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Oliver Darkshire

@deathbybadger.bsky.social

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dire homosexual 🏳️‍🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- One Page RPGS 🎲 (www.patreon.com/deathbybadger) - 🏠 Manchester, UK https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 9d

some exciting news: another book! announcing The Devil and Mrs Gooch, a fantasy in which our capricious friend The Devil falls head over hoof for dread entrepreneur Gwendolyn Gooch, and her latest diabolical scheme: the rented apartment. expect torrid results. releasing USA May 2026 from W.W. Norton

cover for The Devil and Mrs Gooch, by Oliver Darkshire, featuring a woman in a flaming ballgown leading a caprine devil by a leash, who stares up at her in adoration. Marked "Household Gramarye Book 2"

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 5m

I am playing the Final Fantasy Tactics remake and maybe games were just weirder in 1997, but I was browsing the weapon store and alongside fire knife and bronze shield I present to you The Stick That Turns People Atheist

a screencap from Final Fantasy Tactics, from the store, showing Gokuu's Pole, which 'when attacking, has a chance of granting Atheist"

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 11h

the chart can be cruel but yes we do

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 11h

I would love to get into this, but I simply do not have the spiritual energy, I am an elderly husk who has survived too many wars online, I pray for the vitality of my youth

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 11h

this checks out

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 11h

now I'm just wondering how many barbarians you have to kill before you get exiled from the golden retriever part of the graph

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 11h

hard to say until one has a person at the table, but I have my suspicions

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 11h

oh, the players for sure

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 11h

which is exactly the reason it would be fun not to tell youu

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 11h

I had to put together this chart to explain to one of my D&D groups how I categorize new players but I feel it actually has broader utility

a chart with 2 axis - one for golden retriever across to yeen, and another for himbo down to demon twink

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 1d

you would not believe the arguments I've had over this, the thing that I literally wrote with my hands

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 1d

unfortunately there is no way to be so crystal clear that someone can't wilfully misinterpret you, the moment you put pen to paper to say "weekends are great" you almost guarantee that someone is going to come at you 10 years later screaming "you said paprika vampires are real so I killed my uncle"

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 1d

2004: wow social media keep in touch with your friends online

2026: you are about to be held accountable by a 14 year old for a passive aggressive email you sent in 1991. overhead, vultures drift in lazy circles

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 5d

"proboscidean" youd think I was being paid by the character wouldn't you

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 5d

I usually forget about my one page rpgs about 3 hours after posting them so occasionally one comes back like a boomerang to hit me in the face and I'm like I have no recollection of this creation

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 6d

I used to use this on Twitter before I came here.

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 5d

I DID use mastodon for a bit and may yet in the future. But @deathbybadger.bsky.social is nevertheless correct

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 6d

I used to use this on Twitter before I came here.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

the use of "on the lam" to describe the activities of a highland bull gives me renewed faith in the discipline of journalism as a whole

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 6d

VERY IMPORTANT NEWS #nutmegsky www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

An escaped miniature Scottish Highland bull is roaming eastern Connecticut

Lefty, a miniature Scottish Highland bull, escaped from his home in North Franklin and has spent the past week roaming the woods and fields near Norwich.

www.ctinsider.com

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

what am I, the behaviour police
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wait a second, that's literally my role
you can check the attitude at the door 😂

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

I always thought it would be fun to get into but I never really had the space, I feel like it might need a lot of space (and a ceiling anchor 😂)

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like I could apologize for snubbing transformers as a franchise or (if I understand you correctly) I could make you worship my boots and call it even, does that sound about right

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

"you changed my life

"this is literally just a rope"

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

sorry, all my flirting is backhanded - some sort of reflex, should probably get therapy, but that's what tying up boys is forrrrr

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

you do take *great* photos
but you're pretty so I guess you can't help it

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

alas it's me when it comes to bionicles. love those colourful little fuckers

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

sorry champ this is bdsm, it can't file your accounts for you or fix your relationship with your father, the dom to sub ratio is crippling so you pick whoever shares your very niche interests, a 4 is the new 9, that's frank he's the only rope artist in 30 miles but he's really into transformers

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 6d

I'm unironically looking forward to this movie, but not looking forward to the inevitable result: an influx of spank-curious twinks who want you to fix their lives and for you look like alexander skarsgard while doing it

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 7d

Alexander Skarsgård dominates in first trailer for queer BDSM-romance film Pillion
https://bit.ly/3VKs5h6

Alexander Skarsgård dominates in first trailer for BDSM-romance film Pillion

The first trailer for Alexander Skarsgård's steamy BDSM-romance film, Pillion, is out and the Swedish actor certainly dominates.

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