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stephenie.bsky.social
Level 40 Human Idealist. Really into narrative experiences. Baby DM. Currently: drowning in my English Lit undergrad. Next: Daylighters. More (eventually) at newsaints.itch.io
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K, here's my thing about heroes vs. villains. Being good/a hero (and by that I mean, making the best choices one can to help others, do no harm and make shit better) is hard as hell in a world that is often cruel and rewards selfish behavior. "Good" is a choice you have to make over and over...

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“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” action.everylibrary.org/we_should_al...

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It's curtains for Miss Direction, but the show must go on. Farewell, comrades! Leave a ghost light on for me. #VALLEY100

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Somebody get Charlie Brooker in here, this season of Black Mirror sucks.

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Miss Direction has resorted to Princess Bride references in her desperate, twice-wounded state. Spare a blessing? #VALLEY100

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You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you. Given enough time you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing -- just by accident.

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Maybe those fireworks Miss Direction was arrested for *were* faulty after all. No matter—the limelight (and poor, bewildered Wumberly)—awaits! #VALLEY100

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Ohhh Quinlan is down bad for Ventress

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I am very late to the Dark Disciple party but you guys these two are everything, I am in love

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Is there a football game on or something

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Pre-colonial Latin American History has been put on pause while I try to understand how read Plato

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I've been compiling the #VALLEY100 responses into a single, organized mega doc so I can catch up on all of the wonderful stories and scenarios thread-by-thread, what do you mean I should be working on that very long paper about the impact of early European colonialists in Latin America that is due--

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Yellow is the only color Rey's lightsaber ever could have been, in this essay I will

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Alas, Miss Direction is the sole survivor of Room 21. Farewell, my Darlings. The show must go on. #VALLEY100

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Annotate your books. It will change your life.

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The overwhelm is the point. Don't let it.

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open.spotify.com/playlist/4Vm...

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

submitted 95 days ago • 43 comments

a 𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 to @alfredvalley.bsky.social for his commitment to #Valley100 and ten sleepless nights purely for our own entertainment

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Of course you don't know how to write it. That's why you have to write it

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Our dear, devious Miss Direction—wrongly accused of peddling faulty fireworks, ready to retake the limelight! Spare a 𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 for me, lads? #Valley100

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Tonight's headliner is Miss Direction! She's a magician with friends everywhere, who was arrested for selling fireworks. SWEET SPOT: 47–67 LUCK: 3 ALIGNMENT: Odd STARTING LOCATION: 20 #VALLEY100

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

it's that time

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Done! My little guy's somewhat last minute entry for #36WordRPGJam. newsaints.itch.io/dungeons-mon...

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My 8-year-old is suddenly dying to go to his first concert and is trying to convince me he likes Nine Inch Nails so I'll take him in September.

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No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

An actual 70% of my office is out today with the flu.

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Flu outbreak in North Texas has led a handful of schools to close down for a brief period. Meanwhile, my kid's Group Me is full of parents asking "Where did this come from?!" as if Cold/Flu/RSV season doesn't come at the same time every year. www.statesman.com/story/news/s...

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