Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social
It's Briar! Hi! I'm an American werewolf and writer living in London.
Website: briarripleypage.xyz
Self-pubbed stuff on flameswallower.itch.io
Website: briarripleypage.xyz
Self-pubbed stuff on flameswallower.itch.io
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URGENT AID REQUEST
A sublet is being held for me(!) but i dont yet have funds to cover rent for it + my storage unit (still applying for jobs)
if folks could help & share, it’d go a long way to keeping me housed thru winter! There is an immediate goal (by Saturday) and overall goal (before Feb)💚
A sublet is being held for me(!) but i dont yet have funds to cover rent for it + my storage unit (still applying for jobs)
if folks could help & share, it’d go a long way to keeping me housed thru winter! There is an immediate goal (by Saturday) and overall goal (before Feb)💚
January 14, 2026 at 8:39 PM
URGENT AID REQUEST
A sublet is being held for me(!) but i dont yet have funds to cover rent for it + my storage unit (still applying for jobs)
if folks could help & share, it’d go a long way to keeping me housed thru winter! There is an immediate goal (by Saturday) and overall goal (before Feb)💚
A sublet is being held for me(!) but i dont yet have funds to cover rent for it + my storage unit (still applying for jobs)
if folks could help & share, it’d go a long way to keeping me housed thru winter! There is an immediate goal (by Saturday) and overall goal (before Feb)💚
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January 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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A neighbor was taken to a care facility, and her little tortoiseshell kitty was left behind. I can't take her in but I've been feeding her and giving her water every day. No one in the neighbor's family can take her in. Is there anyone in the Inland Empire area that could foster or adopt her?
January 12, 2026 at 11:35 PM
A neighbor was taken to a care facility, and her little tortoiseshell kitty was left behind. I can't take her in but I've been feeding her and giving her water every day. No one in the neighbor's family can take her in. Is there anyone in the Inland Empire area that could foster or adopt her?
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99% chance this is what they mean
January 14, 2026 at 5:25 PM
99% chance this is what they mean
the thing about it is, if someone was "just doing research on C-GPT" and not actually using it to compose your script, i don't think BETTER of them for it. instead, i think they're stupid AS WELL AS lazy!
January 14, 2026 at 6:50 PM
the thing about it is, if someone was "just doing research on C-GPT" and not actually using it to compose your script, i don't think BETTER of them for it. instead, i think they're stupid AS WELL AS lazy!
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We love short Weird fiction (obviously)! Check out the shortlist for BNW here.
🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press
tinyurl.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:51 PM
We love short Weird fiction (obviously)! Check out the shortlist for BNW here.
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ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though
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I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
Places to Donate to in Minnesota
Buy/Donate Materials: Help buy dashcams for legal observers Bethel Church Food Pantry TC Food Justice: Donate food Mutual Aid Funds: Lyndale School Mutual Aid Fund Rent Relief Fund for Southside Fami...
docs.google.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
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What gets me about these data centres is like, they're not even pretending that they will be job creators. Usually when they try and gus up some horrific industry that's the line they use but they're not even bothering this time. Presumably it will just discharge credit ratings into the atmosphere?
data centers love to fire up diesel generators during peak summer loads and belch air pollution. collectively northern virginia data centers have more than 4,000 generators capable of spitting out 11 GW of power, more than all of the state's natural gas plants combined
January 14, 2026 at 3:56 PM
What gets me about these data centres is like, they're not even pretending that they will be job creators. Usually when they try and gus up some horrific industry that's the line they use but they're not even bothering this time. Presumably it will just discharge credit ratings into the atmosphere?
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The Democratic Party isn't concerned that somehow maybe adopting "abolish ICE" would be a losing position.
They don't want that position to win.
They don't want that position to win.
Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
The Democratic Party isn't concerned that somehow maybe adopting "abolish ICE" would be a losing position.
They don't want that position to win.
They don't want that position to win.
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a good mild unisex scent i tried the other day is Chinese Calligraphy by d'Annam. my brother, sister-in-law, husband, and i all liked it, it was one of the only ones we all really agreed on. it smells sort of like ink, paper, tea, and honey (just a trace).
January 14, 2026 at 12:56 PM
a good mild unisex scent i tried the other day is Chinese Calligraphy by d'Annam. my brother, sister-in-law, husband, and i all liked it, it was one of the only ones we all really agreed on. it smells sort of like ink, paper, tea, and honey (just a trace).
use it *sparingly*. it's strong and it *lingers*.
January 14, 2026 at 12:54 PM
use it *sparingly*. it's strong and it *lingers*.
I like their Olm a lot! strong recommend if you like Penguin, it's similarly cool and watery, but has a strong and almost uncanny undertone of damp earth and stone. Portuguese Man O'War is a very nice, very masc scent that isn't spicy (it's oceanic and sharp, with a little gunpowder), but you wanna
January 14, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I like their Olm a lot! strong recommend if you like Penguin, it's similarly cool and watery, but has a strong and almost uncanny undertone of damp earth and stone. Portuguese Man O'War is a very nice, very masc scent that isn't spicy (it's oceanic and sharp, with a little gunpowder), but you wanna
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This is kind of like what having POTS feels like
January 10, 2026 at 5:34 AM
This is kind of like what having POTS feels like
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R/pokemum on reddit
January 10, 2026 at 5:58 AM
R/pokemum on reddit
the toddlers I know would all be like, “thewmomemer says I gween :(“
January 14, 2026 at 11:35 AM
the toddlers I know would all be like, “thewmomemer says I gween :(“
why’s she making a toddler take her own temperature though
January 14, 2026 at 11:34 AM
why’s she making a toddler take her own temperature though
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It's been a while since I saw someone less mourned than Scott Adams. Not a judgment, just an observation. And maybe a warning.
January 14, 2026 at 4:23 AM
It's been a while since I saw someone less mourned than Scott Adams. Not a judgment, just an observation. And maybe a warning.
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"narrowly avoided being killed" and "nonlethal" don't really go together, now do they, LA Times?
January 14, 2026 at 7:48 AM
"narrowly avoided being killed" and "nonlethal" don't really go together, now do they, LA Times?
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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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*sigh* we will never escape negative review discourse. The thing about bad reviews is...they don't actually stop people from reading and enjoying books, and can in fact incentivize people to read a book to make up their own mind. MULTIPLE MULTIPLE of the books I R&R I was exposed to via bad reviews
January 14, 2026 at 5:17 AM
*sigh* we will never escape negative review discourse. The thing about bad reviews is...they don't actually stop people from reading and enjoying books, and can in fact incentivize people to read a book to make up their own mind. MULTIPLE MULTIPLE of the books I R&R I was exposed to via bad reviews
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dinner conversation
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 AM
dinner conversation
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How @themountaingoats.bsky.social got their name
January 13, 2026 at 6:19 PM
How @themountaingoats.bsky.social got their name
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My friend Sama'a has to pay a landlord just for the dubious privilege of living in a bombed-out husk of a building with plywood walls destroyed by every major storm. Please give what you can to help.
chuffed.org/project/157569
chuffed.org/project/157569
January 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
My friend Sama'a has to pay a landlord just for the dubious privilege of living in a bombed-out husk of a building with plywood walls destroyed by every major storm. Please give what you can to help.
chuffed.org/project/157569
chuffed.org/project/157569