TL;DR Swinton @CaseyLucas Twitter profile

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TL;DR Swinton

6 months

Getting my eyelashes done and the gal says "I can't stop reading your shirt" and I remember I'm wearing the shirt with 400 forum posts arguing about whether Revolver Ocelot is gay

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@CaseyLucas

1 year

Game devs are tired. Writers are tired. Comic book creators are tired. Musicians are tired. Actors are tired. Every industry that produces media you love has been ravaged by a parasitic executive class who want to starve creators to feed some shitcunt's desire for a seventh house

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@CaseyLucas

1 year

Anon quits Xanax to support shrimp spending, turns life around

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1 year

nobody is brave enough to make a "what's a 4chan post that's so embedded in your head that you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about" post, but this would be mine

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@CaseyLucas

5 years

"You'll get more conservative as you get older and start to understand how the world actually works." #BoomerAdvice Literally the opposite. I was a Texas Libertarian in my teens and now "the way the world works" has made me a god damn borderline tankie

🍉 Black 🇭🇹 Aziz 🇳🇬 aNANsi 🍉

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5 years

What's the most out of touch advice that a Boomer has ever given you? Use the hashtag #BoomerAdvice when you answer.

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@CaseyLucas

7 months

They lost the time war :(

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8 months

@clubmoss_ The establishment:

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

I ducked into the bathroom at [local business] and when I came back THIS WAS HERE INSTEAD OF A RECEPTIONIST?

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@CaseyLucas

5 years

Calling your partner daddy >weird >gendered >makes you think about your dad Calling your partner Big Boss >good >gender neutral >makes you think about brotherhood & love blooming on a battlefield Not even a choice tbh

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@CaseyLucas

8 years

This '60s illustration of different types of IUD looks like a guide on how to use runes to summon your uterus powers

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

Have I ever shown you all the absolutely terrifying puzzle you have to solve to exit my doctor's office? PUSH TO ______

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@CaseyLucas

6 months

Clerk at the chemist: oh my god I love your cicada. Can you write down where you bought it. Wait you have a ring too???? Oh my god IS YOUR SHIRT FORUM POSTS? Finally I found the secret to get women to talk to me. Thank you, bug jewelry and 400 forum posts about Revolver Ocelot

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

You know what, why not. Quote this with four of your top results from this ol' thing.

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@CaseyLucas

1 year

"by this point I live and breathe shrimp" is part of my internal vocabulary anytime I consume a shrimp or even see one

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@CaseyLucas

6 months

I think I just scored a bunch of skincare samples because of 400 forum posts about Revolver Ocelot. I had to explain what Metal Gear Solid was in a pharmacy though so I'm booboo the fool

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

She is the size! of! my! hand!

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@CaseyLucas

8 years

Spotted at the Wendy's in Beaver, UT. Who's gonna tell em

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5 years

Financially comfortable artist Amanda Palmer raising over a mill on Kickstarter then asking a whole backing orchestra to play for free on every show of her tour which was unironically named The Grand Theft Orchestra

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

Happy anniversary to the only post on this website that makes sense

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

Heck figured out how to jump on the dehumidifier and stomp on the buttons til it blows warm air on his belly. Now we have to leave it unplugged because he wants his undercarriage blow dried 24/7

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

@NeolithicSheep @KateElliottSFF it was absolutely devastating to have our year's best NZ awards--whose slate was full of bright young queer, indigenous, immigrant, disabled, neurodiverse voices--get bundled into the ceremony that honoured fucking campbell and lovecraft.

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

In what is possibly a world record of cost-per-minute search and rescue operations, we caught him 48 mins after our plane landed

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

MISSING IN TE ARO 🚨 Hector has been MIA since yesterday morning from the Tonks Grove area of upper Cuba St. He is a big orange boy cat (8.5kg) and very shy. May have a red collar on, he can slip them off. If you spot him, set out food and water and contact me on here

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@CaseyLucas

1 year

If you are ever designing a feature/character/dialogue/system and have to choose between style and realism, go with style every time. Yep, plenty of people will complain. They are all wrong

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1 year

What is an *actually* controversial game design opinion you hold?

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

@AaronWrotkowski @CSMFHT You know what they say, don't look a gift horse in the trapdoor located weirdly near its anus

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

@nameshiv @apmassaro3 Goofus and Gallant's Highlights for Kids school of foreign policy

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

@Iron_Spike I know I'm not the first person to say this, but as someone who works in both games and comics: everyone on a 30 under 30 list should have to disclose their parents' income.

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

That’s right kids. March down to your local park, strip off all your clothes, and steal people’s keys with your mouth. BECOME a goose.

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

You better hope this email finds you before I do.

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3 years

You were unwise to have contacted me.

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

This is not a gentle reminder, this is a firm reminder - it is okay to log off. It is okay to not read every article. Unless you are using the device in your hand to help another person, send money to another person, get crisis help for yourself, or an equivalent, it is okay.

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

A basil plant flew into my yard from somewhere in ??the sky?? this morning. Like a whole plant in a small pot? If you’re in Wellington and the wind stole your basil I am treating it well

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

I have no words. This is vile. These poor people. Anytime someone tells you colonialism is in the past and people should just "get over it" like it isn't still causing fresh, raw harm...

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@MichaelFieldNZ

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BREAKING - France tells colony of French Polynesia (pop 278,000), as #Covid19 sharply spikes, that people must "learn to live with Covid19". They will keep keep border open to tourists.

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

Has anyone ever tried having sex their annual 54 times and swallowing their 8 annual spiders all in one go

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@CaseyLucas

4 months

So happy for everyone who's getting to see the aurora today. These are old pics of mine from back in Queenstown, hoping to get more tonight

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

@NeolithicSheep @KateElliottSFF this con HAD an awards ceremony that honoured the best and brightest futures of NZ spec fic writing and they chucked it into an 11am time slot after dead racist power hour

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@CaseyLucas

5 years

@AbelUndercity @Freeyourmindkid Yeah, I think what people who say this really mean is "you'll become a conservative once you're richer" meanwhile I grew up watching medical bid bankrupt half my friends and family instead 🤔

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

I am sitting SO STILL SO I DO NOT DISTURB HER

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

Landlords: We must protect these heritage houses, they are beautiful artifacts of out past Also landlords: No, I will not replace the extractor fan or add a vent for the dryer or clean the mould out from inside the ceiling or replace the broken tiles or the missing bricks.

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@ScoopWellington

4 years

New campaign launched to oppose WCC plan to destroy heritage suburbs

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

If you are feeling bewildered about the lack of NZ content at the Hugos, one of the easiest ways you can expose your eyeballs to some glorious Aotearoa SFF is this sizzling hot off the press Year's Best anthology from @PaperRoadPress

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 2 by Marie Hodgkinson

books2read.com

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

I should probably post an official announcement now that I can? Thrilled, exhausted, overwhelmed etc to announce that A SHRIEK ACROSS THE SKY was the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Award winner for best short story. You can read it here!

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

Hi I'm absolutely incoherent with exhaustion but figure I can drop a flex post and run away - very honoured to be the recipient of the 2021 Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Best Short Story and Best Professional Publication! Thanks so much to everyone who voted! 💜💜💜

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

After the outpouring of love and support from the international SFF community, I felt compelled to address what happened to the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. Or, as I’m calling it, “the gaping New Zealand-shaped hole in the awards programming at CoNZealand.”

How NZ’s best fantasy and science fiction writers got shafted on a global stage

Those left gutted by the handling of this year's Sir Julius Vogel Awards are demanding better next year.

thespinoff.co.nz

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

Locals in Queenstown petitioning the government/media to stop food aid to migrant workers. Who was it again who lobbied and begged the government to relax visa restrictions? Who said their businesses would literally die if they couldn't hire extra backpackers?

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

I've been training a GPT-2 on poetry and folks, it is certainly Coming Along

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@CaseyLucas

1 year

So. In the process of buying a flat, the absolute raisin brains at my American bank gave me incorrect instructions on how to pay the deposit. There was no way to fix it from NZ. So here I am, in the US, having booked a ticket with 12 hours' notice

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

I brushed Heck and his butt fluffed up into a perfect sphere. The vet promises he's not overweight, he is just...shaped like this

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

I know this isn't how this nice doctor gal meant it but "armchair tugboat captain" is the best new iteration on "wanker" I have ever heard

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

Roll up your sleeves and do what has to be done for your country. This is our generation's defining moment. Will you answer the call?

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4 years

Potatoes New Zealand is worried about an enormous surplus of frozen fries making their way here from Europe.

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

@dreadconquest @nekoewen @Ettin64 Instead of raving out in the cyberpunk future we're all going to have to defrag our dicks

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

"Basket weaving" is a common putdown used to belittle elective arts classes but given NZ's rich history of weaving and the significance of te whare pora, this tweet may as well be an Austrian MP criticising orchestra classes or a French one calling classical art nonsense

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I cannot believe this budget borrows against my grandchildren’s future to fund pet projects - it is too damn serious for nonsense like funding evening classes in Basket Weaving and Gardening in the Wind!

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

Every individual cell in my body was killed by this and is currently floating away from my corpse like a cartoon ghost

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@CaseyLucas

6 months

@madmacsfuryroad I do, and even better it's one of a matching pair with a friend

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@CaseyLucas

1 year

The five food groups

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

Never not laughing at the tremendous caboose on this guy. What on earth. His hipbones are fully twice the width of his shoulders

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

comb??????? comb.

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

@oafworld @ClownZoneGuru Kaishakunin Newman's task is done. He lays down his salad claws for the last time

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@CaseyLucas

7 years

OH MY GOD MY #nzsecretsanta MADE A 2018 CALENDAR OF PEOPLE TELLING ME TO LEAVE TED CRUZ ALONE ONLINE

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@CaseyLucas

1 year

I'm not selling shit and the stuff I work on already gets plenty of promo, I just hope everyone who reads this finds their shrimp

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

If you can't handle me at my Chaos jumper, you don't deserve me at my leather pants

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

Good morning to the people cybering in the chat of the Lyall Bay traffic cam and nobody else

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

Tired: "Wanna do it" Wired:

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

Some dude in my cul de sac is loudly complaining how kids these days don't do DIY stuff. My dude, everyone my age pays $300+ a week for a single bedroom with only a closet for storage and until this year our landlords could legally bar us from hanging pictures on the wall

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

@NeolithicSheep @KateElliottSFF oh and i must add--we didn't know this was going to happen, so none of us even had the opportunity to address it in our speeches. we never even had a chance to object or speak up for ourselves or others

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

Searching for a new fantasy author to love? I’ve compiled a directory of 36 NZ fantasy authors with links to samples, free-to-read shorts, and free book downloads for /r/fantasy. Whatever your tastes, you’ll find something here:

From the Fantasy community on Reddit: An effortpost directory of 36 New Zealand fantasy authors...

Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community

www.reddit.com

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

After 12 years of being a chubby unco pacifist, Theo abruptly brought in a massive mouse last night. He looks so thrilled with himself

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3 years

I want an ass that doesn't quit but instead genetics and ADHD have gifted me an ass that won't start. 😔

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3 years

If you are Of a Certain Age nothing says summer like driving with the windows down and the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Soundtrack

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4 years

Awww diddums

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

If you, too, have been a victim of the Colorado Avalanche, you may be entitled to compensation. Call 1-877-GOALS-NOW

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Caption this

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

Must my characters "make decisions" and "have depth"? Is it not enough to merely be traumatised and hot

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

@ElsieKFisher cock and ball mindfulness

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@CaseyLucas

1 year

I am afraid that the experience of having to fly 8500 miles to fix a customer service fuckup may have Karenpilled me. This is my origin story. I can feel myself transforming into just... A tremendous bitch

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@CaseyLucas

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Sometimes #WhatAGameDevLooksLike is bed rest & mobility aids. Gutted to bow out of my first GDC talk AND miss Mini Motorways' win at the IGF but know I made the right choice. Shout out to my fellow sick/disabled devs and the hard health calls we have to make behind the scenes 💜

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@CaseyLucas

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MISSING IN TE ARO 🚨 Hector has been MIA since yesterday morning from the Tonks Grove area of upper Cuba St. He is a big orange boy cat (8.5kg) and very shy. May have a red collar on, he can slip them off. If you spot him, set out food and water and contact me on here

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7 years

Mr and Mrs Lucas-Quaid

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2 years

Watch how people act the first time you tell them no. Or the first time they have to tell you no. Especially if it's for something you know they really wanted.

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3 years

You're in her DMs. My hook hand is dangling from the door of her car. We are not the same

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

In the year-end chaos I sorta forgot to share this. I am over the bloody moon to announce I am now represented by @literarywhore at J&A in the UK! We'll be taking Into the Mire out on submission so it can find a cozy home in a bookstore near you! (art: MysteryMagicPasta)

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@CaseyLucas

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@hekatesgal @BooksByIntisar May our shrimps always be proud of us 🙏

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

Long day at the office but always up for a night standing up for my friends 💜 Seeya soon!

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@CaseyLucas

3 years

You can't beat Wellington on a shite day either imo

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3 years

Harrow the Ninth (2020)

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4 years

Put a harness on the cat and now he looks like he's ready to rescue me by rappelling off a building and saying a one-liner

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7 years

Every aspect of boomer vs millennial thinkpieces is stupid, but the part that might be worst is how they ignore working class people exist.

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2 years

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

It hurts to share this since so many of you met and loved him over the years, but we lost this sweet little man yesterday. With my health & everything else still going on I'm too numb to go into much detail. Profoundly loved, profoundly grieved. You deserved more years, Theo

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@CaseyLucas

2 years

Turn your back for 30 seconds and he's up on the desk and accessed taskbar settings with his ass

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@CaseyLucas

4 years

Thinking about the time someone sent me this, then said "whoops wrong pic." No, this is always the right pic

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3 years

People say "I'm crying irl omg" on this silly website a lot, but the first launch I ever planned just debuted at #1 on Steam, so I am, in fact, crying a lil

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3 years

@used_bandaid “no no no that’s not good enough! make up something BETTER!” [four days pass] “ah fuck back to the original idea”

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3 years

Can't keep up with replying to messages cause I only have two modes of existence atm: Very High or too much pain to think straight. Still in hospital! Mostly alive! Having a bad time! Thanks to everybody who has checked in or said hi, I am real grateful but my brain is porridge

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@CaseyLucas

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@AlasdairStuart I can't tell you how devastating it was/is to watch the local authors I love get sidelined again and again. So many had to fight to be included on any programming. Our awards got bundled into the retro ceremony honour fucking Campbell and Lovecraft. I am furious on their behalf

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4 years

Good morning from a fancy boy in his cloud kingdom

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He just fell asleep like this

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4 years

It's only cannibalism if it's from the canniblé region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling vore

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2 years

Ever read a post that does the same thing to your brain as ripping a nang

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@voretetas Glad you're still with us

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2 years

Look at this salon quality blowout

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3 years

Rest of the internet, I apologise in advance. New Zealanders are very repressed and we leap straight from restrained to weirdhorny at the faintest caress of a lockdown

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@nerode_n @AJFitzwater @katsudonburi @SarahPinsker Yep, you all had access to a voter packet full of our works (that some of us spent literal days of our life putting together) that got emailed to nobody

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@CaseyLucas

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Victim Support are a kind, necessary organization that showed me care and strength when I lost a family member to homicide. Every dollar donated to them goes directly toward helping the victims of crime. Please consider it.

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Release the bush cut

cinesthetic.

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iconic.

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