Sol Karas

You may call me Sol. Aro/Ace. I like video games and sometimes I make let's plays of them!

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.

[freckled-lili]

@solkaras

[solkaras]

I go the aquarium and go "ooooh jellyfish" tyvm!

[the-passenger-if]

"Why do you look like a raw egg?" is living rent-free in my mind and every time I remember it I laugh. Watch out Roach, if you piss Newman off she'll scramble you :P

Oh, that one’s on Sharkie (one of my betas) I just came up with Roach’s reply. You know, Roach might actually be into some scrambling.

[solkaras]

Well now I have the image of Cosmic God Newman conjuring a cosmic bowl and whisk and giving Roach a little stir.

[ukk0]

🖤💜 Happy international asexuality day! 🖤💜🐀

Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity 🖤💜

[rathayibacter]

sometimes artists worry if their art is actually capable of making the world a better place, or if its all just wasted effort. what you need to remember is: all art is evil, and the sole aspiration of the artist should be to maim as many onlookers as possible.

[everythingfox]

Slithering snake

[solkaras]

On the one hand, I like that The Passenger is as short as it is because it means I can do multiple runs in a day and it doesn't become a bit of a slog like some of the longer IFs are.

On the other hand, I wanna spend more time with the characters ;-; I would pay real actual money for side-stories/DLC.

[solkaras]

my take on Roach's possible internal thought process at a blushie newman

For those who can't read my shitty handwriting (like my own self lol)

"Wait, the thing that ate my species is into me?" "And they're flustered? This is hilarious!"

[solkaras]

Slightly obsessing over the Passenger IF, specifically about Roach because he* is the love of my life right now lol

But it is so so so so funny that his smaller stature is brought up a lot because I generally headcanon my IF characters as being short (usually like 5ft-5'2") so I just look at my Newman like "pot, kettle" lmao

[animentality]

[solkaras]

As someone who has worked for IKEA for four years now, that does feel like the usual level of sheer incompetence the call centre displays.

[cosmonaut-observer]

If you live in the UK you need to see this

Protect Internet Freedom from now until forever. It's important existentially! Americans stand with UK citizens in our struggle against government censorship

[russettrush]

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation

We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential ag

Got the link via @finalducc

If you live in the UK, please be sure to take part in this!

[fading-bisexual-queen-milkshake]

@daysleftofsecondterm

[starlightshadowsworld]

You guys have my whole heart for sharing this I had no idea will be filling this out and encourage all my fellow brits to do soo too. If you’re not from the UK please keep sharing this around we have till the 26th May to submit these in.

This whole thing was set up without our say we all need to make sure we’re heard.

[roycohn]

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

[solkaras]

When you want to give money to small artists but the shipping is nearly TWENTY FUCKING DOLLARS.

I hate shipping costs from America to Canada ;-;

[solkaras]

Hmm does anyone have any good recommendations for history books focused around East Coast America during the 1800s/early 1900s? Bonus points if there's information on how smaller towns were compared to the bustling urban centers.

Partially for fun, partially because I have a story idea that takes place in Not Our World™ but is more like our world but a step to the left. And has magic. And as a Canadian living in the late 20th Century and Early 21st Century I don't know fucking anything about 19th Century America lmao

It's pretty damn easy to find stuff about Victorian England but somehow not so much for America - I keep finding recommendations for VERY specific topics, which might be fine, but I'd rather start with the broad strokes and narrow it down after that, you know..?

[molabuddy]

i couldn’t think of a better way to communicate this so its this . my struggle

[bronkenj]

[daxite]

the ride never ends

[weirdstrangeandawful]

[bowenoke]

[jeansbookshelf-deactivated20250]

I got 60 out of 1000 😂

1000 Books You May Have Actually Read

Based on the number of ratings each book has on Goodreads. And if you haven't read them, maybe you can use for a literature bucket list.

[tinyasafirefly]

Anyone who says they’ve read all 1000 is a liar because one of them is a huge cookbook and no one is actively joy reading that.

[mbrainspaz]

with some of these it’s like “fuck, I did read that,” and with some it’s like “Oh fuck, I did read that.”

I got 99, but I counted a few that I had only mostly-read before deciding I didn’t like them and never finishing them.

[tempest-in-diy-earrings]

Damn, I’ve only read 97 of these.

[solkaras]

78, surprisingly...

[habbadax]

Pile

[dengbones]

thirteen bean pile in the green

[fozmeadows]

I am so unbelievably fucking sick of AI tools. Every time I go to the doctor now, they start up by asking, "Is it all right if I use this AI voice translation software to record my notes?" while already setting it up, and then they look nonplussed when I tell them no. Like man I appreciate it takes you a modicum of extra time and concentration to type up things in my chart yourself, but that is in fact a loadbearing part of what I'm paying you to do! I want to know that the notes you take are accurate, or at least accurate to your assessment in the moment! "Oh but we read through the AI summary to check that it's accurate" I don't care! I don't fucking care!! Even if you did it right after my appointment, that's no guarantee you'll remember every beat of what was discussed, because now you're trying to remember thirty minutes' worth of conversation after the fact instead of just typing a few sentences at five minute intervals! And that's the best case scenario - how many patients do you see a day? What fucking good is it if you're reviewing all these summaries in bulk after a ten hour shift, or a day later, or two? How are you gonna catch any errors or hallucinations when you barely remember our appointment? Whereas when you type it yourself, your brain builds connections between what's being heard and what's being written. You remember more. I want you to remember more! I do not want AI in my fucking medical care! Fuck!

[solkaras]

I know doctors are pressed for time and all that but they could just use a regular recording device and transcribe it later when they have downtime.