this is the first personal thing I've written in a loooong time, and the whole time i was asking myself "is this actually something??". thank you everyone for the kind words ❤️
Is it a girl, is it a boy? No it‘s another genderfluid checklist character. Those people in charge of the new she-ra realy must hate feminity. I saw not one character in this show that actually looks feminine. Yep thats „representation“
#sjwshera
#sheboy
"you're just mad because you overhyped the show and it's not playing out like in your head" all i expected was boba fett in the boba fett show 😭 why are people trying to make me feel crazy about this
@fullbright
I wrote a placeholder scene with a cat in it so I didn't have to coordinate finding another person to voice a character and instead could just record my cat who is ALWAYS CRYING
Otago and UK researchers have developed a world-first weight-loss device to help fight the global obesity epidemic: an intra-oral device that restricts a person to a liquid diet. Read more:
“We weren’t allowed to say the Z word on set,”
#TheLastOfUs
cinematographer said. “It was like a banned word. They were the Infected. We weren’t a zombie show.”
hi, so, as a contractor I end up crunching because like, I have no steady employment or support structures (because I can't get employment beyond contracting) and nobody wants to pay the REAL rates that enable me to Not Crunch
Just catching up on the 地味なハロウィン ("sober Halloween") event, where flashy fancy dress is banned, in favour of everyday cosplay. This girl has come as the kind of model you see on cheap Korean fashion mail order sites.
generally if your first reaction to someone fighting for a good labour thing is "well *i* don't have that!" maybe question the labour practices that don't also give you that
all the nerds angrily yelling that IT ISN'T BABY YODA, YODA IS DEAD, are just making me enjoy calling it baby yoda even more. no shit it's not yoda, goddamn idiots
everyone cheering so hard for ahmed is great. the fans here really want the people who've been hurt by harassment to know that they are really, truly loved
holy fuck. yes they're retaliating, their homes are taken from them and they're being ethnically cleansed. nobody is going to take that lying down, even against a military force
hey if you think you should defend blizzard by saying the people laid off weren't "developers" or "essential" kindly launch yourself into the fucking SUN
not every piece of media is going to make you feel good even if you want it to. it might not be for you. things are *allowed* to not be for you. just put the game down
good news:
🍩 the surgery went well
🍩 my bone remains in my body
🍩 around six weeks incremental brace movement recovery
🍩 I can still go to the states this month!
🍩 I'm gonna be able to run again 💗
Your first look at
#StarWars
: The Rise of Skywalker is here! Let Vanity Fair introduce you to the final chapter in the Skywalker saga. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Story by Lev Grossman.
I can finally tweet about a thing I'm SUPER EXCITED about! I'm gonna be working on the gorgeous
@TotemTeller
!! I'm really psyched to be part of this project 😍
anyways for whatever reason this is also relevant: queer isn't a slur, that's terf rhetoric, please please please read queer history and learn what our elders fought for, because a lot of them aren't around anymore to tell us
SAM: where have you been sneaking around
GOLLUM: REALLY? SNEAKING! I've been so nice and lead you all this way out of the GOODNESS of my Heart while HUNGRY and you insult me?! SNEAKING!!
SAM: you know what, you're right, I'm sorry. so what have you been doing?
GOLLUM: sneaking :)
Sims developer Don Hopkins released a bunch of design documents from The Sims, including this one from August 1998 with his notes about romance:
It's incredible to see the internal discussion about romance in The Sims written out so strongly like this
14/ For 129 years, the kilogram has been defined as just the mass of a physical artifact stored in a vault in France (called the International Prototype Kilogram, the IPK).
Image credit: "The State of the Unit"
wouldn't have to dread every single new show we were excited about because she can (and probably will) turn up in all of them. it makes your trans friends feel like shit, mates
i want to publicly back kiara up on this, because i have my own story about lucy that for a long time i tried to make excuses for, until i saw promising young woman, and met more people who'd been hurt by a pattern of behaviour over years. but i am only speaking about myself here
very funny to me that people assumed the kids would be great at tech because they grew up with it, while every kid i know gets lost and confused by a single error screen
I don't have vacation leave, I don't have sick days. I SHOULD, but the games industry hasn't apparently figured out that those things are necessary for contractors too