Sign in

River, Apprentice Ghost Witch

@mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest
706 followers 421 following 12K posts

she/gae. uncivil servant in philthadelphia. long-time blinking cursor. banner is game art from Rubato (by dconn & ppl). earnestly trying to minimize my time here.

PostsRepliesMedia
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 30/09/2026
The guy who skives out even people with worms for brains continues to use a sock account to like his own bullshit.
'Liked by' of the parent post--4 likes (only 3 visible to the alt-text writer). Kitten Land (@flower-mouse.bsky.social), Carceral Urbanist (@chinationalist.bsky.social) [muted by "SA Apologists"], aaand:

Isaac McDowell, @traceymichael.bsky.social
121
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 25/09/2026
Revised, because Discworld MUD is a selection on the list. The game I have logged the most hours on, ever (and my oldest, active internet footprint) is completely text-based. :3
My 9 Games. 1. Discworld MUD: This game has my oldest active internet footprint. Technically, I started playing here in '99-'00.

I'm quite an accomplished, active Thief.

2. The greatest arcade FPS of all-time? Nine Inch Nails doing the score? Ominous, forever Black Hole Sun clouds?

3. Maxis held a special place in my heart for so long. Technically my into to them was in SNES' Sim City (which has an OST that still slaps).

4. See also TF:2, Counter-strike 1.6.

In another life, I'd have been a CS E-games player, I was really-*really good* at Counter-strike :\

5. This game (and its immediate predecessor) is/are still worth playing. This may've been the first save-file transfer *I recall* in gaming.

6. Still love Rube Goldberg machines, but the advertising that was done for this game series was all over the place!!

7. Custom map, Combat Deluxe, battling one of the triplets down the street, via dial-up. Hiding in the exit well with a megabomb.

8. Having a game use the mechanics I was familiar with from D&D 3.5E was so cool.

9. First LAN experience, at my late uncle's, making mechs and blowing stuff up.
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 18/09/2026
Meme generated in the style of the burger king logo. instead of that, it says Free Cassie. Below that, "cassie would be making bangers of this by now. free cassie & free the bangers"
021
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 15/09/2026
Scene of the crime, yesterday. Folks came out, apparently (there were a few of these about), after I got my bus to work. That was my first direct encounter with ICE. I have dealt with cops before, but these particular greasy crackers loved operating in North Philadelphia w/ impunity. Fuck ICE.
A placard laying in the street, reading 'NO SECRET POLICE'.
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 07/09/2026
I wish I could upload a full .pdf here. Anyway: Throwback to when I had time to run two concurrent D&D campaigns in the same, living world (they called me crazy--they were right). I made up little newspapers, post-session, so the two parties could gleam bits of what the other one was up to.
A screen cap of a .pdf phone news paper. Headline: 'Trelth Liberated After Orcish Occupation'. To the right of the (irrelevant but eloquent) body text is a picture of an orcish cultist, gripped from google image search at a time when google image search was still reliable.
130
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 03/09/2026
Fuck generative AI and businesses who think this is remotely appetizing.
Gross AI art on a menu for a business that hasn't yet opened. It's supposed to be chicken wings, a cheesesteak, and a slice of pepperoni pizza. It looks red dog shit, a scaly-bunned shit sandwich, and a cartoon slice of pizza.
031
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 02/09/2026
just trying feel good about myself, after being bombarded with 'mister'
Poster in a bathroom mirror selfie. It is humid, and her shoulder length wavy mop is very untamed. She's wearing some patterned red and black t-shirt, with a sun-glasses wearing woman and obscured kanji? this ignorant American believes it is kanji, but her hair is blocking most of it to be able to tell with any certainty.
140
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 01/09/2026
MFW I remember I am seeing nelward on Thursday
The Nelward lemony face, 45° mischief eyebrows, and big grin
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 01/09/2026
Post something random or i'll take up sending chain-letters through the USPS
A painting, unattributed (sorry), someone did. A small, secluded pond where a hippo faces left, a grin on its face. A raccoon stands on his formidable rear, holding what appears to be two lit sparklers (a widely available firework "toy"  in the US). The raccoon is holding one of the sparklers near the hippo's asshole, which is blasting out a flame as long as the hippo itself.
To the right, on dry land, three cows stand as humans, being milked by capybaras who are repelling the fire with milk like it is a fight in dragon ball z. The clashing, uh, elements meet where, underneath, a lone capybara holds a pizza spatula with 4 unidentifiable ceramic dishes catching the mix of flames and milk???  Cooking, ostensibly???
020
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 15/08/2026
It's the baby
The baby (poster's cat), looking up at me whilst laying parallel and adjacent to my legs
031
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 01/08/2026
Clear sock account, step lively
Bsky user "Zoey duJour 🏳️‍⚧️"/@ zoeyquartz.bsky.social, post in thread of prominent trans author, 7:39EST July 31, 2026

"the accumulation of scars will not alleviate your body horror. you're dulling an ache by cauterizing the wound before the shrapnel is removed."
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 30/07/2026
She spared me.
Poster's cat, on a small patterned sofa, with a cat-sized soccerball
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 29/07/2026
We love the baby.
The baby (poster's tortoiseshell cat, atop poster's bed that are lined in grey flannel sheets)
280
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 28/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains
The album cover for Radiohead's 1997 album, OK Computer
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 21/07/2026
Google may be absolute dog shit now, but anyone can readily see you're talking out of your ass. Screencap referencing this Newsweek article: www.newsweek.com/layoffs-hit-...
Screen cap of a search result pointing to the Economics subreddit of reddit.com, a post from 7 months ago:
"Layoffs hit five year high as over 1 million people lose jobs ... 
... The Government data has ~17.3 million layoffs so far through October."
110
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 20/07/2026
Support independent theatre.
Folded card stock paper. In a rough stamp of red, black, and blue ink stamps, respectively of the words "Forget" "Death" "Club*A lithographic stamp / comic rendering of a smiling skeletal face in black ink
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 07/07/2026
My so-called life
A printed out quote, hanging on a cubicle wall:

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times." 

- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 11/06/2026
Sometimes, I miss the pandemic & the mandatory spaced seating we all enjoyed
A photo of a hand of the passenger seated directly in front of me on the train. Their hand is close enough that it rests a mere foot above my knee.
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 11/06/2026
"Your scripts are full of holes—also, I locked you out, sorry" Also, don't judge me. I earnestly have always enjoyed sitting on the floor, & it lets me hang out with my favorite nonhuman pal, easier
Poster's tortoiseshell cat with her paw on poster's transgender flag-coloured LED backlit keyboard
040
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 10/06/2026
When you have a geographical feature as a name, you might get some cute bag art with your delivery
A brown paper bag for food delivery. The name River is written in big block text, underlined with a solidly horizontal line. Underneath is a cute, comic nature scene w/ a river flowing from distant hills that are dotted with evergreen trees
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 09/06/2026
Random still of Claudette Nevins & Robert Picardo (with more hair than I have ever seen), circa 1984, from a TV program called Steambath.
Random still of Claudette Nevins & Robert Picardo (with more hair than the poster has ever seen), circa 1984, from a TV program called Steambath. They are half naked, wearing white towels.
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 07/06/2026
Good morning. Humidity loves me more than I do it
Poster, nude, taking a selfie in her bathroom. her face is covered by a skull emoji. Her hair is wavy AF (and unbrushed). Her tatas ain't bad for being a fairly recent, uhh... phenomenon?
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 05/06/2026
🕸️
Result analysis: Arachne

"Your responses indicate comfort with finality and an unusual calm around loss. You accept that some outcomes cannot be avoided and find meaning in cycles rather than resolutions. You're less concerned with survival than with significance. Endings, to you, are not failures, they are transitions." 

Other filler text for a stylized certificate presenting this personality quiz result like some cyberpunk dossier.
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 04/06/2026
She loves when the humans leave their bed all to her
A picture of poster's cat, Khajiit, sprawling out on poster's unmade bed with floral sheets.
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 28/05/2026
A few hours to go, now
With the pancetta removed, ground beef is cooking into the grease with a half mince half chunky chopped sofritoThe slow beginning of the end: tomato paste having been worked into beef and sofrito, red wine were added and mixed up. Marzano crushed tomato, milk, the prepared pancetta crisps and a couple bay leaves, all left to simmer after a healthy sprinkling of coarse salt n pepper
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 27/05/2026
[singing] Late, night, 🎵bolognese—!🎵🎶
Poster's Dutch oven which is crisping up some pancetta. A slotted wooden spoon rests foolishly on the far right edge of the dutch oven
130
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 22/05/2026
And we should banish any people who say we're being disgusting for celebrating
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 22/05/2026
My princess.
Poster's torty cat, lounging on a white down comforter laid out on their ground floor
061
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 20/05/2026
Honestly, my first thought was this, until I read the placard:
Christopher Lambert as the Highlander (1986)
100
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 20/05/2026
Philly: Who the hell is Shaun Griffith? I. Swear ABC6 is using some fringe candidate guy's image just to make light-skinned Rabb appear whiter lmao
A screenshot of ABC 6 Philadelphia's website, as writ:
Philadelphia voters turn out for competitive 3rd Congressional District race
By TaRhonda Thomas
Updated 20 minutes ago

Philly voters turn out for competitive 3rd Congressional District race
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Voters in Philadelphia's 3rd Congressional District headed to the polls Tuesday for a closely watched Democratic primary that election officials say is drawing steadier turnout than a typical midterm-year contest.

Election results for the 2026 Pa. Primary

---

The image shows 4 candidates, Shaun Griffith?, Chris Rabb, Ala Stanford, Sharif Street. 

Poster would like to know who the hell Shaun Griffith is.
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 08/05/2026
Day 2 leftovers = even better. Second bowl sorry I dgaf — I'm talented
Bowl #2 supper, an especially rich bowl of gumbo
020
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 05/05/2026
Free Cassie.
The burger king logo but it says free cassie, instead. Below that, "cassie would be making bangers of this by now. free cassie & free the bangers"
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 05/05/2026
Lunch break reading material. How much energy did my upload of this image expend?
Your Body is not Your Body, "a new weird horror anthology to benefit trans youth in texas", by Tenebruous Press.
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 03/05/2026
Caturday is on Sunday, too
The baby, poster's cat, Khajiit, curled up on poster's bed doing that little thing with her paw where she "blots out"  the light
041
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 29/04/2026
Live: from my cubicle
Poster's black Smashing Pumpkins t-shirt from the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness double album, hidden behind their red flannel
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 29/04/2026
Shameless product hyping.
A 12 oz bottle of Moshi brand Sparkling yuzu - original. Cute lemon iconography. 

It is the poster's sincere opinion that this is a very well balanced beverage. Not too sweet, not too tart. Immensely refreshing
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 24/04/2026
I have absolutely no idea what the hell I did & it actually hurts so bad
Poster's left thigh, bruised as a peach
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 24/04/2026
like, putting Hasan next to these uhhh, "people", seems wrong to me!! lol
The google search results page for the term 'shock jock', featuring images of Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson and Don Imus
100
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 23/04/2026
quote with one of your best booty pics
Poster's booty, in pale light blue panties
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 19/04/2026
Hello, goodbye.
Photograph of a Canal St subway sign, with the C covered with poster's hand to spell 'anal St'.
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 13/04/2026
"M'tr*nny," lol pre-septo/rhinoplasty, IM hrt, and an actual home. I was quite miserable (jorb) when I took this selfie in 2022). I weigh forty-three more pounds, today. goddess, I can't state enough how much this apartment sucked shit, but this bathroom was quite tranquil.
poster looking a little gaunt, sad & unhealthy, big ole hand in the bathroom mirror as they pinch the bill of their partner's ACAB baseball cap (ACAB in the style of the SEGA logo). Poster is wearing some black and grey striped sleeves, and a grey and black patterned blouse with a pewter necklace with a transgender symbol charm on it.
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 11/04/2026
^ nelward lyric Anyway, I brought back the ole ghost witch of netor pfp
The Ghost Witch of Netor (look it up, if you even care)
000
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 08/04/2026
when I get a new follower
Famous pointing scene from 1978's Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, featuring Donald Sutherland
020
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 02/04/2026
My spouse is teaching me furries' history.
A comic book, Space Beaver, from Ten-Buck Comics, US $1.50 CAN $2.05, Book Six.

The cover features two anthropomorphic characters in a squalid apartment in an unnamed city.

A grey mouse humanoid wearing a black greaser style jacket, red shirt and blue denims grimaces and weeps as they are holding up an apparently overdosed orange cat humanoid wearing a green shirt, blue denims and red sneakers, eyes wide open, grimacing and unresponsive—an opened pill bottle is next to their body with numerous pills scattered from his hand and onto the floor.
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 31/03/2026
My cubicle wards off bigots. Death before transition. I'm at the stage of my transition where I am needing new tops, now, because booba. Buy someone food if they need food. Buy *me* all the clothes.
Poster's cubicle "window" with a trans flag-colored graffiti art (with a Blåhaj ikea shark) simply saying "Trans Rights"
Couldn't find credits for the artist so if anyone reading this knows, hit me up.
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 19/03/2026
One (of many) thing(s) that pisses me off about Philly is how unwalkable Southwest and Northeast Philly are. I want to know who got the contract and how much money that could have gone towards libraries or social services was spent on a wasted effort of ADA compliance. No one is wheelin down here.
an ADA-compliant pedestrian island in Southwest Philly, which leads to no sidewalk or anywhere accessible to feet or wheels that aren't an automobile's
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 18/03/2026
I'm t4t (tort for tort)
Poster's tortoise shell kittie, snuggled on Sunday morning
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 13/03/2026
I can do better--currently using a work-issued tablet and fluorescent lights are causing a stupid glare!! www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/
"Your JND

0.0036

You're seeing differences that most colour scientists would call noise. If you're not already calibrating displays for a living, you're leaving money on the table."
010
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 11/03/2026
an MS-paint "enchancement" of OP's photo, now made to say "Please [send me] [pics of] Your Dog"
030
River, Apprentice Ghost Witch @mottledskeleton.wearybones.rest · 01/03/2026
i finally filled into this crop sweater so nicely. Definitely was a more of a twink piece just 3 years ago — goddess bless all the transexuals with such foresight
Poster in front of her could-be-cleaner bathroom mirror, a skull emoji and a couple of rose emojis obscuring her face and forehead respectively.
She is wearing a thigh-length, loose black nylon undershirt with a crop-topped grey and black leopard print sweater. Her wavy mane hair needs professional attention
170