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Ghoulfluencer

@goblinfluencer.bsky.social

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They/them I'm mostly here to look at cool human art and photos, and sometimes post silly birds. Software tester and general nerd. Views my own and not those of my employers, partners, friends, or cats.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

25 according to my spreadsheet, I might have missed a couple from before I started keeping track, and counting things >~ 15k words. Also excluding a ton of stuff I've read on Scribblehub for the sake of my sanity.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

Is a "A Rotten Girl" as cringe-inducing as the summary implies? Yes absolutely.

But also as someone incredibly susceptible to second hand embarrassment I still read the entire thing in a day, giggling the entire time, 10/10.

Jemmargh! Topaz (halloween edition) @jemma.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, book promo.

"A Rotten Girl" is my literary satire that features the worst transfem getting involved in the worst industry, publishing. Serious, funny, angry, cringe-tastic; I am very proud of it.

jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#rotten

The cover of "A Rotten Girl"; a woman's face, with her eyes hidden by a rough band of white.

Text reads:
Pearl is a trans woman writer on the cusp of literary greatness... or so she thought until her agent informs her that her first book has sunken like a stone for its failure to "connect with normal people". Normal people. Heterosexual people. Cisgender people.

Jaded from the knowledge that this industry rarely lets in people like her, Pearl comes up with a plan: write a commercial male/male romance. Except the market's all about authenticity these days, isn't it? The plan gets complicated, drawing her into a web of escalating deceptions where she poses as a cisgender gay man and comes ever closer to destroying all her relationships, and her own life.

A Rotten Girl is a satirical drama that explores gender, public personas, the commodification of queerness—and the reality of what it is like to be a trans woman in a hostile world.

“This entire meditation on the pseudofeminism underpinning this market is so focused and cutting, you can't help but marvel at it.” - Talia Bhatt

jemmatopaz.carrd.co/#rotten

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

"How I met my Mistress? Funny story, she used to be my ex-husband's mistress."
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"No, no, the other kind of mistress! Although come to think of it I don't actually know if..."
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"No, I am absolutely not going to ask her!"

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, just embarrassment, definitely no other emotions.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

Stretched too greedily and too big.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

Garden squirrel is back

Photo of a grey squirrel, trotting away, taken at ground level. The frame is shaded black on the left side.

A squirrel jumping forward and left, in shadow, with sunlit grass in the background.

A squirrel jumping left across the frame, with all four paws off the ground, in shadow, with some plants in front sunlit grass in the background.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

My reading list continues to increase...

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

Cephalopods?

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

Firefox letting me have my open tabs in a scrollable side-panel is very much enabling my worst tendencies.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I get scared something might happen to my 150 emotional support open browser tabs.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

Nuking datacentres be cause just being a boring Tomb World is way less humiliating in comparison.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

I feel slightly bad for having turned a beautiful work of fiction into a logic puzzle like some sort of third rate youtuber, but in my defence you did make some very nice diagrams.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

Both diagrams from Tess' post, which I've added the characters' names on

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

Well that was less intractable than I expected, nice job dropping all those character details. If Gemma's wife's name gets mentioned I missed it, and the the placement of Vicky and Tig is a bit circumstantial but otherwise I'm pretty sure I've got all of them.

(spoilers in the next post I guess)

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d

So it's 'definitely only trying to seduce her for political reasons' then

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d

Feeling somehow both blessed and cursed this thread was the first thing I saw after waking up.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d

According to my partner this is the face I pull if someone asks me a question too early in the morning.

Also this is a lovely thread and well worth a read.

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 6d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d

What I'm hearing is that All the Way is definitely the penultimate book in the series and there's no way additional books which aren't the last book would keep accidentally happening.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

Hecate and Medea especially, among many great options.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 7d

Not only am I pro-VPN, I think in an ideal world there would be a way any time you log into anything that will automatically answer any question about where you're connecting from with, "None of your fucking business."

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

If the government want to spy on my they should have to at the very least have to make the effort to compromise my device or account in particular instead of hoovering up everything by default. The advertising and data industries can just get in the sea.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

Had a visitor in garden yesterday

A grey squirrel on all fours facing left in some messy grass with a few yellow flowers.

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 6d

Hope you have a good trip! I'll miss the reading new shenanigans, but at least that gives me plenty of time to pull out the string and cork-board for the game of matching the character to the graphs.
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Tess "The Egg Prime Directive" Tanenbaum @drtanenbaum.bsky.social · 19d

Had another weird writing day where I was mostly just unpuzzling this weird gordian 15 character tangle so that I can put a bunch of them into action at the same time. Fell down a rabbit hole and got utterly lost accounting for them over 40 years, pretty much confirming my Autism diagnosis.

A screenshot of the character timeline I've created for The Egg Prime Directive. Shows where and when each character was born, when their egg cracked (where applicable) and various life milestones like moving, graduating school, etc.

The updated flowchart of the present-day polycule, showing their interconnections, and locations.

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Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 7d

Great Britain! Wolrd-beating in the field of gender-affirming necromancy!

Ghoulfluencer @goblinfluencer.bsky.social · 7d

"I'm not saying you two are together, just that if you need to hold your girlfriend's hand and give her a reassuring kiss we won't be weird."