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bex van helsing 🦇

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writer 👩🏻‍💻 & old dead stuff enthusiast ⚰️ co-host over at @thelostcampfire podcast she/her | Chicana 🇲🇽 | 🖤🩶🤍💜

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bex van helsing 🦇 @bexpendragon.bsky.social · Aug 24

some sneak peaks of the pieces i’ve been working on for @worldofthedaszine.bsky.social!

had a lot of fun spending more time in Thedas with a bunch of talented artists & writers. you’ll be able to check out everything in its entirety very soon 👀

excerpt from Brother Genitivi’s Travels of a Chantry Scholar about Antivan festival foods: “One of the most common fares are, of course, little breads and pastries meant to be taken with a cup of fine coffee. Particularly, little spiced cookies tasting of ginger and cinnamon, and cut into the shapes of crows; these are appropriately referred to as “cornejitas” which means “little crow” in Antivan. Another notable mention is a sweet bread covered in streusel that cracks in the oven and gives the appearance of a shell. I’m told that these are most popular in northern and coastal Antiva, and the recipe is originally of Rivaini make.”

excerpt from an Antivan nursery rhyme entitled “The Mad Crow”:

A feather here, a feather there,
have you a feather spare?
For the Mad Crow keep a pair,
and never again will you nightmare.

Inside your pillow, under the bed,
Stuffed in a poppet dressed in red,
wherever a nest of plumes reside,
From the Mad Crow you cannot hide.

On two legs the Mad Crow dost walk,
for a bounty of quills they do stalk,
Enough plumage for wings to make,
is alone what will her hunger slake.

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Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 12d

While we all rage on EA- North Mist is a new indie games studio that nabbed Mary Kirby (Varric) and Sylvia Feketekuty (Emmrich, Josie) as writers!

They have a world building podcast (also on yt! 🔗 below), with Mary writing the first season that just wrapped up, and Sylvia's first ep just dropped!

North Mist Studios @northmiststudios.bsky.social · Jul 1

We're live, people! The wait is over!
🍁HAPPY CANADA DAY!🍁

Episode 1 of The Concierge is available on all major podcast platforms! Can't think of a better day to meet our crew of Canadian Assassins!
shows.acast.com/the-concierg...

#theconcierge #northmiststudios #madeincanada #audiodrama

Post Mortem: Memories | The Concierge

shows.acast.com

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⚔️ Emer ⚔️ @eethok.bsky.social · 18d

*Something something Barbie Cinematic Universe* #barbie #medievalart #illustration

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18d

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off."

'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'

We hope neither carries you off today.

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Finji @finjico.bsky.social · 18d

You're exploring an abandoned observatory with old books, notebooks, and a ritual space. A ghost appears. Will you talk to him? He might have interesting things to say. 🤔

👻 Check out Usual June, the action adventure game we're making, on Steam!

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18d

Keep it up everyone, if we just keep making games with women and pronouns we can eventually ensure that the chuds never get to enjoy a single new video game ever again

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 18d

Ringing endorsement for Silent Hill f

man who has never had sex:

NOT RECOMMENDED

the main character hinako is inspired by the feminist movement of in 1960s japan where they encouraged women to not act feminine and neglected their roles as a wife. read article beow

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🤌 Julia Rago 🤌 @juliarago.bsky.social · 18d

Should really get back to posting art, so here’s some sticker designs I made last year for the cosplayer Universe of Emily over on IG. I’d been following Emily for a while before I got this opp so I loved getting to work with her on these.
Also it’s Star Wars so ofc I had a good time

An illustration of Universe of Emily’s Sabine Wren cosplay from Star Wars Rebels

An illustration of Universe of Emily’s Sabine Wren cosplay from Ahsoka

An illustration of Universe of Emily’s Lego Darth Maul cosplay

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 19d

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

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That Guy James (But Spooky) @jroberts.bsky.social · 20d

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 20d

My problem with everything is that I know For A Fact that the purpose of life is frivolity. It is to fool around & pursue joy.

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jorge @misterlemons111.bsky.social · 20d

just a little tiny tease of something I wrote
for @worldofthedaszine.bsky.social
ALSO
thanks @juliarago.bsky.social, for the great template!!! 🙌🏻

An imagine that looks like an old paper scrap that reads:
A Dragon Age Fanbook

World of Thedas Volume 3

A Mother's Lament

I know alleys and canals better than most sisters here, even the ones born here. I don't even think I remember Ansburg anymore, I was so young when I left. Revered Mother Cecile thought a young sister should see the world. She intended for me to begin with Treviso, then “the whole world,” but I never did go anywhere after Treviso. I couldn't.

Before the oxmen conquered the city, the Grand Cleric and most of the sisters had left for Val Royeaux. They took the relics and promised us, the faithful ones who stayed, that we wouldn't be left alone.

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 22d

Hulu and Disney plus are now offering 70% off subscriptions, and in response I am offering Hulu and Disney plus 70% off deez nuts.

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · 23d

Artwork by @pigsbliss on twitter its a very unusual art piece of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the tv show the X files xfiles it features both agents standing at someone's doorway she is holding her fbi badge and he has his hands in his pockets their eyes are unusually placed its amazing art

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xavi @renadouro.bsky.social · 24d

little preview of what i’ve been working on for the past few months for @worldofthedaszine.bsky.social #dragonage

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25d

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 26d

It’s really funny that you can amass hundreds of billions of dollars, and still
Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.

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wwxwashere.bsky.social @wwxwashere.bsky.social · 26d

keeping all of my braincells occupied with ao3 tabs so that i don’t think about The Horrors

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bex van helsing 🦇 @bexpendragon.bsky.social · 27d

@juliarago.bsky.social: "How do you defend a PhD if not with a knife?"

Im concerned that Julia is becoming a gotham rogue now

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 28d

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 29d

Time to break out the chart

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 29d

This meeting could have been an email.
This email could have been a passing fancy.
This job could have been a lifetime of wonder.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · Sep 10

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · Sep 10

hey do you remember how a church full of children was shot up two weeks ago? like two weeks to the day, is when that happened? But this is the one that marks the "tipping into violence". Ok!

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jorge @misterlemons111.bsky.social · Sep 9

one of my proudest moments

jorge @misterlemons111.bsky.social · Jan 21

I like to believe this is going on in the grand cathedral while my inquisitor is running around collecting elfroot and kissing egghead:

the poster for the movie 'conclave', with the heads of mother giselle, mother hevara, chancellor roderick, and leliana from Dragon Age poorly edited onto it.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Sep 6

A well-kept secret are the terrifyinge houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong

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Alice Camp @acampwriting.com · Sep 4

what if we stopped laying off every writer who has ever lived

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