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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · Aug 22

I'm proud to formally announce my next project: UNLIMITED COMBAT DOLLS.

Dragonfly's body is not her own.

Preorder here:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNCDLSDT
tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/unlimited-co...

Promo graphic for UNLIMITED COMBAT DOLLS. The cover is on the left, featuring an overpowering and distorted title, and a woman in white armor with a large gun who is hounded by observation data highlighting information about her weapon, and marking her as a target.

Below the cover is 'Part one out February 10, 2026'.

To the right are a series of brief quotes, each connected to the cover with a green line, laid out like a circuit board.

Hard hitting duology. Transfem robot lesbians. Tragic cyberpunk apocalypse. Toxic machine yuri. Automatic gender horror. Death to humankind.

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 35m

I was just thinking that I'm really enjoying The Midnight's new album 'Syndicate' and checked its length to see about recording it to tape, and o holy grail, an album that's actually long enough to put on a 90 minute tape by itself!

Track and album information for Syndicate by The Midnight, showing the track 'Shadowverse' playing. It shows some cyberpunk cityscape album art and a visualizer, along with a bunch of data, including length information reading 1 hour, 25 minutes, and 14 seconds.

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Cracked Ivory @crackedivorypod.bsky.social · 1h

Episode Four is now out wherever you get your podcasts!

Give it a listen for amusing discussions on made-up slurs, and much less amusing discussions on how a religious studies dissertation from the 70s was turned into a book whose transphobic policy prescriptions are largely followed today.

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 1h

okay I'll amend that, the capitalists of humanity's rotting society are evil, it's the tgirl combat dolls who are all some level of 'doing their best'

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 1h

tried the demo for Skate Story without being at all into skateboarding and this is just such a fun and weird project, very excited for the full release now

in retrospect if anything was going to get me to play a game like this, 'you are a demon of glass and pain on a mission to eat the moon' was it

A man made of glass with a skateboard in hand stands in front of an obelisk etched with text, beneath a sky full of stars. The obelisk reads: 'Please suffer silently and weep without us hearing, for this is the lowest of hells. Ponder the darker depths and practice utmost gratitude as you sleep.

A looming marble statue's head says 'It has come to my attention that you have been skateboarding.'

A comet shoots through the stars with the caption 'The Skater's Soul turned into pure momentum.'

A statue head with glowing red eyes says 'How can skateboarding shake the cosmos, if it can't even shake me?'

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2h

Asserting that a woman is by default sexually available to men and it's "exclusionary", "biphobic", or even "TERFy" to say that she's a lesbian is common in discussions of queer media.

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 8h

sexuality discourse in fandom is hardly pressing but the whole thing is really fucking difficult as a lesbian (especially when you consider that artists and writers have been harassed and doxxed for “getting it wrong”) who likes art and media.

Lesbian is the “bi-erasure” sexuality to fandomites

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 2h

I love stories where nobody is evil or even strictly wrong, they're just driven into conflict over conflicting perspectives on how to solve pressing problems, and their occasionally-drastic solutions

this is one of several reasons I'm writing Unlimited Combat Dolls :3

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 2h

fuck that guy, I've enjoyed every other boss

Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 2h

thus far the stupid beastfly in far fields is the hardest boss in the game for me in terms of sheer hornet kills, y'know the one that can A: break the arena over lava, B: summon up to two ranged adds that do two damage and C: leave lingering damage pools on the arena that *isn't* broken

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 2h

I've reached a point in Silksong where less than 50% of players have the progress achievements I do which I am choosing to believe indicates I am a Real Gamer now

(the point was Trobbio, 45.7% completion rate currently)

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 4h

but with the ADHD, spending too long on a single thing begins to feel like torture

I'm always aching for the next project so I keep the pace up to prevent my brain from setting itself on fire

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 4h

I could reasonably go faster if I wrote books that were a bit less thematically heavy or plotted in a more straightforward way, and I could, perhaps should, reasonably slow down to allow more time for additional revisions and feedback-gathering cycles (breaks also)

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 4h

I'm at about 1.8 ambitious and dense sci-fi books a year, 100-130k words each, but that's a ruthless pace I can only maintain because I don't have a day job and I make some compromises that prioritize my enjoyment of the craft over a perfectly polished final product

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

Authors, in the interest of helping readers spot gen ai 'authored' books, how many novels do you publish a year?

I publish one 80-100k+ word (epic fantasy) novel, and I can only do that because I drafted 8 novels before I started publishing any. 📚💙

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Conjured.Ink @conjured.ink · 8h

Conjured Ink is now accepting both one time and recurring donations!

Head to this link to learn more about our finances, or pledge your support:

opencollective.com/c...

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 11h

the killer...

I guess that's reasonably fitting, considering the shit I write 😂

Zesty Rico 🖕🧊 @juicyricoxxl.bsky.social · 2d

What is your horror movie role this Halloween? 🎃 👻 🔪

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 12h

there are occasional exceptions, however, your artist converts, that I do not and will never understand

Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 12h

these are people who don't have an artistic vision and have never had an artistic vision, why would they understand or care about what it takes to bring one to fruition?

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 12h

this is a great exchange because I feel like it really sums up the heart of the continuing confusion as to why artists don't want this shit: AI bros aren't artists, they have never tried to be artists, so they don't understand why control over your process is important to realizing your vision

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 19h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Beedok/Fern 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @beedokfern.bsky.social · 1d

It's international lesbians day.
Many of my books star lesbians. So it's a good day to read them.
beedok.itch.io
www.amazon.com/stores/Fern-...
books2read.com/ap/xolebm/Fe...

Cover art for Can I Crossdress My Way Out Of This Arranged Marriage - a cozy fantasy story about a half elf who doesn't realise she's a girl yet and the orcish woman she falls for.

Her Lady of Steel and Fire - a dark fantasy story about a princess being saved from an arranged marriage by a female knight.

My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg - a playful romcom about a trans girl who hasn't figured herself out yet falling for a tall cis butch... and some other stuff happens involving aliens.

Alien Super Weapon Girlfriend - a sci-fi story of secret government conspiracies where Tessa's girlfriend becomes the host to a powerful alien entity.

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Bailey Bangtan, Lesbian Extraordinaire @b-saxon.femfactory.tech · 1d

Chapter 7 is live on all free platforms! Tremble before me and my super awesome chapter naming skills 😎

www.scribblehub.com/read/1325839...

archiveofourown.org/works/609661...

Cover for my book Mother Of Machines! Mother (one of main characters) has silver-grey metal plating for skin with some bolts holding it together, brunette bob cut, blue glowing eyes, and blue designs all over her body. Ten cyborg hands (five on either side) reach out towards her, one with a ruby wedding ring and the other with a lab coat sleeve. Quote on the bottom says “Mother Knows Best”

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 19h

Equilibrium (2002)

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Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 1d

lmao so many pouty faces and puppydog eyes but they're still running the fucking thing

pricks

Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 1d

“A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.”

‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event

A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.

www.ctvnews.ca

Kay F. Atkinson - Unlimited Combat Dolls out Feb. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 1d

still reeling from that one