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Published: June 5, 2025 05:40

So I will be attending the evening performance of THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS on July 19th with @ha1fbyte.bsky.social and @theoliviayoungers.bsky.social. And we will have a gallon bag of kandi bracelets to give away. We are having SO MUCH FUN. Come…

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Published: June 4, 2025 19:19

Hey, Starkid friends, if I handed you a bead bracelet that said "9 7 5 3 2," would that make any sense to you?

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Published: June 4, 2025 18:08

As I continue making bead bracelets with the speed of a creature seeking quick bursts of success, I am almost out of the letter "T."

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Published: June 4, 2025 16:20

Maine Coons are fluffball kittens, short-haired teens*, and long-haired adults. Kelpie is exiting her teen years, and the fluff is beginning to flow. (*Not all Maine Coons: some go straight to the longhair stage.)

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Published: June 4, 2025 16:16

Unable to get to the possum, Kelpie is now fighting the window.

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Published: June 4, 2025 15:32

Wake up, my two shadows--Elsie and Kelpie--are nowhere to be seen. Go hunting for giant cats.

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Published: June 3, 2025 21:01

Oh, hey. TIDAL CREATURES is out in paperback today! If you want a book about weird alchemy, found family, moon deities around the world, academic politics, the destructive applications of peach trees, lesbians, and the Impossible City, this is the book for…

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Published: June 3, 2025 20:37

Why do I not share more mantis pictures? A few reasons. First, I don't have Bluesky on my phone, so pictures have to be bounced through Discord to get them here. This is finicky and annoying, and I usually don't care enough to bother.

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Published: June 3, 2025 19:58

One of my orchid mantises has molted successfully and is pink and happy! After my last week's losses, I am very relieved.

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Published: June 3, 2025 04:44

Coming this September! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 2, 2025 21:27

My extremely ancient giant Asian mantis has passed of being very, very old. The last thing she did was bite the living crap out of me and sit gently on @ha1fbyte.bsky.social's hand. She learned kindness at the end of her life. She was awful and nasty and…

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Published: June 2, 2025 18:18

Why do people think that somehow obtaining my personal email address and approaching me cold is going to get them anything other than blocked?

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Published: June 2, 2025 16:23

So @ha1fbyte.bsky.social has managed to take what may be the most accurate-to-life picture of me ever. Every element tells a story. Kelpie, praying mantis, D&D book, dice tower, dice, Magic deck, Magic fabric bag, card catalog...poetry. Oh, and me.

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Published: June 2, 2025 00:23

Does anyone have a source for ' mark pony beads? I have commas, but I can't find apostrophes.

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Published: June 1, 2025 16:23

This is The Culprit, The Rooter, Eater of Worlds. He has no neck. Help this cat afford a neck by helping him grow up and learn some small crumbs of common sense. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 1, 2025 15:58

I know that for a lot of us, our pets are our family, and you do whatever needs doing for family. It's like that for @naamah-darling.bsky.social, who has always provided a standard of care for cats to which I can only aspire.

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Published: June 1, 2025 04:14

It...continues...

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Published: May 30, 2025 18:38

Daily mantis update: both orchids and two of the three spinies have eaten their dinners. The one who hasn't eaten had a very large dinner last time I fed them, and may still be full.

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Published: May 30, 2025 18:37

I feel very targeted by this plush: https://shop.jazwares.com/products/squishmallows-select-series-ritter-the-zombie-tomato…

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Published: May 29, 2025 23:27

One of my finickiest mantises accepted a meal from the tongs and then sat on my finger for twenty minutes eating it, and after losing the African lined, it was like a gift. I have not failed them.

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Published: May 29, 2025 16:10

I have had a lot of friends on asset caps. Do you have any idea how easy it is to go over an asset cap? Without even realizing it? Or how many people can be disqualified because no, they're not getting rid of Mom's diamond earrings? [contains quote post…

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Published: May 29, 2025 15:59

I read, a lot, and one thing I've been noticing recently in queer-friendly fiction is what I've been privately calling the Good Person Pronoun Paradox. It goes like this:

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Published: May 28, 2025 23:44

If places could stop organizing dinners/lunches to "honor" me at events where I'm a guest, only to book them for indoor locations, that would be great. I would rather eat outdoors at a McDonalds than risk Covid for a sushi conveyor.

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Published: May 27, 2025 16:52

This is why I like TTRPGs so much. They keep me from going so deep into my own head that I get lost in there. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 27, 2025 16:23

HOW TO BECOME THE DARK LORD (AND DIE TRYING) was my surprise laugh-out-loud discovery of 2024! And EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD sticks the landing! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 27, 2025 05:38

My boy got stuck in his adult molt and his legs hardened all wrong. He's free now, but I don't think he's going to make it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 26, 2025 21:04

Getting to write for the Dark Crystal was an honor and a joy. Getting to center sign language on the world of Thra as much as I did was a pleasure. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 25, 2025 23:13

I have a lot of praying mantises right now. Two of them, my African lined mantises, were a birthday gift from N. (No, you shouldn't buy people live animals. But she took them out of my hand while I was waiting at the register.)

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Published: May 25, 2025 18:59

I have managed a full week of letting my iTunes shuffle itself at will; time to restart & JULIET from the beginning.

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Published: May 25, 2025 05:42

It...begins.

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Published: May 25, 2025 01:51

As a kid I was convinced that we were all going to die in nuclear fire, but NIGHT OF THE COMET had me convinced the canned food would still be safe, so I spent years figuring out the best combinations of cheap canned goods. I called the result "glop," and…

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Published: May 25, 2025 00:54

Hey, folks: "I do not write sex, my books do not contain graphic sex" is a complete statement. "Please don't make me write sex" is as well. Offering to write the sex for me is inappropriate. I don't want it, I didn't ask for it, and while I can respect…

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Published: May 25, 2025 00:42

Kelpie has just come to tell me that I need to stop working and play with the cat. She brought her feather wand, and her very loud yell.

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Published: May 24, 2025 20:14

Hey, Starkids, is Wiggly's full name Wigog Wigog Y'Wrath or just Wigog Y'Wrath? It seems like it should be the first one, because NPMD, but I could be wrong.

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Published: May 24, 2025 15:57

I have always liked insects. Until I started really seriously keeping them as pets, I never realized how SMART they are.

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Published: May 23, 2025 16:09

For the edification of a friend of mine, split off into its own thread so I can give clear content warnings. (CW: Gangrene, genital injury, explicit gangrene, SERIOUSLY I MEAN IT, unsolicited dick pics, solicited dick pics, imagery you cannot unread.)

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Published: May 23, 2025 15:30

Kelpie is so mad that I'm working and not waving Trash Wand around for her. She's chirping and trilling and attacking the furniture. Currently, she's fighting the bed.