I was reading and then...

Now I'm stuck here.

Trans rights are human rights. BA welcomes and supports any trans folks who want to come and learn HEMA, and thoroughly rejects transphobia in all its forms.

#hema #lgtb #lgtbq #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #sword #swords #knight #boston #massachusetts #longsword #rapier #saber #sabre

If you’re an artist, a writer, a storyteller, a filmmaker, anyone who works in the arts at all, understand that we have our own front in this conflict, and it’s no less important than any other.

Keep people standing. Keep yourself standing. Tell your fuckin’ stories, because we need them.

Haven't done any shading or highlights on this #Custodes yet (and I think it's better than most of my early ones *after* shading), but otherwise she's done.

Hey Siri do white nationalists like the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a song that explicitly says God was on the side of the North during the Civil War and that the fighters for the North would "die to make men free"

I was going to write a post about growing up with Godzilla and how that probably shaped who I am as a human being, then I got sad because this book is also something I'd talk to Mom about.

Anyway, it's a shame this book was only recently translated into English. Godzilla good. Giant monster go brr

WATCH: “THAT’S NOT US… we would never ever perform at a Trump rally or give him the rights.”

An original member of The Village People says Trump was dancing on stage to “YMCA” (known as a gay anthem) with NOT the original group, because a lawsuit gave an ex-member the rights.

To add the sadder context, Mom's funeral was yesterday, and reading "Starter Villain" with all its cat-centric fun while my own cats snoozed on me really was what I needed today.

Did I finish @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social's "Heavenly Tyrant" and then immediately read @scalzi.com's "Started Villain" start to finish today? Yes.

Did I need a day to just sit and read and not think about things? Also yes.

Anyway, both are 10/10 books. Would recommend.

It's also that when it was new, it was still actively being used as an arm of legitimate machine learning research. DeepDream's neural network projects, for example.

Then tech bros decided that shitting out the worst jpgs you've ever seen was the way they were going to make their fortunes...

Slay the Princess has two modes.
Absolutely raw, gut wrenching scenes and “They call ‘em fingers but I’ve never seen them fing.”

It's doing the thing! #snow

How did the tech bro crowd, growing up on stories of sci-fi, transhumanism, virtual reality and limitless ability to modify one's body, "biohacking," etc. end up becoming so viscerally anti-transgender? Truly boggles my mind.

the use of the word “transgenderism” positions the state of being trans as ideological as opposed to a descriptive aspect of ones being .

you would not say homosexualism, or gayism, to refer to someone who experiences homosexual attraction, unless you intend to dehumanize those that do .

Finished #RogueTrader last night. Whatever I play next is gonna have a high bar to live up to.

Dang. I haven't used this site since last year.

Ok, now that that's out of my system...

I get a lot of questions about how to be a writer.

My answer: If you write, you’re a writer. You don’t need to be published to say that.

If you want to be a *published* writer, the key is persistence. I became a writer in fourth grade; I wasn’t published till my mid-30s.

Keep at it, friends.

me when hungy

Got my copy of the second book in @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social's badass Wu Zetian In Space With Giant Robots series. Now to see if it ends up my last read of 2024 or my first read of 2025.

Marcus for scale.

You ever finish a game and have to sit in the dark for a minute? Yeah, so I just finished my first run of #SlayThePrincess and oh boy was I not prepared for how good it was.

There's also some math to be done about this when it comes to groups where the 18-20 year olds are the oldest ones.

Started a MINE run of the #WanderersPalace with four people and one left. Took us almost an hour and five or so deaths to the boss, but we finally beat the #threeemandungeon!

The Godzilla franchise in a nutshell

Slowly working my way towards being a pretty ok #40k painter. I'm happy with how my #Custodes are coming, though.

In a society full of vapid, surface-level "niceness", choosing kindness is revolutionary.

Be adamantly and deeply kind. Be fiercely, unapologetically kind, and accept no apologies for it.

The NeoGeo??

Man, I do love *checks corrupted writing on hand* eͪ̃͋a̚r̪ͩt͟h͗̈̉ f̡͙̫e͊l͙͞i̼n͉ͤé̇̽s͖͑̉.

Happy birthday* to this little puffball.

*We got her when she was about six weeks old; that photo is from the day we brought her home.

Someone who doesn't play #FFXIV explain what's going on in this photo.