cousin and i got started watching rushmore (1998) and quit halfway thru because we genuinely couldn't stand the movie

IMO one of the best gifts a writer can be given is to be a weirdo (affectionate). My favorite books all feel like they couldn't have been written by anyone else, and there are few joys like encountering an odd mind on the page.

💚🐇 Hey you, cutie reading this, I've got one task for you today. Be kind to yourself and do something you enjoy. You deserve it. 🫂

I've had folks ask about "building an author brand" and tbh, don't. Just be yourself. Be a person. Post about your books, about other things you enjoy, about how you view the world, silly jokes. Folks like to read the work of authors who just seem like cool people, not Professional Author Brands™.

In my experience, if you exclusively talk about your books and post links to your amazon page, people will just mute you. Yap. This is the website for yapping. Then, occasionally, go “if you want to support my yapping, buy this book, which contains even more of my yapping.”

Transferring data from old phone to new has been a thoroughly painful process. But WhatsApp? That's when I finally said fuck it and gave up.

This is really all there is to say about it. Try not to spin yourself up over the lack of protections we get here. It only hurts your own mental well being. We do deserve a safe place to exist online. This won't be it. We need to build it ourselves. Community is something we create around us

Riley Black is such a unique voice in science writing that her style of transportive narrative-based fiction - emotional, based in her own queer voice - has spawned numerous imitators since Last Days came out 4 years ago. Meanwhile she still struggles to pay the bills. Make sure to support her work

Any mustelid fans here?

The little forepaw WIGGLES on the way down the slide.

Freya Emerson, 24, reportedly thinks being a writer-performer will bring her joy and fulfilment, despite every single thing about it being massively triggering.

Got a few devices and they're all logged in and online but they all get their notifications a few seconds apart so they'll all chirp in turn and I'm like "aww they're talking with eachother"

If we all change our writing styles to avoid sounding like machines, that will reflect in the training data and the machines will simply change along with the times anyway. All LLMs do is pick up on already common punctuation choices made by humans—bots don’t make choices, they steal ours.

Girl built like a station wagon

One thing my surgery recovery taught me is that only one in maybe eighty emails actually needs my attention

Continues to be relevant

best part ab moving apartments: every couple of years, I get to peak in those boxes: pick one game!

Can someone explain why it's better to only charge a new battery to 80% as if I'm an actual intelligent adult who understands basic scientific concepts and not a preschooler or tech CEO please?

void bastards critics objected to our casual use of expletives pretty often because in America it’s a pearl clutching subject but in future space, everything is Australian, Scottish and Cantonese so u gotta suck it up for the swears

I’m going to die angry about what happened to this show

The enchanted forests of Finland-based artist Ulla Thynell

by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam. seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.

"hey ela what are you doing with your sunday?" "oh nothing much, assembling early 19th century maps of westmeath to figure out if i can account for the fact that peg plunkett mentions being born in westmeath but "near corbet's town" which is a comfortable THIRTY KILOMETERS AWAY. nm hbu"

I miss when levi's was doing ads that were just mini art films or cool ass cg like the spaceship mannequin

sometimes i forget the names of my own books and i get a little email that says "you sold teeth" and i have to take a moment where i'm like "where did i even get those"

Hey gang - the quicker you move away from the concept of a one true "dream game" the better. Get used to the idea that you have many great ideas - it will make you a better designer because you won't be super precious about it and good design is often about what you cut

Took a while to get to it but THYSIASTERY is very fun and has incredible atmosphere. Having to juggle distances between enemies Mystery Dungeon-style with a Wizardry-like combat makes you use items and level layouts in cool ways. If you are looking for a one-weekend crawler give this one a try :)

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

My household's washing machine just died! 😱 It's going to cost us £320 to replace it, get it connected, and have the old one removed. And that... even paying my third of it will be a struggle and I'll have to choose between this or food. Can you help? PLEASE SHARE! 🙏🥺

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Grogu

Okay so, hang on, For us autistic people much of basic human interaction is learned, at great mental cost, not instinctive? Meanwhile gender is a performance. Both how we're expected to behave and how everyone treats us is radically different depending on the gender. Gang. No wonder I'm so tired.

Favorite? Unposssible. Three bits from the last two days of editing Exocoetus that I think are fun? Can do.

I looked crazy hot here honestly

anatomy of Spindle

I keep seeing that trans people are more likely to be autistic but isn't the reality that there's no correlation but autistic people are more likely to be able to - realize we're trans - find dysphoria debilitating - understand the process of how to transition - learn and adapt to the new situation

Autistic people aren't more likely to be trans or vice versa. We just grew up ALREADY performing gender. So switching it up is no big deal. We know the drill. We already have to learn new social rules every time we get a new job or are brought into a new friend group. It's HARD but we know HOW.

Anyone can be autistic Anyone can be trans Autistic people have spent their entire lives developing mental and social tools that are extremely applicable and effective in the work required for transitioning

Okay so, hang on, For us autistic people much of basic human interaction is learned, at great mental cost, not instinctive? Meanwhile gender is a performance. Both how we're expected to behave and how everyone treats us is radically different depending on the gender. Gang. No wonder I'm so tired.

Drop a fight scene you loved... There's a lot to love about D&D Honor Among Thieves, but one thing I haven't seen as many people mention is the incredible fight choreography. (I'm well within the 3 minute limit including the setup to the punchline so you're getting that too lol)

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

I think I shared this before back on the old site, but the NEON STRUCT key art was built around a composite of stock images I'd purchased. No idea who the models were.

Think it's time for a new phone

I can always feel it, but I have no idea how or why. Some character art feels alive. I can believe that it's depicting a thinking and feeling being. I don't know how this is accomplished but it's always so clear and so striking. This piece really has me thinking about that.

Taking a musician's work across years and compiling it into a playlist that tells a story they likely never intended is a delightful puzzle

Me last summer: It's weird that all tops have the tag on the lower left but this one halter crop top has it on the right. Clearly the boobs go on the side with more fabric coverage. Me this week: Oh...

I still think about this all the time. Feels weird that it's only been two years (as of yesterday).

Quick satyr girl sketch 🍃 #oc #art

🎉 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME 🎉 I've been writing with the incredibly talented folks at Kinali for over a year at this point, and you will NOT want to miss what we're cooking up. As someone who started out writing RPGs, working on a RPG again feels like coming home. Give 'em a follow. There's more coming 👀

drives me batty sometimes when people interpret story ‘conflict’ as being actual animosity between people when ‘conflict’ can mean anything from two people needing different things to one person’s internal psychological contrasting thoughts

I want Scavengers Reign season 2 😭