Burned out.

Family of adorable little stinkers, trundling along, seen as we were leaving my inlaws yesterday evening 🖤🤍🖤

She hasn't uploaded this to her Bluesky, so I had it saved from Twitter instead, but @rubydianarts.bsky.social created this piece for me for the 2021 SeiSub Hanami gift exchange. The wideshot is amazing and I like how it's muted in colour, which lets the Tokyo Babylon/X subjects standout.

For those who want to follow my progress (or lack thereof) with the #Decagram - the account @[email protected] (Mastodon) ist now bridged via bsky.app/profile/tree... for as long as the moderators put up with the bridge (or until the bridge gets as annoying as BS has been for me lately). #tbx

#writers #writing

Zeit für einen Klassiker.

Berlin zoo has a baby hippo called Bread roll.... and I am going to be in Berlin next month for Eurocon... **noises only bats can hear**

I won't continue the #Decagram progress updates here. Whenever I post something, my account is flooded with bots & entrepreneurs trying to make a buck, turning BS into a rather hostile environment for #fandom #hobbyists in my books. I know I can filter extensively, but the refloods are annoying.

#writing the #decagram - since I'll again be scribbling extensively on public transport, the Tree insisted on a bigger notebook. With correct branding, of course. 😉🌸

The "fun" of #writing chapter 2 of #BAU in #Decagram - I must decide on how desastrous/lethal/sappy/all & none of the above the Ijyuin / Sakurazuka & Shiro / Sumeragi family reunions should turn out to be... The downsides of liking your characters. They can't all end up on the nice side of things!

Nothing angered Dave more than being referred to as a ‘lucky duck’. It wasn’t luck at all. He’d worked hard to get to where he was. He paid his own bills, and even managed to create a nest egg for himself - 15th century, Oxford University, St John's College MS 82, f. 148r

#Facts #Jokesters

Final chapter of #Mariko up on the #ao3 - self-edited, unbetaed (real life got in the way in more ways than one), but I've been moving the same three sentences around for the last four days - either it's fine, or I won't spot the problem this month. #writing #decagram #tbx - back to #BAU ch.2 now!

okay, I'm definitely back at #writing #fanfic now. I just finagled Merriam Webster's Thesaurus as a #search engine into the #addressbar of #LibreWolf to easier check #connotation ranges... #decagram #sideeffects #fun

#Word (the spoken thing, not the copi-lot infested one) - it's never been more important to keep your #feeds manageable than now. disconnect.blog/information-...

Tuta joins Euro-Office 🇪🇺 - one week before its first launch! 🔥 ➡️ tuta.com/blog/tuta-jo... Let's bring freedom from #Microsoft and #Google to Europe, @nextcloud.bsky.social @openproject.bsky.social @xwikiorg.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy @teamsoverin.bsky.social #EuroStack Let's build a better web! 💪🏼 🎉

Leute kommen mir mit dem Take "Aber ich kann schon verstehen, dass Menschen enttäuscht sind von der Politik. Dann wählen sie halt AfD." Wenn ich verdurste und hole mir vom Klo ein Glas Sprühstuhl bekomme ich ein Glas Sprühstuhl. Ich hab dann immer noch Durst. Und sitze außerdem in einem Scheißhaus!

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026...

Shout out to the frozen chicken that didn't defrost in time for dinner, allowing me to order takeout like I wanted to anyway. Not all heroes wear capes.

he's not quite sure how slippers work #Cat #Caturday

Nuthatch. An older comic.

What I hate with a vengeance about ai these days, is that when I now get comments on #ao3 from a profile without stories or long history, my mind immediately goes "is this a bot?" - even if it's a nice comment making well thought out points. It added a layer of disbelief to reality that truly sucks!

I'm going to need another term for Beta Reader because every time I mention it I get a bot on here asking me if I'm looking to pay for a beta reader. The answer is always going to be block button but I'm tired of seeing the same bio every time I mention my rough draft readers.

To all the entrepreneurial ppl who followed me recently because I post about #Writing - I'm writing #fanfiction as a #hobby. I love my full-time job. So, if you're here because you find me interesting: hi & welcome. 🙂 But there's no business opportunity here, because I don't outsource my fun. Tnx.

Rereading @lianabrooks.bsky.social 's hilarious & lovely Even Villains Fall in Love. After wrangling all theserious consent implications in #Mariko I needed unabashed hilarity - and a supervillain as stay at home dad just fits the bill! #writing #tbx #decagram Seishiro side-ffects...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

painting some plants

Per the ancient artist traditions, I beseech thee, spread this post far and wide across the bsky lands, for it is my birthday! ☄️ #art

#Mariko total: 6500 words - all three chapters before editing & polishing. Let's see, what the word count will be once we're done getting the story out of the gibberish. ;) #Decagram #tbx

#Mariko status: one scene to write, two scenes (including the to-write-one) to polish, likely a serious attempt at desapping, and then however long Leareth and I need for editing... #writing #decagram #tbx

Okay, now I wonder if a spirit bird shits. #Writing #TBX #Mariko

So, DEET is the new chanel no.5 for mosquitoes... #mosquito #scent #OhShit www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05...

figured why I was stuck with the mark sensation scene in #Mariko 3 - Hokuto's GoodBye reads as "...took your soul away" (TokyoPop/English), but the German translation by Carlsen I'm used to translates as "...took your heart away." - different set of connotations to work with! #Tbx #Decagram

There are two scenes left to write in #Mariko and polishing (mostly removing unnecessary details and finetune the wording for maximal oomph!) I think next week(end) may be a realistic timeframe for it going up on the AO3, bar any new ideas of course. ;-) #writing #tbx #Decagram

...and another rabbit hole: Japanese novels published before 1991 that #Mariko would read. Gah! Textwise, "book" is enough, but author!mind insists on at least knowing title & tongue-in-cheek-content... btw., it's the 4th entry on this list: www.nippon.com/en/japan-top... #Writing #TBX #Decagram

Back to experiencing the fun of #Writing with non-standard vocabulary. Spellcheck tries to turn "oyakodon" into "Mastodon" - no, I don't want to post their dinner there. #TBX #Decagram

...and now for the fun part of #Writing the #Decagram: spurious #Research! Differences between the eyesight of a Japanese Golden Eagle and a human - what could go wrong? #cackle #Mariko #TBX

#Decagram story Mariko chapter 3 is at 1680 words, 1000 of which are continuous text, edited, and in shape. 680 remain to be sorted, restructured, and degapped. And yes, #Seishiro is so getting me in trouble with this one! #Writing #TBX

Counterpoint: No I will not

White porcupine

Streamlining Mariko chapter 5... ...worked like a charm. Not. Started with 5k words, ended up adding 250 MORE words... ...and it got more detailed, while still having gaps to fill. At least I removed the details about RF detection schemes. ;-) #AmWriting #Decagram #TBX

Good morning Bluesky! While I still refuse to change the title to "Himbo Paladin and the Cat In The Burning Building", I appreciate everyone's love for the joke cover and hope you enjoy the actual book! It's even still for sale ;) mybook.to/SK1SpiritBlade

Das ist der Klima-Notstand. Das Risiko eines Kollapses der Atlantik-Strömung liegt inzwischen bei über 50 Prozent - mit katastrophalen Folgen für Europa, wie Ernteeinbrüchen um bis zu ein Drittel. Man kann es nicht anders sagen: Reiches fossile Lobbypolitik gefährdet unsere Sicherheit.

Snippet: "Do you play Go?" "Yes, but the Tree cheats." #AmWriting #Mariko #TBX #Decagram

Gah, Mariko is currently 5k words, and a whopping half of that is the third chapter! And that's not even complete. #AmWriting #TBX #Decagram #Fanfic

Now isn't that charming? #LibreWolf & #WaterFox for the Win! #Chromium #Exploit #Google arstechnica.com/security/202...

I've begun posting Mariko's tale (Family Matters side #story) to the #AO3. Chapters 1 and 2 are up, 3 still needs some minor work, but I hope to have it done within one or two weeks at most. #Writing #TBX If you are interested: archiveofourown.org/works/84966496 (limited to logged in users)

Utterly fun podcast! Don't miss it. The Untitled History Podcast: Episode 14: The Surprising #History Behind the Eurovision Song Contest #esc Website: battleguide.co.uk Media file: traffic.megaphone.fm/BATTLEGUIDET...