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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 9h

I also love this video!!! You never know what’s going to be important to future linguists

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 10h

this post brought to you by one of my favorite youtube videos, which is possible because of a 1500s french religious refugee who wrote down contemporary english conversation phonetically as an aid to ESL learners
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j18...

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Jun 4

the Inhuman League

if you face swap Mulder and Scully they look like a great Synth Pop band.

(above a photo of face swapped Mulder and Scully)

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 14h

sigil 91 - "truth in nightmares"

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

My friend Sama'a needs our help to keep her family safe and fed in the midst of Israel's genocide. Please give what you can

gofund.me/db56c7ce3

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 14h

Feel like I’ve been hearing jokes all my life about how L.L.Bean stands for “Ladies Love Bean” or “Live Laugh Bean” or whatever, but nothing is funnier than the stone-cold fact that its founder’s name was Leon Leonwood Bean

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 10h

I’m Nancy obvs

Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 10h

me watching any horror movie with @shellcollector.bsky.social

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 13h

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
OCTOBER 09,1947

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WATCHING A MOVIE AT THE THEATER
NANCY: NOW WATCH THAT SECRET DOOR --- HERE COMES THE SNEAKY
BUTLER I TOLD YOU ABOUT... KEEP AN EVE ON THE MAID---
P2- NANCY: --THE DAGGER IS ON THAT SHELF ••• THE WIFE DOESN'T KNOW, BUT A HAND WILL COME THROUGH THAT WINDOW..
P3-NANCY: - - GET READY FOR A SCREAM - --- WATCH THAT CABINET WHEN IT OPENS--- WAIT FOR THAT MOAN FROM THE HALL --

P4- A MAN SITTING BEHIND NANCY AND SLUGGO IS EATING A CANDY BAR, HE IS MAKING CRUNCHING SOUNDS

NANCY: QUIET PLEASE
NANCY IS VERY UPSET THAT THE MAN IS MAKING CRUNCHING SOUNDS, EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS BEEN TALKING DURING THE MOVIE

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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 13h

I'm so proud of my sweetheart Z, and the creepy-but-incredible book she wrote! So gross in one part that she made ME say "jesus christ why" (and I once wrote someone masturbating with an unattached thigh bone)

Z.K.A. @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 17h

📚 🧡 MY BIGGEST DREAM COME TRUE 📚 🧡

My debut novel, MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, will be out in 2027!

Publishers Marketplace, Z. K. Abraham's My Darling Clementine, in which a Black queer woman, who, feeling lost in teh depths of an unhappy marriage, leaves it all behind, only to lose herself completely-and beyond human recognition-to a new love, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2027, by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary Agency (world English). Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency

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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 1d

as the world gets worse you need to look at more bugs. it will help, in a cosmic sort of way. there's little animals around you that you can look at as they do little animal things. look a bug as soon as possible. connect with other animal in this way and know

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 13h

training a southern giant pouched rat to detect AI

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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 22h

once again i cannot emphasize enough that transphobia is almost entirely an elite panic. the overwhelming majority of people simply do not care—it is media and political elites who are obsessed with us and keep bending over backwards to justify and spread transphobia.

Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 22h

the idea that trans rights have swung elections to republicans is a fiction made up by media and political elites (both conservative and liberal) who are personally transphobic and want transphobia to be politically popular so they no longer have to hide how disgusting they think trans people are

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Sam @samuelhlowe.bsky.social · Jan 31

I’ve quit telling people that I disagree with them. Instead, I now say, “I’m gonna have to agree with myself on this one.” It’s self-positive, non-confrontational, and just weird enough to end the conversation.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 20h

You know, do some trans men access and make use of institutional or social male privilege? Sure, but certainly not all of them and not usually in every situation across the board for those who do/can. Ditto trans women prior to coming out, I think.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 20h

I have always found this line exasperating, too! I think often it comes down to people being very bad with the idea of conditional privilege (uh-oh, turns out MOST privilege is or can be conditional!) & very bad with the idea of “it depends”

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 3d

In Cumbrian dialects, 'broc' is badger

Badger is held in high esteem and 'brocan' means wise man. In lore, badgers protect against witchcraft and other evils

more in: Folklore of the Lake District
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/

#NationalBadgerDay #folklore
art: Lily Seika Jones

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 22h

(The easiest well-known example of this I can think of is the movie Pan’s Labyrinth.)

Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 22h

the weirder elements are taken as Literally True or Just a Character’s Perception of Something That’s Kinda Metaphorically True doesn’t actually affect the story much beyond what genre you choose to shelve it under.

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 22h

I think my favorite stories that use this type of unreliable narration actually don’t use it as a source of mystery or tension in that way (or at least not much); rather, a magical realist approach is used to put the reader in the perspective of someone who sees the world differently, and whether

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

A lot of people do not really seem to know this sort of stuff

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

It is true you can't trust Israel or the US but you should probably be aware the ceasefire doesn't begin until Saturday or Sunday and Israel has a long history of intensifying bombardment until the official starting point of a ceasefire.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

I reviewed DEAD MAIL, a frankly astounding little thriller about loneliness, music, analog systems, and the exploitation of Black musicians by their white managers and collaborators.

www.patreon.com/posts/140799...

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 23h

to this day I hold pencils/pens “wrong” (all fingers and thumb braced against stick in sort of a semicircle)— if I don’t do that, I don’t have enough control to keep from dropping the pen or to write very clearly

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 1d

that has the potential to be amazing and/or the most awkward episode of the show yet!

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Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social · 1d

Mosaic-like painting in dark colors with skeleton and snakes

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