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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71)

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I am mystifyingly paid to write things for a living. "If there is nothing but what we make in this world, brothers...let us make good."

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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think one of the best things you can do for yourself is realize that all of your heroes and inspirations are deeply flawed, fucked up people. I wish there were no idols, no pedestals, no laurels, no celebrities. There are no better people. Only people.
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sometimes I like putting on Souls playthroughs for background noise and I think one of the most nails-on-chalkboard whines is "the hitboxes." It's always DS2, it's a misunderstanding of how they work. Can we stop doing this?
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John-Charles Holmes @sonic9jct.jctholmes.com · 29/09/2026
girls night out 🥊🪑
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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 20/09/2026
Joke on you I have really drawn one.
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SULLY - PolyPaint out now! 🎨 @artofsully.com · 15/09/2026
N64 and PSX artists rejoice - my vertex/normal painter tool POLYPAINT is now (finally) live on the Unity Asset Store!! 🎊 Grab it 30% off for the launch week - I can't wait to see what you all do with it! assetstore.unity.com/packages/slu...
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✩MAJI✩ working on comms! @majibomber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Welcome back, gender icon #LegendOfZelda #Sheik #art
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Antique clockwork drinking bear automaton made in Paris around 1910 by Roullet & Decamps, stripped of its fur due to a severe moth larvae infestation. IG: @thehouseofautomata
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIV Dolly You are one of the few people cool enough to get your likeness on a pinball machine and actually deserve it ❤️
The Dolly Parton pinball machine
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robbie does art @robbiedoesart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
rest in peace Dolly we will always love you ❤️
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Scare-It Hanna @garretthanna.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"...There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die...that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living."
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a stimky magic user 🫧✨️🪐 @swordofsttrina.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” well i asked sweet shalquoir and she said "this place is already dead. everything will crumble and waste away, so that something new may be born. isn't it wonderful? hee hee hee…"
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MGaru 🌊 @mgaru.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Blinx the Time Sweeper 🌙 Played this for the first time recently! Gameplay is vastly different from NiGHTS but it oozes the exact same wonderful, dreamy energy🔮 I love this kitty!! #blinx #2000s #xbox #retrogames
Blinx from the Xbox game "Blinx the Time Sweeper." He sits on a chimney top with a big grin on his face surrounded by twisted lamps and time crystals. In the distance is the silhouette of a town and the moon.
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
When I see people say shit like "Impermenance gives life meaning" No it doesn't. I get that romanticizing death is one way to cope with its inevitably - but you literally don't know a) what it's like to die b) what it's like to live way longer It's all theory and fiction
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"When I gave you that flame, I gave you a part of myself. Please take good care of it."
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𝔍𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔱 @xthesevs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Whenever I feel insecure about my writing, I remember that Colleen Hoover is still releasing books.
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"I hate your crackship. Only canon pairings allowed." C.S. Lewis
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Quick art, 80s-ish tiger girl :)
Young lady with a cat girl / tiger, 1980s aesthetic.
Drawn by gdbee / June 2026
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Katheryn Scary @katyvscary.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pride month is over
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liz ten eleven @selectric.space · 25/06/2026
it is a beautiful day in the shareholder value factory and you are a terrible goose
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." ~ B. F. Skinner
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I don't care if it's a joke, this is the argument I use now.
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It tickles me when my hatred of rich people sets off some rando like "well, what if you were rich?" Brother, I've dealt with suicidal ideation my whole life, that inconsistency would self-correct. I would not be a problem.
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Shawn🐶 @puppiesandanime.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Would anyone happen to know the artist behind this magazine cover illustration from 30 years ago? I really like it
Playstation magazine Volume 40 cover from February 1997, featuring the cast of Final Fantasy VII. Cloud Strife is front and center in full colour while the rest of the cast is more faded into a blue water colour aesthetic.
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If your King's Field-like has the attitude of: "If you liked King's Field, you'll like us, we fixed how it controls like shit and you can zoom around like you're playing Quake 3 on a pound of cocaine!!! And you can jump!" I don't think you liked King's Field.
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🦇 Hexavier 🎃 @xavierck.com · 04/06/2026
more games should have instruction manuals like they did in the 90s and fewer tutorials
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Shawn🐶 @puppiesandanime.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Made some Lodoss War fanart
Pixel art sprites of various characters from Record of Lodoss War. From Left to Right: Deedlit, Slayn, Ghim, Shiris, Parn and Etoh. They are all standing on a grey background.
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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Relatable words from Ryogo
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a chimpanzee in an enclosure is sitting on the ground and painting abstract streaks of color on a canvas lying in the grass. Panel 2: a couple is standing outside the enclosure, looking in. The girl says about the painting chimpanzee, “aww, that’s cute.” Panel 3: the chimpanzee is alone in his dimly lit studio, head in hands, holding a lit cigarette. He looks completely dejected, feeling misunderstood. There is a pair of glasses, a glass of whisky, crumpled paper, and an unfinished painting laid out on the desk in front of him. The walls and floor space of his studio are covered in his abstract paintings on canvases and paper. There is also a marble sculpture of a banana beside him.
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Luigi in a Coal Mine @weareluigi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I ❤️ Vonnegut!
“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing and art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something”
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I have never felt more seen by a passage in a book
A passage from T. Kingfisher’s Wolf Worm with the following highlighted: 

(It's always awkward to give people art that you've made. It feels egotistical, as if you think so highly of yourself and your skill that you expect other people to be impressed as well. Even now, when I make my living with that skill, I can never quite shake the feeling that people are humoring me like a child when I give them something I've drawn.)
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TavernTilly @taverntilly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
He likes Latinas
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Smitner @smitner.studio · 10/05/2026
A sneak peak into the development of indie games:
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I think those decorative book spacer thingies are cool, but like...who actually has a bookshelf with space for them? My bookshelves are full of books and then have books on top of those books because there is no more room for books, so I just cram them in any available void.
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Well? Have you?
Kefka from the video game Final Fantasy VI asks "And have you found your "joy", in this nearly dead world of ours?
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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 19/04/2026
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
God I miss synth-y game soundtracks. I'm so fucking sick of orchestral music being the go-to choice for everything. Maybe it's just my lack of understanding of music, it probably is, but it all just sounds like the same bombastic cacophony to me. Anyway, Unreal Gold has a perfect OST, fight me.
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YsLink ⚔️ An Ys Fan Site @ys-link.net · 15/04/2026
A post which says "Heartbreaking: JRPG corridor has gone on for far longer than expected and you are starting to suspect that you actually took the correct path by accident"
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Translated Cats @translatedcats.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hello. I just woke up. I haven't cried yet
A white and cream cat with a pink nose.
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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 26/03/2026
Did you know the orange carrots we see today are rumored to have only appeared in the 17th century?
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Nate Graves (GooseValue=71) @taxincluded.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
mpreg sounds like a common file extension and I think that's a weird tag, why would you hashtag a file extension in your slash fic but it's not a file extension at all
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RHLPixels 🇨🇦 @rhlpixels.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Ohohohohoho~🐍
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RHLPixels 🇨🇦 @rhlpixels.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🔫🐱
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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Sokamura (Commission OPEN) @sokamura717.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Commission pinup #547
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Zess @zessdynamite.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
squidward wearing a "I LIKE JRPGS FOR THE GAMEPLAY!" button
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