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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel like one thing I am actually kinda good at with my fics is titling them? For all that my drafts have extremely utilitarian/vague file names, my posted works do all feel to me like the title and the story vibe together. Even when the titles are idiomatic or otherwise recognizably familiar.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I genuinely don't know if I can cope with the sheer anxiety of waiting for the next schemers table. Holy fuck.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For the first time in approximately a decade, I have encountered in the wild a word new to me in English. Of course there have been familiar words used in unfamiliar ways but this one was wholly new to me. I am delighted. This calls for celebration! (It was "prognathous," if you're curious.)

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My friend was visiting and while we did not go to see Busan's new, apparently determinedly self-domesticating shark (it swam into a canal and now WILL NOT leave)... she DID sing about it. And now every time I hear about Bukangi, I hear in my head that awful refrain, "Busan shark ddururu dduru..."

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been leaving The Mentalist on in the background while I do sewing and other eyes up only sometimes crafty things, and I feel that Agent Cho is a deeply underappreciated character. I think I adore him? He's deadpan hilarious but not actually stonefaced at all.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Took a break from Veil of Shadows to watch something in English so I could work on paper crafts involving sharp knives at the same time: North of North. It wasn't entirely in English, and frankly I believe that improved it. It meant something when the language switched. Looking forward to more.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Parthenogenesis is extremely underutilized in fanfic, I think. I don't particularly care about it or want to read stories about it, personally, but as an axis on which to turn a story I can see it has powerful potential.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have decided, I think, to name the little cat shaped spoon rest that lives beside my coffee maker so that I always have somewhere to set my stirring spoon, and the bright side of living alone is that absolutely nobody can stop me. Henceforth his name shall be Purrcalator.

A small black and white and brown cat-shaped spoon and chopstick rest, in an elongated loaf position on a speckled gray counter next to a black coffee maker.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Starting Veil of Shadows... So far, it seems to be a lot of visually stunning yet unbelievably slow fight scenes. I have no particular objection to watching aesthetic dance performances, but I do wish I had any sense of this fight actually having any actual threat behind it? It's too even a tempo.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me, suddenly at 10pm on a Saturday: Oh shit, it's Saturday, not Friday! I'm DMing a new quest tomorrow and forgot to finish making the nerds my players will need to safely escort. Time to panic— wait, no. This will not be a problem. Inventing nerds is easy. Me, 3 minutes later: I love them SO MUCH!

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Woof. Some incredibly bad dice roles this episode. Ouch.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

VPN bans are a direct response to age-verification. Legislators are frustrated that people are getting around their surveillance, but rather than rethink their strategy, they're doubling down and banning VPNs. Fight the Flock-ing of the internet.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am introducing my friend to Campaign 4, and as of Episode 1 she has named Teor "the lion man" and does not understand why I giggle every time she says it.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am fully in agreement with all the rest of the old school webcomics folks who say to publish on your own site. I was there for the Keenspot exodus to independent sites, it happened for a reason (or many). BUT, I also live in Korea, and I have to tell you... Internet here does not work that way.

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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 22/09/2026

I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This printing of The Fifth Elephant has a truly astounding number of dropped articles and typos in it. To the point where I wonder if they printed a draft or something by mistake, because the sheer quantity of errors is overwhelming but not in a way that would make any sense as deliberate...

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The fact that this is basically canon...

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Technically, I have published fic this month... Though it was just an extremely fluffy drabble. archiveofourown.org/works/92703866

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every time I see Brennan do fairies I experience true delight. Truly, that is my favorite part of a show with SO MANY excellent parts that it's the highlight of my week.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey, you know what you might need lots and lots of soul cloth for? Making Tenebral sails. Sails are HUGE, and would especially be so for a bigger vessel with taller masts and/or more masts. And you'd need a bigger vessel to haul a bunch of statues anywhere. If they're building a fleet, well...

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Since I put my Ankh-Morpork inspired city setting in, essentially, the Korean peninsula... I think I've decided I'll give it some blended architecture. The main building materials are still going to be stone, lime, and clay because the city is aiming for fire resistance as much as possible, but...

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

20 year old me would be grieved by my health and especially by my recent widowhood, since that relationship was still new at the time, but they'd be impressed by my language skills and degree, and relieved about my current relative financial stability. And fucking delighted about the hysterectomy!

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Literally the basis for my DnD Light Domain cleric. "What if in all other respects he was basically a Quaker, except not a pacifist, and able to cast fireball?" I still don't think he'd be vengeful, though. Quakers tend to be combative in more of an obstinately righteous way, not a vengeful one.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Having just reread some Pratchett I can say with certainty that I absolutely NAILED that tone in this fic I wrote: archiveofourown.org/works/58144213 When I wrote it I was thinking about how he wrote such excellent haphazard skullduggery and yeah, I think I evoked that vibe exactly as intended.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My old friend is visiting me here in Busan, and in the process of browsing for souvenirs today, I found these plates and got so excited I chased him down at the other side of the store and started explaining the inspiration for the art on them, which is the Japanese 12~13th century Choju Giga.

Small plates in blue and white with art very clearly inspired by but not directly copied from the Choju Giga (鳥獣人物戯画), a 12~13th century set of scrolls depicting cute animals carrying out courtly activities and sometimes credited as the first ever manga. Some of the rabbits from the original have been replaced with cats, and in the case of a plate depicting a cat showered by elephants, the cat was never in the original work, and neither was the water, yet the elephants still strongly resemble the original.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Does anyone remember that commercial with the pro dancers interpreting different animals' mating dances around a city? I remember the ballet dancers in brown mimicking foxes, and a group being flamingos? But I cannot find this thing anywhere, it's been drowned out by everyone doing birds on TikTok.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I dunno who all needs to hear this, but this is one of my favorite recent finds for typography in the wild.

A store sign with a vaguely old west woodblock style typeface, except it's Cyrillic and it's located in Chinatown in Busan, South Korea.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Eventually! At first he gives awkward hugs like he's trying to save room for the System between their bodies, or he flails and squirms in a panic, but once he's clear that Hug Giving Is Definitely Happening In This Relationship, he gives fantastic hugs.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think about this intermittently at least every few months, and now with my friend reading for the first time I am thinking about it again.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Gods, the fact that Bingzu ultimately gave up on being an isolated protagonist to become a COLLECTIVE of story catalysts for less lonely stories is something I am going to be chewing on for YEARS.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is no canon to support this, but in my head Mobei Jun is a secret bibliophile with a rich inner voice. He just never sounds like that out loud because he is also an extremely awkward duckling, a thing Shang Qinghua has not noticed because he's so determined to think of Mobei Jun as cool.

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James W @soukoutaigi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is not mine but I think the best analogy for this I've encountered, the one people really seem to get in their bones, is "would you rather do an easy homework assignment yourself or edit the work of someone who did it badly"

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was briefly unhappy that there's no updates to that LiuShang story I want to read and then I remembered that's because I'm the author and if I want more of the story then I have to actually write it.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/09/2026

If laws have weak enforcement mechanisms, companies factor that low risk into the cost of doing business and keep violating our privacy, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @mercurynews.com. “Unless companies face serious consequences for violating our rights, they’re unlikely to put privacy ahead of profits.”

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California’s new privacy system depends on data brokers with a poor record of following the law: Stanford research

Stanford researchers found widespread privacy-law compliance failures among data brokers now required to delete Californians’ personal information.

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Kovidar 🔜 MFF @slaughterhorn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy birthday! I saw this gorgeous quilt at the mn State Fair yesterday!

A quilt at the MN State Fair depicting quilt patterns but formed in the shape of a wormhole

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sometimes the fanon idea of a character drifts so far from any textual evidence in canon that they simply become unrecognizable to me. They get caught in a spiral of interpretations from one wishful fic to the next until they've become someone new. Liu Qingge is rapidly closing in on that status.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My friend whom I have not seen in nine years is visiting this week, and I can feel my soul refueling just from reconnecting. Today we wandered a traditional market and Busan's Chinatown, then went to the beach, which turns out to be my favorite of the Busan beaches so far. It was in the shade!

A view from a beach. There is a mountain to the left right next to the sea, and it is bathed in golden daylight, while the beach itself in the foreground is in the cool blue tones of a shaded late afternoon. The waves are several feet high coming up to the shoreline. The whole scene is crossed unobtrusively by a cable car system.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ahhh! I woke up and my inbox was full of comments because one person apparently went through and read a bunch of my fics all at once, and then COMMENTED ON ALL OF THEM. What a blissful start to my day. 😻😻😻

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was reading a really great in-progress BeefLeaf captivity study a while back and I wish I could a) find it again and b) manifest more of it. BeefLeaf is not even particularly compelling for me as a ship but this fic was utterly gripping.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

This is absolutely amazing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Darkrose @darkrose.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Writing fanfiction is real writing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. It doesn’t have to be “practice” or serious business, and there’s no upper age limit on it. If smashing blorbos together brings you joy, that’s the only reason you need.

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Ryn @rynbow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you love a webcomic, consider doing two things: 1. Personally recommend it to one other person 2. Comment on pages You have no idea what these small things do to help a comic grow! Peer-to-peer is how a fan base is built, and comments boost engagement, setting the comic up for more success! 💖

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moonie 🌻🌾⛅ @moonix.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

ao3 e-mails are the only e-mails that find me well

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