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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thrilled to share that THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT got a STARRED review from Publishers Weekly 🤩 calling my cursed film book a "triumphant horror outing" and more below! Our feature presentation hits September 15 from @titanbooks.bsky.social 📽️ www.publishersweekly.com/9781835411483

A Publishers Weekly screenshot showing the cover of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd. Next to it is a red star indicating the book received one of the stars given out to a handful of books each week, and beneath that, a review that reads:

"Bram Stoker Award winner Piper (A Game in Yellow) takes on the cursed film trope in this triumphant horror outing. In 1994, Val McQueen’s younger sister, Ashley, and best friend, Collette, vanished from a movie theater during a screening of Blood-Curse of the Toad Man. Thirty years later, Val, who feels she is at fault for somehow surviving the incident, is working as a tattoo artist outside Baltimore. She’s virtually estranged from her parents, and is frequently harassed by true crime aficionados hoping to crack the unsolved mystery. Then she hears a phantom strain from the movie’s soundtrack and fears the eponymous Toad Man has returned to hunt down his escaped prey. She enlists the help of a genre-savvy former classmate, Roxie, who brings her knowledge of horror movies to bear on their investigation into the Toad Man. Together, the women discover that the film is almost entirely untraceable, only occasionally popping up in social media posts asking if anyone else remembers it. One of Piper’s greatest strengths is her ability to balance thrilling scares with subtle social commentary (there’s an anti-AI undercurrent to the revelation of the Toad Man’s origins) and impressive character building, as when she teases out her queer 40-something heroines’ complex pasts. Gripping, spooky, and strange in the best way, this is a stunner. (Sept.)"

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adrienne ✨ Truth Scrapper @insertdisc5.com · 08/06/2026

we got a whole new trailer to go with our whole new demo! be an amnesiac girl who has to decide which love interest to remember 📚❤️🧵 play the demo for Truth Scrapper ✨️ store.steampowered.com/app/3239830/...

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Instead of millions of microplastics I've decided to start ingesting just one macro plastic (e.g. a traffic cone) every 72 hours

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Made a little house for the cats!

A tall, white, hexagonal box with a pink lid. A tea towel is draped across the top kind of like a jam jar.
One of the sides has a door cut out of it. another has a little cat face shape cut out. Inside the box it's dark and black, but on a closer look you can see a black cat eye in there!

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scooter sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Man I'm just not built for Persona/Metaphor style games... I'm 16 days out from the palace in the sky battle, but bc I probably won't be able to max out everyone's archetypes I'll probably restart. AND I already restarted once because I was way too weak for the Eht Ria temple.

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a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him

ALT: a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Being a volunteer package distribution point opens up so much juicy gossip. For example this week I learned that of my two main "competitors" one will just sit in her house looking at people and not opening her door, and the other is always aggressively picking fights with all his customers.

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches I'm stuck in the back of my cybertruck

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

here’s a comic about smiling

4 panel comic featuring a red guy and a yellow guy.

Panel 1: Red guy: How can you be smiling when a man has been shot dead?

Panel 2: Yellow guy: His company policies denied vital medical care to those who needed it. He profited off the death and misery of thousands of vulnerable people

Panel 3: Yellow guy produces a white sheet of paper and says: Here’s a photo of him while he was doing it

Panel 4: Yellow guy is holding a photo of a man with a huge smile on his face

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Name: Mel Pronouns: They/he Height: 5'2" Sexuality: Aroace Sign: Triple Leo Piercings/tattoos: None atm, but looking for tattoo ideas Fav color: Green Drink: Monster/coffee/whiskey Food: Belgian fries/poke/popcorn Animal: Fox

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adrienne ✨ Truth Scrapper @insertdisc5.com · 01/12/2024

did you know supercool awardwinning timeloop game In Stars and Time is 25% off for the autumn sale tell your friends ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/1677310/...

promo pic for the steam autumn sale. isat is 25% off!

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I'll probably get 2 likes max but these are always fun to do!

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C.J. Tudor - Author @cjtudor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I sound like a shill, but I'm so impressed with the Steamdeck. Played for 4hrs straight, battery was at 60%, left it charging for 10 minutes and it was back up to 85. I thought it was just gonna be the Hades/Stardew Valley machine, but I play Elden Ring, Shipbreaker, and BG3 on it.

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a machine with the word heina on the front

Alt: a machine with the word heina on the front, hammering a steam deck and throwing it around (but it's still in one piece)

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#Handguard part 2! Not a lot of time to play today. 4: In the crossroads near the Lighthouse eluvian. Looks like it might be reaching towards the Black City. 5: Pulled from the Fade by Spite during Sea of Blood. Not every platform Spite makes is a hand, but they're not rare

A stone hand growing from the rock in a dry, rocky desert type of environment.

Three glowing purple platforms balancing on top of big stone hands.

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Okay so #Veilguard has a pretty obvious Thing For Hands. I thought on this playthrough I'd document some of them! #Handguard I guess? 1: In the Varric narration after the quest to retrieve the lyrium dagger 2: Outside Varric's room in the Lighthouse 3: Holding back the chasm in the Fade

A hand bursting up from a stone surface, with rocks flying out and a red magic circle in the background. Seen in Varric's narration cutscene after the quest where you retrieve Solas' dagger with Harding.

A stylized stone hand with very short fingers and kinda square looking, surrounded by a pile of books. Behind it on the wall is an abstract style Dwarven relief of soms sort (maybe a face). A hallway leads off to the back.

A picture of the Fade, so desaturated it's almost black and white. Rook (a female qunari with swept-back horns) stands on the edge of a crumbling cliff. A mass of stone hands holds up the edge of the cliff.

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Started a second run of Veilguard, aka Rook 2: Electric Rookaloo. So now I can take some cool shots at the start of the game!

A nug (hairless rabbit creature with human hands) sitting contentedly near a truffle.

A Halla (white deer with intertwined antlers) standing in the forest

Scout Harding, backlit, with Arlathan forest in the background. The forest has fall colors, and there is a giant statue of an elf shooting a bow in the far distance. In the foreground there are fireflies and a petrified wooden body.

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If posts are called skeets then blocks should be called yeets

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Finished #Veilguard last night. I think I got the best possible ending (every faction and companion maxed, minimal casualties)... I thought I'd start over on a lighter difficulty to pick all the non-confrontational options, but I need a break first. What should I play next?

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lydia 🕊️ @clownplushie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

#saw people enjoyed this comic on other websites haha

Saw 2004 comic.
Adam: Ah shit, I bet they stole my kidneys!
Adam: Can you see any scars?
(Adam lifts up his shirt revealing a tramp stamp tattoo)
Lawrence: Uh...

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Reposting for new people! Except now I'm playing Veilguard and Factorio.

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

So if I made a choice that pissed Lucanis off early in Veilguard (no spoilers, you know the one), am I just fully locked out of his romance? He keeps telling me 'now is not a good time', every time. And then I catch him drinking coffee and hanging out with the others. This feels like high school.

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Finally watching Alien: Romulus! Very excited, and immediately hyped because they made the 20th Century Fox logo glitch out.

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Explain your wip badly: Hometown nerds discover that Zork contains the language of the Angels. You must learn to speak like the aliens from Arrival. Follow the nerds down into madness and the local underground music scene. In the form of an oldschool point & click adventure

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Hard Nope @hard-nope.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

New here, looking for friends 🦊 ☕Books (reading: Clown in a Cornfield) ☕Games (playing: FF16, Satisfactory) ☕Writing/gamedev/pixelart ☕Horror ☕Crochet, mini painting, terrainbuilding 🥃Dragon Age/BG3/Elden Ring/WH40K 🥃3 cats/1 dog 🥃Piano/violin/DAW 🥃Cooking, eating, sleeping (in order) 37, they/him

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