We can directly blame Xbox for Gamergate. Lemme 'splain: Xbox was deliberately targeted for the more "bro" set in the market with more shooters and manly man games whereas PS2 was much more diverse in its offerings. This isn't to say there wasn't some diversity on the Xbox but the appeal was

Every time I see someone say this I'm pretty sure they've never spent much time actually poking around looking for music. There is a LOT of stuff out there. A LOT. They're just not looking or just paying attention to whatever the current equivalent to the top 40 is.

OMG I saw this but didn't realize it was a Redwall reference OMG OMG OMG!!! Sorry. Used to be a BIG Redwall fan back in the day. I read every book in the series at least twice.

#pretendpanel #writesky #writingcommunity I love listening to music while I write and will toss together a playlist on Youtube (I have no other streaming services but I DO have adblockers!) that matches the vibe. For my cyberpunk novel I put together a playlist based on the soundscape my MC

Thing is, this is a joke, but I run into people who legit think that's how it works all the fucking time. A lot of them are ex-poor bootstrappers who are like "I worked eight jobs AND got a college degree so why didn't you?"

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Gloom Cookie

Wait, there are people who DON'T want their profile covered in art and music and other stuff they think would be interesting to their followers?! Shit, I'm always like "Pretty picture! Stare at with me!"

#AwesomeCharacters Cassie's poor so saving doesn't really factor into things - every digital dime she makes is spent before she earns it, mostly on her sister's medicine but also on the bribes needed to get it shipped in. Beyond that, her family does #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

My brain on a loop for the next month: 🎶H-R-T-T-O-G-O YOU CAN MAKE ME HOT TO GO🎶

#writesky #writingcommunity I was reading up on self-publishing and checking on publishers sites for prices and . . . hooooly shit. Editing this mofo right now, unfinished, 241k words, would cost between $8k and $20k depending on if I want the basics or the full deal. Yeah, guess I'm my own editor.

The Sudanese Civil War is made all the more depressing because no one really cares. The country could vanish off the face of the earth and I think very people in the world would even notice, especially in the West, but no one else seems eager to help either.

OMG Blueksy how stupid can you be. I muted "AI" to get rid of ai-generated art and apparently the algorithm interprets any occurrence of "ai," even within words, as mutable. I don't it's consistent though which is weird.

Really need to incorporate some of this into the second draft of my book.

魔法使いと精霊

*tiny voice* soon

#AwesomeCharacters On the off chance I actually finish the thing AND anyone actually reads it I suspect the AIs would be the most popular characters - I intentional write them to be weird and quirky. On the opposite, I actually suspect Cassie might be the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Today’s warmup: studies of an inconvenienced cat

#mayworldbuilders #writesky #writingcommunity Sanctuary doesn't generally do very formal greetings, but it's standard to bend your right arm up, show your palm, fingers closed, and say "zal'm" which means peace. Add a slow bow of the head for extra respect.

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Been sitting with how many Black Civil rights leaders bled and died to ge the voting rights act only for it to be struck down by this white supremacist supreme court. This is from bloody Sunday which catalyzed passage of the VRA. It's hard not to shed tears at what we've lost.

Don't click if you don't want to hear wild cougar kitten purrs. I said don't click!!! youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU?...

#pretendpanel #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts I wouldn't say I have a writing theme song but "Galactic Mermaid" is basically the condensed version of my waking internal monologue and, yeah, it fits the general thrust of my writing. Also hilarious to hum at a customer service job.

#SFFChat Q3: Toss Cassie into Jurassic Park and she get out her tools and start fixing shit. First thing would be overriding the doors so they lock properly, then work on the computers and power. She'd probably still get eaten though. Not much of a fighter really.

God-tier emroidery.

We used to laugh at Captain Planet villains and call them hokey and over the top. I miss those days.

Playing so many old beat 'em ups and arcade games, its ludicrous how many of them start off like "It's 2026 and the world is complete and utter shit. The evil, psychotic baby nuking CEO/Military Commander Major Atlas Warmonger controls everything" and its just like...man. 😩

#mayworldbuilders #writesky #writingcommunity While it's not a full conlang with grammar and such the in-setting words in my #Zhiurae setting are actually conlang-ish. I'm bad with coming up with terms so, while flailing about, I stumbled across a Sumerian lexicon and went wild. I started with magic

Describe your favorite game poorly: A Japanese man loaded on caffeine sits down to mainline the X Files and Evangelion while reading the Kabbalah and the Gnostic Gospels and turns the resulting freak out into a videogame.

Another day, another constitutional crisis.

Okay, so that looks genuinely tense and scary.

Fuckin' Chaya Raichik learning some hard truths and immediately blaming minorities instead of the Man.

When the obituaries are written for the west, some space should be devoted to how they burned their freedoms to the ground obsessing over other people's genitals.

[Insert eternal screaming here]

#AwesomeCharacters *evil smile* My characters don't just curse: they curse culturally correct. I have webpages book marked and reference documents. Cassie in particular curses in English and Mexican Spanish peppered with Afrikaans and Zulu. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#antagonistapril #writesky #writingcommunity Eh, outside of delightfuly queer-coded Disney villains and David Xanatos my general attitude towards villains is club 'em like a harp seal (especially the smirking kind). I prefer real world villains, particularly those exemplifying the banality of evil.

Hbombergarf

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

This is the most detailed 3D rendering of a eukaryotic cell to date, obtained using X-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy datasets. 🔬🧪

Pretty sure the answer is "yes."

Chihuahua of judgement.

who has done more to reduce carbon emissions than donald trump? incredibly brave to use the navy to stop oil dead in its tracks

#AntagonistApril #writesky #writingcommunity They've already won. They are vastly wealthy, have the leaders of nations at their beck-and-call, and have vast resources to make sure that they can never, ever lose their power. Insofar as there is anything left to do they aren't immortal (yet) and space

#AntagonistApril #writesky #writingcommunity Well my direct villain is just human so no superpowers or magic. They're quite skilled and intelligent and quite a good fighter but not exceptional. As for the real villains, most of them are pathetic dumb-as-shit freaks who's superpower is being rich.

The reason why we need billionaire taxes as the national level is specifically to keep the shits from fleeing to Florida or taxes. The reason we need them globally is so they have nowhere to run.

Tail wagging, looking so happy

She is very lonely