Lanolin Dreams 4 by @rosie-cant.bsky.social, haunting and horrible (positive) and, woof. CWs for references to forced birth rosie-cant.itch.io/lanolin-drea... #HybridDeckerZineJam

As beautiful and special as Rosie's stories always are. This so rich and textured, both descriptively and emotionally, and manages to evoke a whole world without ever needing to stretch beyond its central character. *Incredible* story

more pained sounds emerging from the rosie today its not going well

couple of my zines now in @peoplesletters.bsky.social if you're from london or thereabouts <3

Being informed that using angels for marketing oranges is real and happens and is not just a thing from a story what i wrote

I still see people rec Brigador who I'm pretty sure would recoil if they learned that one of the devs is a massive, massive chud shithead, which is a testament to how effectively they managed to smother that whole reveal

Listen, in this corner of Bluesky, convincing people not to play or discuss Hogwarts Legacy is easy because the game looked like dogshit anyway and nobody here was in the demo. Brigador Killers is actually where we need to lock in.

REMINDER JACK MONAHAN IS PIECE OF SHIT. BRIGADOR KILLERS DEVS ARE NOT FUCKING WELCOME IN ANY MECH COMMUNITY. www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama...

Occasionally I'm unfortunately reminded how awful the world is towards trans women and it really does weigh down my heart when I stop to consider it. It is honestly so overwhelmingly nice to have our little mechsplo community that allows my brain to forget the rest of the world sometimes. ❤️

as someone who worked on bg3, I fully agree - it's so utterly hypocritical how these platforms treat sex and eroticism - they want to make bank off big releases (and payment processors conveniently look the other way when this happens!) but strangle entire swathes of content from indies

This really does make me inordinately angry. So many of the kindest and most creative people I know draw or write "adult content" and all of these companies trying to curtail their livelihoods because of disgusting puritanical views held by actually some of the worst people in the world is.. yeah.

I love this mech. When I close my eyes and imagine myself as a mech pilot, the mech looks like this.

I am going to gaslight the entire planet to get this show rebooted as a bit.

Yeah... REALLY good trilogy with the kind of emotional manipulation I love. Might be because I've been playing Pentiment and Misericorde lately, but the overt and subtler religious undercurrent works super well for me. Dirty-lovely setting that feels cobbled out of parts and held together by faith.

Found a new mechsploitation writer to yell about. This series/setting, Sursum Corda, is so fucking good and 'To The Violence Magnificent' is an instant fav. A rich, historically-inflected setting, featuring sheepgirl mechpriests and a glorious little voyeur pervert archiveofourown.org/series/5756761

Thinking a lot about what I've already written for Sursum Corda as I start writing on the next part of the story. There are parts of this that I'm really proud of and if you follow me and enjoyed my other stories but haven't checked it out then I do recomend it archiveofourown.org/series/5756761

Pallid Desert-Digger (Centris pallida) from last weekend, visiting smoketree

BAGGER: (spilling my groceries on the floor) Oh God. I'm so sorry. This isn't what I'm supposed to do. ME: How are you supposed to do it? MANAGER: She means she was gonna be a fox. In the woods and shit. But something happened and she got stuck. BAGGER: (crying) Got so stuck.

So, it seems the fake #wigglypaint websites and apps out there didn't just take the art program from itch.io. They also stole hundreds of artworks from itch.io users to fill their community galleries. And the few that didn't commit art theft aren't great either. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Colors Of The Night" - my oil painting

Sometimes the world seems so confusing and scary and like everyone knows what's going on except me Then I saw this gecko and felt really good

New story! archiveofourown.org/works/83899986 Song of the Mud Crab: A story about a woman who is prey. It contains a lot of blood, violence and death.

"How's the struggle with immigration going?" they ask me in answer I curl up into a little ball and start making pained sounds. INZ is an evil organisation. NZ is an evil settler colonial nation of ladder pulling suburbanites who have tricked themselves into thinking they're liberal

ok happy Monday I give you: ducklings and lily pads 🪶

I am now alive again and will be answering DMs again. Please feel free to message me if you want me for anything.

I am now alive again and will be answering DMs again. Please feel free to message me if you want me for anything.

The Avenger nears the throne room. A chorus of crackling guns and splashing blood and spent shells ringing on marble herald her coming. Minions of the Conqueror choke the resplendent hall ahead, horrors of infernal chitin and sinuous flesh, taunting in Stygian tongue. The Avenger doesn't slow.

I read Functional Compensation(archiveofourown.org/works/81614416) by @monathebunny.bsky.social and really enjoyed it! I love pieces that explore the post-war setting, and the story uses perspective in creative ways to examine identity too. Deserves a lot more attention, you should check it out :>

incredibly sweet words & would most definitely pass back recs on To the Violence Magnificient & Turpentine: archiveofourown.org/works/71053066 archiveofourown.org/works/77489446 snapshots (pun intended) into a brutalising world from in one a voyeuristic pov & the other ptsd recovery.

A really great Great Egret today. 🪶

Reposting from tumblr: my wrap up and reviews of some mechsplo stories from this April!

Happy holidays, my gift to everyone is a short story as a submission to the #mechsplomicrojam25 :) Mind the content tags as always! You can read here: archiveofourown.org/works/76754201

Joking aside I do think my perception of orange juice is permanently altered

in case you're wondering, you're not weird for (historically or currently) cramming yourself into small spaces like beneath your desk or inside of a closet or under your bed. deceptively common thing victims of abuse do and just don't talk about because we all assume it's really strange/embarrassing

Genuinely folks I have thought about this every day since it came out. You should read it.

New story! Find it here: archiveofourown.org/works/82882086 Orange Juice: A story about a girl who is not an angel Beta readers have described it as sad, heartwrenching, good, and report being "overwhelmed by emotion by the end"

This game rocks btw. The way the second book, Story Scenarios, applies the systems introduced in the rulebook is great and shows you just how flexible this game is. The same system that you use to track rent in one game can be used for ammo and fuel in another or TV ratings in another.

I'm not going to be reachable on discord for the next couple of days. Won't be checking DMs. anyone who would need me in an emergency has other ways of getting hold of me. Just fyi in case you are wondering why I'm not responding

Another wonderful story from Rosie, full of gorgeous prose, evocative symbolism, and a potent mix of brutality and tenderness.Striking exploration of a society built on a cycle of violence, how it scars everyone in it- especially the most vulnerable- and how the vulnerable survive. Check it out!

Summer Tanagers are here. 🪶

New story! archiveofourown.org/works/83899986 Song of the Mud Crab: A story about a woman who is prey. It contains a lot of blood, violence and death.

"religious trauma is something horrible that people live through, not just a cool aesthetic from your favourite VN" I say while also repackaging my own religious trauma into mecha stories for consumption by horny lesbians

3/3 - IS0LAT0R Another jam piece (December microjam) which got buried under the volume of other great work. It's similar to AotKH in that I went hard on channelling my personal anxieties into it. I think I did a great job of creating a nightmare world of extreme decay, isolation, and deprivation!

Wore my name tag at a jaunty angle today to express my displeasure at the extent to which my workplace exploits me

hey! my pc was busted but i'm back and wrote a 10-part microfic serial about mech-duelling the last lady of her house and what the hell you do with her after, check it out: archiveofourown.org/works/823364...

opened a new bottle of our rice wine tonight and it is great! Fermentation is my special power. Be it vegetables, bread or alcohol, I can make it all delicious

Been really battling the depression today and spent a bunch of time thinking that I'm just not that good a writer, that I have nothing of value to contribute to this world this one was good. People really resonated with it. looking over all the wonderful comments I've got has made today a bit easier