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Actually I wanna name more women whose work I love.

Lois Bujold has written truly excellent sci fi and fantasy. She is so excellent at making the Character and putting them in Situations that I think a lot of people miss that her world building is also peerless. The Vorkosigan series has such excellent characters and plot and prose that it gets overlooked for the brilliant hard sci aspects. She is examining how reproductive and genetic engineering technology impacts societies in ways I've never seen anyone else tackle them.

But also her fantasy series are amazing? The multiple separate unique magic systems she's come up with are all fascinating. From the beautiful meditations on faith and fate and free will in the Five Gods series to the low magic post-post-apocalypse Americana of The Sharing Knife to the historically grounded Italian politicking but with magic of the Spirit Ring, Bujold was constantly creating the most unique and thought-provoking settings I've read.

She's so old and has only written fun novellas for the last several years but I love her work so much and I wish more people would read her.

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Bitches be like ‘I’m so tired and sleepy’ and then stay up doing hyperfixtation shit for the next 5 hours

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Adding Rory to Future Campaigns: A Tribute Across Realms

Today, I said goodbye to my dog, Rory. He was more than a pet—he was my shadow, my midnight companion, my steadfast friend. Cancer came fast and cruel, and though we did all we could, it was his time to cross the Rainbow Bridge. But Rory won’t be gone from my world. Not really. I’ve decided to carry him with me, not just in memory, but into every game I run from this day forward. Rory, my loyal…

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This scene from the Vor Game made me laugh so hard

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STOP CENSORING YOURSELF ON THIS WEBSITE. FUCK SHIT SEX MURDER ALCOHOL DRUGS FAGGOT DYKE QUEER TRANS BITCH SLUT WHORE SEX SEX SEX SEX!!!!!!!!!!!

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Whomp whomp, I know no one cares but I wanted to archive this conversation in a few different places. No tags though, don't want to bother people. And even if no one else finds it interesting, I do.

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this is how it feels every time someone says Tumblr is going to shut down tbh

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Miles Vorkosigan would be a tumblr blorbo if

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Stellaris and Control

Gonna put this out there tagless, because at this point Tumblr is just a place I go to reblog things that tickle my fancy and once in a while throw random thoughts out into the ether. Plus I don't want to bother anybody. I was thinking about my history playing Stellaris. How when I first started playing, and especially considering my egalitarian and pacifist bent when playing 4X games, I gladly welcomed any and all races into my empires. From a game perspective, huge growth boost, yay! All seemed well. Except...as I played these sorts of empires, I realized how...unwieldy they were. I could have a dozen different species in my empire spread out across as many planets. They all had different traits and needs, so my efficiencies were all over the place. And if I went for genetic ascendancy path to really gene tailor my little alien buddies, forget it. Gene editing every race and running the project for all of them was a chore, and flatly wouldn't fly in a multiplayer game where everybody's waiting for you to hurry up and unpause.

So, as I continued to play, my empires started drifting a little bit more toward the...authoritarian. I started shutting down my borders. Migration treaties and even fleeing refugees were refused out of hand. And oh man, it worked like a charm. A single race in my empire made everything easier. I knew the optimal setup for every planet, and it was the same every time. I knew my strengths and weaknesses, and they largely wouldn't change over time. And genetics was suddenly viable, having to only edit a single genome and propagate it across my empires.

They weren't stronger than my early egalitarian empires. Nearly all of them, authoritarian or egalitarian, succeeded in one way or another. It doesn't feel like I have a serious advantage by playing the game in that way, but it is a whole lot easier. And the reason it's easier is because when everything is locked down like that it's way easier to control. This was written on May 11, 2025.

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Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.

Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.

Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.

And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.

Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.

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well that was fucking stupid

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