call me cosmas, michelangelo, or any variations thereupon. i use ae/aer and zil/zilla pronouns.
number of people i've convinced to watch taskmaster australia: 3
i talk about (almost) anything and everything on this blog, but my biggest interests at the moment are uma musume and taskmaster australia. i am also a dragon age fan, in case the url didn't give that away.
i play a lot of RPGs and will post about them sometimes. my playthroughs are beneath the cut, with a (work in progress) sideblog specifically detailing my dragon age worldstates, because i have five of them and am mildly obsessed with them. you can find that sideblog here.
my favourite umas are (in this order) t.m. opera o, admire vega, oguri cap, and fuji kiseki. i wish i could put all of them directly into my brain (insert system joke here).
my main project at the moment is a fanfiction primarily set in australia inspired by the 2005 spring tenno sho. it's in the early stages right now. turns out that this sort of thing takes a LOT of research.
dragon age playthroughs
dragon age: origins:
maryn brosca (in progress)
alidda tabris (in progress)
destiny cousland (not yet started)
lovhen aeducan (not yet started)
nancy clara amell (not yet started)
dragon age 2:
sascha hawke (in progress)
everett hawke (not yet started)
lucinda hawke (in progress)
finella hawke (not yet started)
taylor hawke (not yet started)
dragon age: inquisition:
nazlera adaar (completed!)
athrith lavellan (in progress)
darynn cadash (not yet started)
madeline trevelyan (not yet started)
rina devethra (not playing as her LOL)
dragon age: the veilguard:
salvaza de riva (completed!)
varilanna thorne (in progress)
priscilla mercar (in progress)
aylen ingellvar (completed!)
serenity aldwir (not yet started)
baldur's gate 3 playthroughs
singleplayer:
music "life-chanter" (completed!) mephistopheles tiefling college of swords bard
ra'ath (in progress) githyanki war domain cleric of tempus
guy goodmeadow (in progress) strongheart halfling multiclassing as everything
this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.
right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)
here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)
The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.
Doing a museum themed stamp rally for WHA at Denver Fanexpo!
Here's my prize piece, based on Monet's "Bridge over a pond of water lilies" :D
I think it turned out rather nice <3
for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.
As an Indian American, this is especially disheartening to watch. If you are Indian or part of the diaspora, the lathi charges of the forces of the British Raj are spoken of the same way that British troops opening fire during the Boston Massacre are remembered.
To see the police use this on student protesters who are out in support of a man engaged in a hunger strike to oppose corruption at the very highest levels of government is a spit in the face of everything the country was supposedly built on.
And if the playbook looks the same as it does with respect to Anti-ICE pro-Palestinian, MMIW and pipeline protests, there’s a reason. Fascism is fascism, no matter what local flavor it takes on. It always behaves the same way.
The erosion of India’s civil institutions has happened faster and more precipitously that it has in most Western countries because they were fragile from the get go. And their inability to cope with the current situation shows just how quickly the wealthy Hinduvta elite have managed to capture the country.
The only hearting I can take is that modern India is only 72 years old. At this age in modern America, Kansas was bleeding, Manifest Destiny was widely accepted, and the US Army was at war on the continent pushing the frontier to the Pacific.
I hope India reaches 75 years without another civil war (it’s effectively already fought three and one could argue it’s in the middle of a fourth with only one side armed).
