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That Guy James
@jroberts.bsky.social
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Reader, recovering professional film critic, burgeoning literature academic, neurospicy, has 5 invite codes available, he/they, biggest fan of smoothunicorn.bsky.social
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One of the best novels I've ever had to read for school.
Cover of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, a novel by Xiaolu Guo.
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Listen. Listen. The children yearn for an information ecosystem that gives them the context to understand *gestures broadly* and any 10 minute conversation with a teenager will show you this market.
"As a dedicated pillar on Vogue, Teen Vogue will focus its content on career development, cultural leadership, and other issues that matter most to young people, according to the publication."
November 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I'm at the COMBINATION...uh...*checks notes*...wait ummm...
Combination IHOP Applebee's.
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Shelf construction traumatized Wanda.
Basic what guy with a beard, blurry in background, with tortie laying on his chest, crisp in foreground, for comfort.
October 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Brb, changing the focus of my dissertation.
Cover of the book Nympho Shark Fuck Frenzy by Christine Morgan and Susan Snyder. Nude women on a shark underwater. There's some blood. Kind of a lot of blood.
October 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Finally checked out @ghoulish.bsky.social and it was the fast $100 we've spent ever.
A bookstore worh stacks of books. Behind the counter with a neon green sign that says ghoulish.
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Again I beg for any film critic to read any book.
Screenshot from IGN'S review of GDT'S Frankenstein which reads "But the result is that Isaac’s Victor very nearly becomes the film’s villain, which perhaps isn’t a new concept in the Frankenstein mythos, but occasionally works against the film in the character’s darkest moments."
October 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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When the 37 year old criticism from a long defunct journal that's been cited 7 times is kinda cooking
XKCD "Wisdom of the Ancients" strip. A stick figure stands at his desk shaking his moniter saying "who were you DenverCoder9? What did you see?!"
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Text from child 1: look at the wrinkles on his arm. this is not a fitted garment and running your hands across it would easily reveal it to be a costume, breaking the immersion. if he was ever conceived as a furry from the start he is not a very effective one. Text from me: So now we're fund shaming Rowdy? Text from child 1: plus the fur is obviously not only synthetic but non-directional, making it harder to imagine him as a non human being. FUND SHAMING? you have no respect for furry culture and have only posed this question because you think this is a GAME. Text from child 2: Tbf Rowdy is strong associated with games.
October 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Family group chat is in shambles.
Text from child 1: rowdy is not a furry because you don’t want to touch him. furries and furry art are deeply concerned with the tactile, evoking what it might feel like to touch and hold and be held by an anthropomorphic body with fur, scales, etc, and due to the furry community being very autistic and transgender, this is often tied to a desire to transcend the alienating human body and experience a fantasy body that is allowed to be unique, and oftentimes fat, and in which enjoyment is derived from both. is perceiving rowdy a multisensory experience? i can’t speak for others but i would not want to touch or be touched by rowdy. as a mascot, he inhabits a purely visual and symbolic body. Text from me: Oh yeah? Explain this. Attached photo of Rowdy the mascot high fiving fans at a game. Text from child 2: High fiving does feel like a somewhat limited form of tactile contact, with a furry you want to really feel their fur. Text from child 1: however, in saying that “deep down he might be”, forchione is considering rowdy’s personal identity which could be a valid framework. maybe the best way to answer the question is to ask rowdy himself. but at that point, whether rowdy identifies as a furry (person who enjoys furry art) is different from the question of whether he is a furry (anthropomorphic character associated with furry community). in the sense of that photo he may be a furry in the same way a victorian lady is sexy, in that the limited brief & impersonal nature of this contact is part of the appeal like a bare victorian ankle. Text from child 1: even so, his design and shape is not concerned with the tactile so at most i would call him incidentally a furry. Text from me: Look at that affection. Only one whose arm I'm touching like that is mom's. Attached close up of above picture showing Rowdy grabbing the forearm of the fan he is highly fiving
October 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Super hard hitting journalism going down in my school newspaper.
Is Rowdy a Furry? The line between mascot and a furry is highly contested. While some swear all mascot are furries, others think furries have far more character than UT San Antonio's meager mascot. "I think deep down he might be. I feel like it's a good representation of diversity on our campus," Forchione anse4s. Perez is on the same page, stating "Yes I think Rowdy is a furry." Zurita is way out of the loop, responding "To be honest, I don't know what that is but I'm gonna say no."
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa
Ilsa from Casablanca in the end scene with that dope as fuck hat.
October 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Have to make a nicho for my death and grieving in latinx lit course and now I'm gonna drop out because it turns out shittily painting shitty boxes with shitty paint is my one true passion and calling. (Not finished.)
A box painted blue with a skull painted on it but the skull is so clearly inelegantly done that it has a kind of indescribable charm to it.
October 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Why don't users, the larger of the at protocol base, simply eat the mods?
Morbo, from Futurama, wondering why Ross, the largest friend, doesn't simply eat the other friends.
October 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I'm here you fuckaas bitch.
Exterior shot of Mervyn's department store.
September 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Omg it's sweater weather (it's me I'm the sweater)
Photo dash on car showing 103° temperature outside)
September 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Me when I'm back on my bullshit
Trump and Kennedy's grim faces over an image that says AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT.
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Wanda is once again done with me reading.
Standard issue white guy with beard and glasses Chelsea Wolfe shirt with standard issue long hair tortie in the crook of his arm after she forced the book out of his hands and made space for herself.
September 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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More academia means more Selina telling me when I'm done writing for the day.
Bearded bald white guy with glasses and tattoos holds a black cat who looks pleasantly pleased with jumping into his arms mid-writing.
September 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Selfishly I'm glad they removed the terrorism from my classroom tonight but I hope the other classroom is okay :(
A sign on class door 3.03.14 telling us that terrorism has moved to 3.04.20
September 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Let me tell you how much these fuckers are not built for the 43 year old, 6’3”, 280lb body.

And I’m left handed.
Those fucking desks like you probably sat in in high school with the desk connected to the chair that you kind of have to slither in and out of and which are wildly fucking uncomfortable and feel, at this point in my life, as though the universe is mocking me for getting a PhD in my 40s since I was too busy getting drunk and high and trying to otherwise white knuckle through crippling depression in my 20s to actually be arsed to take school seriously.
August 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Me, thinking about this shower before I drive home.
It’s always sunny gif with Dennis saying “listen, listen, listen I wanna be inside you”
August 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Stepdaughter with an absolutely FIRE reading list for one of their classes this semester.
Text message listing out the following texts on a reading list: an african american and latinx history of the united states by paul ortiz multicultural america: a multimedia encyclopedia the decolonial imaginary toward a new vision: race class and gender as categories of analysis and connection by patricia hill collins beyond the gender binary feminist theory: from margin to center by bell hooks eating the other: desire and resistance chicano power borderlands river as lifeblood, river as border decolonization is not a metaphor shameless interruptions: finding survival at the edges of trans and queer narratives by ruben zecena LA interchanges intoxicated masculinities by alex espinoza black marxism theorizing gentrification as a process of racial capitalism the white to be angry: vaginal creme davis’s terrorist drag by josé esteban muñoz
August 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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If I’m petting this little asshole and try to stop, I’m getting got. I’m constantly tore up I love her so much.
Standard issue black cat on a blue chair, absolutely vacant eyes, like these eyes 1000% have no thoughts behind them, blepping magnificently.
August 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM