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plural:tales of yore

A follow-up post regarding Angel, Lucy, Nall, and Screwtape

We found some of the lost blog archives of the deceased soulbonds from the "Destroying your soulbonds is murder" color bar.

First of all,

synecdoches were right in that, according to their 2001/7/2 LJ profile, there were only four deceased: Screwtape (or Screwy for short, from C. S. Lewis's the Screwtape Letters), Angel Morningstar, Cutey the Sprite (from Secret of Mana), and Nall (from Lunar and Lunar 2). Their bonder was one of the cofounders of the LJ soulbonding comm, Laura/Serena190 (soulbonding, 2002/11/9).

( This post contains discussion of death, fear of insanity and Satan, and ends in the death of all bonds involved. )

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philosophy

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Thinking about the Pinocchio Paradox - if Pinocchio says his nose will grow longer, is he lying or telling the truth? I realized this is only a paradox if you assume the Blue Fairy knows an objective answer to the question. It's solved if the Blue Fairy has to decide subjectively whether to make Pinocchio's nose grow longer for that.

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Got another of those interviews today where the job listing said it was accounting, and then the interview said it was sales. This seems to be particularly common with MLMs—I guess this is how they fulfill the “recruit more people” part of the pyramid scheme. Frankly, they’re wasting their time and mine by not listing their sales job as sales.

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arknights

Arknights posting

“What must I do to have you submit to me? Must I plead, or yell? Show you a side of me no one has ever seen, or grant you my dominion over death? All that you desire, I... refuse. First you must submit, and then we can discuss further.”

I think the Doctor is actually handling the terrifying dracolich.

2025 September Fan Poll

Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes. (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here! (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month? YOU CHOOSE, readers!

Poll #33565 2025 September Fan Poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

View Respondents

Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?

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Yes (my votes count double)
7 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

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Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
5 (22.7%)

Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
4 (18.2%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
1 (4.5%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
2 (9.1%)

Flights of Reality (the Cursed City)
1 (4.5%)

Anatomy of a Dance (essay)
5 (22.7%)

The Boy Whose Heart Is Home (teen hardship)
3 (13.6%)

The Battleaxe and the Blood-Eater (pseudo Greco-Roman gladiators)
0 (0.0%)

LB Economics (essay)
11 (50.0%)

Cultiples #1 Afterword (essay made of AAAAAAH)
1 (4.5%)

Rage Against the Regime (LB autobio)
7 (31.8%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

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Cult Comix
3 (15.0%)

Death Watch
4 (20.0%)

How it Was, How It Is
2 (10.0%)

2012 hospital sketchbook
0 (0.0%)

2013 Homeless Year sketchbook
2 (10.0%)

2014 AllFam sketchbook
1 (5.0%)

Protection
6 (30.0%)

2015 early Biff sketchbook
4 (20.0%)

Seductive Beast (Mori/Rawlin silliness)
11 (55.0%)

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feo is easily annoyed

I’m reading that Average Abilities light novel

This gives me the same feeling as Harry Potter, where there are Good Guys and Bad Guys, and the Good Guys can do horrible shit to the Bad Guys and have it be okay, because bad things are only bad if you do them to Good Guys.

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shameless advertising

Wanna buy some banned itch.io books? (not by me!)

boneyhag on bsky has created a spreadsheet of banned/de-indexed works on itch.io! Some good creators and works on there, (including Muepin's Special Request, which I own), and overwhelmingly queer work (what a shock). I added some stuff to my wishlist! Perhaps you can too!

(If you're one of the folks who got burned, linked post also has a submission form adding your work to the spreadsheet.)

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politics,
work

Story and Essay Back-ups Because of Fuckin' Mississippi

Due to Dreamwidth having to block views from all Mississippi users, I'm going to have to fucking take every single story and essay on this damn website and mirror and back it up on healthymultiplicity.com.

Mississippi's requirements are strict:

This act applies only to a digital service provider who provides a digital service that:
(a) Connects users in a manner that allows users to socially interact with other users on the digital service;
(b) Allows a user to create a public, semi-public or private profile for purposes of signing into and using the digital service; and
(c) Allows a user to create or post content that can be viewed by other users of the digital service, including sharing content on:
(i) A message board;
(ii) A chat room; or
(iii) A landing page, video channel or main feed that presents to a user content created and posted by other users.

So this includes Dreamwidth (and all other Livejournal clones), Fanfiction.net, an AOL Instant Messenger chat room, a forum, presumably Patreon and itch.io... but oddly probably not 4chan, since that has no profiles! healthymultiplicity.com is kinda my only option, because the site allows for no social interaction.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience. Having my work accessible to the public is extremely important to me, but man, the past couple months have been pretty rough when it comes to politicians and payment processors getting between me and my willing readers!

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arknights

Arknights posting

Kjerag (fantasy-Switzerland) was secretly building weapons, in violation of treaty, in case Columbia (fantasy-America) invaded them for resources. Now they’re selling tank designs to weapons researchers in Columbia. This is Bad, because Columbian weapons researchers are among the most evil people in a setting that also has Koschei the Deathless, three different kinds of homicidal cultists, and a necromancer who leads the fantasy-Irish Republican Army.

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personal

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didn’t post about it at the time, but I got fired a little while back. I used to be brilliant at that job, but I got sick and tired, and I couldn’t meet the minimum standards anymore.

I’m looking for a part-time job, and so many listings don’t bother to specify which they are, because it’s just assumed that you’re a normal person who can work 40 hours a week.

I just realized I feel ashamed of being sick.

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arknights

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I’m just past the beginning of the latest Arknights event, and this looks pretty dire. Eblana’s necromancy is contagious, and it spreads to the living to gradually turn them into the same sort of emotionless husks she raises from the dead. The entire capital city of Tara is infected, but they don’t realize what it’s doing yet and think it’s some kind of blessing. Loughshinny can cure it, but people freak out when they realize she’s taking away their blessing. Also, I think the infected all die if Eblana dies. And Eblana is still treating this like a game because she doesn’t really give a shit.

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geekdom:books

Princess Angelina and the Dragon, by Renee Carter Hall

While digging through sci-fi library magazine archives, I found an old 2000 magazine that had the very charming short story, "Princess Angelina and the Dragon," by Renee Carter Hall. Since finding copies of that magazine is pretty hard for most people, I emailed the author about it, and she benevolently chose to upload it online for everyone to enjoy! Ain't that nice of her?

I know I got some dragon-smoochers as readers, so please enjoy this cute fractured fairy tale story of dragon smoochery!

Current Mood: artistic

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Comic: Blushing and Scent, 2024

This was the winner of the LiberaPay/Patreon poll this month! Enjoy your fluffy comics!

( There's a reason Mori had that art of her years back with her shrieking I AM IMPERVIOUS TO SHAME! )

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Edith Somerville and Violet Ross

Mori: Me and

sinistmer are having a book club, reading Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present, by Lillian Faderman. One of the things I wanted to keep an eye out for was whether any spirit marriage came up, and wouldn'tcha know it,

sinistmer texted me letting me know INDEED THERE IS!

( LADIES! )

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feo is easily annoyed

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When I made an (unfortunately corrupted) game, I had an idea about dialogue. When you talk with an NPC, and it brings up multiple dialogue panes, that means talking with the NPC another time will bring up further dialogue. When they only respond with one dialogue pane, that means they have nothing else to say. This lets you distinguish which NPCs to not bother talking to again, and is also the key to a secret.

This post brought to you by Dyztopia, which does nothing to indicate which NPCs to keep talking to, but has a missable character you only get by talking to them repeatedly.

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ChatGPT Psychosis

Rogan: Okay, I know I owe responses to folks, but am kinda blurgh, so I promise I haven't forgotten y'all, it's just been a busy couple weeks!

So, thanks to

erinptah, yesterday I learned about ChatGPT psychosis. As I linkjumped through the rabbit hole, one thing that stood out to me was how shocked people seemed to be that folks "with no prior history of mental illness" were falling into it. And I was like, "Well, yeah, of course, why is that surprising?" but I realized that other folks may not know this, so let me tell you why ChatGPT Psychosis happens to "normal people."

( The human mind is a delicate thing. You gotta be nice to it. )

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There was this one bit of Ranma 1/2 meta I read years ago, which said that Ranma is so wrapped up in the idea that a true man is superior to others, it validates his sense of masculinity when he’s better at femininity than girls are. Every other meta post I’ve seen since has been “no, she likes acting like a girl because she’s genderfluid.”

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https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/459417/dairy-farm-deaths-cow-manure-osha-colorado

"According to two unnamed dairy industry sources who spoke with Denver’s ABC affiliate, a contractor working on an underground manure pit accidentally turned on a valve or pump that released hydrogen sulfide, a gas that is formed by decomposing animal manure. Exposure to the gas caused the worker to collapse “almost instantly,” according to a dairy industry publication.

"In an attempt to rescue him, five other workers at the farm, called Prospect Valley Dairy, entered the underground manure pit and met the same fate (a supervisor had reportedly warned them against doing so)."

Humans, on a psychological level, seem to be really bad at dealing with toxic gases. We so often get these chains of deaths.

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(no subject)

Just saw a person being xenophobic to immigrants on the grounds that “these people are more xenophobic than you.”

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I can’t reconcile “managers and subordinates can’t be friends,” “coworkers can be friends,” and “coworkers could become managers someday.” I don’t think I could ever be friends with someone who could one day determine that I don’t have an income anymore.