David J Prokopetz
@prokopetz.bsky.social
Main site at https://prokopetz.net
There exists a level of obliviousness found only among artists on niche social media platforms that's like, sure, they drew their self-insert OC and my self-insert OC rubbing their dicks together, but that's just what professional colleagues do, right?
January 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
There exists a level of obliviousness found only among artists on niche social media platforms that's like, sure, they drew their self-insert OC and my self-insert OC rubbing their dicks together, but that's just what professional colleagues do, right?
Yes, my laser sidearm requires expensive single-use chemical power cells, takes several minutes to cool off after each shot, has a lethal range measured in dozens of meters under most atmospheric conditions, and blinds the wielder every time it's fired, but consider: it also looks stupid as hell.
January 27, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Yes, my laser sidearm requires expensive single-use chemical power cells, takes several minutes to cool off after each shot, has a lethal range measured in dozens of meters under most atmospheric conditions, and blinds the wielder every time it's fired, but consider: it also looks stupid as hell.
I love screenshots where all the text is an edit, but one word or phrase is obviously shittier than the rest. I know it's usually the product of separate edits by people with different skill levels, but I like to imagine doing it on purpose to mess with people's perception of which parts are edited.
January 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I love screenshots where all the text is an edit, but one word or phrase is obviously shittier than the rest. I know it's usually the product of separate edits by people with different skill levels, but I like to imagine doing it on purpose to mess with people's perception of which parts are edited.
"Eat God" on Rule Zero.
January 27, 2026 at 4:31 AM
"Eat God" on Rule Zero.
One of my keenest teenage memories is reading Shadowrun 3E – not for the text, but for the series of full colour, full page portraits of several "pregenerated characters" (i.e., very obviously the author's friends' playtest PCs) right in the middle of an otherwise cheap black and white volume. [1/3]
January 27, 2026 at 3:45 AM
One of my keenest teenage memories is reading Shadowrun 3E – not for the text, but for the series of full colour, full page portraits of several "pregenerated characters" (i.e., very obviously the author's friends' playtest PCs) right in the middle of an otherwise cheap black and white volume. [1/3]
In the fullness of consideration it would have been inappropriate to make their relationship canon due to the problematic power difference, so really, queerbaiting you was the most ethical course of action.
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 PM
In the fullness of consideration it would have been inappropriate to make their relationship canon due to the problematic power difference, so really, queerbaiting you was the most ethical course of action.
Tagging my historical RPF about a couple of dudes in their 20s "old man yaoi" on the basis that the individuals so depicted are CURRENTLY old.
January 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Tagging my historical RPF about a couple of dudes in their 20s "old man yaoi" on the basis that the individuals so depicted are CURRENTLY old.
Reading your gritty dystopian cyberpunk RPG and realising that with a very particular selection of moves and traits I can use your Sexy Angsty Combat Doll playbook without modification to produce a character with the exact personality and skill set of Inspector Gadget.
January 25, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Reading your gritty dystopian cyberpunk RPG and realising that with a very particular selection of moves and traits I can use your Sexy Angsty Combat Doll playbook without modification to produce a character with the exact personality and skill set of Inspector Gadget.
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Kamen Rider franchise:
So it turns out that fated rivals ARE a thing, but due to a bureaucratic error it was never specified that nemesis pairs have to be the same species; consequently, for most living humans, their fated rival is some kind of bug.
January 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Kamen Rider franchise:
So it turns out that fated rivals ARE a thing, but due to a bureaucratic error it was never specified that nemesis pairs have to be the same species; consequently, for most living humans, their fated rival is some kind of bug.
January 24, 2026 at 10:59 PM
So it turns out that fated rivals ARE a thing, but due to a bureaucratic error it was never specified that nemesis pairs have to be the same species; consequently, for most living humans, their fated rival is some kind of bug.
"X-Files" style paranormal investigative procedural which preserves high stakes over the length of its run by keeping the same supporting cast from episode to episode, but the sexy lead duo can die at any time. Many pairs last only a single episode, especially the gratuitous celebrity guest stars.
January 24, 2026 at 10:13 PM
"X-Files" style paranormal investigative procedural which preserves high stakes over the length of its run by keeping the same supporting cast from episode to episode, but the sexy lead duo can die at any time. Many pairs last only a single episode, especially the gratuitous celebrity guest stars.
You think you've got it rough? I once checked the AO3 profile of an unfinished fic I'd been recced, and discovered the author'd abandoned it to write a long-form Harry Potter fic, abandoned that for ANOTHER long-form HP fic, then abandoned the second HP fic to write about Sasuke fucking Spider-Man.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
You think you've got it rough? I once checked the AO3 profile of an unfinished fic I'd been recced, and discovered the author'd abandoned it to write a long-form Harry Potter fic, abandoned that for ANOTHER long-form HP fic, then abandoned the second HP fic to write about Sasuke fucking Spider-Man.
I'm wearing what was advertised as a "highly breathable" dress shirt today, which texture-wise is basically a button-down made of parachute fabric, and apparently I failed to reckon with how this would interact with my cat's habit of hurling herself bodily at my lap to flop against my tummy.
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I'm wearing what was advertised as a "highly breathable" dress shirt today, which texture-wise is basically a button-down made of parachute fabric, and apparently I failed to reckon with how this would interact with my cat's habit of hurling herself bodily at my lap to flop against my tummy.
One of my favourite species of generative AI fuckups is when someone claims that an image is their own original work, but there's a sign or a poster or a whiteboard or what-have-you in the background and you can literally see the prompt they used written on it.
January 23, 2026 at 7:16 PM
One of my favourite species of generative AI fuckups is when someone claims that an image is their own original work, but there's a sign or a poster or a whiteboard or what-have-you in the background and you can literally see the prompt they used written on it.
Carefully explaining to my elite catgirl infantry for the fifteenth time that polearm unit tactics only work if everyone in the unit is wielding the SAME polearm. One of them showed up with a Bohemian ear-spoon. Where did she even get that.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Carefully explaining to my elite catgirl infantry for the fifteenth time that polearm unit tactics only work if everyone in the unit is wielding the SAME polearm. One of them showed up with a Bohemian ear-spoon. Where did she even get that.
Spends several years queerbaiting my TV show's audience, strongly hints that Everything Will Be Resolved in the series finale, then does a five-years-later epilogue in the last five minutes revealing that two characters who have literally never interacted got together off screen.
January 23, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Spends several years queerbaiting my TV show's audience, strongly hints that Everything Will Be Resolved in the series finale, then does a five-years-later epilogue in the last five minutes revealing that two characters who have literally never interacted got together off screen.
Killing my chief minion each time they fail me because I'm evil, reviving them afterward because qualified help is hard to find, and completely failing to realise the only reason they haven't betrayed me over being treated in this way is because they're kind of into it because I'm dumb as hell.
January 23, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Killing my chief minion each time they fail me because I'm evil, reviving them afterward because qualified help is hard to find, and completely failing to realise the only reason they haven't betrayed me over being treated in this way is because they're kind of into it because I'm dumb as hell.
You'd think I'd have advice for the current North American cold snap, living where I do, but in practice I know fuck-all about best practices because this happens every year here and all the houses are built to handle it. It's going down to -42C this weekend and my only plan is "don't go outside".
January 22, 2026 at 8:41 PM
You'd think I'd have advice for the current North American cold snap, living where I do, but in practice I know fuck-all about best practices because this happens every year here and all the houses are built to handle it. It's going down to -42C this weekend and my only plan is "don't go outside".
Group of characters where each claims to be the last survivor of the same extinct extraterrestrial civilisation, insisting the others technically don't count; one's a robot created by the culture in question, one was raised in the culture but isn't the same species, one's a straight up ghost, etc.
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Group of characters where each claims to be the last survivor of the same extinct extraterrestrial civilisation, insisting the others technically don't count; one's a robot created by the culture in question, one was raised in the culture but isn't the same species, one's a straight up ghost, etc.
I think English orthography would be categorically improved by the adoption of extended whitespace. Right now we're stuck with ellipses to serve that function if we're doing things "properly", and "hell... yes" simply does not communicate the same thing as "hell yes".
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I think English orthography would be categorically improved by the adoption of extended whitespace. Right now we're stuck with ellipses to serve that function if we're doing things "properly", and "hell... yes" simply does not communicate the same thing as "hell yes".
"Ending explained" video for "Moby-Dick" that initially appears to be addressing the luciferan symbolism surrounding Ahab, but by the two-thirds mark it's clear it's circling in on an argument that Ishmael's improbable survival of the penultimate chapter proves he was secretly working for the whale.
January 22, 2026 at 5:48 AM
"Ending explained" video for "Moby-Dick" that initially appears to be addressing the luciferan symbolism surrounding Ahab, but by the two-thirds mark it's clear it's circling in on an argument that Ishmael's improbable survival of the penultimate chapter proves he was secretly working for the whale.
"MIO: Memories in Orbit" dropped the same fucking day I finally got around to 100% clearing "Ender Magnolia". It's like the universe is conspiring to kill me exclusively through the medium of elegiac post-apoc metroidvanias about short girls making friends with robots.
January 22, 2026 at 5:29 AM
"MIO: Memories in Orbit" dropped the same fucking day I finally got around to 100% clearing "Ender Magnolia". It's like the universe is conspiring to kill me exclusively through the medium of elegiac post-apoc metroidvanias about short girls making friends with robots.
I'm incapable of reliably committing the names of the Great Lakes to memory because my brain absolutely rejects the fact that there's a Lake Superior but no corresponding Lake Inferior.
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 AM
I'm incapable of reliably committing the names of the Great Lakes to memory because my brain absolutely rejects the fact that there's a Lake Superior but no corresponding Lake Inferior.
Masocore shooter that syncs via Bluetooth with one of those biorhythm monitoring apps and measures the player's autonomic responses to various audiovisual cues in order to increase its difficulty by dynamically adjusting its presentation to target whatever the player finds most distractingly horny.
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Masocore shooter that syncs via Bluetooth with one of those biorhythm monitoring apps and measures the player's autonomic responses to various audiovisual cues in order to increase its difficulty by dynamically adjusting its presentation to target whatever the player finds most distractingly horny.
Reposted by David J Prokopetz
We can’t simply rely on naturally occurring davids bowie, conditions have to be just right for that to occur.
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
We can’t simply rely on naturally occurring davids bowie, conditions have to be just right for that to occur.