When I first read Dune, it was shortly after reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I was so confused because I thought Duncan Idaho had to be some kind of joke name, like Ford Prefect. Still not convinced that it isn't.

Hello, lovely new people who have found yourselves here! I'm currently buried under notifications from my post that blew up, but I will reply/follow back ASAP. In the meantime, please look at my stuff while I dig through my notifications.

PLEASE read my short stories as my memoirs. I'd much rather be a monster hunter than a dental nurse, but there just aren't many giant alien horrors wandering around these parts to make a good career out of it...

A few people have asked this, so here we are... My aliens are called Kah, Inatu, and Kiya. They exist in a universe where men have one syllable names, and women/enby folk have two or more syllables.

Somebody please write a book about Conan the Birdwatcher.

THUNK KNOW WURLD FEEL SO BIG AND SCARY RIGHT NOW! LIKE TOO MUCH TO HANDLE ALL AT ONCE! HERE WHAT HELP THUNK—MAKE WURLD SMALLER! DON’T TRY TA TAKEN ON WHOLE PLANET! JUST FOCUS ON WHAT IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY! YOUS NOT TAKING ON DA WHOLE WURLD—YOUS JUST IN ONE ZONE OF IT AND IT’S JUST ITS OWN THING.

As a goth I can say that absolutely yes we do.

Fun fact: birds fly because they are desperate to get back to their home planet.

let me be clear he didn't steal 10 mil but if he did he still wouldn't deserve life imprisonment at a fucking hospital

safety first!

Ironically I was often studied by adults because I refused to go over the lines, ever. Let kids be kids. It's just part of how we develop!

Look at how cool this is!!

the trail of wreckage in his wake is really doing it for me here

Artist! Quote with your fanart! (I drew this for LD Lapinski's Strangeworlds Travel Agency, which you should all definitely read if you haven't already.)

1. what the fuck 2. the comment directly under this post is hilarious.

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.

Moonrise - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2o9Uv6B

why do ppl get so invested in who gets to be on objectively the most shite quality national monument of any country

I have a massive bruise on my left thigh because Missy likes to rest her whole weight on this one spot. And I don't stop her, because she's cute.

HAPPY DEMOCRACY DAY In honor of dicks and voting, if the ÜBERSCHLONG raises enough money for @romancingthevote.com I will make another hojillion tiny little dicks to offer a second slightly different but still very much ÜBER schlong to the runner-up bid! How high is high enough? We’ll see! :D

Apparently Jesus died so these people could screw over restraunts.

My laptop is so tiny that I had to buy it a kindle pouch instead of a laptop bag. 3

Late Summer Stars - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKkir8

Pretty sure me and my brother were legally missing for like 12 hours once because we climbed inside a fucking tree trunk and got stuck.

Make your covers in MS Paint if you have to. I promise it's a better look than AI art.

Ah. Good to know.

The same way that just a dozen people are behind over half of all the book bans, this entire goddamn nazi movement is a fucking handful of freaks who are loud enough in billionaire nazi sex pest social media empires to be confused with an entire crowd. This *is* their irl numbers and popularity.

Happy birthday, Usagi Tsukino

Suddenly, I have sold 7 ITEMS on Vinted, all of which have been sitting around for like 2 months. I shouldn't complain, but I have no idea how I'm going to take them all to the post office and I'll be damned before doing more than one trip.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

Jesse Duquette again.

I saw MotU 2026 again today, and it really holds up to a second viewing. I think it works because they absolutely nailed the fact that He-Man always works best when you treat it like kids playing with toys. Make it absurd. No deep explinations or rationalisations. Make it fun.

My entire relationship with Star Wars:

The dog has developed a habit of licking my ankles and I do not like it. Like excuse me madam but no.

"When buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

It's that time of year when I fulfil my role of workplace goth by getting heatstroke. If you look after animals, go give them water. Especially if that animal is you.

If you need to cool off today, you could do worse than giving yourself a chill... All you need to do is read Of Castaways and Castasides, my anthology of nautical and polar horror. Salt breeze, snowscapes, and plenty to creep you out! #booksky

I have had exactly 2 hours sleep thanks to the heat and I am extremely cranky.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Ugh, heatwave. **grumbles in goth**

good night summer solstice mountain

Chiitan who gave you a gun

Tonight I had to play another round of Peel The Shed Off The Cornsnake. Fun times.

The amazing digital inability to understand subtlety and subtext.

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Iapetus approach 2 - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/oBMzg

I'm watching End of Days, and suddenly I had the awful/awesome idea of a Silent Hill game mod that replaces Harry with Arnorld Schwarzenegger but changes literally nothing else.

Hello, new folks!! I thought I'd reintroduce myself: I'm S R , some time writer and life-long lover of all things strange, spooky, and sci-fi. I own 4 corn snakes, and currently about 7 sea monkeys. Death's White Hands: A Tale of Aegis Immemorial amzn.eu/d/5MDpFjc