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phantom of the مكتبة | writer, artist, general doom + researching how narrative and gameplay mechanics in video games can guide players and creators from disaster to social action

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · Jun 23

my freudian analysis of garnet/dagger and queen brahne from final fantasy ix is in DAS VIDEOSPIEL presented by @evergreenreview.bsky.social - which has published writings by malcolm x, jean paul sartre & many other prolific figures. what an honor to be tied to it!
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Every SpongeBob Frame In Order @esfio.bsky.social · 8d

Season 2 Episode 24 - Frame 1861 out of 5296

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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 9d

水にしき

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 18d

following charlie kirk's death and the right's open embrace of cancel culture, the gamergate 2.0 mob has kicked its efforts into overdrive, targeting dozens of devs and personalities. this has resulted in an avalanche of harassment, but relatively few firings compared to the 100+ in other sectors

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 19d

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

Steven Rosenthal @stevenrosenthal.net · 20d

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special.

Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views.

Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 20d

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 19d

hitting the "ascend later" button like it's a Windows update

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Ayce @flyincasual.bsky.social · 21d

Gonna start using this when I forget people's names

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 27d

Here is some non-satire for you:

Trans rights forever.

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · 27d

I don't have photos of mine, but I second this!! When I was working jobs I hated and before ever taking a stab at art classes I used to draw on post-its and stick them around my desk/put comics on assignments before turning them in to my bosses lol

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 29d

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · 29d

Denver is so pretty I love his thick dumb head

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · Aug 7

my current hate fuel is the new AI-generated wicked poster

serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · Jul 25

CONGRATULATIONS!! So cool that you worked on this!!!

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Matt 'Wib' Ward @wib.bsky.social · Jul 24

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · Jul 24

SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con

If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.

SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con

If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.

www.comicsbeat.com

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · Jul 23

can't stop thinking about #clairobscur 🖤

a portrait sketch of alicia from clair obscur: expedition 33

a battle stance sketch of gustave from clair obscur: expedition 33

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · Jul 13

Jinn are super shapeshifty considering they aren't supposed to actually be present in our dimension so when they do show up they take whatever form they damn well please 💁‍♂️ but depending what lore you follow they can be very much cisgendered!

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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · Jul 12

had the big brain realization that you could just whip up a whole D&D cast/NPC list from Whose Line prompts alone

A screenshot of Wayne Brady holding up three fingers with the text "Girl Scout Selling Cookies Who's Possessed by the Devil"

A screenshot of Colin Mochrie making a face with the text "Heroic Frog Leading 'The Great Escape' of All the Frogs from a French Restaurant"

A screenshot of Ryan Stiles with the text "Gradually Turning into a Parrot"

A screenshot of Greg Proops frowning with glasses halfway down his nose with the text "Judge Judy"

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Jul 13

Get in loser, we're going west to diminish

On the far Western shore of Middle Earth rests the Grey Havens, One of the last bastions of the elves in this world. This is Círdan the Shipbuilder's domain. For years now he has fashioned the vessels that will take the remaining Noldor and Sindar to the undying lands of Valinor, in Arman, hidden from the mortal realm at the end of the Third Age but for those who take the ships from this harbor (the only two exceptions to this being Gimli and Legolas, and Samwise, both many years from now). One of the great ships sits at a beautiful dock: Galadriel and Celeborn stand in front of Círdan, watching as Elrond gestures to an elderly Bilbo Baggins to board. Gandalf will join them and Frodo also, after a tearful goodbye. They will sail into the sea and soon join the Valar and Mayar and all the rest of the Elves. Frodo and Bilbo's time there will feel so short, mortals in a timeless realm, but it will be peaceful and joyous and filled with food and drink and song and harmony, and be a fitting resting place for the ring bearers. And Gimli of course, the one exception to a non-Elf ring bearer granted amnesty in Valinor, because unlike the movies, in the books he is the poet and chief moral officer of the third age, and brought peace between the two long rivaled races.

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Darren G @dotspec.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · Jun 27

Zohran Mamdani's Socialist Promises:

Oficially enshrine Final Fantasy IX as "The Best One"

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · Jun 23

[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Dagger Envy

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · Jun 21

this comment on the labubu theme song video on youtube

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · Jun 18

Check out the latest look at Tsarevna, an action "ballet-slasher" inspired by Slavic folklore, in this new trailer. www.gameinformer.com/2025/06/17/t...

The key art for Tsarevna, which features the titular Tsarevna character in a ballet pose underneath a floating blue sword. To her left and right are disposed enemies, and beneath this imagery is the word Tsarevna, in all caps. There are stars atop the T and last A of the title.

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Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · Jun 17

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

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Into thin air @inbaudwetrust.com · Jun 15

If you want to see who came to riot, look for who dressed for a riot.

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serena 🇱🇧🌈 @renrouna.bsky.social · Jun 13

i was having breakfast in solvang and kept accidentally making direct eye contact with a dude sitting with a bunch of monks in the booth across from mine, and i was thinking he looked so familiar but couldn’t pinpoint how. after they leave the waitress asked if i recognized it was shia labeouf lol

R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13

Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction