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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Hey #fiction people, especially #women, I have a character question. My main character in this short story is a trader, a millionaire, and a psychopath. She is going to get the bad news that she has inoperable stage 4b metastatic cancer, and she is going to murder the board members. That's not […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Hey graphic artists, designers, illustrators, and photographers who do book covers, I need covers, and want to barter I really can't pay hundreds of bucks on books that won't earn a hundred over a year, but I can devote half a page and acknowledge the artist, and you can be written into a story […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Hey @autolycos I need a psychiatry consult :) My dude is being poisoned with rye ergot, and has been referred to psych by the ER after a psychotic break in which he was wandering around naked, clutching a dictionary and watering can. He has a nervous disposition and hypochondria, so presents a […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Oh, so that looks maxing twit got pinched for rape and drugging a girl. How am I not surprised that's where his trajectory went?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Hey @alice @koalou @h3mmy May I ask one question - would it work if I make the hyena trickster god in "Mightily Milly", an ENBY? I started with Hyena as female, but does it work better if Hyena is ENBY?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Dear billionaire, oligarch, techbro, undermining democracy and bringing about fascism to protect your hoard, is a stunningly stupid idea. If you shift is to an autocracy, the horde will still come for you, but instead of changing laws and making you pay your fair share of taxes (democracy), we […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@screwturn/11727527… Can someone with a screen reader for the #blind please tell me if you can read the poll results in this post. Thanks

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

#writinggroup pompt was to do an Abecedarian. Here is my take, titled "Golf and recycling"

A thing that
Badly bothered Betty
came to her suddenly, abruptly, annoyingly.
Deciding what to do about it, was
easier than expected, though.
For as long as she could remember,
golf, golfing, and especially golfers
had
irritated her, irked her, inflamed her.
Just imagine her reaction, then, to a
kaleidoscope of colors, painted in slivers of
light across her walls, ceilings, and antique hardwood floor, from broken glass.
Maybe you can picture the golf ball, insouciant among the shards, feigning innocence.
Not the first time, had that
oaf next door made a wayward shot, but never before, through her
plate glass, double-glazed, UV-protected, noble-gas-filled, $300 pane.
Quiet anger gave slow and cautious way to
rage that grew through her body, twisting up her muscles like a honeysuckle, and
she knew
that this, was the
ultimate…
vexation
without doubt. But now, the
xylem of a new tree, sucks nutrients from that recycled golfer, and
yearning shoots emerge in spring, with a
zeal, that gladdens her heart, and blooms that fill her house with joy.

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Joshua Barretto @jsbarretto.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I'm in a weird position where I entirely believe that the Anthropic AI doom stuff is purely a cynical attempt to save a dying oligopoly, but also I sort of don't want to say it because I do think that actual ASI (LLMs won't get us there, of course) would be a near-immediate extinction event and […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Sept. 16: Is there a topic you could really use an expert’s help with? What is it? I often need medical advice, but have several physicians and researchers who help me there. Where I often need help is lived experience of women, people of color, and people with disabilities […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

#WordWeavers Sept 16: If your MC was elected mayor of your own town, would you stay or move? Why? Since my current MC becomes a trickster god and is able to control every atom, everywhere, at once, moving wouldn't make a wit of difference. However, I would expect a few unexpected deaths of […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

No shade on graphic artists, but I'm thinking of making all my books going forward have plain brown covers, with default font, and no graphics I'm just sick of the cover costing more than the book is ever likely to earn, and turning my writing into months of effort to create a platform for a cover

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

OK, I have a request of everyone. I want you all to report these arsehole channels and influencers who are making rage-bait videos on YouTube that are designed to make men angry with women. They steal and edit clips by women and frame them with narration […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of youtube report of Jedediah Bila, a serial rage-baiter

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

My latest complaint to YouTube about platforming rage-bait channels that make money out of making insecure men angry with women

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

The existence of spitoons implies the existence of spitumentaries

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

#ScribesAndMakers Sep 3: Which ebook reader do you use? Mainly Kobo, but sometimes the public library opens a book in hoopla. I migrated everything off Amazon several months back for both the books I authored and the ones I read

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

The existence of angel investors implies the existence of demon investors

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Men give each other the fucking weirdest advice about women

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Wait, it's Wednesday today? How did that happen?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

If you don't hear from me again, it's because I poured pickled beetroot juice over my yoghurt instead of blueberry, and I'm too cheap to toss it out

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Interesting social experiment "I Made 5 Fake Dating Profiles to See Which Aesthetic Wins" youtube.com/watch?v=dE9jVcPF4xQ&is=…

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

It saddens me to announce that Harrold Potter, alumni of Hogwarts, has been diagnosed with primary liver cancer, as a consequence of hepatitis contracted via unprotected sex

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

From today's #writing prompt from "Dusk After Your Passing" by Ada Limón (1976) #writinggroup

Content Warning: Mild SA

"Swallow Dive"

Cliff Swallow was a hedge fund manager, the headlines said - but I knew him as the fawn-coated frotteur on the evening L-Train from Framingham. He was a sidling kind of fellow, with an unremarkable face, and an unmemorable presence. Those, I suppose, were the tools of his trade on the train - the better to be unnoticed.

He was the master of the pelvic graze, the shoulder slide, the drifting, floating, lingering touch. Just present enough to raise momentary notice, but insufficient to be seen, to raise ruckus, to create alarm. But the women knew. They felt his presence, they knew his passing, they marked him well.

Far upfront, from my favorite seat, I watch the faces flit on by. As the train pulls in, I see the solemn forms of familiar folk who board here. And I see Cliff dive with arms thrown high, as if in supplication to a jointed god. I see mouths open wide, but only one face turns to me. Red lips parted with a question - did you see me, shall you say?

I look away - "Not I."

~fin~

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Ciao Tim Curry, and thank you for all the amazing performances

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

#writerscoffeeclub 22. Have you ever used a sensitivity reader? How did it go? A blind person helped me write better plot elements for a blind character. It added depth, realism, and better representation. Same with lesbian characters, ENBYs, people of color, women, etc. It also allowed me to […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Shove it up your tight ass, Bessent, you stutterfuck

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Any #feminists up for #betareading my current #wip #shortstory? Sadly, no money being offered, but you do get to #read something probably enjoyable

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Current #wip Give me a name of the driver who tries to abduct two kids, and then gets killed by another hitchhiker he picks up

My strangest unsolved case? Sure, I've got time to spare before shuffleboard.
Want a chocolate ginger snap? I don't usually offer them, because my daughter only brings me one packet a month, but you are pretty, so I don't mind. No? I don't blame you, they are kinda addictive, and for a retired cop, that's saying something!

I wondered if you would get round to me. The "demon hitchhiker" is a better story than any of these other fossils have to show for their lives. I was a new detective then - full of eagerness and a stickler for the rules, and boy, that case put rabbit ears on me!

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@mcnado @autolycos My Dude is in the driver's seat, hunched over the steering wheel, ass shoved back into the seat, and refusing to stop to let out milady the hitchhiker. She stabs right through the seat, and nails L5/S1 space with about 30mm of the blade […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Aug 19 How do you write characters with expertise outside your own? I ask for help from people who do. If I'm writing a lock-picking character, I ask a person who picks locks. If I write a lesbian, I ask lesbians. People are generally happy to help writers

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Today was #writinggroup and in the 20 minutes given for writing to a prompt about water, this was what I did. As usual, there is no time for editing, polishing, or tweaking #writingcommunity ##writerslife

"Throwing in the Towel"

Epson was a pithy wit and a wannabe-philosopher, and honestly, that's what got him drowned. One of his favorites was when I asked him where something was. He would gesture vaguely, "It finds itself in water, but the water whereof I speak is not the water of which you know." It was vaguely amusing the first time, but over time, it lost its sheen. By the second hearing, it wasn't amusing, and by the third, I contemplated strangling him.

The thing that triggered it all was when I was mowing the lawn (his chore), because I had friends coming over, and I wanted to serve tea under the oak with gentle sounds of the bird-bath fountain nearby. I was hot and sweaty - or "glowing" as ladies do when dealing with exertion and heat, and that was just to get the stupid mower going (his chore!). In between tugging the chord and the zirr-pit-pit-thunk of the mower, and wiping sweat out of my eyes, I heard Epson calling.

It sounded urgent, and I had visions of him slipping and injuring himself, again. I ran, but I was wearing old garden crocs not meant for speed. So, I fell. The birdbath fell. We all fell. I was drenched. The kitchen door was locked (why does he DO that?) The front door was latched, and still he called. So I broke the window and got the door open.

He hadn't fallen.

There was water on the floor, and Epson was afraid of slipping, and he wanted a floor-towel. Maybe it was hasty of me, but as I looked at the blood welling up from a cut on my hand, I didn't reach for the towel on the rack beside the bath. I reached for his feet, so dainty on the edge of the tub, and lifted. And that, after a token struggle and more sloshed water to mop up, was that.

~fin~

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Dudes: We can't approach a woman without being accused of being creeps, and this is misandry and we are big angry Women: We are so sorry to hear that, here is an invitation to a speed dating event where you can freely approach and chat to a whole bunch of women Dudes: No! That is just going to […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

#PennedPossibilities 1103: Have you ever had a plot idea that you were excited to write but had to scrap because it just didn’t work Yes, and then two years later it popped out again, and I knew how to right it. So now I have a manuscript about a space traveling cabin crew director who wakes up […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

So, are these "Shock Gloves" the next thing in pussy-grabbing?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

#ScribesAndMakers 19/08: If paper books stopped being produced, how much would you miss them? I would feel a tiny bit of nostalgia, like when I put away my fountain pen, but tbh, the wood-pulp and paper-making business is fucking toxic, and maybe time for paperbacks to go the way of clay tablets

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Got another of those "too good to be true" and "too detailed to be likely" scam emails today

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Ask me a question about #writing, and someone may give you an answer #AskWriterAnything

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

#writersCoffeeClub August 18: What are your limits for writing outside your lived experience? (race, nation, gender, etc.) The ability to find someone with that lived experience or expertise who I can understand and is willing to share. Not to flatter myself, but I've written some pretty good […]

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@autolycos If my dude is in the chair getting his hair trimmed, and he reaches over to his left and grabs ass, where could milady bury such a pair of scissors so that he is just going to sit back and expire? Neck? Armpit? Someplace else?

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I abandoned Facebook a long time ago, because it was clear that Zuck would never treat privacy seriously I quit Twitter because it became a Nazi bar I left Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing, and GoodReads because Bezos became a Nazi supporter What shall I quit next

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

At some point it will be medically possible for a biological male to carry a fetus to term and deliver by c-section. The only reason I find that interesting is how it will fuck with the minds of conservatives

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Humphrey Archer @screwturn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Hey @alice @h3mmy @koalou Are any of you up for reading something different? Just finished a short novel on god stuff. Involves some clumsiness, awkward heroine, and a trickster god

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