Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 19/07/2026IMO it's weird that it's the only Black presence in the show, along with Kinger's dead wife with eight lines of dialogue. It feels careless. 010
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026freestoneletters.com/act-iv/17/ I did not. Miss. The update. If I get it up before 12 PM Sunday it is on time.freestoneletters.comIn which he bites at his leash | The Trials & Tribulations of One Victor Freestoneletter, January 22nd, 1876 000
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 31/03/2026But it is there in the text, and I do plan to explore it a bit more when I find the right opportunity. After all, this is the fleshworking story. It'd be rude of me to *not* use the fact that Victor can do top and bottom surgery in a matter of hours with no recovery time required. 020
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Any information about a character has to come directly from a character (with the exception of appendix sections, and even then, 'the person compiling the primary sources' is technically a character). And Victor isn't telling, and few people in the story know him well enough to tell on him. 120
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 31/03/2026@lotuscarp.bsky.social did a wrote-up for Freestone for #TDOV. I don't usually front that Freestone has a trans protagonist because the framing device means that I can't just talk about his gender without preamble. 155
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 27/03/2026freestoneletters.com/act-iv/16/ "I need to trust that she won’t savage me with wolves the minute she gets her vocal chords back." "It would be seagulls, not wolves" #freestone #writing #webserialfreestoneletters.comIn which trust must succeed where cunning has failed | The Trials & Tribulations of One Victor Freestoneletter, January 24th, 1876 031
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 20/03/2026freestoneletters.com/act-iv/15/ Freestone update. Victor's mom really is trying to be nice, she's just constantly having body problems and that makes talking to white people so very, very irritable for her. #writing #freestone #webserialfreestoneletters.comIn which she speaks into a mirror | The Trials & Tribulations of One Victor Freestoneletter, January 23rd, 1876 010
Reposted by YarrunProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Wild that the state of California and UC Berkeley took one day to start taking Cesar Chavez’s name off of things, but we still have a sexual predator in the White House and no one seems to be able to do anything about it 🤷🏽♀️ 830074
Reposted by YarrunIsidore Bloom @ladyisidore.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I try to limit how often I ask for £££ help but — on disability/estranged from family/cost of living crisis ongoing. I can’t afford to both heat my flat AND do laundry right now. Anything helps! If you can’t donate, plz boost 💙💙 ko-fi.com/ligaratusko-fi.comSupport Isidore Bloom ❤️Become a supporter of Isidore Bloom today! 21626
Reposted by YarrunMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/03/2026it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online 244114823426
Reposted by Yarrunmaia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 14/03/2026guy who does buddhism slightly wrong and ends up in nevada after he dies 7959051651
Reposted by YarrunNiels Leenheer @html5test.com · 13/03/2026DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user. 312798800
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I just need to spend some time figuring out how the rules behave here. Haven't had trouble with asterisks until now. 110
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026And I am going to accept this realization instead of asking an industry professional I've barely conversed with to read my short story because they mentioned the Sopranos once or twice and I want to see how it reads to a fan of the show without going back to the subreddit. And this is wise of me. 001
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Even if you've never even heard of the show, you can tell that it's a mobster show from the aughts with a pessimistic view on organized crime and an ambiguous ending. And that's enough to appreciate what I'm doing even if you don't know all the fictional deaths I'm referring too. 100
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026This is about me writing a story about the Sopranos and realizing that only one person I know has watched the show, meaning that they don't have the background to parse the elaborate web of references that I came up with. But they still like it. It works because of the power of allusion. 100
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026And whether or not the alluded material exists in full doesn't necessarily have to matter, in the same way that the exact species of the bird that flew by doesn't have to matter. It exists perfectly fine in a refracting abstract. 100
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It signifies that the alluded material is relevant to whoever's citing it, that they have a relationship to it, without needing to spell it out. If a character does it, there's now a chapter in their life where they read that material. If the narrative does it, it's a chapter written into the world. 100
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I write a lot about stories. Sometimes I write about stories that don't exist, sometimes I write about ones that do. Allusions to a fictional religious text or a real novel adds depth. It sketches a world outside the narrative that has its own complexities to deal with. 100
Reposted by Yarruntanze bravopueblo / w.s. healed @tattletale.bsky.social · 12/03/2026wrote an essay about encoding, decoding, 'you missed the point by idolizing them' and anton chigurh—but most of all about designing tabletop roleplaying games: medium.com/@rosequarter...medium.comTHE COIN DON’T HAVE NO SAY“It’s just you.” Encoding and decoding in tabletop roleplaying games. 824481
Reposted by Yarrundamniel spookradski @self.agency · 12/03/2026it would be very wonderful if israel were to stop bombing everyone in its immediate vicinity in the name of jewish survival right now please 110130
Reposted by Yarrunescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026His plans are measured in centuries 11215342
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026It gets discomfiting for me when I can tell someone mostly knows about black people from a particular kind of media, so I get this story about a mafioso who exists under the shadow of the Sopranos in an increasingly literal way. And that's the process ellipsus.com/read/5wYcgaQ...ellipsus.comThe Coldest Cuts | infimace | EllipsusDying of the Sopranos 041
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026So you have this dated but impressive and influential show, kept by a fanbase that's also dated, and this is one of the last great cultural touchstones for the Italian Mafia. For a lot of people, Tony, Paulie and Silvio are more real than any actual mafiosos - or actual Italian-Americans. 110
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026And it's a little amusing but it also has this sense of calcification. The Sopranos fanbase is still locked in that early aughts mindset. You cannot mention Vito without someone making a gay joke. The series' disregard for black characters only gets brought up for the occasional quip. 110
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Occasionally someone will pop in about one particular bit that resonated with them, but discussion's often limited because everything's been talked to death, so we get this elaborate shibboleth of inside references, and participating in that is part of being in that fanbase. 110
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026"Interior decorator" "Twenty years in the can" "He was gay, Gary Cooper?" You look at any video about the show on Youtube and you'll see variations on the same twelve or so memes from the show over and over again (plus one stolen from the Goodfellas). 110
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026"Why are you writing pseudo-fanfiction about a 20-year-old gangster show" One, someone handsome asked me about it, so write that down. Two, I am fascinated not just by the show but by the remnants of the fanbase around it, because it is all 'remember when' all the way down. 131
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Okay, Ellipsus passed the trial test, now it gets to host the hyperreal existential Sopranos short story, which is something that exists now ellipsus.com/read/5wYcgaQ...write.ellipsus.com 010
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026You know what, sure, I gave it a test run. Here, have a one-act play ellipsus.com/read/6BTJtu8...ellipsus.comCLICK | infimace | EllipsusOne-Act Play 211
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Usually that stuff isn't my best work, so I don't fuss about it too much, but sometimes I want to go 'hey, I wrote a one-act play in two hours once' and just give a link instead of hoping I can find where I put the damn thing. 100
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Seriously considering making a patreon just so I have somewhere to post all the stuff that isn't already hosted online. Maybe a third of my recent work is on a USB somewhere or stuck in a private file on Google Drive because I simply don't have a home for it online. 100
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Decided to make a Linktree as a way to consolidate about a decade's worth of work across multiple platforms in at least three different mediums. I wish I could say all of it was good, but there's something to be said for range. linktr.ee/Infimacelinktr.eeInfimace | LinktreeI write. What I write depends on the day. 155
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Unfun thing about writing white supremacist groups in the late 1800s: censoring the slurs can play happy havoc with your formatting system because multiple asterisks are also how you denote what needs to be bolded or italicized. 120
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Fun thing about writing white supremacist groups in the late 1800s: you can't make a fictional one that's less banal and pretentious than the actual ones. #webserial #epistolaryfreestoneletters.comIn which evil resurges in relevance | The Trials & Tribulations of One Victor Freestoneletter, January 25th, 1876 000
Reposted by YarrunZaozao is a tired fish ☸️☭ @lotuscarp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Policy updated. As always, I'm just happy to entertain. Part 1 of 1000 Lotuses (a Chinese historical fantasy with lesbians and trans people and even trans lesbians) remains free forever, so it's easy to hop in: lotuscarp.itch.io/1000-lotuses... 065
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Also I really do have to teach myself how to do tags on here. 000
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 28/02/2026It's always fun to do a news article. The epistolary is dominated by the power of perspective, and there's fun in doing a perspective so pulled back that they have to desperately grasp at whatever information they can get. Of course, the NSIN is fine with this as long as it makes the North look bad.freestoneletters.comIn which the bears, the mice, the squirrels, the bats and one skunk occur | The Trials & Tribulations of One Victor Freestonejournal, January 20th, 1876 000
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I'm not even going into what this implies about the fact that 90% of available party members are white. 020
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Past games had halflings and gnomes and dwarves and even a half-orc and a goblin, because it was more important to show a diversity of experiences instead of giving you an uncontroversial selection of paramours. It's a regression in the name of using simulated romance as a crutch. 100
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 22/02/2026If the player wants to make a dwarf of their own volition, then sure, they can show up in sex scenes, but the game simply cannot posit that a player might want a deep, fulfilling romantic experience with someone under 5 feet. And if dwarves are unfuckable, they can't take up party space. 100
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Whenever BG3 comes up, I remember that 75% of the romanceable party members (and 80% of the party members period) is either human, elf or half-elf, and realize that Larian so catered towards the sexual tastes of the average player that we have a DnD game without a fucking dwarf in the party. 130
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I only made it to the end of Act 2 before the game softlocked on me, but I already felt like the game's sense of sexuality was designed largely around what is Acceptable for a mainstream audience in a way that kind of flattens the game. This article does a good job of laying all that out. 000
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Now, see, the comparison here is inherently faulty because, when hip-hop showed up in force during the Superbowl, people liked that shit. 020
Reposted by YarrunBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut 140100192910
Reposted by YarrunDCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I haven't been the only one who has noticed folks becoming more and more hostile towards indie works so it's more important than ever that fans are loud and proud. Folks who have just quoted my art and said something nice or posted my commissions have done so much for me. Thank you. 217161
Yarrun @infimace.bsky.social · 16/02/2026You get to have a Sopranos character of your choice wipe out the entire Marvel Universe. Who's your pick? 010
