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Paul (SwordofWit)

@swordofwit.com
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Writer, nerd, TTRPG enthusiast. (they/them)

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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 04/05/2026
At one point I made a list of all the canon couples in SW film/TV I could think of to see if any got a happy ending, and it was, uh, bleak (And that's even ignoring ships *I'd* argue were clearly being set up until Disney decided to be cowards & avoid, eg. Ezra/Sabine, Mando/Bo-Katan, etc)
Star Wars Couples:
- Padmé/Anakin - Anakin turns evil, Padmé dies
- Obi-Wan/Satine - Satine dies
- Cassian/Bix - Bix leaves
- Vel/Cinta - Cinta killed
- Cassian/Jyn - both die
- Han/Leia - they separate between XI and XII
- Ben/Rey - Ben dies
- Finn/Rose - Abrams spent all of TROS pointedly ignoring it so who knows if it continued?
- Qimir/Osha - Disney canceled the show before it went anywhere
- Tech/Phee - Tech dies
- Beckett/Val - Val dies
- Han/Qi'ra - Qi'ra ends it and turns villainous
- Hera/Kanan - Kanan dies
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 18/04/2026
A section from Carpe Jugulum (Discword series) by Terry Pratchett, a conversation between Granny Weatherwax and Reverend Oats:
"And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
"It's a lot more complicated than that—"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.
People as things, that's where it starts."
"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes—"
"But they starts with thinking about people as things.."
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 21/03/2026
Bread baking day!
Two fresh loaves of bread on a cooling rack
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 02/01/2026
I pulled up my list of books I read in 2025 casually thinking, "Oh, I should easily be able to just pick a couple favourites to mention,"... aaaaand then realized just how many books I read (over a hundred), so I only managed to narrow it down to nine favourites instead 😅
A 3x3 grid of book covers:
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakroborty
Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher
The Medici Heist by Caitlin Schneiderhan
That Devil, Ambition by Linsey Miller
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha
Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 30/12/2025
The week between Christmas and New Year can only mean one thing: Time for my yearly Lord of the Rings rewatch!
Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring playing on a TV: Gandalf's cart is rolling down a grassy road through the woods
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 13/11/2025
Yeah, this tracks – Inquisition and Veilguard have all my favourites. (And that's even with Veilguard at the disadvantage of me having spent at least a hundred more hours with the Inquisition companions) dacompanionsorter.neocities.org/
Rank
Character
1
Josephine
2
Varric
3
Leliana
4
Morrigan
5
Cassandra
6
Solas
7
Neve
8
Bellara
9
Taash
10
Harding
11
Manfred
12.
Emmrich
13
Cole
14
Dorian
15
Isabela
16
Lucanis
17
Blackwall
18
Merrill
19
Sera
20
The Iron Bull
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 26/08/2025
Withiut downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
Art by @effinbirds of a bird saying "I couldn't be any less enthusiastic if I fuckin' tried"
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 31/07/2025
What comic book panels live in your head rent-free? The final page of @tessfowler.bsky.social & @bdavewalters.bsky.social's D&D: A Darkened Wish #4, always. It may be doomed, but sometimes you just gotta cling to the faintest spark of hope, & resist to the bitter end alongside your friends anyways
Six fantasy adventurers, hugging closely, stare out of the sillhouetted mouth of a black cave at a sunrise, saying:
"Here they come"
"Hold the cave, whatever it takes"
"Outnumbered on a mountainside trapped in between warring dragons. What could possibly go wrong?"
Text at the bottom:
"To be continued!"
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 31/03/2025
My partner's cats, Persephone and Artemis! (Both are exceedingly fond of being Very Round)
Two tuxedo cats, Arty with a white splotch on her nose and Percy without, cuddling together on a green couchPercy, a tuxedo cat, curled up and twisted so her head is extremely upside-down, on a chair with toe beans showing on one outstretched back pawPercy, a tuxedo cat, curled into a tiny upside-down ball on top of a pastel blanket across the back of a green couchArty, a tuxedo cat, curled up against a person's arm on a green couch, giving extreme side-eye at having her photo taken instead of getting pets
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 27/03/2025
Tonight's extremely fun theatrical excursion: Sailor Moon! (Obligatory disclaimer of "I swear I follow theater etiquette; they explicitly *told* us to take photos & videos at the end" 😛)
A stage with LED backdrop reading "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: the Super Live"The sailor guardians on-stageThe sailor guardians plus Tuxedo Mask and villains on-stage
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 14/03/2025
I missed it by a day, technically, but it's been 10 years of watching @criticalrole.bsky.social, and it changed the trajectory of my life in nearly every way I can think of. Since I'm limited by character count, I shall use the sacred tradition of meme'ing to express its significance to me instead 😛
Bus getting hit by a train meme. The text in the first panel, over the bus, says "a homeschooled college kid indoctrinated by right-wing evangelicalism, planning to become a pastor". The text in the second, over the train impacting with the bus, says "a show where a bunch of kind nerdy ass voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons"
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 10/03/2025
Post a meme made by you (Applicable to many things, but specifically made while watching someone stream a game I can't recall where they briefly ended up with nearly an entire party of Matts 😆)
Panel 1: Sam from Lord of the Rings telling Frodo, "Oh yes, lovely, a Matt Mercer voice"
Panel 2: A closeup of Sam saying "And look! *More* Matt Mercer voices"
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 10/02/2025
Today's bread turned out extremely photogenic
A golden-brown loaf of bread on a cooling rackA golden-brown loaf of bread on a cooling rack
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 05/02/2025
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
A pair of screenshots from Dimension 20: Fantasy High, of Brennan Lee Mulligan as Arthur Augefort saying "That when an institution or establishment communicates that you must accept defeat, you raise two middle fingers to the fucking sky and say, 'I will never die!' "
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 29/01/2025
Every once in awhile, having to be at work early does pay off with an extremely lovely view
A view of a sunrise over the mountains between the tall buildings of SeattleA view of a sunrise over the water of Puget Sound between the tall buildings of SeattleA view of a sunrise over the water of Puget Sound between the tall buildings of SeattleA view of the Seattle skyline with a sunrise in the background
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 28/12/2024
Eyy, I got a free upgrade to the 2-for-1 special on Couch Cats!
TWO black cats curled up on a green couch next to a Nintendo Switch and a person's leg that has a blanket and open book on it
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 27/12/2024
A good, cozy way to spend a day
An open book on a blanket, and a nintendo switch and black curled-up cat on a green couch nwxt to the blanket
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 24/08/2024
Repost with your first crush: ... Look, I had (and still have) a type, and it's easily summarized as "Women with swords (and/or suitable sci-fi substitutes)" 😅
Eowyn from Two Towers with a swordArwen from Fellowship of the Ring with a swordLeia from Return of the Jedi with a blasterElizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean in a pirate outfit... yes, obviously with a sword
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 12/05/2024
What's your sign?
A blue mock-warning sign reading "Notice: You cannot escape the narrative"
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 20/04/2024
Bread!
A loaf of bread baking in the ovenA fresh loaf of bread cooling on a wire rackA loaf of bread on its side, with a single now-buttered slice cut out of it sitting next to it on the wire rack
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 20/04/2024
I tried it out today and it turned out incredibly well for me! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe!
A fresh loaf of bread on a wire cooling rackA fresh loaf of bread on its side, with a single now-buttered slice cut out of it and sitting next to it on the cooling rack
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 01/03/2024
First baking project in the new apartment: apple cinnamon rolls! (And maple glaze!)
A rectangular glass pan of apple cinnamon rolls sitting on a stove
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 27/02/2024
I picked up my preorder of Redsight by @meredithmooring.bsky.social and I'm so excited to finally read it!!
A copy of the book Redsight by Merideth Mooring sitting on a blue table, with a coffee cup next to it
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 05/02/2024
Dressed up in my most hobbit-y for a friend's (hobbit-themed) birthday!
Paul, a nonbinary person, sits in a chair and grins at the camera. They have wavy shoulder-length hair and a short beard, and are wearing a brown vest and sweater, a white shirt, and a purple dice necklace
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 30/11/2023
Another year, another "Yeaaah, I'm not kidding when I tell people I mostly listen to metal and Taylor Swift*" from Spotify Wrapped 😆 (*...and whatever fits my current D&D campaign/character playlists -- My Top 5 Songs is literally just songs from my current orc warlock's playlist 😅)
My top artists: 1. Taylor Swift 2. Amaranthe 3. Van Canto 4. Beyond the Black 5. LOVEBITESMy Top Songs
1. Enter Sandman, Rina Sawayama
2. Secret Worlds, The Amazing Devil
3. Run Boy Run, Woodkid
4. Warrior of the Mind, Jorge Rivera-Herrans, Teag...
5. Dog Days Are Over, Florence + The MachineMy Top Genres
Symphonic Metal
Broadway
Soundtrack
pov: indie
Video Game Music
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 15/11/2023
My parents' mini aussie Kraken when he was still a tiny, usually-blurry, puppy made of perpetual motion
A red tri mini aussie, Kraken, stares at the camera with a scheming look while lying downKraken, a red tri mini aussie, jumping up toward the cameraKraken, a red tri mini aussie, manically and gleefully chewing on a tube box longer than he is while sprawled across a blanket and wrapping paper
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 14/11/2023
I was curious enough to check my copy of Anthropecene Reviewed, and it looks like it's mostly this Goodreads quote's fault for typo-adding that confusing "/" (which isn't actually in the Anthropecene Reviewed) and making people stumbling across it online think the rest is a second line by Frost.
A photo of a page from the Anthropecene Reviewed by John Green
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 18/10/2023
Survived another trip around the sun! 🎉 (And succesfully acquired my traditional celebratory birthday donuts 🍩)
Three donuts in a box: the front left one is an apple fritter, the front right one is chocolate-covered with pink and purple sprinkles, and the back one is glazed old-fashioned
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Paul (SwordofWit) @swordofwit.com · 22/08/2023
The dynamic between my parents' two mini aussies in a nutshell:
Kraken, a red tri mini aussie, sits bodily on top of a visibly uncomfortable and squished Cleo, a black tri mini aussie, in an armchair
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