Robin Joan S
@noshows.bsky.social
they/them//once a weirdo, always a weirdo.
I'm about 20K words into a manuscript. I don't think it's good at the moment but that can come later. Right now I just enjoy the process of writing. I hope it will continue to bring me joy as I get ever closer to the finish.
December 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I'm about 20K words into a manuscript. I don't think it's good at the moment but that can come later. Right now I just enjoy the process of writing. I hope it will continue to bring me joy as I get ever closer to the finish.
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[extremely Suzanne Vega voice]
I am sitting
in the morning
in a lone and
level desert
there are two legs
vast and trunkless
and a visage
shattered half-sunk
and the pedestal beside it
reads “my name is Ozymandias
I’m the king of kings and you shall
look on my works and despair”
I am sitting
in the morning
in a lone and
level desert
there are two legs
vast and trunkless
and a visage
shattered half-sunk
and the pedestal beside it
reads “my name is Ozymandias
I’m the king of kings and you shall
look on my works and despair”
August 31, 2023 at 8:54 PM
[extremely Suzanne Vega voice]
I am sitting
in the morning
in a lone and
level desert
there are two legs
vast and trunkless
and a visage
shattered half-sunk
and the pedestal beside it
reads “my name is Ozymandias
I’m the king of kings and you shall
look on my works and despair”
I am sitting
in the morning
in a lone and
level desert
there are two legs
vast and trunkless
and a visage
shattered half-sunk
and the pedestal beside it
reads “my name is Ozymandias
I’m the king of kings and you shall
look on my works and despair”
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Velvet Goldmine
What movie are you most thankful for? (not necessarily your favorite!)
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Velvet Goldmine
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The last of the original Garbage Pail Kids has died in custody
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The last of the original Garbage Pail Kids has died in custody
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We're thankful to Dean Spade for lifting up prison pen-palling. As more and more people, especially trans and disabled people, migrants, and BIPOC, are criminalized and incarcerated, we need to hold them down. Almost a third of our numbers are trans and many are very isolated
Tinyurl.com/AMP-learn
Tinyurl.com/AMP-learn
If you’re distressed watching the transphobic nightmare unfold, a great way to support trans people is to become a penpal to an imprisoned trans person.
@powerblossoms.bsky.social, @arcgenderjustice.bsky.social, @blackandpinkorg.bsky.social, @massamp1312.bsky.social, @tpride.bsky.social
@powerblossoms.bsky.social, @arcgenderjustice.bsky.social, @blackandpinkorg.bsky.social, @massamp1312.bsky.social, @tpride.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We're thankful to Dean Spade for lifting up prison pen-palling. As more and more people, especially trans and disabled people, migrants, and BIPOC, are criminalized and incarcerated, we need to hold them down. Almost a third of our numbers are trans and many are very isolated
Tinyurl.com/AMP-learn
Tinyurl.com/AMP-learn
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Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1908
September 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1908
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I can’t find the lie in this.
August 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I can’t find the lie in this.
Having some stress about teaching under my dead name. But in these times, you can't trust anybody. Someday it'll be different.
August 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Having some stress about teaching under my dead name. But in these times, you can't trust anybody. Someday it'll be different.
*taps mic* I'm going to try and be more active on here. I'm going through a big change. I was hired as a long term sub for 6th grade ELA. So I'll be teaching for a couple of months. Headlong and flaming. "My body is afraid, but I am not"
August 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
*taps mic* I'm going to try and be more active on here. I'm going through a big change. I was hired as a long term sub for 6th grade ELA. So I'll be teaching for a couple of months. Headlong and flaming. "My body is afraid, but I am not"
@scumbelievable.bsky.social Devoured Black Flame in a day. Absolute banger. That end tho! Really captured the feeling of getting your true name.
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
@scumbelievable.bsky.social Devoured Black Flame in a day. Absolute banger. That end tho! Really captured the feeling of getting your true name.
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If you want to train martial arts to protect your community, then this zine is for you. It will guide you through everything you need to know, complete with which styles are effective, how to train them, and how to prepare for real world scenarios. Click the link here:
archive.org/details/trai...
archive.org/details/trai...
July 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
If you want to train martial arts to protect your community, then this zine is for you. It will guide you through everything you need to know, complete with which styles are effective, how to train them, and how to prepare for real world scenarios. Click the link here:
archive.org/details/trai...
archive.org/details/trai...
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I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.
June 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.
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This, from JG Ballard’s 2006 novel “Kingdom Come” (about a massive shopping mall in suburbia) is so prophetically on point it hurts
May 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This, from JG Ballard’s 2006 novel “Kingdom Come” (about a massive shopping mall in suburbia) is so prophetically on point it hurts
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It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
old work under a dead name:
storylandliteraryreview.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/d...
storylandliteraryreview.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/d...
“Disaster Eroticism” by Dean Steckel
It was past midnight, those eerie early hours of darkness, when the cars collided. It was a four-way intersection where it happened in the middle of Western America. Maybe there were a few lizards …
storylandliteraryreview.wordpress.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
old work under a dead name:
storylandliteraryreview.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/d...
storylandliteraryreview.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/d...
old work under a dead name:
www.scarletleafreview.com/short-storie...
www.scarletleafreview.com/short-storie...
Category: DEAN STECKEL
Dean Steckel lives and works in central New Jersey, among the suburban sprawl of malls and motels. He graduated from Rutgers University with a master's in Creative Writing and has been doing...
www.scarletleafreview.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
old work under a dead name:
www.scarletleafreview.com/short-storie...
www.scarletleafreview.com/short-storie...
@greatdismal.bsky.social Long shot but what the hell. Way back during the tour for Spook Country, you autographed my copy with my "legal" name. Problem is, that name is now my deadname and while I cherish my copy, it stings to see my old name. Anyway I could mail it to you to get my real name signed
April 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
@greatdismal.bsky.social Long shot but what the hell. Way back during the tour for Spook Country, you autographed my copy with my "legal" name. Problem is, that name is now my deadname and while I cherish my copy, it stings to see my old name. Anyway I could mail it to you to get my real name signed
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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
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He is quite blue; the terrible wind tries his breathing.
March 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
He is quite blue; the terrible wind tries his breathing.
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Play Critica is a new review series where I focus on practical uses of an RPG text. I would love any feedback you have on the format. In this post, I reviewed the Runecairn Bestiary, a 64-page fantasy module filled with Norse-themed monsters.
www.thedolentchronicle.com/posts/review...
www.thedolentchronicle.com/posts/review...
Play Critica — Runecairn Bestiary
An RPG critique focused on inspiring, usable, and playable texts.
www.thedolentchronicle.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Play Critica is a new review series where I focus on practical uses of an RPG text. I would love any feedback you have on the format. In this post, I reviewed the Runecairn Bestiary, a 64-page fantasy module filled with Norse-themed monsters.
www.thedolentchronicle.com/posts/review...
www.thedolentchronicle.com/posts/review...