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Don't Look Away by Osmatar, literature

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Don't Look Away

Boy sees a group of men armed with sticks assault an elder. A strong hand grips his shoulder. "Don't look away," speaks his father's voice. Calloused fingertips dig into the boy's skin so tightly that it stings, locking him in place to look on as life escapes the old man's eyes. Teen walks down the street, his mind lost in the coming days. In a rush a local man pushes past him, grabs a hefty stick off the ground and attacks an elderly man. "I mustn't look away," the young man-to-be remembers, bearing witness as more neighbors join in to carry out the beating to its end. Young groom hears a commotion and goes to investigate, arriving just in time to see a middle-aged man knock a haggard senior off his feet with a stick. An ice-cold clarity overtakes the groom's mind. His heart sinks as sacred duty evicts ephemeral joy. Thought and emotion drown in a river of adrenalin. The young man finds a stick of his own and begins dealing blows. There is no respite until the old man stops

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Don't Look Away by Osmatar, literature

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Don't Look Away

Backrooms: Consider the Spider by Osmatar, literature

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Backrooms: Consider the Spider

Hello, fellow wanderer. If you are reading this I assume you must find yourself trapped in this cursed place like myself. I wager you came upon these papers while frantically searching for a way out. Perhaps you are currently fighting overwhelming dread having failed to succeed so far. Or you may have begun to lose hope that you ever will. I will make this clear right away: I cannot provide you with an assured escape route. Nonetheless, I urge you to sit down (should the chairs still be there) and give yourself a breather while you read what I have to say. Unless you have come across something I never did, it is unlikely a few minutes of rest will hurt you. I myself have been confined here for so long I cannot begin to estimate the span of time, but my once fresh wounds have scabbed and scarred over and my nails have grown troublingly long. I cannot explain what has happened to me, or rather to us, nor what this confounding place really is. I have, however, come to certain

The Nations Go to Mars by Osmatar, literature

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The Nations Go to Mars

The International Mars Mission crash landed and the space suits got vented out on the surface in the impact. The crew survived but were stuck in a small capsule with limited air. They started arguing over who should go outside unprotected to fetch the suits. "It's -50 °C out there!" protested the British astronaut. "Robert Scott died in milder temps than that. There's no way we'll make it to the suits and back alive." "We fought hard to keep the retirement age at 64 years," argued the French astronaut. "I'll be damned if I have to die in my 30s!" "I don't know what -50 °C is in Fahrenheit and I'd gladly die for my country," said the American, "But I was sent here by Mr. Musk and he won't cover my kid's health insurance if I don't complete the mission." At this point everyone turned to the Russian cosmonaut, who lifted his hands up and said: "I know what you're thinking. Russia would pay my family handsomely if I died, and truth be told, -50 doesn't sound that bad. But there is a

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Tiina Mette Mielikki Aumala

Former paleoartist and SpecZoo creator, currently a mentally and physically destroyed shitpost goblin that sculpts sometimes.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

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Chernobyl, Doom Patrol, Better Call Saul

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Terry Pratchett

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Paleontology, zoology, mythology, psychology, astronomy, cosmology, general science, gardening, cat care

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May 5, 2026

WTF is going on here?! [DEVIATION] This site just keeps getting weirder, somehow. I don't even know what I'm looking at here. Did someone use Snapchat to transition John Romero's head from DOOM 2? There seems to be more of the same in the gallery, but they look too perfectly fleshy and uh... hairy to be physical sculpts or 3D renders, so I'm guessing AI generation. But, I reiterate, why? Is celebrity head on a spike a trending meme? I guess it could be a fetish even though it just gives me the heebie-jeebies. In any case I'm clearly not the right person to do the greeting. Maybe send an AI first?

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Apr 27, 2026

How's everyone doing? I'm not so unlucky to be living in one of the many nations currently engaged in open war, yet I'm in shambles. This place has for some reason been deemed the happiest nation on Earth, but if you're not among the lucky ones life can still be miserable and exhausting. I can't even begin to imagine what everyone else without the shield of Nordic privilege is going through right now. I hope you're at least safe, relatively speaking. As far as you and I can know, anyway. Personal/family tragedies, mishaps, illness and other cruel twists of fate will affect all of us eventually, but they are especially difficult to deal with when everything else around us is more or less actively falling apart. Remember to be merciful to yourselves, and try to find the strength to admit to yourself that sometimes survival is the highest accomplishment you can aspire to. You can always find loftier goals later if you make it through to the other side.

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Apr 5, 2026

The Tragedy of Darth Galbraith the Moldy

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Did you ever read the tragedy of Darth Galbraith the Moldy? I thought not. It's not a story the Neolibs would share. It's a Cis legend. Darth Galbraith was a Dank Author of the Cis so powerful she could use the Words to create a popular children's series about the evils of bigotry and supremacist ideology. She gave her villain the belief that power was bestowed upon people as birthright, and only those born to it deserved to wield it and hold dominion over all others. She had such knowledge of the art of storytelling she could even have her protagonist be born special, endowed with innate supernatural power granting them superiority over most of humanity by default, and all would accept this. Writing is a pathway to many forms of influence some consider to be problematic. She became so powerful the only thing she was afraid of was a small marginalized minority that posed no credible threat to her. Unfortunately she taught her fans to recognize bigots and supremacists, and to

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Inmyarmsinmyarms

Mar 10, 2026

Are you open for commissions?

bigfootRULES

Since you mentioned in Magestone their are other worlds, how are you going to handle the planes like the plane of fire and others? Are they going to be planets?

Magestone cosmology isn't one-to-one with D&D. There are things known as elemental planes, but they are something so weird scholars of magic can't agree on what the hell is going on, apart from that they seem to reset whenever someone from the prime material visits them. There are stable true planes of reality such as the Infernal Plane and the Supernal Plane, but they aren't planets. More like lower and upper layers in the layer cake of reality.

To avoid confusion: some of the things that are usually associated with the elemental planes do live on an alien planets. The planes themselves have never been proven to support life.

bigfootRULES

Is it the same for they feywild and Shadowfell too?