The most potent blorbos are the not the hottest or the most pathetic, they're the ones who share your particular neuroses but in their world those neuroses are significantly more justifed

Betty Jiang aka Betty Ling Jiang aka Betty Desu Jiang (Chinese, b. 1993, Beijing, China, based Bellevue, WA, USA) - Dark Prince, 2019, Paintings, Digital Arts

The guest art I did for Fairmeadow went up today! GO READ THIS WEBCOMIC it’s got hiking and a muscular orc gal and fireside songs and I have never wanted to travel to a fictional place so badly

beauty/beauty by rebecca perry 

yeah yeah opening a fic and "he would not fucking say that" but what about you open the fic and "he would fucking say that". what about that pure feeling of euphoria when it's exactly right the way you like it

New generator! Get your weird cities here, 100% artisanally crafted weirdness.

Procrastinating on writing Time to Orbit: Unknown by making Time to Orbit memes instead

“all men are complicit in sexism and benefit from misogyny” is stating the function of a system in society, not demonizing men’s interiority. twisting that statement into some sort of insidious lie about men’s character in order to refute it on the basis that some men are good is disingenuous. there have been hundreds of thousands of good, kind men who have benefitted from misogynistic systems bc they are systems, not schools of thought or beliefs

man hamburgers are so good, in spite of the fascist imperialist american goverment which i don´t support

Yo what is up, I’m DJ Uncertain Times, and now more than ever…you need to move to the party beat!

After months of research and development and market testing and perfecting the first item I feel confident selling online, I have realized... that it is an incredibly niche item that only a specific subset of absolute nerds would want to buy, and I will have to do a ton of explaining the basic idea over and over again before people generally get what it is I'm even selling. RIP me

Long story short: I'm selling embroidery patterns. You stick them on fabric, embroider them, and wash the pattern away to leave your embroidery shining in solitary splendour.

Long story long... here goes.

i think this is a product worth being proudly enthusiastic about! embroidery is a great hobby that lots of people can, or should, be interested in, and this looks like a great on-ramp for learning. especially because with the stick-on interfacing, you can apply to it skirts and jackets instead of just doing it on stiff embroidery fabric. i’m going to get some for myself!

— Caroline Walker Bynum, ‘The Female Body and Religious Practice in the Late Middle Ages.’ (via bluebeardsbride)

"no guys i swear the cishet intruders are real this time, they're really invading our community, theyre taking our resources for real this time, trust me, they love getting called slurs and being discriminated against, this is a real thing thats really happening and affects me in real life, my exclusionism is good this time i SWEAR"

and are the dykefags in the room with us tonight?

FIC WRITERS RETREAT 2023

WE ARE BACK, BABEY!

(registration info coming soon!)

For the first time since 2019, there will be a full-on FIC WRITERS RETREAT again in August of this year!!

August 10-13, to be exact. We've had a slight change of venue, so we'll be meeting in Oakville, Ontario this year. Final cost and registration process is still being finalized, but the ballpark is really similar to what it's been: roughly $450-$500 CANADIAN* that includes all meals from Thursday night to Sunday morning, 3 nights accommodation (private room in shared 2-person suite), and all conference expenses. You just have to get yourself there.

(*Current exchange rate with USD makes this $331-$368 US)

For those of you who don't know, this event started in 2016 where a whopping SEVEN (7) people got together in Barrie, Ontario for three days of writing, writing talk, fandom discourse, and general shenanigans. None of us knew each other, but this little handful of folks took a chance and started an amazing community that is still going strong. Subsequent years we had just on 20 participants on average, from all over. We survived a three year hiatus and are keen to get up and running again!

Every year we've met, we've had a great mix of familiar friends and new faces, and every new addition has been such a gift. Please feel free to scroll this blog and contact anyone who's come to the retreat before. If you like what you see, consider joining us this year!

I will tag all new posts with #fic retreat 2023 or you can follow this blog for updates.

The authors’ intentions here were not just to signify the curtains were blue- but to trick you!

The author disliked you personally, and wanted to send you down a path of anti-intellectualism; a path you thought you’d carved yourself in direct “defiance” of the author!

A life where you ignore the symbolism and meaning of all works, boiling them down to their most basic meanings rather than what they represent. The author does this because he is a Time Wizard. The curtains were red btw

oh holy shit the $20 tier of this audiobook bundle (affiliate link) includes... murderbot? all of murderbot. every murderbot novella and novel, narrated by kevin r. free (who you may know from welcome to night vale), in mp3 format and with a portion of every purchase going to the national coalition against censorship. there are other audiobooks included but. MURDERBOT.

Guys, if you read on AO3 please try to create an account. So many of us writers are going to be forced to lock down our fics to registered users out of necessity to help keep AI away, and it kills us because we don’t want to stop any of you from reading.

AO3 is invite only. So if you know an AO3 user, ask if they have an invitation to give you (we’re given invite codes to share with others who want to join) because that’s an easy way to get in. If you don’t know someone you can ask, this is AO3’s instructions for requesting one from them…

I know this seems like an extra step and maybe you don’t think you need it and can just read from people who haven’t locked their fics. But this isn’t just about you as the reader. If you enjoy fics and you want to keep them coming, this is how you support your favorite writers! If our stats and comments plummet, I guarantee writing is going to start going down as well. Nobody wants that! So please consider making an account and signal boosting this as well! 🙏🏻

**NOTE: AO3 indicates (as of today) there’s 48k some people in the queue for invites and they’re sending out about 5k per day. That’s not a bad wait at all!!**

Right now my D&D fics are unlocked because it’s such a new fandom. But I have locked all the rest and I will, eventually, lock those as well.

one of the strangest social dynamics on this website is how there will consistently be one or two kinks/fetishes that are considered trendy to post about, and users who are otherwise very averse to being openly horny on main go wild reblogging posts about petplay or knotting or the eroticism of the machine or whatever erotic interest is currently This Year's Trendiest Kink.

and it slaps