Maybe you'll get an idea?

Hey, sometimes I like to write. You can find my writing on azulirawrites.tumblr.com 25 He/Him

[mariacallous]

[prince-atom]

This exact question went around Tumblr a couple years ago, and I wish I could have expressed my choice for $1,000 a week like this back then: the million dollars happens once. If you win a million dollars you can blow it all VERY quickly and it will be gone. Even if you invest it and get a good rate and resolve to live on the interest, you can still invade your capital. You're still on the hook for managing your million and no one will give you any sympathy for losing it all.

The other choice means you get $1,000 per week regardless of your financial skills. You could be a huge spendthrift or a bitter miser and there'd be another thou next week. And you wouldn't have to manage an investment or go stand in the dole queue.

[tellebook]

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

OKAY BUT HAVE YOU READ MURDERBOT???

listen. LISTEN. if you haven't discovered The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells yet, i need to personally escort you to your nearest bookstore/library/online retailer because your life is about to change.

who is murderbot?

imagine an android security unit who is:

deeply sarcastic and anxious in equal measure

absolutely DONE with corporate nonsense

just trying to hack into the entertainment feed and watch their favorite shows in peace

forced to actually care about humans (much to their dismay)

the most relatable protagonist in sci-fi, honestly

murderbot doesn't want to be a hero. they don't want to save the day. they want to be LEFT ALONE. and yet??? here we are.

why you need this series in your life

✨ character-driven sci-fi that actually HITS — this isn't just plot-driven space adventure. this is about autonomy, identity, and what it means to be alive

✨ corporate conspiracy meets found family — the stakes are real, the danger is real, but so is the found family dynamic that'll make your heart ACHE

✨ humor AND depth — martha wells writes with this perfect balance of laugh-out-loud moments and genuinely profound emotional beats

✨ award-winning excellence — hugo award and nebula award winner. this isn't just good, it's CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED good

✨ LGBTQ+ representation — and it's done with such natural, beautiful authenticity

✨ the perfect length — novellas that are meaty enough to satisfy but quick enough to devour in one sitting (you will binge this)

ISBN: 9781250350862

start with All Systems Red and prepare to have your entire existence changed by a grumpy android who just wants to watch their shows.

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND READ THIS SERIES.

you can thank me later 💙

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[zvaigzdelasas]

*referring to uranium* its natural man its good for you its from nature

[lebagelgirl]

This too is discworld

[chongoblog]

Had a dream that there was a new Pokemon that was ghost type and it was like. Half a greyhound. It was a spectral dog that was known as one of the fastest Pokemon. And yet it only had it front legs. There were wispy floating stubs on its back half which sort of implied there COULD be legs, but they never reached even close to the ground. It stood on its front legs as if the back legs were still there.

I don’t know what this Pokemon’s name was but its appeared in many of my dreams so either they made it real and I forgot or I’m being haunted by a Fakemon.

[chongoblog]

I have been informed it is not a real Pokemon so I’ll share another detail I recall seeing about it more than once.

One of its main features about it is that it could run stupidly fast, like, a solid 100 MPH (at least thats my best guess from a dream) but more impressively or eerily is that it could go from 100 to 0 almost immediately, stopping in a stance where it stood up straight and at attention

I think I love this weird dream dog

[chongoblog]

I assume this is for artists so sure thing

I imagine that this dog is very tall and sleek (like a good five feet tall), with a sickly pale (with just a hint of light blue hue). Its eyes are a pure empty (yet still piercing somehow) white. Along its front half across the back and its legs are pale green sets of stripes, almost like racing stripes.

As for how the ghostly “back legs” worked, they looked sort of like this

with his physical form slowly transitioning into an pale blue ectoplasm, and there were amorphous hints of what could have possibly once been legs. Despite completely missing his back half, the posture seen here is still its regular posture, standing straight up, as if a soldier at attention.

Hope this helps!

[luukewyrm]

Hehe i really like this concept

[luukewyrm]

@legalarson

SO TRUE BOOZOI

[littlebigkaiju]

Hey Tumblr, fuck you

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!!Season of Carnival Pass Raffle!!

This raffle is giving out 1 season pass for Season of Carnival. The winner of this raffle will be decided on May 10th (1 week from when this was posted).

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The winner's gonna be decided in 2 days, enter while you still can!!

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

June 26, 2014

What the heck! As of this reblog, this comic has 21 notes. Apparently a little reblog chain happened, but I don’t really remember noticing. Much higher numbers than my usual 0 or 1. My first taste of success, and I totally missed it!

[ailithnight]

Knitty Kitty

[crabanarchy]

I can tell my evil advisor has been feeling down lately so I've been pretending to take big sips from his cursed chalice and then roaming the palace grounds groaning and clutching my abdomen. Lowkey I know it's deceptive but I can tell it's really cheering him up. I heard him evilly cackle for the first time in weeks. WIBTA if I keep doing this

[crabanarchy]

UPDATE: I think I may have gone too far on this. I was making a whole production of being stupefied and enfeebled after he brought me my morning pistachio frappe. I had my manservant bring me to my chambers so I could cough weakly in my bed with the sunshine falling weakly across my pallid face because I know he really likes that but he didn't even smile and I heard him whispering "I didn't even poison that one" to his dark serpent. Now he hasn't even whispered maliciously into my ear all day and the servants say they saw him alone in his chambers bouncing his scrying orb into the wall. Should I come clean and apologise or do I try to make it seem like someone else poisoned me? It might cheer him up to have an imaginary rival to plot against

[moringmark]

[notatzimisce]

You know, one of the most shameful consequences of scifi/game authors not knowing shit is cyberpsychosis, or Essence, or whatever in-universe asspull for a mechanical limiter on how much cyberware you can cram into a character sheet.

There is an easy excuse in real life! You may not be able to get both a pacemaker and a DBS device because they're both pieces of sensitive equipment that could theoretically interfere with each other, and nobody engineered them not to. Trivially you can extrapolate this to all cybernetics. If your various augs weren't Specifically designed not to mess with each other (and of course the various megacorps might take things a step further, making their shit actively hostile to mix-and-matching), you might have problems; and obviously, the more pieces of hardware you've patchworked yourself with, the worse things get. You'd have to be one real crazy motherfucker to tell a back-alley doctor to load you up with whatever they've got.

It's more grounded and more realistic and less shitty and it actively enhances the atmosphere of cyberpunk in a way that "losing your humanity" does not. we are missing out on much because none of these writers know anything about how medtech works

[dailyadventureprompts]

I've got a few thoughts about cyberpunk kicking around in my head for a while, it always struck me that the obvious fix for "cyberpsychosis" was less that you've carved away some irreplaceably human part of yourself , and more that your body has been hijacked by your own tech.

Think about it: you've got a threat analysis module loaded into your optics and a lighting-reflexes aug patched into your arm muscles all the way down to your trigger finger. Both have programming that's been told to optimize its function because that's what you want out of military grade hardware. How long do you think it's going to take for your eye to start talking to your trigger finger and for them to come to the conclusion that the most "optimized" course of action is to stop consulting the sluggishly squishy meat brain they're patched into and start identifying/eliminating threats before they begin?

The danger of plugging too many unregulated mods into your body shouldn't be that you're less human for it, it's that your slowly building a killbot in your own body that's more and more likely to start treating YOU as the disposable peripheral.

You can even doing the same thing with non-combat based upgrades. An influencer who gives themselves over to routine optimization and engagement boosting personality augments could end up watching from behind their own eyes as their social-media persona puppets them through every AI scripted interaction

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Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

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[twerklina]

I’ve been waiting since March to post this...

[stateownedslut]

You're hot as hell. Can i dm you? I'm not a fascist.

The young woman's micro-blog loads on your screen.

PERCEPTION [Trivial: Success] - This *is* an attractive one.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Easy: Success] - It's been too long. Your flesh craves hers.

SUGGESTION [Trivial: Success] - Slide into her DMs right now.

YOU - They're closed.

SUGGESTION [Medium: Success] - Has that ever been a problem for us?

VOLITION [Challenging: Success] - Get in her ask-box instead.

YOU - What would I even say?

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] - This one's a *Communard*.

RHETORIC [Godly: Failure]

- "You're hot as hell."

- "Can I DM you?"

- "I'm not a fascist."

[art-the-f-up]

Everyone loves Rumi but in their own fucked up way

[thesassycat]

You can only reblog this today.

[askjennaflorida]

I missed my chance last year. Not gonna let it happen again

[depressedraisin]

watching my way through m*a*s*h and i'm awestruck by how much the show does not valorise the practice of military medicine...? the sense of contempt that the text of the show has towards war, the military and american institutions also extends to medicine in some inexplicable way.

they're saving lives out there and it's good work but it's not important bcs they shouldn't have needed to do it at all. hawkeye shouldn't have to stitch up kids on his operating table bcs the kids shouldn't have ended up there anyway. neither should've hawkeye himself. at the end of "the late captain pierce", when bj is trying to get hawkeye off digger's bus, he doesn't give rallying cry about how noble and important their work is. bcs it isn't and they know it. hawkeye is keenly aware of his moral duty but it doesnt seem enlightening or revelatory - it's a noose around his neck.

i'm in season 4 rn and the most dashing, "heroic" acts of medicine they do - when they help that north korean soldier in "the bus" or the girl blown up by the landmine in "welcome to korea" - are when they actively say a big ol' fuck you to their roles and responsibilities as army surgeons.

[postcards-from-elysia]

MASH is so good at taking a premise that should be pro-military and pro-US imperialism via civilian doctors saving people in a war zone and it goes, actually, this whole premise is fucked up. It goes, actually, brutality is never justifiable. It goes, actually, people are worth caring about and caring for, even when you don't know them, don't speak their language, and their actions and choices make your life miserable. Looking at you, Frank, on that last one.

OP, you're so right that it doesn't valorise military medicine. The doctors don't come out of surgery as heroes. They come out of surgery haunted by the decisions they had to make. Which people they had to let die; amputations they made. The people they couldn't keep alive because of time or supplies or skill. And the people they saved? They're just going to go back to the front. To die.

[azuzulira]

War is war and Hell is Hell, and of the two war is a lot worse.