Affixjoy
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Writer, meme maker, McSpirk enthusiast
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![Edited screenshot from an episode of Star Trek TOS. It's a close up cropped picture of Doctor Leonard 'Bones' McCoy stands on the bridge of the Enterprise, looking up and to the side with one eyebrow raised and his mouth slightly open in an expression of puzzled bewilderment. A caption has been added towards the bottom of the image in all caps white text: "[bisexual confusion]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tq75texcyq2kqs4ivjr55bor/bafkreibtgf6l2t367uf75htq2uaeroonxbc754vn2gjvyvsyzzc3mq4ot4@jpeg)
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You can make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
You can make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head.
Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway.
Just make art.
I finished reading all the Murderbot books and now I have no idea what I want next.
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I finished reading all the Murderbot books and now I have no idea what I want next.
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Speaking as a longtime Paul Thomas Anderson aficionado, Sinners was a way more important film — and a much smarter film — than One Battle After Another, which was entertaining at times but also full of misogynoir and bad revisionist readings of liberation movements
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Speaking as a longtime Paul Thomas Anderson aficionado, Sinners was a way more important film — and a much smarter film — than One Battle After Another, which was entertaining at times but also full of misogynoir and bad revisionist readings of liberation movements
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it's weird to live in a world where a new 'worst thing you've ever imagined' happens at least a few times a month and it's easy to let it all run together and just sort of wash over you and go totally numb to all of it so you don't freak out because you still have to do laundry and go to work.
November 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
it's weird to live in a world where a new 'worst thing you've ever imagined' happens at least a few times a month and it's easy to let it all run together and just sort of wash over you and go totally numb to all of it so you don't freak out because you still have to do laundry and go to work.
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RFK Jr’s CDC posting lies about vaccines and autism on their website isn’t just misinformation, it’s intentionally weaponized eugenicist rhetoric that will kill people.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
RFK Jr’s CDC posting lies about vaccines and autism on their website isn’t just misinformation, it’s intentionally weaponized eugenicist rhetoric that will kill people.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Just realized that it’s only a matter of time before my 4 year old learns to read and soon I’m going to have to be real careful about what I’m reading and writing around him 😅
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Just realized that it’s only a matter of time before my 4 year old learns to read and soon I’m going to have to be real careful about what I’m reading and writing around him 😅
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The best part of writing? Is when the whole point of the story finally comes to you and everything clicks into place, and you realize this is why those bread crumbs came to you, this is the "what" of it, and you get the cosmos revealed to you once again. The closest thing to magic there is
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The best part of writing? Is when the whole point of the story finally comes to you and everything clicks into place, and you realize this is why those bread crumbs came to you, this is the "what" of it, and you get the cosmos revealed to you once again. The closest thing to magic there is
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In my opinion, the best Stephen King adaptations start with a slow paced first act, where everything is “normal” but something is undefinably off. Bad adaptations skip this step because they think audiences will think it’s boring, but in fact it’s the scariest part, where the tension builds
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
In my opinion, the best Stephen King adaptations start with a slow paced first act, where everything is “normal” but something is undefinably off. Bad adaptations skip this step because they think audiences will think it’s boring, but in fact it’s the scariest part, where the tension builds
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TOS didn't have as many examples of friendly cooperation and pure diplomacy as TNG. (Even when Kirk gives a speech at the end of an episode he often blows up a computer at the same time.)
But TOS is undefeated at relentlessly dissecting the abuse of power and its consequences.
But TOS is undefeated at relentlessly dissecting the abuse of power and its consequences.
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
TOS didn't have as many examples of friendly cooperation and pure diplomacy as TNG. (Even when Kirk gives a speech at the end of an episode he often blows up a computer at the same time.)
But TOS is undefeated at relentlessly dissecting the abuse of power and its consequences.
But TOS is undefeated at relentlessly dissecting the abuse of power and its consequences.
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This month is proving to be a really hard one financially too and I'm still recovering from surgery. I'm also almost out of cash with bills still coming 🫠 So if you can afford it pls think of donating to my Ko-Fi. Shares are also most welcome! 💜✨
ko-fi.com/purpleenma/
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November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This month is proving to be a really hard one financially too and I'm still recovering from surgery. I'm also almost out of cash with bills still coming 🫠 So if you can afford it pls think of donating to my Ko-Fi. Shares are also most welcome! 💜✨
ko-fi.com/purpleenma/
ko-fi.com/purpleenma/
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I think this is really true
Like fuck her, it’s not sincere, even if it is I have no grace for her, but moving back toward a world where it’s seen as a political liability to gleefully be an atrocious person would be Good Actually
Like fuck her, it’s not sincere, even if it is I have no grace for her, but moving back toward a world where it’s seen as a political liability to gleefully be an atrocious person would be Good Actually
Literally stunned that someone like MTG is forcing herself to apologize, of all things. Indicative of a political wind blowing away from performative cruelty in politics because she is a weather-vane politician if ever there was one.
November 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I think this is really true
Like fuck her, it’s not sincere, even if it is I have no grace for her, but moving back toward a world where it’s seen as a political liability to gleefully be an atrocious person would be Good Actually
Like fuck her, it’s not sincere, even if it is I have no grace for her, but moving back toward a world where it’s seen as a political liability to gleefully be an atrocious person would be Good Actually
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Local woman wakes up, sends her love and respect to the chronic illness and disabled communities who are mourning the loss of amazing advocates both this week and the last few years and who keep fighting an unjust and inaccessible world, makes oatmeal.
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Local woman wakes up, sends her love and respect to the chronic illness and disabled communities who are mourning the loss of amazing advocates both this week and the last few years and who keep fighting an unjust and inaccessible world, makes oatmeal.
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ao3 is turning 16years old omg everyone say happy birthday
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
ao3 is turning 16years old omg everyone say happy birthday
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It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
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What we are seeing is a replay of the surrender on Covid protections because it was going to impact the wealth class in a way that would make it harder to accrue wealth without consequences.
Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.
Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
What we are seeing is a replay of the surrender on Covid protections because it was going to impact the wealth class in a way that would make it harder to accrue wealth without consequences.
Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.
Liberals already made the choice to kill millions to maintain the wealth class status quo.
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Until the sun burns out
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Until the sun burns out
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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I really loved GDT’s Frankenstein, but I will warn people it makes the subtext of childabuse and parental neglect text.
Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.
Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.
Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I really loved GDT’s Frankenstein, but I will warn people it makes the subtext of childabuse and parental neglect text.
Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.
Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.
Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
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I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
My Sponeszine fic is now up on ao3! Check it out for mirror Spones! Vampire Spock! McCoy coming in his pants! Sexy blood drinking!
archiveofourown.org/works/73926401
archiveofourown.org/works/73926401
Half agony, half hope - Affixjoy - Star Trek [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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November 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My Sponeszine fic is now up on ao3! Check it out for mirror Spones! Vampire Spock! McCoy coming in his pants! Sexy blood drinking!
archiveofourown.org/works/73926401
archiveofourown.org/works/73926401
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nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary