Author. Engineer. Armchair polymath. (formerly @purpleskull14 and @leppeppel on the bird app) SFFH or STFU | ADHD, Kinsey 2 | Memento Mori linktr.ee/leppeppelhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mv4fid562k26"I need to go through my stories and decide on asterisms or italicized octothorpes as my standard dinkus." #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity09 Sep 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4fid562k26https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3muzddpynws2bI finally got around to watching Sorcerer (1977) and I must say, 1/5⭐; contained no sorcery. 😠 I have high hopes for this new Barbarian movie, though.08 Sep 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzddpynws2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3muu2237ezc2qYou, a mycologist: "Laccaria bicolor" Me, an intellectual: "munchroom" #SundayPunday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccaria_bicolor#Carnivory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccaria_bicolor#Carnivory(I06 Sep 2026 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muu2237ezc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3muqejfu53226My AuDHD approves. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqejfu53226https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3muowxaobcs26I love it when "normal" things happen in Fantasy settings. It makes the world feel like a real place where people live, rather than simply a setting where things occur. #FantasyFriday [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muowxaobcs26https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mumne2kmwc26Here's a quick (but more accurate) mock-up I made incorporating the human's larger brain case with the wolf's extended snouth [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumne2kmwc26https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3muldqmbf3c26Apropos of nothing... youtu.be/qfZVu0alU0I https://youtu.be/qfZVu0alU0I03 Sep 2026 01:54 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muldqmbf3c26https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3muk7w62cnk26#TIL the Isles of Scilly have an awesome flag chosen by popular vote, but the fourth place choice looks uncannily like the national flag of Tuvalu. #Flags02 Sep 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muk7w62cnk26https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3muhwnoenjs26Mandrill skulls are kind of what I imagine a werewolf's would look like. 💀01 Sep 2026 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhwnoenjs26https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mucrbmol7c2wToday's Aesthetic: Unusual Knuckledusters [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Aug 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucrbmol7c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mu7xpu3p7c2wI might start identifying members of monospecific genera such as Moloch as "Moloch sp." just to annoy phylogenists. #Biology29 Aug 2026 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7xpu3p7c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mu363gmj322uThis is our generations' Caesar's Comet. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu363gmj322uhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mtzxbbbjwc24My parents raised me right and now I'm sad.27 Aug 2026 03:55 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzxbbbjwc24https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mtxdjvtbk224Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring Do I go with the one who already has more power than the Ring could offer, or the one with no ambitions for power to corrupt? [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxdjvtbk224https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mtwiiywpts24I've found a #Fantasy story which rivals The Eye of Argon in its quality of prose. 👀 See for example the paragraph that's one long run-on sentence which describes nipples as "orchidaceous tips." #WriteSky25 Aug 2026 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwiiywpts24https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mtrrm7mtjs2yHyenas are dog-shaped cats. Foxes are cat-shaped dogs. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.23 Aug 2026 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrrm7mtjs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mtpligl3b22y#TIL New Jersey and Ohio are *both* nicknamed "the armpit of America." I guess that makes Pennsylvania the chest, with Philly and Pittsburgh as a pair of slightly lopsided nipples.23 Aug 2026 00:58 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtpligl3b22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3mtkobimpas2yThis bleet is slightly NSFW, but I love learning other cultures' terms for common ✨positions✨. Before cowboys were a pop culture staple, Victorians referred to cowgirl as "riding St. George," and an Arabic term for missionary is "the manner of serpents."21 Aug 2026 02:04 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtkobimpas2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3msrlqnqoj22qAphrodite Areia: the warlike goddess of love Aphrodite REIa: the outdoorsy goddess of love #Puns #MythologyMonday11 Aug 2026 02:42 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3msrlqnqoj22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3msolmhopcs24It's an important heirloom now! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Aug 2026 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3msolmhopcs24https://bsky.app/profile/leppeppel.bsky.social/post/3msltz5se6224I've had a hankerin' to make these stupid covers for *years*! [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Aug 2026 19:54 +0000at://did:plc:fzxtstozug22vkeygoknw6vr/app.bsky.feed.post/3msltz5se6224