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Doug 🔜 PAX Unplugged
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30-something Dad, gamer, trucker | he/they 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Bi, Enby, Poly/ENM
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Happy #N7Day! My contribution this year are my newest tattoos that I got done back in September.
Pic of the left side of Doug's head, showing a light blue tattoo of a wing inside a circle. This is the Paragon symbol from the morality system in the Mass Effect series of video games. A picture of the right side of Doug's head, showing off a red symbol that is a combination of a 5-pointed star and 2 upward-pointing chevrons in a circle. This is the Renegade symbol from the morality system in the Mass Effect series of video Games.
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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So for a multitude of reasons, I wasn't able to dress up this year. Instead have this banger of a last-minute closet costume:
A picture of Doug dressed as a devil in a red dress shirt with a black silk tie, with dark makeup around their eyes and black horns on the top of their head. They are holding an open folder out to the viewer containing paperwork that reads in big, bold, red letters "Student Loan" with a signature line below that.
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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So apparently I have some measure of scary dog privilege? Here I was thinking I'm a stone-cold zero on the intimidation scale
A screenshot of a post from Twitter that reads: Quote rt this with how intimidating YOU think you are on a scale of 1-10 and let other people reply to it with how intimidating THEY think you are.
October 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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What happens when you take an anxious, overly-attached farm dog and move him to an apartment?

He becomes the neighborhood busybody.
A German Short-Haired Pointer and Hound mixed-breed dog named Sam stares out an apartment window. Sam the dog continues to watch people outside our apartment. Sam the dog realizes that he's been caught being a busybody.
October 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Oh, this is fun. You would think I'd have hit more states as a trucker, but we only cover the southeast.

And that Washington state color has its days numbered.
A multi-colored representation of the map of the United States. Various colors are used to represent whether the person filling out the map has lived, visited, driven through, or never visited a state/territory. Nerdy/Doug has filled in the entire southeast region of the US, with lower-ranked colors spreading out as you get further away from North Carolina & Georgia, the two states that they have spent most of their life so far in.
August 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Can confirm.
A picture showing a toddler sleeping on the rear end of a black, brown, and white spotted German Short-Haired Pointer/Hound dog mix, while the dog is sleeping with its head in the lap of a teenager.
July 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Hmm... HMMMMMmmmm...
A zoomed-in screen-grab of a masc-presenting person in an inflatable T-Rex costume applauding during the finale of Summer Games Done Quick 2025.
July 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Obvs, my star is @mountaingothmom.bsky.social ! Not only does she make such thoughtful and cute prizes for each event, she was sweet enough to say "I do" almost 6 years ago.
A picture of Nerdy Excursions, Mountain Goth Mom, and their oldest kid on Nerdy & MGM's wedding day. Nerdy is wearing a tux with a shiny purple vest, MGM is wearing a black gown with a handmade purple shawl and bouquet of purple, gray, and black flowers. Their child is wearing a tux with a shiny orange vest and an emoji sticker has been added to the picture to obscure their face for privacy.
July 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Get in, loser. We're posting lock screens.
A phone lock screen showing a wire frame illustration of the USS Enterprise-C from an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation.
May 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Just got back from my local bookshop celebrating #IndependentBookshopDay. Picked up a physical copy of A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett. Loved the first one in this series (The Tainted Cup), so I can't wait to dive into this sequel!
The cover of a Drop of Corruption, a novel by Robert Jackson Bennett.
April 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Boom. Pre-ordered. And in audio, bc eff the h8ters.
A screenshot showing an Audible pre-order confirmation for the forthcoming book "Lawless," by Leah Litman.
March 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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'Nough said.
A "Progress" style gay-pride flag with the text, "Y'all means all," superimposed over the center of the flag.
March 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Doug, how do you *know* your dog loves you?

Simple. This is how my days off are spent.
A picture of a brown, white, and black hound-mix dog sleeping in Doug's lap / on their arm. A picture of a brown, white, and black hound-mix dog sitting in Doug's lap while pressing (quite forcefully) into Doug's chest and face.
January 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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My iPad case is finally coming along nicely...
Picture of the back of an iPad case with 5 stickers on it.
December 19, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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Might notice something familiar in my haul...
December 10, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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As is tradition, my #PAXUnplugged haul. Spent a lot of my con playing Magic, so that represents a lot of it, but I also managed to snag some gifts for the mini-me's. Now, to make the 9ish-hour drive back home to Appalachia.
A picture of a spread of items purchased at a boardgame convention. Included are two TTRPG books, a variant of CATAN, a plush Pikachu in a Santa hat, two stress balls (one shaped like a 20-sided die, the other like a Pokéball), and multiple decks, cards, and accessories for the Magic: the Gathering trading card game. Atop everything sits a commemorative metal mug bearing the PAX Unplugged logo and a paper party hat commemorating PAX's 20th anniversary.
December 9, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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This feeling doesn't get any easier when you go to a TTRPG convention in December and find ALL the new shinies to play.
A soft-bound tabletop role-playing game book, bearing the title "Eldritch Automata quick-launch guide"
December 7, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Repping some @printinkling.bsky.social here (and maybe manifesting some *slightly* warmer temps) on day 1 of #PAXUnplugged! Let's roll!
A mirror selfie of a bearded person wearing a blue tie-dye t-shirt that reads "Hot Goblin Summer."
December 6, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie.
A picture of a toddler, having fallen asleep while sitting in their parent's lap at a computer desk, using a green dinosaur plush as a pillow.
November 27, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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First truly good news out of my state tonight: we didn't elect the guy that calls himself a black n*zi.

Thank. God.
Screen capture of news coverage declaring Democrat Josh Stein the projected winner of the North Carilina governor's race over Republican Mark Robinson.
November 6, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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A gif of Repair-man saying his catch-phrase, "I'm Repair-man (man, man, man, man)," a character played by Kel Mitchell on the 90's children's sketch comedy show All That.
October 27, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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Today's lunchtime view. I hate not being able to be as terminally online as I would like to be, but trucking definitely has its perks.
A picture of the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, USA, taken from a picnic table in a rest area with several semi trucks parked in the foreground.
October 24, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Psst... I got some peets with a side of blep. Fresh, too. Just taken earlier tonight.
A picture showing a German Short-haired Pointer dog asleep, with his front paws crossed and the very tip of his tongue poking out of his mouth.
October 20, 2024 at 4:57 AM