Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve Zoolander (2001) dir. Ben Stiller

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

Erika Osborne (American,b.1978)

Celebration of Life, 2023

Oil on canvas

me bringing my guy friend to family dinner so he can divert any potentially upsetting conversation topics for me

I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

Crawls into your inbox today! I turn you into a newt.

my high ranking salamandra member arc

5 things i'm able to rant about for an hour without preparation, or, the brainworms tag game

thank u @thirstyforred ☺️

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i think i'm quite predictable, but lemme try

1. yeah, this one takes the top spot here too, surprising nobody. the witcher, text, lore, metatext. or however it's called when the writer had a goal and we all have to live with his increasingly more nonsensical way of reaching it. everything about it makes me go insane and what perhaps the most is the way people - and i now mostly mean writers other than Sapek - handle the material after him. the good and the bad. these books and whatever came out of them thematically touch me like nothing else does and i can't imagine a world where the attachment i have to it all didn't exist. an hour would barely suffice to get started.

2. art and art history. obviously, so i don't have to type a whole lot here. i always did it, i studied it, it's a fundamental part of me. if we ever go to a museum, give me something to chew on so i don't yap the whole way through.

3. meteorology. i just think they're neat meme but it's clouds and our atmosphere. it's a bit deeper than that though, i grew up in a gliding environment and this was an omnipresent, crucial part of it. my interest in severe weather resparked a couple years ago so now here i am, running out of the house whilst sick to take pictures of a thunderstorm. don't ask me about tornadoes.

4. the elder scrolls, with the clarification that i am very very far from actually knowledgeable about it. but it, for me, exists in a funnily similar place as the witcher when it comes to including ideas and themes, but also author and intent in how i look at these works. this would lead me to a whole tangent on how nothing exists in a vacuum and triple A videogame writing, probably. i really enjoy creating characters in this universe, maybe more than any other (they don't know i have like 30 tes ocs...), but keep the brainworms in check on purpose because if i cared about another thing at the mercy of corporate interest as much as i already do about that one, i think not even touching grass could help me.

5. i'm not sure if this is the best descriptor or if it deserves its own spot but...people? fandoms and cliques, how art is perceived and treated. how class and classism play into that. i feel strongly about these things because i find people fascinating and spend too much time on the internet, but i'm also who i am and interacting with people will sometimes inevitably make me ponder these things. it's why i put "theme shitaboutgiver" in my bio here tho so i guess gamers give me enough of a headache to warrant a spot on this list.

i also wanna know what vexes the rest of strays so consider yourselves tagged frens 🌼

"Underneath the Cyanide Sun" - Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3)

Colored pencils and golden acrylic on A4 paper. Gifs showing the shine of gold parts below. Click for better quality <3

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Doing my best to play through rogue mage (I have not finished a full run even once) but even with how difficult and sincerely fucking rage inducing the game is, I'm having fun on the basis of. The main character being goddamn alzur

when a character is written inconsistently because nobody thought about it that hard and you're like it's time for me to get in there.. and think about it that hard

You will be ok. I love you forever

i want to live (all origins)

one of these days I'm going to write a hypnos fic about how people are seen as worthless if they are unable to work and how a culture and society that perpetrates the valuing of people exclusively based on how much they can produce can make such people who are unable to work and hold steady jobs isolated from even the most well meaning friends, family, acquaintances because as they are unable to work they are seen as lesser and pitiable. I'll make him cry. he's going to have a bad time. I might make him go into a coma and nothing changes without him. will it have a happy ending? who knows! not me....