Townsend S. Wright
@townsend.bsky.social
A vampirically pale scarecrow hopefully coming to the Sci-Fi section of a bookstore near you! Bookseller. He/they
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Townsend S. Wright
@townsend.bsky.social
· Nov 30
Welcome to Electric Spec - Shockingly good short works of science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre
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Hi, my name's Townsend and as of today, I'm a published writer! "The Ballad of Black Calchas" is my debut short story, an epic and tragic tale of magic and piracy. I'd appreciate if you gave it a read here at Electric Spec magazine!
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My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is that it’s not cultural appropriation as long as you don’t call it a Golem.
My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is that there's no such thing as "Vibe Casting." You either know how to write the runes or you don't, just because you enchanted a bookshelf to spit out random snippets of other people's work does NOT mean you're a caster.
my cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is I think magic squares are nerd shit
January 27, 2026 at 6:48 PM
My cancelable take on Sorcerer Twitter is that it’s not cultural appropriation as long as you don’t call it a Golem.
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The moderate position is unwinding the entire post-9/11 security state
January 27, 2026 at 2:50 AM
The moderate position is unwinding the entire post-9/11 security state
Fun fact! Coffee “beans” are not actually beans. They are the pit of a cherry-like fruit.
coffee is a form of bean broth
January 26, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Fun fact! Coffee “beans” are not actually beans. They are the pit of a cherry-like fruit.
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load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society
January 25, 2026 at 2:11 PM
load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society
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If you need something positive to do to help your community right now that will cost nothing but time, go give blood. Someone is always in need. (A family member's life was saved by donated blood.) For a list of blood donation centers & blood drives within 20 miles of your zip code, search AABB:
January 25, 2026 at 1:02 PM
If you need something positive to do to help your community right now that will cost nothing but time, go give blood. Someone is always in need. (A family member's life was saved by donated blood.) For a list of blood donation centers & blood drives within 20 miles of your zip code, search AABB:
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the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace
January 24, 2026 at 5:43 PM
the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace
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“Let’s try to violently repress with gun violence an enormous population of people we’ve worked very hard to accustom to the constant threat of gun violence”.
January 24, 2026 at 4:39 PM
“Let’s try to violently repress with gun violence an enormous population of people we’ve worked very hard to accustom to the constant threat of gun violence”.
I’ve been writing a fantasy novel for some five years now, about (among other things) organized resistance to a totalitarian regime with a shadowy masked secret police that whisks away or kills anyone they think they can.
I look back now with an appreciation of my own naïveté. Didn’t go far enough.
I look back now with an appreciation of my own naïveté. Didn’t go far enough.
January 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
I’ve been writing a fantasy novel for some five years now, about (among other things) organized resistance to a totalitarian regime with a shadowy masked secret police that whisks away or kills anyone they think they can.
I look back now with an appreciation of my own naïveté. Didn’t go far enough.
I look back now with an appreciation of my own naïveté. Didn’t go far enough.
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The Senate Switch Board Number is: (202)224-3121.
We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding
We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The Senate Switch Board Number is: (202)224-3121.
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The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.
"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...
From the Maine community on Reddit: ICE tells legal observer she is a domestic terrorist for peacefully filming
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January 23, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.
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🧵I think about all the PF1e fan-dorks who complained about the switchover to PF2e, and I'd thought, perhaps naively, that people had learned that they can just keep playing what they wanted and not sound like fucking children when every little rules option they wanted wasn't released right away.
January 23, 2026 at 6:48 AM
🧵I think about all the PF1e fan-dorks who complained about the switchover to PF2e, and I'd thought, perhaps naively, that people had learned that they can just keep playing what they wanted and not sound like fucking children when every little rules option they wanted wasn't released right away.
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2️⃣but as I witness this horse shit *again* with SF2e, I have to say that I'm both disheartened and fucking frustrated by these fucking people. like..the amount of "please go touch some fucking grass" is just..biblical. the rules you say you want are being worked on. but still folks complain.
January 23, 2026 at 6:48 AM
2️⃣but as I witness this horse shit *again* with SF2e, I have to say that I'm both disheartened and fucking frustrated by these fucking people. like..the amount of "please go touch some fucking grass" is just..biblical. the rules you say you want are being worked on. but still folks complain.
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3️⃣At this rate? I wouldn't mind if the Starfriends threw the fuckin Starship combat rules into a fire and never released them. This misbehaved a community doesn't deserve them. *shrug* People doing hard work, and facing stress for dickholes on the internet to keep whining? Naw.
January 23, 2026 at 6:48 AM
3️⃣At this rate? I wouldn't mind if the Starfriends threw the fuckin Starship combat rules into a fire and never released them. This misbehaved a community doesn't deserve them. *shrug* People doing hard work, and facing stress for dickholes on the internet to keep whining? Naw.
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4️⃣Imagine being such a privileged piece of fucking shit that Rules for a made up space game are something you genuinely are angry enough about that you complain in the youtube comments. No fucking lives, these people. Please touch fucking grass. any grass at all. For fuck sake get some perspective.🔚
January 23, 2026 at 6:48 AM
4️⃣Imagine being such a privileged piece of fucking shit that Rules for a made up space game are something you genuinely are angry enough about that you complain in the youtube comments. No fucking lives, these people. Please touch fucking grass. any grass at all. For fuck sake get some perspective.🔚
Baby noises to start! Delegating flashback rules! We're getting creative with the cold opens, here.
#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers
#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers
January 23, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Baby noises to start! Delegating flashback rules! We're getting creative with the cold opens, here.
#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers
#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers
The Return of the King with Big Naturals
The Big Lebowski with Big Naturals
Dangerous Liaisons With Big Naturals
January 22, 2026 at 2:58 AM
The Return of the King with Big Naturals
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There has never been an easier way to help yourself and the world than avoiding using AI. You don't need to donate. You don't need to march. You don't even need to stand up.
January 21, 2026 at 5:17 PM
There has never been an easier way to help yourself and the world than avoiding using AI. You don't need to donate. You don't need to march. You don't even need to stand up.
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I’m guessing some assume that because Iceland is populated by blonde Nordic people that Greenland is the same, and please, I beg of you, spend like 5 minutes reading about what indigenous Greenlanders think of all this insanity:
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I’m guessing some assume that because Iceland is populated by blonde Nordic people that Greenland is the same, and please, I beg of you, spend like 5 minutes reading about what indigenous Greenlanders think of all this insanity:
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“_____ doesn’t advance the plot” is one of the most internet-brained, empty criticisms one can offer.
Something can be important to the story without being a plot domino.
“Plot” is a mere sequence of events while “story” is the totality of the mechanical, thematic and emotional experience.
Something can be important to the story without being a plot domino.
“Plot” is a mere sequence of events while “story” is the totality of the mechanical, thematic and emotional experience.
“sex scenes don’t even advance the plot!!”
i dunno dude the plot said these people were gonna fuck
i dunno dude the plot said these people were gonna fuck
January 21, 2026 at 2:51 AM
“_____ doesn’t advance the plot” is one of the most internet-brained, empty criticisms one can offer.
Something can be important to the story without being a plot domino.
“Plot” is a mere sequence of events while “story” is the totality of the mechanical, thematic and emotional experience.
Something can be important to the story without being a plot domino.
“Plot” is a mere sequence of events while “story” is the totality of the mechanical, thematic and emotional experience.
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man if you want to talk about A DAY to be on SOCIAL MEDIA, I felt like I was doing drugs
Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously
January 20, 2026 at 4:44 PM
man if you want to talk about A DAY to be on SOCIAL MEDIA, I felt like I was doing drugs
Happy to say it is not *my* bad if you dumped billions of your money into a machine with no actual use case or profit model.
Dumbass.
Dumbass.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
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January 20, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Happy to say it is not *my* bad if you dumped billions of your money into a machine with no actual use case or profit model.
Dumbass.
Dumbass.
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Oh dang I love that bit of Greek mythology, the tale of Castor and Castor and Castor and Castor and Castor and Castor and Pollux
Castor, one of the stars marking Gemini's twins — and one of the brightest in the sky — is actually a sextuple star, a *six*-star system! Now, for the first time, astronomers have split some of those tightly bound stars.
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Splitting Castor’s sextuple star system
Four stars seen separately in the system for the first time
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January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Oh dang I love that bit of Greek mythology, the tale of Castor and Castor and Castor and Castor and Castor and Castor and Pollux
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ONE YEAR SINCE INAUGURATION
GIVE IT UP FOR ONE YEAR SINCE INAUGURATION
GIVE IT UP FOR ONE YEAR SINCE INAUGURATION
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 AM
ONE YEAR SINCE INAUGURATION
GIVE IT UP FOR ONE YEAR SINCE INAUGURATION
GIVE IT UP FOR ONE YEAR SINCE INAUGURATION
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this is an excellent example actually because just like Greenland, Hawaii should also rule itself
January 19, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is an excellent example actually because just like Greenland, Hawaii should also rule itself