Rico Reachthorne

old art, BG3 dark urge + ketheric, orin, gortash

go play fledgeling manor!!! it has vampires and art by my friend and honestly what more could you want from a game

if you are a Complainer Supreme about AAA slop (like me), go grip a sink, stare into the mirror, remind yourself the games you want to play are made by your peers, and play an indie

everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr

#WIPSnips 15. "Never"

Nitara compares Ashrah to Datusha's previous wielder...

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #CaptainNitara #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

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A woman in a red dress with auburn hair blushes and looks very pleased as another woman with short light brown hair receives the gift of a fine blue coat. They sit on a bench which combines Greek and Polynesian design elements. Behind them, there is a thematic collage of a sailing ship, a compass, and a pink serpentine dragon.

You are not ready. Prepare your eyes...

@nushdeco.bsky.social you are amazing. Thanks so much for bringing Kallista and Geni into visual form in such stunning fashion.

At long last, here's Captain Kallista Audax and Doctor Eugenia 'Geni' Philistos from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️

the AuDHD urge to put additional context in parentheses in texts so others know there’s more than one thought happening at the same time

Everything they're doing right now is trying to bed-in anti-trans hatred so thoroughly into our laws and institutions that it becomes the standard.

They haven't accepted how swiftly the tide will move against them in the next decade.

But it's coming. Everything they built will fall.

And the thing is?

We know that this is generational. That there is a cliff-edge in anti-trans hostility across generations that means that when the current over-45s age-out of power so does the vast majority of anti-trans hatred.

This is the death throes of that hate. Their last gasp.

All of this, really.

Hello.

If you're a trans writer & your book is a) available in paperback & b) can be shipped directly from penguin, harper collins, simon & schuster, hachette, macmillion, bloomsbury, sureshot, tyndale, lockdown, remnant, penny, barbour, dover, scholastic, kensington, harelequin, redwheel/weiser:

Screenshotted text: She dressed and retrieved her already-packed suitcase, checking its contents one last time. Latching it shut, she stole a glance at the potted fern in the corner of her bedroom, wondering again what would happen to the plants she’d tended so carefully. Perhaps the only unambiguously beautiful things she would leave behind. Rolling the bag to her entry, Saoirse put on her shoes, took a deep breath, and left the home she’d occupied for over thirty years. She did not look back. ----- Emile woke with a start, flopped facedown on his bed. He grabbed for his comm in a panic, then sagged with relief. Still half an hour before Mother’s call. He’d only intended to rest his eyes for a moment, but fallen into a surreal dream of explaining to Mother how his prototype stag had gotten into the pantry and eaten all the ingredients they needed for the family meal.

Chapter 2.12 of Europa University: Admissions is out, free on my website: www.coricatchthorne.com/admissions-2..., AO3 archiveofourown.org/works/700126..., and Tumblr www.tumblr.com/coricatchtho... ! In which a number of people and emotions move from one place to another.
#EuropaUniAdmissions

#WIPSnips - "Serious"

I've shared this one before, for "sorry," but it works here as well & it's a part I think I remember others resonating with!

From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle

If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.

Sony stop shooting itself repeatedly in the dick challenge

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Just ran across a tumblr thread of Slutty Boy 15/16th century mercenaries. Historically accurate costuming! The past was alive, y'all, and it was fabulous.

A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.

Throwback to something worth repeating.

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

The articulated skeleton of a seagoing lizard from the Cretaceous, Mosasaurus. Brown bone on gray shale.

Cretaceous seas were inhabited by several Mosasaurus species, not all of them giants.

This is one of the medium-sized Mosasaurus, M. missouriensis, an exceptional specimen found in Alberta. Lizardfish bones were in its gut contents. The prey had been bitten into swallowable chunks. 🧪

From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.

#WIPSnips 'liquid'

funny story, this is one of the most impactful events in the history of this world

A shirt design/illustration of a robot. The robot's head is a laptop showing a row of three blank white figures in suits. A speech balloon is coming from the figures, it says "$". In one hand the robot wields a police club, in the other it clutches a large canvas bag that has ripped open at the back from the amount of sheer amount of objects crammed into it. From the broken bag flows a large pile of artworks of varying types, in a rainbow of colors. The text reads "AI IS NOT ALIVE, AI IS NOT INTELLIGENT, AI IS ART THEFT" and underneath "BY AND FOR BILLIONAIRES".

OK one last shirt design, this one I just made because I personally wanted a shirt that said all this but couldn't find it anywhere. www.bonfire.com/ai-is-theft

there's something genuinely annoying Abt people who draw furries and get commissions from furries and might occasionally engage with the fandom to understand basic things but go "no ew I would never be a furry yuck!" like ok man I get it you do you but you seem like you have internalized shame.

Weaknesses: - Unskippable cutscenes - Some chapters feel half-baked - Minor bugs - Excessive makeout scenes - Slow segments in gameplay

A friend of mine was using a tool to analyze market research for his game. As a check he tested it on DELTARUNE. Seems like I have a lot of things to work on...

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

Michelle Yeoh will be getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next week.

Quiznos Coyote

11”x14” Oil on Canvas