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Melissa Wong

@favomancer.bsky.social

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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.

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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.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 8h

ASSASSIN CATS.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 9h

Give your eyes a rest, please, those cobbles make me worry. And your drawing hand. Say hi to your many wonderful pets for me.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 9h

I like watching or re-watching things like Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Or Somebody Feed Phil.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 13h

What adorable little deep-sea creatures!

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René Campbell @renecampbellart.bsky.social · 21h

How the blue swimmer crab painting looks currently overlaid on top of the lineart from back in 2022

Have to remind myself to keep chipping away when this painting moves at a glacial pace 🦀

Acrylic on wooden panel

#sciart ##acrylicpainting #crab

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 18h

Go crabby go crabby go, go go!

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 18h

The only race science I want to hear about is the kind that involves learning about how fast someone or something can run.

(Go turtles go!)

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 20h

Ohhh, but it is SO hard to manage in some cases. Mine developed post-COVID and accelerated so rapidly that it was odd. Oddly resistant to insulin, too, in the end I had to get on Mounjaro to see any results.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

I swear it's the damndest thing but I think my pet leopard gecko Poundcake likes watching me knit. She'll hang out and watch me click the needles, and when I stop she gives me a little head tilt like "come on, go on?"

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

Many happy returns of the day!

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

You can just also hold a few together in a bunch and pound them, it's to crush the cell walls and release the oils for fragrance.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

oh oh tip: dried up old lemongrass, keep it in a separate storage bag in the freezer.

When you're grilling something that would agree with the taste, take it out, cut the root end off, pound that end until it becomes brushy and use it to brush oil on. It'll perfume the oil.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

It really was not pleasant.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

And I'm sure you can also have horf trample them if they try to show up in person. >.>

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

That was a real moment for me. I got an A in that part of the exam, but I also learned to see and appreciate the beauty of crustaceans.

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 1d

I had an O-level in art and the damndest thing is I was taking the exam in Singapore and Cambridge decided the best subject for my O-level still life was raw crab. In a tropical classroom.

Multiple students asked the invigilator if they had to draw the stuff oozing out of the rapidly rotting crab.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

I have to say that the Cousin It costume wins the Durham march today

A hominid covered from head to toe in long brown hair, with a hat on their head.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 🧙🏻‍♀️ @angengea.blog · 2d

I brought my dad’s “And Babies” My Lai poster back from my mom’s house today and when she asked why I wanted to hang it in my home, I told her we’re killing innocent fishermen and she was shocked. She had no idea it was happening.

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 2d

the random murder of fishermen in the Caribbean by this lawless administration should be a much bigger story, in my humble fucking opinion

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 2d

I do so adore the way cats stretch out their back paws and spread out their little bean toes.

Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 2d

I think you're already most of the way there in a very good way.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2d

The hilariously sad part is that all of this started before Gamergate. Gamergate is a turning point, but it is not the root. And until we get to the roots this cycle will never stop

Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 3d

Everything is Gamergate.

If you do not understand what Gamergate is or how that has not only shaped the internet but our entire current reality.

Keep this in mind, and protect yourself accordingly.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/u...

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 3d

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Melissa Wong @favomancer.bsky.social · 2d

KISSA. Se on iso kissa.