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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

back in the gym for the first time in months cackling on the treadmill #dimension20 #spoilers

A screenshot of Brian Murphy, Ally Beardsly, and Siobhan Thompson playing Vampire: The Masquerade. Ally is dead calm, saying "Let's just pretend this didn't happen," while Brian and Siobhan look on incredulously.

A screenshot of Zac Oyama, Emily Oxford, and Lou Wilson cackling at Ally Beardsly while playing Vampire: The Masquerade.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

the leopard seal has to be the most cryptid-coded animal on earth who cleared this thing for release

massive grey leopard seal opening its jaws wide underwater to bite at a chicken nugget sized penguin

big grey lump of a leopard seal resting with its jaws open on the snow

grey leopard seal flopped on the snow giving the viewer some shifty side-eye

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

here’s one i took in rome

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

lanifir’marun, a villain from our current campaign.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

personally taking credit for elevating them back into the zeitgeist a few months ago

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

theo is king of the monsters and so gets his own post: illustrations by @gewska.bsky.social (x2), @wolfhidewinter.bsky.social, and @tessquibbs.bsky.social

Illustration of a large, dark minotaur with blue eyes and wide horns that curve up into sharp points. He walking in a green field under a red sun, wearing rough plate armor and carrying a bardiche over his shoulder. Theo is a vengeance paladin and draconic sorcerer.

Illustration of D&D party who has just slain a white dragon in an icy cave. The party is comprised of four humans, a half elf, and a minotaur wearing cold-weather gear and wielding various weapons and magics.

Illustration of a large, dark minotaur with blue eyes, a beaked snout, bronze talons, and wing-like webbing under his arms. He has wide bronze horns that curve up into sharp points. His fur has taken on a bronze hue in places, and he has bronze scales running up his arms and legs. He is wearing a loincloth to protect his MODESTY. Theo is a vengeance paladin and draconic sorcerer.

Illustration of a large, dark minotaur in plate armor being carried through a dark stone hallway by a woman (Ophelia) wearing darkvision goggles with long, wavy blonde hair. Theo looks surprised and confused. Ophelia looks determined. She is dressed like a pirate. Theo is a vengeance paladin and draconic sorcerer. Ophelia is a wild magic barbarian and battlemaster fighter.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

sharing some of the coolest artwork i've collected of my D&D characters over the years: Richard Dickerson by @tessquibbs.bsky.social and @prosodi.bsky.social Mr. Krill by @wurmmeat.bsky.social Philomena by @fionacreates.bsky.social

Illustration of a lean gentleman in dark leather armor with short red hair, and a beard. He is pacing through a library with a book in his hands, and looking suspiciously back over his shoulder. A black cat with wide green eyes rides on his other shoulder. Dick Dickerson is a yuan-ti knowledge cleric and rogue.

Tarot illustration (Judgment) of a lean gentleman in a dark cloak with short hair and a beard. He is reaching out over three dark serpents rising up to meet him. A black cat with wide green eyes rides on his shoulder. Dick Dickerson is a yuan-ti knowledge cleric and rogue.

Illustration of a blue triton man hunched over with his teeth bared, his eyes wild, and clawed hands open wide. He is styled to resemble a short-finned mako shark and is wearing pirate-type pants and bladed gauntlets. Fish skeletons litter the space around him. Mr. Krill is a bloodhunter and tempest cleric.

Illustration of a tall, serious aasimar woman in flying in dark armor and carrying a large sword in one hand. The right half of her face is missing, exposing the gleaming golden skullbone beneath. She has short golden hair and pale wings, one of which is damaged and has lost a few feathers. Philomena is a paladin and a cleric of the life domain.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

early on i hoped that this might all peel away into satire and that the racist cop and tradfam would all be torn to shreds, but no. here's some bonus radio-edit racism (CW), juxt'd against our hero's fondness for Goulart even after shooting him to death.

Text from the novel WEREWOLF COP: "Don't tell me," said Goulart. "With Fatboy Mooch."

"If anyone knows who pulled those mansion heists, he will."

"He will. But that is one evil Negro. You think he'll talk to you?"

"I have a feeling he will, yes."

"You sure you don't want me to come along and be the bad cop."

"Well, you are a bad cop. But he won't meet up with you around. Somehow he's got this idea you're a racist."

"Moi? Why? Because I call an evil Negro an evil Negro?"

"It's your tone," said Zach. "I don't think folks say Negro anymore."

"No fooling? Do they still say evil?"

Zach laughed. The first time today. It was hard not to laugh when Goulart got started on this crap.

Text from the novel Werewolf Cop that starts mid-sentence: staring up into the rafters blindly like that -- it sent a fresh wave of fear through him. He remembered death. He remembered the unimaginable solitude beyond the edges of infinity. He would never forget it. As he held Imogen against him, he prayed for Broadway Joe Goulart wordlessly. He had always liked the man. He prayed that he wasn't even now in that awful place of death.

When he was done with his prayer, he forced his eyes away. He gazed out the window at the moon.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

the author (andrew klaven) eventually gives up on the pretense of the bad cop as a mouthpiece and wafflestomps his deeply weird thoughts about women directly into Werewolf Cop.

text from the novel WEREWOLF COP that starts mid sentence: about miracles and God's will and the Enemy's schemes and all that. Angels. Demons." He eye-checked Goulart to see if he would laugh at that, but he only gave a small snort. "I know, but she really believes in it. My mama did too. And they weren't stupid, either of them. I mean, sure, women, you know, are crazy and all that, but they're not always wrong about things. And Grace -- well, she knows people. She understands the world, in some ways. In some ways better than I do.

Text from the novel WEREWOLF COP that starts mid-sentence: bent down to make a fuss over her pretty dress. Grace said, "Such a wonderful sermon, Frank," and Reverend Gray tilted his head at her in response like a girl saying "Aww" over a bunny rabbit. (At the same time, Zach thought he saw the faintst twinkle of lust in the reverend's eyes -- for which he didn't blame him one bit. Who wouldn't want Grace if you could get her?) Then Zach shook Gray's hand himself and said

Text from the novel WEREWOLF COP: There were two of them, one male, one female, young and healthy but small, small enough to take on easily. The boy first, he thought -- in his jeans and sweatshirt, his hood pulled up against the night cold. Scrawny, but he would be the stronger and faster one. Then the girl, yellow-haired and slender in her jeans and sweater and wool cap. Slower and wewaker, she would have no chance to get away. She was deliciously fertile-smelling too, Zach noticed: to bite into her would be to devour generations. He would feed on them both at leisure, then

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

the writing was so far and away awful from the jump that i decided goulart must be andre braugher by way of 70s captain holt to make it fun for myself. so you can really imagine the shock to my imagination as i hit that first diatribe.

a screenshot of andre braugher as captain holt in brooklyn 99 in 70s regalia, including a wig and era-appropriate mustache.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

He describes women like he's 17 years old, and almost always remarks on race or skin color, even if they are only around for a sentence. This book was published in 2015. The author is allegedly best-selling and had a novel adapted into a film by Clint Eastwood. I feel insane.

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which reads: She glanced up from her work. "Molly." She was a petite, coffee-colored woman. She smiled, but only briefly. Her smile -- and her figure, hidden under the baggy ME windbreaker -- were her best features, and she worked hard not to deploy them while on the job. Especially to guys she found attractive. which she definitely found Zach Adams.

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which starts mid-sentence and reads: uniform who had been the second officer on the scene -- and who was young, and a delicate-looking blonde as well -- was sitting alone in a patrol car, crying uncontrollably. She knew there was nothing she could say to stop her colleagues from believing she was a weak girly-girl, prone to hysteria. The fact that department policy would prevent them from saying this oud loud only made it worse.

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which reads: He gazed out the wind-shield at the twilight streets -- at brownstones and supermarkets, at white headlights and red taillights, at brown-skinned women pushing silver shopping carts under Chinese restaurant marquees and Spanish grocery awnings -- and half to himself and half to God, he cursed the...

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which reads: She was a poised, elegant 25-year-old with long, silky blond hair and fine rose-white features. She had a sympathetic air and a mischievous wit. Not the usual class of woman he came into contact with: she had an aura of high society.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Here's an incredible paragraph where our hero (modest, relaxed, handsome, honest, etc) sadly contemplates telling his wife he cheated on her:

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which reads: Margo had, in fact, let him be. Day after day went by without word from her. It was as if a deluge had ended. The floodwaters of fear and self-pity slowly drained from inside him until there, revealed beneath, was the underlying moonscape of remorse. What now? Should he tell Grace? Hell, no. he might just as well beat her, might just as well beat one of the children into the hospital before her eyes -- it would have been that devastating to her sense of the world, to the underpinnings of her joy in life. And what purpose would it serve? Confession might relieve his torment of guilt, but why should his torment of guilt be relieved? It was his guilt, after all, it out to be his torment: that's how he saw it. He just had to live with it, that's all. Take the medicine. Go to church. Never mind if the ceremony and scripture and Jesus Christ of...

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

No werewolf stuff has happened yet, so far we are just learning about our handsome, modest, relaxed, soft-spoken, honest hero (ZACH ADAMS) and his partner GOULART, who has already delivered multiple bizarre racist + misogynist rants which the author goes out of his way to note are true:

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which starts mid-sentence and reads: been traumatized and because children generally responded better to women and because April was proficient in the Castilian dialect common to Venezuela which, in his traumatized state, was the only language little Mickey could remember how to speak. So Goulart felt it was necessary to explain to Zach that April Gomez had only been promoted to detective in the first place to fulfill some sort of minority quota because she was Hispanic and female -- and the rest of the diatribe followed from that.

Zach, as usual, could only roll his eyes and shake his head. Some people were shocked by Goulart's rants and some secretly agreed with them, but Zach just found them comical and ridiculous. goulart could say whatever he wanted about women -- or blacks or Hispanics or homosexuals or French-German-Italian-Scottish-maybe-Jews, for that matter: Zach took none of it seriously. For him, there were only two kinds of people in the world: sinners and criminals. If you were the former, he considered himself your brother and protector. If you were the latter, he considered himself the flawed but relentless instrument of a just and terrible God.

Goulart's nonsense was obnoxious at times, if Zach bothered to pay attention to it. But, on the other hand, the New Yorker was one of the best detectives he had ever worked with. Goulart had an instinctive sense about people that was almost like mind-reading. He was funny. And generous, for all his blabber. Basically, a good partner all around.

And there was this too: despite all the hogwash the Brooklyn hard-ass spewed out, there was always a bit of truth mixed in. April Gomez

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which starts mid-sentence and reads: had, in fact, been promoted to detective because she was a Latina and because some loud-mouthed pol and the media had complained about the absence of Latina detectives on the job. She was a sweet girl and by no means stupid, but she had as much business being called to a crime scene as a vase of carnations. Everyone in the department who knew anything about it knew that this was true.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

i'm 40 pages into Werewolf Cop, a real hard-backed former Brentwood, TN library thriller I can hold in my hands with a full color photograph of the author on the inner back sleeve: a novel that has forced me to ask the question "what the actual fuck" out loud while reading.

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which reads: Women make crap detectives," said martin Goulart. "The only good ones are lesbians -- you ever notice that? Lesbians and fat black women. I don't know what that's about. I'm thinking of that two-ton Negro broad -- what was her name? -- Susie -- used to work the one-seven. She was all right. But for the most part, being a detective, what is it, right? Reason, unemotional observation, a sense of responsibility, guts -- why would you hire a female to do a job like that? It'd be like hiring me to do sensitivity training." This was typical Goulart. He was always saying stuff like this.

A passage from the novel WEREWOLF COP, which reads: Plus Zach Adams was a celebrity hero with an unmatched reputation. He was said to be modest, relaxed, soft-spoken, hardworking, honest, and a great detective. It would be something for Muldoon just to be able to say he had worked with the Cowboy.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

two drinks deep waiting for a stall while trans and visible

A still frame from What We Do in the Shadows. Matt Berry addresses a crowd, saying "I am just a regular human guy."

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

monster hunter starring my precious son

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

the coolest thing about seeing dino bones in person vs a picture is seeing how they are scooped and twisted and bent under the weight of all the muscle piled on top of them

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

another w for the trans agenda now i just have to survive the flight back

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

finally got around to watching downfall just in time for divergence. zaharzht, my beloved... #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #exandriaunlimited #turtussy

a mediocre illustration of a hunched albino spiny snapping tortle with a few fishing hooks stuck into him.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

staring into the abyss of the jurassic worlds rebirth trailer as the actual world crumbles around my ears

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

getting the first hike of 2025 in early before they turn on the big faucet that drains the pnw

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

nosferatu is tammy-the-ghoul coded, toe to tip this is a tammy

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

they really missed the mark not making these gold toe

a picture of $1000 shoe that looks like a $1 sock

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

anyway here’s my rook hating on solas

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

the absolute nightmare scenario of being misgendered and instead of saying sorry and moving on they stand up, walk ten feet across the room, and start doing pushups while loudly explaining what happened to everyone. just veilguard things.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

pls sir may i have one taste

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

ophelia takes matters into her own hands when theo nearly alerts fire giants to the party's (invisible) presence with his clattering hoofsteps. another fantastic illustration of D&D chaos by @tessquibbs.bsky.social pls commission her.

Artwork of two D&D characters, Ophelia and Theo.

Scene: Ophelia is determinedly carrying Theo over her shoulders. She is much smaller than him but strong enough to carry him easily. They are sneaking through a dark stone hallway under the guise of an invisibility spell and Theo was being so noisy that Ophelia decided to pick him up and carry him. Theo cannot see in the dark so he has no idea what is happening and can't risk an argument. He is baffled and just having to go along with it.

Ophelia: fair-skinned, blonde noblewoman barbarian. Loves money, violence, and being in charge. Self-control on the low side, easily upset, but also the backbone of the D&D party!! Carries a battle-axe, wearing fantasy night-vision goggles. Her style is kind of swashbuckly but she doesn't have two belts anymore. Someone stole her two belts and we're all very upset about it.

Theo: big, dark, heavily-armored dragonish-minotaur monster paladin. Black and bronze colors, blue eyes, self-serious. Like 7 feet tall. No night vision goggles for him, he cannot see shit.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Show me your pet and what they are named after:

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

i like the bigger fake horns tied onto his real horns also.

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

aint no way dragon king got top surgery scars lmao. veilguard back to 10/10 game, congratulations on the toxic masculinity king. #veilgard #spoilers

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

jumpscared so badly by the hisuian typhlosion you can't opt out of in arceus that i picked up a tablet pencil for the first time in over a year. #pokemon #art

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

last volcanic hike of the year before snow sets in

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

tell me i'm wrong, charles

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rock @rockefeller.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

taskmaster s16 finale i am crying

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