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The Missing Link
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Hi, I’m an ND sci fi/fantasy writer working on my debut novel

I like to talk about books, games, history, and whatever’s interesting at the moment.

Also I’m learning Japanese, so これを読めばこんにちはを言ってくれませんか
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Wrote a bit for the freelance assassin in my cyberpunk story

#writingcommunity #writingsnips
Natalia had always hated the phrase 'the arc of history trends towards justice.' All she ever saw history trend to was more history. Justice was an afterthought if anything at all. No, justice was something you had to grip the knife and carve yourself. By the time history deigned to get around to it, the bastards would be long gone, just for new ones to take their place. Justice wasn't waiting for all the cash to drain away while they grew fat on it, sitting in an alley eating synthetic noodles while they drank the night away at palaces in the sky. Justice was the cold iron she stared down the sights of, no matter what history might say.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
themissinglink97.bsky.social
Has YouTube been forcing more and longer ads into everything? Because it feels like they have. Watching YouTube on my phone now is just suffering
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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So I finally started the new Pokémon game. The new battle system is fun, but I don’t love the structure of laddering in the tournament. It makes trainer battles feel like a grind instead of obstacles

I hope there are new mons/forms and not just new megas, but please mega flygon, exist

#gaming
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Lovely to get good news for once
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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So next on the reading list while I wait for the library to give me the next Discworld book is Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan.

My fantasy writing ideas tend to fall into settings with guns, so it seemed like a good idea to read.

First 2 chapters give me FF Tactics vibes

#booksky
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Finished the last ending of Silent Hill f. Lost in the fog difficulty was a mistake, but that was a really cool final boss tying together really strong character arcs for a really satisfying conclusion.

Definitely my game of the year. Ryukishi07 has done it again

#gaming
October 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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So it’s been a bit since I finished The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, but this bit won’t leave my head

#booksky
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth,the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-like, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is wrath. In the soul of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage” - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Drop some transformations
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Only 2 endings left in Silent Hill f, and I think I saved the good ones for last. I think it’s safe to call this my game of the year at this point

#gaming
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I think an underrated bit of writing advice is museums are amazing for inspiration. Every time I go to one, I leave with new ideas I might get to eventually

#writingcommunity
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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a pixel art drawing of a frog wearing a green mask and holding a blue object .
Alt: Frog’s victory pose from Chrono Trigger
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October 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
themissinglink97.bsky.social
The absolute insanity talking to older family where they’re all like “well I can retire without learning AI, but you need to learn it or you have no chance in the workplace”

As someone whose degree was in history, their lack of understanding of both basic research and the plagiarism machine… fuck
October 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Having finished Final Fantasy Tactics in time, I do in a way get to play Silent Hill f as a Halloween game with 4 endings left to do in ng+

#gaming
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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So I finished Final Fantasy Tactics… is it a hot take to say the Final Fantasy story kinda got in the way of the class struggle story? I liked the story, but the lucavi part didn’t do a lot for me

#gaming
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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If you see this, post a robot
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Quote with 2 female video game characters you like

Well damn, guess I can’t choose Zelda… so
Beatrix from Final Fantasy 9
October 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Ok Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green might be the most powerful book I’ve read this year

#booksky
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Finished Leviathan Falls. I never thought the Expanse was an amazing series, but this last book was terrible. The last three books really drag it down, and the final book is easily the worst in the series

Well… onto the next book on my list, Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

#booksky
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Everyone should get to see themself in fiction. But I often can't find as much neurodiverse rep as I'd like, especially in SFF.

So for ADHD Awareness Month, I've gathered 22 mainly ADHD authors & their fantasy/ other books with main/significant ADHD chars in this bundle

🪐📚💙 itch.io/b/3300/adhd-...
Adhd Awareness Month Fiction. By mostly ADHD authors, most with 1+ significant ADHD character(s) 22 Book. Oct 1st-15th Covers: The Lady and the List, Elizabeth Briars Side Tracked, S.K. Kelly The Harmony of Falling Snow, Andora Brokaw Bestiary Beas The Players Act 1, Amy Sparks The Weight of Her Gaze, RJ Martin He of the Trees, Rob Macwolf Song of the Wolf, T.C. Smith Tales of Yamato, Odessa Silver The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle, Steve Hugh Westenra Manipulator's War, Elise Carlson A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Heart of Stone, Johannes T. Evans Lantern, Burgundy Athena Pendragon Wizard's Debt, Niranjan Blood, D.C. Hart Ancient as the Stars, Maya Darjani A Dark Hole Darly, Drew Melbourne Translucent, Wayward Spark War of the Space Dargons, L'Poni Baldwin Ants Waking, R.J. Huneke Rage in a Cage, Joachim Heijndermans
October 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Name an underrated anime
October 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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There’s something surreal about doom scrolling social media news in 3 languages at once
October 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
themissinglink97.bsky.social
Final Fantasy Tactics is really funny with how every so often it just drops in a little Karl Marx quote as a treat, which reminds me I still need to play Disco Elysium

#gaming
October 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Another thing that’s really funny about the later expanse books is how they introduced a villain named Duarte while the Philippines were under a dictator named Duterte is like if I wrote a story right now with a fascist dictator named Trund

#booksky
October 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Late-diagnosed ADHD friends: What misconception(s) led to you getting overlooked? 👀

#ADHDAwarenessMonth
Common misconceptions: Who has ADHD? Words in parenthesis are crossed off and written under the sentence. Extroverted (can be introverted) young (any age) boy (any gender) who fidgets a lot (might not be hyperactive), struggles (may excel) in school, and can’t pay (has difficulty regulating) attention.
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM