A frustrated Pedro Pascal asking Neil Druckmann, who was directing Pascal in a Last of Us episode, “do you like art?”

And Tiny Tim, who suffered an uncontrolled chain detonation aboard USS Franklin and caused considerable damage to the flight deck...

Man, I don't want to step on anyone's nostalgia, including my own, but Halo dialogue could be incredibly 2000s. 😅 Really comes from that Whedonesque but pre-Marvel era where everything has to sound quippy, bossy, or quotable. There's still some GREAT quotes, but others just don't pass muster now.

We have fun in our Discord server. Thanks to John for the pickles! 💕🥒

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

We are perfectly capable of making boneheaded mistakes without the assistance of computers

And yes, that includes not hitting the repost button before you've researched the case (or know someone personally). This should go without saying for anything involving money, even if it's emotionally and ethically charged.

If you want to know why I'm circumspect about GFMs and mutual aid heavy accounts, this is it. It's not that mutual aid isn't necessary. We all need it. It's that there are many bad actors that exploit our charity. I do give when I can. But I also deeply research every case, and you should, too.

Thanks, Steve

You may fascinate a woman by offering her a piece of cheese.

I hate how much this timeline makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist just by describing the bare facts of what is happening right now.

Treason for the Season

[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]

If you're from Coronae Borealis, you know know know... 🎅🏼🦌🛷✨ @mst3kofficial.bsky.social

🌟 Merry Christmas from a newborn star. Earlier this year the NASA/ESA/CSA #Webb Space Telescope took this stunning image of HH30, an edge-on protoplanetary disc. 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_investigates_a_dusty_and_dynamic_disc

The economy is crashing and I didn't do consumerism this year, so I got you space lesbians. 💕✨

Maaan, I know the upper courts are more partisan, but the lower courts are *not* having this Trump DOJ bullshit. Which makes sense, because fascists have incoherent views and are fully incompetent at making a cohesive argument. Furthermore, Minnesota is Canada.

I have two transgender kids… and in my family… we do Christmas… a little differently.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, is a funny lookin' guy In what way? Ohh, just a general kinda way.

For the first time in what feels like forever, I made some art! It's fanart of @magicariot.com's delightful queer magical girl series Magica Riot, in the style of that one cute eyecatch from Sailor Moon R

Since X has created a machine for removing Glaze and in violation of the Glaze application creating derivative works via AI … I hope this comes up at the Class Action suit against X.

Galaxy Quest is a Christmas movie.

can it really be Christmas until you've watched MST3k's "Pod People" episode www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zr...

Rot-Com Bubble is one of the best names I've heard for *gestures broadly* all of this bullshit.

More ace piloting hours brought to you by Space Bricks™.

“JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. Here is your 2025 Year in Review: Your number one song is Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter”

Scandinavians and Scandinavian diaspora tend to celebrate Christmas Eve as much or more than Christmas itself, so I'll say it now. Happy Yuletide, folks. Much merriment to you and yours.

Wondered why there was an influx from Xitter and concluded it must be some new shady AI thing. Sure enough.

Tonight is Christmas Eve, when we in Iceland open presents. All the Yule Lads have already come down from the mountains, but tonight the Yule Cat arrives and he will eat all the children who weren't gifted any new clothes for Christmas. My daughters both got woollen socks so they are safe 🙏

While it's true our world has gone mad, let us not forget our biases. There is a sort of post-COVID and Trump-era malaise, it's true. But we can save humanity with art. There's yet time to do that.

I wrote about Pluribus and the dangers of writing exclusively for the fans. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Since it's xmas eve AND there's apparently another wave from xitter, let's have a starter pack X #giveaway thread. Follow, like, & repost this by xmas to A. Follow cool people and B. Win an advanced ebook copy of my pulpy lesbian cyber-romantasy BOOM goes the Bride. Read it before anyone else!

ARE YOU READY TO BE MERRY!? 🤘🏻

Known to WHAT!?

These people are deeply evil and pathetic.

God jul, nästa år vänder vi kampen mot fascismen till seger!

I can report having now listened to @zeeandrewsvo.bsky.social's performance with us, that she's responsible for one of the dumbest lines I've ever written. But she made it charming, which is what I really hoped for from a guide character like hers.

wires

This is a fantastic essay on what I've also come to realize over the past years. Lore is seasoning. It must say something meaningful about a story that further supports plot or character. If it doesn't, it's superfluous and perhaps frivolous. (Or a way to raise money, because fandom gobbles it up.)

Show me how your 2025 went.

Stardust: Act One is done. It's complete. I've worked on this property for seven years. It's time for some of the ink to dry. In 2026, I'd like to feel like I've done my best and it was good enough. The audio will be out, and I'll have learned a lot from the endless drafts. #pretendpanel #writers

This is a fun vid from @hoojiwana.bsky.social. Keep in mind the primary purpose of SFF is to explore stories of possibility. Stats are penny-cheap lore tools. When we give you numbers for @thestarsaredestiny.com we really try to research it. It won't ever be perfect, but I think we keep it level.

And to go along with the Linford Island renders, I've made a video on my own channel covering how I made some key features of it in Blender. It's very jank, but slightly less jank than an older model I made! youtu.be/smKNeUaIqkk

I'm falling asleep at 19:00 and that's fine

Iceland: cold and silly since 874.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Art and queer joy are the only two things sustaining me while a deeply malicious government burns our country and tries to murder me and my friends. (Furthermore, Minnesota is Canada.) I miss Europe so bad. I yearn for old days along the North Atlantic. But this will have to do for now. 💔

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇