Toby
@queerhobbit.bsky.social
📚Reader
🖋️Writer
🧐Overthinker
If it’s gay, gothic, or I can buy a new outfit for it, I’m in.
🖋️Writer
🧐Overthinker
If it’s gay, gothic, or I can buy a new outfit for it, I’m in.
Said goodbye to the goodest girl today. Fifteen years of sniffing around and getting inexplicably excited about ice cubes. Go chase those rabbits, Ida bean.
June 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Said goodbye to the goodest girl today. Fifteen years of sniffing around and getting inexplicably excited about ice cubes. Go chase those rabbits, Ida bean.
Watched all of Adolescence in one sitting. Holy hell. Astounding work. I’ll be reflecting on this one for a WHILE.
March 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Watched all of Adolescence in one sitting. Holy hell. Astounding work. I’ll be reflecting on this one for a WHILE.
The thing about A I (whether we call it autonomous or artificial or alternative or whatever) is that it is owned. There is a person or group at the root of everything A I produces, a person with goals and values that are so deeply concealed that commentators forget they’re there. But they are.
March 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The thing about A I (whether we call it autonomous or artificial or alternative or whatever) is that it is owned. There is a person or group at the root of everything A I produces, a person with goals and values that are so deeply concealed that commentators forget they’re there. But they are.
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[watching anora] nobody in this movie would last two days at a conclave
March 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
[watching anora] nobody in this movie would last two days at a conclave
Tagging @weratedogs.com to maybe help reunite this sweet boy with his family?
March 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Tagging @weratedogs.com to maybe help reunite this sweet boy with his family?
March 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Re: the over-62 music grants—
Is there a word for how, amid all the awful news, it’s the good news that opens the spigot of tears?
Is there a word for how, amid all the awful news, it’s the good news that opens the spigot of tears?
February 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Re: the over-62 music grants—
Is there a word for how, amid all the awful news, it’s the good news that opens the spigot of tears?
Is there a word for how, amid all the awful news, it’s the good news that opens the spigot of tears?
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Beautiful.
A new $15 million jazz fellowship is granting 50 artists over the age of 62 a $100,000 grant, professional support and performance opportunities
New jazz fellowship honors the genre's elders and gives them each an unrestricted $100,000 grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Jazz Foundation of America on Tuesday announced the Jazz Legacies Fellowship -- a new $15 million program that will give 50 artists who are 62 years or older a ...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Beautiful.
I realized I make faces while I’m writing, basically acting out a character in a scene. Realized this AT the coffee shop. Mortifying.
I'm a face maker while drawing but I just tried to draw some hissing cats and I found new muscles I didn't even know were there. How do people draw in public?
February 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I realized I make faces while I’m writing, basically acting out a character in a scene. Realized this AT the coffee shop. Mortifying.
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I saw goodie proctor fuck your outie at the ORTBO
February 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I saw goodie proctor fuck your outie at the ORTBO
Was nobody going to tell me that Jason Isaacs is in the new season of White Lotus!? 🤩
January 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Was nobody going to tell me that Jason Isaacs is in the new season of White Lotus!? 🤩
Susanna Clarke. Take me on an adventure on the King’s Roads or drop me in the arms of one of Piranesi’s statues!
Daily Tabletop RPG Question #7
What celebrity would you most want to GM your group on an adventure? And what game?
1. Assume that they'd first learn the system, watch a "How to GM" video, etc.
2. No "professional GM" celebrities like Matt Mercer. pick someone surprising!
#TabletopRPG #ttrpg
What celebrity would you most want to GM your group on an adventure? And what game?
1. Assume that they'd first learn the system, watch a "How to GM" video, etc.
2. No "professional GM" celebrities like Matt Mercer. pick someone surprising!
#TabletopRPG #ttrpg
January 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Susanna Clarke. Take me on an adventure on the King’s Roads or drop me in the arms of one of Piranesi’s statues!
Getting fomo over that college/career meme going around not because I didn’t go to college but because I absolutely 100% did NOT have a career goal when I started college.
People went to college with careers in mind?!
Me: Yay more school! 😄
People went to college with careers in mind?!
Me: Yay more school! 😄
January 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Getting fomo over that college/career meme going around not because I didn’t go to college but because I absolutely 100% did NOT have a career goal when I started college.
People went to college with careers in mind?!
Me: Yay more school! 😄
People went to college with careers in mind?!
Me: Yay more school! 😄
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"Sir, thys ys an Abyss."
January 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Sir, thys ys an Abyss."
This is very cool!
Bonus points for the phrase ‘a collaboration with time’ which absolutely did not have to go that hard.
Bonus points for the phrase ‘a collaboration with time’ which absolutely did not have to go that hard.
A collaboration with time: beautifully decayed and damaged daguerreotypes from the studio of one of the most celebrated 19th-century photographers Mathew Brady, who died #onthisday in 1896: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
January 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is very cool!
Bonus points for the phrase ‘a collaboration with time’ which absolutely did not have to go that hard.
Bonus points for the phrase ‘a collaboration with time’ which absolutely did not have to go that hard.
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me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:
January 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:
I joined a little five week social curling league and the first game last night made me feel like a kid playing outside on the pond again. When life gives you ice and darkness, make up silly games sliding rocks back and forth under the stars.
January 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I joined a little five week social curling league and the first game last night made me feel like a kid playing outside on the pond again. When life gives you ice and darkness, make up silly games sliding rocks back and forth under the stars.
Graduate knowing less than when you started is too fucking real 😆😭
Why major in philosophy?
- can be smug after only 2-3 classes
- only major where you finish knowing less than when you started
- generally better beards than psychology
- can't find a job, but then again what even is a job?
- can be smug after only 2-3 classes
- only major where you finish knowing less than when you started
- generally better beards than psychology
- can't find a job, but then again what even is a job?
January 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Graduate knowing less than when you started is too fucking real 😆😭
One rejection in —> One submission out.
And even more importantly, more new words on the page.
And even more importantly, more new words on the page.
January 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One rejection in —> One submission out.
And even more importantly, more new words on the page.
And even more importantly, more new words on the page.
Seeing 2024 out in a cocoon of Prosecco, half a chocolate orange, and Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon.
January 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Seeing 2024 out in a cocoon of Prosecco, half a chocolate orange, and Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon.
Without downloading new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
January 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Without downloading new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
Really great reflections on the most important story a writer ever tells: the story of who they are as a writer.
At terribleminds, the 2025 writer's resolution is live, if you care to make with the clicky-clicky:
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Writer’s Resolution 2025: Change Your Story
The author makes a story. But a story also makes the author. What I mean is this: I think as writers, as authors, as storytellers and artists, we build ourselves along the way out of the narrative …
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December 31, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Really great reflections on the most important story a writer ever tells: the story of who they are as a writer.
Getting a rejection on a short story on Christmas Eve kinda sucks, but the personalized note of encouragement really lessened the sting. Once the New Years confetti settles I’ll dust it off and send it back out somewhere else and make it my first submission of 2025 😤
December 24, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Getting a rejection on a short story on Christmas Eve kinda sucks, but the personalized note of encouragement really lessened the sting. Once the New Years confetti settles I’ll dust it off and send it back out somewhere else and make it my first submission of 2025 😤
Animal Crossing: Poirot
I’d play every playable second of it.
I’d play every playable second of it.
scavengers reign and zelda: tears of the kingdom
hell yeah we’re making some abominations with the fuse power alright
hell yeah we’re making some abominations with the fuse power alright
December 24, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Animal Crossing: Poirot
I’d play every playable second of it.
I’d play every playable second of it.
That’s a long time to leave all that candy trapped inside.
the godlee observatory at the university of manchester has a dome made out of paper mache that has survived over 100 years
December 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM
That’s a long time to leave all that candy trapped inside.