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She/her. Middle aged. Likes to build gizmos and draw things. Knows what AMBAC is. Fuck AI. #WalkingWorld is my cozy mecha setting. #DiggerEngine is my furry labor war mecha comic. I'm on Mastodon too. https://plush.city/@kika 💛

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Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · Oct 27

Yeah so this was concept art for my Halloween costume. A lot of things on it didn't work out due to time constraints, but I'm still super happy with it! I might work on it more after Halloween.

Me wearing a huge exoskeleton arm, an orange bomber jacket, black tank top, and military green pants. Photo.

The arm laying on the ground. It looks metalic, has yellow hazard stripes, and a big three fingered claw. The part that straps to my torso has circular backpack with two orange cannisters hanging from it. Photo.

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Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 4m

Eberron, as in the D&D setting?

Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 12m

*pink car Arcee toys

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Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 14m

I hope Missing Link Arcee ushers in a new golden age of good Arcee toys.

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Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 15m

TF Animated (I just started watching it recently) specifically calls Earth a backwater.

Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 17m

In a lot of TF continuities there's bunches of other planets with intelligent life out there, other than Earth and Cybertron, and I wonder how close to Earth they're all meant to be.

Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 18m

Its not like I want Transformers to be the kind of hard scifi that cares how long it would take to travel to another galaxy. Its just that I suddenly realized I don't think I've ever heard it mentioned.

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Kevin™ @kevinthompson.bsky.social · 3d

The holiday season is right around the corner and that means it’s almost time for another #pico8 Advent Calendar!

Submissions for the 2025 PICO-8 Advent Calendar are open starting today and we’ll be accepting entries until the end of November.

More information on Itch:
itch.io/jam/pico-8-a...

PICO-8 Advent Calendar 2025

A game jam from 2025-10-04 to 2025-12-01 hosted by Kevin & Jenny Schmidt (bikibird). Every year, the PICO-8 community comes together to make games that reflect the joys and anxieties of the winter hol...

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 3h

Reclamation heavy lift aircraft bringing equipment and personnel into the valley of Two-Sky River.

The small cockpit windows are mainly a backup for the augmented reality sensorium helmets worn by pilots; a technology favored by House Kendi.

#illustration #conceptart #scifiart

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brah @monolithbrah.bsky.social · 13d

ALL TIMER AHAHAHAHAH

"Hideo Kojima wants to "scan a ghost" into OD, but he already recorded the ghost in his studio and "that's why we went to the shrine together with Microsoft" to make sure the game isn't haunted"

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Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not saying this because I grew up eating them. I didn't. I didn't have any until my late teens when my dad tried opening a restaurant. The restaurant closed after a few years, but for the last couple years it was kept afloat soley by nearby workers coming in for empanadas at lunch or after work.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

highland cattle have it figured out

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Real Robot Romantic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mecha-bunny.bsky.social · 3h

God I could go for a good empanada. Maybe I'll cook some tonight. My family's recipe (from Colombia) makes the most delicious empanada shells I've ever had. Crispy but soft and full of flavor, before you even get to the filling! My cousins runs a restaurant mainly just selling these empanadas.

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Alex Connolly ▞ @alexconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

Does the Pirates Constructible Strategy Game count? Absolute banger. Cheap, ready in seconds, highly enjoyable. Sadly sank with Wizkids. Would love to see the concept of styrene minis delivered in trading card format return. Maybe it has?

Everything else was an exercise in collecting ornaments.

Three sailing ships assembled from styrene anchored around a small, flat island. From the Pirates Constructible Strategy Game.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 21h

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.