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Arinn Dembo

@erinys.bsky.social

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Lead Writer, Narrative Designer, Textile Artist, Anti-Fascist. Games: Homeworld, Sword of the Stars, Fort Zombie, many others. Television: World Trigger, Metalions. Stories/poetry: F&SF, Weird Tales, many anthologies. Fibre Arts: Slan Baby.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · Oct 25

Hi! Rumor has it that lots of new people are coming to this app, so—hello to friends old and new!

Ten things I do and love (and post about):

🎮 #gamedev
👾 #pixelart
🎭 #voiceacting
💻 #writing
🏺 #archaeology
🚀 #sciencefiction
🦄 #fantasy
💀 #horror
🏳️‍🌈 #pride
🧶 #crafting (especially dyeing yarn).

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 9d

Like, there's nowhere else for this shit to go.

Using the magic beans to fuel a plagiarism machine that gets shit wrong, tells people to kill themselves, and seduces kids, is their last best hope for the magic beans they've literally bet all the money on.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 17h

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 16h

Glad to see that the Righteous of Nations still walk among us.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 16h

This is something I would urgently like to see.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 16h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 18h

By the time this day is over, I will have baked eleven pies--possibly twelve, if I end up having too much pumpkin pie filling (I probably will).

#CanadianThanksgiving

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 20h

I don't love all his movie equally, but I still watch The Abyss with genuine pleasure.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. :) I don’t know where I fit in the leftist paradigm anymore; I just want to make pretty things, punch Nazis and save all the weirdos.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

Can I be in your club? ;)

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

I think they work best when they’re an automated response, a Pavlovian twitch. Unfortunately I received that conditioning as a child, apparently? It has taken actual work to silence the inner demon that apparently wants to silence people when they have to call me out.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

If you read this story and find it relatable, by the way, try to imagine how much harder and worse this phenomenon must be when you’re BIPOC as well as being queer and neurodivergent and whatever other marginalizations I might claim.

This is why I don’t cry at people.

Even if I feel like it.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

Long story short?

Karen wins. She gets me thrown out of the writing group by going to the top authority in the entire organization with a story about how mean and harsh I was, and how our disagreement was TOTALLY and ONLY about the Very Bad and Wrong Assumptions I’ve Made About Her.

Me: 🙄

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

The rest of the group: *nervous silence*

Karen: All I said is that I don’t like trigger warnings and I don’t think they should be used!

Me: And I’m telling you that yours isn’t a morally defensible position. It’s equivalent to hating a wheelchair ramp.

Karen: *turns on the waterworks*

Me: 🙄

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

Me: Look. Maybe if you don’t have PTSD, you don’t get it. You’re not going to crack open a book and end up re-living the worst day of your life. SA and child abuse, the suicide of a person you loved. Your miscarriage. Things that just shatter you.

Sometimes you just don’t have time to shatter.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking today about White Woman Tears, and how Canadian women in particular can use them to make themselves the martyr in any situation.

Karen in my old writer’s group: I hate trigger warnings! They are the worst, they ruin all suspense, no one should use them!

Rest of the group: Yeah!

Me: 😡 No.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yikes. At least I’m never on the latter kind of list.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nooooo

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

I can see that there is a disconnect there in the use of terms. I’m an old, so even as a queer person I didn’t grow up using “straight” as a pejorative. I was thinking it was a post about generically popular m/f fiction, like “Outlander” or whatever.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

Okay. Sorry if I misread your post, I didn’t realize we were talking about work that was bad.

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 1d

*shrug* I’m pretty agnostic about the genitals of the lovers in a hot scene if the writing is good…? Certainly if I wrote a good queer story I’d hope the straight people in the audience were capable of enjoying it. Seems only fair to return the courtesy.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 2d

Oh. My god.

Best. Pet cosplay. Evar.

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2d

When parakeets cosplay

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 2d

Taking a brief break from my dye pots this week to work on a big shop update. Hoping to have all ready-to-ship items listed by a Friday.

Want to help? Please visit the Slan Baby website! Check the navigation, click around the photos, ogle the yarn! All feedback welcome. :)

Www.slanbaby.com

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Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a pastel colorway called Margaritas on the Beach. The main body of the skeins are a soft delicate yellow, with gentle hints of lime, peach and strawberry.

Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a colorway called Elisabeth’s Grey. There are elements of deep slate grey, blue-gray, brown, and gold.

Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a colorway called Blackened Jade. The main body of the skeins are a rich dark teal green, with flashes of a green so dark that it appears black.

Four skeins of hand-dyed yarn in a colorway called Red Fox Agate. The skeins are a mix of fiery red, smoke grey, and black.

Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 2d

That otter painting! Unf. I absolutely love it.

BlindCoyote 🔜 BLFC @blindcoyote.com · 5d

4 done, 8 to go!
Having so much fun with these guys!

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Haligren @haliteatiger.bsky.social · 2d

Reposting for #werewolfwednesday!

Haligren @haliteatiger.bsky.social · 3d

Finished the little maquette of Autumn, but she's been kind of hard to get good pictures of in the way I would like. Guess I just need to fiddle with it a bit more. Autumn was sculpted in Zbrush, rendered in Blender.

3D render of a lean female werewolf against a forested backdrop at night. She is hunched over in an aggressive position at the camera, snarling fiercely. She has dark red eyes that match the dark red of her fur. The lower part of her face is tan, as is her underside, while her extremities are black.

Same werewolf but more of a foreward-facing shot, close-up, of her snarling face. The dark red of her eyes is more clearly seen here.

Full-body side-view of the werewolf. Once again the lighting is a bit more moody, a contrast between moonlight and some off-camera lamplight in the background.

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Gold Skull Games @goldskullgames.bsky.social · 3d

I think what these "big brain strategists" fail to realize is that if you don't want to support rights for trans folk, we are not on the same "team", your person winning the election isn't a win for me if you're not supporting rights for everyone

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