It's just fascinating to me how the Bluesky team keeps taking active steps to look bad. They don't just randomly step on rakes. They go into the shed, lift the rake off where it's hanging on the wall, carefully place it on the grass, and then step full force on that motherfucker.
John Bond
“Window Gazing”
Gouache and Watercolor
hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated
(post from asimovsideburns) Klingon therapist: the battle against mental illness cannot be won decisively. It is a long campaign against an enemy who never tires, whose forces swell to twice their size whenever you look away. Battle against a foe of such magnitude, who occupies your very mind... Every moment you survive is a triumph against all odds. There is no more honorable combat
Haha, I love those!
So silly, just showing up in your kitchen like that! 😅
This may be our favorite read this month.
“[W]riting that depends on trust and the willingness to be present to a reader […] may find itself valued in ways it has not been for decades.”
O’Sullivan absolutely nails it. The future of writing is human!
Oh, I didn't know that, thank you! 😮🙏🏻
I love teaching him things! 😄
I thought they would feel like that while taking a picture bc they are an introvert! 😄
There are 16 different personality types.
They look cute, but are full of mischief! 😋
I'm mostly pushing friendships among the alpacas so they'll want to move in together in one big household (which I'll call 'The Herd'), but I don't stop any of them when they become curious abt other residents. Some tentative introductions have been made.
I wish Nintendo allowed sharing bc I have the most hilarious video of Mii Lucifer singing. 😅
I taught him to say 'bloody hell' recently and he sang: "Oh, I just want to say 'bloody hell' every day!"
I was eating while watching my Miis and almost choked. 😆😭
There are also actual alpacas as pets. Gave one to Mii Chris (the Mii based on my RL husband) and "He doesn't know what to make of it". 😐
Real Chris: "WHAT?!" 🙈
The kids trying to hang out together while Tony is in very unsubtle "curious parent" mode. 😅
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There are now more alpaca Miis than human Miis on the island, it's an adorable invasion!
I had never planned to make any OCs for this game. Just made the 1st two on a whim, then remembered alpacas are herd animals, THEN realized one island home can fit up to 8 Miis and so here we are. 🙈
Meet Steve, Tony, Annie, Joey, Dango, Monaka, Mochi and Matcha.
They are absurdly cute, no regrets.
#TomodachiLife update:
My island has been taken over by anthropomorphic alpacas who are based on 2 stuffed alpaca toys named Tony and Steve that my husband and I own and do silly nonsense with.
There are 8 alpacas on the island now, 4 of them kids. (Because alpacas are herd animals.)
Macro photo in portrait arrangement — a jaunty little click beetle faces the camera while perched, dare I say in an optimistic posture on some stucco. His antennae look like a series of triangles. He looks curious. Happy. Hopeful. One supposes this is because he does not have a cell phone and does not read the news. All he knows is being a cool bug and also clicking his entire body like a weird awesome dude any time someone tries to Kafka his ass upside-down. I wish I could do that. Getting out of bed in the morning would fucking rule. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
Good morning instead of enjoying clickbait let’s enjoy this click beetle
Ironically, I'm not interested enough in the new one to go see it in the cinema, but might feel just nostalgic enough about Endgame to go see that. 😅
Although it will probably not be as great as the 1st time. Ppl were clapping and cheering during one scene, which NEVER happens in German cinemas! 🥹
"I got smacked as a kid and it didn't do me any harm!"
Yes, it did, my friend - you think it's okay to physically assault tiny people who are weaker than you with no power and actually look to you for protection. You are, in fact, really quite harmed.
I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.
But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
A 21st century adaptation of the 10 of Swords. A woman lies on her side in a desolate landscape impaled by 10 swords, only she doesn't seem to notice her predicament as her attention is on the cell phone she is holding.
I've had this image tucked away on my hard drive for the past ten years. I found it again a couple of days ago and what do you know, - nothing has changed.
The 10 of Swords, - the 21st century version.
Head and shoulders pencil sketch of Tom Ellis as Colin Glass from CBS show CIA. Tip of automatic pencil shown underneath sketch to show its small scale.
Had to be done! Colin Glass.
Messy little 6cm pencil sketch.
#CIACBS
#TomEllis
#TinyTomHeads
(not actually #LuciferFanArt or #LuciferNetflix 😄)
Happenstance update!
Ch 26 —The Devil and the Miracle
Just when things are starting to look up, an unwanted guest visits Lucifer and drops a bombshell.
archiveofourown.org/works/714425...
#LuciferFanfiction
#LuciferNetflix
I can just repost this. 😅
Very tempted... I knew the bars were vegan, but I haven't had them in years.
Putting this on the shopping list, thank you! 🙏🏻
