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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 25/09/2026

if i fail this interview i have next week too i am going to blow my shit clean off

🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 25/09/2026

the anhedonia is mauling me something awful. it's getting very badly in the way of i'm talking to like basically nobody most days and that's more than likely fueling the death spiral, but it's hard to initiate or engage in conversations when i truly do not have anything of interest to say

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 22/09/2026

I'd have liked to put Bastion and Pyre and Into the Breach and Disco Elysium on there but they weren't necessarily formative, which I think is what the prompt is...?

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 18/09/2026

i have been so incredibly ill for the past few days. i havent been able to breathe through my nose at all and now my throat is tightening up, i can feel the oxygen leaving my bloodstream, this shit sucks man

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 13/09/2026

i've edited the opening few hundreds of words of this first chapter so many times i've lost all objectivity. is the pacing okay. did i infodump too much or too little. is the in media res opening too jarring. who the flipping heck knows

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🔪kasutera🍰@7.56 @kasutera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

hey "nice" manbun haha it fuckin sucks you hipster asshole [he turns around and reveals he is ilberd feare of the ala mhigan resistance] oh fuck

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 12/09/2026

i would not queue for alliance roulette unless i were threatened at gunpoint. if i got ivalice i'd be pleasantly surprised. if i got aglaia i would take the opportunity to enjoy nald'thal's music. the nier music is also great but i suck supremely at the mechanics

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 12/09/2026

do you think shoutcasters are like the greek chorus of esports

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 11/09/2026

haven't heard back from the place in san francisco i've been interviewing with yet but i did get a new interview with a place in seattle which is also cool

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 11/09/2026

it's nice to be validated for my long-held "cahciua is a manic pixie dream milf" allegations

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 11/09/2026

maybe i should make a free trial account to play around with. its not like i give a shit about anything after stormblood anyways

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Gubaba @gubaba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Char from Gundam CCA pulling a RADICAL move on his board, while saying "Amuro... I'm doing something extremely wicked..."

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 09/09/2026

i still havent heard back... weh!!

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 08/09/2026

no griffin pet for beastmaster huh

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 08/09/2026

i call stephanivien de haillenarte skysteel steve

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 08/09/2026

would you like to play in a ttrpg thing where you are a gig worker superhero in philadelphia. scheduling is likely to be wonky because i am (fingers crossed?) potentially moving soon but. i wanted to put this out there because the setting and characters are near and dear to my heart

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SECOND STRING. SECOND SHIFT.

SECOND STRING. SECOND SHIFT. January 2025 It isn’t easy making a career out of being a superhero. Every city’s got their headliner. Manhattan has Vorpal, Philadelphia has Lodestar, Tokyo has Kusanagi...

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 08/09/2026

i hope nobody minds me using wolqotd prompts for my completely ffxiv unrelated characters in a near-future work of original fiction that has been dwelling in my head for several months

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 07/09/2026

okay, actual typesetting time. cormorant garamond for Doc S

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 06/09/2026

remind me later to render some of these: alric/athala: cormorant garamond eleisa: marcellus tetsuya: shippori mincho h'jikoh: zilla slab? tyche: big shoulders inline display zeno: ... monoton? victoria: prata jun: noto serif tc cyrus: space mono kaph: fira code sean: sixtyfour gyeoul: black han sans

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 06/09/2026

alric/athala: corn nuts eleisa: donut holes (bitches that they're not timbits, refuses to accept that timbits stopped being good decades ago) tetsuya: one of each flavor of karaage kun yeah yeah lawson isnt a tas station convenience store whateverrrr h'jikoh: literally anything she can shoplift

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 05/09/2026

what's a mouse's favorite part of weekend brunch

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 05/09/2026

i did my very last interview and im waiting to hear back. i hope i get it. i feel like it would be cool to live in san frandisco

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 05/09/2026

dont have any ships but. alric/athala: honey and cinnamon eleisa: creme de marrons tetsuya: pickled plum h'jikoh: orange sherbet i'm gonna start thinkin about this for all my nonxiv ocs too...

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 04/09/2026

i have lived in alabama for most of my life but i'm cool with this. gritty please come abduct me

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 28/08/2026

the worms in my brain are making me draft a video game where you're an insurance claims adjuster approving or denying claims for property damage caused by superheroes or workers comp for superheroes getting hurt on the job

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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have a blog now and wrote about playing a bastardized version of OD&D in prison and how the DIY spirit of the OSR is most alive when you don't buy anything at all barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...

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NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU

There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 21/08/2026

i am feeling confident after yesterday's interview / assessment but i am left a little uncertain as to how many more i have to do before i find out if i get a job or not

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 14/08/2026

conveniently, the normal self introduction suffices in this case

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 13/08/2026

it's very inconvenient that for the past several days leading up to this important interview the only thing i am apparently capable of doing is cry and be viscerally bombarded with the need to crawl into a trash compactor and die

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 08/08/2026

they let me paint at da birtday party

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 06/08/2026

wa.. i got to move on to the next interview... here i come san frandisco

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 05/08/2026

god help me i'm back on my bullshitttttt (smiling so sweetly. please ask me about my superheroes campaign i am planning and worldbuilding for.)

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 04/08/2026

please also take the opportunity to recommend me some good reading

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 04/08/2026

revolve her ocelot? i barely know her ocelot

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 02/08/2026

yeah. i would like to do this. let me know if that sort of thing tickles your fancy, and what might work for you timewise.

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 24/07/2026

not to belabor the point or to drive the ambient quality of the timeline down with my atrocious vibes but jesus christ i am really going through it

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 23/07/2026

i am thinking about. making like. some sort of writing and book club discord. with book reccs and discussions and like prose practice prompts i dunno. if that would be a thing that people would be interested in. maybe even a place where i can dm from one day

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 22/07/2026

came out to my wife. who is straight. much earlier than i wanted to. what a freaking situation. god i am a mess right now

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 21/07/2026

bit shouting into the dark here, but i am lookin for a place to work if anybody knows anything for a little creature that does mostly computer science but would not mind getting back into mechanical engineering or medtech. i am cool w moving, it seems like a good time to get out of the rural south

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 19/07/2026

my phone is broken and my application for marketplace healthcare has failed some sort of identity verification process. what a week. is it cool if i cry here. like just absolutely let it rip

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 19/07/2026

feeling rather glum about not having xiv as a nice reason to keep in touch w a lot of my pals. which is probably a little silly since i havent even been on it for a while anyways. maybe the absence is just catching up to me. maybe i should start a book club or something. i dunno

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 02/01/2025

wracked with malaise

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 18/07/2026

suddenly having a clearer image of what i want for myself is a lot to deal with all at once, having spent the entirety of my life with my highest priority not being inconvenient to the people around me. how the heck do i dig myself out of this hole

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✶ hon ✶ @lyndztanica.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Fresh from a week long vacation I bring you... a preview of my piece for @dutysupportzine.bsky.social !! Good ol' Severian from the ALC questlines (and someone else?) If you like what you see here (and from other contributors) pre-order here!: duty-support-zine.bigcartel.com

a man sits at a table with alchemic components! what could he be doing??

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saba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Finished our table's stamp rally sticker... welcome to ala mhigo n'at

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🀄️ 🐀 antioch @ratmachine.com · 16/07/2026

after gently excising him from the world of hydaelyn i am laundering Athalaric Siegryn into an Original Fantasy Work and violently forcefemming him in the process everyone wave and wish her well

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