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Abe Drayton
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Internationally recognized writer, Utopian pragmatist. cyberserf. He/him 🕸

Magister of the Fantastical (diploma pending)
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Well, I'm out of the bathroom regardless. Making breakfast.
The image shows one corner of a room, with white or pale yellow walls, covered in what appears to be blood. There is a blood-civwred framed painting, and a blood-civwred side table with a lamp and mini-TV, neither of which seem to have blood on them. A text box at the bottom of the image says, "caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent"
October 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Who needs two hands to write?

What really matters is my calling as a heated body pillow.
A chunky cat is sleeping on a couch, between a human's right arm and leg. His four is brindled black and gold-brown, but for his white arm and paw, clinging to the arm, and white on his face and neck. It's obviously not visible, but he's breathing heavily in his sleep
July 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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This is an XKCD comic. Panel 1: a stick figure with a microphone yells, "your government has turned against you! Corporations control your every thought! Open your eyes!" Panel 2: same guys yells, Wake up sheeple! Wake up sheeple! WAKE UP SHEEPLE! Panel 3: there is an Eldritch "ba-a-a-a as a sheep person rises from the ground holding a staff. Panel 4: a closeup of the Sheeple's eye as it says, "ten thousand years we slumbered... Now we riiiiise" Panel 5: a smaller, femme stick figure says, oh God oh God oh God WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" To which the megaphone guy says, "What? But I don't -" In the background, people scream, "he awoke the sheeple!" "Heaven forgive us!" "All is lost!"
July 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Name a film with a Black protagonist

Underrated classic:
It's a poster for the 1984 movie, The Brother from Another Planet. It shows the main character, played by Joe Morton, standing in the foreground in baggy orange clothes, looking concerned. The NYC skyline is behind him in black and a pale blue-purple that's hard to make out at times against the blue-purplish background. The film's title is in yellow across the lower third, the Statue of Liberty is shown next to the main character, along with the tagline, "He's not just another out-of-towner...
June 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Cops are highly trained to spot threats the rest of us might miss. They know how dangerous musicians can be!
June 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Masks and respirators have long been a part of the cyberpunk aesthetic, because genre always involves bloodthirsty corporate overlords driving massive amounts of pollution.

Perhaps it's time to start updating our wardrobes.
Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, but he's been given a hat, collar, and visor that glow neon, and there's a cityscape in the background. The text says, "You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias... You're in one"
June 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The image is a page from the manga Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror. In a previous panel, a young couple has twisted their bodies together like mating snakes, to keep their families from separating them. They twisted so much they turned into a single, living rope with only their heads separate to identify them. In the first two panels, the girl says "Stop it father. We're never going to be apart," and the boy agrees: "That's right... forever..." They slither away across the beach and into the ocean as family and friends watch in disbelief and horror, and the narrator says, "that was the last we saw of them before they disappeared into the sea."
June 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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The image is a closeup of an artistic reconstruction of the face of the prehistoric creature Sacabambaspis, looking shocked (which is its default state). The text reads: Sacabambaspis (along the top) Did not expect this! (along the bottom).
May 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Be more like Dandelion!
The image is a four-panel cartoon. The first panel, top left corner, shows flower with a sad face, with the narrator saying, "Aw, what's wrong little flower?" Panel two, top right corner, shows the flower, wide-eyed, saying, "I can't do this", to which the narrator responds, "What are you talking about? You get watered regularly, fertilized at the proper intervals, have optimal sunlight-" Panel three. bottom left, is the flower, now drooped over and wilting, its colors fading as it says, "and yet, I am dying." The narrator responds, "Why can't you be more like Dandelion?" Panel four, bottom right corner, is a dandelion growing out of a bit of split pavement, with a goofy, enthusiastic expression on its face as it says, "A crack in the sidewalk! YEEEEAAAAEEAAAAAAAAAY!" Credit goes to Beatrice the Biologist
April 19, 2024 at 12:22 AM