The humanities are absolutely vital to a functioning democratic society.

You have to be willing to block for trivial reasons to avoid going crazy, but also to follow for trivial reasons to avoid curating yourself into a pit. Sometimes you have to look at a random like or share and be like: "Natalie, eh? Good name; fun to say. All right, let's experience Natalie's world."

My hottest mental health take:

A lot of depression and anxiety is situational, and warranted, because people live in shit circumstances. They’re poor, without resources, etc. and the reason it’s become popular to blame “mental health” is because it’s a way of evading responsibility.

Folks gassing up literary fiction and looking down their noses at sci-fi and fantasy because the former is "grounded in real human experiences", then you look at your average piece of literary fiction and the author's notion of how the real world operates is AT LEAST as fantastical as Narnia.

Fran talked about changing the name on records. Could be a fan of 70yo tv...

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Has a traumatic experience and comes back with a confusing costume redesign that makes it legitimately unclear whether I'm evil now or not.

When I was in high school & as a college undergrad it seemed easy to come up with a take on any topic that would impress other people. As I learned more I realized the world required depths of expertise to understand. But some people still retain the undergraduate mindset and are successful with it.

A closeup view of an ornate cuirass and tasset, showing heart-shaped designs along the edges of the metal panels.

An extremely ornate ceremonial halberd head showing etched and blackened designs with various plants, mythical creatures, and heraldic designs.

A closeup of the shoulder intersection of the cuirass, pauldron, and bevor of a piece of 1500s field armor. Some ornate etching of the crucifixion is visible in the lower right corner on the cuirass.

Here are 543 images (1.5GB) of items at the Philadelphia Museum of Art arms and armor exhibit

You're free to use them for anything, even commercially. I tried to focus on details not usually represented in available reference material

drive.google.com/file/d/1NRzg...

Here's a small sampling:

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imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul

the thing is though that like. the last 10-15 of online have been people CONSTANTLY getting fooled by 'shallow fakes', ie just posting a real video in the wrong context.

of the Devil by Nth Circle AN EPISODIC CYBERPUNK MURDER MYSTERY GAME

Hey,
You should play Of the Devil.
It's really fucking cool.
nthcircle.itch.io/of-the-devil

One of the best animated films ever made.

Congratulations to the Cuomo team: it takes a lot of dedication and money to lose one election twice.

Oh wow, what a small world! 😂

Wrote a fic for a Halloween gift exchange about #Ranma1/2 finding a cursed mirror and being transformed into a kitsune. It's kinda cute.

archiveofourown.org/works/73174301

"Pride and Prejudice themed party" okay a bit odd but sure

"Metamorphosis themed party" concerning but I have an idea

"Waiting for Godot themed party" mom pick me up I'm scared

Received a wonderful Halloween present courtesy of @rubyscarbuncle.bsky.social

archiveofourown.org/works/72444636

#Ranma1/2

anyway it's always nice to remember there's only one law in writing, which is to get away with it. anything is legal if you look good doing it!!

Decided to take a break from throwing myself against the wall that is Shakra, and I'm also getting nowhere against Grandmother Silk.

The second fight with Lace was incredibly cool but I feel like I cheesed it with Tacks. Third try against her and I got her to phase two and she died almost immediately...

The late unlockable duel with Shakra is really, really cool, but I may have hit my skill ceiling there. I have fought her over 20 times and made what feels like zero progress. She kills me faster than any boss has in the entire game.

There have been so many really cool fights in this game. Phantom is probably still my favourite.

Evil wizard attempts to do the "holographic runes orbiting around me to show that I Mean Business" thing, accidentally projects their Tumblr feed into the battlefield.

A new strat actually is if you cancel some corporate streaming account purely on a “I no longer wanna support” reason and have the extra cash? Support public or independent media with those dollars

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

Jane Goodall lived an incredible life and her work was foundational to how we consider ourselves in the animal kingdom.

91 is an impressive number of years and it still feels too soon.

really, really loving this game, i've definitely sunk way more time into this than i expected.

found yet another hidden boss. this game has just so much fucking content beyond the main storyline. impressive work by the devs to build such a cool world with so much to it.