[beardedmrbean]

[rambrandt-the-painter]

I'm working on a new and exciting fantasy rpg where you collect 7 crystals

[rambrandt-the-painter]

I think this is a novel concept in the videogames industry

[caleod]

16-6-26

[wormlizarding]

Choerosaurus dejageri, the permian therocephalian with a funny face.

I watched the first episode of surviving earth and that led me down a rabbit hole on permian therapsids and my new favorite extinct animal. It's a funny dog. I didn't know much about therocephalians and they're a lot more diverse than I thought! The bosses on Choerosaurus' skull is thought to be for display as they're too fragile for headbutting.

[fidelcostco]

can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do

[mushroom-soup-is-my-religion]

[star-system-generator]

Star System Generator v1.1

Here we go. Version 1.1 is a little chaotic but it works, and Version 1.2, which attempts to reduce the chaos, still only works about half the time on my machine. This is possibly primarily a 1-D-10-T error, but I'm working on it. I've hosted stuff on CryptDrive because it doesn't demand an email address, doesn't allow AI scraping, and is registered in Europe.

This link goes to a PDF of detailed, me-proof instructions for downloading and running the thing and reading the output. The physicist has not reviewed these so any errors are mine. I am not very good at Matlab yet, so if you have shortcuts or more elegant ways of doing things, please do let me know.

Encrypted File

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

This link goes directly to a download of the zipped folder containing all the code you need to run the star system generator on Matlab. I've tested it on Matlab R2025a, and the physicist has written and run it on (we think) Matlab R2023b. No promises are made for other versions.

Encrypted File

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

Please take whatever precautions you think reasonable before opening a zipped file of code downloaded from an encrypted cloud drive hosted by a complete stranger.

Suggestions for future versions are not particularly welcome because there is a plan in place, and if you ask for something that's already mentioned in the readme as a planned future feature I will just point you back to the readme. Bug reports and questions are very welcome; please send a screenshot as a Tumblr ask to this blog. Expect at least a 48-hour turnaround on questions.

If you pick this up and run with it and do something amazing with it, as I'm sure many of you will, please tag this blog in a post about it! We'd love to see what y'all get up to.

The license terms are set out in the readme as follows:

As on AO3, fandom includes non-commercial original works.

[gnarlyghost]

Loop for animation festival

Track by fuzzyloops on instagram

[kaylmao]

u could resurface a hockey rink w that ass cause it's so zamn boney

[artnyuta]

My favorite type is mysterious, silent guys.

Characters from the ERSATZ pilot by @clownsaint

<3

[dogpuppy]

[pseudonymjones]

Robin @assumptionprime is running a little game of the Fallout TTRPG and I got to play as Winnie, my fashion ghoul, for the first time

[figglypuff]

[necrolentil]

Goddamit i hate this fucking post. I hate it because obviously if “twelve” followed the same pattern as the other teen numbers it wouldn’t be “twoteen” it would be “seconteen”. Think about it. It’s not “threeteen” it’s “thirteen” as in “third”. It’s not “fiveteen” it’s “fifteen” as in fifth. So with that in mind, you count “first, second, third, fourth, fifth,” and so on, so eleven would be “firsteen” and twelve would be “secondteen” or “seconteen”. “Firsteen, seconteen, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen….” It just drives me absolutely mad everytime i see this post that this obvious pattern was overlooked and i cant hold in my rage anymore.

[improper-integral]

[papayajuan2019]

one day, i hope to be moved from your downloads folder into somewhere more deliberate

[mortalityplays]

something you learn fast and necessarily when you get into the habit of writing is that you are riddled with blind assumptions, prejudices, unpractised rhetoric and all kinds of unchallenged cicada shell thoughts that were left stuck to your mode of being when bad ideas fled you. most people get to move through the world behind a kind of modesty veil that divides their internal thoughts from their external observations, but you have to take that off when you write. you have to suddenly present the whole world to itself nakedly, without the kindness of someone who can stop you mid-sentence and say "hold on, I know you, you can't possibly mean that". people are often scared to show their work to an editor in case the editor points out what they look like without their modesty veil, but god, christ, hell and heaven, you have to be more afraid of what the whole world of strangers will see if you don't let someone pick the cicada shells off you first.

[mortalityplays]

op is wordy, bloated, stylistically self-conscious. suggest condensing: "an editor is a guy who eats bugs"

[klaasje]

really good text from my sister in law

[jagalart]

[70sscifiart]

Here's part two of Angus McBride's "Legendary Beasts" series, which ran in the backs of the weekly magazine Finding Out in 1966. Daisy at Beautiful Books has collected all 36 of them over here.