Zoe Nyx
@solaris242.bsky.social
She/her. Everything I write ends up being about cyborg lesbians because I keep being obsessed with the intersections of identity, gender, and the physical form. Also I'm v gay
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Just gonna pull this aside and tell you that yes, this includes transphobia, folks. We’re not special here.
We either join hands and learn from the work of Native and Black folks or we all fucking lose. :)
We either join hands and learn from the work of Native and Black folks or we all fucking lose. :)
The hardest pill that every white gringo eventually needs to swallow in this hell country is that p much every shitty thing ANYONE, even they, experience, has a direct line of attribution either to the genocide of native folks or hatred of Black people
And they just really don’t wanna believe it.
And they just really don’t wanna believe it.
March 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Just gonna pull this aside and tell you that yes, this includes transphobia, folks. We’re not special here.
We either join hands and learn from the work of Native and Black folks or we all fucking lose. :)
We either join hands and learn from the work of Native and Black folks or we all fucking lose. :)
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Lae'zel is the best BG3 romance. She gives up the trajectory of her whole life & devotion to her god empress because she meets someone whose scent makes her too horny. Far more realistic + grounded than most of these storylines.
March 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Lae'zel is the best BG3 romance. She gives up the trajectory of her whole life & devotion to her god empress because she meets someone whose scent makes her too horny. Far more realistic + grounded than most of these storylines.
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I finally picked up a copy of The Wildsea and thought it might be interesting to comment as I go through it for the first time, both as a designer and a publisher. Here beginneth the thread!
February 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I finally picked up a copy of The Wildsea and thought it might be interesting to comment as I go through it for the first time, both as a designer and a publisher. Here beginneth the thread!
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disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you
February 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you
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Roko's Basilisk is a trap to horrify guys who've never experienced hardship and don't know what it looks or feels like and don't have the emotional intelligence to outmaneuver their desire to reason everything instead of understanding.
roko's basilisk is so funny because you hear people say it's this terrifying concept that will change your life then you look for an explanation waiting for it to get scary and it never does
February 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Roko's Basilisk is a trap to horrify guys who've never experienced hardship and don't know what it looks or feels like and don't have the emotional intelligence to outmaneuver their desire to reason everything instead of understanding.
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what if this was the moment you found out that horses have internal society with a caste system plus also your friend knows the president of horses AND FURTHERMORE your friend has been on SO MANY adventures with the president of horses that he will drop whatever he’s up to when your dude whistles
February 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
what if this was the moment you found out that horses have internal society with a caste system plus also your friend knows the president of horses AND FURTHERMORE your friend has been on SO MANY adventures with the president of horses that he will drop whatever he’s up to when your dude whistles
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On the private channel between ART and me, I said, I apologize for calling you a fucker.
It said, I apologize for kidnapping you and causing potential collateral damage to your clients.
It said, I apologize for kidnapping you and causing potential collateral damage to your clients.
February 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
On the private channel between ART and me, I said, I apologize for calling you a fucker.
It said, I apologize for kidnapping you and causing potential collateral damage to your clients.
It said, I apologize for kidnapping you and causing potential collateral damage to your clients.
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I still believe in Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future
February 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I still believe in Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future
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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.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children."
- Ursula K. Le Guin (2012)
[Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]
- Ursula K. Le Guin (2012)
[Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]
February 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children."
- Ursula K. Le Guin (2012)
[Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]
- Ursula K. Le Guin (2012)
[Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]
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These same people will then go and use newtonian physics to describe the world around them. Unbelievably problematic, we must never engage with past theory. Don't you know he snorted mercury and didn't talk to women? His laws don't even work on a quantum scale smh.
I do find it incredibly tedious how "Trans woman engages with radical feminist text critically and brings her own perspective to address the flaws and see what useful ideas are contained in them" is framed as some sort of self-irradiation with TERF Particles and not like. Basic intellectual rigor.
February 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
These same people will then go and use newtonian physics to describe the world around them. Unbelievably problematic, we must never engage with past theory. Don't you know he snorted mercury and didn't talk to women? His laws don't even work on a quantum scale smh.
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Cinephiles watch a 6/10 movie and will champion it for the rest of their lives.
Gamers™ play an 8/10 video game and deem it garbage that only shills like.
This is because Gamers™ are unsophisticated morons who don't understand or appreciate the very art form they chose to consume
Gamers™ play an 8/10 video game and deem it garbage that only shills like.
This is because Gamers™ are unsophisticated morons who don't understand or appreciate the very art form they chose to consume
February 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Cinephiles watch a 6/10 movie and will champion it for the rest of their lives.
Gamers™ play an 8/10 video game and deem it garbage that only shills like.
This is because Gamers™ are unsophisticated morons who don't understand or appreciate the very art form they chose to consume
Gamers™ play an 8/10 video game and deem it garbage that only shills like.
This is because Gamers™ are unsophisticated morons who don't understand or appreciate the very art form they chose to consume
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“Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without insisting upon a Great Man interpretation that actual historians rejected ages ago?”
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“Like how can you be a remotely competent historian without insisting upon a Great Man interpretation that actual historians rejected ages ago?”
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If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
February 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If a reader dislikes your politics, then no amount of subtlety will prevent them from accusing your story of not being subtle enough. Not even if the politics of the story are about your right to live. Don’t go quieter to appease the callow.
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Me when I see someone losing their shit because they proposed a mildly unusual story premise and their comments were immediately flooded with dipshits going "what about [the exact conventional premise the original post was riffing on]" in the apparently genuinely belief that they're improving it:
February 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Me when I see someone losing their shit because they proposed a mildly unusual story premise and their comments were immediately flooded with dipshits going "what about [the exact conventional premise the original post was riffing on]" in the apparently genuinely belief that they're improving it:
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i'm having that thing where you're doing a supernatural story that also has deeper meanings and then you're like "i wanna put a giant spider demon in it," because that'd be cool, and then you zoom out, and realize you've accidentally created some kind of horrible ableist metaphor for euthanasia
February 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
i'm having that thing where you're doing a supernatural story that also has deeper meanings and then you're like "i wanna put a giant spider demon in it," because that'd be cool, and then you zoom out, and realize you've accidentally created some kind of horrible ableist metaphor for euthanasia
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The mental image I got:
February 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The mental image I got:
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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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February 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”
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I've said before that the core storyline of film noir is "an amoral person meets an immoral person and must, reluctantly, make a moral choice."
Europe got ravaged by two wars. People wondered if classical morality meant anything in a modern era.
Noir said, "Yes, it does."
Europe got ravaged by two wars. People wondered if classical morality meant anything in a modern era.
Noir said, "Yes, it does."
Here's a mind-twister for some people. Noir is optimistic. I'm serious. Doomed protagonists, horrible options, bad choices, devastating consequences. All that and they keep going. Yeah, they're horrible people. They do horrible things. But in spite of all evidence they still think they can succeed.
February 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I've said before that the core storyline of film noir is "an amoral person meets an immoral person and must, reluctantly, make a moral choice."
Europe got ravaged by two wars. People wondered if classical morality meant anything in a modern era.
Noir said, "Yes, it does."
Europe got ravaged by two wars. People wondered if classical morality meant anything in a modern era.
Noir said, "Yes, it does."
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The other website is pretty much done
February 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The other website is pretty much done
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People who think they could defeat predatory animals hand to hand are out of their goddamn minds. God save us from men who are like "you just have to take control of the head, and then the wolf is easily subdued"
February 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
People who think they could defeat predatory animals hand to hand are out of their goddamn minds. God save us from men who are like "you just have to take control of the head, and then the wolf is easily subdued"
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Gotta be the Kodiak.
February 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gotta be the Kodiak.
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Okay that's it. I want everyone who likes mecha to give me suggestions for good round n chunky bois. It can be the general mecha design of a series or an individual suit or bot. I just wanna see the goalies and linebackers of the mecha genre
February 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Okay that's it. I want everyone who likes mecha to give me suggestions for good round n chunky bois. It can be the general mecha design of a series or an individual suit or bot. I just wanna see the goalies and linebackers of the mecha genre
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it's frustrating to me when people say they're making art inspired by ghibli or lynch or whomever. i understand the marketing utility but sometimes it feels like we get these shallow aesthetic takes on these materials because people aren't drawing from their firsthand experiences, just other media
February 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
it's frustrating to me when people say they're making art inspired by ghibli or lynch or whomever. i understand the marketing utility but sometimes it feels like we get these shallow aesthetic takes on these materials because people aren't drawing from their firsthand experiences, just other media