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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It's not actually #SelfieSunday and this arguably isn't a selfie but I don't care.

A picture of my right hand. I am wearing a silver great serpent ring in my 4th finger and all of my nails are painted a dark green. The paint is somewhat uneven with some stains on the cuticle and skin around the nail but is otherwise ok.

Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Welp: got my first "you disagree with my so you're a fascist!" on BlueSky. I thought for a time that I'd left that behind in the other place. Oh well. It was a good dream while it lasted. Below is a thread collating my argument on the problem with the ACA discourse happening right now.

Screencap of a bsky thread.

Sarah (@legndofphoenix): "How are YOU removing any swords? The shutdown is entirely in the hands of elected officials right now. You're a poster on bluesky.

Faxe: I'm using my voice to try and get people to stop undermining the politicians who care whether or not all of us posters on bsky support what they re doing?

You've got a much larger voice that I do. How are you using it?

S: No, you're using your voice to go scold people and tell them to stop demanding better. Because you're a bootlicking fascist cuck.

F: I think that during an immediate fight to protect what we have achieved, we should focus on promoting something better, not poking at the holes in what we have. I think vociferously criticizing what we have while it's in danger helps the people trying to destroy it. I used my small voice to say so.

The argument continues below what is shown in the screen cap, but I blocked and stopped responding after that.

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Today Oct 20th 2025, we're in a fight to keep people alive until then. I do think most politicians are reactive, short-sighted creatures. This shutdown fight hinges on ACA tax credits. Seeing people tear down the ACA (even when it is very valid criticism) right NOW says to them "fold on this fight."

Screenshot from Men in Black. Will Smith as J and Tommy Lee Jones as K sit on a bench Infront of high-rise buildings in New York. J is wearing a white t-shirt with an orange jacket. K is wearing simple black suit with white collared shirt and black necktie. K is speaking

Caption:
A person is smart
Politicians are dumb panicky animals

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe my response comes from an incomplete picture of the situation. If you think that makes me bootlicking fascist cuck then I guess I'm going to block you now. I'm sure you'll screencap something and go on about how terrible a person I am, but I don't see the point in continuing.

Two panel meme of the animated Madagascar penguins.
1. Skipper Kawalski and Rico stare suspiciously into the camera. The top text is "Stalin when someone slightly disagrees with him over the smallest thing" The bottom text is Skipper saying "wouldn't that make you"
2. A closeup of skippers accusatory face as he says "A fascist"

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I was just in B&N and this caught my eye while walking around. Then I saw this post. Despite today being the first I have encountered your work, I instantly knew it was the same author. Your books have such vivid and distinct cover art and it's really memorable.

A picture of Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis sitting face up on one of Barnes and Noble's feature tables.

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Finished product. It's a ward against the Finn. Don't ask what it's painted on. Or what it's painted with for that matter.

A tan ribbon with dark red print. There is no text, only four symbols. The first is the so-called "Hjarta Bindrune", a symbol for courage.* The second is a campfire. The third is a treble cleff with a 5 line musical staff running through it on a wavy diagonal (a part of musical notation). The last is a Bohr model schematic of an iron atom labeled "Fe" in the center.

*as best I can tell this is a modern design with an ahistorical interpretation, but I'm doing this for fun and it's really hard to find a commonly understood symbol to represent courage.

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I'm not saying ICE is an existential threat to all Americans, citizens and permanent residents, but if they're grabbing green card holders, threatening to arrest citizens, and ignoring Writs of Habeas Corpus well...

A picture of the Silence from Doctor Who, and tall grey skinned alien with deep-set eyes and no visible mouth or ears. It is wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt and saying "You should kill us all on sight"

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Oh, capitalism solves itself alright. Eventually. The same way cancer, or a viral infection, or anything predicated on contiguous unlimited growth does. I don't think we want to wait around for that particular solution.

New Yorker Comic by Tom Toro: a man in a torn and ragged business suit sits outside around a fire with three children in torn and dirty clothes. The man is saying “Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025?

Two decorative hand towels hang on a rack in front of a wooden wall. One is medium grey and has white text saying "If I die choking on a gummy bear tell everyone i was killed by a bear and say no more...". The other is white with black text saying "Don't worry dishes Nobody is doing me either." The word Nobody is on a stylize script font. The rest is a standard block print font.

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My #WoTSelfieSunday is actually from Friday but it's the best one I have because it shows off my fancy new hat.

Selfie taken in a parking lot. I am wearing the traditional academic regalia of a PhD. Black robes with two velvet panels running down the front and three horizontal velvet stripes on each sleeve. I am also wearing an octagonal tam with a gold tassel and you can see part of the blue lines PhD hood ground my neck.

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Seriously, I was trying so stay quiet but I started clapping and had to bite my tongue to keep from squealing.

Two panel image of Chris Fleming as "Gayle".

Top panel: Okay was anybody going to tell me that IDINA AND CHRISTEN HAD CAMEOS IN WICKED

Bottom panel: or was I supposed to LOSE MY SHIT IN THE THEATER BY myself.

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It's a wonderful shot, but it's missing my favorite Christmas ornament.

Picture of hangman's noose sitting on nondescript black surface.

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So, are we gonna get the scouring of the Two Rivers this early? Cause that's kinda what these buildings look like to me. #WoTSkies #WoTBookSpoilers #TheWheelofTime

Screen shot from the WoT S3 trailer. Perin is running (or riding?) towars the camera wearing bloodied battle armor with an axe raised over his head. People are running and a building is on fire in the background

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Faxe MacAran CR: God's Own Country by M. Reyes @themacaran.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Ok #WoTSkies I promised to start doing #WoTSelfieSunday so here goes. This is not my 15-ish foot tall tree, it's in the lobby of a Cabela's.

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