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💙🖤hum hallelujah (just off the key of reason)🖤💙 @mercutiglo.bsky.social · 1d

this is one of two games i'll be playing as a part of this years Hallow-streams with @videogamesaregood.bsky.social

💙🖤hum hallelujah (just off the key of reason)🖤💙 @mercutiglo.bsky.social · 1d

gamerssssss i'm back in the streaming chair after an accidental three months off of my channel, and we're playing a game that's been haunting the dark shadows of my steam library, Slayaway Camp! www.twitch.tv/mercutiglo

mercutiglo - Twitch

this camp is so slay(away) || Slayaway Camp!

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💙🖤hum hallelujah (just off the key of reason)🖤💙 @mercutiglo.bsky.social · 6d

let me be clear i am endlessly endeared to these bats. if i had more cupboard space i’d buy it instantly. they just also look a lil fucked up.

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💙🖤hum hallelujah (just off the key of reason)🖤💙 @mercutiglo.bsky.social · 6d

someone: you better not be a mug of fucked up bats when i get there
me:

A home goods mug of pastel bats with wonky faces

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💙🖤hum hallelujah (just off the key of reason)🖤💙 @mercutiglo.bsky.social · 23d

just nearly lost my mind trying to remember this song bc all of a sudden the opening just got stuck in my head and i went through multiple fob albums in a state of panicked confusion trying to figure it out. anyways listen to soul punk

a screenshot of Run Dry (X Heart X Fingers) by Patrick Stump (off his album soul punk)

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🍷🕯️Caemi🕯️🩸 @caemiel.bsky.social · Sep 3

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[ #caemidraws #dnd #mars ]

Mars, paladin dhampir, showing off his kinda cursed attire, as his armor grew onto his skin with his blood. Behind him, in a frame, a black and white landscape with Will and Mars kissing under some trees. The frame shows white roses, grapes and pomegranates on a red table cloth. A stylized maze is drawn in the dark background.

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💙🖤hum hallelujah (just off the key of reason)🖤💙 @mercutiglo.bsky.social · Sep 4

i forgot i had credit still from a gift card i got last christmas from my parents so i was able to order a photocard holder for essentially free, muahahahahahaha

💙🖤hum hallelujah (just off the key of reason)🖤💙 @mercutiglo.bsky.social · Sep 1

me: wow i cant wait to relax from the fair, its been so hectic and im ready to just chill for a weekend
rose city con: hey girlie~ didya forget about me~

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy Labor Day 🙂

2 shots from tv show Frasier. One shows Frasier holding a sign, "You're Fired." The other shows the producer of his radio show, Roz, holding a sign that says, "I'm union".

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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · Sep 1

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · Sep 1

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

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momo ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ @crossingmomo.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨✨September will be amazing for us all ✨✨

✨✨September will be amazing for us all ✨✨

✨✨September will be amazing for us all ✨✨

✨✨September will be amazing for us all ✨✨

✨✨September will be amazing for us all ✨✨

✨✨September will be amazing for us all ✨✨

✨✨September will be amazing for us all ✨✨

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🌱 MK/RET @retquits.art · Aug 31

lavender quick sketch 💜

#art ✧ #oc

A digital colored sketch of OP's character, Lavender: a large young woman with soft features and long purple hair with flowers braided into it.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Aug 31

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

With Substack's latest launch, writers are actually ceding control of the billing relationship to Apple, which now owns and controls the subscription.
These transactions, subscriptions, and customers will no longer be accessible in their Stripe account.

Most importantly, that means that if writers choose to leave Substack, they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions over to another platform like they could previously. This predatory platform lock-in is incredibly dangerous for writers. It strips away data and control, while locking them into the platform.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · Sep 1

Don’t throw out your family’s old sewing patterns.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · Sep 1

the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*.

(if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook)

craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.

craftindustryalliance.org

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 1

Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.

Pope Leo meets LGBTQ+ Catholic advocate and vows continuity with Pope Francis' legacy of welcome

Pope Leo XIV has met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev.

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · Sep 1

happy labor day

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · Sep 1

If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.

Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · Aug 30

The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*

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mAlice aforethought 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔜 @thesearethekids.bsky.social · Sep 1

Wanna do something weird? Too late, I already did

Bayeux Tapestry rendition of the OFMD September 1 meme

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · Sep 1

Water is wet the sky is blue

NPR @npr.org · Aug 31

Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.

Scott Galloway says Boomers are robbing Gen Z of their future

Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.

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💙🖤hum hallelujah (just off the key of reason)🖤💙 @mercutiglo.bsky.social · Sep 1

you know, i always wondered how much literally just lowering the brightness of photos like. *actually* does while taking them. and like. two very different moods to these photos. but like. taken within a minute of each other. no additional editing. i just think thats neat.

a normal photo taken of the big wheel at the mn state fair at dusk

another photo of the big wheel at the mn state fair at dusk - but much darker and the lights on the wheel stand out more without blurring.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hey friends! I'd like to update my post (collecting 2nd POV short fiction) here, since it's been, uh, a few years since I made it!

Could you link/recommend #stories in second person POV (any genre, though the focus is #SFFH), especially if available online?

Cheers!

medium.com/@Merc_Wolfmo...

Short Stories in Second Person Point-Of-View (2nd POV)

I thought of using a catchier title, but honestly, when I went searching for lists with similar keywords, I got a bunch of “how to write”…

medium.com

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Aug 30

There’s a Spanish version of "out of the frying pan and into the fire" that puns on the word mala meaning bad and the word peor meaning worse. It goes salir de Guatemala y meterse en Guatepeor, which means “to leave Guate-bad and end up in Guate-worse.”

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · Aug 30

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

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