went to my local con over the weekend and got xander mobus’s autograph!!
happy belated birthday to the legends
oh but how absolutely monumental it still is to have all these big and mainstream pieces of queer television right now. remember how excited you got when there was one character who said he was bi or gay only then to be killed or written off or treated horribly by both writers and the public. remember how hard it was to find queer shows and movie that didn’t make you hate yourself or so angry or scared. remember how seen you felt about that one queer kiss or that one coming out or within one particular character! yes, devastating sad queer pieces are important. fucked up queer stories need to be told. queer period pieces and dramas with unhappy endings too. but queer happiness, queer young and old love, queer cringe, queer joy- we deserve that too.
Enough random notes that have a written story on them as environmental storytelling, explore the space, get crazier with it.
You move into a house and aw cute, it has the kids height on the walls but you notice there's a three foot difference in height between measurements, you check the date, they're a month apart. The final measurement is on the ceiling. It's dated two days ago.
You're part of a recovery team that have finally found a stranded ship, they were found too late and have all passed a long time ago. They all died of starvation. You enter their storeroom, it's filled with food. In the dining hall you find the tables laden with perfectly fine looking breads, cakes, cured meats, jams, candies. Your medic says all the people sitting at the table didn't eat a Thing.
You wake up in an apocalypse. You can't find anyone at all as you wander the streets but you do hear faint music playing from somewhere. You stumble into a supermarket, to see all the aisles still full, except for the shelf that was full of ear plugs, which look to be the only thing that was looted.
Like there's light, sound, props. Having a street where every house is decimated except for One. Landing on a planet known for having No Water and a plant is growing and you don't know where it could have possibly gotten moisture from but you can't find the citizens Anywhere.
I'm sorry, I'm just kinda over the "graffiti on the wall to show the bad guy is around". That's not environmental storytelling that's just normal story. Show me I'm in the villains territory by the rain suddenly cutting out above me as I'm driving, even though it's meant to be raining all night. I park the car and step out, and realise the constellations are Wrong, until I see they're Not constellations, they're the blinking lights of a massive ship-
I Will stop now because everytime I go to write a sentence it devolves into another prompt but I'm just saying we have a Lot of senses, engage them, show me the Environment in environmental storytelling.
TEAM FRYE FTW!!!!!! SHARK GIRL AND PANCAKE HAVE HAD THEIR FILL, ITS HER TIME TO SHINE
[image description: a headshot drawing of frye from splatoon. she is smiling and wearing a small crown with the words "FRYE OR DIE" next to her. she's also surrounded by sparkles. end id]
HOLY MOBIUS THEY DID IT...!!!
YOU ALL DID IT! The best concept in entire entire sonic universe is...
!!! AROACE TRANS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG !!!
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An illustration for the LA Times about how cats can teach us about cybersecurity. My cat, who is very destructive, was good inspiration for this one.
[ID: Art of a black cat stuck inside a green box with a blue floor. The cat proceeds to poke the ceiling, pull at the right side of the box, trying to lift the floor with it’s paws, arch it’s back to try and break the ceiling, stretch it’s paws up to press at the ceiling and right corner, and finally burst from the box, reducing the corner of the box to blue, green, and white cubes.]
Imagine if people got heated over other aspects of the English language the same way they do over pronouns
Adjectives in the bio 🤨
first embroidery project done!
fabric was painted by me and the pattern is by me
I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”
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It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!
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in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”
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Oh I love this news!!!!
Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”
In Louisiana French it’s “la bête à bon Dieu” (“beast of the good God”).