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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃

@rufflejax.bsky.social

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Not the queen of heaven, but still the refuge of sinners. Mad writer, friend of #NukeSky, zinester, and verb-er of analog games. Your favorite cis girl's favorite cis girl. Polyam queer. she/they. Find all my work/socials at https://linktr.ee/rufflejax

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · Feb 9

I'm Jax! I'm a writer and analog game designer focused mostly on horror, pastoral fantasy, romance, pulp, and character-driven stories.

Pronouns: she/her, they/them, and fae/femme in roughly that order

Itch: rufflejax.itch.io
DTRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
ES: bsky.app/profile/ruff...

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 9h

I'm on a break from Mechsploitation writing due to catching up on all my freelance projects, but if you'd like to read ten connected short stories full of weird setting details and snappy dialogue and Easter eggs from some of my favorite writers in the subgenre check out the link below!

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · Apr 23

Mechanisms of Rule is my mechsploitation series; I'm putting it under my Empty Spaces writing because of how heavily it's influenced by the ES lens.

Read it here: archiveofourown.org/series/4728955

A white hand holds a dangling wooden pose doll. Text says "MECHANISMS OF RULE a Mechsploitation series"

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 21h

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 12h

Both a border and a blade imply the violence of their maintenance

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 12h

this is so upsetting can't wait to listen ASAP

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 14h

MLMLM (Men Loving Multi-Level Marxism)

Ed Zeppelin 🏴‍☠️male buttcheek connoisseur🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴‍☠️ @ourartmeanszepp.bsky.social · 15h

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 13h

holy fuck Else

Else @else.social · 19h

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Blood is prettier outside the body. I learned that lesson young, when my father, the monster, still stalked the plains in search of fresh prey. His preferences were incorrect, however. He cared about volume—lakes of blood impregnated with the anti-clotting compounds that our family's bodies so copiously produce, blood gushing down altars through carefully carved channels, blood divorced from its source so that he could forget the bodies that produced it. He reveled in the metallic tang of it, the joy of immersing his body in it to feel the ebbing warmth and the tender touch of half-formed clots against his swollen dick, and, yes, the taste of it in on his tongue.

My father hated bodies. He hated to be reminded of the source of blood, and this was, I think, the source of much of his cruelty. He needed what his victims gave him, and he hated them for that.

He was, as I have said, incorrect, and it was that flaw which led to his downfall.

Sometimes I like to take one of my concubines—the ones I don't mind killing, of course—down to the crypt to fuck and bleed her atop his sarcophagus. He hates the scent of it, the squishy sounds bodies make, the moans and whimpers, and, more than any of that, the blood trickling down the slowly warming metal. His lips cannot reach the slightest drop of it, I made sure of that, but the sound of him bucking and struggling against his chains is as potent an aphrodisiac as the sight of those first drops of blood welling up from freshly cut skin, red and fragrant and not yet dripping down to stain the ground below. The sight of it—the thought of it!—is so captivating, so compelling; it fills me with heat, makes me long for the taste of it, the joy of adding fresh cuts, of burying myself in my victim's body, of filling myself with her, devouring her until nothing remains but my pleasure—!

But I forget myself. That is not the story I mean to tell you, my dear hunter, though someday I will show you precisely what I mean.

I am not the last of my family. I assure you that we can die, though only with great difficulty, and I expect that knowledge will do more to tempt your visit to my lands than anything else I can offer. You could never reject a challenge when I knew you, and I do not expect that the decades have changed that. Perhaps you have grown more cautious, and certainly you have shaped yourself into a more skillful weapon, because you remain alive even as the list of your accomplishments has grown deliciously unwieldy. How many monsters you have triumphed over, my dear hunter? How many beasts and witches have died upon your blades? Where were you in '87, when my agents couldn't find the slightest trace of you upon this earth?

I'm sure that you'll tell me when you finally visit. I will *make you* tell me.

But in any case—my father still lives, as I said. It pleased him to kill his own father, and I understand that his bones were immersed in molten lead and buried somewhere far from the heat of blood; the habits of a less enlightened age. My solitary brother is a boor, and I hope very much that you will meet and dispatch him before I make you mine, but my sisters are lovely things. I think you will enjoy their company, despite their tastes being far less refined than my own.

You may wonder why I am telling you this now, my dear hunter, when I said so little about myself during our time together at university. I remember how you and the rest of our friends used to tease me with increasingly outlandish guesses—the prince of a distant country, a woodcutter's savant daughter, a merchant's orphan heir—what a silly game! Sometimes I was tempted to simply tell you all the truth, though I do not think I would have survived long afterward. I was so careful, my dear hunter. I had to be.

I do not any more.

I understand that you stayed in contact with many of our old friends. I have read many of the letters you sent them. Do you wonder why fewer and fewer of them are able to reply?

I have taken pains to ensure that this letter will find you, whether within weeks or months or years. My agents are loyal and determined, and they know that their own families' fates depend on their success. The bonds of family are such delicious things, and I adore the taste of a daughter's lifeblood pooling between her mother's thighs ...

But I won't try to explain that to you. Not yet. Someday I'll make you understand.

If all has gone well there is a map attached to this letter; if not you will simply have to work a bit harder to find me. I think I have given you more than enough reason to—you always were such a moral woman, so infatuated with your own idea of what the world should be, and I know that time has only made you more so. I think that knowing what I am, what I have *always* been, will eat away at you like an ulcer until you finally come to visit me, to put an end to me—

And then, my dear hunter, I will make you mine.

Sincerely yours,
Silvana Frost, Duchess of Rimwald

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Body Pillow Drakonovna @artificialangel13.bsky.social · 18h

Relevant

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 19h

this is what a feminist looks like

War Wolf @sabatonfan69.bsky.social · 1d

When I was touring the catacombs under Paris my tour guide kept yelling at me because I wouldn’t stop naming all of the skulls and crying when I imagined them as women

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19h

These folks are SO scared of simple honest protest.

They’ve gone from 0 to 60 in lie-telling regarding October 18 immediately.

October 18—and the idea that lots of Americans will be peacefully marching in support of American democracy and “no kings,” is terrifying them.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 19h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 23h

Nu-Image Style Shop
Epes, AL

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 23h

hooray it's that time of the year where everything in the house is breaking and I have to scramble to catch up

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

The Scarlet Empress (Exalted) x self insert toxic yuri

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

fuck yeah

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

guarantee this joke will hit like three other people and none of them are doing the WOD Month of Darkness

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

*pushes glasses up nose* um actually we don't need a Month of Darkness when Five Days Darkness was enough for our Second Age ancestors

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Takhisis atop some stones or dragons looks down at a mage in a black robe (Raistlin Majere) chained (snaked?) to a wall

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

needs more ladies in peril on the front

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

correct and good

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

...wh-what?

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

as a literal actual larp designer it's always really funny seeing folks like AltNPS post the same things I'd post in a game that used Discord for comms

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

"this wretched slut is in peril" is an all time phrase from me gotta say

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to WVC Arts for giving me the hottest fucking production of Hunchback Of Notre Dame to ever exist you're real ones for keeping me sane amidst the horrors

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