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Wil Wheaton ❌👑

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New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator. Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton Retired Starfleet officer. Husband, father, Traveler. Nazi punks fuck off.

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 14h
There are more actual humans subscribed to my blog posts than the stupid algorithm shows my posts to on Threads. If I have something to important to share, however brief, I'll say it here.
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friend computer can bite my shiny metal ass
When I do an interview, or I guest on a podcast, it never feels like it’s enough of a thing to post about it in my blog. It feels like the sort of thing I should just drop into Threads. The thing is, Threads suppresses the everlivingfuck out of almost...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 16/09/2026
Today, I just wanted to share a couple things that I'm excited about. I hope you'll get excited about them, too.
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just a couple of things
And I have, again, fallen into a trap where I only post long essays to my blog that take days or longer to write. Oh, so many drafts that really go nowhere, because I wasn’t writing to tell a story, I was writing to have something to post. And it...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 03/09/2026
"Hey, check this out," seems to have migrated over to social media, so it feels a little ... vestigial? ... to do one of those posts, but I want to post something, and the story I'm working on isn't ready, so here are some links.
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his name is dinkums. he watches family feud.
Today’s title brought to you by “I have no idea what to call this, so I’ll quote Vacation and hope for the best.” Back in the old days, when bloggers wanted to post about something, but didn’t have a story to tell, we would do these posts on our blogs...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 01/09/2026
I have an essay in this month's Uncanny Magazine, called Being A Brief History of It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton! I requested payment in a paper check, so I can frame it, since it's the first time I've been paid the professional rate for an essay.
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Being A Brief History of It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton
I have an essay in this month's Uncanny Magazine, called Being A Brief History of It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton! I requested payment in a paper check, so I can frame it, since it's the first time I've been paid the professional rate for an essay.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 27/08/2026
It's been a brutal couple of days for me and my fellow Gen X theater kids. We've lost two load-bearing icons, and I feel like we could all use a big hug in the Denny's parking lot after the show.
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sensual daydreams to treasure forever (can’t you just see it?)
I swear to all the gods, the Grim Reaper is really fucking up. It’s like he caught Mitch McConnell and decided to take the summer off, leaving some intern in charge who just does not understand the assignment. While we were reeling from the loss of Dolly Parton, we found...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 14/08/2026
Felicia Day and I are getting the band back together for a new show about the games (and some other things) we love, and you can help make it happen.
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felicia day and i want to play more games together
About twenty years ago, when I was in the Saturday show at the ACME Comedy Theatre, a friend of mine who I wrote with for the show encouraged me to check out one of her students who was in the Sunday show. I remembered when she and I were in...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 07/08/2026
A funny and fun thing happens when I put the robe on. Without meaning to, I stand up as straight as I can, and I feel legitimately cool. As Lester Bangs says in Almost Famous, "Oh, dude, they made you feel cool, and you are not cool."
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Spoiler: Wil Wheaton is a Wizard
I am holding pink pages in my hand, reviewing them before I collate them into my script. A magic battle ensues between Wil and Bert (fireballs, energy bolts, conjured beasts, etc.) I look at the script again, to make sure I haven’t misread it. Yeah, it really says fireballs, etc....
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 16/07/2026
It feels like it was about 18 months ago, but could be as long as three years ago, that my friend told me about a TV show he was developing. It was a brilliant idea, I thought. A science fiction action comedy? YES PLEASE.
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i can finally talk about something i worked on!
It feels like it was about 18 months ago, but could be as long as three years ago, that my friend told me about a TV show he was developing. It was a brilliant idea, I thought. A science fiction action comedy? YES PLEASE. It was funny, and clever, and...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 14/07/2026
In the early 2000s, I worked on a couple of movies that were direct-to-DVD, low budget versions of successful, big budget movies of the moment. They weren't high art, but they were so much fun. This is a story about one of them.
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can i tell you a story?
Earlier today, a really fun memory surfaced that I wanted to share, because I haven’t had an opportunity to tell a story in a little while. It’s an older memory, so I’m sure some of the specifics aren’t entirely correct, but this is way I remember it. In the early...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 06/06/2026
I went to the mall and I wrote about it.
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on saturday. on purpose.
“Still punk as fuck,” I whisper to myself, as I slide new Orthotic insoles into my Converse. As long as I’m down there, I get them on my feet and tie them. I use this double loop thing my kid taught me when he was in middle school. I’m sure...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 28/05/2026
I was grateful for it, because choosing to experience grief instead of avoiding it with anger was a big time goal, something I worked really hard to accomplish.
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kerosene keeps me warm
A couple weeks ago, I got fed up with my body feeling sore all the time because I’m not taking better care of it. I mean, I eat well, I haven’t touched alcohol in almost 11 years, and I take pretty decent walks every day. But my muscle mass still...
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 27/05/2026
Today's episode of It's Storytime with @wilwheaton.net features my short story, "With Her Serpent Locks" and a conversation between us. Go listen! wilwheaton.net/podcast/
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Emily Taylor @etaylor.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Listening to @wilwheaton.net’s Storytime podcast read of Andrea Chapela’s “As One Listens to the Rain” was especially cool after visiting Mexico City in March. I think it conjured last night’s lighting storm that shook the sleeping house.
Mexico City public library interiorBuildings with tree
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 28/05/2026
None of this would be happening if Kamala Harris were president. None of it. And we fucking told you so.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 20/05/2026
I am coming to your computer (or your tablet or your phone or even your TV, I think) on June 7 for a virtual convention that needs a much better name than Couch Con, because at this moment in time, that's ... uh ... not what this is.
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i’m calling it ‘wil wheatcon’ until i can think of something better
In an average year, I travel to around 5 or 6 cities for conventions. Almost every time I announce an appearance, the most common response is some version of “that’s great! When are you coming to [my town]?” I’m not coming to your town, but I am coming to your...
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
want to read a novel that you're absolutely sure was not created with A.I.? read any book published before 2020 trust me, there's quite a few good ones
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 19/05/2026
Maybe it will happen today.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 18/05/2026
Indy and Chicago! We're coming to see you next month
Stand By Me Live is coming to Indianapolis and Chicago, June 13 and 14.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 16/05/2026
I loved narrating this story. It's just wonderful, and offered a ton of opportunities for me to make big creative choices. I am so grateful that @thisisguan.bsky.social trusted me with their words.
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Zeno Agency @zenoagency.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Check it out: THE PORTAL KEEPER by @lavietidhar.bsky.social read by @wilwheaton.net on It’s Storytime! open.spotify.com/episode/6ll0...
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"The Portal Keeper” by Lavie Tidhar
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026
My next book, *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI*, will be out in about a month. 1/
A mockup of a smartphone displaying an audiobook app that's playing 'Enshittification'. Next to it appears this text: 'This book - ostensibly about AI, but more broadly about the new world of hyper-capitalism and high tech - is stunning in its clarity and breadth of vision. In trying to keep some kind of grasp on what is going on in the world, I read Doctorow obsessively. —Brian Eno'
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Alien Super Show @aliensupershow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
wil wheaton: isnt this a megans law violation
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 12/05/2026
Maybe it will happen today.
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Alien Super Show @aliensupershow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Obama: I'd love a Republican Party that wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses, and there has been a Republican Party like that in the past and I want to see that return @wilwheaton.net: wtf are you talking about
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 30/04/2026
I want to take a moment and say thank you for all the messages of comfort and support that so many of y'all have shared with me since Marlowe passed. I haven't ever felt this kind of grief, for this long, in my life before now.
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come closer and see
I want to take a moment and say thank you for all the messages of comfort and support that so many of y’all have shared with me since Marlowe passed. I haven’t ever felt this kind of grief, for this long, in my life. When I am feeling the most...
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 30/04/2026
Hi friends. There's a new episode of It's Storytime waiting for you wherever you get your podcasts. This week's story is To Carry You Inside You, by Tia Tashiro. It's one of those wonderful speculative fiction stories that isn't necessarily about me, but is REALLY about me, you know?
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 28/04/2026
Maybe it will happen today.
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa
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Announcing United Wizards of the Coast - CWA!
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 27/04/2026
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 26/04/2026
Todd Blanche is lying. I don't know what he's saying, but I know that he's lying.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/04/2026
Trust in national media: 28%. 75% of local newsrooms: gone. Billionaires buying what's left. My own Dem congressman wouldn't take a stand against Trump's Fed Chair pick—a man in the Epstein files 500+ times. Not one Illinois paper has touched the story. This is why independent media exists.
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The Rise of Independent Media — And Why the Powerful Are Terrified of It
Corporate media is collapsing under the weight of its own corruption. Something new is rising in its place. And this weekend, I’ll be in the middle of it.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/04/2026
Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke
Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 24/04/2026
Trying again. It is WILD that this isn't the top story in the country right now. The president is weak, feeble, sundowning, and unable to faithfully discharge the responsibilities of his office. It's right here, live on camera, and the national press just shrugs.
Trump falls asleep AGAIN while surrounded by his sycophants as they praise him with lies.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 23/04/2026
The final episode of 120 Minutes, broadcast December 27, 1993. I can't believe this was 33 years ago. Thirty. Three. Years. Ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNSg...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The fact that Trump had appointed a totally unqualified donor to be Secretary of the Navy leading into what turned into the biggest crisis for the US Navy since World War 2 could be covered like the media covered Michael "Brownie" Brown during Hurricane Katrina. They choose not to do this!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/20/texas-gerrymander-redistricting-midterms-backfire/
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/04/2026
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
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M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Seeing my name beside these authors and I'm trying to be sooo normal about it 😳 Really appreciate this shout out to my story that came out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social. while not my usual dark horror bag, this was more me exploring cultural grief and the inevitably of your loved ones passing.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 21/04/2026
I really needed to see this thing I just saw on Tumblr: Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written
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Norma Ballingall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 @balr0g.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In a nutshell. 😊
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We need a matriarchy run by lesbians with clipboards and earpieces who do not take any shit.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 20/04/2026
A Blessed high holy day to all who celebrate.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Profile of the nose section of a B-17 bomber painted in olive drab and gray. Under the cockpit is a painting of a pinup-style lady who happens to have a guillotine for a torso. There are arms in the sleeves of a military jacket extending from the sides of the guillotine frame, one is holding an empty basket and the other is saluting. Below the hole where heads go sides wearing a short, pleated, olive drab skirt and her legs, covered in gartered nylons are curled up under her. A discarded crown is upside down behind her. In front of her across the nose is text reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’. Much of the rest of the nose is covered in mission markers but instead of bombs they are small images of guillotines.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Salute to an all-time tweet
tweet from raandy: trump [waving bible in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh 
[audience going berserk]
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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 16/04/2026
She was tiny and underweight, but she had the biggest smile. I knelt down to meet her, and she did a somersault into my lap, wagging her tail so fast I couldn't see it. I fell in love with her instantly.
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i will miss her forever
Fourteen years ago, Anne and I went to Pasadena Humane Society to see some of the construction our fundraising supported. While we were there, we chatted with Kevin, who was our adoption coordinator for our dog, Seamus. Seamus had been part of our pack for about a year, and we...
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
U.S. troops don’t fight wars “in the name of Jesus Christ.” They serve the Constitution. At least, that’s the idea.
Screenshot of a New York Times article that says: '2 hours ago. John Ismay. Covering the Pentagon. Hegseth has said before that U.S. troops are fighting for military victory in Iran “in the name of Jesus Christ.” During the news conference he again cast the war in explicitly Christian terms. He compared the rescue of two downed F-15 crew members inside Iran to biblical miracles. And he compared reporters in the Pentagon press corps to the Pharisees who criticized Jesus Christ.'
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 15/04/2026
Hi friends. I am not great about promoting my own work, so please bear with me while I get through this. This week's It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton is Heathman Ldg, by Brian Evenson. It is available wherever you get your podcasts. If you listen, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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GroguFanboyXX ❌👊🏽❌➕ @grogufanboy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
@wilwheaton.net Wow Sir. Thank you. Your interpretation of Chris giving the speech about “maybe I SHOULD be your dad” is jaw on floor emotional. I needed to sit with that for awhile. Such a loving homage to River and yet different to not dishonor his voice but celebrate it. Thanks for this keepsake.
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