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secretword.bsky.social
tricky aka spirit snatch
@secretword.bsky.social
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Fic author and vidder. Oldish. Here for MDZS and adjacent fandoms, plus other random stuff and general hijinks. aka trickybonmot (ao3, tumblr, discord)
No minors.
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I set myself this notification some time ago.
Naturally it proved unnecessary.
Screenshot of a Google calendar notification that reads "Hockey show on HBO Today"
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Anyway, I'm informed that what we've mostly had with those friends is Sonoma Coast Pinot noir. Bohan-Dillon is a fave, aka The Kitty Wine
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Yeah I'm proud of my progress in Du Chinese!
Screenshot of the stats page from Du Chinese. It says I've read 333 lessons, learned 1745 words and 800 characters. A multicolored graph shows how many lessons I've read of each level: 50 Newbie, 65 Elementary, 163 Intermediate and 55 Upper Intermediate. The graph over time shows a steady upward slope from the time I started using the app regularly. Yeah!!!
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
Screenshot of a post my friend sent me, it reads " It leans masculine and to me smells like ash and pine needles( I love it though). Absolute man repellent. I wear it on foggy days when I want to channel my inner forest hag.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Age yourself with gaming 🎮
Screenshot of a puzzle from the 1987 game The Fool's Errand in black and white as it appeared on the Mac Plus computer. This puzzle is a game that you have to play with tarot cards, figuring out the rules as you go.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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These were simple but I was proud of them.
Pair of Hualian jack-o'-lanterns.. Hua Cheng has an eye patch, Xie Lian is smiling self-deprecatingly.
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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I got this 11 inch tall, narrow spiral notebook and it just feels so right??? For fic-related brainstorming, to do lists...yeah I'm kind of obsessed.

(my handwriting is a security mechanism to keep family members from looking too closely...)
Notepad that looks like the left 4 inches of a standard spiral notebook. It has something on it titled "outline" that is not very easy to read.
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Yoooo
Screenshot of an email subject line saying that my delivery of the last dinner party album is expected today
October 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Share someone who looks stylish in a hat
Wang Zhi from Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty looking stunning as usual
October 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Unsolicited Rick pic
Rick Astley in the iconic opening shot of the international smash hit music video Never Gonna Give You Up. Standing behind a sleek silver microphone, he looks dapper and jazzy with coifed red hair and a dark suit jacket over an ivory and black striped sweater with a white shirt collar peeking out. His hands are blurred with motion as he performs a nonthreatening dance move, his expression seeming to say that you will like what you're about to see. The background is an enormous ornate window reminiscent of a rose window in a cathedral, with white light shining through to lend the scene a dreamy air, as though you might have been having a near death experience and on your way to commune with God when this dreamboat suddenly appeared to serenade you on your way.
October 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Let's normalize half-assed "manicures"
Photo of my hand with short nails that have been painted blue with no particular skill or precision
October 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Got out all my fun tea things to enjoy with a friend 💞
Photo of a Chinese-style tea service. On a slatted wooden tray stand a pair of ceramic tea pots painted with a blue mountain motif, as well as a "tea pet" in the shape of a cultivator-like figure wearing a bamboo hat that can also function as a strainer. In the foreground are a pair of small blue cups sitting on metal saucers in the shape of lotus leaves, and a small ceramic bowl of pistachios. There is a gooseneck kettle sitting to one side. The location is outdoors on a patio table, with some pine needles strewn around.
September 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Omg Wikipedia what a choice
Screenshot of the start of the History section of the Wikipedia article on Bisexual Lighting, beginning with an image, accurately described in the caption as "a 3D rendering of a skeleton showcasing bisexual lighting". It is indeed such an image.
September 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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If anyone needs to make this diagram out of a 9x13 cake, here are the measurements for cutting it up. I also calculated that you'll need a cake board about 18x18 (really 16.8x15.3 is the minimum).
Photo of a post it showing diagrams. From a 9x13 cake, cut a square 7.64, and another 4.58, and assemble the scraps to make about a 6" square. Arrange the three squares to form the sides of a right triangle.
September 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Is this a flower stalk???
Phalenopsis orchid growing a tentacle upwards
September 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This one also really got me just yesterday
Tumblr user cottoncandylesbo posts "squeezing my pussy and concentrating all the microplastics iny body to print a perfect tiny figurine of a fruit bat". Tumblr user the-lumpfish-king replies with a meme of a perturbed Anakin Skywalker asking "Is it possible to learn this power?"
September 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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No contest
coolfrogdude.tumblr.com/post/1907395...
An iconic comic based on a tumblr interaction. The characters in the comic are the user icons of the tumblrs involved. I'll transcribe the script. Pikachu, showing a chart: Doctor, $140k a year. Furry artist on patreon, $160k a year. An orange hand rises in the audience. It belongs to an orange guy (maybe a very jaded charmander?) who is lounging on his purple auditorium chair. He says, "I think you're lowballing the furry art amount tbh" Pikachu: I'm sorry for the inaccuracies, Dr. Yiff. Orange guy: no matter how I respond to this I don't look good, well played. An new character appears, and instead of a drawing they are represented by their actual icon, which is a tattooed bodybuilder lady wearing a black bra top. She says, "Well, furry artists are typically more competent and courteous than your average doctor, so I can see that." Pikachu pauses for a wordless frame, then says "did you legitimately tell me that a person who draws wolf ass is more competent than a dude who spent 8+ years in a university to give you your lung transplant?" A green frog appears and says "Doctors are bullshit and perform and infinitely more valuable service." Pikachu: you will die in 7 days A gengar labriously climbs up from the audience and begins to testify over several panels: "It took doctors like ten years to diagnose what was wrong with me, some insisting I was faking for attention. While a furry artist I knew just went "that sounds like Crohn's" and ended up being right. Also, I can't go to a doctor and ask them to draw Rouge the Bat wider than she is tall with tits to match, now can I" From the crowd an anonymous voice calls out "you could if you weren't a fucking coward"
September 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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No, there used to be no chapter number anywhere in the email or even on the comment itself. As recently as August 18 they looked like this. For years we lived this way!!
Screenshot of an AO3 email subject line that reads [AO3] Comment on Anchor Point
August 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This is not a drill!! Chapter numbers in the AO3 comment emails!!!
Screenshot of an email subject line from that reads [AO3] Comment on Chapter 47 of Anchor Point
August 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Been buying records
Photo of five LP record jackets: both Wet Leg albums, the new Pulp album, Aguas de Amazonia by Philip Glass with Third Coast Percussion, the House of Tomorrow by the Magnetic Fields
August 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Bees????
Here are mine. Has anyone else seen the Raggedy Ann movie?
Photo of a TV playing the movie Raggedy Ann: a Musical Adventure. It shows the cartoon characters, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, hugging the camel with the wrinkled knees. It's easy to tell it's from the 70s. They are all stuffed toys come to life. The camel is blue with visible seams and patches. The two dolls have red yarn hair and red triangular noses. Ann is wearing a white apron over a blue dress with red polka dots. Andy is wearing a sailor hat and a plaid shirt with a white yoke and droopy black bow tie. In the background is pink wallpaper. Photo of a car bumper sticker that says "Feed me weird things" in wobbly white text on a black background.
August 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Happening at my house now
Photo of a tv showing the opening credits of Revolutionary Girl Utena
August 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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600 character Romance of the Three Kingdoms from Du Chinese, serving up this ot3 on a silver platter
Screenshot of text from the graded reader app Du Chinese, with Chinese text that translates to "[Guan Yu had] a red face, his eyes were handsome and he was tall, someone you would always remember after having seen him. Liu Bei and Zhang Fei looked at him and both said to themselves [lit 'in their hearts'], 'so handsome!'" The latter sentence is highlighted and translated to English at the top of the screenshot.
August 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Oh wait . But still.
Screenshot of my own user profile showing that I am following 342 people
July 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Check out these wrinkles
Photo of a seven year old child's hands, showing incredibly wrinkled fingertips and palms.
July 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM