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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

archiveofourown.org/works/554733... Chapter 6 is finally out, please ignore the fact that it took a year and 10 months for me to beat it into shape. It is archive locked as always. I would recommend following my writing sideblog on tumblr instead, this will likely be my last post here.

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Primarily offline til further notice*. *(Further notice may not ever happen. Certain terms and conditions apply. Comments, complaints, and requests for communication can be directed to the email address listed in my carrd.)

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

opens bsky. blinks. prepares to log out of bsky. this is enough internet for the day i think.

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FahneXIV 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @fahnexiv.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I can't stress how much suffering this trauma response causes. People messaging me first or just checking on me is such a breath of fresh air and reassuring that I am not, in fact, annoying and people are not constantly mad at me. Autism and Trauma are absolute bastards together.

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

this is inherently very funny because my pfp is just a silly little thing i drew with my preferred online handle on it. (my hairs about half grey nowadays, but greying ginger hair is just not a thing on this picrew)

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If i were to speak my mind on this, it would be a Terms of Service violation on every platform that exists.

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

C'oshta's is <The Last Resort> because i spent. SO LONG GRINDING THAT TITLE so i might as well use it. and also.... yeah. yeah he would be someone's last resort. #C'oshta_posting

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

to be fair. my whole extant plan for captivity is VERY funny. complete with my poor typewriter ribbon being SLIGHTLY too dry. (ignore the misspellings and bad grammar. outlines are for fun, not for good writing).

a typewritten list on nice typing paper. with a list of notes broken into sections.

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

other people have said it better than i can. conflict can be a great way of spurring character development. it is not the only way to spur character development. different people like different things. fictional characters are not people. They are an object that is part of a story.

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I think finally getting all my notes compiled and organized in a single document instead of on a discord server, two hundred separate pieces of errata (including documents, note cards, pieces of paper, and screenshots) is one of the most delicious things i've done for myself, tbh. #c'oshta_posting

a cropped screenshot of a table of contents for a document.

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

cid/nero, aymeric/estinien/vrtra, m'naago/lyse, urianger/thancred (eventually), tataru/krile, daidukul/hien, sadu/cirina, sanson/guydelot... thats just off the top of my head tho. im sure if i thought about it for more than 30 seconds i'd have more. I just love love, after all.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 01/04/2025

the growing opposition to nsfw in art and writing communities is not only an uncomfortable bellweather for the social climate, but also personally isolating. excising nudity, humanity, desire from art is antithetical to art making. it prioritizes marketability over the marginalized.

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salix @chamfrein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

we cannot keep positioning pregnancy as a demeaning thing to be done to people as some sort of sexualized punishment.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 01/04/2025

I understand that not everyone “wants to see” explicit adult content, but “nsfw” is too broad a term and it seems to be growing ever wider, especially as a means to censor queer art and nonwhite bodies. a figure drawing class would be labeled as explicit by this site and a portion of its community.

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Lir 🦈 @sharkgay.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"unhinged wolqotd" "mpreg is real" hey everyone we just had tdov yesterday can we be normal

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

the goal on my ko-fi has been edited for a SINGLE month's rent and bills, since it's about all I can do outside of having my jewelry commissions open again. (and they are open again.)

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

LRP- gonna be extremely blunt here. social security disablility is the ONLY reason i make rent right now. and there is zero extra after bills. that $1440/mo is all that stands between me and being unhoused.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

this is why saving any of us means saving all of us. there is nothing being done to people you find "lesser" or "more deserving" that will not inevitably be done to you once they realize it works. you have more in common with the residents of your city's homeless encampments than you do with Elon

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

the actual predictor of crime isn't city or race or poverty. it's desperation. if your government builds a system where your choices are steal or die, people are going to steal, and that becomes proof we need more police and more jails and more felons stripped of their right to vote.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

if an 88 year old's only source of income vanishes, they can't get a new job. their life becomes a horrible balance of sacrifices between keeping their power and heat on, and feeding themselves, and paying for their prescriptions, and if they have no family to fall back on they are going to die.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

this is the final, inevitable outcome of insurance companies being allowed to dispute and deny claims until people run out of appeals because they're dead. there is no one to call. there is no one to beg. they can call it "staffing issues" and "an unfortunate situation" and people are going to die

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

i've worked at 5+ medical, pediatric, dental offices. i have seen the despair in a person's eyes when they realize medicaid is not going to cover their newborn baby because of a clerical error, and i have personally spent hours on the phone begging on their behalf.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

elon sees these people as a drain on the government's bank accounts, even though they paid into this system for their entire lives. their deaths will save the government millions of dollars, which can then be repurposed for contracts with elon's companies.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

they are doing the quiet part out loud, which is killing off as many people as they can that depend in any way on government programs. the elderly, the disabled, the poor, especially those with children. they know the media will cover these deaths as "tragedies" and refuse to link them back to DOGE

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

everyone should be calling this what it is, which is murder. every cut to social security, to medicaid, means people who depend on those programs will die, which is the goal. these are the Death Panels the right lied about

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

honestly the most recent patch notes? It makes it really easy to see who the job design teams favorites are (and its certainly not casters, ranged physical dps, or any healer). Pretty sure I'm not the target audience square enix wants any more tbh. well... back offline for a while I guess.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I think policing fictional portrayals of trans+ bodies is hateful any day of the week, but especially (now) when things like hormones and surgery are becoming increasingly hard to access and our legal documents are being seized, I don't really want to hear "non-op bodies are fetish bait." fuck you.

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Sharing with ALT text for those who aren't aware of the ongoing real world implications for trans people in the U.S. "I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state..."

r/trans
u/RedRhodes13012⚫ 4h
Seeing people deflate when I explain simple facts of my reality bums me out.
Vent
"No, I can't go on that cruise to Italy with you, because I'm struggling to get a passport that doesn't put me in danger. I'm scared I might have trouble getting home."
"Yes, I'm looking at other job opportunities/leaving my position working at school, which I love so much. It's becoming unsafe for people like me to work with children - I got a death threat the other day."
"Will the doctor/therapist/etc. you're recommending be safe for someone like me?"
"Before I meet your parents, I need to know if they know about me. Will I be safe?"
"I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue, I'm sorry."
Seeing it actually register on people's faces that this is my life- that these policies are real and affect real people they know and love- is a really bitter pill. On one hand, it's sad to have to break such depressing news. And on the other hand, it feels so isolating and infuriating that people who love me apparently have no clue any of this is happening unless I take the time to inform them.
Just needed to get that out. Thanks for listening.

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

i remain fully convinced that if a discord server does not have a strict "if you pull nazi shit you are fucking gone" rule, then they are NOT a place i want to be part of. [There are many ways this can be phrased. "zero tolerance for bigotry including but not limited to: (list here)" works too.]

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

the imaginary orient aestheticapperceptions.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... the stories whiteness tells itself www.jstor.org/stable/10.57... the politics of annihilation: a genealogy of genocide www.upress.umn.edu/978151790582... the wretched of the earth monoskop.org/images/6/6b/...

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

transit of empire (introduction) tinyurl.com/yy36y93n the scientific way to train white people to stop being racist qz.com/656159/the-s... borrowed power : essays on cultural appropriation tinyurl.com/kkzm89ee settler colonialism and the elimination of the native www.kooriweb.org/foley/resour...

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dafoppishdandy @alabasterffxiv.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

im sorry to bring the subject back but the only reason anyone would want to attribute nazi symbolism to garleans is because they want to fuck a nazi. plain and simple. they know that the garlean aesthetics or culture in game is nothing like the nazis. but they want to fuck one, so they'll force it.

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salix @chamfrein.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

she's credited for bringing Said's ideas into conversations about orientalist paintings. I think its a really great read to learn how to see certain things as part of a long apttern in western visual culture. also its free online: aestheticapperceptions.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

aestheticapperceptions.wordpress.com

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

decolonization is not a metaphor tinyurl.com/y9nu6hne glossary of haunting www.are.na/block/8725805 our new postracial myth www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... how to decenter yourself in conversations with members of marginalized communities web.archive.org/web/20221126...

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Javi @hope-incarnate.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Btw any talk of racism, misogyny,ect is not fandom drama, its real life prevelant issues that people experience and others partake in. Regardless of fandom that shit should not fly by any means in the current political climate those ideas are getting bolder and so too must striking them down

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salix @chamfrein.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

nazi apologia, dismissal of the bare idea of cultural appropriation having potential negative impacts, orientalist garbage derived from hundreds of years of exotification and sexualization of SWANA women, like, these things are serious? these are serious things to talk about.

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Gerald @burgeaux.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Sorry to reveal my military uniform knowledge, but it's important to recognize these symbols with the rise of outward and unapologetic fascism that people are brave about. Do not fall for plausible deniability around these people.

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Gerald @burgeaux.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Garlean uniforms are designed to give off the fascist feel without actually treading that ground, which is why they're successful designs. Although greatcoats are part of most 20th century armies, they take off WW2 Soviet winter uniforms with looser silhouettes as opposed to what you see w/ the SS.

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The Druid Ocelot (took his ball and went home) (tumblr) @thedruidocelot.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

might as well also share my favorite sculpture: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... its ALSO its very own rent lowering gunshot.

a photo of one of the iterations of duchamp's fountain. a "readymade" sculpture of a urinal on its side. photographed in black and white, from the wikipedia article about the piece.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Not sure people realize how DIRECT this killing is. People with HIV die if they don’t get treatment. Musk/Trump are pulling this exact treatment from millions!

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