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Zyzzyva

@zyzzyva.bsky.social

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Sometime short story writer, sometime T̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ Bluesky microfic writer. He/him.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 5h

English serial killer who buried the bodies at his house. (Looking it up, the actual Fred West burined them in his backyard instead of a basement, but the intent of the statement is still clear, and also 😬)

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 9h

It's not clear from this ruling specifically, but googling around it sounds like she was trying to constructive-evict a bunch of tenants so she can sell their land to developers.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 10h

"I've got six filing cabinets full of documents in my Fred West cellar."

Well, uh, I would have maybe named it something else, personally.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 10h

Not gonna lie, I sat up a little straighter when I reached that line. What the hell.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 11h

40 vertically-stacked oars, one rower on each. 😌

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 11h

I do love how the first season is a more or less straight historical drama procedural and then Peter Keleghan shows up in the finale and the show realizes what direction it *actually* is going to end up going.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 11h

Counterpoint: RPGs exist as a medium for getting fictional gazeteers published. Frankly, half of them should drop the mechanics.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 23h

God, I love living in the future. 🫠

A heavily clipped image of a popup ad, with barely-legible text reading "AI-generated actor. Story is provided for entertainment purposes only."

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry. :/

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 1d

The Malkavian female PC bursts through hospital doors

The Malkavian female PC talks to a hospital receptionist

The Malkavian female PC talks to a nurse

The Malkavian female PC looks at Heather lying in a hospital bed

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 2d

"look guys this is really simple. either we do this or the fucking raccoons do it. it's gonna be one of us eating out of garbage cans and one of us getting soft beds and indoor temperature control and toys. if you want the garbage can, more power to you. tell me sometime how the raccoons are doing"

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

I've never even heard of "Jane and her Shadow" before, although it's a good title.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds like fanfiction, yes, but also there's like a 30% chance this is actually a dream you had once lol.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

"C'mon, man, all the *cool* ̶k̶i̶d̶s̶ crewmembers are getting infested by tentacles."

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

Today's silly story idea:

SF alien infestation story, goo and orifices stuffed full of tentacles and all that fun stuff, only instead of sneaking around and tricking people or just going full zombie horde, the infected character is acting like a teenager in an 80s anti-drug PSA.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, fair. (Do they ever say when the last person to get into the Good Place was? I don't recall.)

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, eh? I think it's fair to say Columbus is in the Bad Place "because of" his big-ticket items, even if the little stuff would also have got him, absent the raping, slave trading, and genocide.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

Genestealer Cult fans are *horny*? My god, I never would have guessed.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

I was gonna say, rabies is kinda notorious for the single endpoint of its "side effects".

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

he keeps fighting her and escaping while she deals with the mcguffin of the week. Then when all the intrigues come to a head, Buffy rolls in and kills them all (except Steve, who gets a cutaway of being like "Well, I guess I'm the Prince of the Hellmouth now. <beat> I'm moving to the East coast.")

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like it's better if she doesn't know? At least for s1. Like, the cutaway to the vampires keep showing them having wild political intrigues and sending off Minion Steve to deal with this human, and Buffy keeps thinking that Steve is the leader of the vampires in Sunnydale because

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

"Jesse Kellerman" (or, I'm gonna be honest here, "Jessie Kellerman") is extremely happy to trade hidden vampire lore detailed reports on the social structure of the school! The school may be GM Infrastructure but Buffy and the audience are never gonna figure that out.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

But the great thing about NWoD demons is you don't have to explain shit! Just have some biomechanical horror that will end up being important in the sexual awakenings of 10% of bluesky users later, wearing a human's life like a suit, doing incomprehensible information brokering.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

(Although the inevitable action-fantasy power creep would mean it'd end up being the big bad that she flipkicks until it explodes in season, say, 8.)