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carmeinreed.bsky.social
Lance has No Pity For The Majority aka KMFDM
@carmeinreed.bsky.social
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FF14 player (Carmein Reed @ Cactuar), mother of Jools, wife to an adorable trans husband. Spheal is the best boi. Pushing 40, white, she/her, queer, gnc, PCOS, T2 beetus, depression, untreated ADHD. Enjoy the fruits of my ramblings. Or don't.
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carmeinreed.bsky.social
Spheall Squad, roll in! I'm looking at doing a Spheal amigurumi and I'm trying to find a good blue. All of these should be a DK weight (assuming I filtered correctly). Hobbii yarn comes with a tarriff, so preference is for the others that can be gotten in the States. #Spheal #amigurumi #crochet
A collage of different blue yarns with white bands. A number is hastily scribbled on each in black.
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
What flavor is your OC?
A picture of a dark-skinned elf with purple hair, in a long purple tunic, with white gloves and white stockings. A picture of the iconic "squapes", the low-poly grapes featured during Endwalker launch week in Labyrinthos.
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Now #reading #thehungergames #sunriseonthereaping Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. Oh no sweet sweet Haymitch.
Libby screenshot of Sunrise on the Reaping showing the reader's current progreas, the beginning third of chapter 2
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Doing a goodbye tour of Ishgard and Halone before leaving the city for good (or so was her intention) #carmein #lore #elezen #duskwight #ishgard #gpose #vanillagpose
A dark-skinned elf in worn, somewhat rusted armor and a warped sword stares up at a stone icon of Halone. Another angle of the same elf, this time from the perspective of a theoretical bat hiding behind the stone icon A closeup of the elf's face, showing her despair at being forsaken by the god her people sought protection in, that had forsaken her. The same elf in worn, rusted armor looks up at Saint Reymanaud's Cathedral in the city of Ishgard. The gold decorative moulding stands starkly in contrast to her well-worn gear.
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
And it wasn't only once, either. Doing this with Kei and Yuri is deeply hilarious.
Another cover of Out magazine from Feb of 1986, this time Kei is in a power suit with a deep front V, and Yuri is wrapped in a sheet as though the viewer has just interrupted something.
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Oh damn, it took me too long to find this. Oh well, putting it here. This is a cover of a Japanese magazine in 1985. (It's apocryphal that this is a queer mag? Can anyone confirm?)

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Picture of the December 1985 issue of Japanese magazine Out, featuring Kei and Yuri of Dirty Pair in a white tux and pink/white dress, respectively.
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Someone in my Shirogane ward: bet
a dark-skinned elf in a white fluffy beret with a pom-pom and a military-looking coat with a furry collar stands in front of a asian-inspired house. In a dormer along the roof line is a blue gloswing aetheryte shard, allowing one to teleport directly to this residence
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
What's that? Technology doesn't belong in a fantasy video game? Tell me this is your first Final Fantasy game without telling me. #ffxiv #ff14 #gpose #elezen
A dark-skinned elf is wearing a cyber/tek style hoodie, trousers, and sneakers in shades of light blue, light pink, black and white. She is wielding a similar cyberpunk grimoire and her eyes are hidden behind pink reflective sunglasses. She is standing in an environment with stone paved ground, and ancient stone buildings in the background. Tell me again technology doesn't belong in Final Fantasy
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Don't tell the void that her breakfast is secretly joint meds. Also she's making a mess of her face. #Blackcats
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Hey Guydesan enjoyers, you should read Swordcrossed by Freya Marske. I'm only a couple chapters in and I'm already mentally placing Sanson and Guydelot in the lead pairing in my head. #ff14 #ffxiv #guydesan
Screenshot of the cover of Swordcrossed by Freya Marske from inside Libby.
November 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Work #selfie in costume! Other highlights include an actual little person dressed as a leprechaun, Coraline in her raincoat, a Pennywise, and two HP costumes (🤮)
Selfie of the OP in a nun costume
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
There are two kinds of people in this fandom (affectionate)

Featuring @velnica.me and @emethusband.bsky.social

#ff14 #ffxiv #pll89 #liveletter #patch7.4
A screenshot of Velnica and Su's posts, both showing the new Hell on Rails trial boss. Velnica, top, says "NANI THE FUCK" and Su says "A friend"
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
National Black Cat day? I have one of those! House panthers rule!
A black cat lays on a blue carpet, licking her front paw
October 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
To make sure I wasn't crazy, I searched around online. Left is the old packaging. Right is new. Image credits in alt text
Photo taken from abillion.com page for Morningstar Farms Veggitizers Pepperoni Pizza Bites. In the lower right corner, it clearly reads "vegan pizza bites" Screenshot from Meijer.com, for the newer packaging of the now vegetarian pepperoni pizza bites, with the mentioned yellow "Now With Real Cheese" banner on the lower third
October 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Currently #amreading: Legends and Lattes and Swordcrossed. Looking for some low stakes fantasy inspiration for my own work. Happy to take suggestions for low stakes high or urban fantasy books. No particular romance or spiciness preferences but let's keep it upbeat and fairly vanilla.
Cover of Swordcrossed by Freya Marske inside of Libby Screen sgot from Libby's audiobook interface showing the cover of Legends and Lattes by Travis Ballmer, read by the author.
October 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Euro leftists: Ugh, just use the trains or busses!

Suburban Americans:
A screenshot of OPs commute to work in Google Maps. The drive time is 45 minutes to go 44 miles. The public transport travel time is 5 hours and 20 minutes. The walking travel time is 16 hours. The biking travel time is 4 hours and 8 minutes. Yes, it is over an hour faster to bike than to do public transport.
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Here's a similar rationale applied to the second window you posted. Again, the centers of the lower two circles are centered inside the 2nd and 4th fifths created by the lower panes.

Another thing occurs to me, that if the peak of the window is a right triangle, it's trivial to determine...
A photo of another gothic window with more blue, red, and green lines doodled on it.
October 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
I do see some symmetry and regularity here that I tried to make sense of. Blue lines are quarters, red lines are thirds. Green lines mark out equilateral shapes (as best as I could do with a mouse, and a line tool without measuring precisely).
A doodled-on version of the OP's sketch, with lines marked out at various ratios
October 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Spooky slice intensifies! #ffxiv #ff14 #spookyslice
A dark skinned elf in a spooky purple witch's outfit with spooky orange glowing pumpkins. She is wielding a spooky black scythe with a spooky purple glow.
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Saw this Whole Foods bag my dad brought home and something stuck out to me among all its chemical fearmongering. It says activated charcoal on there. Oh what's that? I can buy activated charcoal from Whole Foods and have it delivered to my house today?
A picture of a Whole Foods bag with "It's what's not in the bag" in large letters on a background of polysyllabic ingredients such as "thiodipropionic acid", "potassium benzoate", and "citrus red no. 2". A photo of the same bag, with activated charcoal circled in red on separate, but subsequent lines Screenshot of a Whole Foods listing showing a bottle of activated charcoal tablets, 100ct for $13.99 USD
October 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Watching a B Dylan Hollis video and paused it to avoid the loop and well. #bdylanhollis

Hubby: "Is he okay?"
Me: "No, he is never okay."
screenshot of B. Dylan Hollis in his kitchen, Bermudan flag on his fridg in the background. He is wearing an embroidered dark brown jacket, with a white shirt underneath. On his face he has one eye open, the other closed, with his mouth hanging open, looking especially derpy.
October 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
My answer when a guest asks me "red or black" for roulette will always be black because of my baby #roulette #blackcats
A black cat with a white spot is bathing herself on a grey blanket. Her cute little pink tongue can be seen.
October 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
If you see this, Quote with your top 4 Final Fantasy games
A screenshot from Final Fantasy 6 in in its original SNES release aspect ratio, depicting (from left on the upper level) Relm, Mog, Edgar, Terra, (above Rydia is a nameless airship crew member), and (bottom level) Celes. Screenshot of the current Pixel Remaster release of Final Fantasy 4, depicting a battle between Golbez on the left, and Kain, Rosa, Cecil, and Yang on the right. For some reason, there's only 4 party members instea of 5. At the top of the screen, Golbez is saying "Heh heh heh... Your power pales in comparison to mine...." If memory serves, the party is inside one of the crystal chambers. A screenshot from Final Fantasy 14, where Researchingway has clipped into the floor of his stall on Phaenna. A pair of screenshots from the mobile game Final Fantasy Record Keeper, the left depicting a battle against Baigan (if memory serves), and the right is the same battle against Golbez in the same crystal chamber. The party fighting both bosses consists of the Record Keeper protag, Cecil, Terra, Cloud, and Tidus because that's just how FFRK rolls. On the bottom are game icons with Japanese labels that I can't read soz
October 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Uh. Bro? You ok down there? #phaenna #cosmicexploration #ffxiv #ff14
a screenshot of FF14, on Phaenna. Researchingway the Loporrit is clipping through the floor under his chair.
September 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
carmeinreed.bsky.social
Guy at the gate headed to SFO with us has a cool vintage #pentax
Photo of a vintage SLR camera with a prominent Pentax logo sitting on top of a dark red bag
September 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM