"Sex is what makes us human" is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably
The Cat Beast
This wonderful artwork was done by the amazing @gibbledygoo! for my fanfic, The Cat House. Chapter 6 is out now!
During a visit to Bonesborough Library, Amity Blight transforms into the Cat Beast. The human Lilith Clawthorne is startled by the monstrous transformation of her mentor, and now the creature of nightmares looms over her.
Thank you so much for Gib for making this. Their artwork is truly amazing. I have been waiting for months to share this art with the world.
The chapter took a while to come, mostly due to life getting in the way as it does. But I sure do hope the wait was worth it (the beta reader feedbacks suggests it has been!).
having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups
And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.
It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.
Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t.
The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely.
Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?
has anyone checked in on phil's wife??
What a precious commodity she is 🌌
mlp carousel themed stickers im doing!!
it's my book's birthday!
Beetle and the Chimera Carnival is the sequel to Beetle and the Hollowbones.
While breaking into a half-built carnival before opening night, the kids discover a dragon bleeding out into the pavement.
The goblin side of Beetle's magic begins to transform her body uncontrollably. By day she tries to hide it, but at night she begins to dream about changing into something strange and gleeful.
She isn't the only one hearing the call of something strange; a loud, dead voice still draws them down into Kat's ancient family catacombs. And it knows Penny's name.
I am very proud of this series and I can't wait for you to read the third book and see the ending I'm building toward! 💕 asking for your local or school library to buy a copy goes a long long way in expanding the life of the book, so if you've done that, or if you've told someone about the series, thank you so much!
Doomed love between late Summer and Autumn (the rot must consume)