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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Write enough GoT fanfic and you realize that Randyl Tarly is a shitty grimdark knockoff of Mercedes Lackey's Withen Ashkeveron.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

3. You are horny and think the characters should kiss more. Item 3 can also be an add on for items 1 and 2.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1. You love the source material so much that you wanna play in it forever, and this is the closest option reality will allow. 2. You are so blindingly enraged by the source material that you will make it either better or worse, but either way you are being fueled almisy entitely by spite.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fanfic generally gets written for one of two reasons. Well, actually three reasons.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Oh the story of land development in the Meadowlands is a *whole* thing. It makes what Robert Moses did to NYC look simple.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Me: doing a deep dive literary analysis project essentially on a whim. Oh! So thats why everyone in my fannish cohort has A Fucking Thing for competence!porn. Huh. I guess that makes sense. drive.google.com/file/d/1HDOC...

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women's fantasy psych overview 1960-2025.pdf

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

(Exemplified by the Fourth Wing series and the Romantasy genre generally) Secondary/Countercurrent response: Legends & Lattes Basically, we're currently split sharply between high-intensity sovereignty and radical softness.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

2020's: Social pressures: Polarized gender discourse, attention economy, desire as currency Primary fears: Being dehumanized Primary Fantasy Response: Be singular and magnetically irreplaceable. The world is brutal, but the heroine is narratively unstoppable.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

So, today I went down a research and analysis rabbithole. It turns out, you can map the dominant social pressures of any decade from the 1960's onwards and it correlates pretty fucking neatly with the popular escapist fantasy literary trends of works marketed to teenage girls and young women.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It was, in point of fact, the thing that annoyed me enough to start writing custom style guides to corral the behavior, and that's a rabbit hole I have not managed to crawl out of yet.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

My personal eye-twitch is contrastive negation. (Not X, but y) - which is unfortunate because it's a been a SUPER common bit of rhetorical style since forever, and didn't bother me at all until I started really working under the hood with complex ai projects.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Everyone has a particular ai prose style quirk that just makes them twitch. Most everyone seems to focus on em dashes or checklist rhythm.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

We're not snowed in atm, but it's 21 degrees out and neither of us wants to deal with that, so the husband is aggressively re-organizing our doomboxes and I'm re-chunking a database.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Husband has suggested GNDN AI (goes nowhere, does nothing).

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Question for the hive mind, because I suck at naming things. I'm considering putting up a Google Sites webpage/site for random AI tricks. (Like how to style prose output to follow Old English grammar) I have no desire to use it as a funnel for a paywall service.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Note to self: do not try to design a db when you are exhausted. This schema is a punishment from God and I did it to myself.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This might be the best book cover design I have ever seen.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

In 2025 I finally got serious about @rahaeli.bsky.social's advice and started blocking purely for vibes. It works.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

In case you think that anything ever changes, this is from a song released in 1988. Fighting fire with empty words While the banks get fat and the poor stay poor And the rich get rich and the cops get paid To look away as the one percent rules America

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My first real job out of college was in the "new media" division of a catalog print shop. This was 1999, way before cloud services were a thing. We ran our own webservers and DNS servers locally. And then one Monday I hit the wrong switch and took the whole shebang offline. Funtimes.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This was my birthday present to myself in September. For $16. My Christmas present to myself is that I bought it in september.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Bodega cats and barn cats are working animals and should be respected as such.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

But now? I can now type "i need to do X then Y to this dataset, and I'm using office 2016" and I get three options that work! People started using this tool because it solved a very real issue.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Ex: I do a lot of work in excel. there's a special misery in trawling Stack Overflow hoping someone, somewhere had a use case similar enough to what im trying to do that I can port *that* fix to my actual issue.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

AI summaries in search results are a direct result of web enshittification. We use web search to *answer questions* but it doesnt matter how good the service or how ad free the results pages are if the web pages themselves are actively dedicated to NOT answering your questions.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I'm getting the feel like she fell into the trap of thinking being an expert in one thing makes her an expert in this other, unrelated thing.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I like to think I don't have that many nits to pick about Excel, but can someone please explain to me why every major office update ereases my quick access shortcuts? I trained that muscle memory for a damn reason.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Today, someone compared one of my short stories to The God Of Arepo. I'm going to be riding that high all day.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

We had to take Lux to the vet today...

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

One of the funniest things about being a multiclassed writer/artist who took the "learn bookbinding" sidequest in 2020 is that I can take the concept of "self publishing" to a ridiculous extreme.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

My queer self being so happy to see Thomas Barrow get a happy ending... until I do math and realize he probably lives just long enough to see the start of the aids crisis.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Sometimes you just want some flowers and kittens

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This is awesome of them to do, but also what an indictment of the way things are that it's a valid marketing tactic

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

While discussing my 80,000 word and growing fic of doom with the husband last night, I showed him the tab in my project excel file that is just dedicated to tracking character ages. Over 30 characters for a story that will span about 45-ish years. He made a strangled sound and ran away.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Apparently "vibe coding" has destroyed Agile and is prompting a massive return to Waterfall. Hahahahahah....

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The first time I ever punched a boy in the face I was 14 years old, punching a 14 year old boy, because he asked me how much I'd charge to suck him off under the bleachers. It was 1989. And that's how I got tagged as the town "crazy chick".

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Did movie novelizations just stop being a thing? I absorbed *so* many B movies via bargin-bin novels when I was a kid.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

All you had to say was "they pulled a highlander 2" Dammit.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

My darling husband gave me the worst/best plot bunny last night: What if Tyrion Lannister got ahold of the Evil Overlord list? If i do this, I want it documented that this was entirely his fault :)

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Fuckit. After months of trying and loathing every single writing-assistance app I can get my hands on, I've broken down and just built a spreadsheet.

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ThinkyThoughts @thinky-thoughts.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

More people need to remember the three F's when it comes to giving thinly disguised directives to strangers regarding what tools they choose to use. To wit: if you aren't feeding, funding, or f**king me, you don't get a say in any of it.

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