5 years ago I decided I wanted to create art like the one in DnD books. I might be not here for now but I learnt a lot, especially on how to learn. ⬇️

The orange felon is moving to rename the Kennedy Center after himself in another move to both attack the Arts and insult President John F. Kennedy. I truly from the depths of my soul hate this evil sadistic scumbag. If only he had been sent to jail where he belongs.

It's fucking weird to see the rightwing trad weirdos attempting to bring gentler women into a society where every woman or femme presenting person I know is frothing at the fucking mouth and ready to wear their bounty kills on their belts.

I never want to hear another American make fun of North Korea ever again.

The Governess Affair is the first novella of Courtney's I ever read and it absolutely spun me. This is one of our genre's core works. The exploration of agency and consent after trauma should be (and is!) studied in classrooms. If you yell HAIRPINS and folks freak out, they know. And it's free!

More camps are coming. See you there.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

I don't know what to say about this garbage vote to criminalize gender affirming care btw. Been trying to find the words. I hear so many friends in sadness and fear today but of what use is "I hear you"? Not much I fear. To live through this moment sucks ass (negative). We must find a way through

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

oh 😬 well good luck to all the US folks who use TikTok

Larian's new game: How to lose all the good faith you'd built in ten minutes or less.

Y'all gonna start acknowledging the parallels yet? Y'all gonna start defending art, intimacy, and sex as basic human expressions? Y'all gonna start realizing that these deranged puritans don't have an ounce of goodwill in their bodies and literally just want to control every aspect of our lives?

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

2026 mood

Give the author a raise for that headline.

this shit makes me feel like i'm living in a different reality. Ai is trained on images that exist. there are no fucking photographs from ancient rome. all the images it's trained on are from movies and shit. so obviously it produces imitations of those at best. WHY DID ANYONE EXPECT ANYTHING ELSE

Oh wow, suddenly you have a desperate need for social and artistic skill sets? Amazing. Anyway, eat a cold loaf of Satan's ass cheese, fellas.

just make shorter games dude, most of us don’t have time to play those 5000000hrs things anyways

'My year end reading statistics' (originally for @theguardian.com books). p.s There's still time to pick up new book Physics for Cats at good bookshops and online www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

I can already foresee that 2026 is going to be more of the same with regards to the News and the World but at least we have Horror, and each other.

The word gatekeepers here is really telling. Actual creatives know gatekeepers are the executives and publishers and techbros standing between you and your audience. Rando billionaires think people who are more creative than them are gatekeepers.

my favorite pieces from 2025

Yup 😐

an entire generation losing their minds that their children and grandchildren would DARE to do anything they don't understand and turning the full might of the world's imperial powers against the people they profess to love most

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

And as I pointed out to someone else: asking women who write about sex to go on video platforms and talk about books with sex in them is inviting them to submit themselves to a pretty horrifying level of sexual harassment and also judgement about if they're hot enough to be an authority on sex.

a huge part of the booktokification of romance has been making sex itself a trope instead of a part of the characters falling for each other.

They did, but what I have been thinking about is how the subjects of these photos DIDN’T get it. When you don’t value art, when you don’t think it’s important, when you think any AI can reproduce human choice and creativity, this is the kind of shit you get.

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

Hi, human writer here! All my em-dashes are handcrafted! I'm still writing DA2 fanfic (which is apparently 15 years old now? That can't be right?). All my fics are on AO3: archiveofourown.org/users/barbex Recently I was part of @thedosian-zine.bsky.social with a short story.

I absolutely love this series--detective mystery with magic, ongoing romance set in a matriarchal fantasy city, beautifully imagined. If you haven't read them, treat yourself!

"In the event that the Author is unable or unwilling to continue the series for any reason—including, but not limited to, health concerns, personal circumstances, or death—the Publisher shall retain the right to produce derivative works based on the original Work and its universe."

God I didn't even get into this part because idk if we have time for me to discuss how puritanical social media algos and advertising rules are WRECKING US

The Arts Council England review by Baroness Hodge is fine and the recommendations are fine but the reality is that artists and writers can't survive on hope and charity, especially not when the charity requires writing a 20,000 word application first.

Did you know that different painkillers work best on different sources of pain? Inflammation: Ibuprofen Fever: Paracetamol Billionaires: Guillotine Hope that helps!

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

A Statue of Liberty replica in Brazil fell due to a bad storm. Did you know a metaphor can walk up and punch you in the face.

Normally I'd leave a post like this for DAFanFriday, but given the depressing state of my skyline and I suspect yours as well: Are you a human who creates #DragonAge inspired anything? Show it off. Are your commissions open? Let people know. Let's show support to real, human creatives! 🫶

What this means after intense lobbying by German car makers is that due to economies of scale they’ll produce only high end internal combustion cars which means rich people get to carry on polluting, so that’s nice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The president of the USA, is a lunatic 25th amendment now!

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

I hope Larian understand that the backlash they about to have was cultivated by their own words

I think all of the tech bros should be first to the Mars colony.

🌿 Verdant is a singleplayer survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world, frozen in the 80s. 🌺 You wield the power to take or restore life - and combat is always just a last resort. #verdantgame #indiedev #gamedev

“Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people.” – Rob Reiner

I genuinely thought the LLM / AI thing would blow over as soon as anyone pointed out it was based on piracy and had no viable business plan. That we’re still talking about it, betting on it, is gobsmacking. It should be the Tamagotchi craze of our decade. It should be Pogs by now.

I don’t want 0.0000001p. That doesn’t help. I want you to fuck off.