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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Some say the devil is dead and buried in Killarney More say he rose again, and joined the British army.

Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I have this exact giant same tablet, and I managed to fix some issues I was having by using the drivers from a different brand that sold the same tablet under a different label (Huion) and kept updating the driver for longer than Monoprice did. Also got a replacement pen from them.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My foster Chilla got this CONSTANTLY when I was still taking him to adoption events and I'd just be like... "He's a random garbage cat. We're a feral cat rescue. The black and white shorthair next to him is his littermate."

Two four month old kittens sit on a crocheted blanket. The one in front is slightly larger and grey with a medium-length coat. The other is black with white facial markings and has her chin rested on her brothers flank. Both are looking at the camera and have identical green eyes and face shape.

An adult medium-coat grey cat with green eyes flops on a cream colored carpet

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I am given to understand by friends who know more about it than I dare to that 'pony supremacism' is in fact a thing in the Friendship Is Magic universe, they're just racist against bison and zebras instead of Native and black people.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

*Gray, dammit. Also, would you believe me if I told you "Indrid Cold" actually has nothing to do with Mothman and is actually the focus of a completely different story about a guy who claims to have met aliens?

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The Silver Bridge by Grey Barker!

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I can never stand the obligatory companion who hates sidequests. Alright, bye then, go sit in camp with Morrigan.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Spawned in when the area re-rendered after you returned from book tour.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I am pretty sure the last time I read a book directly because of a marketing effort on the part of the publisher as opposed to a post from the author or a recommendation from another reader was at a Scholastic Book Fair in grade school.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Hey, just letting everyone know that this lil guy very probably has a home unless multiple options fall through. Thanks again to everyone who's shared.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Hey, sorry for the slow response, I've been juggling various things. I have both an adopter and an understudy lined up for him!

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

IDK, he managed to pick the apartment to camp out in front of that would get him vet care out of a couple hundred units so I think he's crafttier than he lets on.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

(To be clear, when I said "waste of time" I didn't mean "wah no one cares" but "I can't target things geographically on bsky", I realized that sounded kinda salty when I came back to add more pics. Thanks so much to everyone who has shared!) Here's some more pics!

An orange white teenage cat with dark orange eyes sits poised to bat at a dangly toy in the foreground.

An orange white teenage cat with dark orange eyes lays sprawled on the carpet, having captured his dangly foe.

An orange white teenage cat with dark orange eyes draped over a knit red blanket on the back of a couch.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Unfortunately, I'm not in their range, and the shelters around here are very strict on their county borders. My local animal shelter considers feral cats 'not their problem' and is the *reason* the adjacent counties have to be so strict about that policy, which is how I ended up with Too Many Cats.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Sure, DM me with anything you'd like to know!

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Couch warmers who will ignore him or little dogs in his weight class? I think they'd be fine properly introduced. My friend's border collie who thinks herding cats is his collie? Stressful.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Unfortunately, no idea, since I have neither. Kids are almost certainly fine if they're old enough to get a cat's boundaries, he's never once scratched me. Dogs, he's only met people walking them outside, so he'll probably hide, but it likely depends on how big/energetic they are.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Having scrolled back to see the color of the horf in question, I totally agree that the russet would look sharp matching his mane.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I was thinking about it from the other direction and wondering if they brought it to the surface because swallowing at super-depth pressures is a bad idea for some reason.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I cannot keep him in the apartment indefinitely, I am unemployed and already have far too many fosters here that I've had no luck placing. I'm not asking for an adoption fee or any reimbursement for his neuter, I just don't want him to go back outside.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

He's friendly with other cats (he was desperately trying to play with mine through the window before I trapped him) and has rapidly warmed up to humans since he realized being brushed is nice. He's also absurdly comfortable being handled for a cat I thought was feral.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I know this is a waste of time, but of anyone in the Bay Area can take on a cat, this ~5 month boy I trapped for TNR turned out to be way friendlier than I thought and also has a limp that does not pain him but can't be easily fixed.

An orange and white teenage cat with orange eyes, sitting in the corner of a metal crate.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Also, "we don’t generally question that." Are you kidding? You've just demonstrated that even a tepid "it's not for me" gets a whole-ass thinkpiece written about how you're a heartless monster for not wanting to deal with other people's screaming toddlers.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Since even the absolutely inoffensive "kids are okay but I don't want to be around them" is too far for you, I can only assume you're the kind of person who heard "it takes a village" and interpreted it as "everyone in my vicinity is supposed to drop everything to coddle my spoiled children."

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Nah, you're deliberately missing the point. People who assert they don't like kids aren't doing it to be big meanies, they're doing it because they've been pressured have kids from their own childhood, and many parents seem to see any adult without their own children as "free emergency childcare."

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It's been my maxim for a long time that if +1 Swords of Freezing are relatively trivial to acquire then the guy making them should be selling several dozen magic refrigerators for every magic sword. Many D&D players will also get a kick out of an artificer running a magical Best Buy.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I can't believe the Lord of Lies would be so opaque about his organizational structure.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Back in the 90's, Cameron Chase and her sister saw a Green Lantern movie starring Mel Gibson as Hal Jordan. Which I'm very curious what kind of movie it was, given it was made just a couple years after the whole Parallax thing.

[A comic panel of crowd of people leaving a theatre under the marquee "IN DARKEST NIGHT: The Green Lantern Story." Two women in the foreground speaking.]
Terry: You are sooo wrong, Cam. Mel Gibson is such a hottie.
Cam: I'm not saying that Mel's not a total stud, Terry.
[Panel 2]
Cam: I'm just saying he was wrong for the part. Green Lantern wasn't anything like that. He wasn't so smooth and polished. He was... I dunno... rougher around the edges than that.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Using a hallucination as a reference is worse than useless.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

...Who is NOT going straight for the self checkouts !?

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Hard agree on the last one! The culinary niche of Subway is when you're on a road trip and the sight of another fast food burger will make you ill.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I mean, I always assumed that if we *did* clone a mammoth it would essentially be a publicity stunt rather than a serious attempt at re-introduction. "Zoogoers cooing over the baby mammoth brings in money for less-glamorous crawling through taxidermy collections for DNA samples" kinda thing.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It's so fucking weird that I know you both completely independently.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

When I very briefly was talked into this haircut by a stylist, she called it an A-line bob.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

In the original the solid black makes my brain subconsciously expect that the hood will be pulled back to reveal another worm guy.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I like the idea of cityscape for contrast with the houseplants.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I once ran a game featuring a magic tournament whose rules had recently been rewritten in-world because an artificer and a Use Magic Device rogue wiped the floor with the actual casters the previous year.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So when I found out the UK still had a king and queen, my reaction was essentially "shock" + "oh no, England must be so embarrassed by that." Like when I found out one of my classmates was basically living without running water for months due to a failed bathroom reno by their dad.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Death of Princess Diana. Mostly because not only did I know who she was, but the fact that princesses still existed in the modern day was news to me -- I had vaguely assumed that other countries had all gotten rid of royalty sometime since the American Revolution.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

...But "tasty" is not an objective property of matter, it's a tag our brain puts on various chemicals we need to trick us into eating them because "logically, you need nutrients" isn't sufficiently motivating. Presumably, Bismollians would have evolved a palate to match their digestion.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

As someone who attended SUNY Binghamton 15 years ago, that's just flying into BGM every time. Those <50 seat planes feel very different to ride in than the big ones. Every time I try to describe the Binghamton airport to someone who has only flown through like, JFK they think I'm doing a bit.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

this is why physical media other than pencil gives me Anxiety

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"Discharged a firearm, striking the victim in the chest" It's nice that he's getting the benefit of Cop Grammar.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Yes, this was also our old Lab/Chessie mix. Friendly dog, loved everybody -- and I have no doubt she would have cheerfully gone home with anyone who offered her food and never given us a second thought.

A large brown Labrador mix lies on a carpet up against a drawer, neatly folded into a sunbeam.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I just think if a contradiction can be explained with "the character who said that in-universe is wrong" then maybe it's not a plot hole.

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Phoenix Talion @phoenixtalion.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

"92.3% Husky 7.7% Border Collie" Sooooo she's actually a husky/BC mix? (Which is still a dog that requires way too much exercise.)

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