No one write litRPG football, it'd be like putting a bag of holding in a portable hole.

Get to know your mutuals! list 10 random things you like Guinness AC/DC Bacon cheeseburgers Cape Cod Coffee Dogs Board games Writing Fried clams (whole, not strips) Quebec

A ban on DLC you have to pay for. I already bought the game, I don't want to spend even more money on add-ons.

I repeat: when people say "money can't buy happiness," they're trying to talk about regular folks for whom money would be a life-changing gift, but it's really the billionaires this applies to. Musk enjoys comfort most of us would kill for, and yet, he exists in a perpetual state of anger & misery.

that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan

While I'm super relieved that the Supreme Court has rejected yet another assault on same-sex marriage, this is a reminder that marriage equality still does not exist in the U.S. People with disabilities shouldn't have to choose between love and essential benefits and resources.

I went to bed to a dreary fall day. My dog woke me up at 4:30 demanding outs and I learned today is a dreary winter day. Anyway, I have a lot of time to kill on my day off so I'm going to finally check out @mikeflanaganfilm.com's Midnight Mass. Long overdue.

November 10, 2025

I've seen multiple lists that include Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Lord of the Rings as Musk's alleged favorite books, and yeah, he may have -- MAY have -- read them, but he sure as shit didn't grasp any of their messages.

Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM (Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)

We wish a very happy birthday to one of the greatest cartoon composers of all time, Carl Stalling. Born in 1891. From 1936 to 1958, he was the music director for over 600 Warner Bros. cartoons. He is a master at quickly changing musical styles based on the on-screen action. #LooneyTunes

the thing with jokes is, there's gotta be a joke in there somewhere. If you're faking a news site or a white house press release, it better be really fucking obvious satire, or else you are part of the problem.

Credit: Assigned Male Comics/Sophie Labelle.

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨ So SMOL. Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day! #happy #kangaroo #australia #animal #smol #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

Three reasons we shouldn’t do this. 1. Alan didn’t want it the last time 2. I actually am very fond of the one we have. 3. The way to fight the fascist takeover of the west and the rise of AI driven techno-oligarchy ISN’T to keep remaking old things.

If you already know how to register your work with the U.S. Copyright Office, the importance of retaining copyright ownership, how to get your rights back when a book is out of print, and what constitutes fair use… this webinar is NOT for you!! But for everyone else please join us Thursday!

Remember, there are no ten million moms. It's mostly one angry karen with too much time on her hands and a smattering of members. They're not numerous, just loud.

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Some good news!

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

In the mid-fifties today, dropping to the thirties tomorrow. New England, y'all.

Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors

At a certain point, incompetence no longer suffices as an explanation, and you have to legitimately consider complicity.

Sadly, evergreen.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

I usually don't pay too much attention to writing day word counts, but I got 2,400 in today on a new project that may or may not see a conclusion, I'm still feeling it out, but I knew I needed to give it a go and see what it turned into.

If you're a new indie author getting started, I have two things to tell you. 1. You will likely sell more ebooks than print. My werewolf ebooks have massively outsold print. 2. Print books are still worth setting up for your readers who will want them. Invest that time if you can.

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

The biggest tell that someone is a dullard is having no favorite bands or movies or some form of entertainment. It's how you know those "grindset" types are the dumbest fucks on the planet. They have no interests. They are literally the NPCs they bitch about. You're a cog in the shit machine

I honestly like Funko Pops, but they glutted their own market -- any given con has dozens of vendors with walls of the things -- and had some real head-scratcher properties. Was there really that much of a demand for Duck Dynasty figures? Cocaine Bear? Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets?

Barring speculators from snatching up relatively affordable properties so they can flip them quick-and-dirty for an artificially exaggerated profit would help too.

This. It's so damned tedious when writers act like writing is a torturous burden that they have to power through and it just makes them miserable. It's like listening to married men who insist they love their partner but constantly "joke" about how awful marriage is.

One of the all-time, sorely underrated greats.

Any Dem who supports this needs to be primaried and voted out, because they obviously haven't learned from the past ten thousand times the GOP promised something and yanked the football away.

Blue Mass was a go-to medical treatment for syphilis for about two centuries. Calomel was used to treat teething symptoms in kids until the 1950s. Both contained mercury. Past eras were not some golden age for modern medicine, so no one should be so keen to glamorize or yearn to return to them.

I think it's beautiful that not even one trillion dollars can make a loser cool. Being cool is economically immune.

Writers and artists: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some creators.

She's not the first person to observe this, but it's true, and it should serve as a general advisory: be wary of anyone whose personal social media feed has no variety whatsoever -- doubly so if the only flavor offered is bitter anger and resentment.

"Here's a fraction of the money back that you spent on goods, the cost of which was driven up by tariffs. Now, go buy more stuff that costs more than it should. It'll all come out in the wash, we promise."

Your reminder that @jontofski.bsky.social is a fabulous artist

Taxpayer-funded time off with full benefits. They get to eat and have healthcare.

Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers. Who gets screwed: everyone else.

Gen Xer here, and my entire knowledge of grunge music was provided to me by corporate rock radio. If a particular song never got regular airplay, I'd be guessing which band performed it based solely on the vocals -- and even then, if it's not Vedder, Cornell, or Weiland, I'd be shooting in the dark.

I’m not proud of not having used ChatGPT or whatever bc it’s … easy not to use it. Choosing not to use it has no impact on my day. Bc it’s not even good at the thing it’s supposed to be doing. It’d be like being proud of myself for not using a broken calculator to do math.

On behalf of all self-published authors, I authorize you to reach out & tell us if you really enjoyed something we wrote. We’re all dog-paddling in a sea of self-doubt & impostor syndrome & those little messages mean a lot. Unless stated otherwise, our DMs/inboxes are always open for kind words 💞

Finished my re-watch of It (the remake) and caught up on the first two eps of Welcome to Derry (so far: meh), so now that I'm in a Stephen King kind of mood, I'm going to take advantage of the fact HBO Max has Christine, which I've somehow never seen before.

A 50-year mortgage, eh? The median age for US homebuyers is 56. The average first-time homebuyer is 40. Average life expectancy is 78. Statistically, that means the typical home buyer will never see their mortgage paid off in their lifetime.

Veronica's off for several days to take care of her mother (just had hip surgery), so it's just me and the fuzzies until Thursday. Plenty of time to write.