100% this was the artist! For anytime I need full Vash fulfillment. Which is, let me be clear, ALL times. <3 <3 <3

Sometimes I remember I'm an adult and I invest in some fine art to make the house classy. Other times I invest in even FINER arts because it's my house and I do what I want! (I will track down the artist, because they deserve to be recognized)

Just finished writing a chapter in which a real bastard got what was coming to them. Great progress. Anyways... what's new today, internet?

I get that autism is a spectrum, but I asked my son what fork he wanted for his meal and he said "I don't care. A fork is a fork," And now I'm all suspicious of the last decade of autistic behaviors. #HowDoesOneNotHaveAFavoriteFork #OrSpoon #DoesNotCompute #MongoIsAppalled

My youngest child just asked all of us which type of dog was our favorite. I responded "Updog." AND THEY WALKED RIGHT INTO THE REST OF IT. #Gloriousday

Don't need me this weekend! #ps5

Some event coordinator has the sickest sense of humor to host #Flamecon, a beautiful and unapologetic PRIDE event, AND schedule some kinda biker cop meetup at the same hotel. Tense vibes in THAT elevator.

Representing #DungeonCrawlerCarl at #Flamecon this year. You will not break me!

*8 year old wakes me up @ 6:10* "Dad, you said we would play D&D at 6:00." Me: "6:00 PM" Child: "Oh. I guess you can go back to sleep."

There are several big moments in life that never emotionally resonated with me as they do with most people; HOWEVER, I have never not teared up every single day for a month when listening to "What it Sounds Like" from #kpopdemonhunters! #IAmEmotionallyCompromised

Kids: Give us a drawing challenge! Me: Fine. Draw a picture of a creature who can rival Godzilla. *doodles* 10 year old: This is Godzilla's ex-wife. She was more popular than him and hates that he's poor. 8 year old: This is Godzilla's old middleschool bully. He's just as big, but also carries guns.

Me: How old is your cousin now? Son: Almost 3 months. They were born April 30th. We were playing Super Smash brothers when we got the call. I was Mario and you were Sora. I was sad at first because I haven't played a Mario for one whole month. This counts as an autism diagnosis, correct?

Overheard a convo of two apparent aquaintances meeting up. Person A: "Are you still birding?" Person B: "Not really. I only got into birding for the socializing." WHAT?

Watched a taekwondo demo to the music of #KpopDemonhunters, and I'm SO angry at my 1990's instructor for dropping the ball on this

Universe just gave me another *subtle* reminder to write faster if I don't wish to leave something unfinished. Tis but a scare, but still sucks.

You cannot say "Ooh, I like this thing, but I probably shouldn't..." followed by "Ok, I'm going to leave you alone in the store now" and NOT expect me to be all "I got you the thing!" #DisneyworldProblems

Did we #DungeonCrawlerCarl our pokemon gym? Yes.

K-Pop Demon Hunters is now officially the most recent film to make me shed tears. Also has potentially the greatest villain song in any film!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

An oil painting (filter) of The Last Supper, brought to us by a very special #Easter episode of @twentysidedtavern.bsky.social . Hardest I've ever laughed since the apocalypse began!

We've gotten plenty of hate mail for our pride flag, but now our car was targeted with frozen drinks and screams of "Trump Town, fa*s! People are getting gutsy!

Watched the Cameron Esposito special, and it was the first time I ever heard of someone else watching their life in real time from 3rd person perspective. I'm now going down the psych research rabbit hole. #fourpills #dropout

And....time to post this one again.

I am now at a point where I'm concerned the book will be TOO long. Not a problem I ever had with school work. #HowdIGetHere? #VTempus #ProjectDaybreak

A friend at my local gaming meetup last night used the phrase "I'm going to go full autistic on you with this Kingdom Hearts lore." I responded I've used that exact sentence on others before. Anyways, Happy World Autism Awareness Day! #Autism #KingdomHearts #hellyeah #nerds

I attended my twice-monthly local author meetup last night. Someone mentioned working on a series I enjoy. I'm all "Oh! I love that series." She responds "Thanks! I wrote them." I go full "Surprise Pikachu" and finish the evening no longer sure how to talk or interact with people. #VTempus

Me, running a sentient-mushroom 1-shot last night: "You've learned the Winter Fae feasts upon your dead brethren. What will you do?" The group: "We'll create our own sub-colony and destroy the old city and all who dwell in it. The sacrifice will cause the Fae to look upon us favorably." Me: "..."

Both kids are ~kinda good at DDR! I've successfully parented.

Whew! Went majorly offline for a while. Still kept up with the daily armageddon though. Finding post-worthy stuff after watching democracy* crumble is TOUGH.

On the hunt for artists who do sci-fi pulp stuff. Like the weird Norman Saunders stuff (the coolest stuff). For... reasons. Bonus if LGBTQ+! #VTempus #Commission

Spent a LOT of time writing this weekend!* *Lots of time =/= actually putting many words on a document. The 7 year old is VERY good at pulling focus. #VTempus

I'm not a physicist, so I'm always on edge when I read a new (to me) aspect that I fear breaks the science of the sci-fi book I'm tinkering away on. I think I'm still good, but today's "Oh no" moment is brought to us by "The Andromeda Paradox." #ProjectDaybreak #VTempus

This thread is scary accurate. Add in the parallels of both govts hunting down those who are disabled and require accommodations, and it becomes a mirror to today.

I promise y'all, if you've ever seen my eyes, it was most likely predicated by the thought "Ok, now glance at their eyeballs real quick to signal that you are a real person because this is what peoples do when they conversate."

Played a game where a player was secretly forced to give up a point to the first person she made eye-contact with, and it ended up being me. Do you know what an infinitesimally small chance that was? Random eye contact with ME???

Today, Trump issued an Executive Order saying that the administration would be establishing a commission to attempt to lower the prevalence of autism and chronic health conditions. ASAN will be joining efforts to push back against its harmful ideas and policies.

There is no answer more suspicious to the question "whatcha doing?" than the response "Normal stuff!"

Added a character as a cameo/homage of a dear friend, and suddenly discovered that his character inclusion solves SO MANY plot issues I had. Of course he's still helping me! #ProjectDaybreak #VTempus

Lost a dear friend today. I've incorporated him into my novel in a way that he would've felt extremely honored, loved, and also kinda uncomfortable (which probably is also an accurate descriptor of our real-life interactions)

Was invited to a 1٪ auction because reasons. Holy. Crap. That was an experience. Found the extremely few like-minded people and had a good time despite secretly crying at the cost of ridiculous items. Drank the cost of the ticket (a lot). None of this post was spelled correctly the first time.

Writing time travel books that take place in the future is also tricky when I can no longer assume that the future will have a semblance of a 2024ish status quo. I am proud that the content would DEFINITELY fall into current banned topics though. #VTempus

Outer world and inner world are in turmoil, so finding solace is trifficult. My household fam is awesomely chaotic so they all get extra hugs. Rereading comfort books and binging 1998 Trigun.

Been spiraling for a bit, but I think I found the motivation to keep writing. The chapters are going to get a lot more anarchistic though. #VTempus

This whole thread is a nightmare. The complete lack of logic or a shred of empathy feels like bad fiction.

Sure glad we're just living in a simulation and Neo will release me any day now. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

They have trashed valuable products your tax money paid for.

@laurilizzle.bsky.social successfully jinxed me when we both yelled out "canonically horny!" at the same time.

The last 24 hours have been a MONTH, y'all. And the last month has been a decade!

Ah. Stopping science unless it passes current republican dogma. I think I read some books about that...

Student: Can I go to the nurse and get a bandaid? Me (Tired of students making up stories to see the nurse). *Sigh* Why? What did you do? Student: What? No. A bandaid for YOU. *Looks down at my hand trickling blood to the floor* Oh crap! (Still don't know what I did) #WhoPutMeInChargeOfKids?