Writer, actor, autistic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/zhandlenhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3musyuejtlk2rHis hair was perfect. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Sep 2026 03:00 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3musyuejtlk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3musycynizk2rdear god I was scrolling TikTok of a guy driving his dog to get euthanized and the dog touching his arm, WHY WOULD YOU POST THAT06 Sep 2026 02:50 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3musycynizk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3musxdzvth22rwatching MST3K: The Space Children, a movie who’s entire adult cast clearly and visibly hates children.06 Sep 2026 02:33 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3musxdzvth22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mustsv4uqc2onew Onimusha is fine but bizarrely hand-holdy for the first few--well, basically always. i got the tutorial on how to fight three different times.06 Sep 2026 01:30 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mustsv4uqc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3murnijbkok2sHonestly, if anyone ever tried to seduce me, I’d either be oblivious or give in so quickly you’d be annoyed you made the effort.05 Sep 2026 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3murnijbkok2shttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3murncdo34k2sI would like to reassure everyone that, when you try to seduce me, I do not mind if you wear make up. Even if, as is the case here, I think you look better without it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3murncdo34k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3muqersgqg22jI don’t read a lot of short fiction, but John Langan’s CORPSEMOUTH has some bangers in it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 01:55 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqersgqg22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3muqemh5g322jI am currently trying to avoid any more info about IT ENDS, which has a real good chance of being something I’m into. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 01:52 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqemh5g322jhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3muqedwdfps2jAll right, finally in bed and letting the edible do its magic. AMA05 Sep 2026 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqedwdfps2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3muqecktvfk2jIt’s kinda wild how many responses to this sound like autism traits. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Sep 2026 01:47 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqecktvfk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3muq5zj2ffc2jIntimacy coordinators are actually pretty great. It’s an easy phrase to make fun of, but the actual process is the best way we have of building trust and setting boundaries for actors.04 Sep 2026 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3muq5zj2ffc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3muprvhvfgc2ithe attempt to turn HALLOWEEN into an anthology franchise was neat, but this is such a drag of a film--ten minutes of clever ideas crammed into an hour and forty minute slog. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3muprvhvfgc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mupflpdxg22iwhat's great is when i'm exhausted (like today) and i get overwhelmed quickly and i make dumb mistakes, and instead of just moving on, i try to apologize/explain my mistakes, and that makes people more annoyed with me, and _I know that_ and I can't help myself. i believe this is an autism thing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupflpdxg22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mupex3myn22ianyhoo. i'm rereading Nabokov's Pnin right now, which is a lovely book. #FridayReads04 Sep 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupex3myn22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mupecszlrs2ilet's see... i read and enjoyed the Harry Potter books, although i thought they get worse as the series went on, and Death Hallows was terrible. i liked Louis CK until the second season of his show became fixated on his dating life. i liked (and would probably still like) a lot of Joss Whedon.04 Sep 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupecszlrs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mupe54otuk2ithis isn't a literacy test, it's a "how often do you listen and talk to people who use big words" test. assuming it was framed this way to pull in clicks. (it worked on me. i don't really care.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupe54otuk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mupdxfisvs2igonna go sidewise on this one and say: this will always happen. there is no way to convince people not to do this, just as there's no way to convince some folks that "good person" = "good art." it's built into us, because our reaction to art is at least on some level always going to be personal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupdxfisvs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mupcvtipmc2iMy man looks like he knows what "primae noctis" means and he's getting ready to defend it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupcvtipmc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mupa4sw4ds2qi tried that dialect test and gave up halfway through once it became convinced i was from Pennsylvania.04 Sep 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupa4sw4ds2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mup6jwppy22qa rare "this is well-written but I completely disagree" column from @plumberduck.bsky.social (I love parrying, and I think MS2 does fun things with it): https://www.avclub.com/game-theory-mortal-shell-ii-parrying-problem04 Sep 2026 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup6jwppy22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mup6d73zws2qwhat is a thing you do that you know you do, and you know it's weird/annoying, but you can't help yourself? for me, it's commenting on my behavior in the moment--like, i'll be in a conversation, i'll get self-conscious about a thing i just said, and then i'll describe the awkwardness out loud.04 Sep 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup6d73zws2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3munodgqvgs2kI imagine it’s the inverse of the first time you see a cybertruck. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 00:08 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3munodgqvgs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mumoypp7tk2znearing the end of Mortal Shell 2, and I think this might be my game of the year? just a wonderful mix of the grotesque and the absurd, and while the combat can be frustrating, there are so many options and goofy things you can do that i'm still engaged thirty hours in.03 Sep 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumoypp7tk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mumnzkaobs2zi will always love the Rocky Horror Picture show, but not because i enjoy crowds shouting at screens; it was the first movie i saw that suggested all kinds of sexuality were possible, and that there was more to life than living up to the narrow masculine expectations of my childhood.03 Sep 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumnzkaobs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mul6t5v5ek2fDear lord—I posted on Facebook about how it’s bad to watch the new Harry Potter show, and I’d forgotten that Facebook posts go to Threads. I got -so- much transphobic hate in the replies, that site is -bad-.03 Sep 2026 00:26 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mul6t5v5ek2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/zhandlen.bsky.social/post/3mukzcpqvps2fwhy, does she think he has opioids on him [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:usr3aaz4jikvmntfizfdi7ox/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukzcpqvps2f