[redstonedust]

all animals have a place in the ecosystem and that includes humans and im sick of encountering edgelords who say the earth would be better off if we were wiped out. you wanna mess things up for every species that has adapted to live alongside us? as far as i can tell our existance is pretty intertwined with the world we live in, and caring about animals should include caring about humans because we're also animals. so we should probably focus on doing good with the resources we have instead of fantasizing about a big nuclear reset button. you sound like a pokémon villain.

[colinarcartperson]

Commission process for Sarah~

[greenharrow]

Choose your favorite from my 10 favorite shows!

Catching up on a tag from @cacodaemonia! It was tough to pick just 10, so I went with the ones I've found myself rewatching the most over the years. <3

Choose your favorite:

Warehouse 13

The Good Place

Clone Wars (2008)

Agatha All Along

Voltron: Legendary Defender

White Collar

Castle

Hilda

The Owl House

Merlin (BBC)

Remaining time: 6 days 15 hours

Honorable mentions to The Mandalorian, and my love/wince relationship with Eureka.

I'm not sure who all has been tagged, so no pressure to @hawthornsword, @sunshineprincejeremyknox, @petrifiedforests, and anyone else who'd like to jump in. ^^

[ephemeral-gremlin]

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do

[andhumanslovedstories]

It really is crazy how if you mention you write fanfiction with people outside fandom, they're always like "you should change the names and try to sell it." It misses the point (fun), but more importantly to me, I get slightly (and I know irrationally) insulted on a craft level. Excuse me, my fanfic is entwined with the canon, thank you very much. I wish sometimes less entwined. You wouldn't believe the stupid bullshit some of my fics have to include because of canon.

[writeouswriter]

Perhaps I'm too tired to write right now

[catnoli]

nostalgic bonnethead sharks 🌈⚠️ this is a sticker sheet reward for my kofi members! if you joined in july, youll get it in august 🛸

[nasa]

This week, get caught in the spider’s web.

Check out the incredibly detailed view our Hubble Space Telescope captured of the Tarantula Nebula! This cosmic spider resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. The Tarantula Nebula is the largest and brightest star-forming region, not just in the Large Magellanic Cloud, but in the entire group of nearby galaxies to which the Milky Way belongs. It's also home to the most massive stars known, some roughly 200 times as massive as our Sun.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[greenharrow]

5 Songs I've Had On Repeat

Tagged by @aerjnn ^^ Thanks!

Hello My Old Heart by The Oh Hellos - @cacodaemonia found this song for Boil and I still love it

cambrian animals by camiidae - Kind of cheating because it's a full album, but they're one of my favorite artists for fun, mellow background music. They make their own art for each album too.

Kiss Me by Dermot Kennedy - from my Kix/Echo playlist, but it gives me Kix/Jesse emotions too 💙

Ages Past, Ages Hence by Loreena McKennitt

Shoreline Mistward by Tottomori - Another fun instrumental set

No pressure tagging @lizardberries, @ruposa, @theproblemwithstardust, and anyone else who would like to play. 🌼

[ispyspookymansion]

its important to write fanfiction no one cares about 👍

[demilypyro]

People act like I'm just being an asshole but man the whole reason I'm so anal about hating gambling mechanics is because I've been down that road and lost a ton of money on games I just stopped playing eventually anyway and it SUCKS and the more you learn about dark pattern design the more you realize that this entire corner of the game industry is just fully focused on screwing vulnerable people out of their money and it's just evil, plain and simple. What do you want from me?? To promote this shit like every other streamer after knowing all that??? I will NOT be complicit in this shit. I'm gonna talk about how bad it is!!! You think that makes me an asshole?????

[esoteric-merit]

one of my friends is a mobile game designer who's worked for big companies before.

One of the things she's told me she's proud of before, was a time when one of the (older) users of the game she was designing discussed her strategy of drinking extra water to wake up early enough to claim her dailies, and how proud she was that she made a game people liked that much.

Even looking her in the eye and asking "getting 60 year olds to disrupt their sleep schedule by pissing themselves makes you proud?" did not get her to hear herself talk.

I think a lot of people don't comprehend the evil of dark patterns. They handwave it all away by "it's personal decisions people make", even while they see the patterns of behaviour they create on the populace. They read falling into those patterns as focus and grindset, if anything. And for a good number of people, pay-to-win is a *positive* thing.

I think if I were tasked with coming up with a way to make a populace depressed, unhealthy, and insomniac, even without getting them to pay me, I'd be heading towards video games stuffed with dark patterns. And such a video game would also produce profit for me, as it happens.

[demilypyro]

I studied game design and nothing disillusioned me like this one time I did an internship at a mobile game company because it was so obvious that the team only cared about how to screw as many people out of their money as possible. The only feedback I ever got for my system designs was "okay but how can we make it more addictive?" or "how can we get them to spend?" and shit like that. Nobody there cared about the game being fun. In their minds, a "good" game was a profitable and addictive one. I haven't been able to see these games the same way ever since. It was one of the big reasons I quit being a game designer. Dark pattern design doesn't happen by accident. They know what they're doing. They want to fuck you over.

[plaidadder]

I did a little research into the histor7 of computer games and while back and it did not take long to discover that they deliberately exploit behaviorist science in game design. Most game design, for instance, incorporates something called "schedule leaning" which has to do with how often you reward the player for hitting the bar to get the pellet. For maximum enticement you have to give people rewards very frequently early on but later you can space them out farther. I'm sure there are proprietary formulas spelling out the optimal reward schedule.

Another thing i learned pretty quickly is that around the mid 2010s everything got "gamified." That is: every rewards program you enroll in, any place that allows you to collect points, all of that is based on gaming and leveling up. So it isn't just the games using behaviorist science to hack your wallet. Every corporation with a customer base is trying to do this now.

[prescription-cactus]

couples ought to be friends if not best friends. romance is not a alternate path to friendship, but an add-on to friendship. friendship with sprinkles on top.

[organicmatter]

had an autism moment at the computer part store today

[therobotmonster]

I literally said "oh my god its beautiful" at the display of illuminated rocker switches.

[andletforsakendidodie]

gotta go buy a bucket of assorted switches

[colormush]

[yespolkadotkitty]

[librafolie]

Important information for writers who aren’t British but like to try to sound British in their British-y fanfiction 

[ineffectualdemon]

“You need tea” - you are having, or just had, a medical emergency. This tea will have like 3 sugars and milk in no matter how you normally take your tea.

When I gave birth they kept bringing me cups of very sweet tea until I drank one

Even when covered in blood and being stitched up

[factorialrabbits]

“Do you want some tea?” I’ve something to say and I’m nervous about it

[the-haiku-bot]

“Do you want some tea?”

I’ve something to say and I’m

nervous about it

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

“I’ll put the kettle on.” Iy has been the longest, hardest, and most physically/emotionally draining day of our lives, tea is non-negotiable.

[poikaboo]

{ID - tweet from @/nickocdw reads: British Tea Translator

“Cup of tea?” Welcoming a guest. “Tea?” I find this situation awkward. “Spot of tea?” A foreign guest has activated Hyper-English, Mary Poppins mode. “Pot of tea?” Trying to impress in-laws. “I’ll make some tea.” There has been complete devastation.

END ID}

[dunkthebiscuit]

“I’ll just put the kettle on, shall I?” = I will leave the room so you can dry your eyes / put yourself together / hide the sex toys / dispose of the body.

[omegastation]

Mass Effect Andromeda Appreciation Week

When: July 20 to 26 (2026)

Tag: #meaweek2026

What the week is about: It's a special week to celebrate Mass Effect Andromeda!!!! A game that gives us a lot of joy! So let's talk about our Ryder, the Tempest crew, the worldbuilding, the new species like the angara and the kett... Let's have fun together!

How is it different from any other week? Appreciation weeks can get people excited about a specific fandom and be more active. It can bring more fandom content. The fact that there's one tag that fandom can check every day of that week is very nice for everyone who wants to share their thoughts and fanworks. It's also a good week to find friends in fandom! So if you're new, enjoy!!!

What can be posted in the tag: Fan fics, fanart, gifs, picspams, meta, memes, fanvids, etc.

What can't be posted in the tag: MEA criticism. This is not the week for it. Also avoid bashing ships and characters, respect other people, don't be a bigot, etc. Apply the usual fandom rules that mean we can all share a nice space together. Be mindful that other people think differently than you and that's okay.

Prompts

They can help to inspire and motivate you. You don't have to follow them but here they are below.

Day 1- Ryder (Background/Identity) Day 2- Relationships (Friends/Lovers/Enemies/Family) Day 3- Characters (Tempest/Others) Day 4- The Andromeda galaxy (Beauty/Lore) Day 5- Nexus / New friendships (Species/Krogan colony/Outcasts/Collective) Day 6- Mysteries / Benefactor (????? Unanswered Questions) Day 7- "Thank you Mass Effect Andromeda for"

Enjoy!!!!