beautiful drawing I saw in the women's bathroom last night at the bar

twitter's bot problem has gotten out of hand

top tier dysfunctional yearning here folks! come n get it

HELLO, Mass Effect fandom that I will never leave! The 2024 @spectre-requisitions-exchange collection is live and authors have been revealed!!

First of all: PLEASE check out the wonderful gift I received, From: Ashley, for a fantastically sad HEA fshepley epistolary by @coaxionunlimited!! 💐

Second of all: coax and I were sharing the braincell, because I uh ALSO wrote angstastic epistolary femshep/ash, side of smut, for my giftee, @jusbeinkt. The vibe:

Folks, this might be the best thing I've ever put on the internet?? Good food and drink owed to my two superb betas, @meggannn and @meredithalden. You are the salt and the acid that make this a meal.

Read it here and peruse the full 2024 SpecReqs collection here!!

landscaping consultation 🌿

Friends of the Biowaresphere! HARK! Do you enjoy the work of @meredithaldenalden, known on AO3 as alden? Yes! THE alden! She's the author of beloved Mass Effect gems New Game and Heat Sink, one of the funniest damn people in the galaxy, a genius of a writer on every axis I can conceive of, AND, THIS JUST IN, was the sole, singular, one and only writer for 3D platformer Penny's Big Breakaway, which just released today!!

If you've ever savored her exceptional prose like a fine, fine wine; if you've ever been emotionally eviscerated by (spins wheel) any chapter of NG; if you enjoy leaping about like a dingdong in a brightly-colored digital cartoon world and whacking penguins to a slow drip of exquisitely witty dialogue, then:

RUN, DON'T WALK to the Nintendo Store/PS Store/XBox store/Steam and buy this thing instantly. Reblog this stupid post! Share this Tweet or whatever the fuck posts are called now that Twitter is X! @meredithalden FOR PRESIDENT!

(image and additional dialogue samples from here. all instances are 100% certified alden.)

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone.

Happy birthday, Bertolt Brecht! (February 10, 1898)

A tremendously important playwright and poet, Bertolt Brecht is best known as the father of epic theatre. Born in Augsburg, Bavaria to a middle class family. He turned to radical politics as a student, nearly being expelled for his strident anti-militarism in the midst of World War I. During the years of the Weimar Republic, Brecht familiarized himself with Marxism and wrote a number of agitprop plays supportive of communism and the Soviet Union. Brecht helped to pioneer the epic theatre movement, noted for its emphasis on promoting self-reflection and critical analysis. His most famous play, The Threepenny Opera, which he wrote with Kurt Weill, satirizes capitalist society through the lens of an adaptation of the classic Beggar's Opera. Fleeing Nazi Germamy in 1933, he eventually came to America, where he worked until the Red Scare blacklisted him. Afterwards, he made his way to East Germany. He died in 1956.

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."

just had one of those intensely textural moments where you vibrate with the hyperawareness of reality at a molecular level

(immediately defused by the attempt to trap and preserve it)

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

Second kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png" alt="second kudos">

Third kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png" alt="third kudos">

nth kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png" alt="nth kudos">

yet another kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png" alt="yet another kudos">

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

more stuff about becoming a god being inherently dehumanizing pls

Palast der Republik, East Berlin (1993)

Photo : Thorsten Klapsch

Source : Spiegel International

~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

Medium: Ceramics

dress blues

Anton Repponen / Tokyo, Japan / Photography / 2023

Anton Repponen / Tokyo, Japan / Photography / 2023