I do love that moment of stark terror before a session when my DM is randomly like, "remind me, what is the name of your (backstory character)?" and she's my wife, so she can ambush me thusly when I'm sitting half-awake on the couch with my first cup of tea. 😂

Paintings from my portrait series I'm proud of

I realized today that this scene I'm writing is basically the one "put baby in pelican mouth" tumblr meme. oops. dragon hoard perfect size for put angry paladin. no problems ever in dragon hoard full of friends because good size and shape for small stinky paladin. can trust dragons. friend dragons.

the Undertale soundtrack continues to be a true banger. I listened to Battle Against a True Hero on repeat yesterday while I was writing and got a lot done.

it really is shocking how much self deprecation is seen as a cultural requirement for 'serious art.' 'real' artists are not allowed to exalt their work and must present it publicly as a sort of 'i dont think this is very good but maybe you will get around to it.' HECK THAT. love yourself

I wish all of my nonbinary friends relief from back pain

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

I think making up little guys is good for your mental health, everyone should make up characters and then spend time daydreaming about them

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

here it is, this is it, the most hilarious response to any Transformers social media promotion possible, of all time

Gang. GANG. LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS. STOP USING THEM.

now that I'm 15k into this little interlude that was supposed to be one scene quickly back-written and inserted into the narrative, I may have to admit that I'm in over my head. 😂

I had this thumbnail drawing of my d&d character leftover from a project earlier last year and decided to paint it to get more practice in. 👍

"the entire body of anti-trans propaganda was workshopped in emails with the billionaire pedophile guy to facilitate twin campaigns of elimination and sex slavery" being both a.) true and b.) a thing no major news org seems interested in reporting is making me feel like I'm losing my fucking mind

Ideal Shipping Dynamic #137 – Character A: Okay, I'm not, like, Looking For A Relationship, but should the opportunity arise I would 100% suck your dick clean off your body. Just putting that out there. Character B: Hey, that cloud looks like a rabbit.

up to 74k words on the novel! many of those words now need to be stripped out and rewritten because a certain paladin decided to toss a brick through the stained glass window of the plot as planned, so who knows the impact on final word count? at least the words are coming again! \o/

i often think about this review

"The people back home aren't gonna believe this." #art #bg3 #baldursgate3

When you add this to his treatment of homeless people in California, and I’m sorry but also his blowing off of his own Covid rules, it’s an absolute non-starter. Yes, he sometimes says swears and writes in all caps to mock Trump. That does not equal “a good president.”

Please understand that the people who are warning you about Newsom are doing the work. Here. Now. WELL BEFORE a primary. To prepare you! I did not vote for Biden in the primary. Best believe I voted for him in the presidential election though.

the trouble with going back and editing in an entirely new scene halfway through the novel is that sometimes a character says something so suicidally out of pocket that it derails the narrative as previously written. unfortunately yes, he WOULD say that and now I have to deal with it. 🤦‍♂️

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

Today in "leaving money on the table"

In the wake of a massive confirmation that the tech industry’s run by deranged pedophiles, not a single tech platform should have the balls to start demanding ID and enacting invasive policies. Yet they continue. They’re the ones being outed as dangerous and we’re the ones being regulated.

Abusers do this. You can never hate them because of what they’ve done to you. You’re just an easily suggestible person who has been duped by malevolent forces working against them. They can’t reckon with their own evil or the fact that they’re undesirable.

I actually don't think there's anything more beautiful than a group of dorks with varying flavors of neurodivergence pretending to be a group of equally varied little freaks who wander the countryside seeking adventure and justice for a few hours a week.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

scroll up for a heaping list of citations you can share with anyone who says "but what about the children??!?" to you

dogs curled up next to me on the sofa: ❤️❤️❤️ dogs cutting righteous farts while curled up next to me on the sofa:

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

We do Bones 💀 Gideon the Ninth mockup dust cover, front.

mmm tea

Really funny how the ruling class keeps justifying infringing on our liberties with "we gotta protect the children" while bombing palestinian children, protecting a global billionaire network of child trafficking, and building measles infested children prisons

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Fanfiction doesn’t exist to be “good” it exists because something went horribly wrong with you while you were watching a tv show and you’re gripped by madness

a birthday gift for my friend ❤️

during Friday night's game, my grave cleric Tali decided that it was a good idea to have sex with a mysterious NPC while trapped in vampire territory. he got hella laid and was very pleased with himself. the party was less pleased with him given the thin walls.

An attempt at Mari ‘ing up the Caldwell Higgins picture

the idea that making art is embarrassing if you don't do it well enough to make a career out of it is an objectively harmful and toxic brainworm.

I have told a few MPs this. I genuinely feel a lot of adults hate the existence and needs of young people. Then they act surprised/bewildered that these kids are anxious/depressed.

Self portrait of the artist as a goblin trying to learn another language on her sending stone (phone)

Understanding society is dangerous to reactionaries selling racial animus & crushing austerity, while enriching the rich

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

Cat squares step 1: sketch ✏️ [ #cuteart #illustration ]

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

writer hubris: "I can totally get a few minutes of quick writing done while I wait for my tea to steep and then take the teaball out!" forty minutes later, I look up and realize that my tea is ice cold AND strong enough to kill a water buffalo.

Now available for booksellers, reviewers, and librarians: Book Two of Meridel Newton's Shelter Trilogy. As the newly elected leader of Osto, Amaya Bly has her hands full after a hard winter drained resources and strained the population's tolerance for dark days. www.netgalley.com/ca...