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you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

wizardarchetypes

not to be a pedant but this sort of post annoys me so bad bc ☝️☝️ in fact it’s the reverse: fantasy series often reflect societal biases. there is nothing evolutionarily “menacing” about wasps in comparison to bees. bees have better PR because we like to eat the stuff they make. that’s literally it. “agur only destruction” as if wasps don’t fill many of the SAME ecological roles as bees. they’re pollinators! they CREATE!!

people just assign moral value to living beings based on their own feelings and aesthetic choices. something that’s very common in fiction and one of the fantasy genre’s most notable flaws.

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

santhipoma

glasshomewrecker

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

what rhe fuck

oh my bad. continue

i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

cannibalcaprine2

fallout-lou-begas

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

rubysapphrald

kind of fascinating how a lot of people don’t really know how food works

rubysapphrald

saw a twitter video of a dude making like fried broccoli with bacon or whatever and everyone in the replies was going “can’t believe he took something healthy and turned it into poison!!!!” i don’t really know how to explain to you that you’re still eating broccoli, and the healthy nutrients do not magically leave the broccoli just because you fried it

fox-teeth

Preview of Basilisk, my personal favorite of my risograph comics, and the project all my other recent medieval-inspired art descends from.

Styled after medieval illuminated manuscripts and printed using a custom color palette requiring 5 risograph inks (including metallic gold), Basilisk asks the question: what would drive a teenage girl to create a monster?

Physical copies available here. To brag for a moment--this is my masterwork of riso printing and is even more impressive in person.

knittings-and-things

this is beautiful, just beautiful

bob-artist

Bittern at the grocery store

sparkly-heretic

A very elegant crime.

(edit: my partner just pointed out that maybe the bittern is going to pay, and that's a good point)

bob-artist

Don't worry, his disguise was flawless and he got away with his snack :)

pippindot

She found a fork on our walk and we had to run all the way home about it

pippindot

Today was a spoon

pippindot

A BOWL!

pippindot

Delicious soup acquired

pippindot

Straw for a beverage

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Guess what?

PEANUT

intriga-hounds

Man idk how to not make this a weird ask, sorry in advance. I'm obsessed w your children. I would love any resources you have on silken/saluki/sighthound people who put as much effort into breeding as you do. I work behavior and vet med so seeing your milestone markers/early neuro stim/etc is really cool+ideal in a breeder

Some silken breeders who do thorough health testing and socialization include:

Starfyre

Wildmeadow

Amethyst

Greenwood

Aeracura

Lots of brand new breeders are doing these things too, just with a little less experience or mentorship.

There are plenty of breeders that I like and admire who don’t do a ton of socializing but still tend to make really nice dogs.

I very very very rarely call out fellow breeders, and when I do, I do so because either the entire community is very aware of their transgressions, or they talk openly about things they do that I don’t agree with.

Bre-Z-Rds is one of these. Her name is Brenda Katz, but she goes by other names. She has been expelled from the parent club (ISWS) and cannot register litters.

Red flags for me include:

No health testing, but especially no echocardiograms, on their dogs

No legitimate vaccinating

No legitimate deworming

Claiming to produce and train service dogs (there are almost NO silken breeders with ANY legitimate SD experience)

Charging $4000+ when no health testing, socializing, or campaigning of the parents has been done

Contracts that require unreasonable conditions (such as YOU paying for health testing, while THEY get to make money studding out your dog)

Breeder doesn’t compete in anything with their dogs (including shows, running sports, obedience, etc.)

doggosource

pangur-and-grim

it is so stupid and evil that you cannot romance the spider

pangur-and-grim

oh my god. oh my god, I just realized, I’m an author. I can just write a book where this is the love interest. holy shit.

pangur-and-grim

ONE YEAR LATER! The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo is available for pre-order worldwide (links below)

pangur-and-grim

the story behind this book is actually more complicated than this. because first, I watched a video essay on isekai narratives where the guy claimed that generic protagonists work best because people want to project and achieve max escapism. and I thought, that's really stupid. so I wrote a first chapter about a body-stealing alien space slug who gets hit by a truck and isekaid mid-way through invading the Canadian parliament, because I thought that was the most specific and least relatable isekai protagonist possible.

and then I was like fuck, my publisher is going to want a romance from me. who would the slug even kiss?? so I tucked the chapter away for a few months, until I went to reblog this old post of mine about how Kar'niss should've been romanceable, AND REALIZED! THE SOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM! of course, the slug would kiss the spider, it all makes so much sense!

after that, the writing got a bit frenzied. and now it's available in Barnes and Noble