Caffeinated Otter
@caffeinatedotter.bsky.social
Author of short and episodic fiction: fantasy, SF, smut — http://brain-implant.tech/writing/ he/him
The robotgirls tell the story of the Standardisation Committee of Babel, when all robots had a single unified all-purpose data model and had no choice but to think alike. The shortcomings resulting in inexpressible concepts were obvious; the arguments about extending the model ferocious.
Accidentally seeing a horny post by a cis man is like turning a corner and realising Oh! I Think I'm In The Part Of Town Where People Get Stabbed In The Street
Oh, the mage? Darling, isn't she? Oh yes, *hates* it, that's why her ankle's chained. Kept trying to pull a tapestry down to wrap herself in.
One of the things I learn again and again being an artist in creative spaces is that it isn't about who has the best *ideas* or *ability*, it's all about who actually is able to pull through and make the thing. Even if someone else *could* make it better. Even if someone else had the *idea* first. 🧵
"ancient Greeks exercised naked for spiritual or sexual reasons" lmao was this assertion by any chance penned by a Victorian English dude unfamiliar with Greek summers
Aw I hate the moments where I sort of slow down and explain something staggeringly obvious to myself in short words with an air of bewildered condescension because it should have been obvious and wasn't
INTERIOR, DIVE BAR, DAY: a GRIZZLED DOWN-ON-HER-LUCK WITCH is slouched at a table, nursing an empty glass. A second, EXPENSIVELY DRESSED HIGH FEMME WITCH puts down a bottle and two glasses in front of her. FEMME WITCH: I'm putting together a team—
Me: Titling things! My nemesis! Somehow you have taken me by surprise once again! Untitled document: Buddy,
Right, I think we're tagging "HELLO FAIRYTALE WITCH, I HAVE COME TO BE DESPOILED AS A TERRIFIED VOLUNTEER HUMAN SACRIFICE", mm, "dubious consent"
ah! I think I have just discovered what the problem is that I've been having with this piece I've been trying to write love that "fuck around for three days, find out" is how the process works
No Ender's Game, no Dragonlance (iirc), no Twilight, probably more I'm forgetting offhand, but Mormons have a huge foothold in SFF publishing and have been entrenched for quite some time and 10% of every dollar goes right into funding the genocide church (look up what they did to Hawaii for starters
Caffeinated Otter@caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 2d agoand Mormonism unfortunately develops writers by encouraging daily writing as a self-development practise! Which is to say if you want to be principled about "I am not paying him any money for him to fund that", you've also got to not-buy e.g. any Schlock Mercenary books
A mech is like a clown car in that it's piloted, invariably, by a clown. Got more missiles tho
Pagliacci: life seems harsh and cruel. i feel all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain— Handler: sure, this one's got an outlook I can work with, but I'm not a fucking driving instructor! Can this clown even pilot?
The thing about "Brando Sando, like all Mormons, does as is mandatory for Mormons and personally funds the atrocities of the LDS church" is not just that it's true, but because of that word "mandatory" it's necessarily true of every other Mormon writer you've heard of,
Thrown right out of suspension of disbelief, cackling unkindly, at an AO3 Tolkien-spinoff fic's virtuous insistence on emphasising that usually, of course, elfladies would responsibly use Ye Ancient Elven Dental Dams for a hookup,
reminder that if you want someone in your life you should never trust social media to be the sole way you can contact them. diversify your ability to contact your friends and important online contacts
Soylent Green is listening and learning 😌 and is proud to announce a new, less problematic formulation, in order to keep Feeding the World™— New Soylent Green™ Plus™: it's Sarthas!
"um why are only a handful of people shouting about this—" because it's like the half-dozenth gacha pull at getting just this specific piece of evil crammed into legislation, during just this year so far?
I do find it bitterly amusing that every single social media website has people on it willing to state, with the utter confidence of a toddler, that the users of Their Blorbo Website are the Real People and that all other sites' users are contemptible idiot rubes
Please use alt text at all times. Please have it actually describe this image. This is not hard.
On this week's Only Fools & Dwarflords— "Rodney, you plonker! Stop squeezing 'em!"
Caffeinated Otter@caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 2d agoyou want some elf boobs, mate? fell off the back of a lorry
you want some elf boobs, mate? fell off the back of a lorry
Zinzrinz@zinzrinz.bsky.social · 2d agoelf boobs shipping cost by weight updated 2026 how to package elf boobs how much tape for elf boobs package elf boobs bubble wrap elf boob packing peanuts elf boobs shredded paper what happens if my elf boobs fall off the truck
It's a night for going "no. no, that's too stupid to post"
Sometimes when I'm having trouble getting started on anything, I go on the site and hit "random" a few times, read one of my old bits that I don't remember that well, see if shakes anything loose. I still like this one.
Lunacy
There’s a bunch of ways to do magic.
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