a lady came to our garage sale and said she was interested in classic books. i pulled some random ones out, and then handed her a nice copy of the dispossessed by le guin. she bought it YES, YOU ARE CORRECT, BOOK LADY

I spent so many hours in Destiny, and then Destiny 2, but a couple of years ago I just ... wandered away, as the game didn't seem to be able to find a sustainable direction again. It was a game that had some incredible highs and incredible lows

i'm wondering if anyone felt the same about Lies of Locke Lamora as i do, or if the problem is that i still haven't rebuilt my attention span #books

crying as i spray my beautiful, fragrant roses with stinky deer repellent

WARM TIPS

it's funny when i can tell that a book was written by a DUDE before a woman even shows up just based on how he writes DUDES i'm excited to find out how he writes women. either i'll be amused because my predictions were correct or i'll be pleasantly surprised. it's a win-win

Probably the most flawed game that I've also enjoyed the most despite its flaws, Veilguard We'd have to start by stealing the development team away from EA and giving them the time to recover from the disastrous decision to try to make a live service DA game

saw a journalistic fluff piece that called domestic house cats "apex predators" and i feel like this is turning into the hill i'm going to die on. i'm going to be 80 years old on my porch and yelling at passers-by that that's not what an apex predator is

he's so weak and helpless :( #svsss

Apologies for any delays with posts, it appears Maya downloaded Bonzi Buddy onto the MAGI again

-close call- [1/3] prompt was: BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD!!! INJURY INJURY!!! For ratbagjasper in the Viperquin 2026 Exchange! archiveofourown.org/collections/... #tashur #viperquin #tarquin #ashurvesperian #datv #veilguard #dragonage #dragonagefanart

i know i should say something about the music instead of the dress, but THE DRESS #music

I'm never going to be one of those people who thinks this-or-that is the "best" DA game and all the others are a disappointment, because to me they're all flawed in their own unique ways. But right now, I'd probably pick Veilguard as the one I had the most fun playing

thinking about this tumblr post (www.tumblr.com/bumblebeebat...)

I deftly manipulated the mouse cursor to open the 'quote post.' As an experienced user of social media, my skills honed on a wide variety of platforms, I knew that the nested replies would be somewhat unwieldy to navigate, but I knew exactly what links to click to see more. And I was glad I did

“this is fine”

as i erase and rewrite the same sentence ten times over because i can't find the perfect synonym for "hole," i realize the nobility of just using the word "hole" and am freed

i admire astolat's writing in a lot of ways, but one of them is the way she confidently puts on the rose-tinted glasses and bends the light in a way to make a universe in which emhyr/geralt is both compelling and hilarious. emhyr is a terrible person? who cares!

springtime vibes at my house

prompt: the hat stays ON For vaultsome in the Viperquin 2026 Exchange! archiveofourown.org/collections/... #ashur #theviper #tarquin #tashur #viperquin #datv #veilguard #nsfw #nsfwart

Don't know why this only has 12000 views, Fulu Miziki is amazing #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=B65t...

The way evangelicals conceive of children and teenagers as innocent and pure until they're corrupted by outside forces is just mind boggling. Have they met teenagers? Teenagers are the edgiest dweebs in the world

My cat likes to sun his nethers, so this is what my neighbors see when they're walking their dogs

One of my favorite characters in #thewitcher3 is actually that merchant with the floppy headgear. I know he only shows up everywhere because the game heavily reuses character models for minor NPCs, but I like to imagine there's actually something going on there, like he's some sort of fae

this has been stuck in my head today. what a fantastic voice #music

I see things are going well over here

i managed to whack myself in the head with a rose bush while working on my garden and the amount of blood is comical

Protip: never use the word “final” in a file name. The gods do not like it.

reading yet another Internet Discourse with my morning coffee and thinking, "people really need to learn about necessary and sufficient conditions because a lot of this would be cleared up if they knew the difference."

The third (and hopefully not final) in the series. I continue to enjoy this series a lot, and I would like to give the protagonist a muffin. #books2026 #books

it all went wrong when fandom went mainstream

i would like to see bsky be bought by the onion

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

local gossip is that the repurposed camper van that has EAT PORK SNOOT stenciled on the side and vaguely looks like a serial killer runs it ... actually serves some damn tasty food maybe the barbecue joint run out the back of the gas station has some competetion

i'm currently trying to invent a terrible, melodramatic title for an opera and every single one is already in use my favorite so far is finding out that "vento di passioni" is the italian title of legends of the fall

I wonder if Benn Jordan is a fan of Ursula K. Le Guin. I imagine they could have had a really long, interesting discussion about our desire for ever more "security" and its costs

this raises questions i don't really want to ask

My apple orchard in bloom... and rusty old train tracks above it! This is my first time doing tracks on an aerial embroidery and I'm pretty happy with the effect; the flowering trees were a chore but I'm happy with them too! The last element to add is the allotment to the left 🥕🥬🌱 #landscape

束の間の安息

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

My hot take is that the moral panic over minors reading books containing "adult content" is a version of stranger danger The really damaging ideas are often the ones that are welcome and familiar and that we pass on to kids unremarked

Paladin drag queen called Chanel Divinity

Somewhere, there is an office worker in their thirties who has all of my back pain. And one day they're going to find me and fuck me up

earlier this year i made a quiet commitment to rec any fic that i liked that had less than 1000 kudos. i knew i would have to set some sort of limit or i'd not do it (it is a brain thing) and then i promptly went back to reading super popular pairings. i need a new baseline. 5000 kudos????

i figured out how i was going to end this fic, only to immediately have an idea for a sequel that i probably have to write because it involves putting a blorbo in a ridiculous sun hat

I'm so out of touch with popular TV that when I started seeing screenshots of Noah Wyle from The Pitt, I was curious to see what the guy who played the librarian would be like as an ER doctor

It's really hard to overstate how much of American right wing politics is about proving a certain type of masculinity - one its adherents thinks makes them look strong, but from the outside is pathetic and grasping, driven by a deep internal fear that if they're not man enough they're nothing