The Aleks (they/them)
@thealeks.bsky.social
I make art, video games, tabletop roleplaying games, that kind of thing. Very cool. The Poochie of social media.
https://thealeks.itch.io
https://unverifiedpersonalgnosis.neocities.org
https://ko-fi.com/feedthealeks
https://patreon.com/atelier_aleks
https://thealeks.itch.io
https://unverifiedpersonalgnosis.neocities.org
https://ko-fi.com/feedthealeks
https://patreon.com/atelier_aleks
What if old timey Dragon Quest and Disco Elysium had a baby, and they used old timey Ultima as a surrogate?
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
What if old timey Dragon Quest and Disco Elysium had a baby, and they used old timey Ultima as a surrogate?
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Love trans people as much as you hate JK Rowling
Love Native people as much as you hate Christopher Columbus
Love immigrants as much as you hate ICE
Support marginalized communities even when you aren’t dunking on someone who hurts them
Love Native people as much as you hate Christopher Columbus
Love immigrants as much as you hate ICE
Support marginalized communities even when you aren’t dunking on someone who hurts them
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Love trans people as much as you hate JK Rowling
Love Native people as much as you hate Christopher Columbus
Love immigrants as much as you hate ICE
Support marginalized communities even when you aren’t dunking on someone who hurts them
Love Native people as much as you hate Christopher Columbus
Love immigrants as much as you hate ICE
Support marginalized communities even when you aren’t dunking on someone who hurts them
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This is, in fact, not true!
Canadian Immigration is a fucking nightmare! They only accept those who can pay thousands of dollars for the process, and WILL reject you even if you pay!
Canada (unfortunately) has no real interest in helping At-Risk Americans trying to flee the country.
Canadian Immigration is a fucking nightmare! They only accept those who can pay thousands of dollars for the process, and WILL reject you even if you pay!
Canada (unfortunately) has no real interest in helping At-Risk Americans trying to flee the country.
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is, in fact, not true!
Canadian Immigration is a fucking nightmare! They only accept those who can pay thousands of dollars for the process, and WILL reject you even if you pay!
Canada (unfortunately) has no real interest in helping At-Risk Americans trying to flee the country.
Canadian Immigration is a fucking nightmare! They only accept those who can pay thousands of dollars for the process, and WILL reject you even if you pay!
Canada (unfortunately) has no real interest in helping At-Risk Americans trying to flee the country.
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can anyone donate to our mutual aid so we can pick up toilet paper and food its getting to a point in the month were we are unable we need help
we have some left but its not much
ko-fi.com/mamablanchevt
#MutualAid
we have some left but its not much
ko-fi.com/mamablanchevt
#MutualAid
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
can anyone donate to our mutual aid so we can pick up toilet paper and food its getting to a point in the month were we are unable we need help
we have some left but its not much
ko-fi.com/mamablanchevt
#MutualAid
we have some left but its not much
ko-fi.com/mamablanchevt
#MutualAid
I'm not really good at microblogging. Most of my posts turn into these long, rambling rant threads.
People sometimes say I'm wordy and thus not worth paying attention to, because wordiness implies arrogance. But have those people ever considered that I'm just a super smart and complicated person?
People sometimes say I'm wordy and thus not worth paying attention to, because wordiness implies arrogance. But have those people ever considered that I'm just a super smart and complicated person?
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I'm not really good at microblogging. Most of my posts turn into these long, rambling rant threads.
People sometimes say I'm wordy and thus not worth paying attention to, because wordiness implies arrogance. But have those people ever considered that I'm just a super smart and complicated person?
People sometimes say I'm wordy and thus not worth paying attention to, because wordiness implies arrogance. But have those people ever considered that I'm just a super smart and complicated person?
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If anyone is able to help me recover what was lost from this unpaid invoice, you may do so through ko-fi.
I'm so sick of this, but I don't really have a choice in the matter. I unfortunately did $300 worth of labor, with nothing to show for it.
ko-fi.com/therosecleric
I'm so sick of this, but I don't really have a choice in the matter. I unfortunately did $300 worth of labor, with nothing to show for it.
ko-fi.com/therosecleric
Support The Rose Cleric ❤️
Support me on Ko-Fi
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November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If anyone is able to help me recover what was lost from this unpaid invoice, you may do so through ko-fi.
I'm so sick of this, but I don't really have a choice in the matter. I unfortunately did $300 worth of labor, with nothing to show for it.
ko-fi.com/therosecleric
I'm so sick of this, but I don't really have a choice in the matter. I unfortunately did $300 worth of labor, with nothing to show for it.
ko-fi.com/therosecleric
It'd be amazing to be able to pursue art / creation as a primary purpose and vocation WITHOUT having to also learn how to perform on camera, maintain a youtube and/or ticktock channel, stream video games, or what have you. The fact that we're all apparently expected to be "influencers" now is wack.
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
It'd be amazing to be able to pursue art / creation as a primary purpose and vocation WITHOUT having to also learn how to perform on camera, maintain a youtube and/or ticktock channel, stream video games, or what have you. The fact that we're all apparently expected to be "influencers" now is wack.
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the worst fucking thing about capitalism is that it just totally falls apart and shows its ass as the gigantic pyramid scheme it all really is when it can't make the Line Go Up
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
the worst fucking thing about capitalism is that it just totally falls apart and shows its ass as the gigantic pyramid scheme it all really is when it can't make the Line Go Up
I think my true life's work is sitting slumped over on a couch, in the dark and the silence, while listening to the pipe's hum and staring off into the middle distance.
That must be exactly what I was put on this earth to do ...
That must be exactly what I was put on this earth to do ...
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I think my true life's work is sitting slumped over on a couch, in the dark and the silence, while listening to the pipe's hum and staring off into the middle distance.
That must be exactly what I was put on this earth to do ...
That must be exactly what I was put on this earth to do ...
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The Dems don't want to abolish ICE and CBP, because they overall agree with what they are doing, they just want them to do it 'nicer'. Same reason the Dems don't disagree with the boat murders, because they want to be able to do the same in power.
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The Dems don't want to abolish ICE and CBP, because they overall agree with what they are doing, they just want them to do it 'nicer'. Same reason the Dems don't disagree with the boat murders, because they want to be able to do the same in power.
I hate to be a gloomer, but it probably doesn't matter what is in the Files. As a CSA victim / survivor / stigma bearer myself, I can assure the rest of y'all that nobody really cares about us as such.
They just don't want to know about what happens. They don't care that it does, indeed, happen.
They just don't want to know about what happens. They don't care that it does, indeed, happen.
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I hate to be a gloomer, but it probably doesn't matter what is in the Files. As a CSA victim / survivor / stigma bearer myself, I can assure the rest of y'all that nobody really cares about us as such.
They just don't want to know about what happens. They don't care that it does, indeed, happen.
They just don't want to know about what happens. They don't care that it does, indeed, happen.
What if I finally made that "Myst-like" video game with the rotating rooms / platforms I'd been drafting for years (kind of Blue Prince vibes, but not rogue-like and more apocalyptic), but added survival horror / stalker horror gameplay to it. Solve puzzles ... and / or get ate by the minotaur.
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
What if I finally made that "Myst-like" video game with the rotating rooms / platforms I'd been drafting for years (kind of Blue Prince vibes, but not rogue-like and more apocalyptic), but added survival horror / stalker horror gameplay to it. Solve puzzles ... and / or get ate by the minotaur.
My current depressive episode feels very strange ... kind of new.
I'm really ... calm? The only friction and pain come from the natural impulse to keep holding on, but the abyss below feels almost inviting now.
Maybe I'm on the verge of enlightenment? Maybe I'm finally losing it for good.
I'm really ... calm? The only friction and pain come from the natural impulse to keep holding on, but the abyss below feels almost inviting now.
Maybe I'm on the verge of enlightenment? Maybe I'm finally losing it for good.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My current depressive episode feels very strange ... kind of new.
I'm really ... calm? The only friction and pain come from the natural impulse to keep holding on, but the abyss below feels almost inviting now.
Maybe I'm on the verge of enlightenment? Maybe I'm finally losing it for good.
I'm really ... calm? The only friction and pain come from the natural impulse to keep holding on, but the abyss below feels almost inviting now.
Maybe I'm on the verge of enlightenment? Maybe I'm finally losing it for good.
And now, you are alone.
And none of this matters
at all.
And none of this matters
at all.
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
And now, you are alone.
And none of this matters
at all.
And none of this matters
at all.
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It's so discouraging to post art when you see how fucked up the ratio of like to repost is. Just please, do the second click, it's literally few seconds and does so much more for struggling artists.
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It's so discouraging to post art when you see how fucked up the ratio of like to repost is. Just please, do the second click, it's literally few seconds and does so much more for struggling artists.
You know how people say, "I hate writing, but I love having written?"
I think that more or less sums up the way I feel, or will feel, about dying.
I do rather like writing, though, but that's beside the point.
I think that more or less sums up the way I feel, or will feel, about dying.
I do rather like writing, though, but that's beside the point.
November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
You know how people say, "I hate writing, but I love having written?"
I think that more or less sums up the way I feel, or will feel, about dying.
I do rather like writing, though, but that's beside the point.
I think that more or less sums up the way I feel, or will feel, about dying.
I do rather like writing, though, but that's beside the point.
You know what feature I'd like for artists on sites like this one?
The ability to save portfolio pieces, along with attendant alt text, to the account and easily pull them up for promotional posting any time, without having to retype or paste new alt text every time.
The ability to save portfolio pieces, along with attendant alt text, to the account and easily pull them up for promotional posting any time, without having to retype or paste new alt text every time.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
You know what feature I'd like for artists on sites like this one?
The ability to save portfolio pieces, along with attendant alt text, to the account and easily pull them up for promotional posting any time, without having to retype or paste new alt text every time.
The ability to save portfolio pieces, along with attendant alt text, to the account and easily pull them up for promotional posting any time, without having to retype or paste new alt text every time.
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Vgen seems like something I should be joining. I can't say that asking around for a code isn't inconvenient, but I do rather like the hard anti-AI / quality assurance stance it engenders ...
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Vgen seems like something I should be joining. I can't say that asking around for a code isn't inconvenient, but I do rather like the hard anti-AI / quality assurance stance it engenders ...
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
So ...is there anyone who can help a graying, aging artist out as they try to get hip with it? #VGenCode
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Please share this post even if you cant help me. Sharing helps.
Alright, it's time for me to e-beg for money again.
I'm still trying to pay my dentist, and I'm gonna owe him MORE money soon. Right now I owe him around $728, but when my implant is done I will owe him almost $3000
any bit helps! If you can't donate, please share the post!
ko-fi.com/ssdeer
I'm still trying to pay my dentist, and I'm gonna owe him MORE money soon. Right now I owe him around $728, but when my implant is done I will owe him almost $3000
any bit helps! If you can't donate, please share the post!
ko-fi.com/ssdeer
Buy shawnDeer a Coffee
Support Shawn Deer! See really appreciates it!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Please share this post even if you cant help me. Sharing helps.
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TEFL courses obtained! We're gonna try to get through it under a month so we can be teaching and/or tutoring by December. Until then, if anyone can help us with our current costs, it would be greatly appreciated! ❤️❤️
I have yet another round of applications in and I'm starting to worry. We have immigration things next month and I haven't been able to land a job. I feel like I got my wife out and I'm going to stall out at the finish line. If you can help or share, thank you.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
TEFL courses obtained! We're gonna try to get through it under a month so we can be teaching and/or tutoring by December. Until then, if anyone can help us with our current costs, it would be greatly appreciated! ❤️❤️
Sigh. I barely survive when the economy is "normal," whatever that means. I think the inevitable economic SuperDepression is going to literally crush me into powder ...
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Sigh. I barely survive when the economy is "normal," whatever that means. I think the inevitable economic SuperDepression is going to literally crush me into powder ...
Just found the design doc for a cyberpunky dungeon crawler I was prototyping like five years ago, and that cheers me up a bit, but also ... the feelings are complex.
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Just found the design doc for a cyberpunky dungeon crawler I was prototyping like five years ago, and that cheers me up a bit, but also ... the feelings are complex.
I'm still not really ready to fully get back to work, but I've really got nothing else to be doing and ... I don't know.
You ever just look at your life and go, "yeah, this is not the run; where's the reset button?"
You ever just look at your life and go, "yeah, this is not the run; where's the reset button?"
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I'm still not really ready to fully get back to work, but I've really got nothing else to be doing and ... I don't know.
You ever just look at your life and go, "yeah, this is not the run; where's the reset button?"
You ever just look at your life and go, "yeah, this is not the run; where's the reset button?"
This version of me is basically a wash.
I am hereby reborn as Sasha Nox. Confident, sexy, powerful.
I am hereby reborn as Sasha Nox. Confident, sexy, powerful.
November 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This version of me is basically a wash.
I am hereby reborn as Sasha Nox. Confident, sexy, powerful.
I am hereby reborn as Sasha Nox. Confident, sexy, powerful.
I hate when Metatopia comes around. I'm sure it's great. For me it's basically just a reminder that I'm too fucking poor to be a "real" game designer. I get to watch from outside the window like a little Victorian orphan child. I'm like one of those annoyingly sad single people on Valentine's day.
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I hate when Metatopia comes around. I'm sure it's great. For me it's basically just a reminder that I'm too fucking poor to be a "real" game designer. I get to watch from outside the window like a little Victorian orphan child. I'm like one of those annoyingly sad single people on Valentine's day.