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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃

@rufflejax.bsky.social

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Not the queen of heaven, but still the refuge of sinners. Mad writer, friend of #NukeSky, zinester, and verb-er of analog games. Your favorite cis girl's favorite cis girl. Polyam queer. she/they. Find all my work/socials at https://linktr.ee/rufflejax

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · Feb 9

I'm Jax! I'm a writer and analog game designer focused mostly on horror, pastoral fantasy, romance, pulp, and character-driven stories.

Pronouns: she/her, they/them, and fae/femme in roughly that order

Itch: rufflejax.itch.io
DTRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
ES: bsky.app/profile/ruff...

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 1h

OH MY GOD?? OH MY GOD

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 8h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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scary computer <3 @terminal-entropy.bsky.social · 3h

sartha thrace showhound by @kallidorarho.bsky.social

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 14h

manifesting 😌🕯

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 14h

I just want my internal bits to be sturdy enough to withstand penetration and my external art to be less itchy and dry and I want them both to finish healing so I can get absolutely wrecked

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🪼Jellyfishlines is Haunting You🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 14h

Anyway @mjqwrites has been hacked. Do not trust a message they send you!!

Screenshot of a Bluesky convo between myself and the hacked MJ Quigley. They messaged me do you have a minute. They go on to ask if I share my Bluesky. I respond no and they reply, as follows: “Are you sure? Because someone with a name very similar to yours messaged me saying they wanted to play a game and sent me a fake tournament link i clicked it got hacked and honestly thought it was you. The handle were nearly identical i panicked and filed the report with my friends without double checking, and now i realize that might have been a huge mistake.”

In the text reply box, I wrote: 1. l've gotten a different version of this scam before so nice try. 2. Blocked and reported

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 14h

why is it that the year I start opening myself up to genuinely enjoying shit i would have been frightened of otherwise is also the year my OCD starts wanting to pay attention to moral panics

(I know why, shush, it's just frustrating)

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 15h

If it goes badly I'm going to cry because I'm SO proud of this larp

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 15h

inventing a new genre of smut which is about people who broke up for good reasons getting back together under pressure, leading to toxic psychosexual games. I call this exploitation

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 16h

I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 17h

"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."

Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'

Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.

pcgamer.com

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 15h

honestly really pleased with the fact that writing a nine person Warhammer larp in which the thesis is "nine traumatized militarized 41st Millenium women hang out the night before a mission" has caused me to meet the cool parts of the Fandom

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esoteric cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 2d

good news is i have a place to move into fr fr and the bad news is its on such short notice after having to leave CA i wasn't able to save, just get my stuff stowed & out of there with yalls help. please help me move in to a place i can call my own before the year is out.

gofund.me/95cb3eab0

Donate to Support Sabrina's Move to a New Home, organized by Sabrina Valentine

Hi there! My name is Sabrina. I'm a disabled trans woman displaced from my home… Sabrina Valentine needs your support for Support Sabrina's Move to a New Home

gofund.me

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 18h

It's finally up! Time to talk about the last three months of plagiarism and deflection by the Alt National Park Service.

tl;dr AltNPS is flailing desperately for ways to cling to their manufactured image as a government insider, in ways that show that they're in too deep to change.

The "Alt National Park Service:" On Plagiarism, Part 4

A series of pivots, and a glimpse at the future.

open.substack.com

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 18h

So @luckoftheharbor.com and I just dropped the high concept character list for a larp based on my Archetype zine and it will be the hottest larp I have ever run I fear

rufflejax.itch.io/archetype

Archetype by Jacqueline Bryk

A stained glass City Agnostic of mages, protocol, and Empty Spaces

rufflejax.itch.io

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 18h

I have three now!

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 18h

correct

Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 18h

mean to Jax >:(

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BoringKate @boringkate.com · 20h

I walk into the shelter

They say the cat is fixed

I ask if it's a scheming eunuch or submissive tgirl nullo

They don't understand

I explain the difference between a scheming eunuch and submissive tgirl nullo

They laugh and say it's a good cat

I look inside

I'm stabbed and my empire is seized

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 19h

the WVC Arts production

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 19h

FUCK THE TATTOO ITCH IS SETTING IN

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Pack of the Fog, Resident Fagdyke @packofthefog.bsky.social · 20h

erotic horror story where I manipulate a girl into becoming my perfect spouse, call that wifesploitation

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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muzzlesbian @muzzlesbian.bsky.social · 21h

ironically, i picked the username long before reading WARHOUND, and bought my muzzle to help with therian dysphoria more than anything (though kink was definitely a factor). i was only tangentially aware of the whole mechsploitation genre at the time, but suffice to say that's changed

Kallidora Rho @kallidorarho.bsky.social · 1d

admittedly user muzzlesbian was always likely to be an enjoyer,

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Jax o'Lantern, Spooky Pumpkin Doll 🎃 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 20h

look i know i'm not posting a lot today but you have to trust me that i'm being very normal about The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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