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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight)

@kitthenameless.bsky.social
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Fantasy & Sci-Fi Book/Game Blogger - Indie Supporter - Disabled (ME) - Covid Conscious 😷 - Nyctophile - Drawer of Mermen - Lover of Vampires - Alt Text - Any Pronouns metaphorsandmoonlight.com

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
beetle knight
Digital painting of a fairy knight. He has pale blue skin, green hair, and he is covered in spiny black armor from head to toe. He has a beetle horn in the middle of his head, and a beetle helmet to match, as well as small beetle wings. He is also wielding a spear.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Like, just be honest with me. Look me in the immunocompromised eye and say "I could take a small measure to help keep you safe from a disabling oncogenic disease, one that's been proven to reduce transmission, but I don't WANT to."
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I know I barely use this site, but I drew some jellyfish mermen, based on the pacific sea nettle! #Mermay #Mermay2025 #merman
Two jellyfish merman floating through the water, holding each other passionately, one kissing the other one's chest. The one being kissed is arching back with his head back, arm grabbing the other one's shoulder. Both have dark skin and dark hair with glowing orange and yellow jellyfish tails. Their hair and jellyfish tendrils are flowing toward the left of the image.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Why tf did Microsoft remove Wordpad???? That's what I use for all my documents, what am I supposed to use now 😭 Why does every company just keep making everything worse, I don't understand.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I Google searched "iguana colorful" and got a bunch of AI images, so then I searched "real iguana colorful" and got an AI result telling me that iguanas can be colorful. I hate that the internet is like this now, I just want actual real search results 😭
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
please mask and wash your hands and test if you don’t feel well. so many people are getting sick and getting others sick. stay home if you’re sick. exposing countless workers to illness so you can get your holiday shopping done or whatever is gross.
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I find it hilarious that one pattern cuttlefish like to do is a big white square on their mantle. They are great at doing patterns to blend in with their enviroment but sometimes they just think "time for ■"
A European Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) exhibiting the "disruptive" pattern. It is sitting on some black pebbles that are about as big as the cuttlefish. There a some light brown pebbles to the side. The cuttlefish is facing away from the camera. The cuttlefish is showing a pattern that contains white square in the middle of its mantle. The rest of its skin is a mix of dark and light brown that looks like sand.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Ice cold take, probably? I don't think YouTube ads should be allowed to be over, idk, two minutes long. I don't care if there's a skip button. They should still be two minutes maximum.
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Morgan (they\them) @soupgargoyle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
not to mention the number of times I didn't understand what I was looking at (what tv character that was, whether there's a cat in this photo, whether it's the plant I'm supposed to be focusing on or something else, what meme this is, etc) that alt text has cleared up for me so I haven't had to ask
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
All I can think now is, if this person they've taken in already has chronic pain, and he's being held somewhere or gets prison, the gov isn't going to care. He'll get even less help for the pain. And that's not ok.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
So often I see / hear about people filming videos, recording podcasts, making art, doing crafts, cooking meals, doing their makeup, working out, etc. while they're sick. I feel worse than that on a daily basis. Even not sick, I can't work out, cook meals, do crafts, talk for more than 2 minutes. 1/
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I walked out of the shower with wet feet, and, umm. I think I might be a werewolf?
Water footprint but the toes extend into curved points that look like claws. There also appears to only be four toes.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I now have a free trial of Google Play Pass, and there are a couple games I already wanted, but my inner 10-year-old possessed me and I downloaded and immediately started playing a game called "Gymnastics Superstar Star Girl" 😄 I have no idea what's happening, but at least I have a cool leotard.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I just subscribed to a streaming service because of a great Black Friday deal, and instead of using that subscription, I'm watching dogs have spa treatments on YouTube.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I'm trying to put together a recommendation post, and I've had to exclude three books now that sounded like they might be good because of their AI art covers 😫
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This Thanksgiving - be thankful for your good health (if you have it) and spare a thought for the disabled & chronically ill people who’ve been tossed aside for years so that everyone else can go “back to normal”. This “othering” of people - this desire to see them as less than - has consequences
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How Did We Get Here and What Comes Next?
Disabled people have been warning others for nearly 5 years that eugenicist Covid policies would lead to a rise of fascist, racist, bigoted, misogynistic hatred. It's here now. So what’s next?
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We can tell them until we’re blue in the face - they will almost always refuse to acknowledge it. They will find some way we are at fault. Some perceived moral failing that renders us incapable of getting the magical help they’re certain will be there for them when it’s their turn. /3
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Is there anyone here who is covid conscious, adds alt text, and supports queer/trans/poc/neurodivergent/disabled people in general? I'd like to have community again, but I need a community that includes me, a chronically ill person, in their list of people who matter. 🧵
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
I'm only 8% into Cascade Failure by L.M. Sagas, but I'm already so invested in these characters 🥺
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Gorgeous, shiny bookmail 😍✨ Was surprised and so excited to get this. A cute teen romance with a nonbinary MC and a bit of magic! Otherwordly by F.T. Lukens, thanks to Simon & Schuster for sending this!
Photo of Otherworldly by FT Lukens. Cover art is two teens sort of falling into each other and looking like they're maybe about to kiss, in a snowy setting. The supernatural has a glowing yellow eye and is wearing short-sleeves, unbothered by the cold. The human is bundled up. The people are colored with lots of pink and purple, the background with white and blue.Photo of the back of Otherworldly by FT Lukens. Color scheme matches the front, but the art shows three people waiting together, leaning on a fence and a raven in the air.Photo of Otherworldly by FT Lukens, but tilted so the light hits it more directly, making it shine.
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Nathan Bransford @nathanbransford.com · 13/03/2024
Self-published authors, heads up. If "HarperCollins" contacts you out of the blue and they want to offer you a deal but you have to write a query first: it's a scam. I've seen multiple authors get taken in by this one recently.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
I heard weird loud noises outside my room, so I opened my curtains and 😲 surprise peacock!
Photo of a peacock with tail feathers all spreadPhoto of a peacock from the back with tail feathers down but still spread a bitPhoto of a peacock from the side with tail feathers down
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
Book mail! I'm so excited for this one, it sounds like it's gonna be such an angsty, tangled emotions kinda story! Also magic and intrigue, and it's queer! Thanks go to Wunderkind PR & Random House Canada for sending this 🙂 The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin
Photo of me holding an ARC of The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin, next to some dried roses in a vase. The cover has big swirly font, and all around the title are flowers, skulls, keys, guns, and bullets.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
This series is great, I recommend!
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
vaporwave but make it vampirism 🩸🌴
three designs: a vending machine decorated with clouds and bats that sells hot pink blood with blood pouring out of it; a coffin shape containing palm trees, a sunset gradient, moon and stars; and a cassette tape drenched in hot pink blood labeled "slay mix #2"
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
You know what's a great feeling? When you read something that you wrote but forgot, and it's actually good and makes you legit laugh or feel something.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
I spent the past month or two not really wanting to read. Now I have reached the point of, "I really want to read, I just can't decide what's right for my mood" 😣
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
I've gotten some book mail recently that I'm excited about, so here's the first: Queer polyamorous vampires & court intrigue! And a beautiful cover ✨ Thanks to Saga Press / Simon & Schuster for the ARC 😊 Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco
Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco ARC, held up in front of my bookshelf. The cover is a close-up of half a chiseled face with cheekbones for days and a slit pupil eye, facing the viewer, an upright sword covering the nose. Flames are reflected in the sword, and the colors on the whole cover are strong and vibrant with a lot of hot pink and orange.
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Mali 💤 MCM London G-23 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Queen of Light 🕯️
Watercolour painting of a moose neck and up in profile. She has big antlers that are covered in lit candles and there is a trail of stylised smoke flowing around her
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Nightmareliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 05/03/2024
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A wooden fence with the following words painted on it in bright blue: "It shouldn't have to happen to you for it to matter to you"
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
I tried this site a few months ago and was disappointed, but I'm wondering if I should give it another chance in one last attempt to find a social site that feels the way it used to feel when people just wanted to chat and connect and support each other 🙁
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 05/11/2023
the catholic church's homophobia in combination with the fact that most artists are and always have been gay has led to exactly one predictable outcome: church art being Very Normal about saint sebastian
saint sebastian as an ethereal twink being pierced by arrowssaint sebastian as an Italian twink being pierced by arrowssaint sebastian as a twink being pierced by a lot more arrowssaint sebastian as a sassy Greek twink being pierced by not that many arrows
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
I made gay Frankenstein art of Victor and his creation in the romance AU I desperately want 👀 I made the monster as book accurate (flowing black hair, black lips, arteries showing, yellow skin) as I could while also being hot 😅 Victor "selected his features as beautiful" after all.
Digital painting, close up of Victor Frankenstein and his creation about to kiss with moody dramatic lighting with a bolt of electricity forming a heart behind and between them. The monster has yellowish skin, long black hair, black lips, veins showing on his skin, and stitches across his forehead and in a Y shape on his chest. Victor has brown hair in a pony tail, a lab coat, and glasses with a reflection of the electricity in them. His hand is reaching around the monster's head.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/10/2023
Whether it's caused by an airborne virus, guns, or war, refuse to normalize mass death.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
@offbeatya.bsky.social This is so sad, I post the same thing on both sites, and it's still only you who likes it on both of them 😭😂
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
I really wanna tell all these bigots complaining about gender and sexuality in farming sims that any character in any game could be bi or trans or queer in some way, and they just don't know it, so I guess they should just stop playing games altogether 🤷‍♂️
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
One of the farming sims I play, people have been complaining from the start that the player has no gender option. Except half the people complain the hair/clothes options & tiny pixel model is very obviously feminine, while the other half complain it's very obviously masculine
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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
I think that there are a few things cis people can learn from trans people like. in general. such as: you can name yourself whatever you want. go ahead, it's fun. you can actually wear whatever you want. you can get a little goofy with presentation and still be whatever you want.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
One thing I love about games with romanceable characters is that every character is someone's favorite. The one you don't like? Someone's fave. That side character who's not romanceable? Prob someone's fave. Your fave? Also someone else's fave.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Sometimes I think about responding to assholes on the internet. Then I remember it's usually better to just ignore them, let them throw their tantrum and realize no one is going to give them any attention for it.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
bodily autonomy is basically my ride or die principle.
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
A cute farming sim with creature collecting, card combat, & sweet, diverse characters! Game Review: Moonstone Island metaphorsandmoonlight.com/game-review-...
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Game Review: Moonstone Island by Studio Supersoft
Moonstone Island is a cute farming/life sim with a focus on creature collecting, deck building, and turn-based card combat. You’re a new alchemist sent to a remote island where you can explor…
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Are posts on this site actually called skeets?? Do... do I have to call them that? Can I opt out?
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Reminder to add alt text to your images! And here's how to turn on a reminder!
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Solar eclipse through an aspen leaf with ladybug - Montana
Partial solar eclipse through an orange aspen leaf, with a ladybug on the leafPartial solar eclipse projected through an orange aspen leaf, with a ladybug crawling along the leaf edge
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
A lovely m/m retelling of R&J with a gentle romance and sweetheart characters! Also a wonderful audio narrator! Book Review: Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig metaphorsandmoonlight.com/book-review-...
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Book Review: Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig [Audiobook]
Romeo’s family has expectations of him, including finding a wife, whether it’s what he wants or not. When he runs into Valentine at a party, the two have an undeniable connection, but t…
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Kit (Metaphors and Moonlight) @kitthenameless.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Having romanceable nonbinary characters who use they/them pronouns in a game: 😀 Having to see characters be constantly misgendered by almost everyone playing the game: ☹️
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