Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Shiome
@shiome.bsky.social
Xiyao only. Writer, ENG/JP, doing my best. D&D and WWM lately. 10年間在日、現在はヨーロッパに帰国。 https://archiveofourown.org/users/Shiome/works
Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly. Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now. Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate? Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?
Post-surgery checkup went well 💪 I’m feeling pretty good about it!
I’m spending my recovery week(s) in bed playing Metaphor re: Fantazio and it’s great
Instead of worrying about surgery, I’m worrying about my pakidge seemingly getting lost in the mail because tracking hasn’t updated in five days… that’s more productive. I want my pakidge
Found out that there’s a new Muse album out the same day I got approved for my surgery, everything’s coming up Shiome 💪
A very routine surgery on 7/20 so if I disappear forever you know something went wrong lmfao 🤪
Update: he texted me that he keeps forgetting to do it but he’ll definitely get on it this week 🤣
Shiome@shiome.bsky.social · last mo.Nothing worse for my social anxiety than being left on read by someone who said yes to writing a letter of recommendation… last week. I already followed up once this week. I cannot bother them anymore 😩
I need to renew my subscription because FFXIV roulettes have been fantastic for my daily stationary bike training lol
Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 2mo agoSam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
Nothing worse for my social anxiety than being left on read by someone who said yes to writing a letter of recommendation… last week. I already followed up once this week. I cannot bother them anymore 😩
Europe is currently burning with insane temperatures, I dunno about y’all but this sucks
Echoing canon under the most strange circumstances and in the most unexpected AUs. Over and over again.
muse ✨@muse.bsky.social · 2mo agosomeone asked this on tumblr & I thought it was a great question, so I'll ask it here: what is your FAVORITE THING about writing fanfiction?
How tf do I get my FFXIV screencaps off the PlayStation 4 now that it doesn’t have Twitter integration anymore 😅😤
It’s never too late to discover you fucking love wearing black nail polish
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Went to a small comic convention for the first time in years and I immediately won the dice rolling contest with a nat20. Here’s my prize: One Ring dice set (well, technically seven rings)
