mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 16hlike i spend an avg of 3-4 hours a week and it gets me a ton of zine-making supplies *and* regular recognition of the value of the work i do which also helps really cool people. so nice after years of getting (at best) ignored in retail. 010
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 16hi'll be helping some staff one-on-one and getting paid for it too which is always nice when you're unemployed lol 110
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 16hvolunteer stuff today: teaching staff how to use the new file system i set up and making a new form for members at our art recycling store 🥰 120
Reposted by mel valentineA Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026thinking about this hidden wall keypad from Witch Hunter Robin again.... 1596135
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026other places i've been in recently, slugfest & the bleeds! if you're dundee or close i *really* rec looking into submitting, lovely people & fucking awesome work on show. 000
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026hoping i scored good on making a cute & readable invoice 020
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026very pattable girlfriend. mm. pat head. pat belly. pat pat. most satisfying. 000
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i don't think any of the lore-dump made sense but when this girl says the exact same things at least my roommate can be like "oh yeah i know that" on a technicality. 020
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026like i haven't stepped in one of those stores since they were called Games Workshops but you come to asking how to impress a girl about it *i got you.* 130
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026playing matchmaker rn by hooking up my jock roommate with space marines & starter paints matched to the chapter her nerdy date makes dioramas out of. 140
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ive decided in this case it rules. the OVA is so contradictorily silly but it's cute (and kanuka is hot) 000
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i don't know if that makes the third film better or worse 100
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the third episode of the OVA prequel has a near identical plot but entirely played for comedy omg 100
Reposted by mel valentineJax O'Lantern, Bimbo Reprobate 🎃✨️ @rufflejax.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm Jax! I'm a writer and analog game designer focused mostly on horror, romance, and character-driven stories. Pronouns are she/they/fae. Itch: rufflejax.itch.io Microfic (mostly ES): bsky.app/profile/ruff... AO3: archiveofourown.org/users/ruffle... Everywhere else: linktr.ee/rufflejaxlinktr.eerufflejax Official: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook | LinktreeWriter. Madwoman. Not in the least afraid of ruins. Scroll down for socials. 02610
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026oh it just does not compare i'm sorry. not the same people obv. like it's pretty but the energy is gone and the only woman character has just none of the depth the previous antagonists did, doesn't do it for me. 010
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026patlabor 3 going from this in 2 to "crazy evil lady makes a big titty kaiju out of her dead daughters cancer and also no-one you like shows up for 85 minutes" 140
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026buy my zines so i can continue to spend all my zine money on other girl's stories 010
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026(also ye ofc i got it. pilgrimage incomplete without it.) 110
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026restocked in @peoplesletters.bsky.social by hand over 460 miles!! 130
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026getting a union scarf and immediately taking boudoir photos in it and nothing else 120
Reposted by mel valentinePatlabor Screenshots @patlaborscreenshot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Patlabor 2: The Movie 056
Reposted by mel valentineCaffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026It always feels prohibitively rude to quote a stranger's hornypost with "oh I wrote a story like that—" but. like. when you've written a bunch (and follow cool people) the moment arises surprisingly often anyway, "you have to forcefem masc dykes now"—may I present brain-implant.tech/writing/titl...brain-implant.techLoadout — II“Hey.” 1105
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026calling me dolly but this is projection, clearly 020
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026waiting for my butch's gender to flip again so i can play barbie with them and all their dresses mmm 120
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026opening up the dog cage i put my girlfriend in to the community as a queer third space 030
Reposted by mel valentinepacked full of protein @ae2501maeth.smallbird.social · 30/09/2026the whole point of experiencing art is getting to know the shape of others through the friction between their difference and mine. the paradox of art is, sure, in the end mostly all we find is a way to reflect on ourselves, but we can't get there without chasing after the grasping dreams of another! 14214
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026wordlessly beautiful, and esp i love nagumo (reason i just borrowed that name). the only woman in the room and you can feel the judgement she's up against constantly, having to hunt someone who should've kept himself her mentor. watch patlabor <3 020
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the illusory peace of the imperial world. disillusionment with it by its enforcers. our apathy towards it. the precarity of our weapons. a system that cannot save itself while abiding by its own rules. a house divided. two against three against two. 110
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026...the publishing date her recruit is now cautiously thumbing for. nagumo is quick to stop him. "you can go to page 43," she says, and resolves to tell less stories with the next one. "that's where the useful stuff starts." 000
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"i'm '86, ma'am." she growls, because she knows exactly what the publishing date is because of the calendar weeks' worth of personal days she'd had to spend on studying it because she'd been field-ready for a year when it came out so that meant her mandated retraining also wasn't costed... 100
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026..., so it's more like... fuck, 20. which also means her commander is... was... 96. "huh," she huffs. "commander nagumo?" "when's your birthday?" she asks, curtly. she should've spotted this coming years ago. "you might actually might not've been born." 100
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026nagumo taps the book. 'operator's manual: tirsetti sm-83, 1st edition' is what it might've said 10 years ago--proudly, even. now the same words are scrawled onto a strip of duct tape doubled up as its spine. no. she's buffed up the tape four times now... 100
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026...but someone'll need hard proof of that to convince nagumo, even if he would be 86 now. "what're you here for today?" she knows, but does this one. "i-it's my first time, so start-up." 100
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"...yahya, but eh, he's gone now." "oh. i'm sorry, commander." "nah, he's fine," she says. "probably." she'll go back to calling him commander again too when he pops it, not allowed when they're alive 'cos of anti-coup regulations about idolising ex-servies... 100
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026TEXTBOOK "shit, i remember when they brought this in," nagumo mutters, like she does to every recruit, chucking the half-dead tome on the desk. "my instructor had to teach me with his own." "like it was--?" "wirebound. lined paper. a lot of pen traced over pencil he'd rewritten a dozen times..." 100
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026they wanted to scrutinise a joke because if they ever engaged with the art enough to properly scrutinise it they'd realise it was fucking good. can't allow that. 140
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026and i tried foolishly to engage in good faith, because if you actually follow these people, read their art, they are frankly _more_ genre-savvy than any of these fuckers, like it's so easy, but they never cared about that. 150
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026reminded of a couple years ago: i made a silly mechsploy joke and after it blew up _all_ the boy's club mecha fans came out to vaguepost about how these girls didn't 'get it,' were all posers, etc etc. 160
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this happens at all levels. other trans people do it to kallie, cis people do it to them, straight people to them, men to them. even when they're writing ostensibly the same content, because the only real slope is fuckin' patriarchy. 010
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026emphasising that this slope is _not_ real, and doesn't map to how this art is made, or what it's about at all. it's a rejection of the fluidity of creativity, it's drawing a bullshit line because of people desperate to feel their art is valuable & trying to do it by devaluing someone else. 120
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026everything gets pushed down a constructed slope. what's erotic gets reduced to being 'just' porn, what's porn gets reduced to being 'just' for gratification, what's for gratification gets reduced to being 'not art.' 140
Reposted by mel valentineThe Arachnixe Entity @fungalhalo.com · 30/09/2026Consciously or not, far too many people have uncritically absorbed the fascist idea that porn is intrinsically degenerate—that it is a mindless, lesser form of creation by virtue of its focus on sexuality, necessarily an intellectually worthless part of the human experience. 0321
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the fucking blimps!!! I knew they were up to something 110
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"you're gonna watch slow pans of abandoned industrial estates while we philosophise about the neoliberal military-industrial complex and how pacified, digitised people do nothing because it benefits them and also it's 1999" and yes ma'am i am watching 151
mel valentine @meli-writes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026also this is such a beautifully quiet movie omg. 130