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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻

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she/they, a bird that writes. tech support class (CHA build) i work hard so my self can have a better life.

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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 18m
I haven't read anything by either of them but the Culture books by Banks are very beloved among my friends so they're also on my long-term to-read list!
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 43m
(Also to be fair it feels like everyone talks about Neuromancer and sort of... Forgets Gibson has written other books?) (Which reminds me I should read Neuromancer)
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 43m
I don't know if you ever get this but my particular flavour of ADHD includes "if I have recently discovered a thing, I simply assume nobody knew about it much before I did", which is an insane thing to think about *William Gibson* but here we are XD
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 53m
Like idk why I always forget the "used to work in a bookshop" part !!!
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 54m
I don't know why I thought you wouldn't have read it tbh
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1h
Ohhh I love this so much. It's like a cosmic version of The Town Musicians of Bremen!
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 1h
Oh god, yeah. I recently read Pattern Recognition and it is such an ode to human art and an anti-genAI treatise somehow even though it was written 20+ years before genAI was even a thing. (It's very very good and I highly recommend it)
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 8h
Yeah exactly! Which is. Not great. Because these things are very rarely accurate 😬
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Wonder-Waffle 🦆 @wonderwaffle93.bsky.social · 16h
Dame and Elf #art #digitalart #oc
A portrait of Dame Yvette (left) and Aevae of Antares both in a snowy forest.
Large black trees behind them as light peers through. 
Dame seeming to use her axe to stop Aevae  as a precaution, perhaps feeling something is off, Aevae herself is looking to the side, maybe she senses something off too.

Both different in height and stature. 
One with weapon at the ready, the other most likely having hers ready under her cloak
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 16h
I mean imo with D&D every campaign / party is its own little individual fandom, with its own vibe and its own characters, so there's an infinity of possible variations. (I guess less so for pre-made campaigns like Curse of Strahd or whatever, which I assume you're less interested in?)
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 16h
cautious, risk-aware tail chasing
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 17h
Ah huzzah, I'm so glad this worked! :D
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 18h
is he the MtG version of Flashheart
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 18h
legendary planeswalker — guff
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 19h
@pretensesoup.bsky.social maybe?
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 23h
Honestly every version of "this cereal has been cooked until it is a delicious goo" is a banger and I don't think we say it loudly or often enough
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📸 chloe․ho․378
A curious tabby-and-white cat tilting its head and pressing it against stacked cardboard boxes in a cramped shop storage area, staring with green eyes toward the camera amid packaged drinks and labels.
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Just ask Claude Code to figure out the bug for you" bitch Claude Code is the reason we're here in the first place
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am on burnout leave partly because vibe coding has made my work as a tech support engineer so much harder. The bugs have become bizarre and incomprehensible and so hard to reproduce and there are so fucking many of them
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Like, I'm on the discord of a novelist who writes historical m/m romance and seeing her work described as "gay Bridgerton" (no) or "Heated Rivalry meets Jane Austen" (what) is just as insane-making for her as it is for her readers, it really doesn't correspond with what's actually in the book.
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For what it's worth, from hanging out with novel writers including a number of published ones, this isn't necessarily always true? Aside from the (very lucrative, true) "retellings" market, a lot of those comps are applied purely by the marketing department long after the book's been written.
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh god how do I do this again i am soooo rusty
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 06/10/2026
the origin of good posts
Edward Gorey, Message from Beyond 

a group sitsxat a table peering up into the dark where a disembodied arm proffers a written message
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i am downloading OmegaT right now, this is Happening, you are Warned
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are at least two (2) people on my main discord server who are screaming at me to do it soooo yeah it is happening
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm thinking of doing it serialised so that 1. I'll actually do the whole thing because I get the feedback in real time from readers who want to read all of it and 2. it feels a little more manageable of a project
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
SO IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION that the main translations of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux are broadly considered to be Unsatisfactory and uh I have a lot of free time right now while I recover And I miss translating And Phantom is in the public domain I may be considering doing it?
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look at this posh skrunkleton. Postcard from my collection, 1912. 🎩
Black and white photo of a medium haired tuxedo tabby sitting curled up in a top hat which is nestled in some kind of fur pelt. The cat has a contemptuous look on its face.
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A CAT OF GREAT DIGNITY AND SOLEMN CHARACTER, QUIET STRENGTH IN REPOSE
Guinness the black cat caught awkwardly mid-groom, his tongue hanging out
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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Let him die”: the repeated phrase of the Sages when brought the case of a man who has become sick with passion for a woman. For me, the story holds important wisdom about whose problem it is when a man desires a certain woman — and it’s not the woman 🙂 (Sanhedrin 75a)
A grey ornately decorated gate on a white background. The repeated Talmudic phrase is integrated into the curves of the gate in Aramaic/Hebrew letters. The gate is covered in large green snakes, and smaller red snakes surround the place where the gate would open. The left side is watermarked with “@maimonides_nutz”A grey ornately decorated gate on a black background. The repeated Talmudic phrase is integrated into the curves of the gate in Aramaic/Hebrew letters. The gate is covered in large green snakes, and smaller red snakes surround the place where the gate would open. The left side is watermarked with “@maimonides_nutz”
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
especially for @sjgochenour.bsky.social: It's called cheesemaking, maybe you've curd of it.
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Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That's it, you're going on the List of Persons, Thieves and Broken-men (NLS 1.24.50)
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 06/10/2026
I heard there's free shipping at Bookshop.org October 6-7, so here's a list of my books you can get there! Queer romances in fantasy and sci-fi settings
bookshop.org
Books I wrote
Check out this list on Bookshop
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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Now, more than ever, is the time to reject corporate-owned media and embrace the true sickos making weird shit in the corners
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Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Waiting To Start Again — helveticablanc.com/20261006-wai... — #helveticablanc #wormsong #tree #ayen
The blue magician Āyen rests beneath a leafless, blunt-branched tree. Each branch ends in a star-like being that watches in anticipation. The scene is framed and labeled with the title in Wormrōte.
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also in my opinion it's a lot more fun to try and apply archetypes to character after you've got a good handle on them because it can often be really surprising in a super fun way!
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What the fuck rule says you have to create a character based on an archetype though, that's not a thing! And if someone says it's a thing they can get in the sea? Like if it works for others that's fine but you not using it in your process says nothing about others and how they do things!
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is... is that a bad thing though? Personally I would much prefer a cast of characters who, you know, aren't archetypes.
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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026



right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother






right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
reading/reciting and performing poetry is a skill and one people can get better at in various interesting ways, but because some people are either unskilled or reading in a way that some people don’t like doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen. it’s never been easier to avoid poetry readings :)
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I also really want to know like. Why is the brother called Isukiri. Is the name Isukiri spelled with kanji? Is he supposed to be Japanese? What??
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's extremely, extremely Air Bud. "Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus DIDN'T go live in Japan at the age of 21 years old!"
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
what in the actual fuck?
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
* Three-Letter Acronyms
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah I will say the obsession with TLAs* is part of the problem, though also the way that people online have become incredibly averse to the entire concept of "making sure people actually understand what you're saying" is just. puzzling.
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't know if it's because I'm French and we have like a billion homonyms in our language but I *cannot* fathom the whole "this word/acronym is BAD because that combination of letters/phonemes already means SOMETHING ELSE" thing people! infer meaning! from context! AAAAH
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
tbh I feel like you might be More perceived if you go to a sauna with a swimsuit than without
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👻evenmorehauntedtoasters👻 @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've seen Conclave three times in the last year and enjoyed it every time and I... Can't argue with that, it's completely true. And yeah I'd happily watch it a fourth time if offered.
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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hired this cat to stare at you. 📸 dicky․ng․33
Black-and-white cat peeking from inside a corrugated cardboard box, wide eyes visible between stacked shoeboxes and storage boxes in a cluttered stockroom area.
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