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My DnD urban campaign setting has an entire neighborhood largely dedicated to secondhand textiles for exactly this reason! And also so that I can have like a dozen punny shop names and a cast of bonkers NPCs with potentially Quest Relevant Crafter Drama, of course...

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Ilthit @ilthit.bsky.social · 3h

I think we should lower the age of retirement, increase inheritance tax, double the budget for government child support, as well as education, and secure indefinite unemployment benefits, actually. Weird how the government keeps doing the exact opposite.

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i amar prestar aen @oakleaf.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Milo Monday to all who celebrate! @bideroo.bsky.social

An orange cat curled up on a light green archer, his eyes are wide and golden

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Now THIS is some beefleaf I can get behind!

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Beelz ⋄ VGen @bumblebeelz.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I drew this last month; some Mobei Jun and Shang Qinghua for #MoShangWeek2025! #fanart | #svsss | #moshang

A bust illustration of Mobei Jun and Shang Qinghua from Scum Villain's Self-Saving System. Mobei wears an annoyed expression, holding Shang Qinghua by the chin. Shang is both sweating nervously and blushing.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2026

Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

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Impy @impchan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would like everyone to please witness this poster I saw near the subway this morning. It is actually a very reasonable warning to people to be careful about increased crow aggression, but it looks like nothing so much as a wanted poster for a crow due to Bird Crimes.

A poster of a crow. It reads: 까마귀 공격주의

도심출현 까마귀
최근 도심출현 까마귀의 무차별 사람 공격 원인과 대처 방안

산란철 공격성이 강하여 각별한 주의가 필요합니다

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

Nothing is ever truly NEW, but it IS individual. To create your own storyworld and plant the seeds of that setting and characters is a great thing. To successfully grow an adjacent storyworld, recognizable but transformed, is ALSO a great thing, but a different process. They are BOTH literature.

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

So much of literature is iterative and transformative in this way. You point me at a work of fiction in English and odds are I (or a hypothetical other reader sufficiently knowledgeable in the given genre, which I may or may not be) can most likely point you to that author's earlier inspirations.

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

Thus, B and A are different stories that nonetheless relate to each other. A fan's understanding and appreciation of A grows by also engaging with B, and their understanding and appreciation for B is altered by their familiarity with A.

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

Even if the author of B loves A, even if they have pored over A with a fine toothed comb for hours upon hours and made every effort to portray B in a way that is consistent with the patterns established in A... By diverging enough to really explore or answer a new question, B becomes a new story.

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

It often does NOT require reading the source material in order to understand or enjoy a fan work. Does it give you a better and more nuanced understanding to read the inspiration first? Hell yes. Can B still stand alone on its own merits? Usually also yes! And THAT makes the difference.

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

If those boys did not smooch in that exact way in the original story, then what you are doing when you write B is deciding what specifically would have to be DIFFERENT from A to tell the story you want to tell. So then you are not doing A, you are doing B, which transformed A in the telling.

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

In order to portray those boys smooching, you first have to be able to recognizably portray those boys, BUT in a way that makes smooching plausible. So you have to consider why they are smooching, what it means for them and their stories that they are doing so, and how they SPECIFICALLY might do so.

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

In order to craft B, you MUST first ask questions about A. B is, in some ways, ABOUT answering questions about A. Now, admittedly, sometimes that question is, "Wouldn't it be great if those boys smooched," but what's wrong with that? It's still a question and it requires reading A to even ask it!

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

There's no attempt to claim that B is A, or to pass oneself off as the author (or originator) of A. Fans are very clear that they enjoyed A and are playing with A by creating B. B is an exploration of A, or of some aspect of A, through a unique lens that simultaneously explores other things, too.

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

Who cares if the thing you're writing alludes to something else? Nothing is lost by this, intertextuality is part of literature! But crucially, fan works mark that reference ahead of time, and they are read almost exclusively by people who are already deeply familiar with the source material.

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

So, my dad categorizes all fan works as "derivative," and he says it like it's a dirty word. I vehemently disagree. Sure, fan works are inspired by something else, and they play with allusion and reference to that source of inspiration. That's part of the game. But that's the point: it IS a game.

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

It is possible this is a generational divide? I do believe in honoring authors and crediting them for their work. You can't do a treatment of their work without consent, or usurp their identity. But I also do not believe in art as something that can or should be entirely static or untouchable.

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

So I've been talking (arguing) with my dad about Literature, and here's something I noticed: he places a lot of emphasis on originality as a virtue. I... Don't. This is because I'm not sure it's a real thing, and I don't think ideas need to be protected or isolated from iteration even if it is.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, to me that actually makes it way MORE horrifying. They are never gonna be able to film Whole Cake for the live action. Both because they won't get that far, and because there is no possible way to do it justice.

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Impy @wayward-imp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Conga rats! 🎶🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🎶

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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 · 03/10/2026

But, seriously... Why were those drugs in that box?

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

I pretty much thought this WAS what was happening. I'm still not 100% clear how those drugs came to be in Hody's possession really (though it has been a Fraught year since I watched it), and I didn't assume it was about undermining Otohime. I figured it was just structural undermining generally.

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

If it helps, I have both! So feel free to point to those tiny moments, because one of the things I've been paying attention to is the way Oda uses so many of those tiny details as seeds for major developments later. I doubt most were preplanned, he just felt the click whenever opportunity aligned.

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

Hey folks, Beacon was a great investment, because for just $5 a month I can now hit pause and go hyperventilate in a corner multiple times per episode, without any ads or delays! #CriticalRole #CampaignIV

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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

I acquire new to me words with the same joy and enthusiasm as any other collector finding a rare specimen of their special interest. If I could coo and pet the shiny syllables, I would. The last time this happened (yes, I get excited enough to remember things like that), the word was "esurient."

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

It's not that I don't seek new words, it's just that I've read so many old books I've developed a vocabulary like the Unseen University Library— There are words tucked away in adjacent dimensions. Consequently, when I manage to encounter a word that has previously escaped me, I tend to pounce on it.

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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

Okay, I feel about 97% better about this now that the protagonist has also called the vixens out on their syrupy insincerity. It WAS on purpose, and it WAS annoying. If it's fully deliberate characterization then I still don't like it, but at least I'm not actively experiencing it grating my nerves.

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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 · 28/09/2026

Exactly! I don't think my ADHD would be anywhere near as disabling if I lived in a world that accommodated it, but my bipolar disorder still would. I'd cure that, if I could, the same way I already take meds to manage it now. But my physical disabilities? The constant pain and exhaustion? Begone!

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

I guess ultimately it depends on what you want to get out of writing your story. I don't want to write a depiction of grim reality for other people's entertainment. I want to write stories where my characters learn and grow and the world around them gets a little bit better in the process.

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

Similarly, if I write institutionalization... I'm writing it as evil, and I'm writing rescues or escapes from that evil. It does genuinely help some people in real life, but the harm it does makes the value extremely questionable. It helped ME in a roundabout way, but I also still have nightmares.

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

I also write magical cures into my work. If you have magic that can make people feel better and you are not using it for that, and you write your world specifically so that you can transmute matter or something but can't manage pain... I understand that's some disabled people's cup of tea. NOT mine.

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

Okay, foxes, but they should at least sound sincere talking to each other, right?! Are they dubbed? It could just be extra detached voice acting, I guess. But it's all so languid and high pitched it sounds sticky sweet. I have an irrational dislike of these vixens just because they're so plastic.

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

Whyyy do these incredibly similar looking women all sound so insincere about everything they say? They are SUPPOSED to read as secretive and arrogant, aren't they? That's not just me failing to understand something?

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

This show is going to be absolute hell for my face blindness, I can tell. Everyone is busy looking alike, changing clothes and faces in record time, and generally not being identifiable. On purpose. I can tell Li Jie so far because he's apparently aware that sleeves are bullshit. The rest? Nope!

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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

I'm gonna be real honest, my naming process does a lot of the work for me. I'm like the anti-Airplane when it comes to names. That is, my names are just as random as his in their own way, but by the time they're fully formed there's a wholeass unique person described by them.

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

All I have actually written down is name, species, and occupation, but that is enough to tell me who they are and where to lean in characterizing them. They are fully formed in my heart, and that's enough.

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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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