Anne @anne@beach.city

Can anyone recommend comedy scifi or fantasy along the lines of Discworld by authors of color? Or comedy eldrich horror too.

Thanks!

My code went to Mars!

"Can you mend it?"
The artisan studied the shards.
"Was it enchanted?"
"Yes, to keep drinks at the right temperature."
"Hm. Can't fix that by hand."
The artisan put a Ring of Repair on, and pieced the cup together. The shards fused seamlessly.
"There."
"Wow. Um. Can you hug me?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Time for a Gary update. He's been especially cute lately.

How did we end up at a state where tech nerds who write down command and function references for their use-cases call them "Cheatsheets" and not "Grimoires"?

Reading some #Lovecraft and I just can't stop noticing that the only horror he knows is xenophobia.

me: Okay, I get it Howard. They're foreign. What's the scary part?

HP: Don't you get it? They speak a foreign language!

me: Howard...

HP: Their skin isn't even white!

me: Howard...

HP: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Are you scared yet?

me: Dammit, Howard, I swear to god...

I wonder if there is a market for a game where magic is some sort of geometry or algebra. Something that abstracts real mathematical objects into lines and stones and sticks and wands. I wonder if that would be fun? Could it be intuitive?

As in many more of its aspects, Deus Ex's music was made at a time in which the technology and expectations afforded something expressive, tonally consistent, and identifiable, delivered by—today's standards—a small, inexpensive team, in quantity.

(My preferred strategy at this point would be vigils outside the clinic(s) by a selection of trans people with signs saying how many days they’ve been waiting. You wouldn’t need many on any given day, and it wouldn’t have to be the same people every time. Make it a public embarrassment, but with a human face. Sadly, though, I am Not Good At Organising and have no offline connections.)

"Oh, hi, nice to see you! I didn't expect to see you at a pub! "
"Well, the moon is full."
"Why, are you a werewolf?"
"A werewere."
"Weh?"
"I don't usually go out, but I was once bitten by an extrovert, so when the moon is full I crave company."
"Bitten?"
"Well, nibbled."
"Nice."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Good morning folk and friends from far and near!

Today I wish you a positive change ✨

"... and everything's horrible and there's nothing we can do."
"Hold on," she said. She stepped off the path to pick up a discarded water bottle.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"There's a recycling bin a bit further up."
"Oh. Anyway, we're so powerless-"
"Let's do what we can."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

it is VERY cool. 100% wool, a thick red wool for the outside and a thin brown one for the lining

I just rewatched SheRa: Reunion and only now realized its about coming out

A lot of kids shows that try to be inclusive of queer kids choose to tell the story of a gay teenager coming out, experiencing homophobia, and then finding people who accept them.

That story is good and helpful for kids who are currently coming to terms with maybe not being straight, or who have started coming out to people. It tells them "hey, you're not alone in this. And whatever it is you're going through right now, there are people who accept and love you for who you are"

But when watching some of these movies from the 2000s, a lot of them seem quite backwards. Young children who grow up in more progressive environments might only learn about homophobia through storylines like that. Even if the underlying message is supportive of the gay character, there's still the idea of "according to all these people, something is wrong with you".

Smol longfren (milipede)

couple new wallpapers

got tired of seeing Arch Linux wallpapers with "muh waifu" and shit. so, here are a few with ladies running elegant-complex-streamlined tech from phone switches to NASA rocket thrusters