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A little ink of my pathfinder character Dima as a kid holding a baby raven, her eventual familiar Yensa

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young queer people talk to queer people who are older than you so you don’t start making inane discourse about things that have been a non-issue since before you (or I, a whole adult) were born

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Ask about all illegal content. What sites, why is it illegal, demand the accountability process for each person, place, or company denied payment processing. It's bigger than gaming.

fuck em up gang

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[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 24TH, 2025 | Image IDs: Four photos of a large brown longhorn beetle on a dirty glass table /End IDs.]

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It depends if it was the lifetime of the wasp or the person.

if u ever find a genie and you’re really craving a dessert that looks like this:

do NOT say “i’d like a lifetime supply of raspberry crowns”

while this is, in fact, the name of the pastry, it’s ALSO the name of a species of wasp for some reason. the genie, being a nasty trickster, will no doubt give you a bunch of wasps.

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another concept art thing

I used to hate doing lineless art, but making messy pieces like this has been rlly fun tbh

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My cyberpunk adscape hell pussy heist short story Graft.

Biohorror mech pilot short story, with graphic t4t sex, Vivisection.

Kind of formulaic episodic story about a trans femme werewolf girl who befriends a six billion year old alien warship who is on a voyage of self discovery, unwillingly, Genghis Khan and the Wolf Girl.

Not online anywhere but you can always ask for a copy of my best piece of writing which is a borderline unreadable alien colony post-apocalyse story about a girl and her dawg, or the Graft sequel novelette about an ex-bomber pilot turned courier who is delivering a downed corporate drone squad pilot to a safe territory and is loosely very very loosely structured simarly to Heart Of Darkness.

I was reading a Locus-nominated space opera with a fascinating setting and a whole bunch of fun scifi concepts that I would love to see explored, but I had to give up because the narrator talks like she's stalled out at ~10K followers on Bluesky and is desperately trying to go viral by doubling down on the most milquetoast "we took down the trump admin with a riverdale gif" therapyspeak relationship advice I've ever seen.

Went in the opposite direction next and grabbed a lightweight Kindle Unlimited YA lesbian romantasy, and I adore the protagonist – entitled pent-up rich kid with anger issues whose first instinct is always to resort to necromancy – but the plot and setting can be loosely described as "young witch trying to solve the mystery of her neighbor's lost cat in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition (2014 rule set)" and I'm still waiting for something interesting to happen 90% of the way in. Which I understand is a feature of the genre, but not for me.

I guess I'll just read another Adrian Tchaikovsky book. Are there any other good authors these days who still regularly publish, or is it just him and Max Gladstone? When is Alecto coming out????

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hey there! I’m sketching some merfolk, and I was wondering, what would a flatfish/flounder merm look like? Thanks!

Good question! My controversial answer is that in the Sirpaverse their spine is twisted 90 degrees so that when they lay on their human half's "stomach", they simultaneously lay on their fish half's side, like real flatfish.

They're born as normal merms with straight spines, but in their childhood their upper body twists into this form. It has no effect on their health, it's just something they do!

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In order to get the most bang for your buck at cafes and diners, be sure you drink the entire bottle of syrup at your table.

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I think I'm a good author but its all online.

I was reading a Locus-nominated space opera with a fascinating setting and a whole bunch of fun scifi concepts that I would love to see explored, but I had to give up because the narrator talks like she's stalled out at ~10K followers on Bluesky and is desperately trying to go viral by doubling down on the most milquetoast "we took down the trump admin with a riverdale gif" therapyspeak relationship advice I've ever seen.

Went in the opposite direction next and grabbed a lightweight Kindle Unlimited YA lesbian romantasy, and I adore the protagonist – entitled pent-up rich kid with anger issues whose first instinct is always to resort to necromancy – but the plot and setting can be loosely described as "young witch trying to solve the mystery of her neighbor's lost cat in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition (2014 rule set)" and I'm still waiting for something interesting to happen 90% of the way in. Which I understand is a feature of the genre, but not for me.

I guess I'll just read another Adrian Tchaikovsky book. Are there any other good authors these days who still regularly publish, or is it just him and Max Gladstone? When is Alecto coming out????

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she just wanted to be fashionable and now she's suffering ☀

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Harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus)

This beetle is 4.3 to 7.5 cm (1.7–3.0 in) long and is from the "neotropics" (Central and South America)! It gets its name from its orange and black markings. The male's have extremely long forelegs that are actually longer than its whole body. What species the tribe "Acrocinini" should include is up to debate, with some saying this organism is monotypic (only one species in a taxon) and others saying that based on morphological evidence, other species should be in Acrocinini. This beetle can be found in every South and Central American country except Chile and Uruguay. The males use their long forearms and strong mandibles to fight other males during mating. Females only appear at night, and lay eggs in dead or dying parts of trees. For this reason they are an essential part of decomposition in trees. They also have a phoresy relationship (where one organism attaches to the host and benefits, but the host receives no negative or positive side effects) with tiny psuedoscorpions.

Images: Male (left) female (right)

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I love it when people draw a little guy.

One of the funniest insect tricks you can do is guess "Cicada Killer", "Dobson Fly", or "House Centiped" when someone tells you they've just seen a huge terrifying bug of some sort and they've never seen anything like it but it was scary because like 90% of the time if it looked like a hornet it was a cicada killer, if it was flying but not a hornet it was a dobsonfly, and if it had a lot of legs it was a house centipede.

I don't know how these guys do it, but they all seem to have the trait of "rarely sighted but incredibly common." Also everyone who sees one for the first time is guaranteed to remember them being about twice their actual size.

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The Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency pilot is flawless

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