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Ray Vallese

@rayvallese.bsky.social
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I edit, proofread, and occasionally write things, mostly games and books.

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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TIRED: The “Inside you are two wolves” meme WIRED:
Screenshot from a Godzilla movie with a man saying “Godzilla exists inside each one of us.”
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Look, man, I just wanted to borrow some figs. I didn't know I'd have to jump through all these hoops.
Partial transcript from a spam voicemail that says it's an important alert about my loan from the fig lending verification department.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My 85 friends who came to IKEA with me: All this shopping is making us hungry! Me: You’re not gonna believe this
Inside IKEA, a big red banner advertises hot dogs, in quantities of 1, 3, 10, 25, or 86.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: Whey Might Be Giants
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There should be more cartoons for editors.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: AVENGERS: BLOOMSDAY
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger: XLTC
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I can see the Abyss from my house!
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Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jake Lang getting his Nazi ass beaten by Spider-Man in Minneapolis today is the ray of sunshine I needed.
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hello mortals! Here on your Prime world, the land is on fire, the air is full of smoke, there is heat so hot it kills you, the water is too much or not enough, and the food makes your bowels explode. Why did no one tell Xanxost how wonderful this world is??
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello from Gen Con mortals! Xanxost is sorry about the big storm. Xanxost packed some chaos stuff from Limbo for the trip and it got loose.
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Many beings enjoy doing this to slaadi because the rough skin scrubs their face clean! Sometimes clean off.
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Greetings from Gen Con mortals! The spellslingers on the beach forgot to announce that they are teaming up with Xanxost to make books about Xanxost! The reason they forgot is they do not know it yet. But Xanxost will show them it is a good idea! Xanxost just needs to get some rocks first.
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hello mortals! It is Gen Con time in your famous city Indianapolisburg! Xanxost will be there to research what mortals are saying about the planes. If you see Xanxost, please come up and say "Hello Xanxost!" Try not to look like food when you do it.
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hello mortals! Did you know the Outer Planes also have a famous story called The Odyssey? It is the story of a man who takes a crew and sets out to travel the entire Great Ring but they go to Limbo first and a red slaad eats them. It is a short story.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Prompting an LLM is like making a wish in a roleplaying game. You've gotta be very careful with the wording or you won't like the results.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.
Screenshot from the videogame Grey Skies. A female character stands in front of an indoor swimming pool. A sign by the pool says PLEASE DO NOT SWIM, and, in smaller letters, "There isn't an animation for it."
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Elf fingers work best when prepared with surprise. You sneak up to the elf while they are busy thinking about barmy elf things and rip their fingers off. Sometimes the hand or arm comes off too and that is okay. Just keep practicing!
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Hello mortals! Xanxost hears there is a Prime Material Plane lettuce that makes your butt explode. Oho! All glory to your graybeards for creating the perfect snack and/or weapon of war. Xanxost is coming with two bags of holding! Do you take elf fingers in trade?
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Hello mortals! Xanxost was asked how to stay cool when it is very hot outside. The answer is simple! Dig a big hole and fill it with cold liquid like high elf blood or wood elf blood or dark elf blood or sea elf blood. Then leave it and go on a vacation to the Ice Wastes of the Abyss.
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Xanxost @xanxost.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hello mortals! Xanxost met a new dretch in the Abyss who says his name is Linseed. His new job is licking Juiblex clean and he will be good at it because he did the same thing for a big smelly blob in his mortal life. The lesson is experience counts! Prepare for the afterlife you want!
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory
TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY'RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-
BUY NOW! HUMMUS AND A
WOW!! 
EXTRA LARGE FALAFEL MEAL FOR 2!!!
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects
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Personasama @persona.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Reading the Swan Boy webcomic is like being stuck on a tour bus hijacked by a confused wizard who shows you all the coolest stuff you wouldn't have seen otherwise
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We don’t usually get to see each other’s header images. Here’s mine. I stand by this statement.
Panel from the Peanuts comic strip where Linus is saying “Editors are sort of human, too, you know!”
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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And hamburger to help before I sleep, And hamburger to help before I sleep.
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Hello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slightly increase a band. They ARE giants.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I will NEVER spin doctors
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Ty Templeton @tytempleton.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This was originally rejected by my editor at Marvel, but it was always one of my favourites, so you get to see it here! Sunday Funnies YAY!
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
@tomlommel.com I'm finally watching Paradise and hear the president say "Where are my nerds?" and see this. Maybe people will start shouting "YO, WHERE ARE MY NERDS" at you in the street.
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somnamrover.bsky.social @somnamrover.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Alice Lastname @wortron.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
have you ever noticed that kermit the frog is in the black lodge
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Oops -- I need to go into my Bluesky settings and toggle off the cognitive dissonance.
One post that says "poetry helps" immediately followed by a different post that says "Violence is the answer."
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It's getting harder and harder to tell Trump's letters from the letters of Lazlo Toth*, great American. * Don Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci.
Two letters, side by side. On the left is a satirical letter written by Lazlo Toth (alter ego of Don Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci). On the right is an equally weird but real letter that Trump wrote to the prime minister of Norway.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Editing. The author said that the mighty Thor, god of thunder, is especially formidable because he can also summon lighting. Big deal. I can do that too.
Photo of a hand flipping a light switch to turn on lights.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
When I edit punctuation in manuscripts, I remove commas from writers who have too many and give them to writers who need more. Yes, I am a Comma-unist.
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Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Stay safe out there y'all
An illustration showing cute fat rabbits piling into an underground burrow. There is text, part of which has been edited. The original text says "There are tunnels underground where bunnies are safe — safe" and the edited text adds "from emails"
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Idea for a new detective series: Hercules Poirot. He solves mysteries by performing feats of strength. What are some of his books/movies? Examples: Pulling the Orient Express The Jacked Man Guns Out The Bench-Pressing of the Lambs
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
What we're watching: A new take on
"Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Editing. How did you even *do* this, author?
Screenshot of the words "if you're carrying" but the apostrophe is somehow backward
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
At first I thought the @merriam-webster.com site was having a stroke.
Screenshot from the Top Lookups Right Now list on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website, which includes an incredibly long word (the name of a lake) that looks like gibberish. The word is so long that it doesn't even fit in the list.
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Stan! @stannex.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Thanks for the inspiration @rayvallese.bsky.social I really should dig up all my Typos of Doom and put them into an ebook or something.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Editing. The author wrote that the character had a rough childhood because he grew upon the streets. Apparently the character is a weed, or maybe mold. Yeah, I'd say that's a rough life.
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Okay, *one* king. But that’s all.
Image of Godzilla that calls him King of the Monsters
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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
In honor of spooky month, share a four-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. He did a dawizard.
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