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Vorpal Bunny @laureleispeaks.bsky.social · 11h

I just backed SHIFT RPG - All-Ages Collaborative Roleplaying Game on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

SHIFT RPG - All-Ages Collaborative Roleplaying Game

A new tabletop roleplaying game that lets you collaboratively build, create & play in any world you can imagine. Your World, Your Rules

www.kickstarter.com

Vorpal Bunny @laureleispeaks.bsky.social · 1d

I just backed Broken Relic - A Fantasy Point-and-Click Comedy Adventure on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

Broken Relic - A Fantasy Point-and-Click Comedy Adventure

Save the world from the chaos you unleashed in this pixel-art point & click comedy adventure. Demo playable now!

www.kickstarter.com

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Shrine's Legacy - Out Now! @shrineslegacy.bsky.social · 1d

Shrine's Legacy is OUT NOW!! 🎉🥳

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Restore the Sword, reunite the elements. The legacy will be known! SHARE AND LET IT BE SO!!!
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Thank you all for your support over the years.❤️
Links to buy the game below! 👇 #jrpg #indiegame #shrineslegacy

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Vorpal Bunny @laureleispeaks.bsky.social · 7d

I just backed The Last Worlds Crossed Souls - Open World 3D Action RPG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lup...

The Last Worlds Crossed Souls - Open World 3D Action RPG

A game inspired by classic fantasy RPGs. Explore the vast planet Ness-444. Discover your past with your loyal companion, Lupio.

www.kickstarter.com

Vorpal Bunny @laureleispeaks.bsky.social · 9d

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/cl...

Tell Congress: Close Fort Bliss and Other Abusive Detention Centers!

Billions of taxpayer dollars are being funneled into walls, troops, surveillance systems, and detention centers while seniors, children, veterans, and families are struggling with rising health care c...

sign.moveon.org

Vorpal Bunny @laureleispeaks.bsky.social · 15d

Tell the House to investigate government censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Live! act.indivisible.org/sign/censors...

Tell the House to investigate government censorship of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

On September 17th, ABC/Disney announced it was indefinitely suspending the late-night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel, supposedly in response to comments in his monologue regarding the murder of Charlie Kir...

act.indivisible.org

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United We Dream @unitedwedream.org · 15d

This beautiful poem by Katherine Bahena-Benitez honors the street vendors who nourish our communities with love, culture, and resilience every single day.

Street vendors are the working people who carry home in their carts, connecting us to our roots while building dreams that soar above the sky. ✨

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22d

X wants to kill me for a paywalled essay about SEO.

BlueSky wants me to never speak again, even linking to my work, which is all this was ever about, because if we all just don’t talk to Nazis, surely they’ll stop being Nazis.

What a great world we’ve got going here.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22d

I’m not asking for help I’m EXPRESSING MY FEELINGS ON THE INTERNET, WHICH IS WHAT IT USED TO BE FOR

dashingdrewster.bsky.social @dashingdrewster.bsky.social · 22d

You go into a nazi platform and scream the nazis are mean then beg for help because of the mean nazis. Lol if you have to sell on a nazi platform I'd say your not a creator...your complicit.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 22d

To the people catching a block because they want to crash into my timeline and say wild bullshit about ethically bred animals: I don't block everyone who disagrees with me. If I block you, it's because you're not trying to have a discussion, you're trying to win. What the fuck ever. Fuck off.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22d

I don’t usually put dipshits on blast here on Albert Arnold Gore Jr’s internet, but I’m so done being told to be a good quiet little lady and let the menfolk murder half of America Jesus Christ the whole point of this cursed place is we’re supposed to be allowed to SPEAK

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22d

Here the thing.

If we’re at the point of murdering midlist SFF writers for their words…I’ve been writing against fascism for 22 years & there’s simply no saving me from that record.

And staying silent only serves the oppressors.

So if I can’t be saved, why not speak?

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 23d

The threats & abuse haven’t slowed down over on X.

I’m so exhausted.

There’s a short piece addressing what’s going on on my Patreon & Substack. Same username.

It would all make so much more sense if I actually had celebrated rather than just…analyzed.

I’m gonna go hold my kid a lot.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24d

It’s futile but I guess I just want to say again that the people who are sending me dozens of YOU’RE NEXT CUNT DMs & website comments 100,000% did not actually read the Substack piece they want to murder me over because IT’S UNDER A PAYWALL & I MAKE SO LITTLE I KNOW THEY DIDN’T ACTUALLY BOTHER

Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24d

Great talk, Elon, apparently the numerous death threats and violent porn sent to me because I spoke are super wonderful.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24d

Great talk, Elon, apparently the numerous death threats and violent porn sent to me because I spoke are super wonderful.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24d

The thing no one seems to understand is that trans people very rarely have anything to do with overt public violence because they’re already persecuted for existing & are painfully aware that any act committed by a trans person will cause punishment to be enacted on every trans person.

etdanslesilence.bsky.social @etdanslesilence.bsky.social · 24d

Perhaps Gov Cox made it up or was fed it.
Perhaps the roommate was TR's lover and is transitioning. And the roommate is the one cooperating w/LE.
Some are patient enough to let it play out. Others prefer their own narrative w/o knowing chit from shinola regarding the people involved.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24d

It’s just so fascinating that conservatives are demanding random liberals be fired for not grieving the Archangel Kirk enough, but no one has so much as suggested Nick Fuentes be deplatformed or boycotted when he’s the ONE guy on social media who actually bears some responsibility for the crime.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24d

And maybe only assassinations of conservatives because I sure don’t remember ever hearing the name of Melissa & Mark Hortman’s killer, inasmuch as I ever heard Melissa & Mark Hortman’s names & not “Democratic lawmakers”

(It was Vance Luther Boelter)

Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24d

The media eventually did an okay job no longer making school shooters famous or plastering their names everywhere.

HOO BOY have they not learned that about these new right wing shooters.

Bad play, guys. You brought back the fame motive but ONLY for political assassinations.

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Vorpal Bunny @laureleispeaks.bsky.social · 22d

What an exceptional compliment. What a delightful person to be compared to.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 25d

I would like to see one, just one, conservative lose their job for calling for the slaughter of all liberals.

I’ll wait.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 26d

This won't be enough--a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on--but it's an important start. You (the outlets in question) have endangered people carelessly, for clicks. Do what you can to undo it.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26d

any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation

if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26d

It’s cute when Eeyore does it. It’s funny when George Carlin does it. Unless you are a small stuffed donkey with a pink bow, the late George Carlin, or a glorious and unholy melding of the two, your gloom is not currently appreciated.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26d

Fair warning all, I am in a mood and coming in to the recent thread to tell me why various good things don’t ACTUALLY count and everything is terrible will get you an increasingly less gentle lecture about how outsourcing your despair is a dick move.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 26d

This shouldn’t need to be said

But how can anyone believe GOPers saying the left are violent monsters WHILE CALLING FOR THE WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF JUST RANDO DEMOCRATS TOTALLY UNCONNECTED TO A PODCASTER DYING IN UTAH?

Zero leftists are calling for all Republicans to suffer bc Melissa Hortman died!

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Vorpal Bunny @laureleispeaks.bsky.social · 28d

I’m certainly not mourning.

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