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woman-shaped person, she/her/hers are fine, terfs/swerfs/exclusionsts will be blocked. i simply do not care about shipping discourse and purity culture wars bc i have other things to worry about and assimilation is not my goal.

a common throughline in shit i like is understanding how and why systems work and fail. i do my best to have unique and blockable tags per fandom. popular tags include:

• #tuesday again no problem- a weekly roundup where i talk about what i’ve been reading/watching/playing/making/listening to
• #evil lair llc - shit i do to my apartment/various non-textile hacky nonsense
• #mackintosh my little black cat. mack for short.
• #phil short for philip marlowe, my little tabby cat. not a thought in her beautiful empty head.
• #maps charts and graphs/ #and lists and flags - bureaucratic & simplified representations of information
• #technology and you - dumb hardware mostly
• #better living through the scientific method- science communication (mostly astronomy hoax debunking), shit i think is neat, early- to mid-century physical sciences lab aesthetics 
• #my one true love is the sky - astronomy shit
• #cowboyblogging general western stuff/#ain’t that a kick in the head - stuff tangential to a Fallout: New Vegas/The Good The Bad and the Ugly crossover you can read on ao3 here
• #textile crimes - i was a textile lead at a makerspace and i’ve never really grown out of playing with string
• #good lines - art i think is neat
• #answered - ask memes mostly if u wanna go ahead and block that
• #capitalism and you the stupidest tech finance shit imaginable from when i used to do market research for video games

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rare L from rugs dot com. i think i will be returning this one

melagerie:

I have made some memes to commemorate the day

sijiahui:

toughtalkers:

🎬 1946: Lizabeth Scott in “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.”

Her sultry looks won her modeling assignments as a teenager and she was understudy to Tallulah Bankhead before coming to the attention of Paramount Studios who put her under contract.

She was widely considered a prominent femme fatale and was known for her roles in numerous film noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s.

movieposters1:

tryinghuman:

cartoonistcoop:

The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement HERE

Attached image is their logo, no credit (artists asked to not be credited).

I was one of the flagship comics on Hiveworks (I think the first in the sci-fi category) and before I signed on with them, I put restrictions in my contract on how much say they could have on Trying Human. I feel like this saved me from quite a bit of pain in the long run but TH was largely ignored by the powers that be in favor of other comics that “played ball”.

I didn’t let them touch my books, kickstarters, merchandise, or the story itself. I was assigned an editor one time and decided to throw them a bone by letting them look over Volume 3, which was about to be published. They seemed disturbed by the content and didn’t work with me past that. I’m not blaming the editor but there seemed to be a lack of professionalism happening in the back end; either the editor didn’t understand the job or they weren’t prepared by the higher ups for the kind of comics they’d be reviewing.

The only other major interaction I had with HW was after a convention where they were holding a booth. I sent them a case of my books to sell and promote. A large book-to-movie talent agency scouted my work via this event and following my contact with them, I emailed Xel to thank them for their hard work. I recieved a very terse and strange email about how upset they were that these people contacted me. The whole exchange was very odd and I felt like they didn’t want me to make any professional contacts outside of HW. It makes me wonder how often they were contacted by outside agencies to scout work and were turned away. I really hope that none of their authors have had their careers kneecapped by their time as part of Hiveworks.

How you can help me:

I feel like I’ve largely made it through unscathed but the website where TH is currently hosted may need to go to a different site eventually. In the past year I’ve lost two pets to age and admittedly have been very depressed. I don’t really have the emotional bandwidth to deal the changes that need to happen. If anyone would like to reach out and help me with a potential site move, it’d be much appreciated. The backend that TH uses right now is completely foreign to me (I basically only know how to upload pages) so any assistance would be much appreciated. 💕

madnessofmen:

northirish:

northirish:

The lion does not concern himself with mod load orders or with mod managers. The lion is going to completely raw dog this shit on vibes alone

The lion’s game has crashed nine times in a row

hometoursandotherstuff:

hawberries:

i finished this late but if you see this! good luck on your columbina pulls!!

girlfriendsofthegalaxy:

tuesday again 1/13/2026

something of a bloodthirsty bent to my media this week

• listening syd taylor’s heaven
• reading (article) if a tree falls, about the sycamore gap tree trial
• reading (book) guilty pleasures by laurell k. hamilton, an anita blake vampire hunter novel (urban horror fantasy)
• watching chaika, the coffin princess, an anime in the form of a post-magical-war road trip
• playing genshin
• making im going to be so real with everyone it was an extremely busy week. no textiles

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girlfriendsofthegalaxy:

tuesday again 1/13/2026

something of a bloodthirsty bent to my media this week

• listening syd taylor’s heaven
• reading (article) if a tree falls, about the sycamore gap tree trial
• reading (book) guilty pleasures by laurell k. hamilton, an anita blake vampire hunter novel (urban horror fantasy)
• watching chaika, the coffin princess, an anime in the form of a post-magical-war road trip
• playing genshin
• making im going to be so real with everyone it was an extremely busy week. no textiles

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yesterdaysprint:

The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, May 31, 1907

mikkeneko:

ruusverd:

audpaints:

chongoblog:

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals,

but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd

starwarsgenerator:

im not gonna say it again, might wanna rethink many powers of the force

memories-of-ancients:

Crab effigy vessel, Moche culture, Peru, 100-800 AD

from The Museum of Fine Arts Houston