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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Living with my ADHD ass is like being haunted by the world's shittiest poltergeist. (Throwing things around the room, wailing) "I HAVE LOST SOMETHING PRECIOUS TO ME AND CANNOT REST UNTIL I HAVE FOUND IT..." "Did it fall into the couch?" (Still wailing) "...I HAVE ALREADY CHECKED THERE..."

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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 · 01/07/2026

And that interview lives rent free in my mind, surfacing every time some CEO grifter bullshits about AI being the future and media treats these claims like the word of some ascended nerd god/financial prophet, never questioning whether, just maybe, they ended up on top by straight up doing crimes.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

At the time of the interview, Masayoshi was courting Trump for some AI BS, and the piece juxtaposed him alongside Altman and all of these other alleged financial genius techbro billionaires. Not ONCE did the journalist interviewing the biographer have the stones to ask if Masa or his dad had tattoos

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

And with his full chest, the biographer went on to frame this as a rags-to-riches story, in which Masa owed his success to this family business, as it taught him "the art of the hustle" and how to make financial gambles. So first off... let's just appreciate the ~Caucasity~ of that spin.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm constantly reminded of this puff piece NPR once ran on Softbank CEO/AI investor Masayoshi Son. His biographer, in his Very British accent, portrayed a hardscrabble youth, in which his father, a Zainichi Korean, had worked as a loan shark and running pachinko parlors...

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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 · 04/06/2026

Funny enough, there's an account posting nothing but anti-union shilling on posts supporting animators and vfx artists. Shit like this makes me grateful for Bsky's block/mute system. Makes it SO MUCH easier to quickly shut down bots and bad faith actors from amplifying garbage messaging campaigns.

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

Ever wonder "Why do companies keep releasing shitty live action remakes of old animated classics?" This is why! It's not JUST to recycle old IPs for fresh cash. Live-action remakes let companies sidestep union animators by using non-union VFX artists. It's anti-union BS allll the way down.

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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 · 18/05/2026

My enby ass at a paid Pokémon fan meetup marketed to women when the organizer goes mask-off TERF and starts interrogating people re: an attendee who "looks like a dude." Noped right TF out. Posting as a note to myself not to give Starlight Cards & Co/Clefally another cent for future DC/NoVA meets.

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Grandpa Abe's Confused Exit in The Simpsons

Alt: A gif from The Simpsons depicting Grandpa Abe taking off his hat as he walks into a burlesque theater, only to immediately circle back out the door.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

That autistic experience of struggling to ask someone not to do some specific thing that's going to make you meltdown ... but you can't figure out how to ask without if feeling like emotional blackmail, so in the interest of being polite, you just eat the 4 hour meltdown.

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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 · 04/01/2026

It probably helped that a lot of those lawmakers are old enough to remember Korea under autocratic rule. That was 1987! They remember the massacres, protests, police/mil refusing orders that it took to democratize and refused to go back. Meanwhile the US is just waking up to its autocratic reality.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I hate how mfers use the phrase "dark humor" to mean "being shitty to people." The best dark comedy is gallows humor. But you can't go around saying "I'm into gallows humor" without reminding people we're the ones at the gallows.

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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 11/12/2025

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

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

As a fellow short, I too appreciate this kind sentiment from the tallfolks.

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

Yeah, I kind of died a little when I realized that these being 4th ed means they're still almost 20 years old...

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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 · 05/12/2025

My magnum opus, roughly to the tune of Waltzing Matilda: "Wrex has a stinky butt, stinky butt, stinky butt! Wrex has a stinky butt! Stinky butt-butt!"

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Tell me about the silly little songs you sing to your pets.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Whenever I travel to a country where I can't speak the local language well, I imagine the narrators from Old Enough/はじめてのおつかい narrating my life. "Today's task is to take the train and buy lunch at the store." "She said hello to the clerk!" "Ah! She's not good with numbers yet!" "Oh no, don't cry!"

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Tell people when you like their work. No, they really don't know. No, you can't assume others are telling them. Yes, it means the world.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

People keep telling me I need to watch K-Pop Demon Hunters. If I did, I'd want to drunk live-skeet it. ...problem is, I'm dry for the next few months, (or at least dry-curious, since it's just a health/diet thing.) Maybe I'll make it a reward for getting caught up on all my overdue projects. >>

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminished a band: They're Probably Not Giants

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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“I’m an equal opportunity offender. I make fun of everybody.” - Guy whose identities all align with the systemically dominant power groups in his cultural and geographic context

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Or maybe "Alibi" for the catchy matrix app version. :>

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

In my ajumma era. 🧑🏻‍🦱

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

In Alpha Complex, citizens are judged not by the color of their skin but by the color of their clearances. 🌈

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Yep! They're a metavariant of orks.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

One of my favorite things about this drop is that it introduces Dokkaebi, AKA Korean Goblins, into the Sixth World as playable Shadowrunners. Hopefully, they'll be an exciting option for those who've wanted more impish/goblin-like metas without the HMHVV baggage.

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

[My best Bialystock voice] Step 1! We find the worst game ever designed! Step 2! We fire the dev team! Step 3! I kickstart 2 million dollars! Step 4! We shit out AI slop graphics and code and launch early access! And before you can say Step 5, we drop support, take our 2 million and go... to RIO!

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a man in a red robe sits at a table

Alt: Clip from the 2005 version of "The Producers", in which a grinning Max Bialystock leans forward on his desk. His accountant, Bloom, inhales in a panic.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Omg, absolutely incredible reason for AO3 to have been down hachyderm.io/@vashti/1147... (alt text at original)

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Vashti (@vashti@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 1 image Why #Ao3 was down yesterday:

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

If you have anxious dogs, a helpful trick I learned is that playing Taiko drum music can help cover up fireworks or construction sounds. It probably won't work for everyone, but it helps my nervous little dudes get down to a manageable threshold when meds and distracting treats aren't enough.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Sure, I assume most people will miss it. But if even one person reads a story about, for example, organ harvesting or secret human experiments or something, and it makes them reflect on the importance of bodily autonomy in a new way, I think that's important.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It's also an interesting and important challenge, to see if I can take something very personal and make the topic resonate with readers from a very different background.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Sure, sometimes I weave stuff into metaphor. I'm actually SUPER privileged to not fear censorship on the level many creatives do. (Not that I haven't had content edited out before.) Often it's just because it's more interesting artistically not being restricted by the limits of literal reality.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I do think there's value in both realistic, complex depictions and escapist fashie-bashing power fantasies, especially for audiences who are themselves oppressed. I just hope that I'm providing enough tools for people to safely explore those facets and tell the stories they need to tell right now.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Evil can wear the faces of concerned, "well-intentioned" neighbors and your own worst lizard-brain impulses. But sometimes it wears stupid pointy hoods.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

When I fill that toy box, I do try to include exaggeration, comedy, and absurdity, as well as subtlety and nuance, realism and metaphor. Because sometimes evil is mundane, insidious in how pervasive it is and the cruelty it inflicts. It can also be galling in its stupidity and incompetence.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

(Caveat: while this should go without saying, but these viewpoints are mine. Don't take them as any greater industry representation. I promise, I'm not that important. Anywho...)

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

You put in the Tesla Dealership and suggest how to mechanically abstract what molotovs do and how lithium batteries burn. You offer NPCs and example premises: various oligarchs and activists and cops and dracula w/ motives & backgrounds. Then you invite players to use them to tell a story.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

When you're making and publishing content for an RPG, the way I think of it is like ... you're basically making a toy box, and offering it for other people to use.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

When writing for a game system, there's an absolute art to trying to create something that players can engage with, can use to tell stories that resonate with themselves and their players, opens up dialogue about resistance and ethics and reality while creating opportunities for escapism and joy.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

As someone who hobby-writes for the kind of "elf games" with both, I think about this a LOT. The whole thread's worth a read, even if there are points where I disagree or think need nuance. But it underscores why we must think critically about media we create/consume, including "anti-fascist" works.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

...And of course, the cis-est of the fuckboys who talk about being "red-pilled" and think The Matrix is just about trenchcoats and cool shades and believing they're secretly smarter than everyone around them.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This is what happens when people don't critically engage w/ the media they consume. They don't equate cyberpunk with hypercapitalist dystopia and resistance, just aesthetics. So we end up with a bunch of milquetoast techbros for whom cyberpunk just means tech noir for white guys with yellow fever.

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Gremlin @gremlinmode.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Is this an established group? If so, it might be worth it to flag your concerns with other members you trust. Also, it might be worth looking into safety tools, not just for content triggers, but also just to slow things down when things are getting out of hand, like rules debates.

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