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loquaciousloris.bsky.social
Elle
@loquaciousloris.bsky.social
21 followers 170 following 19 posts
She/Her. A fan of ttrpgs, compelling narratives, complex characters, and stories about heroic sec-units or smart humans saving each other.
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rukman.bsky.social
If you are reading a story from me this year, please consider "To Kill A Language".
apexmag.bsky.social Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · Apr 22
"Try to catch all the resonant sounds your body makes, just because you are alive. This, too, is language. This, too, you must kill." 🌬️🫁

New short fiction today by @rukman.bsky.social: "To Kill a Language"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
A graphic featuring the text: "To Kill a Language by Rukman Ragas" next to the illustration on Apex's Issue 149 cover, a queen in a black dress standing beside a black wolf in a field at dusk.
December 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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kerstinhall.bsky.social
Convincing you to read my ~preceding~ novel, because I need the sales in order to get this one contracted. 😬

Share yours if you want!
Text: Chapter One Karys Eska did not like the dark.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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djinnandtonic.bsky.social
I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏
A twist on an old Wide Awakes poster celebrating Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election, but with all instances of Lincoln and Douglas replaced with Mamdani and Cuomo, respectively
June 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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lizshannonmiller.com
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
I have a theory that when designing a social simulation / generator, it can be useful to keep in mind a story you’d like your system to be able to organically generate. not every system should generate the same story but I have a short list of high-salience interesting stories I reach for. (1/2)
October 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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saraghaleb.bsky.social
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
yeeeerika.bsky.social erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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rogueuzu.bsky.social
Ya girl was in the hospital for the last few daaaays
I'd greatly appreciate it if you could check out and share my commissions.
I got a Vgen ( vgen.co/RogueUzu )
But I also have a commission sheet for options not listed.
Email or DM if interested!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
August 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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kitbeary.bsky.social
— Myria. 🌹

Portrait commission for @loquaciousloris.bsky.social of their DnD shapeshifter!!
I had so much fun playing with Myria's look and designing the tattoo!

#VgenComm | #KitbearyCommissions | #commissions | #art
Anime-style portrait of the client's Dungeons and Dragon shapeshifter character, Myria, who appears as a dark-skinned woman with a curious expression on her face. She has long braids styled into side bangs and a half-updo bun, black sclera, and vibrant blue and purple eyes. There's a neo traditional-styled tattoo of roses, thorns, and glass shards sprawling across her chest and onto her shoulders where the roses then lift off and turn into more realistic roses to frame her. The background is made up of shattered pieces of glass. Commission for loquaciousloris (bluesky).
August 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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errezurera.bsky.social
🌊 Commission for @loquaciousloris.bsky.social 💫✨
Commission of a smiling water genasi with dark grey skin and blue marks on the forehead. Long, water like hair with two braids and two buns.
August 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
loquaciousloris.bsky.social
All I could think of when I saw that is the ur-ship of online fanfiction:
Kirk and Spock pressing their hands to the opposite side of protective glass as they say their goodbyes in Wrath of Khan
July 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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antlervel.vet
Love letter from one 12th century nun to another. I WANT WHAT THEY HAVE
February 16, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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robertjbennett.bsky.social
people asked me once what my thoughts are on worldbuilding, and I said I would make a youtube thing explaining that.

then I did not do that. for like a year or two.

finally I cowboyed up and made it happen. give it a watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZIk...
What worldbuilding is
YouTube video by Robert Bennett
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
I didn’t realize people would start immediately speculating about the Greek portion of “Live Gloriously”. that one’s on me.

but I would like to ramble a bit about what the actual Greek means, why I like the Iliad, and why that line resonated for me as the base of the track. A thread:
December 17, 2024 at 5:49 AM