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Our highest artistic aim is to coax a reader into a waking nightmare that brings with it a moment of emotional clarity. Thank you for letting us try that with you.
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I wrote about beginnings and endings.
Mythos
manta.gay
January 25, 2026 at 7:09 AM
I wrote about beginnings and endings.
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starmap in freckles,
fingertip for a sextant
we navigate home
fingertip for a sextant
we navigate home
my skin calling you,
a starfield of fairy-light
softness leads me here
a starfield of fairy-light
softness leads me here
January 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM
starmap in freckles,
fingertip for a sextant
we navigate home
fingertip for a sextant
we navigate home
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There is less good in the world than its counterfeits, but even those may be bent into a useful shape. The process is not gentle.
January 23, 2024 at 11:47 PM
There is less good in the world than its counterfeits, but even those may be bent into a useful shape. The process is not gentle.
That's solutionslop. You only like it because it fixes the problem.
January 22, 2026 at 6:11 PM
That's solutionslop. You only like it because it fixes the problem.
Hmm? No, I don't have a *problem* with it, I just think it's gauche. You should conceal that kind of thing properly.
If she goes on like that, one day she'll stop getting away with it. Makes us all look bad.
If she goes on like that, one day she'll stop getting away with it. Makes us all look bad.
January 20, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Hmm? No, I don't have a *problem* with it, I just think it's gauche. You should conceal that kind of thing properly.
If she goes on like that, one day she'll stop getting away with it. Makes us all look bad.
If she goes on like that, one day she'll stop getting away with it. Makes us all look bad.
"The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a poem is a good guy with a poem" - @zinzrinz.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 11:40 PM
"The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a poem is a good guy with a poem" - @zinzrinz.bsky.social
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People have been telling me I'm incredibly smart my whole life, and what that has taught me is that intellect alone is worthless. Thought without motivation or emotion or action can only torture you with knowledge you can't apply
Understanding is gained by *doing,* no matter how "smart" you are
Understanding is gained by *doing,* no matter how "smart" you are
January 17, 2026 at 9:47 AM
People have been telling me I'm incredibly smart my whole life, and what that has taught me is that intellect alone is worthless. Thought without motivation or emotion or action can only torture you with knowledge you can't apply
Understanding is gained by *doing,* no matter how "smart" you are
Understanding is gained by *doing,* no matter how "smart" you are
A woman summoned a devil. She didn't prepare a lengthy contract, didn't look to anticipate loopholes, didn't angle to negotiate. Instead, she came with a simple request.
"I want to be loved until the end of my life."
"I can do that, but...are you sure?"
"I said what I said."
"I want to be loved until the end of my life."
"I can do that, but...are you sure?"
"I said what I said."
January 16, 2026 at 9:40 PM
A woman summoned a devil. She didn't prepare a lengthy contract, didn't look to anticipate loopholes, didn't angle to negotiate. Instead, she came with a simple request.
"I want to be loved until the end of my life."
"I can do that, but...are you sure?"
"I said what I said."
"I want to be loved until the end of my life."
"I can do that, but...are you sure?"
"I said what I said."
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this is, imo, a much more useful framing than the overton window fwiw. a cone has a vertex (what someone thinks the world is like now) and a slope (how quickly and through what means movement between worlds is possible). worlds seen as unreachable through acceptable tactics become counterfactuals
imagining that there is a speed limit to progress creates a light cone of possible worlds
this cone is, for better and worse, easily penetrated by bullets
this cone is, for better and worse, easily penetrated by bullets
Literally everyone in power in the government is intellectually incapable of rotating the idea that abuse is bad and abusers cannot be allowed to have any authority in a healthy just society. Like if you pose the idea right in front of them it just creates a huge void in their visual field—invisible
January 14, 2026 at 7:11 PM
this is, imo, a much more useful framing than the overton window fwiw. a cone has a vertex (what someone thinks the world is like now) and a slope (how quickly and through what means movement between worlds is possible). worlds seen as unreachable through acceptable tactics become counterfactuals
mark immortel when the protagonists talk about the plague: lmao, you dumbass, the plague is irrelevant. look at the themes. you absolute failure of an actor
mark immortel when they talk about themes: what the fuck are you jerking off about themes for. fix the plague. assholes.
mark immortel when they talk about themes: what the fuck are you jerking off about themes for. fix the plague. assholes.
January 14, 2026 at 5:18 PM
mark immortel when the protagonists talk about the plague: lmao, you dumbass, the plague is irrelevant. look at the themes. you absolute failure of an actor
mark immortel when they talk about themes: what the fuck are you jerking off about themes for. fix the plague. assholes.
mark immortel when they talk about themes: what the fuck are you jerking off about themes for. fix the plague. assholes.
Oops, had a little "we have DID and have DID problems" moment
It will happen again
It will happen again
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Oops, had a little "we have DID and have DID problems" moment
It will happen again
It will happen again
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i think a lot more societal problems can be fixed with video game logic than we are ready to discuss as a people
Pulling CPUs and RAM sticks out of AI datacenters will force them to close in the same way that removing a Sigil Stone does to an Oblivion Gate.
#TheElderScrolls #Oblivion
#TheElderScrolls #Oblivion
January 12, 2026 at 4:53 PM
i think a lot more societal problems can be fixed with video game logic than we are ready to discuss as a people
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Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.
January 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.
If any work will vindicate the murder-poets it'll be pathologic 3. Fingers crossed.
January 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
If any work will vindicate the murder-poets it'll be pathologic 3. Fingers crossed.
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Daniil Dankovsky:
- Entire existence only possible through careful balancing act of addictive chemicals
- Constantly being mocked and derided by small children
- Can die from having a conversation wrong
- Desperate to get her back (Thanatica)
welcome back harry du bois
- Entire existence only possible through careful balancing act of addictive chemicals
- Constantly being mocked and derided by small children
- Can die from having a conversation wrong
- Desperate to get her back (Thanatica)
welcome back harry du bois
January 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Daniil Dankovsky:
- Entire existence only possible through careful balancing act of addictive chemicals
- Constantly being mocked and derided by small children
- Can die from having a conversation wrong
- Desperate to get her back (Thanatica)
welcome back harry du bois
- Entire existence only possible through careful balancing act of addictive chemicals
- Constantly being mocked and derided by small children
- Can die from having a conversation wrong
- Desperate to get her back (Thanatica)
welcome back harry du bois
Sometimes you've got to resort to words about it 😔
January 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Sometimes you've got to resort to words about it 😔
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I hate when someone asks me, “How's it going".
“Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !
“Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I hate when someone asks me, “How's it going".
“Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !
“Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !
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fun date idea: we lie down on the floor and forget. we forget the layout of this room. of this building. we forget the name of the street we live on. we remember only the way the floor feels against our backs. and then we melt. into the floor. into the walls. we rediscover this place from the inside
November 27, 2023 at 9:43 PM
fun date idea: we lie down on the floor and forget. we forget the layout of this room. of this building. we forget the name of the street we live on. we remember only the way the floor feels against our backs. and then we melt. into the floor. into the walls. we rediscover this place from the inside
Gap moe is the highest motivation to be reserved and portentious.
December 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Gap moe is the highest motivation to be reserved and portentious.
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do not fear aging. the older you get the more gap moe points you accrue
December 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
do not fear aging. the older you get the more gap moe points you accrue
If you're a battery it's got to feel really good to get pierced through to create an internal short
December 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
If you're a battery it's got to feel really good to get pierced through to create an internal short
Today is when "everyone in the world is doing something without you" has the strongest bite. We're glad it's not hunting us today, but thinking about those it is.
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today is when "everyone in the world is doing something without you" has the strongest bite. We're glad it's not hunting us today, but thinking about those it is.
With every passing day, you and the world grow into one another. Feel the vines reach out: everything you've let yourself care about gives them purchase. Feel yourself reach out: walls rise, new-formed chambers fill with your work.
December 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
With every passing day, you and the world grow into one another. Feel the vines reach out: everything you've let yourself care about gives them purchase. Feel yourself reach out: walls rise, new-formed chambers fill with your work.
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librarian gf who says shit like "art is not here to make you feel better. art is here to make you feel *more*" and then locks me in a small room that I don't get to leave until I've finished reading a book
December 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
librarian gf who says shit like "art is not here to make you feel better. art is here to make you feel *more*" and then locks me in a small room that I don't get to leave until I've finished reading a book