partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026He shouldn't have shown up wearing a gorilla suit 010
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Frank Herbert made (and spent) a decent pile towards the end of his life, though it's his estate that must really be raking it in. I don't suppose Brian Herbert counts? 041
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It took enough effort to work it out that I feel obliged to anyway 000
Reposted by @partialcredit.bsky.socialAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Pity no one turned up" - G. K. Chesterton at the annual Postman's Ball. 68223
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The tech bros yearn for the Torment Nexus 011
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Let's do Dune!" — People who definitely took the wrong lesson from Dune 120
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Persons suffering from Frenchness" 001
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026That's what makes him the ... mistro? 000
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Same. I thought I might skip this one, but this sort of censorship (not just of WEG, but also games that are genuinely nsfw) is unacceptable 011
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You made me check this out and I really enjoyed the series. So thanks! 110
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026That would be a more convincing argument if Cleves had conducted her campaign in accordance with the standards of academia. The general claims made without any attempt to back them up with specific examples and the misstatement of sources fall well short of that. 0180
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Your response is like the real-world version of fantasies I have when SIWOTI. 030
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Great deep dive into a controversy I had completely missed. I'll certainly be ordering a copy of Walden's graphic novel! 000
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Are you ready to take up the mantle as the British version of @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ? 001
Reposted by @partialcredit.bsky.socialTheropods - OUT NOW @losttoken.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ten years ago, it started with a game jam. Since then, we've poured all of our love and craft into every single pixel. Now, it's finally here: a wordless point-and-click adventure in a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs. Theropods launches August 20th!🦕 15844226
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I don't mean to dampen your enthusiasm, but I think 60M years is not very old for a rock, and most are in fact a lot older than that. I think. 110
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Oh damn I might accidentally have made a serious observation 010
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"When Athena stopped appearing in visions as I was sitting in the room divided in two, it was like my mind had a breakdown and my whole way of understanding myself changed." 100
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026First time around I thought the elderly duck with the speech impediment must be Donald (age 92), because he's the uncle who's canonically raising them. What's this newfangled "duck tales" phooey?! 000
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026worksinprogress.co/issue/were-c...worksinprogress.coWere classical statues painted horribly? - Works in Progress MagazineMany claim that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from theirs. 010
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I have gathered you all together to reveal the solution: ABK didn't post this. He was already dead, and the killer made this post to make it appear that he was still alive in his deadbolted study. The crucial clue is that this mistake actually *would* have annoyed the real ABK. And the killer is 1/ 2180
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026There's a convincing post by a certain disgraced author on a certain disgraced platform, but rather than cite that I'll just point out that the attribution does not match either of the real Bentley & Son (Richard and George). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...en.wikipedia.orgRichard Bentley (publisher) - Wikipedia 021
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Mainly that I can't find any instances in earlier fiction (Faulkner is an early example), and that internal monologue was not widely used until the end of the 19th century. E.g., Jane Austen used free indirect speech, Poe's narrators might address the reader directly. Do you have counterexamples?cmosshoptalk.comFormatting Thoughts in FictionThere are a few simple conventions for presenting thoughts in fiction, and these overlap with the conventions for setting off dialogue and other quoted speech or text—or anything that might normally t... 020
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Are you sure? Using italics to mark thoughts seems to be a twentieth-century device, and there's plenty of fiction earlier than that that's still commonly read. 100
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I assume you are aware that's satire 190
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 23/06/2026As far as I can tell it's available in paperback both in US and UK markets. (Assuming we're talking about the first book in the series.) 010
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Sometimes if some algorithm assumes that a<=b, I've found it easiest and clearest to just do a check and swap them if necessary. 000
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It could be like the "This is my design"-bits in Hannibal, where you are a detective projecting yourself into the mind and actions of the killer. 010
Reposted by @partialcredit.bsky.socialLindsay Katai @lindsaykatai.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Angry about studio CEOs not making fun new stuff and just hoarding their money like goblins? Don’t just rewatch old shows, support new creators and pledge to @kellynugent.bsky.social’s Kickstarter campaign for Brother Manor, a three part satire of gothic romances. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kel...kickstarter.comBrother ManorBrother Manor is a three part satirical gothic romance soap opera miniseries brought to you by Kelly Nugent and Lucas Eubank. 0116
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Well, I might also be an idiot, because if the moon is full (and it was nearly full last night, waning gibbous) I don't see how the sun can also be illuminating the far side. 000
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Will, it's Hamnet. Your son, Hamnet Shakespeare. You know that new tragedy you've been looking for? 000
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 23/02/2026May I interest you in www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/game/25...adventuregamestudio.co.ukBreakfast on Trappist-1 | Adventure Game StudioThe woman you love is a refugee from a destroyed planet. She is lonely and desperate and cannot let go of her lost home. Only you can help her grow out of the[…] 000
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 14/02/2026It's like you have a spy camera in my room. 010
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I like that it wasn't all just well-meant but out-of-touch bad suggestions, but some real helpful advice and ideas mixed in. Makes me wonder if there is some kind of crypto-Stratfordian conspiracy theory where Willy was just a front man for another family member. 010
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Take me down to the Paraphrase City with its verdant fields and attractive chitties 010
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Sorry to turn the penis swastikas political, but my first thought was that this was from the new White House East Wing 120
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I think I know four distinct meanings of "out of pocket." Which one is the new and different sense? 1. Broke 2. From your own funds, or in cash 3. Unruly, unacceptable 4. Unreachable, in an unknown location 000
Reposted by @partialcredit.bsky.socialRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 19/08/2025as always, the secret is to combine two items in your inventory into one :) 513263635
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Would you call it a Whodidit? youtu.be/2ptNJaiid5E?...youtu.beABK's Murder Mystery WHODIDIT?YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King 010
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 23/07/2025That album art always reminds me of an Atkinson Grimshaw painting 110
Reposted by @partialcredit.bsky.socialThe A.V. Club @avclub.com · 23/04/2025From the creators of The Blackwell Legacy and Unavowed, Old Skies is one of the best time travel games we've ever played.avclub.comAdventure game Old Skies is a must-play for time travel fans 0105
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Case in point: bsky.app/profile/theo... 160
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The Onion often exaggerates headlinese for comedic effect 140
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025If you're going to be sarcastic, I'd like to see YOU write a series of children's books about pre-teens who solve mysteries in various picturesque locations (excellently illustrated) 030
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024'State of Dogs' (1998) is a Mongolian arthouse film told from the perspective of a dead stray dog. Highly recommended! There's also 'Stray' (2020), a Turkish movie about dogs living on the street in Istanbul, but I haven't seen it. So, there's some truth to it… ? 140
partialcredit.bsky.social @partialcredit.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Leathery eggs, yum! I'd better take off my space suit helmet so I can start enjoying that delicious yolk 110
