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@blackesteidolon.bsky.social
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Black, fat, genderfreak in my 30s. Artist and writer of problematic (micro)fiction with adult themes and subjects. ApocryphaScribe on other sites. Support my unemployed ass on ko-fi here: https://ko-fi.com/apocryphascribe
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blackesteidolon.bsky.social
Oh, time for a classic.
Hound’s trust in Kione is absolute. She obeys without a single stray thought to slow her down. Thanks to Kione, she can fight faster than humanly possible. Up in Theaboros’s cockpit, Kione is grinning maniacally. She’s feeling something about Sartha she’s never felt about anybody or anything before. Pride.
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
Damn girl, you fell in deep real quick. Sometimes all it takes is a feeling of being able to get away with it. Gods, I can't wait for the other shoe to drop on this.
It feels amazing. The ego trip is unbelievable. Wielding Sartha like the greatest weapon ever forged feels so good. Even the dependency feels good. Kione loves that Sartha needed her to do this. That’s real power. It’s more power than all her merc money ever earned her. Now all she wants to do is ride it out. She wants more. Is this how the imperial handler who brainwashed Sartha gets to feel all the time? She’s been in Kione’s dreams ever since she saw the recording, in her black leathers and with her sharp, icy gaze. She seemed, even in that brief glimpse, more than human. Perhaps Kione is starting to understand why. And she yearns to revel in this moment of apotheosis.
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
Pathetic. I love this so much I might have to make it my new header.
The temptation fades. The gods are in their heaven. All is right with the world.
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
Making memes on my phone in an airport is a particular kind of fun.
"I'll save you, Sartha. I promise." Those words, drawn out of Kione by a poisoned, unnatural faith, curdle in her heart as she passes the night in Sartha Thrace's arms. At first, they felt like a blessing. Not for Sartha. For Kione. There's an inimitable sense of power to promising salvation to someone - to Sartha Thrace, of all people - and feeling her trust you. Feeling her melt into your own body, sobs subsiding and fear falling away as she believes. That's intoxicating. That's divine. Meme of Walter White screaming from a car: "Kione, that's not divine! That's the snowbunny mind control, Kione!!"
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I need y'all to understand the laugh I had to stifle when I read this on the plane, I was DYING
Text from RESCUE HOUND: "Kione is absolutely sure a little taste of mechanized combat will bring her friend back to herself. No matter what it looks like, Sartha's still got that dog in her."
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
Been having real good discussion about this off-site, wanted to hit a Lap 2 and mention some observations I made on my tumblr earlier today as a sort of amendment to an ask I received talking about this subject (both shown here in a single post so I don't clog up the TL with a thread)
A tumblr ask and response post on my tumblr. The submitted ask says: "i don't think i can get too in-depth, considering i'm nonblack, but given how political mechsploitation is as a genre, i think it has some serious potential to explore black oppression under fascism through some really powerful metaphors" My response to that ask was as follows: "Dope, first ask of the new blog. I agree, and I think/hope that the specificity of mechsploitation opens it up to more black creators than the older Empty Spaces archetypes did. And I think it might be, because I've already seen more black mechsplo creators in the last month than I saw in 2 years of ES! Promising stuff. I talk about this more on my bluesky (where there are more authors active and people actually know I exist as opposed to here), but this genre is much easier to parse imo. The intertextuality is, to be quite honest, much less of an issue here because of how focused mechsploitation is on (anti)fascism, systems of control and abuse, obsession with power and domination, human experimentation and brainwashing, giant fucking robots, and kink in general. The story I'm writing, HYPERSIGIL (which is technically both a rewrite and expansion of stuff I was writing back in 2022 adjacent to Empty Spaces) directly plays with and explores those themes with the added disruptive element of blackness brought to the forefront. I joked today about brushing up on my Fanon so I could figure out which quotes to shove in my chapter intros. The potential is RIPE and I have my fingers crossed there will be a lot more of us exploring it in the near future." A follow up to the previous post linked, that says: "I'm actually going to amend my response to that ask earlier, because talking with the couple other black people in this space reminded me of some things. Namely that *literally every staple trope* within mechsploitation - the medical experimentation, the enslavement, the mental conditioning, the sexual abuse, even the goddamn muzzles - every single one of them is something that actually happened to us in our real life history here in the US. You name it, we lived it. And WOW, that is something to reconcile with a desire to participate in the space and make stuff. Knowing that the toys the people here play with are far more dangerous to you than them, that they are Real and carry weight and meaning beyond the level of aesthetic. There is potential there, yes, but there is also great and terrible risk. It practically mandates that the genre be approached differently. So, my amendment is this; while it's easier on a textual level to make mechsploitation stuff compared to older Empty Spaces archetypes, it's MUCH harder to engage with it as a black person, because it lacks the flexibility of interpretation that the ES archetypes did. For ES, the issue is barrier to entry, for mechsplo, the issue is the imagery, symbolism, and tropes used themselves, and that's a much higher bar to clear. So each has its own pros and cons. It also completely explains why I have yet to see a single black Hound in any of these stories, because I can sense most writers, who are largely white (as was the case in ES too) understand this on some level." The tags say: "this is of course just a microcosm/extension of the catch-22 relationship black ppl/other ppl of color have with kink in general, but that post would be too long"
December 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
Haddock from Tintin going "hahaha, oh wow"
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
not me licking my lips at the SAME TIME god I got read for filth
a screenshot from HUNTING HOUND, by Kallidora Rho. It reads: "Handler licks her lips. There’s something deeply unwholesome creeping into her voice. A kind of pride, in something nobody should be capable of taking pride in. A pleasure, too. Everyone listening can hear it. If it was anyone else, they’d accuse her of perversions, but Handler seems so far beyond that. She’s never touched Sartha or Leinth that way - unlike most of them. But all the same, it’s undeniable."
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
from the descriptions, I'm imagining Genetor is built half like one of those siege golems from GW2 and half like a Blood Asp from MechWarrior
picture of a Siege Golem from Guild Wars 2 picture of a Blood Asp mech from MechWarrior
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
me reading the first sentence of part 3
image meme of George Lucas with the caption "it's like poetry, it rhymes."
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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lmao at the hope spot
spongebob coffin meme with the caption "When you see a character get a hope spot in a Kallidora Rho story but you know better"
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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"She’s meant to be the hero on the poster. Not this."
spongebob meme with Mr. Krabs and Squidward, with a caption saying "How do we tell her?"
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
me when Kotys got a arrogant pep in her step, knowing What Genre This Is
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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when people don't read the bio and repeatedly use the wrong name by removing a letter so you gotta keep reminding them
November 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The "I should buy a boat" cat meme, with the caption "I should name my factions."
November 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
dear god, the craftsmanship
Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, looking at Paul Allen's business card
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
this has the potential to be the most sarcastic reaction image ever
Booster from the webcomic "Dumbing of Age", saying "Aww, sweetie" in a comforting mom affect.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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me when I take a break from writing only to find both reality and other online stories have become much more horrifying
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
anything you wanna share with the class, Willis? (if for no other reason than I'd be very interested to see which character you'd pick)
A picture of Joyce Brown from "Dumbing of Age", saying "Is it wrong to want to cosplay as my own comic strip character? Is that a social faux pas that I'm still unaware of?"
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Realizing that because I'm out of my original twitter spaces here I need to make my bio less cute about it
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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me when the comment is so rude it's absurd
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
blackesteidolon.bsky.social
#superbat
November 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM