Cat Detective's Complete History of Time

I figured I'd start up a non-IC tumblr thingamabob, for my random arts/thoughts/rebloggings. Now with ABOUT ME page! Featuring stuff like pronouns and my attempts at describing what I like without using way too many words!

[self-made-purgatories]

I mean that's basically the plot of Shore Leave, right?

[deadgenerations]

I feel like everyone older than me has suddenly gone insane. why did Neil Blomkamp release a fully AI generated short film? Why is hank green of all people using GPT (not even Claude?) to conduct research and write scripts? just because you can do more doesn't mean that the more will be worth doing. it's just all so shit but I guess it's just the path of least resistance now.

[tam--lin]

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

[tam--lin]

Useful notes and reminders from the reblogs:

Many things that previously made people ineligible have been rolled back. If you previously thought you were ineligible, please consider checking current guidelines!

While O- is the most dire need as it can be safely given to anyone in an emergency, all types are needed! Our emergent release blood is being pulled for patients who have a high chance of death if they don't get blood within the hour. Once they're stabilized, they can have their type confirmed and get blood of a specific, matching type released to them so that O- can go to the patients who need it most.

Canada is also in a blood shortage, not just the US. Even if you're not in the USA or Canada, maybe check locally, especially if it's summer where you are.

[thedeepthought]

me: i love this ship because they understand each other on a level no one else does

also me: i love this ship because they misunderstand each other constantly and it’s causing irreparable damage to them and everyone around them

[nyanlion759]

columbo mii gifset… good lord there’s so many of him help

[mascwoman]

New bumper sticker 🕺

[maryoliveoil]

[str-ngeloop]

we desperately need sex 2

[str-ngeloop]

i just know someone's going to mention kink. girl that's still sex 1. we had to invent BDSM cause we didn't have sex 2. tis but a pale reflection. but it's coming

[str-ngeloop]

kink reaches mayyybe like sex 1.3 if it hits just right

[dizzyghoast]

when sex 2 comes out what sorts of quality of life updates will be included to help draw in people who never really got into sex 1

[str-ngeloop]

more pleasurable. more intellectually stimulating. higher skill ceiling. more dynamic metagame. optionally more mental-emotional alignment between parties. less cleanup. more intuitive. more variety in sensation and activity to match diverse sensory tendencies. smoother integration with parties' coupled emotional processing. and so on

[cymae-mesa]

Fishing minigame.

[existentialterror]

Fishing minigame

[kuttithevangu]

I just saw someone make the assertion that “everyone on booktok has low literacy, and romantasy books are bad because they’re catering to those people”

And this was meant to be a BAD thing. A problem. But if you actually believed that a massive population of low-literacy adults were buying books, becoming obsessed with them, and discussing them at length… wouldn’t that be a great thing? That’s how one moves from low literacy to high literacy: by practicing reading

Unless you think low literacy is an immutable quality reflective of poor character, in which case YOU are actually the problem

[loathsomespider]

in a past life i was the ballistic gel torso they bring out on stuff like knife or death or mythbusters. to cut the questions off at the pass, yes it's still a past life even though i was born before my life as the ballistic gel torso, and continue to live well past the end of my life as the ballistic gel torso, and also yes, it was sexual

[corrucyst]

What was it like directing hellboy

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[dopedyk]

more so,

people don’t always speak in full sentences,

slang can change depending on age range, demographic, etc. &

don’t be scared of vocal pauses (uhm, uh, err)

[tall]

[montereybayaquarium]

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[horriblewarlock]

Having a lot of fun in Tomadachi Life

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the best piece of relationship advice i ever got was “a relationship isn’t 50/50, it’s 60/40 with each party excited to be the 60”. which to me means that you should be with someone who makes you want to do more, be more, open your heart even wider. why WOULDNT you like making life easier for your loved one(s)?

[prokopetz]

Story-driven roguelike where you actually resolve the central problem with no contrived shooting-our-own-themes-in-the-foot excuse for why you just keep iterating on it forever after the credits roll, and any runs after that are framed as PTSD dreams about all the shit the protagonist went through.

[prokopetz]

Just imagine all the fucked up postgame difficulty modifiers you could easily justify in this framing. Nightmare mode mod where all the trash mobs have the face of your dad.

[walterlouis2]