Starting Friday the 13th with a forwarded email from a distant colleague using a group address with no greeting, text or signature. The forwarded email is a request to do something that is NOT MY JOB but in fact LITERALLY THEIR JOB. I am having my close colleagues check my reply so I sound polite. 🙃

I absolutely loved this conversation. Ada's effortless erudition, energy, and insight really bring the renaissance to life. It's long but worth it - I learned loads. Recommended.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

We're having a One Piece Live Action Season 2 watch with a friend this weekend and I may have gone overboard with the pick & mix...? I love Swedish pick & mix. It's so dangerous. (Friend doesn't like proper licorice or this mix would have a lot more black!)

Can I ask you a favor? If you plan to buy this book eventually at some future date, can you try to grab it before the end of the month? It helps a lot because of Publishing Math

GNU SIR TERRY PRATCHETT Signal this to all towers, not logged. ‘He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken”?’ Going Postal

(Oh no I'm obsessed.) What's My JND? 0.0025 Can you beat it?

There's someone following me on Tumblr who automatically reblogs with all of a post's tags which is fine when it's stuff like fandom or characters. But when it's what I put in the whisper space - my own thoughts - it feels SUPER weird to see it under someone else's username. You're using tags wrong!

I will quote with a link to the below-mentioned Casablanca vid, because it has only gotten to be MORE timely & significant in the past year. attn @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2y...

Little Meenie cat at the vet today, getting her yearly shots and looking like a strange gremlin.

Constable Earstripe. I’m currently reading the „Saint of Steel“ series by T. Kingfisher. It has romance, hilarity, absurdity, horror, and badgerfolk, a.k.a. gnoles! I’m also working on a gouache brushset for Procreate, which this was made with. =)

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

#KFdrama 8: I continue enjoying how smart the characters are allowed to be! Park Yun Hak is a very intelligent man and though the leap from "loyal widow" to "masked altruist" is a huge one, he had too much evidence to ignore reality. And now it's time to scheme at the schemers - always a good time!

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

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quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

🌸 She has arrived 🌸 A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS, the Regency romp starring a cunning society lady who is looking for a fake marriage but instead falls for a genderfluid poetess, is out now. Full synopsis, buy links, etc: tjalexander.com#books6

Hudson via his instagram story

Happy little cats in the spring sun! Looking at me suspiciously because I got a tool from the toolbox. (I put a new bird house up!)

hey. it's creepy and beautiful out.

Excellent take on this over on Tumblr! www.tumblr.com/comradesepsi...

It's here! This has been an utter joy to work on for Dragon Age 2's 15th anniversary. Huge thank you to David Gaider for taking me through how he and all of the writers managed to get this fan favourite story finished, with no time for redrafts www.thegamer.com/dragon-age-2...

It feels so good to have gone a whole three full months without a single ER visit or hospital night! In fact, I've been feeling so good I keep "forgetting" that I'll have to start recovering all over after my next surgery. I am really, really not looking forward to it, but... not knowing when it's

#KFdrama ep 7: OK I was expecting some kind of resolution to the taboo relationship situation, but I was not expecting it to waltz in and add more hilarious chaos to the situation like this! Excellent development. And kudos to the show for having romances I find cute instead of annoying! Not easy.

2026 apparently turned off my reading brain, but as it returned my embroidery inspiration I'll take it! I don't know if I'm the only one who ends up with those kind of limitations to creativity & media enjoyment?

According to Variety, here is the "hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy" they cut out of their film. This is just bigotry, folks. Pixar has had dozens of straight characters.

We report: it is a real, authentic drizzly morning. It is raining just enough for the surface of the water to break. The air is layered with the smell of wet earth, pond water, and whatever is unique to this specific morning. We see something move underneath the duckweed.

The makers of Inside Out want you to believe that they have zero interest in encouraging conversations about things that might be difficult emotionally.

@fandomtrumpshate.bsky.social auctions close in six hours! You've still got time to bid on hundreds of fanworks & fan labor, including my own offer for a whole vid here: fth2026offerings.dreamwidth.org/342782.html

Registration is now open for VidUKon 2026! Join us 5-7 June in Birmingham and online for vidshows, panels and socialising. Find out more here: vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/70826.html Register here: vidukon.org

You know what's awesome? Vids. Which is why I had the best time watching almost all of the 128 Festivids from this year. While I was watching I made a quick doc of my favorites, which I've now posted as 35 vid recs on Dreamwidth. If you also like vids you'll love these. So many fandoms! Such skills!

reminder to fill in the festivids poll! the poll closes march 7th end of day

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

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First day of spring! I dragged a couple of chairs up from the basement, cleaned the table, and sat outside (in a jacket) and embroidered for the first time since September. Absolutely wonderful. Snow is pretty, but fellow freezing latitude folks will understand my delight I think.

One thing I really like about #KFdrama is that they don't drag out the whole "who is the masked woman". No, our boy Park Su Ho has eyes! He doesn't fumble his perception checks! Cho Yeo Hwa doesn't clock him knowing because she's in denial about a lot of things, which is funny instead of annoying.

Bidding closes tomorrow/Sunday (Saturday, March 7th, 8pm ET), so there's still plenty of time to bid on FTH!

I love it when a vid makes me start a new show! Currently watching Knight Flower bc of marah_sarie's Festivid. It's got a great balance between silly and serious, dealing with murder-politics and societal misogyny while managing to stay fun (and funny!), and putting women front and center. #KFdrama

get ye olde oral here!!!!!!

| The Warden, The King | ⚔️👑 (the best boi) #dragonage

I made some more angry black cat sculptures! They will be available Friday, March 13th at 8pm Eastern time.

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE PROTON

Me, out loud: Oh no. Don't do that. My husband: What? Me: This post. My husband: Oh no. Don't do that.

a lot of you haven't rewatched firefly recently and it shows, in the sense that you probably shouldn't rewatch it ever if you want to keep thinking it was good. it was a mass delusion that i also participated in but in my defense i hadn't started reading feminist blogs yet at the time.

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Nobody expected this to last SEVENTEEN YEARS so fair enough, really. Although part of me did imagine that it might still be around in the far distant future, the subject of myths and speculation as to who or what was being commemorated here. This IS a place of honour, after all.

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

Better Off Ted warned us about our current tech environment in so many ways, but perhaps none more on the nose than JABBERWOCKY (jabberwocky jabberwocky jabberwocky) www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAv...