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‘A Mars Perspective’ by Don Dixon (1975)

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For Control Panel Saturday, here's a stunning example from Michael Whelan, done in 1978 for a cover to Four-Day Planet, by H. Beam Piper.

Follow Whelan on tumblr over here!

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maybe if we torture this kid harder our lives will get even more awesome

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thank you antibiotics ♥️

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no! traffic light system will kill the patient! they need under-negotiated kink to live!!!

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I've never seen anyone talk about it but the use of they/them to anonymize is a pretty common thing people do.

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sun tsu famously said "refuse to understand your enemy at all costs. to resist their cognitohazard mind rays"

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I understand the value of artistic liberties but what exactly is Yugio's haircut supposed to be. I've wondered this since childhood

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The Nightmare, 1906 Pasquale Liotta Cristaldi (Italian,1850-1909)

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Jean Boquet (1908-1976)—Blue Geometric Abstraction [oil on canvas, 1959]

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Oberstdorf, Germany 1920s

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“How do I write good female characters-“

Exactly the way you write male ones. Treat them the same. The beauty of it is, even if you write shit male characters too, at least it’s clear you don’t discriminate.

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being chuuni is so much fun, for real for real

one million years chuunibyou!

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problematic second health bar gap