my heart is a fish

Honestly I’m kind of obsessed with The Murderbot Diaries and it shows

[specialagentartemis]

I do increasingly want to make an ace and aro anthology where cozy slice of life is OUT and Bad Rep™ is IN. Give me your aro and ace nonhumans, your alien species where no one has invented romance and sex doesn’t exist, your loners, your grouchy bad-attitude assholes, your hackers who feel more affinity with computers than other people, your characters who are deeply hurt when others abandon them for their romantic partners and are not gracious about it, your people who feel outside of their society, your characters who make bad and selfish decisions and conversely your characters who are dramatically self sacrificing. Give me military SF and postapocalypse and angst and drama and stories where a small research team goes to a distant planet and everybody fuckin dies. Give me ace characters who aren’t patient or understanding and aro characters who do not give a shit about romance, fictional or otherwise. Give me aroaces who decide to take fate into their own hands and bomb Mercury about it

[green-is-gay]

i dont WANT pride months to be over,

on the other hand...

[wizard-laundry]

The KIDS act (which contains KOSA) passed the US house, so I would recommend calling your senators and telling them to vote in opposition. I don't think I need to stress the importance of being able to use the internet freely and without privacy barriers being breached.

There are many scripts online you can follow, many ways to tweak your message to fit your senator (ESPECIALLY if they are up for reelection this year). Whether it's a recording you reach or a real person, be straightforward, don't argue, just let your rep know that you are a constituent and you oppose the KIDS act, etc.

Here is where you can search for your senator... call, email, fax, bring them physical letters, show up in person to their offices if you are able.

[moldspace]

curly creature

[goodmurderbotpolls]

[Platform Decay spoilers] Is the planet in the center of the torus Earth?

Yes

No

[Platform Decay spoilers] Is the planet at the center of the torus Earth?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 1

Do you have a poll? Send us an ask! 📊

[grammarpedant]

#no thank you #like I do see why that would resonate with some but it's kinda critical to me that it's not #not because I want to believe we wouldn't do that or anything #kinda the opposite #I see that planet as both a unique tragedy and a fucking pattern #it's unique because any planet is #but it's a pattern because Milu. because of all those mining colonies Murderbot worked. #because it's the whole use up a whole planet and move on and do it again #it's imitating the planet on the torus rather than PRESERVING it #it's Preservation saving their original colony ship as a museum and refitting their ships repeatedly #it's the fundamental difference in values between the CR and places like GoodNightLander and Preservation #it's the consumerism of the CR #that's not earth to me but my view is that somewhere we probably absolutely did that or worse to earth #and then. fucking. kept. doing it. #but yeah no to me #it's some nameless other place that still deserves the mourning of Sofi #for the naked and utter violence of Greed (tags via @graylibrary)

[beyondwhimsy]

The four stages of lizard fashion according to my good friend Johnathan Harker

1. Oh no The Horror

2. He’s doing it again 🙄

3. When in Transylvania do as the vampires do

4. I wish I had a gun

[moonsun2010]

30 June - Shovel day :)

these are part of an animatic summarising Dracula, which you can watch here (new readers beware; it has spoilers for the entire book!)

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[moonsun2010]

30 June - In which Jon's finally had enough

these are from an animatic which you can watch here (spoilers for whole book)

[zoesupreme]

Marvel really fumbled Blade so bad Mahershala Ali said okay I'm gonna do my own Blade knockoff and make him muslim. and it fucks.

[paperpatchnotes]

Sometimes it feels like my doodles are infinitely better than my finals...or like I forgot how to draw people T_T

This is sort of another take on this cubicle and the interlude between that and this one.

I really want to doodle some Artificial Condition soon

[littlestpersimmon]

Free Ornamentation IV. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐌

[4nimal]

I turned them into individual transparent pngs if anyone wants those premade!

(Op lmk if you want me to take this down, I'd totally understand—on the other hand, I'd love to do it for the other public domain pieces you've done if that's ok!)

[throwingmenthols-deactivated202]

“denied the catharsis of punishment” is an underappreciated but hugely effective narrative consequence imo 

[unabashedlyseveresandwich]

#it’s so tasty and it comes in so many flavors#does the character self-loathe and feel anguished by what others intended as an act of forgiveness and grace?#does the character know they need to change but sort of madly wish they could trade the unceasing exhausting improvement journey#for a flash bang of slate-clearing repentance so they don’t have to *think* about it anymore?#is is a creeping horror as the character realizes no one is going to punish them because everyone else still thinks what they did was okay?#does the character have to live the rest of their life just feeling ever so slightly untrusted by everyone with no way to stop it?#sorry for leaving pretentious tags on tumblr dot com it will happen again 

Peer-reviewed tags by @annabelle–cane

[kuttithevangu]

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

[kuttithevangu]

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

[corvid-language-library]

The sooner you start, the sooner you'll be done with it and the sooner you can stop thinking about it. Go on, up you get, it won't be as bad as you think.

[corvid-language-library]

You won't want to do it later either. You might as well just do it now. Even if you don't finish it all, anything you manage to get done now is something you don't have to do later (when you still won't want to do it)

[nattousan]

[geopsych]

That video from the woods 3 years ago today, wood thrushes sing and all

[catilinas]

i love shipping magazines and i especially love them when they sound like they were written by a mildly aggravated cargo ship

[adonischildsupportcase]

[ghostlyarchaeologist]