getting real suspicious that i've been hoodwinked as of late...that somehow i've been played, for a fool and/or like a fiddle...

A collection of seasonal excerpts from the commonplace, Summer 2025: autumnwright.bearblog.dev/summer-2025/

i like to pretend "cornish hen" is british slang for "corny hentai"

we've all got that one friend who's always slathered in amniotic goo

we might host shows at my house one day and i pitched "kingdom hearts ii" as a venue name but my housemates were unenthusiastic 😔 so i didn't have the courage to tell them i've been holding onto that idea for years...

i'm weak to things like guns and swords. frankly either of those would get the job done

i've already detected all your weak points and they're all in embarrassing locations you don't even know about

i'm prob gonna write more about this in the thing i'm working on but -- i waw so light novel-averse until i started reading the shuukura translation and now i totally get it. it's a medium that thrives on recklessly unreliable narrators. those girls are freaks and i love poring through their brains

There's So Much Girl Pee! (120 People)

when it comes to umamusume, i don't want to seem like i care about material things like a social status; i just want three wins in the gemini cup for my girls

next year i'm gonna get really strong and then finally get started on building us a new moon

bluesky bookmarks...huge for a lurker like me...

i want to play a game that actually makes me dance. not like a rhythm game or fitness simulator, a game that gets me to dance like a complete and total ass, like bust it down nasty-style until my bones get bent

"you think only the city has autodeath cars" "i live in Peoria and i hear Narcosis on the radio daily" look. 2 AM. I-80 gas station. TV screens on every pump - the news: your house. Your face. Hateful chyron. Guy's pumping unleaded in a container in the back of a van. Doesn't see you. You have a gun

spring steel & poison smoke, man. you gotta see the human abattoir. Cars virgin to human hands driving back & forth over random pedestrians til they pop like a fucked bundle of sausage links. Intrusive music, genres like Narcosis, Midwest Carcinogen Beat, Prejudiced Electro. Gotta see the big city

moon looks like it's out to get me tonight

it's difficult to sum up death stranding 2's treatment of gender, but if anything, it exhibits both a deep-seated fear and envy of women

when i read that kojima purposefully rewrote death stranding 2 after it tested well with audiences just so he could thwart their expectations, i became convinced the game has no discernible moral center

sometimes writing feels like grabbing someone by the collar and trying desperately to convey your argument in full before they shake off your grasp by tickling you in the armpit or something

found a cafe that serves my guilty pleasure abomination, an espresso + mexican coke concoction...i'm so fucked...

you're gonna regret fucking w me after it turns out i'm actually a thousand years old or whatever. it'll happen, just you wait

the only silk song i care about is joanna newsom's "sawdust and diamonds." now THAT is one silky song...

nothing more revolting than watching a catcaller's smile curl into a frown when they realize i'm trans. have fun w your deflated boner buddy, i'm just trying to get to my car

i liked hollow knight a lot but i admit i'm still a bit mystified by its cultural reputation. it's tempting to write it off as a generational thing but there's gotta be more to it than that

ultimately i think i'm grateful to be alive

gonna start being more aggressive about converting people into yuri-likers. i can't take it anymore

if there's one thing i regret cutting from the death stranding piece, it's a quote by umamusume's gold ship that goes really hard but no longer worked after i sliced off all the motherhood stuff. i really thought i was onto something with that

hello bluesky, bullet points -- my all-time fave gaming publication -- published my essay about death stranding 2, drone syndrome, and highway grief today. i struggled a lot with writing it, and i can only hope that i did its subjects justice. even still, i'd appreciate it if you read it

we've got a new Death Stranding 2 article up on @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social from @goosepimple.moe that you should read. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/08/29/m...

estrogen's got me using emojis for faces i'd never make in real life

i'm so sick and twisted that sissy hypno is just regular hypnosis to me

i wish all the prospective yuri enjoyers in my life would just realize it already so i can talk about it w more people. i don't care if they need time to "find themselves" or whatever. they can sort that out after reading how do we relationship? from start to finish

it's official: mosquitoes cannot get enough of my plump, juicy ass

i've learned something funny after two or so years of making small talk after telling people i (sort of) write about video games for a living: there are a lotta men out there who swore off gaming forever after league of legends ruined their life

i think i've said this before but i really do think the very concept of designating yuri as "bait" or "non-bait" is anti-art, especially considering there's a lot of real-world lesbian longing that doesn't receive any closure whatsoever

had a fun umamusume show-and-tell at brunch w my thoroughly non-otaku friends the other day when "that gay horse girl game" inevitably came up in conversation

training rice shower has made me more confident than ever that yes, i would still love my daughter if she went gay for a robot. in fact that would only make me love her more

finally unpacked enough to justify spending an afternoon working on my yuri manga rankings 💕 i think i have my top five down but after that it gets tricky...

i think some other trans women would find it too obvious but personally i cried when i read SCP-2721. i've seen its themes presented in similar forms before but i think it earns it

yuri about a balloon and a rectangle of light

i don't care if they develop "slow metabolism," you'd have to stuff me in hell and freeze it over to keep me from selecting the option that lets my umamusume eat whatever they want

sometimes it feels like my cat was hit harder by the breakup than i was. when she's awake, all she does is stand in my ex's old room, in the dark, howling at the wall. you weren't the one who was in a relationship with her, dummy. i should be the one who gets to do that

umamusume pvp is honestly p fun -- i've been putting my champions' meeting races on the TV while i pack and nearly every one results in high-stakes drama. i'm so proud of my girls. this must be what watching sports is like

felt weirdly sad writing this notice to my landlord that i'll be moving out — not because he's my landlord, but because it felt like i was writing a death certificate for my house(?)

i truly can't recommend asagiiro no saudade enough. it's the only other manga i've read besides wandering son that struck some psychic bullseye in me when depicting dysphoria. there's at least one devastating spread in each chapter. i think it's v beautiful

another lovely piece by my friend artemis, this time about metal garden, which she convincingly describes as "halo if the developers at bungie had more courage." lots of visceral and kinetic prose in this one. give it a read!

my housemates and i found a place!! and i'm gonna have a private balcony and a bathroom w a real-ass bathtub!! and both my housemates are also trans musicians so we're gonna setup a shared recording space in the garage!! this is the first concrete piece of good news i've had in months 🥹

i have this problem where i go into a thing i'm writing ready to dismember some darlings but then they end up multiplying as if by asexual reproduction. their writhing limbs grow new bodies

is there a term for gender-affirming misogyny? i realize the concept is p much bullshit but also acknowledge that it's something i genuinely experience