Caffeinated Otter
@caffeinatedotter.bsky.social
Author of short and episodic fiction: fantasy, SF, smut — http://brain-implant.tech/writing/ he/him
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I have a whole-ass account of 'em, think of it like a CYOA. Pass Your Own Inevitable Judgement
I have a whole-ass account of 'em, think of it like a CYOA. Pass Your Own Inevitable Judgement
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"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 2, 2026 at 9:50 PM
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
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I hope it's clear now that the function of liberalism is ultimately to preserve capitalism at All Costs.
Therefore, the question of how to deal with liberalism and its adherents is paramount to us as anti-capitalists
Therefore, the question of how to deal with liberalism and its adherents is paramount to us as anti-capitalists
February 3, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I hope it's clear now that the function of liberalism is ultimately to preserve capitalism at All Costs.
Therefore, the question of how to deal with liberalism and its adherents is paramount to us as anti-capitalists
Therefore, the question of how to deal with liberalism and its adherents is paramount to us as anti-capitalists
The actual reporting on the story is that the "mistake" GOG are copping to is that the banner "wasn't finished"; i.e. literally "Please! Please, angry mob! We acknowledge our mistake here (getting caught)!"
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The actual reporting on the story is that the "mistake" GOG are copping to is that the banner "wasn't finished"; i.e. literally "Please! Please, angry mob! We acknowledge our mistake here (getting caught)!"
GOG was, of course, a subsidiary of CD Projekt Red during the years CDPR's PR comms were done by the employee who was an open neo-Nazi Gamergater, so y'know, Beloved Gamer Companies gonna Beloved Gamer Company
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
GOG was, of course, a subsidiary of CD Projekt Red during the years CDPR's PR comms were done by the employee who was an open neo-Nazi Gamergater, so y'know, Beloved Gamer Companies gonna Beloved Gamer Company
did a slapstick tumble down a flight of stairs, fell butt-first onto a big red 'upload into our CMS in coincidentally exactly the place that this would plausibly go if we'd done it on purpose' button, and cut to a silent-movie intertitle simply captioned "Whoops!"
could happen to anyone
could happen to anyone
February 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
did a slapstick tumble down a flight of stairs, fell butt-first onto a big red 'upload into our CMS in coincidentally exactly the place that this would plausibly go if we'd done it on purpose' button, and cut to a silent-movie intertitle simply captioned "Whoops!"
could happen to anyone
could happen to anyone
"GOG reportedly claim sale banner made with 'Al tools' ended up on store by mistake"
you see, we slipped on a banana peel, fell backwards through a plate-glass window that two workmen were carrying, accidentally activated the slop machine that only generates picture slop when specifically made to,
you see, we slipped on a banana peel, fell backwards through a plate-glass window that two workmen were carrying, accidentally activated the slop machine that only generates picture slop when specifically made to,
February 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
"GOG reportedly claim sale banner made with 'Al tools' ended up on store by mistake"
you see, we slipped on a banana peel, fell backwards through a plate-glass window that two workmen were carrying, accidentally activated the slop machine that only generates picture slop when specifically made to,
you see, we slipped on a banana peel, fell backwards through a plate-glass window that two workmen were carrying, accidentally activated the slop machine that only generates picture slop when specifically made to,
Literally, the more victim your victims are, the higher-status you must be in order not to concern yourself with trifling peasant shit like "getting away with it"
When you're powerful, they let you; and "they" never referred to the victims
When you're powerful, they let you; and "they" never referred to the victims
February 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Literally, the more victim your victims are, the higher-status you must be in order not to concern yourself with trifling peasant shit like "getting away with it"
When you're powerful, they let you; and "they" never referred to the victims
When you're powerful, they let you; and "they" never referred to the victims
Why's cocaine the drug of choice for investment bankers? Bunch of reasons, but one is: Walmart would sack a pleb for it. To assert yourself to, say, a US President as an equal-in-impunity you have to violate something which society says is *sacrosanct.*
February 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Why's cocaine the drug of choice for investment bankers? Bunch of reasons, but one is: Walmart would sack a pleb for it. To assert yourself to, say, a US President as an equal-in-impunity you have to violate something which society says is *sacrosanct.*
I think a lot of posting falls by accident into talking as if the world's systems of power somehow got parasitised by guys who want to fuck kids, where I think it's that there are no behavioural standards for the powerful enough; ergo to assert yourself as powerful to the powerful, one violates.
February 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I think a lot of posting falls by accident into talking as if the world's systems of power somehow got parasitised by guys who want to fuck kids, where I think it's that there are no behavioural standards for the powerful enough; ergo to assert yourself as powerful to the powerful, one violates.
For everything nice I've ever heard someone say about Sagan, I recall the foul taste that film's "see, Science! you're soulless joyless evil dupes who deserve to have your principles broken by misery & adversity :)" bullshit left me. If that's the flavour of your sense of wonder, fucking keep it
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 AM
For everything nice I've ever heard someone say about Sagan, I recall the foul taste that film's "see, Science! you're soulless joyless evil dupes who deserve to have your principles broken by misery & adversity :)" bullshit left me. If that's the flavour of your sense of wonder, fucking keep it
It's a film that stakes out a position in the excruciatingly real-world struggle between US fundies going "we have an absolute monopoly on truth, beauty, and morality and therefore it's objectively true that you're evil if we say so, now let's 'compromise' on your 'facts'" and Everyone Else
February 3, 2026 at 12:37 AM
It's a film that stakes out a position in the excruciatingly real-world struggle between US fundies going "we have an absolute monopoly on truth, beauty, and morality and therefore it's objectively true that you're evil if we say so, now let's 'compromise' on your 'facts'" and Everyone Else
Saw someone post incidentally about Contact and reminded how it was the first DVD I ever watched; and how much I fucking hated its earnest approval of US fundie Christianity.
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Saw someone post incidentally about Contact and reminded how it was the first DVD I ever watched; and how much I fucking hated its earnest approval of US fundie Christianity.
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There will be a a new chapter of The Dungeon that Loved Me out today or tomorrow. I know y'all miss the sapphic disaster that is Zahna and the dungeon she's down bad for.
Don't know what I mean?
Read Adventurer x Dungeon Yuri here!
Don't know what I mean?
Read Adventurer x Dungeon Yuri here!
archiveofourown.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
There will be a a new chapter of The Dungeon that Loved Me out today or tomorrow. I know y'all miss the sapphic disaster that is Zahna and the dungeon she's down bad for.
Don't know what I mean?
Read Adventurer x Dungeon Yuri here!
Don't know what I mean?
Read Adventurer x Dungeon Yuri here!
Well, if you hadn't barged into my wizard's tower without so much as knocking, shouting nonsense about "kidnapping" and "nubile virgins" and "sinsiter sapphic depredations", I wouldn't have HAD to cast Cone of Shame on you, would I?
Now what do you say
Now what do you say
February 2, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Well, if you hadn't barged into my wizard's tower without so much as knocking, shouting nonsense about "kidnapping" and "nubile virgins" and "sinsiter sapphic depredations", I wouldn't have HAD to cast Cone of Shame on you, would I?
Now what do you say
Now what do you say
A human sacrifice is for glimpsing out of the corner of tired eyes, voice almost perceptible on whistling wind, gaze chilly on the back of your neck from the depths of the nighttime gloom for years afterward
not just for solstice
not just for solstice
February 2, 2026 at 10:21 PM
A human sacrifice is for glimpsing out of the corner of tired eyes, voice almost perceptible on whistling wind, gaze chilly on the back of your neck from the depths of the nighttime gloom for years afterward
not just for solstice
not just for solstice
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Oh you're the new engineer! Tee hee, you're so cute. I promise I won't move much. After all, my ass, the G-800, is the newest in re-programmable combat doll technology!
Didn't they tell you? I have a whole blackbox and reusable complex nervous system. I'll remember you after detonations!
Didn't they tell you? I have a whole blackbox and reusable complex nervous system. I'll remember you after detonations!
February 2, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Oh you're the new engineer! Tee hee, you're so cute. I promise I won't move much. After all, my ass, the G-800, is the newest in re-programmable combat doll technology!
Didn't they tell you? I have a whole blackbox and reusable complex nervous system. I'll remember you after detonations!
Didn't they tell you? I have a whole blackbox and reusable complex nervous system. I'll remember you after detonations!
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This place used to be strictly party business only, with fairy lights under the palms and champagne service during special events. Our family's gardens have always been open to the public, or at least the public who could afford to spend a day here.
Times change, I change with them.
Times change, I change with them.
February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
This place used to be strictly party business only, with fairy lights under the palms and champagne service during special events. Our family's gardens have always been open to the public, or at least the public who could afford to spend a day here.
Times change, I change with them.
Times change, I change with them.
"Joke for probably three people," I said. "At least one of whom will deservedly throw bricks at me for it," I said
February 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
"Joke for probably three people," I said. "At least one of whom will deservedly throw bricks at me for it," I said
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you have been visited by the crowgod
Like this Post to give the crowgod delicious seeds
Repost this Post to give the crowgod what she actually came here for
Like this Post to give the crowgod delicious seeds
Repost this Post to give the crowgod what she actually came here for
January 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
you have been visited by the crowgod
Like this Post to give the crowgod delicious seeds
Repost this Post to give the crowgod what she actually came here for
Like this Post to give the crowgod delicious seeds
Repost this Post to give the crowgod what she actually came here for
I am moderately good at faking an academic register, and I use it solely for petty evil :3
February 2, 2026 at 4:50 PM
I am moderately good at faking an academic register, and I use it solely for petty evil :3
The liberal rejects mechsploitation as an aberration from mecha's distinct and insulated moral tranquillity, whereas it is more rightly understood as the imperial boomerang redistributing the methods of fascism from the periphery to the Armoured Core
February 2, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The liberal rejects mechsploitation as an aberration from mecha's distinct and insulated moral tranquillity, whereas it is more rightly understood as the imperial boomerang redistributing the methods of fascism from the periphery to the Armoured Core
It is not surprising you struggle to write if you cannot name anything sufficiently specific that you want to do with it.
Nobody can truthfully offer you advice until you name something sufficiently specific, either
Nobody can truthfully offer you advice until you name something sufficiently specific, either
February 2, 2026 at 11:52 AM
It is not surprising you struggle to write if you cannot name anything sufficiently specific that you want to do with it.
Nobody can truthfully offer you advice until you name something sufficiently specific, either
Nobody can truthfully offer you advice until you name something sufficiently specific, either
"As a tentpole genre author, can you advise me how to write in it if, instead of having the same kind of focal point your own work typically does, I want to, like, put characters in situations"
I want to annoyingly ruffle your hair and call you "kiddo"
I want to annoyingly ruffle your hair and call you "kiddo"
February 2, 2026 at 11:50 AM
"As a tentpole genre author, can you advise me how to write in it if, instead of having the same kind of focal point your own work typically does, I want to, like, put characters in situations"
I want to annoyingly ruffle your hair and call you "kiddo"
I want to annoyingly ruffle your hair and call you "kiddo"
I must be feeling benevolent today, I saw someone ask Kallie for mechsplo writing advice and instead of fulminating, my instant impulse was to give them a hug and tell them something that would inevitably be received as patronising
February 2, 2026 at 11:50 AM
I must be feeling benevolent today, I saw someone ask Kallie for mechsplo writing advice and instead of fulminating, my instant impulse was to give them a hug and tell them something that would inevitably be received as patronising
Reminded of the old Cohost Making-Up-Adventurers account.
Why didn't I ever do a prompt fill for "Wizard who hasn't had to ever take an enemy's life after learning the dread spell Power Word: Shit"?
Why didn't I ever do a prompt fill for "Wizard who hasn't had to ever take an enemy's life after learning the dread spell Power Word: Shit"?
February 2, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Reminded of the old Cohost Making-Up-Adventurers account.
Why didn't I ever do a prompt fill for "Wizard who hasn't had to ever take an enemy's life after learning the dread spell Power Word: Shit"?
Why didn't I ever do a prompt fill for "Wizard who hasn't had to ever take an enemy's life after learning the dread spell Power Word: Shit"?