Rhem

@rhem

he/they. Deep in my writing feels. I like actual play podcasts, video games, and wishing I were writing. Check out As the Devil Drives, available from ebook platforms near you (and also on Storygraph)

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Rhem@rhem· 25d

Okay I guess I'm a believer in feng shui now because what do you MEAN I got the hot springs ticket on my very first run with her.

Rhem@rhem· May 27

Art courtesy of @lucdrawsthings.bsky.social ! AroAce Lucid Chime reporting for duty!

Rhem@rhem· Mar 18

Shocking no one, I think a big part of my fondness for Wilson as a Don't Starve survivor is because he's such a good chew toy. "Underwhelming incredibly normal guy has to survive in impossible odds surrounded by people objectively cooler than him" has become SUCH a weakness of mine.

A screenshot from a short animatic for the game Don't Starve. It shows the character of Wilson, a well dressed scientist with messy dark hair, being electrocuted by a shadowy arm clenched around his waist.

Rhem@rhem· Mar 17

Full disclosure, I did install a "no permadeath unless you want to die" mod in Don't Starve, BUT. I did still beat my previous record by getting halfway through winter before I had to use it because of this fucking thing.

A screenshot from the video game Don't Starve of a boss monster called The Deerclops. It looks like a bipedal reindeer, complete with antlers and shaggy grey fur, except it also has fangs and only one eye.

Rhem@rhem· Mar 5

First three were foundational components of my childhood with themes that reoccur in my writing to this day. Breath of the Wild remains the only Zelda game I've ever completed. I quote Disco Elysium obnoxiously often. And the others just manage to pull me back time and time again.

A screenshot showing a grid of "nine game" title screens that I feel are most foundational to me. Those games are Legend of Mana, Breath Of Fire 3, Final Fantasy 9, Disco Elysium, Dwarf Fortrss, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Etrian Odyssey, and Final Fantasy 14

Rhem@rhem· Feb 17

So a necromancer turned up with a bunch of zombies, and as near as I can tell, once we chopped through enough of the zombies, the necromancer then resurrected them as intelligent undead who were no longer hostile to us. They've been hanging out in my entryway. Wondering if I should run makeown.

A screenshot from the video game Dwarf Fortress. It shows a list of units, including several intelligent undead which are listed as "Friendly". This is a shift from the start of the invasion, where they were all mindless zombies trying to eradicate the fortress.

Rhem@rhem· Feb 15

"Rhem is incredibly suggestible" Round 5003

"Act like me in the QRTs" bluesky text meme

Rhem@rhem· Feb 10

Oh my hand is NEVER recovering from this. But the midterm beckons, wish me luck.

One side of my allowed reference sheet for my African history midterm, with a focus on geographic features and current country borders with their independence dates

One side of my permitted reference sheet for my African history final, with a focus on pre-colonial and colonial borders, lamguage distributions, and notable towns.

Rhem@rhem· Feb 8

I couldn't necessarily explain my love of ball jointed dolls, but there is something grounding and soothing in the process (and it is a process) of getting them dressed up properly and fussing every stray hair into place. Y'shtola's been wearing a nightgown for months but she is back on her feet!

A ball jointed vinyl doll standing roughly two feet tall, styled to look like a cat girl with short white hair and pale, blind white eyes. She is dressed in an elaborate black two piece dress meant to mark her as a powerful mage, cradling her staff in one hand.

Rhem@rhem· Feb 5

Lunar: Dragon Song isn't a good game but it's one of the easiest examples for me to reach for of "the construction of the DS influenced how cutscenes for DS games were made and how very jank they can look outside the DS"

Rhem@rhem· Feb 5

Literally the eepiest little girl in the whole wide world.

A large black and white medium haired cat who is curled up and dozing on a sofa cushion. The sofa cushion has been set in the base of an unused front-loading dryer with the door left open for this purpose.

Rhem@rhem· Jan 25

Baked some scones before hitting the theater for the last showing! Heck of a busy Sunday!

A photo taken of an empty stage, set for Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildestern are Dead.

Eight somewhat messy cranberry apple scones, still in the tray.

Rhem@rhem· Jan 20

Unreasonably excited to have met THE Dominoix Lilitaire LIVE AND IN PERSON today 🥰 (Dominoix of course belongs to @teenysanguinis.bsky.social )

A screenshot from the online RPG Final Fantasy 14, showing a small fat humanoid and a tall graceful elf sitting at a table together in a tavern. The small humanoid is played by me, and the tall elf is played by my friend Luc, who I have never played with directly in the game before.

Rhem@rhem· Jan 17

#FFXIV #LucidChime #FF14 Do You Care Them

A screenshot of Lucid Chime, my Warrior of Light from the MMORPG Final Fantasy 14. Lucid is a Lalafell, which is a child-sized humanoid, with tousled pink and white hair and flowing pink and white armor. They are cuddling a large plushie and smiling for the camera. There is a gun at their hip.

Rhem@rhem· Jan 7

He didn't make all of it but his name's still associated with it enough for Night in the Woods to count for this, imo.

Rhem@rhem· Jan 2

It is kind of Wild how the art just becomes familiar and normal after playing the game long enough where I look at this and I'm just like "that is my Friend : )"

A screenshot from the video game Disco Elysium, representing the anthropomorphic personification of Empathy. It appears to be a figure hugging itself with a long, thin head branching off into tendrils.

Rhem@rhem· Jan 1

Between pulling Dober after two pulls and a crop fairy the night after the Egg Festival that hit half my strawberries, I ended 2025 with an ABSURD run of luck.

A screenshot of the video game Umamusume, showing the basic stat screen for the unit Mejiro Dober, who is the newest unit released at the time of this post and considered one of the best Late Surgers to date

Rhem@rhem· Dec 16

I know a picture from Lodestone isn't the most exciting but here's Lucid! Their main jobs are probably Machinist and Warrior. Definitely more of a going-alone type survivor instead of killer. They're a little Lalafell with an extremely big personality and a willingness to come out swinging.

A screenshot of Lucid Chime, my Warrior of Light. Lucid is just under three feet high, with shaggy hair that is multicolored blue and pink. They have heterochromia, with one eye being blue and the other being green. They are dressed in a sleeveless black and white tunic with white pants.

Rhem@rhem· Dec 13

Symboli Rudolf kind of gives off strong trans masc vibes. I cannot explain why and so will not be explaining further.

A screenshot of the character of Symboli Rudolf from the anime and game Umamusume. Symboli has long brown hair streaked with white, brown ears and a brown horse tail, and is dressed like a military general complete with epaulets and cravat. She is posing with her arm flung out to the side. I can't explain why her design resonates with me so strongly as a trans masc person but it absolutely does.

Rhem@rhem· Dec 12

Oh you know my girl ALWAYS comes through for me. LET'S GO, TRIPLE-S SUPER CREEK!

A screenshot from the video game Umamusume, showing the stat screen for the racer Super Creek just before a race. She has an S rank in all three aptitides (track type, track distance, running style), which is one level above the default A rank most runners have.

Rhem@rhem· Dec 5

Thanks for keeping us company through a long, exhausting year @linkara.bsky.social .

A screenshot from my 2025 Youtube recap, showing that the channel I watched the most this year - at 249 videos - was Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall

Rhem@rhem· Dec 5

Ironheart here giving me strong Triage flashbacks. I forgot that worker ant women were the size of lions so when she wound up on the wrong side of a tantruming one, she was left fucking quadriplegic for a while. Genuinely, a couple of inches to the right and she'd have died.

A screenshot from the video game Dwarf Fortress, showing the list of past and current wounds for the dwarf nicknamed Ironheart. At some point in the past, both her arms were broken and she had to have surgery done on her spine. Her left hip has a lingering infection and she still has not regained the ability to walk.

Rhem@rhem· Dec 4

In all my entirely-too-many hours of #DwarfFortress, necromancers are something I've never managed to take full advantage of. Cross another one off the bucket list, the reanimation chamber worked exactly as advertised! The fact that it only works during the full moon adds to the charm.

A screenshot from the video game Dwarf Fortress, showing the status screen for Urist Attackknife, who has just been raised from the dead by a necromancer as an intelligent undead. In the background, it is possible to see the chained weresloth who startled the unseen necromancer badly enough to make her reanimate Urist's corpse.

Rhem@rhem· Dec 3

#DwarfFortress So I was under the impression that werebeasts were a bit more immune to traps than this. This one just walked smack into a cage trap while beelining for my expedition leader. What do I do with her, is the question. What does one do with potentially the world's first weresloth.

A screenshot from the video game Dwarf Fortress, showing the status screen of a caged peasant. The notable element is that this peasant is a weresloth between translations, and werebeasts cannot normally be trapped in cages in the game.

Rhem@rhem· Nov 26

I'm terrible at using photo mode in this game but this screenshot of Agnes Digital chasing after three summer Maruzenskys is both a.) Very funny to me personally and 2.) An accurate encapsulation of my overall Virgo cup experience.

A screenshot from the video game Umamusume, specifically a multiplayer PVP match, showing three identical units in their summer alt running together down the track. Behind them, Agnes Digital - a passionate fangirl - is in hot pursuit.

Rhem@rhem· Nov 21

I decided "fuck it, I'm tired of bowing to the meta and planning ahead" and did some gacha pulls to reward myself for powering through the Long Dark Night of Essay Writing and The game clearly agreed! Great to see after my last 5 3* pulls were Rice Shower or Silence Suzuka!

A screenshot from the video game Umamusume showing the Trainee screen for Maruzensky in her swimsuit alt, generally considered one of the strongest runners in the game at the time of this post.

A screenshot from the video game Umamusume, showing the stat screen for Agnes Digital, the newest trainee at the time of this post and notable for being equally skilled on dirt or turf tracks when most runners only specialize in one

A screenshot from the video game Umamusume showing the stat screen for TM Opera O, a runner who is very operatic and flamboyant and full of herself, who is just one of my favorite characters that I've wanted for a long time.

Rhem@rhem· Nov 13

Abolish all local plane flights in favor of building more trains! Airplanes should be for crossing! Oceans! ONLY!

Rhem@rhem· Nov 12

God Agnes Tachyon's character design really does scratch my brain so good. Its like the visual equivalent of ASMR.

A character design sheet for Agnes Tachyon from the anime Umamusume. Agnes has messy brown hair, brown horse ears and a horse tail, and sleepy brown eyes. She is wearing an oversized sweater, track pants, oversized sneakers, and a comically oversized labcoat.

Rhem@rhem· Nov 7

Rationally I know that this is not behavior I should encourage But on the other hand, please consider - she's baby.

A photo of a black and white cat in the front loading dryer, where she has just been woken up from a nap on top of the clean clothes in there that I forgot to fold.

Rhem@rhem· Oct 24

Went to visit a nature trail yesterday! A friend told me about trails where chickadees are so used to humans that they'll take birdseed out of your hand.