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Rebekah Valentine

@duckvalentine.bsky.social

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Multi-award-winning senior reporter at IGN, proudly @ignunion.bsky.social. kansas city kansas city. She/her. Exuberant, always. [email protected], Signal: duckvalentine.25

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · Jan 6

please read the words i wrote in my post before replying to it. thank you.

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leyla spoopydova 🎃✨ @leylses.bsky.social · 5h

idk when i will internalize the valuable lessons of "it is okay to be upset after a traumatic event happens and you cannot just work through it actually" and "it is important to do creative intake in order to maintain creative outputs" but god i hope it's soon.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 5h

Went out for groceries, came home to this

Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 5h

A shower curtain that is a screenshot of Ocarina of Time where the text “Water Temple” is on the screen, hung up over a shower.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 7h

i will not be taking questions at this time

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 7h

Arkansas, the river, not the state

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 24d

sorry! I locked in but on the wrong thing

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 9h

some of the better advice i've seen out there for players like me who like this kind of game but usually need a good 10-15 runs at a boss to take it down is to spend the first several attempts not even trying to hit it - just practice not BEING hit for as long as possible. helps me a lot!

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 9h

but then i just watched back the footage of one boss fight, and it's FAST! i was so fast! look at me go!

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 9h

one of the most satisfying things about silksong for me is how i feel time start to slow down on each subsequent boss attempt until i kill it. they start out too fast to follow, but with practice, i can feel each second tick by in slow motion between each attack.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 9h

it's that or the flea caravan

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

trrrrrrrobbiooo!!

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leyla spoopydova 🎃✨ @leylses.bsky.social · 10h

if you want your audience to feel the Pervasive Melancholy of your world you do occasionally have to make them laugh. sometimes that involves an opera bug in a feather boa playing dead very badly

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leyla spoopydova 🎃✨ @leylses.bsky.social · 10h

[silksong act 2 spoilers] this is one of my favorite little touches in the entire game

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 17h

I guess this is a general travel thread. Wizz Air states that you are not allow to carry either sharp objects or blunt objects with you on board the flight. I struggle a little with this, ontologically.

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 10h

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Devi 🧙‍♀️✨ @deviwestside.bsky.social · 1d

Me: *pitching in a sales meeting*

Koko: MEOW MEOW MEEEEOW

Me: that’s my cat telling you that you’ll see value and increased revenue when you opt in to our program

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 17h

Mammals tend not to have color vision, so plants advertise with aromas. The fruits tend to be green, brown or white & require manual or buccal processing to remove a husk or large seeds. A good example: pawpaw, Asimina triloba (#Annonaceae). #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of fruits on a cutting board with a paring knife. Fruits are ovoid and greenish-yellow. One is cut in transverse section to show a creamy yellow interior and large seeds.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 23h

I meant fog machine but I'm not fixing it

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 23h

how come he gets to play with the dog machine

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

Also, Makoto Yukimura said trans rights.

io9: Your portrayal of Indigenous and transgender characters—like the Lnu tribe and Cordelia—stands out in a media landscape where such representation is still rare outside of series like Golden Kamuy, Skip and Loafer, and Paradise Kiss, where they’re often mishandled. What impact do you hope these characters have on expanding the narrative terrain? How do you see your storytelling challenging the ethnocentric lens that dominates much of mainstream media when it comes to that representation?

Yukimura: I did have written characters in [Vinland Saga] from a marginalized ethnic group [and] who are LGBTQ featured here. I actually wanted to portray a character with a disability in the story, too. However, because of the setting, I really couldn’t find the right place to incorporate such a character into the story. One thing I really don’t understand, though, is why do people attack such folks? Is it because they’re different? Why do they just focus on bad things about these groups and generalize them? I truly don’t understand why people do such things. I plainly feel sad when it comes to the way people treat each other.

To me, it’s quite normal for people to have uniqueness. It’s almost needless to say that we all individually have a uniqueness that might be considered different than what is the majority. For example, I grew up in an era where higher education was considered to be the most important thing in society in Japan. You almost had no paths in life outside of that structure. I actually do live outside of that structure, and I’m living perfectly fine. I really want to say that uniqueness is okay. I don’t understand why people are making those judgments to say, “This is okay, but this is not okay.”

I haven’t really thought about what this type of storytelling or character would have an impact on society at all. I’m just writing, drawing, and portraying society as I see it and what I think is normal from my eyes in the manga. If people don’t agree with that version of what I think is a normal society, then oh well. (Laughs) That’s too bad. Those people don’t have to read my manga.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 1d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

awoo

Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

trrrrrrrobbiooo!!

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

gonna start saying 2D chess

Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 1d

just realized i've been saying "it's not 3D chess" for years instead of "4D chess", the correct phrasing. in my head i know what i meant to say, but the words were just coming out wrong.

can you imagine if they made a 3D chess, my god

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

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