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MechaniChris
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Writer, illustrator, comic book reader, movie enjoyer

Author of the novel: GRIM PORTENTS (available now on my website or anywhere books are sold)

Website: ChristianAkins.com
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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · Oct 23
Do you like horror? Comedy? Fantasy? Road trips? Ghosts and the paranormal? Satire of government institutions and stories about hope in the face of overwhelming adversity?

Well that’s a lot, but luckily, I have JUST the book for you!

Order Grim Portents today!

#writingcommunity #writesky #booksky
Grim Portents — Christian Akins
www.christianakins.com
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Didn’t work 🙃 I’m 90% sure it’s the disc, but I can’t rule out the console until I test it on another Wii! So I’ve gotta wait to go to the city and hope my retro shop lets me test it before I order a new disc. Because if I got a new disc that also didn’t work?? I might actually become the hulk
chrisakins.bsky.social MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 17h
My Metroid Prime 3: Corruption disc is ironically… corrupted. Made it 2 hours into the game before it stopped reading and it won’t let me past that one part. Hoping the toothpaste trick works otherwise I’ll need to order a new disc 🫠
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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My Metroid Prime 3: Corruption disc is ironically… corrupted. Made it 2 hours into the game before it stopped reading and it won’t let me past that one part. Hoping the toothpaste trick works otherwise I’ll need to order a new disc 🫠
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Does Sonny ever warm up to Ben, I mean Bill? Only one way to find out

ChristianAkins.com/GrimPortents

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After tossing yet another book over his shoulder, Sonny rolled his eyes toward me. "Look Ben, I don't like you, and you don't like me-" "It's Bill, and to be fair, I don't really know you." you don't know." "Yeah. And it would be insane to like someone "I guess. Though sometimes preconceived notions_" "For God's sake, don't fucking split hairs with me. You don't like me, and I REALLY don't like you now. Regardless, we have been forced together for what I hope to be a mercifully short period of time. Now, if we're going to survive the duration of that time, you're going to have to learn a thing or two. The first thing being: everything Haniel says is bullshit. In fact, that goes for all angels." "Everything? Like even their names?" "Well, no, not everything. Obviously some things-God-fucking dammit you're doing it again. Just listen. Angels are company men, alright? They are naive, trusting do-gooders who believe the system they serve is beyond reproach. They have no conception of anything not directly related to their specific duties because no one ever gave them permission to. Every second they re not pulling invisible strings to make my job a pain in the neck, they are just sitting in quiet rooms, staring blankly at the wall with a dumb smile on their face." "I thought they were supposed to be all knowing?" "No, you're thinking of the monotheistic God, if such a thing even exists."
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Metroid Prime 2 is officially complete! I only played the MP remaster so this was my first foray into the GameCube controls and good god are they awful. A FPS coming out post-Halo with THIS control scheme should be illegal.

That said, I had a great time, good game
a purple robot is standing in front of a light beam
Alt: GIF of Samus in her light suit getting warped in a portal
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November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Feels insane that I have nostalgia for waking up at 4AM on Black Friday to stand in the freezing cold and buy a video game console and 3 movies for half the price

Now I have to scroll through the lightning deals on my phone for 2 hours a day for a week to get $5 off if I’m lucky
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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And here’s our final VHS haul from our Asheville trip, properly clean and about to be sorted
Two huge stacks of VHS tapes, around 40 in total
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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A movie that takes place where you’re from
Godzilla vs mechagodzilla, which takes place in Okinawa, which is where I was born and spent my most formative years
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Guy named Chekhov who lives without possessions for fear that they might come up later in the plot
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Anytime I’m reminded of the Spider-Man soundtrack:

“Nickelback is good actually.”
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Been a while since I posted one so how about a longer one today

Buy the book: christianakins.com/grimportents

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All this excitement was a bit much for Maya and she started to look as though she might faint. I opened the car door in case I needed to help catch her, but she snapped out of it as soon as I did. She then aimed the can of pepper spray in my direction. "Who is he?" she asked Sonny. "Why doesn't he look like the rest of you?" "Oh, that's Bill. He's not a reaper, he's just a twice resurrected mortal who's been helping me out. Don't worry about him, he's harmless." She glanced back at me with a great deal of doubt. "So, if I'm not dead, and you aren't here to kill me-what do you two want with me?" Sonny and I exchanged dreary looks and I decided to be the one to break the news. "We think someone else might be looking for you. Someone who might actually want to-uh-hurt you." Maya muttered something in a language I didn't understand and proceeded to faint. I lurched forward and managed to catch her just before she hit the pavement. Immediately, her eyes snapped open to find me holding her like a kidnap victim. She yelped in surprise and squeezed her can of pepper spray. The blast struck me in the face prompting me to yell in agony, as well as drop her to the ground. Worse yet, the spray ricocheted off of me directly downward onto her. As the two of us rolled in the parking lot, wailing in pain, Sonny stood over us shaking his head.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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If you ever get a chance to do some writing in a cabin in the mountains, that overlooks an autumn forest, I really can’t recommend the experience enough
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Update: we ended up getting like 15 more at other shops
chrisakins.bsky.social MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 5d
Visiting Asheville for the week and it is thrifting heaven, I’ve already bought like 25 additional vhs movies for a buck a piece
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Visiting Asheville for the week and it is thrifting heaven, I’ve already bought like 25 additional vhs movies for a buck a piece
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I have completed Pokemon Legends ZA, and… I do not think I’ll be buying the dlc. Though I had a blast in the first half, the game’s repetition really got the best of me by the end, and I can’t imagine playing DLC that’s just more of that

Hope they implement some of the new combat in Gen 10 though!
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:

1. Hero teams up with villain of last movie
2. ____ Versus ____
3. Unstoppable monster, preferably giant or numerous
4. Heist with “putting the team together” sequence
5. Love is the most powerful force in the universe and worth risking everything over
therock1996fan.bsky.social M @therock1996fan.bsky.social · 9d
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:

1. "I'm pretty sure there was a murder over there"
2. Romance in the style of screwball comedy
3. Mismatched heroes vs. anything bad (bonus points for abandoned island prisons)
4. Blob type invader(s) vs. small town
5. Sex stuff
leahfromsd.bsky.social Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 9d
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:

1. Wet puppets
2. Stuck in remote place with monster (bonus points for body horror elements)
3. Nic Cage
4. Charismatic villain I should hate but 😏
5. Women enjoying satisfying, bloody revenge
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Our collection of VHS movies has now grown to 381, a ridiculous number that borders on qualifying as a video store
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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CW: implied torture & bodily mutilation

Bill manages to break his ribs three separate times, but they’re all in different bodies so at least it’s a fresh set each time

#writingprompt #writingcommunity #indiebooks
I fired at the demon's head, but only managed to put a few pellets in its shoulder. Its eyes snapped wide open and before I could get another shot off, it lunged with lightning speed, thrusting its arm into my chest and propelling me through a surprisingly thin wall, into the kitchen. The force of the blow had knocked the shotgun from my hands, and may have broken a couple of my ribs for good measure. The demon strolled casually through the hole in the wall, reaching into its shoulder to pull out the bloody pellets. "That hurts, Bill," it said. "Not the gunshot, I don't really feel pain, but the betrayal. I thought we were bonding. I was just going to fillet your fiancée a bit, maybe press hot coals to her eyes-you know, classic demon stuff. But now I'm thinking it might be more fun to make you do it yourself. You think you won't of course, but you'd be surprised by what you're willing to do to make the pain stop." Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Post the last 4 games you played
Original God of War Metroid Prime Remastered Pokémon Legends ZA on switch 2 Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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There’s a lot of handwringing about balance in competitive games, and I get that, but I personally love when weapons or characters are insanely over or underpowered. It’s like choosing all slappers or all rockets for the chaos of it
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Someone bought my book from the coffee shop???!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Obviously I’m being very normal about this
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The first trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is here 🌟 Brie Larson and Benny Safdie join the voice cast as Rosalina and Bowser Jr.

In theaters April 2026.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Bill doesn’t live under a rock, but he also can’t be expected to know the names of ancillary Sonic characters

Check out the book here: ChristianAkins.com/GrimPortents

#writingcommunity #Wipsnips #writesky #booksky #indiebooks #sonic #goku
We were down the stairs and back in Maya's minivan within seconds. I was about to pull out of the parking lot when I saw those kids playing with their Super Soakers again. "Hey, kids!" I shouted out my window, pulling up to the two boys. Sonny looked at me like I was crazy, but kept quiet. "We're not getting in that car, weirdo," said the boy in the T-shirt featuring a black Sonic the Hedgehog wielding a handgun. He and his friend lifted their plastic weapons, ready to fire if I tried anything suspicious. "No, I was just admiring your water guns. What would you say if I gave you twenty bucks for both of them?" "Man, one of these costs more than that," the other boy in the Dragon Ball Z shirt said. "That can't be true," I protested. I looked at Maya in the backseat who just nodded to confirm the validity of their claim. "Fine. How much do you want for them?" "Fifty." "Fifty bucks?" I exclaimed in disbelief. "Each." Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Predator Badlands absolutely rips, and I love seeing the Alien world brought in, but my biggest desire is somehow to get Terminator in this franchise. I read an AvPvT comic that always stuck with me and I’d love to see it realized
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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It’s actually illegal to make a movie look this good today
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Prepping for Badlands
Predator on VHS on a big CRT TV
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM