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Avid reader, hobbyist writer, fanfic lover, video game enjoyer(different than gamer, I don't take it that seriously) on Ao3 as comment_goblin! Open for Beta Reading! (contact for fandom info)

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 7

It’s finally here! Im posting my #cyhainobang2025 fic today! First two chaps are up, with the rest on the way!
Huge thank you to the mods @cyhainobang.bsky.social for organizing and to @flawedideal.bsky.social for their art!

archiveofourown.org/works/667766...

do you let me walk with you? - Chapter 1 - Comment_Goblin - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Aug 14

Apparently this is a hot take but if you buy boots that tear up your feet to break them in, they probably don’t fit you right

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is a big and significant win, and speaks to the real power of public advocacy campaigns. Still a VERY long way to go in the fight against the cuts, though. Join us at @tbfighters.org in pushing against attempts to cut U.S. investments in domestic and global health.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Jul 15

Some really great news: funding for PEPFAR--about $400M for the global fight against HIV and AIDS--has been restored. Millions of lives will be saved.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Global AIDS funding to be pulled from Trump clawbacks request

The White House is backing off $400 million in proposed PEPFAR cuts due to GOP objections.

www.politico.com

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 15

My doctor asked me at my latest appointment if I’d heard of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome before and I had a bit but didn’t think it applied because my elbows and wrists are normal but she just looked at me and my skin and my dislocatable fingers and went
“I think you should at least look into it.”
So.

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Had to explain to someone recently the reason I ‘didn’t care when Obama did it’ is because I was 9 when he was elected.

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 14

I got a promotion at work and to celebrate spent way too much money on the deluxe edition of bg3 because I refuse to buy digital only games. I am so excited to get it tho

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 9

Currently imagining a hat that says ‘caves want me, snails fear me’

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 8

John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 8

Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

11,000 more TB patients died after Trump's USAID cuts. That number will rise. | Opinion

The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.

www.usatoday.com

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 7

do you let me walk with you? - Chapter 1 - Comment_Goblin - 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 7

So happy to finally be able to show you guys the fic and the art Dylan made! #cyhainobang2025

dylan 🌙💫 @flawedideal.bsky.social · Jul 7

my piece for #CyhainoBang2025 !!
in collaboration with @comment-goblin.bsky.social 's fic ^^
@cyhainobang.bsky.social #haino

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Crescentlightning @crescentlightning.bsky.social · Jul 4

I drew art for the @cyhainobang.bsky.social in a fun collab with writer @sauerpeach.bsky.social and artist @regnniar.bsky.social, featuring Aranara shenanigans!!!

"Rooting for You!" fic by Sebbie
🔗 archiveofourown.org/works/67081012

#CyhainoBang2025 #cytham #haino

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jul 2

Another sneak peek for my #CyhainoBang2025 fic entry! Coming to an Archiveofourown near you July 7!
#cyhaino #cytham #haino #alhaitham #cyno #fanfic @cyhainobang.bsky.social

Cyno smiled, shaking his head in chagrin and retrieving Alhaitham's cloak from its place on the coat rack in the corner. He held it out and Alhaitham put his arms through the armholes, letting it settle over both shoulders for once.
"Would you like to walk home with me?" Alhaitham asked, putting a few things from his desk into his belt pouch, "I can't think of anything specific to talk about but I am told that friends shouldn't only see each other at work. I have been doing poorly at this."
"Well," Cyno began, following Alhaitham out of the office. "I did have another, not-work-related question."
"What is it?"
"Why are you so big? I've seen pictures, in your house, of your Grandmother and your father when he was young. Both of them seemed to be closer to my height than yours. How did you get so tall?" Cyno asked, teasingly, but in a very serious voice. Cyno said everything in a very serious voice.
Alhaitham, for the first time since Cyno had known him, laughed.
Cyno thought it might be his new favorite sound.

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jun 28

This makes my first time participating in a bang!
Here’s a sneak peek of the fic I wrote for the #CyhainoBang2025! @cyhainobang.bsky.social

So Alhaitham has friends now, in Nilou and Tighnari, and a famous mercenary from the desert that Kaveh had yet to meet himself, and the strange man with the strange hat that now worked as Lord Kusanali's secretary of sorts.
And then there was Cyno.
Cyno, who, as far as Kaveh knew, had never been impressed with anything; once called Alhaitham's combat skills 'commendable for a scholar.
Cyno, who, at Lambad's, now rambled in a manner of subdued excitement about an exchange of word play that 'should have been expected from the brightest of Haravatat'.
Cyno, who Alhaitham let reset his shoulder when it dislocated after an incident that was not Kaveh's fault led to him falling over a railing on the tree of wisdom.
Cyno, who Alhaitham loaned his headset to when a head injury gave the General Mahamatra an unexpected migraine.
Kaveh didn't know what to make of it.

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jun 28

Made a therapy appointment and I’m already anxious about it what if I don’t know what to say and then I don’t work on the things I actually need to and then waste all my time.
As you can see, this appointment is overdue.

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Apr 12

Sylvia at Tono Latino @tonolatino.bsky.social · Apr 10

In case you're wondering...

it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans.

And nobody has been fired...

Don't stop talking about SignalGate

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Mar 19

I should definitely go back to therapy because holy fuck the world is on fire but I don’t know if I have the energy to do it 😭

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 17

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 3

Says the man who just admitted the Tate bros to the U.S.

Post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump
) with the text: 'We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country - So that we don’t end up like Europe!'

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Feb 17

It seemed like a movie that would be… fine? Like if I was in a waiting room somewhere and it was on, I’d watch it but I didn’t feel like seeking it out myself

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Feb 16

Frozen 😬

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jan 21

Oculus Imperia @oculusimperia.bsky.social · Jan 21

For all the flak George Lucas gets for his writing, pretty hard to deny the "so this is how liberty dies" line is an unfortunately spot on banger.

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Mandi Bossard @mandibossard.bsky.social · Jan 19

“Everyone was so overly earnest ahead of the ban. It’s going to be so embarrassing now.”

Fuck no. Break open the earnest floodgates. We’re about to enter a cold, cruel four years. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Insist on warmth and softness.

Just stop me if I read poem aloud or something.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · Jan 18

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Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jan 19

Say what you want about TikTok but when I was sad that I couldn’t dye my hair blue back in 2020, hundreds of people duetted to show me videos of their cool hair colors so I could enjoy it vicariously through others. Someone I didn’t know drew art of me with pastel blue hair. I’m gonna miss it.

Call me Mat @comment-goblin.bsky.social · Jan 19

Honestly, I really enjoyed the videos where you showed us cool stuff you found at the thrift store and talked about your day. It felt like FaceTiming a friend. I like watching people do things that make them happy so whatever you decide to do next, I’m down for it.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · Jan 19

Democrats really out here looking like Wile E. Coyote repeatedly blowing themselves up in absurd and expensive efforts to outsmart a goofy ass bird.

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