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Richard Roberts

@inscrutablemachine.bsky.social

Writer of the Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A Supervillain series and a bunch of books that are awesome but don't sell as well. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Richard-Roberts/author/B005XOLGVU I tell a lot of funny stories. (He/Him)

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My impression has long been that kinks are something you hate and/or fear, defanged and with some lust sprinkled on to make the catharsis even more satisfying and powerful.

Also you are a furry.
Also you are a furry.
There, you win twice.

06.08.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All we are is just another kick to Big Balls.

06.08.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@batshaped.bsky.social Okay, caught up again. I read in big binges. Chloe and Halo Head's relationship is the only one I don't understand, that I don't see my reflection in anywhere, but that makes it fascinating to watch play out and I'm always hungry to know more. They're a pair of teases.

06.08.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My most LA moment was when a guy stopped me claiming to be a Yogi fresh in from India and he wanted to tell me I had a lucky face. And then he left. Wasn't selling anything.

05.08.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sleep a lot. Go lie down in bed and think about your story. Plan it as you fall asleep.

Pros: This works. You will wake up with mad inspiration, if you can hold onto it.

Cons: You will never dream normally again. Sorry.

05.08.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Okay, that's the inventory done. Now the hard part."
"How do we make a bed to sleep on out of fifty eight thousand CDs without her crushing them???"

05.08.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember back when you were much more cagey about your gender, and I'm sure that ties in.

05.08.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would say it's morally necessary.

05.08.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does someone love her kitty?

05.08.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That public sentiment and government oversight was forcing a bunch of rich bigots to do pro-LGBT+ stuff seems pretty great to me.

04.08.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, he runs around off the roadways a lot. He needs foot protection.

03.08.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

His gender is Creep

03.08.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A ball jointed doll version of Alice from the game Alice: Madness Returns.  She has puppet strings holding up her arms, but is lying limp in a broken glass box full of crushed giant baby doll heads.  Content Warning:  The game is incredibly dark and uses dolls as Alice's hallucination disguising sexual abuse.

A ball jointed doll version of Alice from the game Alice: Madness Returns. She has puppet strings holding up her arms, but is lying limp in a broken glass box full of crushed giant baby doll heads. Content Warning: The game is incredibly dark and uses dolls as Alice's hallucination disguising sexual abuse.

Which reminds me. Alice: Madness Returns.

03.08.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A sinister figure in a top had and suit whose face is hidden dances with a maimed, bleeding doll.

A sinister figure in a top had and suit whose face is hidden dances with a maimed, bleeding doll.

03.08.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

By the way Amber spends the rest of the book rampaging through fairyland because they picked the WRONG little girl to rob.

03.08.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of a little blonde girl following colorful lights.  She is on the bright happy meadow side of the picture.  The art shades into a black dominated forest.  There is text.

They lured her out to frolic
By the deep and awful wood
(Amber isn't going THERE.
Inside is nothing good.)

A picture of a little blonde girl following colorful lights. She is on the bright happy meadow side of the picture. The art shades into a black dominated forest. There is text. They lured her out to frolic By the deep and awful wood (Amber isn't going THERE. Inside is nothing good.)

A little blonde girl is lying on the grass next to a sidewalk as three glowing fairies drag combs through her hair.  She looks very happy.

The text reads:

When it was time to rest,
they combed her hair while Amber
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A little blonde girl is lying on the grass next to a sidewalk as three glowing fairies drag combs through her hair. She looks very happy. The text reads: When it was time to rest, they combed her hair while Amber s p r a w l e d . . .

Picture of the blonde girl (named Amber) from the previous pictures.  She looks unhappy as she feels her shaved head.

The text reads:

Then the laughter stopped abruptly
When she looked up
She was BALD.

Picture of the blonde girl (named Amber) from the previous pictures. She looks unhappy as she feels her shaved head. The text reads: Then the laughter stopped abruptly When she looked up She was BALD.

You know, while I show off art that means a lot to me, three pages from the never finished Amber And The Pixies that @danacorn.bsky.social and I were working on together. It got interrupted by her becoming slightly rich and extremely famous, which is BADASS, but I cherish what was made!

03.08.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.

(Hint: I am not Princess Nova)

(Yes art by @animatronikki.bsky.social she draws me and my characters soooo much I am so lucky also this is our relationship right here and our comparative heights.)

03.08.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I suspect I have multiple books that would not pass a gender swapped Bechdel Test.

02.08.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I like the little extra pudge, the odd green eyes, the androgyny of lips and fingernail/claws. I've said it before, but you do put a unique vision and style into everything. It's very cool.

02.08.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really like that idea. It would explain why he kept it quiet. In his callow youth, it would have shamed him.

01.08.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who wants to see the innocent inhabitants of the Candy Moon twisted and transformed over and over as their moon becomes a proxy battleground between the Lady of Life and the Black Iron Monster?

01.08.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hell, maybe I'll go full freak show and finish Metal, Candy, Flesh.

01.08.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Giant stressful uncertainty in my life cleared. As my thoughts free up, I ponder what to write next. Finish the space soap opera? Go forward with the fantasypunk? It needs a little rethinking, but the concept is excellent. Do a sequel to A Spaceship Repair Girl Supposedly Named Rachel?

01.08.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Funny story: Dragons learned to shapeshift because of their insatiable craving for pasta. 600 tomatoes for one serving of spaghetti just is not practical.

01.08.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Be careful. Wild potatoes may look as cuddly as domesticated potatoes, but they can turn violent in the blink of an eye.

01.08.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh lawd, he comin’.

31.07.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dinosaur modeling assumes almost no extra soft tissue, which if you look at modern animals is ridiculous.

What I’m saying is I support Fat Borb T-Rex.

31.07.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Guild Wars 2 in general is very dignified. FF14 is much less so, but it always amuses me that any outfit wearable by different races/sexes (most of them) looks exactly the same. Enjoy that female mi'qote's chain mail bikini, male lalafell!

31.07.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have watched this before! It's very impressive!

30.07.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I try to figure out dragon behavior with the maxim that dragons are domestic cats, but huge.

30.07.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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