First draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers the story.

Yup yup.
A story is like a house - you need to lay a foundation before you can build upon it. :D

... *from.

Actually did this once before years ago when I overhauled, updated and tidied up the main page for the RT series Immersion.
Apparently if I love a series I will make big TVTropes updates to their pages if they're left untidy for long enough. <.<;

(thank you to those who uploaded images to the Drawtectives Wiki - I might have borrowed them form there!)

(did my best to make it tidy, Rose's images went a bit weird with sizes and my god I hope it's tidy enough for the admins over there...
... I just couldn't stand it any longer! D: )

#drawtectives #tvtropes

The character page for Drawtectives on TVTropes only had their S1 (S2 in Eugene's case) appearances and it's been bugging me for months.

... SO I might have just spent a little time adding on the current and prior character portraits to the page. <.<;

Screencap from Just Eat. 'Ketchup' option, spelt as 'Kachep'.

Kachep.

We once had a cat that we called Misty.
... Then we discovered that she was a he, but he'd started to respond to the name so we quickly changed it to Mister instead. xD

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 age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month.

Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Section of a Rimworld (video game) map. The highlighted dwelling is one for a tribal village, and the name is 'Asda Stream'.

... Guess I know what company owned the ship that crashed and made this particular Rimworld tribe...
(context: Asda is the name of a UK supermarket)

#rimworld #asda

Oh, might have found an address to send it back to.
One that might cost them money and me nothing.

I'm tempted.

Of course it's saying the reason there's 'no money' is because of illegal immigrants, and the reason energy bills are so high is because of 'mad net-zero targets'.

Instead of, y'know, people at the top hoarding wealth and trying to hoard more of it.

So yes, fuck the very off.

Dear Reform UK.
This goes ten times for you.

Fuck the off.

Ooh, Trending's fallen over. It's gone.
S'not over there anymore
>>>

OOH Bluesky is not having a good day is it? :x

It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves. The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people. The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.

The section that the Guardian censored…

By Prof Judith Butler

Black-and-white photo of a long-haired white cat lying on a worn wooden deck step. It appears to be sleeping happily.

Le Snooze. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

I'm proud of where I've gotten, and that shy 16 year old I was when I joined would be amazed at the me of today.

Take it one step at a time, you will grow into your own skin, and your own identity.

And no fursuit can give you that immediately.

I joined the fandom in my teens, made friends in the local area, I built my self-confidence and went for volunteering to help out. Then I did my best to be someone a newer fur could rely on if possible.

I have a fursuit, but it doesn't factor into my worth in the fandom.

I'm currently in a 'senior' staff position with my local furmeets; helping to keep it running, looking after the meet TG when need be, welcoming new people into our little local group.

I didn't get any of that just because of my fursuits. :P

Hey voice actors and artists, you may wanna start deleting your tiktoks if you haven’t started already. They opted every video into AI remixing bullshit.

(not sure who I'm voting for but it won't be the flippin' Tories.)

Dear Welsh Conservatives.
Get lost with your nasty leaflet about "4 more years of left-wing failure" in the Senedd.
I was 18 when the Con-Dem coalition came into power. I watched the country sour and become nasty, I saw the lie of "we're all in this together".

So kindly go away. ¬.¬

Rumbles sounds like the name of a brand of biscuit to be fair.

Happy early birthday.
Thanks for making a weird and good series of videos I could share with my partner.

Nope. Standard design for that sort of statue.
Also, I'm so sad the lamp was destroyed before you could call it a 'nice lamp'. :(

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

*was talking about the people who are very much not right-wing*

This why when I was a student my group often spent our evenings out at the one more traditional pub in the town even though most students hated it.
What's the point of catching up with friends if you can't hear each other over the music? o.0