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she/her | 30s | occasional fic writer | currently working on the orv visual novel | header and icon by @evercelle.bsky.social ✍️ archiveofourown.org/users/merthurlin 🐦 x.com/merthurlin 🎮 merthurlin.itch.io/slay-the-demon-k…

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bana 🍌 @banakiri.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As the world comes to an end, I’ll be here to hold your hand #phaidei
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fishmechs.bsky.social @fishmechs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
digital drawing of sora and riku from kingdom hearts. they are in their dream drop distance outfits floating around a musical note. they both have their eyes closed and are smiling. their hands are held palm side up at their chests where waves of musical scoring emit passing through the music note and connecting them. a series of stars circle around them. the background is white.
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Take That! ⚖️ An Ace Attorney Trilogy Zine @aatrilogyzine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
⚖️COVER REVEAL⚖️ The Judge determined this crucial evidence must be shared immediately- our cover, illustrated by @riotbones.bsky.social ! #aceattorney
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
imagine they have a punisher face-
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kabona @dilfosaur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
dnangel jumpscare if you recognize the first pic you are old
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fishmechs.bsky.social @fishmechs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
digital drawing of sora from kingdom hearts in his kingdom hearts 4 outfit. he's standing in 3/4 view with his visible arm down at his side and his far arm holding the kingdom key. hes looking up his expression is neutral.   hes looking at a nearby falling star which casts a yellow light on him. the background is a very light yellow.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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tklv.bsky.social @tklv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I love it when people watch Star Trek for the first time and are like, "I didn't really believe that Kirk and Spock were actually like this. I thought people were projecting. But no. This is just what the show is." It's just what the show is. Kirk/Spock is as natural as breathing.
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😭😭😭 but what if the new femblem has generational yaoi....
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@evercelle.bsky.social is forcing me to make an impossible decision
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ever 🐥🔪 @evercelle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
three bowls of noodles #moshang
svsss/sqh (moshang) comic, page 1:
the page background shades darker as night falls; it's dinner time
1) a very young xiang fei watches leftover take-out noodles reheat in the microwave. 
2) he carefully removes the container
3) and pushes out his chair at a dinner table, set with only one place setting--a child's mug and chopsticks--
4) and eats his meal alonesvsss/sqh (moshang) comic, page 2:
it's all dark now.
1) a water kettle boils next to a container of dry instant noodles
2) water is poured into the waiting bowl
3) xiang fei lifts a bite to his mouth; his laptop's glare reflects on his glasses, partially obscuring his weary eyes as he works
4) and eats his meal alone at his desk, surrounded by more containers and trash
svsss/sqh (moshang) comic, page 3:
1) a bowl of hand-pulled chili noodles, boy choy and beef shank dominates the top half of the page as mobei-jun places it on a tray: "eat."
2) sqh (baffled): "huh? / for...me? / my king... *y-you* made this?"
3) mbj (radiating a dark aura): "you no longer desire this dish?"
sqh (flailing) "no no, thats--!! I mean yes!! I do! I do want it!"
4) sqh scrutinizes the dish with a vague look
5) and picks up the chopsticks from the lavishly-set tray
svsss/sqh (moshang) comic, page 4:
1) sqh takes a bite
2) as he chews, his pleasant expression falls away and tears prick his eyes
3) tears roll down his cheeks when he goes for a second bite of this meal that someone's made just for him 
4) across the tray, mbj reaches to cradle his face
and he eats his meal with his king
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
that really would be an extinction level event
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
he's holding him so tenderly....!
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
has someone finally told nomura gay people exist.
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
LRP WHAT IS HAPPENING IN FINAL FANTASY LAND LMAO
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themes and such @bernkastl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
!??!,!,,!.?!!1!!2!2!3!3!3!2?2!2!/!!/!/!!2!2!!:?!?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i cant explain why ive been so fascinated with orkney for so long.... im so happy i finally had the chance to visit there, and i cant wait to come back :)
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
and then it was time to leave :( but at least not without one final look at hoy, the most mountainous of the orkney islands (ill DEFINITELY be back to climb it!)
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
finishing the day with another walk by the cliffs and the Italian chapel, built by Italian prisoners of war during WWII
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it has a.... unique entrance
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
then it was off to our last neolithic site of the weekend: the tomb of eagles, a burial site where they found the remains of over 300 individuals
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
had a quick lunch stop at a local fossils museum and got to see some cool rocks
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the walk itself was STUNNING even if we almost got defeated by the relentless bog
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
started the next day with a 3 hour hike alongside the cliffs to see.... THE GLOUP*. * old norse word for a collapsed cave
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
a couple years ago i almost got a job here.... weird to think about what could have been!
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
we finished the day in kirkwall. dragon age 2 prepared me for this day but gotta say. WAY chiller than the thedas one
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
they also found pictish stones here! the picts were the indigenous people of Scotland, and very little is known about them.
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
but orkney has more than just neolithic remains! orkney was annexed by orkney in the 9th century and remained under their rule until it was given to Scotland in the 15th century. we visited a viking church from the 10th century, situated on an island accessible only in low tide:
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
about 40-50 people would have lived here. it was continuously inhabited for about 600 years, something like 5000 years ago (!!!!) until it was abandoned for reasons we don't quite understand.... the site was discovered in 1850 when a storm quite literally blew it open
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
luckily the weather was on our side and the sun came out for the main event of the day: a visit to skara brae, a neolithic village so well preserved they even found original furniture. absolutely fascinating place:
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
then orkney itself! probably most well known for having the best well preserved neolithic sites in Europe, we start with the standing stones of stenness and the ring of brodgar, dating to about 2300bc. surrounded by water, it really does feel like magic can happen here
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
even the way there was stunning, with a long stop to admire the duncansby stacks, the most northernmost point of mainland UK
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the orkney islands are an archipelago at the very tippy top of Scotland. they have a fascinating history, in prehistory, myth (birthplace of various arthuriana figures, rich folklore), viking rule, and even crucial roles in WWI and WWII. reaching there took us a whole day and it was so worth it
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
over the weekend ive fulfilled a ten year old dream and visited orkney with @imperialhare.bsky.social! had an absolutely amazing time, going to talk about it at length-
two people standing in front of the john o groats sign
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Celes🏳️‍⚧️⬇️↘️➡️👊 @rowletgameing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
not that it was a huge surprise but finding out with everyone is half the fun 😩
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
can people please not post leaks without tagging 😭😭😭 i didn't want to know about this kh world until the reveal 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 08/09/2026
@bdp501.bsky.social
BASHIR: You're misunderstanding the point; yes, she's a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, but her life is merely plastic. It isn't real.

GARAK: Ah, but therein lies the paradox. If life is a creation limited only by imagination, then what is the difference between true or imagined happiness? Some, my dear doctor, would even call it "fantastic."

QUARK: look you two either need to order something or get out
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Slay the Demon King - an ORV visual novel @stdk-orvn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It is now officially ONE YEAR since we started working on our #orv game in earnest!!! 🎉🎉🎂🎂 To mark the occasion we thought we would share with you a bird's eye overview of our planning board. Chaotic but crucial for our workflow!
Screenshot of a Miro board. Sections include route planning, VISDEV notes, UI elements, etc. The text is too blurred to show any details.
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fishmechs.bsky.social @fishmechs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
digital drawing of riku and sora from kingdom hearts. they are in their dream drop distance outfits. riku is drawn from the waist up his head is bowed and his eyes are closed he looks sad. hes holding a tiny sleeping sora in his cupped hands. he has one bat like wing curved around himself. streaks of light cut through the image and sora is surrounded by a halo of warm light. the background is an off white.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026
“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
sorry. no one really asked me to talk about it but i needed to. anyway i think nami can kiss vivi AND luffy AND zoro AND usopp AND sanji (although sanji does not deserve it :))
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
i sound like an insane person but sometimes it really feels like making a character a lesbian is the most regressive thing a fandom can do. bcs fandoms are so male-centered the second you make a character a lesbian you get a free out of jail card to never have to include her in anything ever again
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
like "yeah don't worry about it, she's just doing some lesbian stuff. over there. far away where we don't have to care. girl power! she shouldn't be bothered by those nasty men that we nonetheless will spend all our creative energy on"
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
not to ship post about one piece on main, of all things, and it's very obviously because people don't care about women or black people, but its sooooo annoying to me specifically when ppl are like "oh well nami is a lesbian so we don't have to include her" and then just never refer to her again
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maayan 🍃 @merthurlin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this is insanely specific but i just cant buybzoro/sanji/luffy without nami and usopp. it's all or nothing man
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pico art @picofarad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
happy bday judai! I did the wha qifrey redraw that was going around a while ago #yugiohgx
🎨 [YGO GX] Judai Yuki | Jaden Yuki | 遊城 十代
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da big bri @ellsyx.com · 30/08/2026
now that kh4 is actually real and coming its a great time to go read my kh and vanven fics <3 archiveofourown.org/users/magici...
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