Melissa Wong
@favomancer.bsky.social
Costume technician and tabletop gaming writer (Cyberpunk: Red, Curseborne). She/They, queer, American-Chinese.
My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for.
PS: Hook'em Horns.
My opinions here are my own, and do not reflect those of any companies I have written for.
PS: Hook'em Horns.
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Melissa Wong
@favomancer.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Hi, folks. I see Faine Greenwood reskeeted my cheese mite monk drabble. If you're new to this bluesky account note that I have a weirdass sense of humor and consider male pregnancy a valid way to solve demographic mathematical issues in grimdark settings where developers don't do maths properly.
I have a terminally weird brain.
A Tasting History on toffee became a discussion with the wife on krokan, a Norwegian nut brittle. And I mentioned having tried an ice cream with bits of krokan in it, and wanting to make some myself just to taste it again.
Reasonable, yeah? Well, this came next.
A Tasting History on toffee became a discussion with the wife on krokan, a Norwegian nut brittle. And I mentioned having tried an ice cream with bits of krokan in it, and wanting to make some myself just to taste it again.
Reasonable, yeah? Well, this came next.
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I have a terminally weird brain.
A Tasting History on toffee became a discussion with the wife on krokan, a Norwegian nut brittle. And I mentioned having tried an ice cream with bits of krokan in it, and wanting to make some myself just to taste it again.
Reasonable, yeah? Well, this came next.
A Tasting History on toffee became a discussion with the wife on krokan, a Norwegian nut brittle. And I mentioned having tried an ice cream with bits of krokan in it, and wanting to make some myself just to taste it again.
Reasonable, yeah? Well, this came next.
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see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
床前明月光， Beside my bed a pool of light—
疑是地上霜， Is it hoarfrost on the ground?
舉頭望明月， I lift my eyes and see the moon,
低頭思故鄉。 I lower my face and think of home.
疑是地上霜， Is it hoarfrost on the ground?
舉頭望明月， I lift my eyes and see the moon,
低頭思故鄉。 I lower my face and think of home.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
床前明月光， Beside my bed a pool of light—
疑是地上霜， Is it hoarfrost on the ground?
舉頭望明月， I lift my eyes and see the moon,
低頭思故鄉。 I lower my face and think of home.
疑是地上霜， Is it hoarfrost on the ground?
舉頭望明月， I lift my eyes and see the moon,
低頭思故鄉。 I lower my face and think of home.
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One of the really funny things about portrayals of the Medieval period that have every peasant wearing brown and black is those colors were actually really expensive compared to blues, reds, and yellows
Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
exarc.net/issue-2025-3...
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
One of the really funny things about portrayals of the Medieval period that have every peasant wearing brown and black is those colors were actually really expensive compared to blues, reds, and yellows
I just realized that if you include the Bulbmin you could do a Pikmin Pride flag. Pridemin, if you will. I don't have very much in the way of art materials, nor do I have a scanner, but now I want to draw some Pridemin.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I just realized that if you include the Bulbmin you could do a Pikmin Pride flag. Pridemin, if you will. I don't have very much in the way of art materials, nor do I have a scanner, but now I want to draw some Pridemin.
Very facetiously: Butches of the world. I believe there is a golden opportunity in Latvia right now.
European country known for stunning women suffers drought of men — forcing would-be brides to ‘hire’ husbands for housework
"All my friends have gone abroad and found boyfriends there."
news.yahoo.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Very facetiously: Butches of the world. I believe there is a golden opportunity in Latvia right now.
They have finally made the perfect hair accessory. ALL HAIL SHRIMPY CHAN.
New item! Shrimp Clips for your hair! Get ready for a shrimp coif-tail!
mcphee.com/products/shr...
mcphee.com/products/shr...
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
They have finally made the perfect hair accessory. ALL HAIL SHRIMPY CHAN.
Sooo. Before I go to bed. Many of you are aware because I've talked about it, but I have a Mysterious Chronic Illness.
Firstly, scratch off Lupus on your mysterious illness bingo card. It's not lupus. It's not RA either, nor psoriasis nor psoriatic arthritis. It's also, thank fuck, not MS.
Firstly, scratch off Lupus on your mysterious illness bingo card. It's not lupus. It's not RA either, nor psoriasis nor psoriatic arthritis. It's also, thank fuck, not MS.
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Sooo. Before I go to bed. Many of you are aware because I've talked about it, but I have a Mysterious Chronic Illness.
Firstly, scratch off Lupus on your mysterious illness bingo card. It's not lupus. It's not RA either, nor psoriasis nor psoriatic arthritis. It's also, thank fuck, not MS.
Firstly, scratch off Lupus on your mysterious illness bingo card. It's not lupus. It's not RA either, nor psoriasis nor psoriatic arthritis. It's also, thank fuck, not MS.
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Melania and Barron Trump have dual citizenship (US and Slovenia). Elon Musk has citizenship in the US, South Africa, and Canada.
Karoline Leavitt: “You’re either a U.S. citizen or not — You can’t be a U.S. citizen & a citizen of another country”
The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care
The Supreme Court thought differently as it ruled in 1967 that the government can’t strip U.S. citizenship unless a person voluntarily relinquishes it - not that they care
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Melania and Barron Trump have dual citizenship (US and Slovenia). Elon Musk has citizenship in the US, South Africa, and Canada.
I think you missed it first time round @jopabinia.bsky.social but here is one of the tiny pinky nail size crabelings eating some soybean hull based food.
Apologies for the potato-grade photograph, but this is the best I could do to capture one of the tiny baby vampire crabs in my paludarium. If I open the door to photograph them they scuttle away and hide, so zooming from outside the glass is the only way I got this.
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I think you missed it first time round @jopabinia.bsky.social but here is one of the tiny pinky nail size crabelings eating some soybean hull based food.
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There's a couple Lithuanian-American brothers here in Durham who make a superb krupnikas — a spiced honey liqueur. I've taken to it because it tends to drive head colds out of your head before they take real root. Very good for hot toddies.
Unfortunately the honey content makes glasses dry sticky.
Unfortunately the honey content makes glasses dry sticky.
December 3, 2025 at 1:29 AM
There's a couple Lithuanian-American brothers here in Durham who make a superb krupnikas — a spiced honey liqueur. I've taken to it because it tends to drive head colds out of your head before they take real root. Very good for hot toddies.
Unfortunately the honey content makes glasses dry sticky.
Unfortunately the honey content makes glasses dry sticky.
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A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change.
This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change.
This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.
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Annihilation (2018)
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Annihilation (2018)
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New cool Kylo thermos! (Also, please tell me I am not the only one who Sees It, especially in the second picture 👀)
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New cool Kylo thermos! (Also, please tell me I am not the only one who Sees It, especially in the second picture 👀)
I have to tell y'all how kind and soft and loving Bean is. Bean is such a good gentle big boy.
I now give them churu in little cat dishes. One churu squeezed into each. Bean has his churu and Garbanzo has his churu.
Garbanzo eats his churu faster than Brean does. And he goes to help Bean eat it.
I now give them churu in little cat dishes. One churu squeezed into each. Bean has his churu and Garbanzo has his churu.
Garbanzo eats his churu faster than Brean does. And he goes to help Bean eat it.
November 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I have to tell y'all how kind and soft and loving Bean is. Bean is such a good gentle big boy.
I now give them churu in little cat dishes. One churu squeezed into each. Bean has his churu and Garbanzo has his churu.
Garbanzo eats his churu faster than Brean does. And he goes to help Bean eat it.
I now give them churu in little cat dishes. One churu squeezed into each. Bean has his churu and Garbanzo has his churu.
Garbanzo eats his churu faster than Brean does. And he goes to help Bean eat it.
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Everyone always asks “what if the Nazis won WWII.”
No one ever asks “What if Mexico won the Mexican-American War.”
No one ever asks “What if Mexico won the Mexican-American War.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everyone always asks “what if the Nazis won WWII.”
No one ever asks “What if Mexico won the Mexican-American War.”
No one ever asks “What if Mexico won the Mexican-American War.”
I want to collect all the cute calico critters furniture and houses and make a fake calico critters family to live in it: the sacabambaspises.
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I want to collect all the cute calico critters furniture and houses and make a fake calico critters family to live in it: the sacabambaspises.
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𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.
my brother here is the only palestinian in gaza to have planted a working farm—the onions in the golden light! where are the agrijournalists?—and bsky got his PII last year; they can sell all my data forever if they'll give him a s̶a̶f̶e̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶t̶i̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ verified badge.
bit.ly/help-mohamed
my brother here is the only palestinian in gaza to have planted a working farm—the onions in the golden light! where are the agrijournalists?—and bsky got his PII last year; they can sell all my data forever if they'll give him a s̶a̶f̶e̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶t̶i̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ verified badge.
bit.ly/help-mohamed
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.
my brother here is the only palestinian in gaza to have planted a working farm—the onions in the golden light! where are the agrijournalists?—and bsky got his PII last year; they can sell all my data forever if they'll give him a s̶a̶f̶e̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶t̶i̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ verified badge.
bit.ly/help-mohamed
my brother here is the only palestinian in gaza to have planted a working farm—the onions in the golden light! where are the agrijournalists?—and bsky got his PII last year; they can sell all my data forever if they'll give him a s̶a̶f̶e̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶t̶i̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ verified badge.
bit.ly/help-mohamed
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The louder they shout about "biological reality", the more I can hear the "gay sex is unnatural" echoes from the 1980s.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The louder they shout about "biological reality", the more I can hear the "gay sex is unnatural" echoes from the 1980s.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
Reactionary cunts, the lot of them. Then, and now.
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phaw that's nothing. i was served as a pie by mistake during a production of titus andronicus and lived to tell the tale.
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
phaw that's nothing. i was served as a pie by mistake during a production of titus andronicus and lived to tell the tale.
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There are many things I love about Finland but somehow the fact it's the sort of country to make another country go "Who shall we send as ambassador...? I know! THIS guy!!!" kinda captures the essence of ALL of it.
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There are many things I love about Finland but somehow the fact it's the sort of country to make another country go "Who shall we send as ambassador...? I know! THIS guy!!!" kinda captures the essence of ALL of it.
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WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
Flying tree snake (Chrysopelea paradisi)
European hedgehog
Great blue heron
Reticulated python
Barred owl
(I've lived all over.)
European hedgehog
Great blue heron
Reticulated python
Barred owl
(I've lived all over.)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Flying tree snake (Chrysopelea paradisi)
European hedgehog
Great blue heron
Reticulated python
Barred owl
(I've lived all over.)
European hedgehog
Great blue heron
Reticulated python
Barred owl
(I've lived all over.)