#TheLeftEye is in #earlyaccess right now and we can’t wait for you to play episodes 1 & 2! 🎉 We’ve got: ⭐️ ~20 CGs ⭐️ Achievements ⭐️ In-game codex ⭐️ Tastelessly petty theft ⭐️ Boys behaving badly on beloved landmarks ⭐️ 26000 words #indiegame #steam #vn #gamedev #lgbtq

one reason I use a pen name is my mild mannered secret identity teaches high school and children are weird. and I don't talk about writing with casual acquaintances anyway. you'd think this would make you sound mysterious but I'm pretty sure everyone just thinks I'm catastrophically boring

inside baseball warning for non-weebs: remember kyo kara maoh? probably doesn't hold up well but I remember it fondly. that show's hook was that it was Isekai... with a boy! just found myself imagining trying to explain that now

everyone liked the frankenstein read along. so I'm gonna do it again this time with the strange case of dr Jekyll and mr Hyde, which unlike the last enterprise, I have not actually read before

ok dragged myself to the end of hazbin s2. opened strong, finale was mostly fine, dismal slump in the middle. cut eps3-7 down to maybe two and use the time to actually develop the new characters, and then the show would play to its trashy, sugary strengths.

that thing about ultraprocessed food going around is meeting lots of good opposition in the form of "well what can anyone afford" but also worth noting that ultraprocessed mostly just means... made. more than 3-4 ingredients. like yeah watch your sugars but both these cereals are ultraprocessed

had a dream about some kind of mysterious evacuation and things like my dad's wheelchair and keeping track of my dog featured but the most vivid part was staring at my bookshelf, completely stuck for what might be my only book for who knows how long. so gotta add that to the old apocalypse plan

of all the meaningless annual book awards, i respect the barnes and noble one the least. even goodreads has the riotous energy of pure id behind it. who out there is excited because worse borders took a break from hawking stationary and lego sets to anoint The Winner?

they were riding the down with cis bus

an increasingly common liminal space is a place of business that doesn't do business anymore. everything is online (or nowhere because the online version doesn't work), only a skeleton crew remaining in a vast, unused building that hasn't changed since it hosted a stream of people

students made their ecosystem posters and their art is frequently delightful but I'm not sharing that online, so instead here is the example I made them, partly as assurance that artistic panache is not part of the grade

mulling over using christianity in genre fiction and my working theory is if you do it on purpose you can write something spectacular or an absolute hack mess (or just jesus-brand propaganda which is not my wheelhouse) but if you do it by accident you are guaranteed a tepid mudpuddle of a story

scrivener's option to start a blank document is "new project." really forces you to sit with it. really? you really need a new one? not to work on all those already partly done ones? frankly i deserve to have my software shame me a little

fell down an animal cognition wikipedia hole (look I'm at work the week before thanksgiving I am barely present let alone useful) and why was I not informed of elephants mimicking human language. can't find basically any good info either, at least in english

look I don't want notifications from anything. I'd turn off text notifs if I thought I could get away with it. never mind what fucking use I could conceivably have for notifs from a library app, a relaxing focus app that interrupts you with a reminder to do relaxing focus needs to go to the woodshed

I think I've talked before about how rambo uses "step up" to mean "I desire that you perform the action I desire." those rare occasions when you get to find out what animals think you're saying are so good.

there's some disagreement, actually, as my brother insists this poor creature's full name is tunafish mcfiddlesticks, while my mother is of the opinion that all our family dogs are surnamed jellomold, for waldo jellomold, my parents' first dog after they got married so i guess the... patriarch?

last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Moa Remains

now on the last currently extant book on the same series. am in 22nd place. may just diminish and go into the West instead

friends are chatting about upsetting childhood movies and throwing out the standard list (bambi, land before time, lion king) and i don't remember being distressed by any of those? the one that made me cry was the 1994 black beauty. not the horse torment, this final scene:

When my phone is running maps and an audiobook, after every "in 500 feet, etc" it repeats the last few seconds of the recording. when there are a lot of directions in a row, the same sentence plays over and over, progressing by a word or two each time. this is how I imagine gibbering madness now

the zoo has lots of programs for teachers and if anyone asks I swear by them but really I just like getting a sprinkle of zoo with my professional development.

whoever turned this sandbag into such a worthy work of public art is the hero we need

...i swear this made sense to me while i was typing it. is 7:45 too early for bed?

do those pink slime celebrity tell-all books ever get read? was under the impression they just sit there looking shiny until they're bulk-bought from enough b&ns to be put on the nyt bestseller's list. i bet the ghostwriter could hide anything in the middle. cookie recipes. dark secrets. fancy ham

really long-ass books have a tendency to be less tightly edited (not necessarily worse, just, heavily dusted with sentence-level stumbles) and I guess I understand the editor growing weary by page 700 but don't you want to earn those words if you want your reader to get through so many?

in yet another great example of how good ai is at things, I just noticed the worthless summaries under videos don't update right away. apparently the topic of "90s vibe lofi study music lofi rain chillhop beats" is evidence of cannibalism and human sacrifice in archaeological sites around the world

got it for my birthday, started on my lunch break, had an excellent time with the first dozen pages!

you guys remember silverwing? kenneth oppel. had an utterly wild tonal trajectory from a solid but straightforward talking animal adventure to an antiwar polemic to a mystical psychodrama and ended with a prehistoric prequel with a psychic pterodactyl and killer swarm of shrews?

informed by my constant diet of weird history media that most mysterious kangaroo sightings are really just wallabies. just. just wallabies. "oh don't worry about that it's like a foot shorter than the guy you thought it was." how, HOW does that explain a single solitary thing

sadly not actually him. source, for those not up on the lore, my mom is his cousin

shout-out to the kid who stops by my room to beg, not for snacks or supplies or copies, but for tea. sent him away with wild berry rooibos and sicilian orange yesterday

combined steam libraries with my brother and was sorta charmed by the first few notifications i received of what he was playing. what an inane little automated act of affectionate spying! then i remembered he has a game entitled "furry shades of gay" and yeah we're gonna turn that off now

A pair of American Mastodon chow down on a (slightly fantastical) pumpkin patch 🍂✨️ #sciart #paleoart

I frequently have to be the adult for my 21 year old brother and it really drives home how little I am an adult at all

I'm editing a new anthology of sci fi written by sex workers for @workinggirlspress.bsky.social. It's called Liquid Silver (after the club/brothel in Tank Girl) and I'm so excited to see what my SW babes are writing!

Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors! Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

adblock protects you from most popups at the price of violently interrupting you by opening a whole new tab, arguably the ultimate popup, to punish you whenever it feels unappreciated

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

the cold has closed in and awakened one of my great vices. i cannot walk by cheap polyester fleece and not desire it. i have all the throw blankets and fluffy socks i could possibly need! but my little goblin self wants more

all this frankenstein chatter has activated my longstanding vague intention to reread the novel (high school is in another country, and besides, that wench is dead) and i had definitely forgotten how wildly thirsty the arctic explorer frame narrator guy was for victor

jco is under some very specific curse. everything she says has like a 5-7% chance of wisdom that crackles like thunder with no need for lightening and the rest is the silliest, most banal shit you've ever heard

next in the series is 800 and my wrists are falling asleep

generally I love haters but the helluva hoteliverse has become one of those things people cannot be normal about. every fan I've encountered is either a teenager harmlessly enjoying their edgelord stage or a tired middle-aged dork enjoying the trash. whence the frantic frothing at the mouth?

setting up the crockpot at 6 in the morning like

ha, we have an email from the superintendent assuring us school will be in session! last time we had a weather shock on a day we shouldn't have been in school in the first place the same thing happened, and nobody came to school, and no lessons were learned I guess

I heard we're snailposting

so tonight we're getting -12 wind chills, a few inches accumulation, and maybe thundersnow, and tuesday we have off for veteran's day because some dork at the district thought that was a good move. i'm gonna have 3 students tomorrow