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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
@aesonique.itch.io
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Author of #litrpg series The Age of Steam and Sorcery, snowboarder, coffee lover.

https://linktr.ee/patrickcharltonoshea

Book One: Death Becomes Him out now!
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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · Aug 15
Good morning Bluesky!
I'm Patrick, the author of the series The Age of Steam and Sorcery. My first book is published here:
aesonique.itch.io/death-become...

ko-fi.com/s/dedefa2e72

amzn.asia/d/eYGjxG4

www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/...

And pre-release versions of my books are on Royal Road for free.
Death Becomes Him by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
What do you do when your life is falling apart? Play games of course!
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I've noticed this. A lot.
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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It's funny how I don't see anybody say shit like "oh what you couldn't just Google that?" anymore because everybody knows Google is just AI soup now and who the shit knows what it'll tell you.
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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#AwesomeCharacters -- all side characters deserve a name so that the one rabid fan who decides to ship that character with one of your MCs has something to work with. I think only 1 in my hockey WIP doesn't have a name and I'm gonna go change that right now 😹
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social Charlie Delta 🦊🐐 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 9h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

When do you consider a side character to have earned a name?

Is it when they speak a line of dialogue? Have a certain amount of importance to the story? When it is confusing to describe the scene otherwise?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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This throwaway joke in Only Murders In The Building was fucking WILD. What a deep cut in a show for boomers
Martin short telling Steve Martin that Tumblr was ruined after they banned naughty pics
October 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Me, ten years ago: "I love technology! It enables such incredible things, and it's only going to create more wonders in the future!"

Me, now:
Aina from Demonschool saying: "The important thing is we have to smash all technology to bits. That'll prove to you there's demons in there." Also, for some reason, it has an ACTIVATE WINDOWS thing in the corner because even though my Windows is actually activated, Windows is a hell program made out of bullshit.
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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This discovery amuses me:
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
Cats Scream Louder at Men and It's Probably the Men's Fault
Cats are just reading the room.
www.zmescience.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Does anyone else have favourite spoons?

Vanessa offered me some of her banoffee at lunch today and I'd already used both of my preferred teaspoons.

"I'm out of spoons, in the literal and metaphorical sense," I said. No banoffee for me.
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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no nut november is a christian ritual meant to reanimate john harvey kellogg
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Nurse, carrying newborn to their mother: Congratulations! He's a healthy three and a half kilos and fifty centimetres!

Mum: And?

Nurse: And what?

Mum: STR, WIS, CON? You've only given me two of his base stats. How do I know if I need to buy him a sword or wand?
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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#LateNightWrite I am thankful for the other writers.

I love writing, but I love reading more. These wonderful people have created works that inspire and motivate.

More than that, they're just genuinely good people. The author discord that @eliseswritings.bsky.social is full of awesome folks.
blackbirb.bsky.social Blackbird @blackbirb.bsky.social · 1d
Alright folks! #LateNightWrite tonight is gonna be just this. Because things have been shit for a while and it's good to remind ourselves of what good has come of our creative endeavors. Be it things we learned, friendships forged, the joy of creating itself... what are you thankful for?
Open Question As we transition from giving thanks to preparing for a brand new year... Speak as much or as little as you like about the aspects of writing you enjoy the most and what you are most thankful for in your creative sphere.
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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homebrewandhacking.bsky.social
I'll definitely be hitting up Latta for some stock art when funds allow.

Very much my aesthetic. Check it out!

#selflessSunday
johnlattaart.bsky.social John Latta Art - TTRPG Illustrator @johnlattaart.bsky.social · Oct 22
New Pin Post! I'm John, a freelance #illustrator for #TTRPG players and publishers. I do private and published comms, sell commercial stock art and create fan-crossover works.
Stock art: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
Teepublic (fan art on merch) www.teepublic.com/user/johnlat...
A brown-orange hooded skeleton bust with glowing orange eyes, with feathered mantle and rope necklaces stares off to the left in a 3/4 turn. A golden circular token border hangs behind them. "John Latta Art" appears in an orange font A green and purple eldritch lich floats menacingly, glowing tentacles sprouting malignantly from its back. A dark robed head shot of a shattered bearded death mask revealing a glowing eye socket in a skull beneath it. A symbol of the goddess Pharasma hangs from their neck. A bust of a slavering ghoul, mouth covered in an acidic ichor.
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Rise and Shine. 🏵️
A character waking up in their bed with a cup of tea. There are ghost cats around them.
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Google: Evil is all we do now.
scotnational.bsky.social The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d
Google has been giving free advertising to anti-abortion groups targeting pregnant women in Scotland and across the UK, the Sunday National can reveal
November 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Epic Games sent a DMCA notice to my online stores for my geology-themed design involving a crossed pickaxe and rock hammer that said "PICKS...or it didn't happen" because they asserted that Epic owned all rights to artwork/mention of pickaxes, right before an SVP annual conference. Eric cost me $$$
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 4d
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Concept:

A sister company to Ubereats, called UnterDrinks. They bring you alcohol on the down low.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Dexy having a snack.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Good afternoon all! In the words of Granny Weatherwax: I aint'n't dead.

I've taken the weekend off and gotten into my other passion, making stuff. Vanessa bought me a mig welder for my birthday and I've only just gotten to try it out.

I have only flashed myself twice, so I call it a win.
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Tao Wong has written some really good stories, and now's your chance to pick them up for pennies.

Or, you know, whatever you use now that pennies are gone.
taowong.bsky.social Tao Wong @taowong.bsky.social · 2d
Missed the news?

All five of my 2025 LitRPG and progression fantasy releases are in a Black Friday weekend bundle. Grab all five eBooks for just $19.99!

Find the 🔗 in my bio.
November 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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I've drawn so many things this year that I feel Gandalf-like except it's "I have no memory of this piece" 😂😭
Drawing of a guinea hen (seen in profile facing left), a largish bird with small blue head with a red triangular comb standing up on top of the head. Its feathers are black with a striking pattern of white dots and dashes that looking a bit like stars crowded very closely into a dark sky.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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A perfectionist walked into a bar, looked around and immediately left without ordering anything.

The bar wasn't set high enough for him.
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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It feels weird. We woke up this morning about two thousand kilometres from where we are right now.

The change in climate is both jarring, and welcome. I had never intended on returning to North Queensland, and these three days have proven me right.

I like none of these people, & the weather less
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This is very awesome. Mohamed Semra is now the Mayor of Maribyrnong
gusseting.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy gusseting @gusseting.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Need a good news story?
Mohamed Semra, 10 years ago was pulled up outside an Apple Store, because "he might steal something".
He's a Sudanese refugee, aged 27, who is now Mayor of Maribynong, Melbourne, where the Apple Store resides […]
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November 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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It is the stated policy of Magica Riot that Nazis deserve to be punched, so please enjoy one of my trans magical girls, Riot Blue (aka Nova) punching a sad, pathetic Nazi.

Thanks to @beedokfern.bsky.social for this delightful work!
Artwork by @beedokfern.bsky.social of Nova, the transgender magical girl known as Riot Blue, from the queer magical girl novel “Magica Riot,” holding down and punching a Nazi fash jackass on the streets of Portland.
January 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM