Actually Autumn
@actuallyautumn.bsky.social
Reader of books and graphic novels.
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Reminding myself once again that it is not a race.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reminding myself once again that it is not a race.
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Before you have kids, you intellectually understand they need to eat dinner every day. But you do not understand what this means. You can't. They need to eat dinner EVERY day
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Before you have kids, you intellectually understand they need to eat dinner every day. But you do not understand what this means. You can't. They need to eat dinner EVERY day
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My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.
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If you think about it, SAW is kind of like Waiting for Godot if Godot had been there the whole time.
October 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If you think about it, SAW is kind of like Waiting for Godot if Godot had been there the whole time.
I just spent half an hour scrolling for @aplante.com's chip bukkake post because someone mentioned in passing that they liked all-dressed chips. I'm a good friend like that.
Why wouldn't it turn up in search? Who knows! But now I have it bookmarked and you can too:
bsky.app/profile/apla...
Why wouldn't it turn up in search? Who knows! But now I have it bookmarked and you can too:
bsky.app/profile/apla...
i’m so sorry you had to find out this way but all-dressed chips are just chip bukkake
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I just spent half an hour scrolling for @aplante.com's chip bukkake post because someone mentioned in passing that they liked all-dressed chips. I'm a good friend like that.
Why wouldn't it turn up in search? Who knows! But now I have it bookmarked and you can too:
bsky.app/profile/apla...
Why wouldn't it turn up in search? Who knows! But now I have it bookmarked and you can too:
bsky.app/profile/apla...
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I was sorting my meds for the week and goose kept asking me what each individual pill I take is for, and each time my internal monologue was like “this one also keeps mommy from killing herself”
September 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I was sorting my meds for the week and goose kept asking me what each individual pill I take is for, and each time my internal monologue was like “this one also keeps mommy from killing herself”
I want someone to appreciate that my cane I sometimes have to use is named Abel.
September 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I want someone to appreciate that my cane I sometimes have to use is named Abel.
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Y’all have covered everything else… I’m interested to know the parts of what he said you agreed with?
I don't think it's simpering praise. He was an interesting man. I didn't agree with much that he said, but he was interesting and he was growing, and his death is a significant loss for those who believe engagement can help bridge disagreements.
September 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I had to swap the audiobook of A Game in Yellow for the printed version because listening to it in public (on headphones!) kept making me blush furiously. Something tells me that @haileypiperfights.bsky.social would probably enjoy that.
August 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I had to swap the audiobook of A Game in Yellow for the printed version because listening to it in public (on headphones!) kept making me blush furiously. Something tells me that @haileypiperfights.bsky.social would probably enjoy that.
When did American men collectively decide that they all needed to back into parking spaces? And why are they collectively so terrible at it?
August 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
When did American men collectively decide that they all needed to back into parking spaces? And why are they collectively so terrible at it?
“I am terrified of my fellow Americans. I might try to push that feeling down, or disguise it as something safer, like anger or mean jokes about their cars, but the fact is that I do not feel safe.”
[nodding vigorously in transgender]
[nodding vigorously in transgender]
At the newsletter: Ari Aster made a movie about how Both Sides are being led astray by Internet Extremism. I watched it in a heavily Trumpy small-town movie theater and had a panic attack. No paywall: jude-doyle.ghost.io/on-see/
On Seeing "Eddington" In Trump Country
Jude Is Afraid.
jude-doyle.ghost.io
August 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“I am terrified of my fellow Americans. I might try to push that feeling down, or disguise it as something safer, like anger or mean jokes about their cars, but the fact is that I do not feel safe.”
[nodding vigorously in transgender]
[nodding vigorously in transgender]
Do cis people have anxiety dreams about not being able to find a safe place to pee?
July 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Do cis people have anxiety dreams about not being able to find a safe place to pee?
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I hate summer so much. Can we just pretend for today that it's winter again? When things are quiet and peaceful and my face isn't melting off when I go outside?
July 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I hate summer so much. Can we just pretend for today that it's winter again? When things are quiet and peaceful and my face isn't melting off when I go outside?
This thread is about criticism and theater but it applies very well to criticism & games. The ability of skilled game critics to put a new release into historic & genre context is invaluable. But game criticism usually favors the naïve buyer—often resulting in critique adrift in an eternal present.
This creates a challenge: If the only people reviewing the new Hamlet are people who compare it to 12 other Hamlets, that's not really a help to a young person who wants to know if they should spend hard-earned money to see Hamlet. They don't care that it's your sixth favorite. It's their one shot.>
July 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This thread is about criticism and theater but it applies very well to criticism & games. The ability of skilled game critics to put a new release into historic & genre context is invaluable. But game criticism usually favors the naïve buyer—often resulting in critique adrift in an eternal present.
I know the "as a parent of a child with autism" framing is often problematic and rightfully scorned, but as a parent of a child with autism, I am absolutely crushed by the now-legal gutting of the Department of Education. The life of my child, his friends, and his classmates is now measurably worse.
July 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I know the "as a parent of a child with autism" framing is often problematic and rightfully scorned, but as a parent of a child with autism, I am absolutely crushed by the now-legal gutting of the Department of Education. The life of my child, his friends, and his classmates is now measurably worse.
Few things make me bounce out of a song faster than a man singing about how he has demons or a monster or the devil inside him. That's just a big red flag that someone is an asshole.
July 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Few things make me bounce out of a song faster than a man singing about how he has demons or a monster or the devil inside him. That's just a big red flag that someone is an asshole.
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one thing on my mind, still thinking about this conversation
to echo an excellent point @katelynburns.com makes, like,
speaking for myself: I *was* a trans child, regardless of how the medical system or my society saw me ... that was always my truth (inside).
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
to echo an excellent point @katelynburns.com makes, like,
speaking for myself: I *was* a trans child, regardless of how the medical system or my society saw me ... that was always my truth (inside).
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
July 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
one thing on my mind, still thinking about this conversation
to echo an excellent point @katelynburns.com makes, like,
speaking for myself: I *was* a trans child, regardless of how the medical system or my society saw me ... that was always my truth (inside).
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
to echo an excellent point @katelynburns.com makes, like,
speaking for myself: I *was* a trans child, regardless of how the medical system or my society saw me ... that was always my truth (inside).
www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
Having one of those days where it feels like the bad guys are winning, the good guys are floundering, and the whole game is being played in a room on fire. Sure could use some hope.
June 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Having one of those days where it feels like the bad guys are winning, the good guys are floundering, and the whole game is being played in a room on fire. Sure could use some hope.
I can respect most film tastes and opinions, but I don't know how any "best movies of the 21st century" list isn't topped by "Portrait of a Lady on Fire". It is a perfect film in every way.
June 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I can respect most film tastes and opinions, but I don't know how any "best movies of the 21st century" list isn't topped by "Portrait of a Lady on Fire". It is a perfect film in every way.
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Stop typing Tr*mp, El*n, M*sk, N*zi, and all of that shit. Type out the whole word so that the mute filters can work.
I swear I am just going to start blocking people who do this.
I swear I am just going to start blocking people who do this.
January 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Stop typing Tr*mp, El*n, M*sk, N*zi, and all of that shit. Type out the whole word so that the mute filters can work.
I swear I am just going to start blocking people who do this.
I swear I am just going to start blocking people who do this.
Have you ever thought about how “hermenutical,” the adj. form of hermenutics, the theory of interpretation of scripture, sounds remarkably like “Herman’s Neuticles,” the testicle prosthetics of someone named Herman? Maybe Melville?
… No?
… No?
June 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Have you ever thought about how “hermenutical,” the adj. form of hermenutics, the theory of interpretation of scripture, sounds remarkably like “Herman’s Neuticles,” the testicle prosthetics of someone named Herman? Maybe Melville?
… No?
… No?
Dear men who narrate audio books: not every female character should get your “seductive woman” voice. It’s not really that seductive anyway!
June 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dear men who narrate audio books: not every female character should get your “seductive woman” voice. It’s not really that seductive anyway!
I came across my first online recipe that looks to have been AI-generated. It’s astounding to me how quickly genAI pollution has overtaken everything. Time to go back to relying on printed cookbooks.
May 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I came across my first online recipe that looks to have been AI-generated. It’s astounding to me how quickly genAI pollution has overtaken everything. Time to go back to relying on printed cookbooks.