i'm screaming into the void here, but people really need to do the barest of minimums and read the replies before reposting any cool and unusual animal content it's ok not to know, but it's not ok not to check. you are feeding into a content ecosystem that rewards animal abuse if you do not

i was talking to my stepdad about keeping chickens and i told him i'd eventually just end up with a bunch of old hens that don't lay anymore, since i don't think i could kill them and turn them into dinner. he said, and i quote with emphasis intact, "i bet YOU could" i am ... complimented????

i want to play this so bad but it's not on my platform yet. but maybe that's a good thing because i'll actually finish da:i

the glory: i have finished a draft of a fic and am ready to edit it. after many years of writer's block, i will maybe be able to actually post a work someday soon the shame: it is ... about ... video game OCs... having sex ...

fandom should have move to dreamwidth instead of twitter

Stuck inside my own personal hell.

If you ever wanted to get into Hong Kong action cinema but didn’t know where to begin (or more realisticly didn’t have any way to see a lot of what were pretty rare films), Criterion Channel has got you covered in October. It’s like a HK essentials starter pack. A ridiculously stacked selection.

the moon compels her to sing the song of her people #artistsonbsky #illustration

I got him a cushion to corral him on the side of the desk but he....spreads

I'm not sure it's widely known that you *own* the books you buy on Audible. They don't make it easy for you to keep listening to them. There's an app called OpenAudible that allows you to download/convert them to mp3 and if you're tech, AudioBookshelf lets you host your own server.

apparently one of the things i do in every inquisition playthrough is make sure that i acquire dorian before going to the fallow mire, just so i can drag that man through the swamp

3. Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis) by reiner on iNaturalist

for all of dragon age: inquisition's faults, one of the things that i really do like is how dynamic your home base feels and how it's integrated into the overall story i do wish you could do more with your inquisitor's personal room than just buy fancy beds tho

what if i restarted da:i because i can't remember anything about where i left off, and actually finished it this time

the cost of turning fanfiction from an embarrassing hobby into one that is almost mainstream has been TOO HIGH when we killed the part of us that cringes, we also killed the part that kept these kids off my lawn, and importantly, stopped them from inviting corporations onto my lawn

The Académie Française pushing to replace watersport with "control of the piss" was not on my bingo card for today.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

//cw pet death i got some really bad news about my cat yesterday and it's just hard. i've been pretty alone the last few years after leaving academia, a lot of it for reasons that are my own fault, and so i'm sitting here really feeling that void. i want to share him with people before he's gone

one of the things i miss is having a fandom that has absolutely rotted my brain that ISN'T an RPG. because while absolutely i can talk for hours about the damn game, there is something different when we are all insanely brainrotted about our own ocs, instead of the npcs we have in common

This suggests that "AI" is as much a cultural shift as it is a technological one—the hype-shrouded AI boom has given managers encouragement and cover to break previous norms and standards, even if it means a loss in quality. As the boom appears to give way to a bust, that may be all the clearer.

I feel like I need to do a concise fountain pen sins post, for when people can't remember who did what. -Muji: coerced Uyghur labor -Noodler's: racism (egregious), ink damages pens, covid conspiracist. -Goulet: anti-queer, on staff for a southern Baptist Convention church. ...

This is not my cat

🤚 🦉 #BG3

a common puzzle for me, a slow writer: is this scene actually dragging or have I just been working on it for two weeks

the current campaign is still in the shadow-cursed lands and the necromancer has just figured out how to wield the shadows to take on the form of an undead. here he is excitedly explaining this to his new paladin friend #bg3

Slightly Diminish a Band: Journeyman Twinkle & the Fussy Four

All the gales for my fellow nerdy wizard lovers! 💜 You might have noticed that I like drawing expressions, no? #art #bg3 #bg3gale

I don't actually believe that you can read books too young, but it was probably a bad translation of the Iliad OR the pern books OR the vampire chronicles

wouldn't it be great to experience the same joy from eating food out of a can as my cats do

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

once i was giving an presentation at an academic conference and the laptop that they were using to run powerpoint stopped working. i volunteered mine, having forgotten that i was currently using this image as my wallpaper

i'm so annoyed at people saying that em-dashes are a sign of AI that i finally learned to use the keyboard shortcut to do an actual em-dash. fuck you, AI can't have them

LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.

Oh, I think I've never posted this ink work here? it's from 2021. Little rat~ 🐀 #ink #traditionalart

If you see this, post your skeleton art! Commission I did for @/calamarti.bsky.social 🤍🤍🤍

Hello everyone! Want to get some art from a Palestinian artist while also helping Palestine? I'm going to be running a raffle this week for Gaza Soup Kitchen, the winner will get a Tarot card from me! (more info and form below) 🇵🇸

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

when your durge doesn't listen and sticks his hand in the strange meat hole

there's someone on r/AskHistorians asking if shipping existed before the internet and i'm wondering how many kirk/spock jokes the mods are going to have to delete

i spent way too long making a little wizard corner in the shadow-cursed lands for @nachttour.bsky.social's OC Aithlin, a necromancer with a heart of gold. it's his first trip out of the city and he's coping well #bg3

Ah, yes, a most realistic depiction of hacking.

A photograph of a writer, followed relentlessly by all her unfinished drafts.

As I consider Astarion/Geraldus, a voice whispers, mockingly, "you only ship it because they're hot." YES, I say to the voice, but also consider all the plot that would be required to make it work. I definitely have the time and energy for that

writing ocs can be tough because you lose your single most important tool, which is the “he would not fucking say that” metric. like girl he might say that idk. up to you ✨👁️👁️✨

i still can't get over how precious some people are about this kind of thing

wish me luck. i must clean the pen that contains the blue ink that has haunted me ever since i spilled some of it a week ago. the ink that reappears in the unlikeliest places, no matter how well i think i've cleaned it. today i found blue in the egg salad i had for lunch

full respect for sunblock, sunblock is my best friend and doesn’t count in this; but i am basically constantly mad about how you used to just have to fight the makeup industry and now it’s also skincare.

Man, I hate that the laziest, cheapest hair option for me reads as super femme. Can I just have short sexy no maintenance hair for free pls. Also can the boobs be smaller, also for free