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Will definitely probably write that novel some day maybe. she/her transbian

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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 3h
this of course ignores (as centrists tend to ignore) that supporting minorities doesn't just win their favour, but also the favour of the much larger group of people who believe that said minorities are full human beings deserving of love and life.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 4h
We're in here quibbling about community standards regarding the #nsfw tag while major online advertising networks are out there defining all depictions of fat people regardless of context as "adult content" because their clients don't want their products displayed next to a fat person.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 4h
Shroedinger's minority: Simultaneously too small for their rights to be worth fighting and alienating voters for, and large enough to get mad at for not voting for your candidate and risk The Other Guy winning.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 17h
Before I die, I want to travel far enough away from civilisation to see a sky's worth of stars without light pollution. At least once.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm so happy they keep having Sigrid's VA return to the booth to record silly laughs.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wish accepting cookies would include a cookie that told the browser I've already accepted cookies.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Who even thinks a woman in full armor is hot?" First of all, the point of armor isn't to be hot or sexy. It's to be protective. Secondly, lesbians. Lesbians think women in armor are hot.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ha. Haha. Ahahaha. ...Fuck.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Matrix lore video: "What did the Oracle mean when she told Neo he was not the One?" Me, annoyed: "She never said that. Go back and watch the scene. She never utters the words 'you're not the One'. She heavily implies it, because she's manipulating him, but doesn't outright states the words."
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't know what the rules are for this 'name changing for October' thing a lot of people seem to be doing. Nobody told me. I wasn't invited to the group chat. I'm just going by my gut and leaning on my natural advantages (ie, my chosen name is shortened to that of the Norse goddess of death)
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The purpose of language is to be easily understood, not to be correct. If someone's casual, spelling-error-laden message is still perfectly intelligible, it does not require pedantic corrections.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big numbers: -number soup -hard to gauge progress -'is that six digits or seven?' -meaningless Small numbers: -easy to parse at a glance -small adjustments have clear and immediate impact -can do on-the-fly math if you have to -you know exactly where you're at
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't actually care how good genAI is or might one day be. I think it's entirely superfluous to the actual problems I have with it. It could spit out the best results imaginable and there'd still be several things that need to be addressed before I can even entertain the notion of not hating it.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"At least Israel supports gay rights!" -First, no it doesn't. Not beyond what it can use for propaganda purposes, anyway. -Second, if it did, I'm sure that'd be great comfort to all the queer Palestinians they've bombed into obliteration.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't want to piss on anyone's cardboard collection, but if they go ahead with this, I'm genuinely not sure how to trust someone who then chooses to keep playing Magic. I'm sorry.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't want to be resilient. I want to not have to be.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't worry. I, too, read cloth gown incorrectly on the first pass.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me: *makes a basic analogy comparing trauma to going through life with an open wound* My therapist: "That is such a good comparison! I will have to write that down" Me: This is it. I am finally experiencing a genuine 'good grade at therapy' moment!
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every now and then I mention CTRL-backspace and I usually have at least one or two people go 'WAIT WHAT THE SHIT THIS HAS BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME?!' And yes. Yes it has.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is lesbian vampire time.
Neferata, the First Vampire, the Vampire Queen of Lahmia and the Silver Pinnacle, Daughter of the Moon, the Eternal Queen, the Silver Queen, the Night Queen, surrounded by her girlfri- I mean handmaidens whispering sicrets in her ear.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Could you imagine if they had advanced wikification of everything like we do when Empire Strikes Back came out? "Actually, it was established that Vader isn't Luke's father, but his father's murderer. Therefor this is clearly a retcon and the worst thing to happen in cinema ever."
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I hate the word 'retcon'. It's overused and absolutely kills any kind of discussion. If you can't explain to me why a recontextualisation, new information coming to light, or even just a change in direction from the writers is Bad(tm) without using the word? You shouldn't have it.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cancel your Nitro sub.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
God, there's a fifteen-gazillion-page ramble in me about how Spellforce was an rough, uncut gem of a strategy game, gleaming with potential, and how Spellforce 2 cut out everything that made it special and turned it into the most milquetoast Warcraft III clone.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pretty soon I'll finally have the chance to play Neferata in Total Warhammer. I've been looking forward to it since it was basically a foregone conclusion when they introduced Khalida back in... ...That can't be right. TWO-THOUSAND EIGHTEEN?! THAT WAS EIGHT YEARS AGO?!
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Youtuber who keeps posting videos about how much they want to marry their partner. Call that engagement bait.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I miss when Polygon hadn't devolved yet into the flaming pile of 'games journalism' garbage their detractors had always accused them off. The 'controversy' is that they cast Erika Ishii, who committed the unforgivable crime of being nonbinary.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of my favourite bits of obscure Warhammer trivia is that, simultaneously, the Warhammer Fantasy world exists as a backwater planet in 40k somewhere in the galaxy, but also that all of the 40K setting is a snow globe on the shelf of some wizard in Altdorf in Warhammer Fantasy.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stay tuned for my new hit anime series: "I Spent My Whole Life Becoming And Staying Vaguely Tech Literate And I Now Use That Power To Teach My Boomer Mother How To Save Images From Pinterest Onto Her Laptop"
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pop Base @PopBase
Paloma Faith questions Ed Sheeran's neutrality after he said he doesn't like to discuss politics:
"I played concert with [him] to raise a money for Ukraine, so he wasn't apolitical doing that. I don't really understand why one feels more political than the other."
(via @Channel4News)
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Concept: 'The world's greatest detective' isn't a unique title. In truth, it's a title of recognition awarded to private eyes who have cracked a certain number of 'unsolveable' cases. In truth, there are about fifty 'world's greatest detectives' in the US east coast area at any given time.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
History will absolutely not be kind to people who are right now choosing to treat us as an expendable statistic.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My pet peeve about the third FFVII-R game is the name looks like it fits the scheme, but doesn't. You have RE-make, RE-birth, but then RUH-velation? Get the fuck out of here. The first two also have the theme of new beginnings and starting over again, which the third abandons. It's also too long!
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*slow blink towards thee camera*
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One day, they're gonna invent an anti-dandruff shampoo that doesn't make my dandruff worse.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Looks like I need to start a webcomic!
"What kind of trans girl" bingo card. I have Eepy Princess, Depressed and Dysphoric, Chaos Activist, Gamer Girl, Punk/Goth/Scene, Very Stupid, and Disaster Lesbian ticked off. Not quite enough for a bingo.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What gets me about the Ed Sheeran nonsense is that this was the easiest test of his self-proclaimed moral convictions. He could have chosen to do literally nothing. Instead he chose to kick out someone with an actual spine from his tour. Then doubled down with 'I'm a good person tho' snivelry.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's really simple. Either your political candidate of choice is willing to fight for trans rights, or they're willing to watch us die to get elected. There's unfortunately no middle ground there. And if it's the latter, then either you care enough about us to either try and change their mind, or-
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Me whenever I pick up a sniper rifle: "Heheheh. Niper Strifle."
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cissia is my favourite agent, so that, combined with my entire not-attracted-to-men-in-the-slightest-ness is heavily colouring my perception of Severian, which means that the story is gonna have to do a LOT of heavy lifting to endear him to me, because I instinctively dislike him.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Borderlands 4 is free to play this weekend so I might as well give it a try I suppose. Loved this series, but I can't say my hopes are much higher than 'fun looty shooty mayhem'. Anything beyond that I'm gonna chalk up as a bonus.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sometimes I think about how Gloomhaven dropped from the #1 spot on Boardgame Geek's rankings at around the same time the creator of the game started saying things like 'maybe I should've put more nuance into creating the species of my world. I was kind of a dick to minorities'. Funny coincidence.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The new Wolverine game has horrible reviews, sitting at 77% on Metacritic-" I hate review scores so much, what even the fuck are we doing.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"I'm old": Complaining. Focus on your age-related shortcomings. Betrays insecurity at a rapidly-changing world. "I predate magic": Makes you sound ethereal, otherworldly, and ageless. Has an intimidating aura. Nobody needs to know you're talking about Richard Garfield's 1993 collectible card game.
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If non-rich people violate Hasbro's copyright, they send the Pinkertons to ruin their lives. If rich people do it, they wag a finger politely.
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Hel @helabella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
a horror story
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