fucking finally

We were so enthralled by this leaf on our walk back from dinner last night

I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.

I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.

Look at my birthday cake...

Polycules should be able to trade people like sports teams do

Listen -- you're a good defender and your pussy is fantastic, but that's not what our team needs right now. We're trading you to Greater Boston in exchange for someone who has a car.

the thing about indie perfume descriptions is that every single of one of them sounds like it should end with "roll initiative"

"One breath and you are at the hive’s threshold, where smoke, wax, and honey conspire into alchemy. A fragrance of sun-baked wood and warm beeswax, buttery, gold, and dense with the ghost of a hundred flowers. The bees’ own musk rises in the air, intimate and unmistakably alive. Honey follows in a deep glow that transcends simple sweetness. Soft puffs of smoke curl in, dry and calming, turning the air velvety and strange. Roll initiative."

ive never wanted to send a death threat over a game before

tautological wordle answer

posts that make you open wordle

Oh boy better go try today’s wordle

WHAT THE FUCK

potato battery? no. potato usually fried by itself. potato starchy enough to go in oil without batter

Potato battery? no, it only threatened you, which is assault

yes. good. fried potato taste very good with a salt

Fun beauty tip for all us #girls:

Identify that which would deny you your autonomy or seeks to steer the course of your destiny for you and attack it. Attack it relentlessly and without pity.

i like "social ergonomics" bc like yeah. furniture is usually made in a way that's like "we think this is probably what is needed for a human to immediately perform any given task" and often we are wrong about what types of furniture or spaces will have a detrimental long term impact on our bodies. ergonomics ideally looks at the evidence of the impact on bodies and then works backwards from there to come up with design.

social ergonomics should mean looking at social structures and analyzing the outcomes they have re: human welfare, and then taking that information back to the design board and redesigning things to hurt people less.

this should also be a zine. someday. but that would require me being able to sit upright

My partner is a game designer. He crafts experiences intended to elicit specific behaviors from thousands of strangers as his full time job. He often looks at social structures from this perspective in his free time and we talk about it a lot. and hoo boy are a lot of our systems not doing what they are officially meant to do.

i am thinking about this ALL of the time. maybe I should also be a game designer

if you’re genuinely interested in game design you should check out Radiator Yang’s game The Tearoom (NSFW, unless you work at the Sucking Off Dude’s Guns factory).

I realize it’s weird to show up on someone’s post to say “you like game design. Have you played this game about giving head in a bathroom?” but it’s a really thoughtfully made game (see the artist’s statement, which is also NSFW) that is also about the effects of surveillance on communities. when, after about half an hour of play, I realized what mindset the game had deliberately cultivated in me, I had to turn off my computer and stare at the ceiling for ten minutes. and that’s Game Design, to me

oh thank you for that link to the artist's statement about this game, that was FASCINATING

Utetheisa pulchella moth

your dashboard is mothed ི༘ ࿔̥̊ཐི༏ཋྀ󠀮

“Trans men don’t make good music it’s all cringey ukulele indie pop” name a trans male musician who makes music like that other than cavetown

You know what? Name any trans male musician at all who isn’t cavetown

i dont want to derail from op's original point, but there have been a lot of wonderful reccs on this post, and i DO think we as a community need to do more to uplift trans men/transmasc musicians instead of stereotyping all transmasc musicians as "cringy". so, i sat down and went through every comment, tag, and reblog on this post (at least, all of the ones that are visible to me) and compiled a list, and i included some of my own favorites that i didnt see mentioned!

this list is not in any order, and i am not familiar with most of these artists, so an inclusion on this is not an endorsement of anything! if ive made a mistake anywhere, just let me know!

Adding Alexander James Adams to the list; white trans man (don't know his nationality offhand), folk music. He also did folk music pre-transition, which is still available and presented as being by the changeling who took his place at birth.

Unsounded Volume 1 has been officially released to bookstores and comic shops everywhere. We legit, guys!

Honest reviews are always appreciated, or maybe you missed the last crowdfund and are ready for your hardcopy?

These will be available from the publisher's shop in a little while, and volume 2 will be for sale in October. Crowdfund for 3 & 4 launches on Monday. Wacky!

If you make scary sculptures and carvings from the scary bones and baleen of scary whales, that's called screamshaw

If you find yourself trapped in an eternal cycle of death and rebirth wherein you're doomed to carve whalebone forever, you're in scrimshara

Can you believe this shit

bullshit

come on man

we are fucked

Don't leave that in the tags