"Bridge to eQualia" by Blackle is a 9,779-word piece of noir cyberpunk written as a long Bluesky thread. Compelling and uneasy. The author intends to archive it (via blog) soon.
https://bsky.app/profile/blackle.bsky.social/post/3lpmnsdic722n
It starts:
'dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night'
and goes from there.
@brainwane also on fedi https://lethargic.talkative.fish/@suricrasia/statuses/01JVQD92JG7K8H34YA0D1R2KD6 (but only to fedi clients)
@astraluma Hmmmm! I can't see it using Tusky. What fedi client app might work?
@brainwane huh that's what I use
Maybe it's a server distribution thing
@suricrasia ! You wrote glorious fiction! Why can't anyone read it?
I went to @suricrasia 's profile directly and was then able to scroll, find
https://lethargic.talkative.fish/@suricrasia/statuses/01JVQD92JG7K8H34YA0D1R2KD6
and open it
May 25, 2025, 1:41 PM@brainwane “orz” is a powerful emoji from the dawn of the century that never really got its proper due and I'm glad to see it prominently exercised here