L Collins
@howtoread.bsky.social
Writer
Also reader and gamer, mostly here for the nice art
Also reader and gamer, mostly here for the nice art
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Oh, what CALAMITIES may come -- in August, 2026.
December 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Oh, what CALAMITIES may come -- in August, 2026.
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The ancient world was full of riotous color and strange ornaments, much of which we have direct archaeological evidence for. It would be nice if even one project tried to bring that to life.
December 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The ancient world was full of riotous color and strange ornaments, much of which we have direct archaeological evidence for. It would be nice if even one project tried to bring that to life.
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$1 million for a Game Awards Trailer is a way over my budget.
So, I'm going to post my Cat train idle game here for free and reposting is free as well!
What a great deal!
So, I'm going to post my Cat train idle game here for free and reposting is free as well!
What a great deal!
December 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
$1 million for a Game Awards Trailer is a way over my budget.
So, I'm going to post my Cat train idle game here for free and reposting is free as well!
What a great deal!
So, I'm going to post my Cat train idle game here for free and reposting is free as well!
What a great deal!
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"Oh you also like 40k?" and the algorithm gets truly cursed.
Honestly, history and 40k videos are either the most deluded fash nonsense imaginable or the occasional queer leftist nerd who's actually great. There is zero in between.
Honestly, history and 40k videos are either the most deluded fash nonsense imaginable or the occasional queer leftist nerd who's actually great. There is zero in between.
YOUTUBE: you like history
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"Oh you also like 40k?" and the algorithm gets truly cursed.
Honestly, history and 40k videos are either the most deluded fash nonsense imaginable or the occasional queer leftist nerd who's actually great. There is zero in between.
Honestly, history and 40k videos are either the most deluded fash nonsense imaginable or the occasional queer leftist nerd who's actually great. There is zero in between.
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If you like the history pods and writing I do, you'd better pray everything you like is completed before Total War Warhammer 40k comes out, because you're sure as shit not getting anything for a while afterward
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If you like the history pods and writing I do, you'd better pray everything you like is completed before Total War Warhammer 40k comes out, because you're sure as shit not getting anything for a while afterward
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We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
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Wait nobody told me Ghost Rider is a grappler
and his grab is he just summons a car that slams into you this rulesssss
and his grab is he just summons a car that slams into you this rulesssss
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Wait nobody told me Ghost Rider is a grappler
and his grab is he just summons a car that slams into you this rulesssss
and his grab is he just summons a car that slams into you this rulesssss
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Whatever horrors you may find in these dark spaces, have heart and see them through.
There are no premature endings. There are no wrong decisions.
There are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings.
This is a love story.
SLAY THE PRINCESS is 40% off on Steam, the cheapest it's even been.
There are no premature endings. There are no wrong decisions.
There are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings.
This is a love story.
SLAY THE PRINCESS is 40% off on Steam, the cheapest it's even been.
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Whatever horrors you may find in these dark spaces, have heart and see them through.
There are no premature endings. There are no wrong decisions.
There are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings.
This is a love story.
SLAY THE PRINCESS is 40% off on Steam, the cheapest it's even been.
There are no premature endings. There are no wrong decisions.
There are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings.
This is a love story.
SLAY THE PRINCESS is 40% off on Steam, the cheapest it's even been.
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i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
i think the inability to tell the difference between "i don't like it" and "i don't like it so i have to figure out a way to imply this thing i don't like is morally evil" is the most fundie thing i see people who are aren't technically fundie regularly do these days
People are going to have the 'Is art allowed to be disturbing?' conversation every week until the end of time, aren't they.
December 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
People are going to have the 'Is art allowed to be disturbing?' conversation every week until the end of time, aren't they.
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"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
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search: "gifts for men"
-Beer coozies with sexist slogans
-a literal gun
-Utility knife made from a whiskey barrel
-Soap shaped like a gun
-Golf tees
-Anti-fart spray
-Underpants you can get your face printed on
-Beard oil that smells like guns
-Leather. Just leather.
-Beer coozies with sexist slogans
-a literal gun
-Utility knife made from a whiskey barrel
-Soap shaped like a gun
-Golf tees
-Anti-fart spray
-Underpants you can get your face printed on
-Beard oil that smells like guns
-Leather. Just leather.
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
search: "gifts for men"
-Beer coozies with sexist slogans
-a literal gun
-Utility knife made from a whiskey barrel
-Soap shaped like a gun
-Golf tees
-Anti-fart spray
-Underpants you can get your face printed on
-Beard oil that smells like guns
-Leather. Just leather.
-Beer coozies with sexist slogans
-a literal gun
-Utility knife made from a whiskey barrel
-Soap shaped like a gun
-Golf tees
-Anti-fart spray
-Underpants you can get your face printed on
-Beard oil that smells like guns
-Leather. Just leather.
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Not Gonna Lie, folks. I am incredibly dubious in this day and age of any study that states 'you don't reach adulthood until X' considering how the 'full brain at 25' thing has been weaponized by both young and old to avoid responsibility and deny autonomy
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Not Gonna Lie, folks. I am incredibly dubious in this day and age of any study that states 'you don't reach adulthood until X' considering how the 'full brain at 25' thing has been weaponized by both young and old to avoid responsibility and deny autonomy
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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the most scathing book review i’ve ever seen. absolute brutality
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
the most scathing book review i’ve ever seen. absolute brutality
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most of the time, the idea isn't even *the* idea halfway through drafting the thing because the idea has sprouted its own wings and is now telling you to go into a different direction, and all the plotting and planning has to start all over again.
the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
most of the time, the idea isn't even *the* idea halfway through drafting the thing because the idea has sprouted its own wings and is now telling you to go into a different direction, and all the plotting and planning has to start all over again.
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the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
Isn't this a B-plot from The Invisibles?
in another example of "this is too on-the-nose for fiction", rich people be hunting humans now
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Isn't this a B-plot from The Invisibles?
It's funny that every single time Bluesky starts to irritate me I realise I've switched to the Discover feed by mistake
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It's funny that every single time Bluesky starts to irritate me I realise I've switched to the Discover feed by mistake
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
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"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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Flight attendant: anything to drink?
Me: ginger ale please
FA: sure!
Me: thank you!
(FA hands napkin)
Me: thank you!!
(FA hands ice cup)
Me: thank you!!!
(FA hands drink)
Me: thank you!!!!
FA: enjoy?
Me: thank you so much!!!!!!!
Me: ginger ale please
FA: sure!
Me: thank you!
(FA hands napkin)
Me: thank you!!
(FA hands ice cup)
Me: thank you!!!
(FA hands drink)
Me: thank you!!!!
FA: enjoy?
Me: thank you so much!!!!!!!
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Flight attendant: anything to drink?
Me: ginger ale please
FA: sure!
Me: thank you!
(FA hands napkin)
Me: thank you!!
(FA hands ice cup)
Me: thank you!!!
(FA hands drink)
Me: thank you!!!!
FA: enjoy?
Me: thank you so much!!!!!!!
Me: ginger ale please
FA: sure!
Me: thank you!
(FA hands napkin)
Me: thank you!!
(FA hands ice cup)
Me: thank you!!!
(FA hands drink)
Me: thank you!!!!
FA: enjoy?
Me: thank you so much!!!!!!!
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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seriously how do you get to a lead role in the games industry without understanding concepts such as "greyboxing" or "bugs not yet fixed in this version". like what is the career path, for these people?
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
seriously how do you get to a lead role in the games industry without understanding concepts such as "greyboxing" or "bugs not yet fixed in this version". like what is the career path, for these people?
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My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.