Kitty, I appreciate that you are trying to loudly alert me to the presence of an intrusive life form that you Must Bite, but those are my work shirts.

Work (and life, I suppose) has continued to be intense enough that I haven't been able to focus on existing WIPs, but I've been throwing some words at the start of an Into the Dead one and thinking about getting it done before the end of the contest just to help add to more content overall.

me last night: ok, I am going to sleep in as much as I can this morning and catch up finally on this perpetual exhaustion cat this morning: surprise

Took a day off for a mental breather, still working (voluntarily) during it, and my older cat woke me up at the usual time with wails over immediately impending litterbox issues, so I suppose I will take this day as it comes.

As part of our one year Early Access anniversary, we're running a special fanworks competition with a chance to win limited edition merch! Head on over to our official Discord for more info on how to enter. discord.gg/intothedeado...

Good news is that old meatbrick kitty is still at the early stage of his heart disease, which means that despite the jump last year, it's being managed by his current meds. Bad news is that he's going to be up to 7 pills a day. :) He is extremely tolerant though, best pill-taker I've ever had.

The 3.3 chapter for #Reverse1999 is wrapping up, and I have to say I'm really satisfied with it, which I know is a rarity with narratives these days for me. When games fall into 'the player faction is Good = you are a Hero and flawless = all others are less moral than you,' I exit out fast.

I know Sunday afternoon/evening can be filled with looming stress & dread for many of us. Perhaps you’d like a brief sylvan interlude with the creek rushing below, rain, & the Pacific wren’s sweet scribbling song.

Going to the local Asian market is always interesting because the shoppers are typically all East/South/SE Asian, but the clerks are Caucasian -- and aggressively sullen and resentful. It's like getting to watch some folks wrestle with their unconscious assumptions of white supremacy in real time.

you've heard of changing the words to no homo a song, get ready for changing the words to make the song queerer

Well, now I understand who first invented sewing.

Today's manga rec is Suzushiro's 'Maid to Skate', which does something I almost never see: actively work *against* upskirting/panty shots even during athletic stunts. It also passes the Bechdel test on nearly every page, and has a very dapper storeowner who I hope is wlw: www.viz.com/maid-to-skate

Working through the intense kind of all-day headache that typically heralds a cold -- and hoping it was a passing fluke this morning -- only to discover two of my coworkers calling out sick.

This has been a whole lot of bingo squares that I did not ever want to experience in my lifetime (or re-experience again), and yet it's not even halfway through to 2028.

Last year I rewatched Utena and drew this poster. And... I think it's time to show it?? 🤺

Still really love the work that the @intothedead.com team is doing each time I hear someone talk about how Barb -- an older woman, weaponmaker and lesbian -- is top tier. In gaming, older women are usually undervalued, nonexistent or made to look 20 yo, so having her shine as a MVP is *fantastic.*

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Thinking again about how the spread of AI has not only escalated creative theft dramatically on every level -- visual arts, music, writing -- but also *normalized* it, so that everywhere I'm seeing existing art treated as free material for folks to grab, run a filter on and call their own effort.

Brought home work yesterday and only finished after midnight, promptly had nightmares about work, worked through lunch again, and this has been my last two weeks straight with (thankfully) occasional breaks for writing, game photography, and pvp. I can definitely feel it.

Sometimes I think about how cats have an oxytocin response to people they've bonded with, and how that relates to FF14 beastmasters, and if it would be neat or not if that's an aetheric effect of the job: causing creatures to feel intensely safe and secure and loved in the beastmaster's proximity.

To the roe healer who saw Sadu in their Frontlines tonight and decided to keep me and my BH5 up all game despite heavy focus fire -- not just once, but a second time when you saw me in the same alliance in an entirely different party -- you are amazing, thank you.

"When Ann Leckie chose to write about a protagonist from a genderless society in Ancillary Justice, that was a political choice. So was Jim Butcher’s choice to write Harry Dresden as a straight white male. [...] let’s not pretend one is a political statement while the other is 'normal.'"

Once more I have to say a big thank you to @reverse1999-gl.bsky.social for the official YT channel being just as thirsty for Igor as I am, because these shorts are feeding me well. youtube.com/shorts/TK_PE...

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Put off getting groceries for way too long, and now my hubris has come for me as I squint with dismay at this list.

"This bill [...] uses the loose, ill-defined “sexually explicit materials” language, which allows for those with power to decide what does or does not rise to the definition." bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

'igors kit is limited, you should only pull if you like him' i see no problem here 'but he needs his two adopted kids to be viable' good news i pulled and built them already *because* they're his kids, i've been ready for this banner for months.

I was going down the upcoming Mogtomes list, realized I'm tempted to see Lyon in the Paglth'an Striking chestpiece, and then got sidetracked in the visuals of a character from a conquered-by-Garlemald nation (Landis) wearing clothes from a historically menaced-by-Alliance tribe.

Reverse 1999 and its efforts (and missteps) in cultural diversity vs. other games on the market are always worth talking about imo, but also because the latest round of it -- if multiple nations are flattened into simply 'Russia' -- centers in a time period when the USSR existed, not just Russia.

I HAVE BEEN LAUGHING AT THIS QUOTE FOR A FULL MINUTE STRAIGHT

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

Happy Spring Equinox everyone! The weather is a little bit warmer for a day or two, so I'm soaking it up before it turns chill once more.

Hello Friends! There is a nationwide book banning bill in US House of Representatives. If you love queer people, books, librarians, teachers, or good ole fashioned freedom of speech, please CALL your rep today. More info in the pics, and you can read from this script: 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Well. Okay, then: www.commondreams.org/news/data-ce...

Apart from the truly horrifying way the Nvidia filter treats women, one other byproduct of supposed 'better lighting' is how, in nearly every screenshot I've seen so far, that translates to overall whiter skin.

Also bailed out of Masked Troupe and went to Midnight Blades on my quest to get free outfits from all the WWM sects, and I'm getting some serious whiplash from how chill Blades faction chat is compared to Troupe. People are having casual conversations. People are having conversations, period.

ah i see it's another morning where there's ice on the *inside* of the windows.

Let me just say once more how much I appreciate Little V's style, particularly the choice of title for this cover: youtu.be/Wy4F3YdMaVA?...

This has been sitting in an empty room that I don’t think even has a tenant since at least when I moved to town five years ago, and I’m starting to wonder if it’s where the good timeline is trapped

Going on record here to say that I fully expect to throw everything that FF14 will cobble together for Beastmaster lore out the window, but that I'll also get into the job anyway despite how canonically Lyon can't be involved without MSQ popping its 1 year time bubble to let him out.

Every day this week, I have woken up exhausted, which isn't exactly new but has definitely made it feel like a perpetual abyss of meetings.

We’re happy to announce that we’re participating in this year’s edition of Val-Con! The online event is for fans, by fans, to celebrate the #Valheim community! 🍻

Re: social media age laws -- the lrp from #dreamwidth is really important because of how transparent they're being when it comes to some states. It's easy to assume that services who put blocks into place are in league with these policies, rather than also scrambling for options.

People ask us all the time if their state is considering a social media age verification law, and we've finally had the time to pull one together (with only *moderate* snark, even!) dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html

I almost skipped over Love Bullet (by inee) because I thought it was going to be bland action + enforced het, but right from the start it supports bisexuality and wlw without using language like 'different / harder' to describe them, and is really enjoyable so far: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Bu...

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

Ah yes that good ol' Midwest hospitality, the 'nicest kindest people in all the US': www.kcur.org/politics-ele...