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Clair Obscur Sphinx
@lascaillesshroud.bsky.social
He/Him • Bands: Lascaille's Shroud, Soulmass • Author of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror • Disabled • Tired • I Make Death Metal About Queer Books • Free Palestine • https://linktr.ee/swarmingthesun
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I'm still digging myself out of financial holes created by an amazing healthcare system. For the forseeable future, the entire LS discography on Bandcamp is 75% off ($14 for 9 albums) if you want to help me out and get some riffs along the way.
lascaillesshroud.bandcamp.com/album/wyrmfi...
Wyrmfire and Starlight, by Lascaille's Shroud
1 track album
lascaillesshroud.bandcamp.com
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Now would be a great time to pick up some of my music. My one and only guitar needs some rewiring done, and my hands don't really do fine, detailed work like this anymore without pain and shaking. I miss guitar, and want to get back to finishing up my next planned album.
I'm still digging myself out of financial holes created by an amazing healthcare system. For the forseeable future, the entire LS discography on Bandcamp is 75% off ($14 for 9 albums) if you want to help me out and get some riffs along the way.
lascaillesshroud.bandcamp.com/album/wyrmfi...
Wyrmfire and Starlight, by Lascaille's Shroud
1 track album
lascaillesshroud.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
If you need GenAI to imagine, think, draft, plan or sketch your ideas for you, you don't have ideas to begin with.

Seriously people, don't let billionaires who'd slit your throat to get a dollar tell you how to think, or what to think.

Think and create for yourself. That's why we're here.
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Now would be a great time to pick up some of my music. My one and only guitar needs some rewiring done, and my hands don't really do fine, detailed work like this anymore without pain and shaking. I miss guitar, and want to get back to finishing up my next planned album.
I'm still digging myself out of financial holes created by an amazing healthcare system. For the forseeable future, the entire LS discography on Bandcamp is 75% off ($14 for 9 albums) if you want to help me out and get some riffs along the way.
lascaillesshroud.bandcamp.com/album/wyrmfi...
Wyrmfire and Starlight, by Lascaille's Shroud
1 track album
lascaillesshroud.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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After all of the positive feedback (pun intended), I've started working on a second album for this project. 👀

Thank you for listening, and if you haven't checked out the first album yet, this project and all of its future releases will remain free to listen on Bandcamp. 🖤
✨ NEW RELEASE! ✨

I've had this drone album in various stages of completion for the past couple years, and it's time to unleash it. Free to download and turn your thoughts off for a while with headphones.

chaosthemother.bandcamp.com
Devil of a Thousand Faces, by Chaos, the Mother
4 track album
chaosthemother.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Plans for today

• Watching Dune movies
• Working on book
• Pet cats
• Eat snacks
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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AI is a key component in deskilling.
You don’t learn yourself, you don’t challenge answers on your own.

AI is a key contributor to desensitization. Visual and audio arts are treated with skepticism, caught in crossfire, in place of wonder.

AI, a weapon in control, a thief of joy, your replacement.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
That we don't call stoner doom boomer doomin' is a lost opportunity, I think.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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✨ NEW RELEASE! ✨

I've had this drone album in various stages of completion for the past couple years, and it's time to unleash it. Free to download and turn your thoughts off for a while with headphones.

chaosthemother.bandcamp.com
Devil of a Thousand Faces, by Chaos, the Mother
4 track album
chaosthemother.bandcamp.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

The Sword's "Age of Winter" easily, although I could also say another Maiden album but that feels too easy for me.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

No contest. Still probably my favorite album of all time 25 years later.
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
For the first time in probably a year or more, I not only wrote over 1,000 words in a single-sitting, I wrote over 3,000. It's been so, so long since I've had the focus to do something like this, let alone managed to ignore the pain. It feels so good to write again, I always miss it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Don't know the poster so trying to decide if this an incredibly niche reference to Behold the Arctopus and The Rock. I hope so, I really hope so.
Behold the Rocktopus
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"There are about 1,000 of us. . ."

If only I could write out my true thoughts about what I think should happen to the people minimizing the atrocities wrought by this man and the so many leaders at all levels around the world.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Almost any disabled person, including myself, who looked into disability rights/activism via the internet and beyond knew of Alice Wong. I never knew her directly, and yet after her passing her absence is somehow keenly discernible in various communities/circles I interact with.
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong had an outsized impact on Disability justice. As a community organiser, activist, mentor, and co-conspirator, as writer, editor, and friend, she is irreplaceable.
nicolagriffith.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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It's an AMA kind of day. What would you like to know?

ngl.link/soulmass218
Anonymous messages!
Anonymous messages!
ngl.link
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
When the EVA hit that circle pit
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 7
The Works of Man
A Human Work
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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reverb.com/item/9313041...

Selling my chrome EMG-81 if anyone's interested. Been trying it out for a couple months, but I'm just not an active guy when it comes down to it. $90 w/free shipping to CONUS
EMG 81 Active Bridge Humbucker - Chrome | Reverb
Selling my EMG 81 bridge humbucker simply because I'm not an EMG guy. Gave it a shot for a couple months but it didn't click. Recently purchased from Zzounds just a few months ago (screenshot of order...
reverb.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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On November 14, 1891, Sir Frederick Banting was born. He discovered insulin in 1921 and effectively made diabetes a treatable disease, when it was previously a death sentence. He sold the patent for insulin for $3 saying "insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
reverb.com/item/9313041...

Selling my chrome EMG-81 if anyone's interested. Been trying it out for a couple months, but I'm just not an active guy when it comes down to it. $90 w/free shipping to CONUS
EMG 81 Active Bridge Humbucker - Chrome | Reverb
Selling my EMG 81 bridge humbucker simply because I'm not an EMG guy. Gave it a shot for a couple months but it didn't click. Recently purchased from Zzounds just a few months ago (screenshot of order...
reverb.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Music journalist entrusted to cover a genre: "I've never heard it and don't listen to it but this statement will surely be accurate."
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Run Submissions for #FrostFatales 2026 are officially open and we can't wait to see what everyone's bringing this time!!!

*Submissions close: Nov. 23rd

Submit a run: https://gdq.gg/submit
Submissions Guide: gamesdonequick.com/site/ff-submission-guide
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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It's my fourth event on Games Committee. Show me what you've got! 👀
Run Submissions for #FrostFatales 2026 are officially open and we can't wait to see what everyone's bringing this time!!!

*Submissions close: Nov. 23rd

Submit a run: https://gdq.gg/submit
Submissions Guide: gamesdonequick.com/site/ff-submission-guide
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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if you can spare anything,

i am behind on utilities & need medication.

i also need the last bit to be able to start radiation therapy. (see ko-fi goal)

ko-fi.com/rebekamash/g...
paypal.me/
Support Rebeka Mashaba
Support Rebeka Mashaba
ko-fi.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I've just finished Sarah's latest and have read all her previous novels. Therefore, I will approach this novel the same way: with excitement and utter terror for the emotional apocalypse it will wreak on me
MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief.

Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.

It comes out in May.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM