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The Missing Link

@themissinglink97.bsky.social

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Hi, I’m an ND sci fi/fantasy writer working on my debut novel I like to talk about books, games, history, and whatever’s interesting at the moment. Also I’m learning Japanese, so これを読めばこんにちはを言ってくれませんか

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8h

So I finished Final Fantasy Tactics… is it a hot take to say the Final Fantasy story kinda got in the way of the class struggle story? I liked the story, but the lucavi part didn’t do a lot for me

#gaming

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it’s really easy to abuse, both by moderators and malicious members in a space if mods aren’t really on top of things

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 1d

Not inherently, but they’re very easily weaponized that way

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 1d

I hate that the kind of horrible stuff I’m writing about in my cyberpunk novel is happening in real time

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 1d

If you see this, post a robot

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 2d

The spicy green flag would be something about the Byzantines, but yeah, that’s a really efficient way to do it

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 3d

Quote with 2 female video game characters you like

Well damn, guess I can’t choose Zelda… so

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 4d

Ok Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green might be the most powerful book I’ve read this year

#booksky

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 7d

Finished Leviathan Falls. I never thought the Expanse was an amazing series, but this last book was terrible. The last three books really drag it down, and the final book is easily the worst in the series

Well… onto the next book on my list, Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

#booksky

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 @eliseswritings.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone should get to see themself in fiction. But I often can't find as much neurodiverse rep as I'd like, especially in SFF.

So for ADHD Awareness Month, I've gathered 22 mainly ADHD authors & their fantasy/ other books with main/significant ADHD chars in this bundle

🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...

Adhd Awareness Month Fiction.
By mostly ADHD authors, most with 1+ significant ADHD character(s)
22 Book. Oct 1st-15th

Covers:
The Lady and the List, Elizabeth Briars
Side Tracked, S.K. Kelly
The Harmony of Falling Snow, Andora Brokaw
Bestiary Beas
The Players Act 1, Amy Sparks
The Weight of Her Gaze, RJ Martin
He of the Trees, Rob Macwolf
Song of the Wolf, T.C. Smith
Tales of Yamato, Odessa Silver
The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, Steve Hugh Westenra
Manipulator's War, Elise Carlson
A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger
Heart of Stone, Johannes T. Evans
Lantern, Burgundy Athena Pendragon
Wizard's Debt, Niranjan
Blood, D.C. Hart
Ancient as the Stars, Maya Darjani
A Dark Hole Darly, Drew Melbourne
Translucent, Wayward Spark
War of the Space Dargons, L'Poni Baldwin
Ants Waking, R.J. Huneke
Rage in a Cage, Joachim Heijndermans

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8d

Through an unlikely partnership, Aylan, Leo, Lyn, and several minor characters team up to help Sophia rise through the entertainment industry to infiltrate Monad and uncover the conspiracies behind the corporation that killed a god

But all the while, Natalia is busy tracking them down

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8d

Natalia is the freelance corporate assassin who killed Sophia’s parents, but the client refused to pay, telling her she missed a target they hadn’t told her about. While dealing with family debts and fangirling over Lyn’s group, she attempts to find out who Sophia is and finish the job

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8d

Lyn is a former pop idol. After a riot broke out when her group announced their shift to indie to make music they wanted, their manager and adoptive father won’t release their likeness rights back to them. Her knowledge of the dark side of the entertainment industry helps Sophia’s infiltration

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8d

Leo is Sophia’s first ally. The son of an important mafioso, he finds Sophia when the dream parlor she hid out in calls for help from the family. He takes protecting people in his family’s territory very seriously and vows to help Sophia find out why her parents were killed

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8d

Aylan is a detective for a private police company who ends up wrapped up in Sophia’s plan through investigating her parents’ murder. It’s a highly unusual case for the police companies to be contracted out for low profile murders, so he sees a bigger conspiracy at play

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8d

Sophia’s story of infiltrating Monad to get the the source of this voice is told primarily through the perspectives of four other characters central to the plot

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8d

After her parents are murdered by an unseen assassin, she hears a mysterious voice coming from the tower in the center of the city, Monad headquarters. Made to look like a tree piercing the very heavens, this is where Monad claimed to have killed God to free humanity with their technology

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 8d

Current working title: The Tree of God

Sophia is a young girl who despite having no implants, can interact with the networks set up to use the brain chips developed by the Monad Corporation to influence human perception of their senses.

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 9d

Name an underrated anime

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 9d

There’s something surreal about doom scrolling social media news in 3 languages at once

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 10d

Final Fantasy Tactics is really funny with how every so often it just drops in a little Karl Marx quote as a treat, which reminds me I still need to play Disco Elysium

#gaming

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 11d

Another thing that’s really funny about the later expanse books is how they introduced a villain named Duarte while the Philippines were under a dictator named Duterte is like if I wrote a story right now with a fascist dictator named Trund

#booksky

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Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics @danidonovan.com · 12d

Late-diagnosed ADHD friends: What misconception(s) led to you getting overlooked? 👀

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

Common misconceptions: Who has ADHD?

Words in parenthesis are crossed off and written under the sentence.

Extroverted (can be introverted) young (any age) boy (any gender) who fidgets a lot (might not be hyperactive), struggles (may excel) in school, and can’t pay (has difficulty regulating) attention.

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The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 13d

These are the kind of idiots Sun Tzu wrote Art of War for. But at least those Chinese noblemen only needed to be told horses need to eat and not soldiers need to eat…

Guess this is the kind of thing you get when you ban books

The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social · 13d

Any movie with this thing in it is an instant boycott

NPR @npr.org · 14d

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

Could 'the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman' be an AI avatar?

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

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