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I was talking about Sherlock Holmes with my cool weird 42 year old coworker the other day and he said that he had read other works by ACD but not any Sherlock Holmes. ACD is smiling down from heaven on his one and only true fan.

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Asunder is basically the most classic way to be torn, and if you're looking to be cleft, in twain is a vintage but stunning choice

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this will get to the right people

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Mustelidae family in a nutshell

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The choice to include the European and not the American badger makes me chuckle.

From left to right: meat eater, meat eater, meat eater, meat eater, meat eater, Worm slurper, meat eater.

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working with kids and one of them says “you know you eat 8 spiders a night on average right?” and another goes “no no no those statistics are actually skewed by people who like eat spiders recreationally for fun and stuff” and my head snapped up like a fucking sleeper agent

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Season 3 is a go!!✨

My humble thanks to all the people who donated to the kickstarter (still a few days left btw!) and to @224bbaker and all the cast and crew who work so hard to bring us such delightfully silly characters! 💕

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Is it socially acceptable to use opaque watercolors, or is that considered gouache?

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It could be a sign of a bad temperament.

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They are true love your honor, the truest form

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We're a little late to the party - of course, the day of and day after we hit the greenlight were the very days we were too busy to post about the greenlight, never let it be said the universe doesn't have a sense of humor - but WE HIT 100% which means FAWX & STALLION SEASON 3 IS HAPPENING! We can't wait to get to work on bringing this season to life with this fantastic team of indie creators - some of them who you can see in the picture above! In fact, we sent our first scheduling email out today, that's how ready we are to get this show on the metaphorical road!

We truly cannot thank our fans, the audio fiction community, even the people who statistically must exist (?) who just found us on Kickstarter and threw us a few bucks, enough. Creating indie art is a labor of love and it is labor, which I know from experience we will feel in the upcoming months, but today it's all love. Thank you to everyone who has stuck with this show as, every season, we learn how to make this show even that little bit better than before. To our backers at all levels and our Patreon members, we will be sharing exclusive looks behind the scenes as we dive into production next month - and it's not too late to get onboard that train! We have 7 days left for you to pledge - and we may have an extra incentive for hitting 11,000 (at which point Ian and Lauren actually get paid!) coming your way.

But all of that is for later. Today, we simply thank you so very much. As we said in season 2, you remember the things that matter. Thank you for remembering us, detectives, and going above and beyond to give us the chance to do this very special thing. We most certainly will never forget.

224bbaker

Oh wow. Huh. Guess we're gonna have to make this thing, yeah?

(Full actual official thank you post tomorrow because it's late but oh my god, thank you. THANK YOU.)

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you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

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I know I have strong feelings about this but curious about others

when a character in a book/movie/TV show has the same name as you, how do you feel?

it's always awesome!

it's awesome if I like the character

fully neutral

it's weird but ok if I like the character

hate it no matter what

uncommon name/no name/bald/vanilla extract

Voting ended onJul 11

Pleaaaaaaase elaborate in the tags

#No no no no no please dont #Hating my name also doesn't help

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I think Fitzy and John Watson should kiss

always amazed when characters with one random scene together get paired off but hey, just happy to see watson being shipped with some other guy for a change. it was getting boring around here for a bit, get this guy some variety and make holmes work for it for once!

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So this morning I found out that the RPG Maker forums will be shutting down this year, and it’s really just another depressing thing to see.

If you read the link the company does of course say they’re replacing the existing forums with new ones, and I’m sure no one would say the old ones didn’t perhaps need a lil bit of a glow up, some tech debt fixing… but there’s a few key notes in there:

They are NOT carrying over any history, data messages etc. from the old forums

They are NOT archiving, retaining or in any way saving the existing forums in any way

They have NOT provided any reasoning past ‘as part of continued efforts to support developers’

As an offhand, moderate read, this sounds to me like a desire for some change in the forums but deciding nuking everything is less expensive than rebuilding and carrying over info.

If I’m cynical, and likely realistic? Probably to increase sales of their latest GameMaker software by making it inherently more difficult for someone getting the older software for cheap pushing it to its limits. The amount of institutional knowledge on those forums is absurd.

And even if it is a benign reason, it’s still terrible because what do you mean you’re doing this with no recourse or potential for change? You sell software that runs on community goodwill? In an era where people are pulling away to open source software?? Crazy.

There are yeeeaaars of answers, plugins, suggestion, community built up on those forums - I’ve used the em to learn and grow my own skillet!!! And soon it won’t exist.

At the very least, they gave a ‘heads up’ - the deletion occurs mid December, so archiving by the community is possible from now. It’s just absurd that it needs to happen in the first place.

It’s just reflective of how the industry is right now - and why it’s so important for communities to grow and build up knowledge together, knowledge that is NOT reliant on a company that can pull the plug at any time in the very name of the very customers, users and supporters they are screwing over.