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welcome to the world (as we understand it to be)

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Hey. Hey. What do they play in the space elevator

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Winged Prophets.

a selection of mothmen. some deliver their warnings more gently than others.

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do you own anything that's older than you?

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Finished reading Dungeon Crawler Carl. Man.....

Bonus Donut sketch below + some rambling that I don't think is worth its own post.

Finally, after all this time my years and years of drawing warrior cats is finally coming into use. Hm, I'm still not sure how I feel about Donut in the first piece, was looking at the wiki and it turns out shes black, orange AND white. Ah well, not used to drawing Persians, but I'm statisfied with this as my first attempt. Hardest part is getting the expression. When making WC art, I tend to anthropomorphise the face for expressions, but I tried to go a bit more realistic here. Not sure if it worked well here or not. As for Carl... yes I know he's missing a tatoo or two. I'm on Donut's side here, he has way too many.

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I can't stop reading Dungeon Crawler Carl

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The last time I needed aftercare was as a dom. It definitely wasn't the first time I'd needed it as a dom either. Leaning into your repressed urges and confronting the passions within you can be scary or distressing at times! Self actualization is a bumpy road, and society at large has generally no resources for helping with the specifics.

That one extremely neutered "Kinktober" event including a rule that any CNC-related works have to have a mandatory aftercare scene for the submissive party but not for the dominant... it really just spells it all out, doesn't it?

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Purity Politics

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The bird app has a lot of garbage but this thread really tickled me this morning:

Bonus:

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The Vulcan children's hospital recently redecorated. I'm not convinced they chose the most logical option

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Yet another good reminder that even other Anglosphere authors have to basically arm-wrestle US book editors to be allowed to retain any vestige of their own dialect and culture in their writing and this is why lots of people have Opinions about American...everything.

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So there's gossip about some version of kinktober over on twitter adding a bunch of nonsensical rules this year, and I am fascinated. Studying this like a bug.

Like, what the hell.

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perhaps this is naive of me, but sometimes when i read florid descriptions of the coming demographic collapse all i can think is that as a species, we finally did it--somewhere between the onset of the industrial revolution and the invention of the pill, we finally broke the iron yoke of agrarian civilization that linked our ability to feed ourselves to the size of our population, the yoke that tied the pleasures of sex to the burdens of reproduction, the yoke that meant most people would have to suffer the burden of seeing roughly half their children die before age five. and yes, if this all keeps up, the world will change as a result, change in ways both already kind of sad (a lot of small towns vanishing off the map, as the remaining population continues to concentrate in big cities) and in we can barely begin to understand now (what does the world look like after 200 years of population shrinkage? i can't even imagine). and there will be new problems. i do worry (for example) about how we will care adequately for the aged. there will be significant problems we have to confront. but god almighty i am glad we broke that yoke.