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I was born near one body of water. I now live near a different body of water. An occasional maker of games and writer of stories. He/Him. Boston to Busan. Itch: https://yesterweird.itch.io/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/theotherjustin

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Latest story, "Last Stop: Tomb City", is here: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/last...

Latest games can be found here: yesterweird.itch.io

A bibliography of stories and articles published can be found here: 10badhabits.com/bibliography/

Dig it!

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 6h

Oh hey, it's #WorldOctopusDay? 😉 🐙

This is what I call my nearly-hard desi SF meets cephalopod-love short story. It got an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois's last Year's Best anthology.

CW for somewhat spicy and norty scenes; bigotry and prejudice.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/harris_08_17

Reversion by Nin Harris

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 7h

It'll depend on what's around tbh.

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 16h

The best thing about taking a walk is engaging in morbid introspection and negative self-talk for an hour and still getting to call it exercise.

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 7h

Going to quietly add "Pope excommunicates U.S. Supreme Court Justices" and "Something Future Historians Refer to as the North American Schism" to my 2026 bingo card.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 11h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

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Night of the Living Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 8h

Y'all, I am VERY excited to introduce you to one of my new favorite Tolkien artists: Kay Woollard (1924-2008).

Woollard first read LotR in '79 when she was 55. From then until her death, she was heavily involved in Tolkien fan culture, contributing illustrations to Tolkien Society publications.

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A recursive cover of Amon Hen, Bulletin of the Tolkien Society, with a hobbit reading a copy of Amon Hen with a hobbit reading a copy of Amon Hen, and so on

A bulletin titled "A Long-Expected Party Progress Report: Preparation" depicting many hobbit chefs baking pies

Christmas card of a Hobbit couple carrying their child on their shoulders through a snowy landscape

A postcard titled "A Slumbering Pedlar" showing a sleeping Hobbit pedlar resting on his pack of goods

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 8h

I rewatched Trading Places and I won't comment on how well it's aged, only on what parts are believable.

Wealthy guys destroying a man on a whim for their amusement (and 1USD)? Believable.

Finance types ostracizing one of their own because he has access to cocaine? Unbelievable.

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 12h

Consulted with my therapists, Dr. Duck and Dr. Turtle.

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 16h

"See you all later. I'm off to mope and brood."

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 16h

There are maybe half a dozen people who follow me here and live in Busan. They're going to see me wandering the streets some day and think, "Hey, there's Justin being tormented by his personal demons. Maybe I shouldn't say hi."

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 16h

The best thing about taking a walk is engaging in morbid introspection and negative self-talk for an hour and still getting to call it exercise.

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 18h

The look young people give me whenever I accidentally call an audiobook a "book on tape" is always fun.

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 1d

We're joking that I'm now like his TTRPG sommelier...

Him: "I want something Twilight Zone meets the X-Files."

Me: "You may enjoy Delta Green or Monster of the Week."

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 1d

It's cool because he gets to pick up decades' old games for the first time and be thrilled by them, which is why games are cool. They don't expire.

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend's getting back into TTRPGs after a multi-decade long hiatus. He's impressed by how gaming and the culture around it has grown, but can also see that there must have been 100s of flame wars over the years he didn't witness that shaped the current scene.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 3d

None of these apps are any good. I'm training a crow friend to scream out my thoughts as she flies through the city

Photo of my friend, the crow, sitting on my roof waiting for her bribe/breakfast

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 2d

Crow pics from yesterday... as I looked at this sandwich on the table, this crow looked at me and made clicking sounds in time to the music.

Crow on a hose beside a railing, leaning forward with its mouth open.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2d

The sexists do not listen to the audiophile lighthouse keeper because she is a woman. If I lived in a small town with a female audiophile lighthouse keeper, I'd heed her advice on literally anything

Should I dump him, queen?
Which cheese should I buy, queen?
Fight the fisherghosts tonight, queen?

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2d

Poster for the Fog. Jamie Lee Curtis in a red leather jacket is pressed against a wall that's turning to fog with a ghost on the other side

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 2d

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

Image from the Simpsons of Pynchon with a bag over his head on a cell phone. He's standing in front of a house with a neon sign advertising it as his home.

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 3d

Have had this song on repeat for much of the night: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYvY...

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YouTube video by Thee Oh Sees - Topic

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 3d

Shapeshifters, occultists, murderers, and journalists struggle for power in the shadows of 1960s Korea: tobe.aladin.co.kr/s/24773

[만화책] 집행자여 : 투비컨티뉴드

통금의 시대 1969년. 척박한 시대에 사사로운 환상을 꿈꾸는 정치부 기자의 오컬트 추적기. 완결 웹툰 를 만화책으로 펴내기 위한 프로젝트입니다. 매주 수요일 밤 업로드되며 이렇게 쌓인 원고는 만화책으로 엮어 202 ...

tobe.aladin.co.kr

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 3d

Lesbian graverobbers vs local gang boss: tobe.aladin.co.kr/s/12973

잘 달여 먹으면 : 투비컨티뉴드

누구나 한 번쯤은 타인의 시신을 보았을 흉흉한 시절, 어느 작은 도시를 덮친 불행. 역병과 가난에 얻어터진 그녀들은 살아남기 위해서라면 무슨 짓이든 합니다.

tobe.aladin.co.kr

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 3d

Escaped convicts murder a shaman and subsequently get haunted: tobe.aladin.co.kr/s/7701

황천길 : 투비컨티뉴드

[완결] [띵작을 찾습니다 투고 이벤트 선정작] 192x년. 죽는 사람은 늘어나는데 굿을 해줄 무당은 없다. 가족 잃은 이들은 망자의 황천길을 안내해줄 사람을 다급히 찾는데. 겨우 찾은 그는 굿판 근처에도 가본 적 ...

tobe.aladin.co.kr

Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 3d

My wife made some of her comics free to read for the holiday. Blurbed links to follow...

Jongsu(종수) @bellboy.bsky.social · 3d

한가위 긴 연휴 동안 제 웹툰과 만화원고를 무료공개합니다. 차린 건 적지만 많이들 와주세요! :)

tobe.aladin.co.kr/s/7701 황천길
tobe.aladin.co.kr/s/12973 잘달여먹으면
tobe.aladin.co.kr/s/24773 [만화책]집행자여

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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 3d

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

Romanised Pali manuscript of the Lokapannati

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
p. 60
Bhoota Vahana Yanta
Bhoota Vahana Yanta means “spirit movement machine.” The term is used
for several varieties of robot drone assassins and sword-wielding machine-
men mentioned in the Lokapannati, a Pali-language text written between
1000 and 1200 CE by Saddhammaghosa of Thaton, but concerning
events that took place much earlier, around 500 to 200 BCE.
According to the story, robots were first invented by engineers of the
early Roman Republic. These robots were used for commerce, in agriculture,
as a police force, and as executioners. The secret of how to build these
spirit-engines was fiercely protected. If any engineer dared to take the designs
out of the city, one of his own executioner robots would come after
him and kill him.
At that time, in Pataliputra (then in the kingdom of Magadha, now
Patna in the state of Bihar), there lived a young man who had heard of the
Romans’ magical androids. He became so determined to learn the secrets
of their manufacture and share them with the people of Magadha that he
arranged his own death. Then, on his deathbed, he vowed to be reincarnated
as a Roman.
This indeed took place. In his new life, the man grew up to join the
Roman guild of engineers. He even married the daughter of the Master
Robot-Maker, and had a son by her.
Once he learned the secrets of the Bhoota Vahana Yanta, the man resolved
to transfer the information back to Pataliputra. But he was well
aware that now, since he was a member of the guild, he would be killed as
soon as he left. So he cut a gash in his thigh, inserted the plans in his flesh,
and sewed the wound back up.

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