prettyarbitrary

prettyarbitrary

@prettyarbitrary.bsky.social

Just a small Cthulhu. Original writing and blog: https://www.prettyarbitrary.org Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/users/PrettyArbitrary 18+ only please. NSFW & dark content may occur without warning.

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I made a #goretober #kinktober #noncontober #whumptober list for this year! I won’t be sharing my own prompt fills on here since I’m writing them for a private server, but anyone else who wants to use it is welcome to! Pick one prompt each day or see if you can combine them; the choice is yours!

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SWORDS AND ICE MAGIC (1977) 
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 24” x 16” 

This cover was for the sixth book in a series by Fritz Leiber featuring the beloved characters Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. 1/4

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325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

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Replying to @uhmm-what.bsky.social

He does at least have a legit reason for disliking Spider Man. Or rather people who wear masks. His wife, Joan, was murdered by a masked gunman. His crusade is against people who hide their faces as a way of being able to do whatever they want. So JJJ would be anti-ICE.

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Please join me in supporting this Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers! Just like in Chicago, the DOJ is trying to make examples of people who LEGALLY resisted this administration’s reign of terror. (See their story.) Let’s fight back!! chuffed.org/project/1865...

chuffed.orgLegal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE OrganizersOn the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...

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i sat a 4.5+ hour public education policy meeting so i could talk about how much i hate ai for 2 minutes during open comment period. because i hate it that much. and it does not belong in our schools and edtech ppl are GRIFTERS

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At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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72-hour-update: At $12095, we are under $10K away from meeting our base goal, which will allow us to continue publishing in 2027 - and less than $500 away from hitting our next milestone, and unlocking a fantastic essay on worldbuilding! Support us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social

The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

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WOW the response to this has been wonderful so far, thank you everyone! 😭❤️ To those who may not realize it, I have custom requests for these open on my ko-fi! A custom pose, a new dog breed, or simply a flag recolor, all of that is available. 7/10 slots left! ko-fi.com/c/3a27e1add0

Laur Bagley@laur-rants.bsky.social

Happy Pride, Everyone! This is my latest and largest Pride project to date: Let Your Colors Run! Celebrating pride with ten different hounds, with ten different pride flags! Nothing felt more natural than taking two things that matter so much to me, and bringing them together.

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Happy Pride, Everyone! This is my latest and largest Pride project to date: Let Your Colors Run! Celebrating pride with ten different hounds, with ten different pride flags! Nothing felt more natural than taking two things that matter so much to me, and bringing them together.

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also sometimes people just don't want to see NSFW content without warning being pro-NSFW is both advocating for it AND properly tagging it for folks who don't want to see it (for any reason) just because I don't want to eat what's on their menu doesn't mean i want their table empty, yknow?

SarahSyna@sarahsyna.bsky.social

It's always important to remember that NSFW is not a moral judgement, it's about how much side eye am I getting from my manager if they see it on my screen.

I just went to look up how much rain we got last night, to see if I need to water the new shrub. And the browser simultaneously asked me to turn on my location so it would know where to look while delivering a literal map of my neighborhood with some businesses it thought I would enjoy.

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i will not stand for "larp" becoming the new "poser". there is nothing in this world that requires more genuine unbridled passion in the face of people calling you a total nerd than live-action roleplay

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i assume banning kids from social media will be accompanied by a huge investment in teen-friendly communtiy spaces (like youth clubs) and social activities? No? Huh.

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Some people are responding that "you can't defeat fascism with sportsball" but A People's History of Soccer outlines multiple examples of the sport indirectly effecting change because supporters built a sense of collective solidarity and identity in the face of adversity

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

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The final #kakapo chick (Pearl-4B) from this year's cohort has fledged the nest (defined as roosting outside the nest for the first time). There are 91 chicks alive. They won't be counted towards the population until they're 150 days old. 📸 Petrus Hedman #conservation #kakapo2026 #parrots #birds

Stay the fuck away from Namecheap, I guess. This is crazy.

Neocities@neocities.org

Early this morning, we received an email from @namecheap.com that the domain neocities.org was being suspended because of a court order from New Delhi, India (a jurisdiction we don't operate in), which was for an unrelated court order about a sports streaming site on a different domain.

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Part of why the "become obsessed with a blorbo to improve at art" thing is true is because they'll make you do shit you normally might not even try Blorbo is a knight in a fantasy series? Welp I guess I gotta learn how to draw armor now Blorbo has a mech? Welp I guess I'm drawing a fucking mech

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An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!