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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 28
A very rough sketch that got complicated fast, but... Hazel and Ferdinand from Rascal dancing to the new Florence + the Machine song, because this is what I would want if I could have it in life 🥰
A pencil sketch of two men dancing
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hazel, 27 y/o brat with disposable income enough to buy items that assist in his determination to keep his ass permanently red
“What did you order?” Hazel purses his lips together, but his sudden laughter escapes with an impolite sound. The parcel’s shape doesn’t give it away. “Something for my clothes.” Ferdinand lifts his eyebrows, trying not to smile. “Something for your clothes,” he repeats, unconvinced. “Yes. It is.” Hazel huffs at the indignity and rips away the paper covering the box with startling ferocity. Once he has the box beneath opened, he lifts out the clothing brush with its large handle and even wider head. “For my suits.” “For the seat of your designer slacks? While they’re still on you?” Hazel takes a deep breath and allows the box and tissue paper to fall to the floor. “Secondary uses might be acceptable in urgent circumstances.” “I’d wager its first use is on your backside, and you more than deserve a smacking for trying to convince me that you bought it for any other purpose.” Ferdinand slips closer, placing his hands on Hazel’s hips. “You thought you were being cute.” “You don’t think I am?” Hazel plays it up, staring up at Ferdinand through his lashes with all the innocence he can feign. Ferdinand seizes the brush suddenly and wags it close to Hazel’s nose. The scent of fresh boar bristles and the polished wood wafts under Hazel’s nostrils. The scolding gesture and the implications of uses for that brush are enough to send a thrill that tickles his stomach and stirs his cock.
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Kosoko Jackson @kosokojackson.bsky.social · Aug 29
This book comes out in like, 11 days!

Do you like international heists?
Do you like complex characters?
Do you like queer boys?
Do you like dark magic?
Do you like social commentary?

Then this book is for you! And the special edition is so beautiful!

www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
I'm going to let it run out of juice and hope that it'll restart properly once I charge it up again, but it'll probably be tomorrow morning or after work before I can test that :(

At least I have my bulky heavy gaming laptop I hate typing on, and my phone, but still I WANT TO WRITE 😭
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
Another important thing to note: beating Trump isn't even the end game. Stop thinking electing a Dem over him is the end of fascism. There are many people in power working alongside him or share his ideas, including far too many Dems who never oppose him or agree with him on issues.
mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
Currently my laptop won't even show me a screen of any kind, it's clearly on but it's a black screen.

My new laptop.

I tried to fend off updates, because I uninstalled the recent ones and the flickering screen stopped, but... fuck. I don't need this too. I just don't.
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ITEP @itep.org · Aug 29
The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.

We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.

The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...
IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service
IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.
www.irs.gov
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
My life is worth more than yours because I would not fucking tell a community to suck it up and take the hit for me

No one is expendable, the lives already lost WERE NEVER ACCEPTABLE AND WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE

You can stand with the conservatives, the rest of us stand with human rights
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
You have no idea of the costs other people have already paid, you have muted their names so you don't have to say them, you argue that there are no genocides currently happening, you remove the T from the acronym, you deny that DEMS are also for increased border restrictions and funding for police
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
I always block these people before I react, but I'm tired of "well you have to make sacrifices" and those sacrifices are human lives! It's never YOU, so it's okay?!

I've voted Dem every fucking time, but if we don't pressure them to do better, we won't GET better. Stop settling on top of our bones
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
"Why don't you people just accept that we're okay with these Democratic candidates taking away your rights and still slowly killing you? JUST VOTE HITLER LITE OVER HILTER!"

no.

ask for better candidates now while we have time

don't ask me to die for you, you're not worth it
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
Sometimes I catch myself default masking, falling into status quo despite my values, for safety

I'm doing less as I age. I want to be an out and happy disabled trans man who writes queer, kinky, dark things, whose dream jobs (writing and conservation) afford a house outside an HOA! Please, world? 😭
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
I do hope some good things come your way and soon, but unpacking and other things you normally don't have time for sound good!

You're allowed to be upset, you have valid reasons to complain, sometimes it helps to at least share the frustration with friends who also want good things to happen to you
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
I feel this... I had to roll back updates because it appears I was having issues with updates specifically... and now my computer wants them again, and I'm worried it'll harm the laptop somehow 😭
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
Hazel, 27 y/o brat with disposable income enough to buy items that assist in his determination to keep his ass permanently red
“What did you order?” Hazel purses his lips together, but his sudden laughter escapes with an impolite sound. The parcel’s shape doesn’t give it away. “Something for my clothes.” Ferdinand lifts his eyebrows, trying not to smile. “Something for your clothes,” he repeats, unconvinced. “Yes. It is.” Hazel huffs at the indignity and rips away the paper covering the box with startling ferocity. Once he has the box beneath opened, he lifts out the clothing brush with its large handle and even wider head. “For my suits.” “For the seat of your designer slacks? While they’re still on you?” Hazel takes a deep breath and allows the box and tissue paper to fall to the floor. “Secondary uses might be acceptable in urgent circumstances.” “I’d wager its first use is on your backside, and you more than deserve a smacking for trying to convince me that you bought it for any other purpose.” Ferdinand slips closer, placing his hands on Hazel’s hips. “You thought you were being cute.” “You don’t think I am?” Hazel plays it up, staring up at Ferdinand through his lashes with all the innocence he can feign. Ferdinand seizes the brush suddenly and wags it close to Hazel’s nose. The scent of fresh boar bristles and the polished wood wafts under Hazel’s nostrils. The scolding gesture and the implications of uses for that brush are enough to send a thrill that tickles his stomach and stirs his cock.
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
ignore typo in that second post, only think of Hazel getting lost so he can get spanked, being returned by very admirable college students who think they're doing A Good Deed (they are), being threatened, and he's like "BUT YOUR ARTHRITIS"

Silly boy, Ferdinand has tools to help his poor hands :)
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
the collect students leave, Ferdinand just raises an eyebrow at Hazel, crosses his arms, and informs him he will indeed get spanked

So Hazel is like, "But your arthritis!" 😂

(Ferdinand's thinking, "When has that ever stopped me... or you.")
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
Sometimes I think about that comic I wanted to draw of old men Ferdinand and Hazel, where they're wearing "if lost, return to Ferdinand" and "I'm Ferdinand" shirts at an amusement park, and a group of college students reunites them

Unaware that Hazel's stunt will get him spanked, and as soon as
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 29
I've been considering switching to trad publishing because I'm not great at advertising my own books, but lately, all this news about unpaid royalties and copyrights going unfiled is discouraging me 😅
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💫Allison Cassandra Ashtear🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @jayeallisonashtear.bsky.social · Aug 29
ko-fi.com/dreamingnoct...

I don't want to spam and spiral, but...I really can't be complacent about meeting my goal right now, with so little time left...

anything at all helps.
Support Jaye Allison Ashtear
Support Jaye Allison Ashtear
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 28
They changed how to level up the monsters (by bringing them into battle instead of interactions with them in the barns), but I'm finding tutorials so afaik I'm doing everything right? I managed in my first playthrough, had wool easily from woolies so idk what's going on now :(
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 28
Anyone have any solutions or did I manage to find a glitch somehow? 😭
mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 28
All my barns have villagers assigned to them, and I even set it so villagers could harvest items in case that changed anything, but it has not.

It's worth noting that this was not an issue I had in my first game... I was drowning in strong fur and horns lmao
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 28
I still cannot figure out why this second playthrough of Rune Factory GoA, I can't get my tamed monsters to produce items unless it's eggs, milk, honey. I have spiders and woolies and a horse tamed, and I was hoping to get some quality thread and wool😔
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mcalhen.bsky.social @mcalhen.bsky.social · Aug 28
It's very hard to draw Ferdinand, his hair is hard, I can never clearly imagine his face... but I think this is the most accurate I've ever gotten. (But Hazel is not quite small enough, they have a height difference... Ferdinand specifically weight trained just to hold Hazel while he fucked him)
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