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One of the cool things about being a solo developer is that your code doesn't need to be understandable to other people. But watch out!

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Also hey, cultural history time: The reason why cats are associated with women wasn't ultimately and originally about women as sly, cruel, or capricious creatures, but about cats as mothers to their kittens. And yes, sure, reducing womanhood to motherhood and a woman's worth to her fertility is Much Bad, but nonetheless I want to stress that the reason cats became the symbol animal of so many goddesses and were associated with women from thereon wasn't over some "cats and women are sly and selfish, dogs and men are straightforward and loyal uwu" dichtonomy.

It was about cats' tendency to go "I am 4kg of whoop-ass and if you try to touch my eight beautiful children I will fucking kill you."

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girl help they're putting dev patel in situations again

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do chemists ever, like. get extremely fixated on this One Weird Molecule That Will Go Great With EVERYTHING

& then they totter around their lab trying to figure out every possible weird way this molecule can react with other stuff

& eventually they run out of all the obvious candidates, so they start working themselves into a tizzy, b/c what the fuck do you MEAN xeon won't react with my cool molecule. fuck YOU noble gases. i'll show YOU who's boss

& then they waste SO much time and energy pioneering bizarre new techniques to make this reaction kinda sorta work, but in circumstances that ONLY exist in a lab but never ever in nature in a million years

...because i feel like this is my general approach to what is known as "shipping" in fandom circles

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@myconetted

Happy black cat day!!

Here are some black cats I've drawn through the years

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Salad

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horrid yowling! so terrible I thought the cat might be dying & ran downstairs with heart tangibly hammering. I sighted her pressed up against the window, freaking out about an outdoor cat on the other side.

After I and CJ covered the view with flattened boxes:

cat: [skulks & pokes at the edges of boxes] me: idiotic! are you going to worm your way back against the glass to look at the thing that upsets you? partner CJ: wouldn't you? me: D:<

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submission for a tshirt design contest (for a prediction market conference I'm going to this summer)

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trying to figure out this wip of a unicorn goring an insufficiently pure maiden not sure this painting is going to work out.

it turns out people look pretty goofy being gored by a unicorn. something to keep in mind when you go out in nature

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its so brave that you have such a 2012-coded url in this 2024 world

would you call a bear brave for standing in a new construction suburb or would you recognize the unfamiliar world they built around him

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FYI: I've decided that my next fiction project will not be serialized. I'll release it all at once, in a completed state.

I'm not going to say much (if anything) about this work until it's been released, but I wanted to make a note of this fact.

In the past, what you saw was what you got: anything I wrote was posted online almost immediately, and if I hadn't posted any new fiction that generally meant I had not written any. This is no longer the case.

You will have to wait some time for this new work to appear. But the wait will be vastly shorter than the wait for Almost Nowhere (6+ years), and closer to the time it took to finish my previous two novels (i.e. months rather than years). I am very confident about this.

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I am getting wrecked by the piss side of tumblr

We think of urine as yellow, but this is only apparent if you're peeing into a white bowl, right? Historically you would have peed on the ground, or a latrine, or a non-white container. So probably if you showed someone in the past a yellow and brown image their first association wouldn't be "ew, excrement" the way it would be for the moderns. If you think about it our negative associations with that pair of colors represent a victory in sanitation and civil engineering. Nothing represents the uplifting of mankind as much as the ceramic toilet. Anyway

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We think of urine as yellow, but this is only apparent if you're peeing into a white bowl, right? Historically you would have peed on the ground, or a latrine, or a non-white container. So probably if you showed someone in the past a yellow and brown image their first association wouldn't be "ew, excrement" the way it would be for the moderns. If you think about it our negative associations with that pair of colors represent a victory in sanitation and civil engineering. Nothing represents the uplifting of mankind as much as the ceramic toilet. Anyway

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the animus of the anima

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the thing about the three musketeers (book) is that there are three musketeers (guys) and also a fourth dude who's always hanging out with them and is part of the friend group. yet he is not one of the three musketeers

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me: I think I memed myself into liking drama in my erotica, like a finch going ever harder into its niche

femmenietzsche: Oh, I've done that too. You don't want to be too specific in your sexuality, that's like how an overly specialized parasite goes extinct

hanging out with @femmenietzsche and they said, "you're one of the few cis women I hang out with and I'm not sure you even count. The most cis woman part of you is your sexuality, and that's the part I click with least... all that fucking drama..."

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hanging out with @femmenietzsche and they said, "you're one of the few cis women I hang out with and I'm not sure you even count. The most cis woman part of you is your sexuality, and that's the part I click with least... all that fucking drama..."