Jon Ficke
jonficke.bsky.social
Jon Ficke
@jonficke.bsky.social
Husband, Writer, Woodworker, SFWA Member.

Stories in Cossmass Infinities, Flame Tree Fiction Amazing Science Fiction, Dread Space (Vols. 1 and 2), and WotF.

https://jonficke.com
I'll be honest, I think the widespread use of gear from pretty vanilla TRT to fairly benign peptides to I-can-tell-myself-it's-not-gear SARMs to blasting full on tren is a pretty slept on feature of our modern reality.
December 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
trying to refrain from making a joke about Talcum X.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
There is, however, a weird self-reinforcing beauty standard thing that is a lingering issue with this too. Some "beauty" is fairly universal, some is entirely a social construct. The more society's perceived "reality" is AI slop and Maralago butchery the more those traits may become favored.

ugh.
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
wat
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
well, stop paying attention to Marc Randazza for a few short years and boy howdy things appear to have changed, eh?
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
honestly, you'll be happier if you don't.
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The missing verb in the quoted post gives this serious versatility.

Know? Post? Celebrate? Denigrate? Dance around a sacrificial flame invoking the death of?
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It's so funny because the Pope is saying very very very mildly critical things about tech that almost every normal person hears and goes "yeah, makes sense I guess <returns to not thinking about the Pope>," and the SV set is responding like it's an existential threat to their very existence.
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Crean from Marquette to Indiana. Had a few great teams with Oladipo for example but never had the NCAA success Indiana demands (but hasn’t really had in decades)
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“Domination” is a profanity?
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Dang
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
There’s a tiny splinter group called Sedevacantists who have argued the papacy (seat or chair) has been vacant since Vatican II. Super mega marginalized movement. What tips Vance and co into Sedvacantism 2 Electric Boogaloo?
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
That the American Trad/adult convert set would end up in stark conflict with Leo wasnt really a risky prediction. The real difficult question is “what, if anything do they *do* about it.”
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM