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Khan
@dreadpiratekhan.bsky.social
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Looking for my next opportunity ☆ GDC speaker 2025 & 2019 ☆ Dead Island 2, Gears: Tactics, LotRO, f2p games ☆ sasspot, ethnic mutt, tired, bi, adhd, she/her ☆ back on my Tumblr word nerditry as jetsetnarrative
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I suspect this Christmas market stall is not nearly so funny to Brits

But I am, as always, actually a twelve year old boy disguised as a forty-something woman 🤣🤣
A website description of the Newcastle Christmas market stall "Fudge Packers", alongside a photo of some of their "uniquely flavored" fudges
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Preach, @starkholborn.bsky.social
Game dev Stark Holborn at her AdventureX 2025 presentation, standing in front of a slide reading "Using Gen AI to replace creativity is to replace magic with sterility".
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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This one's dedicated to all my short monarchs 😙
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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I was at Bird & Blend, and came away with like 5 new teas #noregrets

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Do you not have tea shops in your region? 💔
An interior shot of the Bird & Blend tea shop on Grainger Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. A long counter bears many large jars of tea blends, with four densely stocked shelves of more jars lining the wall behind it, and ends in a truncated L shape stocked with boxes of tea and accoutrements. A few small white bistro style tables and chairs face the counter, each set with paper menus and glasses of of bright red iced fruit teas with striped straws.
August 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Happy birthday!
Khan, a game dev with ombre blue hair dressed in a pink shirt and black leather jacket, stands in the Expo Hall of 2025's GDC, smiling while holding up her event badge bearing a "SPEAKER" flag.
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Daffs are up and at 'em! 🌱🇬🇧
March 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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not my home, but I know my way around
Skyrim's in-game map, thickly covered in icons representing discovered points of interest
March 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Look for bright blue hair and a satanic care bear t-shirt 😁
February 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This is the direction mine takes:
January 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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So I hear 😅

I bet we know some people in common ^_^
A parody weather alert that reads "Southerners are urged not to travel unless absolutely necessary. Northerners, you will need your big coat"
January 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Good morning
A winter sunrise. Leafless trees and rooftops are black silhouettes against a glow of light orange limning them, below a downright bisexual display of pink clouds against pale blue sky
January 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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😂😂 from an author on Threads
A Threads post by author V.T. Hoang. "Not going to yuck anyone's yum. Fantasy is fantasy. But I'm never going to write teacher-student relations for two personal reasons: 1. Ew 2. I work with 17-19 year olds. Those are children. Straight up. Those are babies. Those are literal toddlers. Those are smol, wobbly beans. I've seen a student sniff a plate of e.coli (notoriously bad smelling) and proceed to gag for twenty minutes and then also contract e.coli. No prefrontal cortex."
January 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Best of luck to you....
January 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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(Look I never said I was going to reply on a reliable schedule)

Last one of these mentioned Angelina Jolie in Hackers, and speaking of which: Cereal Killer in Hackers, and Stevo in SLC Punk!, both played by Matthew Lillard.
What can I say; for a while, my type was very much "tall, skinny, intense"
A cropped promo photo for the movie Hackers. Matthew Lillard as Emmanuel "Cereal Killer" Goldstein stands on the left. His posture is a bit hunched, and he's somehow gangling whilst standing still. His long hair is in those odd skinny 90s multiple braids we used to rock to prove we didn't care about looking pretty and could only pull off because we were all so young and gorgeous, wearing an embellished black tank top, black leather wide-legged trousers, and the mother of all wallet chains -- a chunky, thick silver chain connecting front and back pocket and hanging down past his knee. He's a tall guy, so that's like a four- or five-foot-long chain, implying I suppose that it could be used as a weapon. Next to him stands Kate Libby played by Angelina Jolie, resplendent in head to toe white chic biker leathers. Matthew Lillard as Stevo in the movie "SLC Punk!". He's clean-shaven and mildly scowling, standing with his hands in the pockets of his black jeans. He's wearing a dirty brown t-shirt that does nothing for his complexion, a black leather jacket, and a short chunky necklace. His hair is short, spiked, and dyed electric blue.
January 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Proof
A cropped screenshot of a weather app widget on a phone's home screen. The widget shows a "partly cloudy" symbol and "3 degrees (Celsius), Newcastle upon Tyne, Wintry mix likely to continue". The background image is Gomez and Morticia Addams posed as in Klimt's "The Kiss".
January 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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without downloading new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
A screenshotted tweet from John Scalzi (jscalzi) that reads "You know what, *I* didn't fuck around, so I don't see why *I* ALSO have to find out"
December 28, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
The prettiest little decorated Christmas tree in the world (this is an unbiased opinion) with a red sheepskin rug as tree skirt, next to an ottoman shaped like a furry orange Highland cow. No presents pictured, as they have already been opened.
December 25, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Seeing Angelina Jolie in Foxfire (and, almost immediately after, Hackers) was less of a gentle gradual wondrous sexual awakening and more of a case of running face-first into a brick wall emblazoned with 10-foot-tall graffiti reading HEY IDIOT, YEAH NO DUH YOU ALSO LIKE GIRLS
A still of a very young Angelina Jolie in the indie drama Foxfire. She is wearing a black leather jacket zipped closed, a backpack with brown leather straps, no makeup, and she has that choppy 90s shaggy-bob-with-bangs oh my god that's why I rocked that haircut for years in my teens, isn't it. It was her. I need to go sit down.
December 20, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

(Number 8 of 20.)

#booksky #books 📚 #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
The cover of a paperback book: the script for the stage play Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee. It features a dark, moody painting of a tense courtroom scene set in the early 20th century; its central figure is a male lawyer in his shirtsleeves, which stands out stark white against the dark wood and dark suits of the judge and jury behind him, who all look unsympathetic. He is stood leaning forward with one hand supporting himself on a paper-strewn table, posture hunched, confrontationally thrusting a small gilt-edged book forward in one outstretched arm with palpable intensity.
December 20, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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First among equals: Westley, played by Cary Elwes in The Princess Bride.

Back in the day, I literally started dating someone because his LARP PC looked and dressed a lot like this... and yeah, my handle has been DreadPirateKhan for years for good reason.
A still shot from the movie The Princess Bride. Cary Elwes as "Westley" is center screen against a background of large rocks and scrubby grass. He is dressed entirely in black in a loose pirate shirt without ruffles, tight trousers, a sash belt bearing a sword sheath, leather gloves that cover his wrists, a do-rag covering his hair and a mask covering his upper face. The only skin visible is his lower face and his throat, as the shirt is only laced up to mid chest. He wields a rapier in his right hand and is gesturing with his left. The overall effect is of a confident, dangerous, and utterly swoonworthy rogue. Rowr.
December 20, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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I'm in. Let's get uncomfortably revealing up in here
A digital imitation of a handwritten note on lined paper that reads "1 like = 1 fictional crush!" surrounded by little red hearts. Now please like the associated post (kiss emoji)
December 20, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

(Number 7 of 20.)

#booksky #books 📚 #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
The cover of the hardcover of World Tales, a collection of traditional fairy tales, myths, and other stories from around the globe, collected by Idries Shah.
December 18, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

(Number 6 of 20 is the superlative trilogy of which this is the middle book.)

#booksky #books 📚 #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
The illustrated cover of the book Servant of the Empire, by Raymond E Feist and Janny Wurts. It is the middle book of a trilogy, coming between Daughter of the Empire and Mistress of the Empire. Against a dark background, with her head haloed by a huge orange alien moon, stands a slender brown-skinned woman wearing a rich silk robe and with her black hair elaborately styled, showing a mix of Incan or Mayan and Japanese design influences. This aesthetic also informs the look of a warrior standing in a defensive position at her back, who is wearing a feathered headdress and wielding a large spear and a buckler. In contrast, the last figure -- a red-headed and bearded white man hunkered down on one knee at her feet, pointing off to the left -- is dressed in European style fantasy garb.
December 10, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

(Number 5 of 20.)

#booksky #books 📚 #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
The cover of the novel Kushiel's Dart, by Jacqueline Carey. Against a foggy light blue background is an illustration of the top two thirds of a young dark-haired standing woman in profile to the viewer, looking down. The top of a plain white skirt or wrap is visible around her hips. She is shirtless, hands on her own opposite shoulders as though hugging herself with her arms covering her breasts. A large stylized rose tattoo on her back is partially visible.
December 8, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you, one a day in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

(Number 4 of 20.)

#booksky #books 📚 #bookchallenge #20daybookchallenge
The cover of the book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich. It features a photograph of a diner waitress waiting at a kitchen pass. She's dressed in a light blue uniform and has curly blonde hair. She's lightly leaning on the white counter of the pass, has her head craned around to keep an eye on her tables over her left shoulder, and looks tired.
December 6, 2024 at 3:03 PM