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🇵🇭 🇺🇸 SF/F writer, Clarkesworld (2021). Banner image by https://x.com/doggo_1d34 PFP by https://bsky.app/profile/ishikawayuga.bsky.social

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · Jul 24

I write stuff. No seriously, I do. You can read or listen to my story in Clarkesworld right here:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/meridian_02_21/

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 10h

The headless Nike of Samothrace surrounded by a pincushion of swords and spears is such a cool image (I was humming the song when I saw the actual statue in the Louvre)

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 10h

I think Fixed Point was the point (heh) where the GFL aesthetic hit its apex. The look, sound, and feel of everyone and everything went so damn hard
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUjO...

【GhostFinal】Solar Sea .feat Kinoko_蘑菇「Girls Frontline OST」【ドールズフロントライン】Official

YouTube video by Vanguard Sound Studio

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 10h

In genre fiction I mean, not IRL

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 10h

Didn't say it was good, just big and widely adopted. It's like Dyson spheres in that way

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 1d

Omegaverse is the most wholly formed and ambitious Big Speculative Fiction Concept of the past 25 years
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

been having the music/games 'industry' parallel on the mind all the way through games week, and that always leads back to me thinking about steve albini being essentially my standard for the kind of person i want to be in a scene/community. heres a little something from a reddit ama he did ages ago

Connections don't mean shit. I've never had any connections that weren't a natural outgrowth of doing things I was doing anyway. Additionally, the people you might make connections with who work in the industry and value connections themselves, all those people are clueless assholes with no clout anyhow. You can tell because they think they can get somewhere with connections and spend their energy trying to make connections rather than being good at things, and being good at things is the only thing that earns you clout or connections.

It's a myth that you can get anywhere in music through connections. The guy on the other end of the connection has to be into what you're doing, and if you're doing it publicly and he's receptive, he probably hears about it on his own.

Don't worry about anything but making music you like. Everything else is bullshit.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 22h

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 1d

"This manuscript has too many scenes of characters in the shower." OK, but then where do you want perspective characters to introspect in moments of solitary vulnerability? On the toilet?

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 1d

Fits the original art style incredibly well, though she should be eating everything in camp by herself

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 1d

@lolokoa.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zitI...

Girl's Frontline but I don't have gambling addiction

YouTube video by Bebelabs123

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ShinGattai @shingattai.bsky.social · 1d

"👍"
#ウマ娘 #umamusume

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 1d

Omegaverse is the most wholly formed and ambitious Big Speculative Fiction Concept of the past 25 years
bsky.app/profile/rach...

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Faith ➡️ Lightbox Expo AA506 @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 1d

weird painting to test out my new inking pen ☀️

watercolor painting- a woman kneels behind a bush, carrying an approximation of an antique musket/rifle (I did not look at reference for this one so the shape is a bit off lol sorry everybody!). She is wearing a wildly impractical but fun outfit- a high cut onepiece with baggy ankle boots, a helmet and a big swan hat/cape.

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 1d

No it's true I heard it from the engkanto that lives in the balete tree

K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 1d

Never mind, there it is -- 30 minutes after I get back from my walk to get lunch too

K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 2d

It's fine, plenty of white people go gaga over similar Western fast food facsimiles from Japan. It's very unironic, unelevated fast food with all the shortcomings that come with that

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Jam2go @jam2go.com · 3d

I've been testing out adding greenscreen footage into Unreal, but compressing it to look like it's a 90s FMV game

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Boa @ardent-knight.bsky.social · 2d

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 2d

Oops, must be my VPN

K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 2d

On the topic of Dream, how about that first theme song for Hikaru no Go? How would one even start to karaoke this vocal melody?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Jj...

Get Over

YouTube video by dream - Topic

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 2d

My Will was by the group who did Get Over for Hikaru no Go, also one of my all-time favorite OP themes

K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 2d

I don't even really like Inuyasha, but this one of my favorite anime EDs. Neatly contrasts the 3 kinds of death the 3 female mcs experience: death of family, literal death, spiritual death by stultifying modern life; symbolic (Sango) & literal rebirth (Kikyo/Kagome)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=As9z...

Inuyasha - ED 1 (Official HD Remaster)

YouTube video by croemy

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 2d

If I don't have a sinus headache by 11pm I'm calling BS

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K Meridia @redactedtext.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't even see a wall of cumulus clouds on the horizon so I'm wondering if this is going to be one of those forecasts that fizzles out by 2am

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