inscrutablemachine.bsky.social
Writer of the Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A Supervillain series and a bunch of books that are awesome but don't sell as well. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Richard-Roberts/author/B005XOLGVU
I tell a lot of funny stories.
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Guaranteed drawn poorly 'cause I haven't drawn in years and my hands shake these days!
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I can’t think of any dual custody examples, but Tonika is certainly in an interesting place with secret identities and legal custody. Legally Cassie is a kidnap victim because her older sister Ruth took her along when running away from abusive parents.
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HUMANITY COULD USE SOME UPGRADES, URSULA. THE DARKNESS BECKONS.
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Oh, sure, JUST because I condemned the world to forty years of darkness last time, I NEVER get to be in charge again!
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But it's kobolds that chew the holes in the toes.
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EEEEYUP.
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Also if you want to trade anything let me know.
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Tinkaton is queen.
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Funny story: Kobolds are the textbook example of ‘reverse sigma’. Most kobolds are either geniuses or dumb as a rock. They’re ALL hapless goobers, of course.
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Funny story: Big chain history franchises cut their product with alternate universes and strip out almost all the magical creatures necessary for daily health. Only independent historians like this account give you facts fresh and unprocessed. High quality history is worth the price.
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Funny story: Due to a server outage, your Permanent Record may have been erased. You may send a claim to the administrator with your correct name, description, inventory, and social status.
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Is it? Or can Caine change which hat is stuck on her head? AH HA HA actually that question is really on-brand for the show's existentialism and dysmorphia themes.
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Funny story: Describe your last action using the word 'slain'. The results of this quiz will go on your Permanent Record.
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Hell, you’re the goth Manic Pixie Dream Girl, which is often connected. Enormous energy and drive. It’s clear from the outside that when you’re not bedridden with Consumption you get more done in 15 minutes than most people do in a day.
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I don't know what your influences were, but your design sense reminds me of fashion dolls, especially Monster High.
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Then I'd better get back to work, 'cause I have 40 minutes until bedtime and at least another 2000 words to go on this chapter.
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Will novels do?
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Thank you. I push my friends to play it saying it's German Lesbian Space Robot Silent Hill and it will break their heart even though they won't know what the Hell is going on. It always does.
Signalis is a masterpiece.
And on a personal note WHY BEO WHY CAN'T I SAVE YOU
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I've heard both answers.
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Funny story: Do not make a plumber witch angry. Their curses are the stuff of nightmares.
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Funny story: Not only do witches make great plumbers, plungers get an efficiency bonus as magic wands.
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...also a chain mail bikini on a miqo'te was a chain mail bikini on a lalafell and again, gloriously ridiculous.
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This reminds me that one of the things I respected about FF14 was that armor pieces had the same coverage on male or female. A chain mail bikini on a girl was a chain mail bikini on a boy and gloriously ridiculous.
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Disney trailers tend to make you think it’s an entirely different movie. They completely change the style.
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That last is the thing I’ve noticed in artists adding nsfw to their account. It can change the style of art they follow the artist for. This seemed still completely on brand.
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I will try to think of negatives, but I personally thought it was an excellently chosen level of nsfw for Bluesky. No explicitness and very ‘artistic nude’ presentation. The character just happens to not wear pants. The tone matches your usual art and shouldn’t drive away your usual audience.
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Ugh. I'm so sorry.
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I don't know. What DID you think of Owl House?
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I adore all of this. Concepts, character desires, all of it.
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(It is not coincidence that my latest book's high school girl well dressed fear eating monster protagonist is named Stella Deetz.)
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Your arguments please me, because it was the only sour note in... well, it sounds like you're from my time and you understand how Lydia Deetz was, like... IT, if you were at the age to find out you're goth.
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It has stuff like "You seem like a perfectly normal teenager to me", and ends with her being happy in regular clothes when her parents are no longer awful enough to rebel against. I may be oversensitive EXACTLY because of the 80s 'take off the nerd's glasses' schtick.
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I worry that fans can only keep track of so many, especially if the genres overlap.
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Lydia Deetz was the glorious goth icon of my generation. (Yours ain't my business.) I felt like the movie treated her gothness as a flaw to fix. I'm kinda glad to hear another fan didn't get that impression!
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It’s Lucky’s derrière. The cheeks are well enough defined to make the prudish fan themselves.
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It works. It respects Lydia as a goth, which the movie didn’t, and it is more textured and reasonable to Betelgeuse’s awfulness than the cartoon. I haven’t seen the musical. Also mad props for gothing Lydia up in behavior. The girl who awakened me to the color black deserves this.
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Betelgeuse and a punkygoth Lydia as constantly bickering frenemies is the energy I did not know I needed in this franchise.
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Piffle. TOSH. 'Rabbit with a mechanical left arm' is hardly all-defining.
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The point is, seeing Clover in other styles is awesome.
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Have you fine movie aficionados seen Fading Of The Cries? Truly a masterpiece of cinema, even more so because it is obvious the creator believed he was making a masterpiece of cinema.
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My favorite review ever was a ten year old thanking me for not talking down to him. He said they get tougher vocabulary tests in school.
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I tell a ripping yarn!