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Ash(ley) Deng
@ashesandmochi.bsky.social
still not really here
🇨🇦🇨🇳🇯🇲 | 鄧彩雲| 🌻| biochemistry/mol bio | 🗡️ | DEHISCENT 🏚 (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social)
wrote a short story (1.1k) yesterday from start to finish so that's an improvement

was it entirely inspired by my back pain? yes. but it came out like a story which i haven't been able to do in a while

now, to edit
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
It's once again that time of year where I wish the broader population did not know about LNY
January 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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I would love to see us lend considerably less oxygen to rage bait in 2026. Like just say no.
December 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die
and god I mean, more broadly - I resent this idea that someone has to look at me to follow what I'm saying, I like writing and I like talking on the radio and on podcasts, I have no professional interest in people looking at my face, leave me alone
December 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
oh no this project is like 90% paramore melancholy
December 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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At this point it's bordering on dishonest to keep bringing up protein systhesis or cancer detection when all those data centers and chips and greenhouse gases and trillions of dollars are *really* for lying, theiving chatbots, surveillance capitalism, and unethical porn.
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
hm winter solstice is tomorrow
i think i will attempt to recreate my grandmother's tangyuan recipe and actually write it down this time

i did it a few years ago, the christmas after she passed away, and got the approval from my family but i Do Not remember what i did and recipes online don't match
December 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
double vaxxed and still got the flu 😔✌️ and somehow not from work (pharmacy)! it's a bad flu season y'all
December 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
having OCD and being on social media is Fun because almost all content but especially cool recipe ones is full of comments with OCD traits and you Can't Escape the triggers
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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engaging with TikTok content as if most of it is posted in good faith is a fundamental failure of media literacy in 2025. people openly brag about how much money they make ragebaiting the algorithm.

if TikTok content outrages you, assume it was made for that purpose and that’s how they make money
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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For:
HAUNTED HOUSE fans who are pretty sure they've worn the genre out?

Try:

POSTHASTE MANOR by @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social

DEHISCENT by Ashley Deng

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November 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
i think with all the improving ai image generators we should all just go back to film
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
waking up with the tension headache you went to sleep with is second only to waking up with the same upper back/shoulder pain you've had for several days that, at this point, you want about 50 needles jammed into it
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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all the AI slop out there makes me want the most aggressively analog stories out there. like I want a one-of-a-kind homemade zine someone tucked into a baggie in the hollow of a tree, and I want that zine to include a shitty hand drawn map to a treasure it may or may not take 30 years to find
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
apply! i am Longing to be back at gladstone's library and i couldn't have gone if it weren't for this bursary
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN for the Milford Bursaries:
Funded Places for SF Writers of Colour September 2026!!

We have two bursaries available.

Apply before 30 Nov. All necessary info here: www.milfordsf.co.uk/bursaries.htm
Milford Bursaries for Writers of Colour
www.milfordsf.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
good news! i've started outlining a new story. it took me several days of listening to these songs and crafting a playlist to get somewhere
open.spotify.com/playlist/32k...

bad news! my therapist may Have Questions because what does this say about what my brain has needed to process lately
contemp occult horror
open.spotify.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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#Jamaica needs our support more than ever right now and, never ones to shy away from self-reliance, they’ve set up an officially sanctioned website for recovery donations. The footage of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction in St. Elizabeth coming in from my family is HARROWING.

supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise?

Yeah.
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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i love you horny horror i love you exploring sexuality and desire through unsettling means i love you sexual repression manifesting as self destruction i love you intimacy transforming into something grostesque yet beautiful i love you finding comfort and love in the monstrous i love y
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I've got gooods @canconsffh.bsky.social
Come find me this weekend!
October 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...
ised-isde.canada.ca
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Yonge St, probably
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
y'know. i can't remember how i looked for agents before

i never got querytracker or anything was it literally just through twitter because if so uh-oh
September 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
loose-ass joints (hEDS)
Ok query time. Biology is messy and full of exceptions. How does *your* body differ from the usual expected of you as the human you are? Anything big or small.

My mum has an extra vertebrae, a close friend multiple spleens. One sis is built like she works out but eats like a sparrow.
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
i spent... maybe too long on this (had to extend the painting at the top and bottom) but i'm very happy with how it turned out

also getting in more practice for cover layouts is always nice too (this one is a mock-up for my vampire wip)
August 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM