Nathan Custis
@nacustis.bsky.social
Dad, TTRPG and video game enthusiast, game design geek, spooky fiction author, wellspring of useless facts.
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
Suburban Gothic: Senses
Oh, the things we do not see.
nacustis.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Suburban Gothic: Firepit
Not all sacrifices are blood and pain.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A much darker post. CW: Abandonment and allusions to suicide. For any of my friends who see this, worry not for me, this is not a cry for help. I'm doing pretty great, and I'm not going anywhere.
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Suburban Gothic: Chimneys
A darker tone, and an exploration of a common mystery. CW: Abandonment and vague references to suicide
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August 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A much darker post. CW: Abandonment and allusions to suicide. For any of my friends who see this, worry not for me, this is not a cry for help. I'm doing pretty great, and I'm not going anywhere.
nacustis.substack.com/p/suburban-g...
nacustis.substack.com/p/suburban-g...
I TOLD YOU! I was calling it "Hot Winter" two years ago! I'm a trend setter! A trend setter!
Summer is coming down to a choice between enduring the heat and avoiding it—both of which might, in their own ways, be making people sick, @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social reports.
American Summers Are Starting to Feel Like Winter
Climate change is doing a number on people’s warm-weather blues.
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July 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I TOLD YOU! I was calling it "Hot Winter" two years ago! I'm a trend setter! A trend setter!
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Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media.
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
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When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
July 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
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The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
Will we listen to his words today?
July 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
Will we listen to his words today?
Kind of like how conservatives are pissed about Captain America and Wolfenstein. Y'all, you could've stuck with the whitewashed corporate evil and most of the world would've been none the wiser. Nobody forced you into those Nazi caricatures.
July 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Kind of like how conservatives are pissed about Captain America and Wolfenstein. Y'all, you could've stuck with the whitewashed corporate evil and most of the world would've been none the wiser. Nobody forced you into those Nazi caricatures.
I was wondering earlier why so many people seem to get taken in by obvious political ploys. My theory right now is that politics generally becomes simpler if you stop listening to what they're saying and pay more attention to what they've done in the past and who they are as people.
July 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I was wondering earlier why so many people seem to get taken in by obvious political ploys. My theory right now is that politics generally becomes simpler if you stop listening to what they're saying and pay more attention to what they've done in the past and who they are as people.
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I got some script notes today and it's totally fine.
July 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I got some script notes today and it's totally fine.
I'll take "'Businesses' I'd create if I won the lottery" for $500. Along with more dedicated "third places" with low-cost space and board game rentals, and crafting studios where people can teach classes or just vibe while they do their thing in a shared space.
July 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I'll take "'Businesses' I'd create if I won the lottery" for $500. Along with more dedicated "third places" with low-cost space and board game rentals, and crafting studios where people can teach classes or just vibe while they do their thing in a shared space.
Grab an apple and walk around the house eating it, totally normal. Get a second one and do it again? Sure, the first didn't do the job. But sit down at the table with four apples on your plate, then eat them one at a time? Apparently that's "psychopath behavior."
July 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Grab an apple and walk around the house eating it, totally normal. Get a second one and do it again? Sure, the first didn't do the job. But sit down at the table with four apples on your plate, then eat them one at a time? Apparently that's "psychopath behavior."
I always told myself that if I had a kid I'd never not answer any of his questions.
I didn't know the kinds of repetitive, "come on, you know the answer already" questions I'd get from my 5-year-old.
I didn't know the kinds of repetitive, "come on, you know the answer already" questions I'd get from my 5-year-old.
July 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I always told myself that if I had a kid I'd never not answer any of his questions.
I didn't know the kinds of repetitive, "come on, you know the answer already" questions I'd get from my 5-year-old.
I didn't know the kinds of repetitive, "come on, you know the answer already" questions I'd get from my 5-year-old.
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I got yelled at on this website today and somehow did not write a story for a magazine about how I'm reorienting my entire political orientation to piss off the people who got mad at me, in fact I learned I was being a bit of a butthead and, despite disagreeing, listened to their concerns, AMA
July 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I got yelled at on this website today and somehow did not write a story for a magazine about how I'm reorienting my entire political orientation to piss off the people who got mad at me, in fact I learned I was being a bit of a butthead and, despite disagreeing, listened to their concerns, AMA
Want something to do that will keep your hands busy while listening or speaking?
Want a way to stim without looking like you're not listening?
Want just enough mental engagement to shut down the urge to multitask?
Want people to approach you and show you their passions?
Introducing: Knitting.
Want a way to stim without looking like you're not listening?
Want just enough mental engagement to shut down the urge to multitask?
Want people to approach you and show you their passions?
Introducing: Knitting.
June 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Want something to do that will keep your hands busy while listening or speaking?
Want a way to stim without looking like you're not listening?
Want just enough mental engagement to shut down the urge to multitask?
Want people to approach you and show you their passions?
Introducing: Knitting.
Want a way to stim without looking like you're not listening?
Want just enough mental engagement to shut down the urge to multitask?
Want people to approach you and show you their passions?
Introducing: Knitting.
A fresh one, hot off the proverbial presses. Lighter on the horror, heavier on the symbolism and emotion. This one means a lot to me. Everyone needs a witch friend.
Enjoy #SuburbanGothic: Labyrinths.
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Enjoy #SuburbanGothic: Labyrinths.
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Suburban Gothic: Labyrinths
Everyone’s home is built atop their own personal labyrinth.
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June 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
A fresh one, hot off the proverbial presses. Lighter on the horror, heavier on the symbolism and emotion. This one means a lot to me. Everyone needs a witch friend.
Enjoy #SuburbanGothic: Labyrinths.
open.substack.com/pub/nacustis...
Enjoy #SuburbanGothic: Labyrinths.
open.substack.com/pub/nacustis...
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Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
June 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice
🧵 because I can spell "brevity" but not define it.
Brainwashing is scary because it can take a sane person and make them insane, or a friendly person and make them hostile, or a whole person and make them broken, on a fundamental level.
Even worse to me is when those things are baked in to start
Brainwashing is scary because it can take a sane person and make them insane, or a friendly person and make them hostile, or a whole person and make them broken, on a fundamental level.
Even worse to me is when those things are baked in to start
June 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
🧵 because I can spell "brevity" but not define it.
Brainwashing is scary because it can take a sane person and make them insane, or a friendly person and make them hostile, or a whole person and make them broken, on a fundamental level.
Even worse to me is when those things are baked in to start
Brainwashing is scary because it can take a sane person and make them insane, or a friendly person and make them hostile, or a whole person and make them broken, on a fundamental level.
Even worse to me is when those things are baked in to start
I've never seen someone so succinctly sum up the underlying beliefs of my interaction with the Divine. Not a single point of disagreement from me.
June 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I've never seen someone so succinctly sum up the underlying beliefs of my interaction with the Divine. Not a single point of disagreement from me.
I think the primary thing that's driven my leftward progress has been the continual discovery of the thorough insidiousness with which our society and culture have been intentionally shaped to crush human souls into compliant workers and breeding stock for the enrichment of the owning class.
June 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think the primary thing that's driven my leftward progress has been the continual discovery of the thorough insidiousness with which our society and culture have been intentionally shaped to crush human souls into compliant workers and breeding stock for the enrichment of the owning class.
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this is why we call them nazis. they're not cartoon villains, they are people who do this. then they go home and sleep fine and come back to work do they can do it to another family
A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.
June 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this is why we call them nazis. they're not cartoon villains, they are people who do this. then they go home and sleep fine and come back to work do they can do it to another family
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This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
June 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙