The Beast that Bothers

I am really suffering from the hubris of 'I'll just buy the knock-off woobles crochet kit'

They have descended into using abbreviations they didn't even bother to include in their handy dandy terribly stitch pictograms. What is a half double and how am I supposed to conjure the forbidden knowledge of it from your pamphlet!!

the point of no return

Just waiting for the Silent Hill 2 remake to open with someone having written 'You killed your wife :0' in lipstick on the rest stop mirror.

???$%£?^&^??

Real whiplash going from Fire Emblem Engage back to the Tellius games like oh yeah, there is a lot to be said for showing a little bit of tasteful 'our plot will be totally bonkers' decolletage instead of just whipping out the entire package and slamming it on the table.

extremely unsexy of adhd to make me both very annoying and very sensitive to the concept of being perceived as annoying

Rolls to Alarm Your Players

Want to spice the game up? Why not try alarming your players for no real reason? Make sure to make a show out of counting the dice before you roll.

I understand we've sort of given up on COVID vaccine PR, but we really just ran with 'spikevax' on this one, huh?

Ganandorf this, Vincent Valentine that, Matt Mercer will always be 'that trash man from Tales of Xillia' in my heart

Trying to get back into the groove of cross stitch

why drop $50 on a jank Android tablet that could run pattern keeper when I have a decade-old ipad mini jank for free at home

it screams for the sweet release of death every time I scroll the PDF, but I am a cruel master

Trap Veyadi in a suburb with a golf cart, watch him use the HoA's own rules to shatter their very psyches then get stuck in a ditch.

me describing Archive 2 stuff to a friend: basically veyadi has entered what the children call a villain era

veyadi: *crying over instant noodles and terrifying strangers on purpose*

Genre of character: submissive like a guard dog is submissive

fresh midnight Question for you:

are there any TAU worldbuilding elements or character facts or whatnot that you wanted to include in the book, but ended up cutting? or alternatively, have any specific story elements you have a burning desire to talk about?

Hm! Some thoughts on queer stuff! Which is ambiently in the text but not so much defined.

I was interested in writing a world with multiple competing theories of queerness, none of which are "perfect" -- in the sense that none of these societies have managed genuine queer liberation (i.e., everyone has the freedom to be who and love however they want). They're not necessarily awful, though some definitely are, but none of it's ideal.

The dominant queer culture originates in the Immaculate Empire and gives us "hermit" and "widow" -- pretty binary terms for a specific variety of desire, often linked with a kind of gender performance. There is no similar term for bi/pansexuality, at least not in the common parlance, so if you're, say, a cis bisexual woman, you'd still be described as a widow, were you engaging in widow-like conduct. The understanding and room for transness is highly dependent on where you are; some states have done that particular brand of evil thing where they see providing trans care as a way to enforce state power, because it's a way to police the binary and deviations from it.

Outside the empire, we get the legacy of downworld "third gender" -- which is actually a catch-all term for queerness. It also...doesn't have any further distinctions. They lump the entirety together in this one category -- which is itself somewhat binarist, as it distinguishes "cishet" from "not that," even though it's on a different axis. So if it's particularly important to you to be perceived in a more specific way, welp! Good luck!! This might actually be pretty chill in a world where authoritarian powers weren't keen on destroying your existence. Unfortunately!

I also have thoughts abt the ways different character relate to these systems of identity and meaning; like Sunai is pretty comfortable swimming between them and has a more fluid sense of self, while Veyadi cleaves more to "hermit" as a term, even though he has a somewhat complicated relationship with it. Jin has latched onto "third gender" even though they're not as bound up in downworld culture as say, Oyu, who is from a downworld caravan, third gender, and presents in a distinctly hermit-like way. And Imaru is the ur-lesbian! Widow supreme! Next question!

hey jsyk while hellofresh is dummy expensive and i wouldn’t reccomend it if you already know how to cook (if you’re a beginner like i was when i had it for 3 months, then it’s worth it), you should know that ALL OF THEIR RECIPES are free on their website and they all fuck hard

i will say that all the cooking instructions for veggies are pretty much the same (season with salt + pepper and roast on the top oven rack at 425F), but if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

that being said, it also introduced me to methods i wasn’t at all expecting. i would have never thought to use cream cheese in my meat sauce, and now all my friends are constantly asking me to make my special rigatoni.

happy cheffin! :)

The real reason Veyadi has to wear that visor all the time is because the minute you see his sad puppy eyebrows it's all over for you.

some more The Archive Undying sketches! someday i'll be brave enough to do book scenes.