Queen Space Queer

Emily. 30something. Bookworm. Pansexual. Introvert. Night owl. Pro-choice. Multifandom. White. Cis. She/her pronouns.

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[scifigrl47]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

As part of Fluffuary, I've returned to my tradition to writing a Foodieverse Valentine's Day story, my way of honoring the hard working warriors in the hospitality industry.

May they be recovered enough today to enjoy this one.

[glorious-spoon]

anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.

[cipheramnesia]

Engineered to fail is actually my favorite approach.

[cipheramnesia]

I got invited into a ttrpg but the character had to somewhat explicitly be a kind of religious zealots, which is a little bit anathema to my personality, but as soon as I hit on characterizing her as fervently devoted to a god which might not be real, as well as both physically and behaviorally unable to do anything but place herself constantly in the middle of life threatening danger, everything fell into place. Is she going to get killed? Maybe, probably. But it's much more exciting this way.

[cipheramnesia]

Trait description is like "If you give your character giant wings that make her able to fly, literally everyone will immediately think she is a monster and try to kill her," oh wow, I get to fly and constantly get attacked, say less

[cipheramnesia]

GM: Okay what does she normally use to conceal her wings.

"Nothing, she thinks they're a divine gift and should be displayed to show that she is blessed as a prophet.

GM: So, you know people are going to try and kill her.

"Definitely, she also fervently believe she us divinely protected and anyone trying to harm her is an enemy of that divinity."

GM: So what does she normally do?

"Flies around in full view looking for anyone she thinks needs help because her divine mandate is to help those in need."

GM: Okay, so, a bunch of people are trying to kill you. Uh, what's your initiative?

[cipheramnesia]

Anyway, she has a small cult now.

[cipheramnesia]

I didn't even know you could get a cult, but as soon as the option was available, obviously I was taking a cult.

[cipheramnesia]

I have never gotten more than a passing familiarity with the background lore of any ttrpg, not out of any sense but because I cannot focus on information like that. I will pinpoint the specific details I need with search functions and gain nothing else, which makes for some very realistic bafflement towards the local culture with my winged girl pretty solidly unwilling to acknowledge anything other than her own deity as real.

[cipheramnesia]

I am sick so I drw sketches of everyone else characters in the game because I am nice that way.

[tunafish027]

I'm betting Demon The Descent. What ttrpg is it exactly?

[cipheramnesia]

My second favorite thing is making such catastrophic characters that the game becomes unrecognizable untill you know what it is and then it all falls into place anyway it's Exalted cuz that's what the GM was running and me and my disaster characters are sought after I guess.

I was chatting with her while I was drawing last night and she was dying to tell me what was in store for my darling failgirl and I was like no, having to figure out her behavior on the fly is my favorite thing. I have some sense of places it can go and ideas of reactions but the suspense is fun. Like the momentary furor at the table when other players learned a deity was involved but it was one for people who by all rights should not have fucking survived a near death experience. Which the GM came up with and was brilliant.

[cipheramnesia]

Every player getting all their weapons out, absolutely ready to have to get into a fight, only to watch my girl finally show what I designed her to do and basically command everyone in her way to yield. There was no fight, utterly stupid, 100% what she's for.

[cipheramnesia]

I spent so long leaning into making her a dramatic zealot who doesn't care if she dies because of her belief in her own righteousness, the hell with consequences, if she dies she dies, that I accidentally made it so that trying to disagree with her could straight up knock a dude fully unconsciousness.

[cipheramnesia]

Purely on strength of character, she went from "we need to keep her from getting herself killed" to "we have to stop her from killing anyone important" in one scene without striking a single blow or starting any fights. I'm having a lot of fun.

[cipheramnesia]

I think it's important to know that I play her fairly serious minded. Despite the chaos of her presence, she herself is not the type of person to try and upset every applecart along the way. Chaos happens because she is so very serious and devout, which is by way of prelude to introduce the fact that I'm usually trying to mimic Zhaan from Farscape when I'm roleplaying her.

[cipheramnesia]

I don't know exactly how we got here but the fail girl I built to get killed just ordered someone to go on a quest and he had to go do it. Just walked away in the middle of a fight because she told him to go back to where he came from and help out everyone along the way. Also more people have joined the cult she started, and due to a crisis of faith she's started telling people to worship her directly and I think she might accidentally be making herself into a minor deity if she can't resolve things.

[cipheramnesia]

Entering her Cosmic Horror era.

[cipheramnesia]

She is supposed to have an aura which represents something about her, so I picked The Sun (Sunshine movie cosmic horror version).

[cipheramnesia]

I used my way of playing her as imposing and confident to successfully inflict melodramatic tragedy on the other players, when I took the opportunity during her colossal emotional breakdown to remind everyone that she's kind of average height and build, and in that particular moment of vulnerability, it just hit home that she was not some towering powerhouse warrior at all, with all the normal strength of personality suddenly stripped by her own personal crisis.

It was a delightful effect which would never have worked if I hadn't decided it would be the funniest, dumbest thing to make her into a big giant beacon of "kill me" and give her a personality that committed to running headlong into "people who want to kill me" spaces. Gotta appreciate the GM who also committed to my policy of "here's some background, now fuck my girl up."

[cipheramnesia]

There are two ways things happen in this game, one of them is "hey your juvenile delinquent Child of Prophecy has snuck off to conduct some B&E, again" and the other is "Your bird woman has flown into the middle of trouble, again."

[cipheramnesia]

I didn't want her to look like your normal winged badass, so her appearance is loosely based on Amelia Earhart. She has messy, short hair, freckles, a crooked smile with a gap between her front teeth. Her ears stick out from the side of her head. She has a little pug nose. I named her Zia.

[cipheramnesia]

The wings also mean that sometimes she can just leave without warning. "I'm gonna go look at that thing now." What? Too late, she's in the air.

[cipheramnesia]

Zia is, by almost any metric I could consider, the least "powerful" character in the group. She is not physically strong, she does not have anything that physically protects her or does extraordinary damage in a fight, she has no kind of complicated spells or special connection to mystical spirits, she is for all purposes a nobody with few resources, and only recently got the in game version of magical artifact. She's not sneaky or good at talking to people or finding things or any of that. All she really has going on is functionally speaking being the world's biggest bluff whose only goal is to make people back down, either by not fighting or not getting in her way, and also me willing to dump all her game resources into making that happen regardless of future consequences.

[cipheramnesia]

I told my GM that Zia is popular on tumblr, and she said she might look up my tumblr so everyone be cool.

[cipheramnesia]

Petition to make Zia a Tumblr Sexywoman. Do we have those?

[cipheramnesia]

The other players haven't listened to my Zia playlist even though I have really good taste in music, probably more evidence I need to get off spotify, but I'm doing a lot of life organizing so one step at a time right?

[niavirrivain]

... Is Zia an exalt? I'm left suspecting so, overall, but I'm not sure. If she is, my expectation of what sort would come down to if her deity sufficiently is in order to complain about someone else deciding to exalt her - see, to me, she sounds like the sort of person who wouldn't respond to the personal message included in the Zenith caste Solar exaltation (per 3e core) by changing faith at all. Which I get the impression is Also the sort of person who is actually favoured for that. However, Solars are... Also hunted down when identified by the state of most of the canon setting. Which would've made the warning a little redundant.

[cipheramnesia]

Zia is a Zenith Solar exalt, but the vast majority of her memory pre-exaltation is a tangled unreliable nightmare of chaos and pain and a mixture of real and false memories which she has no ability to distinguish from one another right up to the point where the exalting thingy happened, which is more or less the only reason she has anything like a functional physical or mental state.

[thelightfluxtastic]

Psst how do I tell the Supernatural fandom that the content they want is in Seanan McGuire books?

Part of the spirit of the InCryptid series was literally flipping a middle finger to how unceremoniously Jo and Ellen were killed off in spn. Pspspspsps trust me, get on in here-

[marat]

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

[marat]

Drawing challenge: draw your favorite male characters like this

[thatdemonbish]

this is exactly why i’m a huge fan of posemaniacs!

you get 3d model pose references with the option of having a male or female anatomy for each pose

they have a WIDE VARIETY of poses that you can search for using a TAG SYSTEM

(as you can see by the scroll bar in the second image there is Even More Tags)

you can select a pose you like for larger viewing and the convenience doesn’t stop!!!

you have full 360 viewing range of the pose plus zooming in and out

and what’s that? a TOOLBAR?? MENU?? THING??

Correct!

the eye button hold a very fun menu

negative space blacks out the background and fills the pose with a solid white silhouette

the “texture” refers to the skin situation of the model with the “color” and “grey” shown below

(i usually use color personally)

then there’s the option of different sized drawing grids(4 and 16 below)

idk wtf bounding box is about but it looks like this if it matters to you

“floor” toggles all shadows on the floor, “floor grid” you guessed it puts a like perspective guide grid on the floor that goes to forever, and “shadow” toggles ALL shading. there is NO lighting happening if you turn that off. NONE.

NEXT ITEM! that box thing with the line through it? flips the pose horizontally.

the little person symbol? lets you switch anatomies

camera icon? you can choose from a selection of preset camera angles PLUS an option for … idk what to call it but you can do this!

less flat right!! i’m sure there’s a word i just don’t know but this is maximum *that* so there is less *that* if you want it

the lightbulb gives you a menu like the camera one but it offers a selection of lighting styles with variable intensity

CHARMING!

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[egberts]

beautiful women named "storage space running out" keep texting me every day

[breelandwalker]

You have been visited by the Badger of Executive Function!

May this tenacious beastie grant you the strength to break through whatever is holding you back from completing that important task you've been meaning to get to, and the energy and motivation to

Do The Fucking Thing.

[louisegluckpdf]

we need to invent a spray tan-style treatment but instead of spraying you with tanning stuff it sprays you with heavy duty spf. and it lasts a few weeks so that way you can just get your spf spray a few times a summer instead of having to spend 10 minutes every day getting sticky and oily and making sure the sunscreen is all rubbed in. how do i get on shark tank

[tropiyas]

weaponized competence

[tropiyas]

learned helpfulness

[bellossom]

me when I "mysteriously" feel better after I "have something to eat"

[pnglove]

[catasters]

[biteybeast]

and why he oulka dots

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black ticked tabby

[medbasement]

[girls4losers]

i gotta remember this

[peachfromcmbyn]

It really might happen this year. I have a feeling.

[peachfromcmbyn]

Look I hope everybody has lesbian sex and gets their license and moves out and whatever but this post is about one thing only and you guys are diluting its power. No offense I hope that all happens but this post needs to be aimed at one point and it can't move.

[savedtiktoksofcats]