You don’t actually have to publish 10k words of doomer goofball shit just because you don’t like a genre.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I will never respect 3D SpongeBob. It’s so strange to me. It’s like if the Simpsons just kept doing this shit and never called attention to it.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

whoever at @greenfi.bsky.social designed the new debit cards - who hurt you? do you need help? How did yall go from the eye catching and aesthetically pleasing design on the left to “what if it was flat green with the logo?”

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Very excited to share that my original Warhammer 40,000 flash fiction piece 'The Quiet Hours' was selected as an Editor's Choice inclusion for @coldopenstories.bsky.social 24th Warhammer fast fiction contest, themed 'The Enemy Within'. 40k.coldopenstories.com/the-quiet-ho...

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The Quiet Hours - Cold Open Stories | 40k

Warhammer 40,000 Short Fiction Anthology: Tragic, harrowing, and bittersweet tales set in the 41st Millennium.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I want everyone to have the things they need to survive and thrive but if you hit publish on this article you should lose your fucking job forever

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Another slick shot of my spacer getup at Neotropolis 2025 from photographer Yuri Nevrov! I of course cannot wait for next year. Too many costume projects on my mind, from @owlcatgames.bsky.social's Osiris Reborn to an idea for a s'pht compiler from Marathon that won't leave my brain.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Terribly excited for this. Tyrant Philosophers is quickly becoming one of my favorite recent fantasy series and I've been dying to revisit Ilmar, and specifically the Reproach since I finished City of Last Chances.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

MIDA x HEALTH ANTI:REV+ 2893 CHILDREN OF THE COMFORT CAGE, SPIN SPUN SPIN SPIN

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In the belt, we call this business casual. Got Expanse cosplay projects in the brain big time after the Osiris Reborn announcement from @owlcatgames.bsky.social Really want to tackle that Gemini belter hardsuit in the trailer. Obsessed with the designs! Photo by Yuri Nevrov.

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Owlcat Games @owlcatgames.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

We are excited to announce The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, a new sci-fi action RPG based on The Expanse. Become a captain of the most advanced ship in the universe, gather a crew, and challenge one of the most powerful enemies humankind has ever faced. Watch the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQi...

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

More @marathonthegame.bungie.net fanart - another Sekiguchi biomata ad. Embrace perfection - choose your future. #fanart #marathon

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Having too much fun making @marathonthegame.bungie.net in-universe advertisements. Dither everything. #marathon #fanart

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Golden Bough crews from the Nyngan and Sunfacer review attack plans before sealing their lids and depressurizing the hull for combat posture. 📸: Yuri Nevrov at Neotropolis 2025 #cosplay #neotropolis #theexpanse #scifi #cyberpunk #propmaking #larp

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It was windy. It was cold. It was dirty and cloudy and rainy. All I wanna do is go back. First shot of the Golden Bough crews off the Nyngan and Sunfacer, courtesy of the talented Preston Yarger. #cosplay #propmaking #neotropolis #theexpanse #cyberpunk #scifi #space #fanart

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I should have been patient because I learned some new things and I like this version much more! #marathon #cosplay #mida #somewhereintheheavens #fanart

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Just a few short weeks until we’re back on Kepler 609C for #Neotropolis! Can’t wait to variously pretend to be a street rat, asteroid belt pirate, and corpo gangoon in the dirt for a week.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The Sentinels are Kepler-609c’s largest and most visible corporate security operation, often fielding credit-hungry recruits with prior military service in the Cygni Federation, but just as frequently conscripting muscle from the population of the megablocks of Neotropolis. #Neotropolis #Larp

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Of all of last year's last minute Neotropolis projects, I'm really happy with how this hardcase/chest rig combo came out after I realized *the night before the event* that I didn't have pockets on my spacesuit. Points awarded if you recognize the patch! #Cosplay #Neotropolis #Scifi #Propmaking

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Part of making this account was to make space to share and engage with my hobbies away from The Horrors, but given recent events I am obligated to say: fuck nazis, fuck neo nazis, fuck fascists, fuck transphobes, fuck authoritarians, and fuck billionaires. If this upsets you, I won’t miss you!

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Just finished this one and loved it. Great ending, hoping for more in this series before all is said and done.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Cosplayers, spacers, and netrunners - go follow Starside Armory for some of the coolest original scifi and cyberpunk props, collectibles, costume bits, and surface to orbit anti ship launchers this side of the galaxy.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A bit over halfway through @aptshadow.bsky.social’s Days of Shattered Faith and I can’t get enough of this setting and these characters. This series but especially this novel really rewards you for -reading- the series. Great little twists and turns I can’t discuss in more detail without spoilers!

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

We’re heading into the future again. Catch me at the Atomic Cafe. 📸: Preston Yarger & Team for Neotropolis 2024 highlight reel #cosplay #scifi #cyberpunk #theexpanse #propmaking #costumes #space

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

So possibly one of the coolest gifts I’ve ever received - one of the Prax plants from the Rocinante’s galley! I gotta figure out how to display it with my belter gear. #TheExpanse #Scifi #screamingfirehawks #cosplay

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Spacers from Callisto, Pallas and Vesta make the long jump to Kepler-609c to offload legitimately-salvaged* cargo in Kepler’s grey markets, away from the prying eyes of inner system authorities. 📸: Preston Yarger #cosplay #scifi #propmaking #cyberpunk #screamingfirehawks #space

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

also, obligatory not quite daily space suit post - three dirty rockhoppers stop by Zeke’s for a bulb of Reactor Coolant. I’m finally starting the rebuild of my helmet electronics package although I don’t know if I’m going to get everything wired up to a touch screen this time around. #cosplay

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Gang I’m getting my own FDM printer and I’m so excited I will be able to stare at filament dry at home instead of bumming time on other people’s machines. Neptune 4 Max for the wombo build volume - I know they have some issues but I ‘learned’ on an Ender 3 so I’m ready for the jank.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A Sentinel unit patrols the main drag between MB-01 and the Mega-Mall in the city of Neotropolis, on Kepler-609C. Originally part of a larger corporate conglomerate, Sentinel officers now lead conscripts and recruits through the streets and alleys of Neotropolis for the highest bidder. #cosplay

Three men in glossy black body armor and black security uniforms patrol a dusty desert street.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Just discovered that Johnny Mnemonic in black and white exists and need a copy badly.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Keighley is on stage, stomping his feet and clapping like he forgot what hands are. Somewhere in the audience, a Bloodborne player twitches and black ichor leaks from their eyelids. The lights dim. *A Ubisoft logo appears.*

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’ve been enjoying the new Indiana Jones game, in part for the puzzles and exploration, but mostly because you can lay fascists out with a shower brush and the result is always funny

First person POV of a the player holding a shower brush, approaching a Nazi military camp in Egypt.

From the player’s perspective, a Nazi officer has been knocked unconscious backwards onto a table with his arms splayed out and his legs dangling off.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I will stop spacesuitposting when hell freezes over! Bonkers lighting in this shot of my v1 belter suit from Neotropolis 2023. The Dutch flight suit got replaced with a proper vac suit in v2. 📸 by Jonny Stalnaker @shotbyjonny #Cosplay #cyberpunk #theexpanse #scifi #screamingfirehawks #larp

A man cosplaying a Belter from the Expanse. He wears a drab flight suit covered in patches, a patchwork harness, and a battered space helmet. He brandishes what looks like an EVA tether, and stands in a neon lit desert city environment.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

On interior Belter helmet lights: you can see my setup in the first photo - undimmed LED strip above faceplate is too bright and blows out vision. The screen used prop on the right features smaller LED strips both above and below the faceplate, with semi opaque plastic strips as dimmers! #TheExpanse

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

“You may think that you’re scared, but you’re not. That isn’t fear. That’s your sharpness, that’s your power. We are Belters. Nothing in the void is foreign to us. The place we go is the place we belong.” Shot by Yuri Nevrov at Neotropolis 2024 #TheExpanse #Cosplay #Scifi #Cyberpunk #Propmaking

Three men and a shorter woman standing in a neon-lit outdoor area at night. The men wear mismatched spacesuits with various harnesses and attachments, as well as battered-looking helmets lit from the interior. The woman wears a futuristic teal flight uniform emblazoned with an OPA badge.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Another shot I LOVE - Thomas Kerns got this one at Neotropolis 2023 when I wasn’t paying attention but all the lights were *just right*. #cosplay #scifi #larp #theexpanse #cyberpunk

A close up photo of a man in a yellow space helmet with a red racing stripe. He wears an elaborate harness covered in buckles, lights, and other devices. The helmet is lit from the interior and is covered in decals and dust. The man stands in the desert with the sun setting behind distant hills.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Golden Bough gangoons getting up to no good. Shot by Cormac Kehoe aka @evelbunny at Neotropolis 2024! #Cosplay #TheExpanse

Three men in space suits stand near a neon-lit metal structure. The spacesuits are mismatched and patchwork, with various tools and harnesses. All three men wear futuristic helmets with lights inside their faceplates. One has his hand raised in the air in a fist.

Three men in mismatched, patchwork spacesuits stroll purposefully through a crowd in a purple lit desert cityscape. Their faces are illuminated by interior lights and one brandishes a futuristic weapon.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Here’s a fun one for ya - side by side comparison of my first version of the Belter suit, and this year’s much improved situation. The good photo is by @kuf-spawn.bsky.social who captured this project at Neotropolis in all sorts of very cool ways. #cosplay #scifi

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Incapable of looking at this picture or I start checking prices on MiG helmets to make more Belter brain buckets. Many steps to convert the TK-1s into screen-accurate vacuum helmets but it’s a really fun process and it taught me a lot! #cosplay #propmaking #scifi #TheExpanse

A portable camping table sits atop a rug in the desert. Camping gear is strewn around the edge of the image. On the table are three futuristic looking space helmets attached to life support backpacks. The helmets are painted in different liveries, each a mismatched collage of scratches, damage, and decals.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The one photo of my Neotropolis 2022 fit I really enjoy, shot by Preston Yarger. This character is a combat netrunner with a corpo security outfit. Head gear and rig by Evan Ohl! I made minor modifications to the rig and did the Kang Tao G58 Smartgun, my first time working with 3D printing! #cosplay

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I had no idea Dune: Prophecy was based on one of the Brian Herbert books until I put the first episode on but I think I enjoyed it! Not a BH novel enjoyer but it was wild to see them throwing neo-cymeks on screen in like the *first frame* almost.

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The Expanse Quotes @expanse-quotes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Out to Saturn, get the ice, back to Ceres, out to Saturn, get the ice, back to Ceres, out to Saturn, get the ice, back to Ceres, out to Saturn, stop at Phoebe, get the ice.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The Sentinels of Kepler-609c act as security and hired guns for megacorps and moguls with deep pockets, and often patrol the megablocks of Neotropolis enforcing the edicts of the highest bidder. Excellent costumes by Mark Dubois and photography by Mike Darling and NeuroLab Visuals, at Neotropolis!

A man in glossy black, futuristic armor looks at the camera. Emblems on his armor hint he may serve a security role, and he brandishes some kind of futuristic rifle.

A man in glossy black, futuristic security armor uses his helmet comms to receive a call.

A man in glossy black, futuristic security armor holds some kind of advanced shotgun and is walking toward the camera. He appears to be inside a dusty, makeshift structure and sunlight illuminates notes of dust in the air around him.

Two men in glossy black, futuristic security armor patrol past a crowd outside a makeshift scaffold structure. Both are carrying futuristic firearms.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The incredible photographer who shot and edited some of my favorite pics of this outfit has joined the Bluesky party - go follow @kuf-spawn.bsky.social for some of socal’s best cosplay photography.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

For some ports of call, Golden Bough OPA crews prove to be as much a menace stationside as they are on the float. Shot at Neotropolis 2024 by Preston Yarger, featuring myself and mi beratnas Anders and Philippe. #cosplay #TheExpanse

Three adult men in spacesuits pose facing the camera. All three are wearing matching futuristic helmets painted with different liveries and adorned with decals, lights, and sensors. The image is dramatically lit with red neon lighting and dark shadows, obscuring most of their bodies. They appear to be wearing dirty, mismatched spacesuits with various straps and harnesses.

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Extimate Space @extimate-space.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Seeing familiar faces from around the online Expanse fandom - let’s get everyone linked up here!

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Dr Allison Andrews’ monster @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those that celebrate.

A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan). Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”

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