🎉 GREEN WIN! The Czech Greens (@zeleni.cz) are back in the Parliament for the first time since 2010! Congrats to Gabriela Svárovská & Irena Ferčíková Konec. 💚 They will fight for greener & fairer solutions for the people of Czechia & we can’t wait to see it!

Dragon Age and Mass Effect have never been perfect, but they have ALWAYS been at the forefront of progress of representation in video games. From queer romances, queer characters to trans identities and exploration of gender and identity. Infuriating that we have to worry about this changing.

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes? EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep. Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like? EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick. kotaku.com/report-saudi...

a good story, you don’t really write. it was always there. you just uncover it. #dragonage ✧ #art

Oh it’s on. <3

I'm accumulating a collection of tiny mushrooms growing on other tiny things #mushroommonday #fungifriends

Here's something to brighten your Monday 💛 The comical-looking Canary-shouldered Thorn has pale orange-brown wings with scalloped edges, allowing them to blend in perfectly with the autumn foliage. 📷: Kate Reece, Iain H Leach, Will Langdon #MothMonday #MothsMatter

I kinda love Nish Kumar.

The idea that there is a PRO FASCIST RALLY happening in London right now, with lead white supremacists speaking at it, goes to show just how much these violent people have been coddled by white centrists and liberals. They were told their ideas had value and they SHOULD have platforms.

Nothing says "radical feminism" like submitting to a machine programmed by the worst men in the world to lie to you.

‘Often when I imagine you, your wholeness cascades into many shapes. You run like a herd of luminous deer, and I am dark; I am forest.’ 📚Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours, Book I 📷 mine #BookWormSat #poetry #forests

#BookWormSat "There once was a forest in the north of Spain, so old that it could tell stories long past and forgotten by men." Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

'But those eyes are all you will be able to glimpse of the forest assasins as they cluster invisibly round your smell of meat as you go through the wood unwisely late. They will be like shadows. They will be like wraiths...' -Angela Carter 🎨Alina Bazel #BookWormSat

'I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Was swallowed up in leaves that blew away' -Robert Frost 🎨Walter Crane #BookWormSat

I got another copy of Frankenstein, quite fitting for today, and now I'm eagerly waiting for October. :) Thank you, @realgdt.bsky.social!

‘For if you’re not afraid how can you really be brave?’ ~ Moominpappa, Tove Jansson. #BookWormSat

#BookWormSat "Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful." ~Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

FFS

Fuck EA.

Israel’s horrifying plans to take over Gaza City will lead to more death and destruction. States, like the UK and US, have enabled this escalation by transferring arms and failing to take concrete action to stop the genocidal assault on occupied Gaza.

What's the old Dalish curse? May the Dread Wolf take you? And so he did💔 #solas #dragonage #солас

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?” No. Fuck you. I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

#BookWormSat "Clara spent this time wrapped in her fantasies, accompanied by the spirits of the air, the water, and the earth." ~ The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

What most American adults THINK they'd have done during the Holocaust: Assassinating Nazis, breaking people out of concentration camps. What most American adults actually WOULD have done during the Holocaust: Scold their kids for singing, "Genocide is bad" on the playground at recess.

#BookWormSat "Yo no sé si esto es una historia que parece cuento o un cuento que parece historia..." ~ Rimas y leyendas, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

this is the thing that sort of drives me insane about the present moment. a bunch of NATO governments now have, whatever their feelings on the specific nomenclature, generally agreed that what we are witnessing is an attempt to exterminate a civilian population. when will they act accordingly

Every time I wear something sleeveless, I feel like Neil Newbon.

First draft/rough of a new mini book. Lots of work still to do with text pagination and illustrations. Lots more dormice to draw plus a change of title to come too

The stairs leading into the forest of Tokikubo. 鴇久保の森への階段。

someone should invent therapy in Thedas

There are many ways how to play Dragon Age: Inquisition. It can all be about taking the best pictures. :) "What is the old Dalish curse? May the Dread Wolf take you?" "And so he did." #DragonAge #DreadWolf #FenHarel #DAI

#BookWormSat "So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be. It's when I'm weary of considerations, And life is too much like a pathless wood" Robert Frost, Birches

All night the dark buds of dreams open richly. In the center of every petal is a letter, and you imagine if you could only remember and string them all together they would spell the answer. from 'Dreams' Mary Oliver 🎨Evelyn De Morgan 'Night and Sleep' 1878 #BookWormSat

Can totally see it:

#BookWormSat "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, ... With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine. There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight…" ~ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“A sepal, petal, and a thorn Upon a common summer’s morn - A flask of Dew - A Bee or two - A breeze - a caper in the trees - And I’m a Rose! “ ✍️ Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems 📷 my own #BookWormSat #summer #poetry

Dragon Age: Inquisition Dragon Age: The Veilguard Baldur's Gate 3

Hello from the garden. I have many pollinator friendly roses in my garden, they are now in bloom, and the air around them is buzzing. Nothing gives me more hope than sights like this. 🐝🌿🌸

We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history

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