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Richard Roberts
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Writer of the Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A Supervillain series and a bunch of books that are awesome but don't sell as well. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Richard-Roberts/author/B005XOLGVU

I tell a lot of funny stories.

(He/Him)
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Feeling proud of how this turned out.
A large skillet of freshly made fried rice.
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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A picture of a Wolf Girl in dark sunglasses with her arms folded and a tough scowl. The caption reads: Thinking of messing with me? YOU CAN It's going to go really bad for me
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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As different as they are, you seem half Giovanni, half Wolf. I suppose their being so different is the point, or you wouldn't need to be both.
I'm not even sure how to describe Wolf from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. A very determined tween girl wearing a wolf hat and cape.
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I'm embarrassed that the character is a boy, but it's everything else that reminds me of Giovanni.
A blue cat from Night On The Galactic Railroad lying among flowers looking up at the stars.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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A standard DF interrogation report, which I screenshot just because I've never seen a criminal corrupt their own lover. Also, bravo, Sir, on walking into my fortress with the job title 'Ringleader'. I admire your chutzpah.
Interrogation Report: Xah Lonsetshi, ringleader, Autumn 255 'Nerissa' Zrirltrezo, Princess Met with subject. Appealed to subject's belief in the law. Subject valued the law. In the early winter of 244, subject corrupted lover an unidentified creature in order to have someone to act on plots and schemes in Sticksleagues. Subject met with an unidentified creature and made flattering remarks. An unidentified creature spurned the law and agreed willingly. Subject revealed that in the early winter of 244, an unidentified creature began accepting bribes in exchange for leniency as the lord of The Glorious Band under the influence of subject via an unidentified creature. An unidentified creature met with an unidentified creature and made a threat. An unidentified creature spurned the law and agreed willingly, despite the efforts of surrounding allies to stop the plot. Subject revealed that in the late spring of 255, subject plotted to infiltrate The Lizard of Amusement in order to steal treasures and prepare a coup under the influence of an unidentified creature. In the late autumn of 255, subject corrupted 'Apple Dazrna' Warsearches in order to have an agent in Fieryflames the Fiery Fiery Flames of Flames. Subject met with 'Apple dazrna' Warsearches and made a threat. The plan worked. Subject revealed that in the late autumn of 255, 'Apple Dazrna' Warsearches plotted to steal Uncrested under the influence of subject.
October 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Best ghost name.
A screenshot from the game Dwarf Fortress of the ghostly kobold Idan Spreadorgans. She looks sad and very slightly transparent.
October 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Big 'furry in denial' energy.
A scene of a clock tower from the game Bye Sweet Carole. All Victorian themed, two girls and a bald man with a peg leg watch an anthropomorphic rabbit girl yell at a fallen archetype woman school teacher. Amanda: We're not rabbits! We will never be rabbits! Despite my humor this is a deeply moving scene of both personal and feminine empowerment in a serious game of true art.
October 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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ADVENTURES IN DOMESTICITY!
Disabled caretakee: "Would you pleeease go get me food from Just Opened Breakfast Cafe? I'm so sorry, I can't order ahead, you have to get it there and bring it back!"
Me: "For you, suspiciously bunnylike caretakee, I shall do this thing."
Accurate picture of caretakee:
A photo of a thrianta rabbit. They are small, smooth furred, orange, round, and extremely sweet and harmless.
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Beastieball wants you to know that it is as far from Palworld as it is possible to be while still being in the monster catching genre.
Two adorable, cartoony, almost child's drawing simple monsters in pastel colors high five over a pink heart background. The caption reads "Skyler and Slimebold have become BESTIES!" Yes, it has an exclamation mark. It's a screenshot from Beastieball.
October 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I am blaming you SO HARD right now. This. This is you in the oral literary tradition.
September 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The results of today's brush with Nature:

That mushroom you feel sorry for because it gets all the bad luck and doesn't deserve it.
A strange mushroom that looks like a step pyramid that is squashed and dirty. It was quite large. Bigger than my foot, and not to brag, but my feet are most Brobdingnagian.
September 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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@danacorn.bsky.social Here. You could use this.
A sphynx cat in an unlabeled yellow box. The shape of the box kind of feels 'donut box' to me, with the pointed folding top. The cat barely fits in the box, because that is how cats Do. The cat is looking at the camera with an angry expression, but sphynx cats are very wrinkly and a lot of them just look like that. Probably he actually wants petting.
September 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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big boy takes break because being large is so tiring
A cicada, mostly black with some dark green. It is standing, if that word applies, motionless on the sidewalk. Is it alive? Is it dead? All we know is that it is a Chubby Boy. Thicc. A heckin chonker. Cicadas are girthy bugs.
September 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Oh, yeah? What about this publicity photo???
It's a sphynx cat in a padded grey sweater with a lovely silver bell necklace. If you're not aware, sphynx cats are hairless cats. It is pink. It has a stare like a goblin. The ears look really, really pointy without fur. This is not Bingus but if you look up Bingus Bingus is also a sphynx cat.
September 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Breaking news local danger stick too small to danger
A praying mantis on a door. True story: I once had a praying mantis try to eat me. I picked it up and it leaned down and started to chew. The sensation of it patiently scraping its way down through my skin towards the meat was deeply, deeply unsettling.
September 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Fine gentleman
A male katydid perching on a door. You can tell it's a male because females have a big green blade sticking out of their butt and this guy doesn't have one.
September 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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You win. I laughed.
Moomin saying "Oh! It is disturbing and I hate it."
September 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Again, I don't know why this event has me in Asshole Phoenix mode.
A phoenix laughing hysterically because some mortal wanted to live. What a chump. It's from some comic by that Tezuka guy, about the view immortality has of mortals.
September 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Half an hour in, Steam is still too overloaded for me to buy Silksong. I don't know why I find this hilarious instead of frustrating. Here is live footage of Steam.
September 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Thank you! This is me bowing. Hold on, maybe I have a gif of bowing here. Hmmm. No, but this one makes me think of Ursula.
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
A sinister figure in a top hat dances with a human-sized, bleeding doll in a ripped open dress.
August 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Please note that I did not name him 'The Ache of Craziness'. His fellow kobolds did that. Also looking him over, his liver is 'mangled beyond all recognition' and is suffering 'advanced rot' and he hasn't noticed or cared.
A screenshot from Dwarf Fortress. It is the kill list of the knife wielding kobold 'Psycho Gucos' Releasedpebbles the Ache of Craziness. He has seven notable kills of various humanoids and large monsters, and seventy-three other kills, notably including about forty goblins.
August 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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War. War never changes.

This field of gore is the result of sending 6 psychotic kobolds with knives against 78 goblins.

I understand it's difficult to read a Dwarf Fortress screen. The trash cans are just my order to take the body parts to the dump. It will take a long time.
A Dwarf Fortress (with Intro's kobold mod) screenshot showing a shallow valley after a battle. The important thing is that there are a whole lot of goblin corpses, a pool of blood that stretches over half the battlefield, and little red blobs that are body parts everywhere.
August 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM