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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈

@mishellbaker.bsky.social
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Author of the Arcadia Project trilogy, mother, vidyagamer, dungeon master. Terminal cancer, incurable optimist. AI used me, but I don't use AI. Enjoy life. Be someone you would love. Make things better. I talk about games and storytelling here.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bluesky: "Stop trying to make fetch happen"
Bluesky error message: There was an issue fetching posts.  Tap here to try again.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please do not be alarmed by my Halloween social media name.
the all lower case handwritten caption "it is i" over some sort of white hotdog shaped blob with a horizontal slash of a mouth prancing forward in black skinny jeans with such momentum that his long blobby torso is leaning back
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A screenie from the third Kingdom Rush to give you the vibe. Cute and silly but at times hellishly challenging (3 difficulties to choose from). I love watching my towers grow and vaporizing lots of cute little bad guys.
A colorful, cartoony, twisty path littered with cute but detailed and high quality looking enemies being walloped by equally cute and detailed towers, complete with K-Boom! sound effect caption at one spot.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It drops that we all have Two Brains, Actually and this is our top five trending. On second thought, let's not go to social media. It is a silly place
100 best tv show list debate, my 9 animes lists, Stafford leads Rams offense, Vance campaigns in NC, Big Brother 28 final week
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Actual footage of a maned wolf walking
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Brown-leafed plants with a printed paper sign saying, "I'm not dead, this is just how I look!"  Someone has commented above the image, "Me too"
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Speaking of little guys I am really good at making little guys in Veilguard, look at these little guys
A smoldering Antivan Crow guy with wavy brown hair and a crooked aquiline nose looking at you like you killed his father and should prepare to die.A dark skinned dwarf with bound locs, dramatic but faded facial scars, and deep dark eyes looking up at you like you just kicked a puppy directly at him
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Navah in foreground, with me as always on one of the happiest days of my life.

Also John Scalzi, for some reason.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I love my WoW guild.
inkie: guys why do I remember 300 FR when I cannot remember what I have in the fridge to make for supper tonight 
What's for dinner, mom? I have no idea.  Maybe...chicken? (derpy thinking blobcat emoji)
How much fire resist should your main tank have not to get one-shotted in Molten Core, mom? 300

Athena: I guess you could say it's...


A core memory (sunglasses finger guns emoji)
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is the one my druid main is currently striving for. Definitely says "friend of nature" doesn't it?
Who knows what is hiding behind this dead eyed metallic mask?  Feathers??possibly?? flare out in all directions from both helm and shoulders in a glowing shade of nuclear-waste green, and there is a round green "GO" button in an entirely different clashing shade in the dead center of the chest.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yes this definitely screams "hunter" to me, for example
Look, if I could describe this I would, but picture some sort of 1950's alien invader crossed with a deep sea diver maybe.  Is laser steampunk a thing?  There are red lasers shooting horizontally out of the shoulders for some reason.  And an opaque red circle where the face opening on the weirdly finned and antennaed?? helm should be.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I lived in this house for 11 years dreaming that someday I'd have flowers planted where there was just dirt and concrete. It was never the best time to do it. Then I got my diagnosis and realized there was no "better time" coming, that whatever life I wanted to live had to be now.
White, yellow, pink, and purple blooms and exuberant greenery, against light colored pebbles and flagstone.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My 13yo sent me this picture and said it was us
A mother calico cat lies with quiet dignity, with a tiny calico kitten snuggled between her front paws.  The kitten's front leg is draped over its mother's as though it is hugging it.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@themattmcd.bsky.social's gif usage is always A+
Discord message from Matt with a jeopardy screenshot: "In French, this 1993 Film is called "Un Jour Sans Fin"

My response: A Day Without End... Groundhog Day?

Matt's response: a gif of Bill Murray in Groundhog day seductively saying, "Oui."
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Friend sent me this just now.
A stunning photograph of a wide open desert vista, with scrubby grass and a tiny almost hidden pool of water reflecting the blue sky. Puffy white clouds scattered above, you can almost feel the wind shaping them.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A four panel comic where a floating skull appears to be talking to a person who is just two eyes inside an outline.  The title appears to be "Worth a Try" and the artist either Buytpoems or Buttpoems.  I really hope it's Buttpoems.

Panel 1: Skull: "Fill yourself with hope:
Panel 2: Person: "But what about all the problems in the world?:"
Panel 3: Skull: "Like your dumbass could do anything about them"
Panel 4: Person, with angry eyebrows: "Hey.  I could do a little something."  Skull: "See!  That's hope!"
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Without saying your age, post your favorite film that was released the year you turned 18.
THE LION KING
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
An ewok in someone's yard forlornly places a paw on the glass door.  The text caption reads, "Ewoks aren't meant to be left outside, they're Endor pets."
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Oh no, my wonder is not "childlike."  My whimsy is old  My frivolity is steeped in ancient wisdom.

My silliness is battle worn.  My awe at the world has been long forged through trial & tribulation.

I have *earned* this wonderment.  I have protected it for decades against a society that tells me constantly that it should not belong to me.

I was born with wonder, and I have carried it, against all odds, with me through adulthood.  It is not "childlike" by now it is Older than me.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Background of swirly pink and blue outer space.  

At the top, an image of a contented looking cat, feet tucked under itself, with large white text "I keep saying, 'It is what it is.'"

Then beneath that, large white text saying, "But really... like"

Beneath that, more large white text: "What is it?"

At the bottom, two images of distressed looking cats with squinty eyes and mouths half open in plaintive mews.  Much smaller white text: "Wut in tarnation"
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Aaaand it continues.
Email sent from Action Network, unsubscribe via Americans for Financial Reform
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Literally no sooner did I post that, than another one shows up. After Action Network replied to me saying they have no way of stopping this and I will just have to unsubscribe from each one.
Email sent via Action Network, unsubscribe link is for Youth Progressive Action Catalyst
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is never gonna stop, is it.
Footer of an email from Action Network, must contact Just Strategy to unsubscribe
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Since I have literally nothing better to do on a Chemo Tuesday. than prove I'm not a liar, here are two footers from emails from organizations I had never heard of before receiving these. Please do not expect me to take the time to provide receipts for the fact that it's Chemo Tuesday. 🙄
Sent via Action Network, unsubscribe at More Perfect UnionSent by Action Network, unsubscribe at Inequality Media
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I am not a composer, but I love music, and My Singing Monsters let me use what little I know about music theory to compose 8 measures of a lil song by ear. :)
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I love my WoW guild. This from a beleaguered @invisibleinkie.bsky.social in Massachusetts:
this blizzard is running a lot more effectively than Blizzard sometimes does. at least, assuming i understand its operational goals correctly.

emoji reactions: rofl, 100, frog_please, sangry
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My gaming chair hates its job so much.
Shot of the back of a gaming chair that looks like it's abjectly weeping, thanks to the pair of holes in the back that use vertical straps to hold a back cushion with a downward curving design
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Just found this very typical me/Matt interaction in my screenshots. I've probably posted it before, but maybe your memory is as goldfish as mine.
Matt text: 

Do you think it says something that I went to my email client to turn on an "out of office" status and realized I have no idea how to do that?

My response:  

It doesn't say anything.

But it does SCREAM a thing.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Not me tearing up at World of Warcraft
Yu'lon says: Someday, you may also be called upon to defend all that is dear to you.
Yu'lon says: When that day comes, seek all the light and wonder of this world, and fight.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
To be fair, the best way to age like Helen Mirren is to start out looking like this
A flawless young white woman with blonde hair, perfect bone structure and skin, sultry eyes, an hourglass figure, and a red velvet dress, posing seated seductively leaning on one hand with the other hand behind her neck.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Vivaldi: the browser that Gets You
Email from Team Vivaldi with the subject line, "Workspaces: Because 50+ tabs is normal"
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is he
A Black man with wild gray hair and beard, looking slightly Mad Scientist in his steel blue, iron gray, and rust red Earth Directorate uniform.  His various mentioned skills and background is visible on the left.  His name is shown at top left as ODYSSEUS RHAMES, because I dunno, he looked like an ODYSSEUS RHAMES to me.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Not my house, but I know my way around
Caed Nua from Pillars of Eternity, a castle keep with tall gray towers and a terra cotta roofed outbuilding looking misty and spiffy in loading screen art, giant glossy green adra "fingertips" reaching up from the ground.  This game is amazing.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Once in a blue moon, the comments are 100% worth it
Dolly Parton could write the communist manifesto but Karl Marx couldn't write 9 to 5
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I used to think yellow was an ugly color until I saw this:
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A reminder -
There is more good than bad in this world,
More light than darkness and
YOU can make more light.

Peter H Reynolds 
April 15, 2013
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Me breaking the ice when people come to visit for the first time since my cancer diagnosis
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
It is she
A large humanoid with dark olive green skin and prominent tusks, large pointed ears, and coarse straight auburn-black hair just past her shoulders.  She has a small nose and wistful sky blue eyes, and her face is patched with burn scars.  She wears a white button down shirt with the first couple of buttons undone.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Behold one of the many reasons why.
from matthewpaulmcdaniel on Discord:

We went to the Art Institute in Chicago.  Saw the Seurat.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
My 13yo got this shirt for Christmas, and it's the most perfect shirt for her I can possibly imagine.
Black T-shirt with rainbow hearts above the line from Deltarune: "You are filled with determination."
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
You have a good point, Steam, but no, I don't think I will.
Giant blue button saying STOP with an X

Under it, in smaller blue text: You've played fdor 879 hours
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It's nice having a WoW RP guild, so I can post stuff like "this is how I imagine Varian and Anduin Wrynn would have played board games"
his idea is to teach Anduin to WIN and instead Anduin gently tries to teach Varian to be a less sore loser

"I will play again, Dad, but only if you either learn to protect your pieces better or don't flip the table when you lose.  It took me an hour to find that one piece that somehow got knocked all the way into the throne room."
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Oh dear. They appear to have caught me in a mood.
A response in a survey box:

Why does this survey exist? The implication that you're undecided about this issue has shaken my faith in an organization that not too long ago presented me with a service award.A survey question: what forms of guidance do you think would most benefit writers trying to navigate the growing presence of LLMs in our industry?

Survey response: One might start with a firm acknowledgment that "growing presence" does not legitimize a thing, much less render it inevitable. As someone simultaneously navigating the "growing presence" of authoritarianism, generative AI, black spot fungus, and appendix cancer, I would be more than happy to assist with such a statement.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
THIS. I have had one of the most consistent BuJo habits of anyone I know, for about 7 or 8 years, even through chemo etc., whereas everyone I know who does all the stuff people think BuJos are supposed to be burns out and quits. The point is supposed to be to make your life EASIER.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Basically my brain just saw this
C.L. Polk post appearing to read:

The light's coming back now
ha ha i did it, bitches
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
My 13yo and her best friend being extremely normal this holiday season
Two adolescents in holiday onesies which are for some reason zippable all the way to the crown of the head.  They have zipped them all the way up, turning them into disturbing pointy headed holiday-print creatures hanging out casually in a homey kitchen.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This borders on journalistic malpractice, IMO. When they say, "Do not release the identities yet" they mean, do not say crap like, "A dead man and woman, aged 78 and 68, were found at the home belonging to 78 year old Rob Reiner and his 68 year old wife."
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Well this is a nice looking group of people I interact with on here!
I feel weirdly shy about naming everyone.  Just trust me, they're all awesome.  You're probably on there.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I rather enjoy this cloud of my most frequently posted words here:
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "those" (476×), "chemo" (342×), "tell" (326×), "find" (324×), "game" (297×), "help" (274×), "folks" (269×), "cancer" (266×), "myself" (262×), "least" (261×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
You mean Brian Haidet, aka AlphaPhoenix, PhD in materials science? Any particular reason you don't want him getting views?
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