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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Had a sudden burst of inspiration, so I wrote out a whole-ass short story over the course of two hours, finger-typing into Google docs from bed. Satisfied, I went to my desktop to edit and... it never synced. The doc just doesn't exist. My brain when I realize I'll have to rewrite it from scratch:

A meme of the penguin Pingu, sitting on a wooden chair, wings folded and looking angry and stubborn with the caption, "Well now I'm not doing it"

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

To save his sprawl from gentrification, a metavariant troll and his squatter-turned-chummer take on a high-stakes extraction job that goes sideways when the target's revealed to have goblinized. The face breaks the cardinal rule against "dealing with a dragon", and the consequences span generations.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Mutually assured destruction ♡

Writing prompt consisting of the text "Write an erotic story in only three words" beside a photo of a black fountain pen

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Glad you found it! I was about to say, at least for WoW, the Vinewrapped Staff/Kihrawr's Scratching Post and Rapture have that viibe: www.wowdb.com/items/116504 www.wowdb.com/items/45234-...

Rapture, a staff from Wow, shaped like a tree branch with a glowing orb at its head

The Vinewrapped Staff from World of Warcraft, with a green gem at its head from which branches emerge

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

More recently, Shadowrun's Japanese Publisher, RoleandRoll, also put out a series of "Replays" (リプレイ): which are basically TTRPG Actual Plays, transcribed and cleaned up into a sort of light novel, often with illustrations. It's taking ALL my willpower not to grab a stack of these off Mercari.

Cover art from a Shadowrun 4th Edition Replay: "Angels of the Streets" (シャドウラン 4th Edition リプレイ : "ストリートの天使たち").
The cover art shows a female ork with a gun, a troll wearing a suit, an elf mage dressed in green, and a pale girl wearing a black gothic lolita dress.
Source: Amazon.co.jp

A photo of the inside of the novel, which shows a two page color spread featuring illustrations and profiles of the characters.

On the top left page is an Orc Adept Gunslinger. On the bottom left is an elf combat mage. On the top right page is a Troll Technomancer. On the bottom right page is a doll-like human Street Sam Assassin.

Image Source: Yahoo.jp shopping store "funfunhomes"

A photo of the back covers of 3 different Shadowrun 4e Replay novels, featuring Japanese-language blurbs and screenshot-style pictures of the illustrated characters and scenes.

Image Source: Yahoo.jp shopping store "funfunhomes"

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It's obvious that nobody involved in DOGE has ever met a shiba IRL. Memecoins aside, shibes are the most stubborn, spiteful little shits to walk this earth, the living incarnation of "NOT GOING ANYWHERE LOL" and thus the perfect mascot for actual federal workers.

Photo of the shiba inu "Hana-chan", face squished as she sits stubbornly while on leash.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Every time I try to finish my writing before deadline: (...or cosplay, or any creative project, really.)

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

In love with the work of illustrator Felicia Chiao. She sneaks up on you with simplicity and warm tones and hits you hard with a bat. Current mood: "Afternoon Slump"

"Afternoon Slump" by Felicia Chiao. A golden toned illustration of a simple nude figure sprawled out on the floor of a room in the light of a window. Green plants line the windowsill and various objects: bags, food, a blank notebook and pens, lay strewn across the floor surrounding the figure. A small dark creature is curled among scattered clothing nearby, while a large dark figure peers through the window from the outside.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Introduce yourself with four vidja games:

Cover art for Sam and Max, hit the road, depicting Sam the dog and Max, a hyperkinetic rabbity thing driving a police cruiser across a pastiche of America

The cover art of Chrono Trigger depicting Chrono, Marle and Frog in stylized fantasy combat

Art for Eternal Darkness, Sanity's Requiem, depicting the lich Pious Augustus among eldritch symbols

Art for Analogue: A Hate Story, depicting a woman embracing a smiling girl dressed in a hanbok.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I've been thinking of this scene a lot lately:

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In today's episode of "Cooking with ADHD" ... Seriously though, I somehow misplaced a whole stick and a half of increasingly soft butter somewhere in my house. I've now spent over an hour looking for them and am now deeply concerned just where/when/how these rogue buttersticks are going to turn up.

Meme comic of Gru from Despicable Me presenting a plan:
Step one: Start making a cake.
Step two: Set aside butter to soften.
Step three: Lose the butter.
(Gru looks despondent at this last step.)

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

(Alt text added.) For anyone curious, 蛇年辭舊 is Farewell in the Year of the Snake.

Art by @badiucao depicting a snake wrapped around rats with the faces of Xi Jinping, Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. Text above reads: 蛇年辭舊 (Translating to: Farewell in the Year of the Snake. Below is the English "2025 YEAR OF THE SNAKE."

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Grats on the 2k! I absolutely adore your style, and am constantly blown away by everything you share. Here's my Shadowrun OC, M.A.K.I.: a corrupted, glitched-out yandere of an AI. (Portrait by @fireflyraye.bsky.social !)

A cartoon portrait of a glitched-out female character with a unsettling intense smile. Art by FireflyRaye.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The made-up "threat against conservatives" is just evidence that nothing they argue is ever in good faith. 2nd amendment for self-defense is all gucci until those same rules apply to the vulnerable people they want to push out. Then it's crocodile tears. (See also gun laws targeting Black Panthers).

Comic book image of Alysia Yeoh, a woman, holding a bat wrapped in the colors of the trans flag, with the dialogue: "Please, I'm a trans woman in Gotham. Of course I have a weapon."

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Thankfully, all of 2 people read my posts, so I can never be accused of "giving anyone ideas" but for real, all Kim would have to do is invite Cheeto Benito over for Choco-pies with the Kippumjo and he ABSOLUTELY would.

A screenshot from Southpark in which a Japanese representative makes a "big" gesture in over the top flattery, saying "But you Americans wow. Penis so big. So big penis."

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Living vicariously through other people's posts from PAX Unplugged. I had hoped to go for the first time, got a weekend pass, even took time off for it, but had my plans usurped by the SADDEST DOG IN THE WORLD. ...maybe next year? T_T (Dog's okay! He's full of painkillers and has great reception.)

A black and tan Shiba Inu wearing an Elizabethan Collar/the "Cone of Shame".) His front right leg is IV shaved and he's lifting his front left leg, which is heavily bandaged. He is staring at the camera with a resting pitiful expression.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I know the very mention of pumpkin spice brings out Big Feelings in certain people, but a local place does pumpkin spice hojicha lattes with red bean and let me tell you, that magical combo just soothed years of unresolved hapa kid/inner-white-girl angst.

Photo of a tray of food: sweet potato doriyaki, pumpkin spice hojicha latte, and a slice of oolong peach crepe cake

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

As much as I dislike praising marketers, I appreciate that Duolingo has fully embraced its identity as a mascot horror franchise.

A vaguely ominous screenshot of the duolingo owl emerging from a hole with a wild-eyed look, with the text bubble "You made 666 mistakes this year."

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

These are the same people who don't want schools to teach the ugly parts of US history. Shit like this is why.

Two parallel images: on the left is a black and white historical photo, depicting a white woman smiling in front of the door of a segregated restroom. The restroom bears the sign: "White Women".

On the right is congresswoman Nancy Mace, posing with a restroom sign, altered with a handmade label to read "Biological Women"

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Oh no, it's me. AKA: "I don't know how I got on this hill, but apparently now I'm dying on it."

A three panel manga scene. In the first panel, a girl starts off by saying, "Not that I care. But you know what?" The next two panels just slowly zoom in on her face, while the panels themselves are crowded by text bubbles filled with paragraphs of illegibly tiny text.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Whelp, guess we're back to active resistance. Get some rest however you can. Grieve the loss of the future you'd hoped for. Rage against the injustice in this world, the callous cruelty of our peers, and the need to fight for our continued existence. And know we'll be up and fighting again soon.

An image of Tank Girl, sitting on a rock in a desert against a backdrop of the sun on the horizon, smoking a cigarette as she pulls on a boot. A text box reads: "I can't let things be this way. We can be wonderful. We can be magnificent. We can turn this shit around."

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Late to this party, I know, but I just saw the trailer for the upcoming Mario game and had to do a double-take. Somebody at Nintendo HAD to have realized that "Mario & Luigi Brothership" sounds less like a family-friendly co-op RPG and more like an AO3 tag I would only click if I were really drunk.

Youtube Thumbnail image for Mario and Luigi Brothership trailer, containing a screenshot of the game, in which a weeping Luigi clings to Mario in typical Hurt/Comfort fashion.

Fake twitter screenshot attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto, containing the tweet: "Saw a picture of Mario and Luigi kissing one another online. Please do not do that".

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Me: Oh hey, it's finally cooling off outside. We might actually get some nice fall weather.

Simpsons screenshot of Homer taking a bath, unaware of Bart, who is ready to hit him with a chair. Bart is labeled with "depression".

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Little kid me loved the Frog and Toad stories. In one, the two go for a swim, but Toad refuses to come out of the water because he thinks he looks funny in his bathing suit. Eventually, he climbs out, and all the other animals laugh at him in his goofy bathing suit. That was it. That's the story.

An illustration from "Frog and Toad are friends" in which an indignant Toad, dressed in a goofy striped full-body bathing suit, marches past a smiling, bemused Frog.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

For the last time, I don't want to install a special app for my goddamn blood pressure monitor or any other appliance. Just let me read the number off the side, so I can put it in a spreadsheet that I'll forget about by next week.

A disgruntled Hank Hill stands at a DMV counter, mouth open in complaint at the clerk.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

Chiitan is also agender, which it posted in a video where it's running from the cops. This makes me truly, genuinely happy.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Source: downdetector.com , aka: on-the-down-low detector.

Screenshot of Down Detector's heatmap of the united states, with concentrated outage reports in the Milwaukee area. A label and an arrow emphasize that is where the Republican National Convention is currently.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 16/07/2024

New game just dropped: "Is that photo AI generated? Or is it literally just Wales?"

A woman walks in front of a welsh language sign depicting various locations. The title says "CAERDYDD"

A sign for a Welsh museum welcome center: "CANOLFAN CROESO AMGUEDDY CREDICION"

An image of some pretty sus looking horses grazing on a particularly green field. Below it is the Welsh text: "DEWCH O BELLTER, DEWCH YN NES, DEWCH I SIR YR IAITH WES - WES"

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

I was supposed to be working on my writing but instead I made this.

A comic about "How to write fiction".
Panel one: "Classic storytelling follows a three act structure" Below is a chart depicting a line moving upward with three peaks- one for each 'act' of a play. "You can use this blueprint to develop a basic concept into a rich narrative with dramatic arcs.
Panel two: An image of a person typing on a word processor application on their laptop. To start, try describing your idea in just one sentence. From this premise..."
Panel three: That person closing their laptop. "...wait, that's what you want to write? No. Just stop."
Panel four: a man sits in front of his closed laptop, head in hands."Your plot is just like your life. It's a self indulgent mess and it's not going anywhere."
Panel five: That same man falls over. "You're wasting not only your time, but that of your poor readers. You're actively making their lives worse."
Panel six: That man in a fetal position on the floor. "Nobody loves you."

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

I was /trying/ to use the LLM just to spam out a list of fictional brand names to use as placeholders. ...no, Copilot, that is not what I'm looking for.

The beginnings of question being presented in the Microsoft Copilot interface: "Can you help me think of names that use more global inspiration, like the names of f". Copilot suggests the autocompleted question, "the names of femboys".

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