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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 48m

One of my favorite parts of the day is at dusk when all the birds in the neighborhood come together to gossip. The twitters of dozens of sparrows, the caws of the ravens. The commute to the city sucks sometimes but I would rather live with that than have a life surrounded by concrete.

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 18h

A foreigner? Katakana dialogue.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 1d

It might say something about me that I thought of walking home late at night and thinking someone is following you? If your vampire has transforming into fog as part of their powers. Or glamoring your boss into thinking you were on time/that deadline is actually next week lol

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 1d

As it SHOULD be! I'm so happy for you.

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 1d

I have no idea how I could possibly help you in this endeavor but that sounds rad and if you need someone to do something I can do I love all those words hehehe

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 2d

Finally was able to get new glasses since mine fully broke and my prescription changed so now I see a little TOO well

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Rin 🌈 @rinreadsmanga.bsky.social · 4d

Nojiko Hayakawa's such an underrated artist, breathtaking cover art & even better paneling.
Usually artists'll have a couple standout panels, but every page from her just look like this.
Very natural paneling, her art isn't constrained by the boxy shapes the way so many manga do.

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly it was probably a boon to them that no one did since that is absolutely the thing they are most known for xD

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 5d

Like girl when you leave the house? You don't have to take THE ENTIRE HOUSE WITH YOU. I pack lighter for month-long overseas vacations
(Though I could also be pissy because she hasn't locked the wheels of said suitcase so it slams into my foot at every stop)

Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 5d

I can tell I am really tired because I am irrationally angry at this woman who brought: a GIANT plastic suitcase with a wider footprint than me
A duffel bag
A tote bag
A lunch bag
A giant purse
Her phone on a lanyard around her neck that I have not seen her look up from once
Tea (not in any bag)

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 7d

Daily bunny no.3100 is just a branch away

A bunny sits on the branch of a tree at night, sipping tea and looking at the full moon. On the moon, another small bunny is visible, also drinking tea while looking back at the bunny on the tree branch

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 7d

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 7d

Best Halloween house ever tbh

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah the beginning of the month is usually the biggest release day, and book releases are standardly on Tuesday iirc so that's why!

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 7d

I haven't been able to get a copy yet 😭 I have heard really good things though!

Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

Also for me and mine, they'd better not try and go the CONSTANT ALGORITHM ENGAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT LOOK AT THIS PERSON INSTEAD OF PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY FOLLOW-- my favorite part is that it holds your place in a feed that ENDS. When people find my posts it makes sense, it's not some rando starting shit.

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 8d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

It looks like it's silver plated, which seems likely if it's actually wearing off. It's usually done by electroplating, which typically has to be redone every 3-5 years with regular wear even if done perfectly (no lotions, wearing in the shower and so on). Ask a jeweler!

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

Now I am VERY curious to know about literally every other fantasy/historical fantasy released any time near Katabasis (no shade to RF Kuang, Babel was incredible and I do want to read it) just because now I think at least a few were released to deliberately get buried by The Only Book for Aug-Sept

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 8d

I'm pretty sure my publisher tried to move my release date to November (a real bad release window) because they assumed a queer GN about mental illness wouldn't sell. my book has apparently sold very fucking well in its first week haha. so yeah. material impacts

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 9d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

I mean, it could happen right (fingers crossed for when you jingle those bells)

a cartoon of santa claus in a sleigh flying through the air .

Alt: Tuxedo Kamen disguised as Santa from the Sailormoon S movie

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

It occurs to me if I was in any way an artist I could absolutely be the Premier Setzer Gabbiani Stan on this website because I could draw art of him people could appreciate but instead you just get to hear me talk about him when he Appears like a supermoon or whatever

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

However the gacha in this game is BRUTAL so even though it was rough getting there you can do what I did and clock like 35 hours in four days on a new game and use your beginner's bonuses to hopefully get there or just save yourself and don't because the main game is octopath traveler 0 anyway lol

Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

That said I am also very happy my free pull in the first half got me Locke, that Phoenix ult he has has saved my ass SO MANY TIMES BRO. I don't have Terra or Edgar so I can't speak on them but Celes is also a seemingly rare dual magic/sword user so I can recommend her as a good pull too!

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

He has an enemy weakness randomizer that triggers every turn that not only expands the weakness grid to full capacity but skews toward elements your party actually has!! It makes battles SO FUN and considering Dice also brings down the break counter? Man he's my oshi for a REASON

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Kiku ❤️ @mistressofroses.bsky.social · 8d

In case anyone needs to know about this since it will probably be a year before the ff6 collab comes to octopath cotc in English you will hear LIES that Setzer is the worst collab character because his attacks are status-based but they are WRONG if random battles get boring for you easily

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