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A star-crossed paranormal romance between a vampire and a human with a clotting disorder

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We wrapped DS9 season 3 & Voyager season 1 this week and wow Voyager just kinda ends the first season out of nowhere, huh? Also we get one of my fav DS9 episodes, "Facets", and it's buckwild that that's basically Leeta's first episode. 'oh don't worry, they're BFFs offscreen' - I'm sorry, WHOMST??

Half the cookies are in the mail now, and I'm wrangling the recipes once again to share. This year I made some major tweaks, eliminating gluten (for me) and egg (for others) and overall I think the cookies came out pretty good, if a smidge on the dry side. I think marinating in the tins will help!

𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦. I made Solas's Romance Tarot outfit. I loved interpreting a painting into life. WIP Tumblr: barnyardjestercosplay.tumblr.com/tagged/solas... @sixofswordsphoto.bsky.social killed it! #solas #dragonage #dragonagecosplay #solascosplay

I'm incredibly proud and grateful to work where I do, because despite how enormously awful and difficult this year has been for us, @dualwieldstudio.bsky.social is a company filled with compassionate, fierce, funny, creative people who stand up for what's right. ⚔️ dualwieldstudio.com/blogs/news/2...

I wonder if in like 40 years we’re going to start getting a bunch of death bed confessions of My Immortal authorship. The D.B. Cooper of my generation

I've been online for 30 years and have a better memory for avatars than handles so my brain is littered with thoughts like "Rick Astley from LiveJournal was really into Twin Peaks" which is going to make absolutely no sense when I'm in the home

Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?

this RULES - www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQpO...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Happy #DragonAgeDay - I didn't make new art for it but here's my fav DA pieces. I'm so normal about these games!!!

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

I listened to the BG3 soundtrack once this year so that's all the iTunes wrap-up wants to talk about. Maybe it's for the best that it won't tell me how many times I played my blorbo playlists.

Tracking my age by how many ultra-specific dongles I have accumulated

DS9 is just a chain of boyfriends. O’Brien and Bashir, Bashir and Garak, Garak and Odo, Odo and Quark. Everyone is boyfriends.

"That's okay. You can just say yes. That's easier than explaining it. I don't mind."

I keep having dreams again where I struggle to speak Japanese. I get out an ”えー、少し話せます…” and then absolutely beef it, so I guess that means I should get back to flashcards.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Harry Kim not being the *real* Harry Kim (VOY 2x21 Deadlock) but we just got to Miles O'Brien's time-travel bullshit (DS9 3x17 Visionary) and you know what? That might be WORSE. We'll see how it stacks up, but both of these guys need a counselor on staff STAT.

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It's mid-November which means it's Cookie Season over here. I can usually start to find good tins after Veteran's Day, but this year between tariffs & boycotts I'm definitely sweating. Paper boxes abound but I find the tins keep & ship a lot nicer, so into the online commerce trenches we go.

Visual Novel Developers: I am once again asking you to add full keyboard navigation to your games. I keep encountering games that have mouse and even controller support, but can't navigate menus with arrow keys or even advance dialogue with space bar. It's a disability accommodation thing, yanno?

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who needs AI for story prompts when you have the bug reports for Dwarf Fortress

oh he's big mad about Jersey's governor election, huh?

If you’re going to get stuck in an airport for a day, may I recommend PDX? Everyone I interacted with was a delight, and I would take up residence in your walls Tom Hanks-style in a heartbeat. 100/10, would weather an airline disaster with you anytime.

Caretaker last night, Parallax tonight - it’s Voyager time! This cast has the highest ratio of characters I want to shake, but I love Janeway too much to care. Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss!

We got to Past Tense, the Bell Riots episodes of DS9. They’re probably the episodes I’ve seen the most and wow I sure do hate how they’ve gone from being prescient to downright conservative in their predictions.

I never used to be cool but now I’m 40 and googling how to make Instagram stories at a medical conference so no hope of being cool remains (it took me 20 minutes to add a photo)

Deep Space are you telling me that the Cardassians surgically altered one of their own to pass as human for eight years but didn’t put a new tooth in his head?? Fucking amateur hour over here. Every one of you should get reported to the Obsidian Order.

We finished TNG tonight and it’s a nice finale aside from all the beef I have with how it treats Bev and Deanna, but hey thats the show isn’t it? Watching it alongside DS9 has been very cool, with the Maquis and Cardassian plot threads weaving nicely. Now when VOY picks up it won’t feel like “who??”

I want to shout about this thing I'm helping to run, because it's cool and the website is (finally, oops) up and we're going to a conference next week, but I also want to say: this is just the beginning and we're gonna make so much really cool, fun stuff next year!! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW

born to write fic, cursed to write copy

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

OUR BOOOOOOYYY!!! 💖 I hooted AND hollered when I saw him.

the amount of concentrated sass in this wave, whew!

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Gonna take a shot every time they say “The Albino” in DS9 Blood Oath and be dead by the 2nd commercial break

”This ship is full of children and civilians” we say to the TV for the thousandth time, as the Enterprise-D hurtles through space while everyone onboard slowly morphs into an iguana or whatever.

So I have used Paperlike for 6+ years now on my iPad and I love them but I've never been great at applying them without bubbles BUT I tried the 3 with the new applicator process and it's FLAWLESS?? confirmed bubble-free by sighted husband. I got the nibs this time too I'm READY TO GOOO! let me shill

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

I called my Republican rep and I wanna puke but I DID IT YOU CAN DO IT

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

I finally got around to opening my mail and there was a STOWAWAY oh goodness, @shannonmanorart.bsky.social you’re so sweet I guess they’ll have to stay!! 🥰 I still haven’t figured out a solution for the horde but I WILL!!!

Last night we got to TNG 07x15 "Lower Decks" which is already such a good episode in the Next Gen mythos, but this is exactly what I wanted to get out of watching them in airdate order. You have more context for he Bajoran/Cardassian conflict if you're watching DS9 at the same time. 💛 Ensign Sito

We got to DS9 02x14 "Whispers" last night which means the writers are now officially torturing Miles O'Brien. Absolute negligence that we won't have a counselor on the station for five more years.