Vanessa is Tired But Trying

No one talks about Jacob's Ladder enough. One of the scariest, saddest movies i've ever seen. Hugely influential to the Silent Hill game series.

Teaching STEM without teaching the Humanities is how you get Spider-Man villians. Teaching Theater without teaching the Humanities is how you get Batman villians.

This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.

Chronically ill people: You should rest when you feel sick.

Some of the same chronically ill people: But, not me, I have to work, sometimes at my own peril.

Have you ever went through Cats don’t Dance frame by frame? The smears are incredible.

Here are three tiny chickens drinking water under a peony bush, for morale

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The Mario and Peach thing is so funny to me cuz "they're just good friends" is usually used to shoot down gay couples 99% of the time but Nintendo is out here doing it with straight couples, now that's equality

With the last few years I’ve had, why not? Also Jazzy is always called for.

Illustration by me of a black crow with a olive green background. They’re sitting on their butt, feet straight out, looking anxious. Yellow speech bubble saying “ACK”

Overstimulated.
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This game looks and IS incredible. A scrappy team of talented folks put together something truly special here. It's spooky, atmosphere-laden, evocative, and just downright Badass™

My work has been stolen now by both image and writing AI generating models. YES, STOLEN. It’s already hard enough being an author and artist and trying to find an audience, much less build a freelance business and a ‘brand’. It’s hard enough to be an artist in a world that devalues art WITHOUT multi-billion dollar corporations STEALING from us. I’ve spent my entire life and professional career fighting for a space in this world as a creative. It’s been made exponentially harder by AI. I don’t know where I’m going with this. I can’t find a job in my field even with a lifetime of skills and experience. I’m just sad, defeated, and mourning the slow death of my dreams. Stop using AI! We’re all poor. It’s tempting, I know. But all you’re doing is stealing from your piers. And corporations are stealing from ALL of us.

Idk 🥲

silly mood

a cartoon man is holding up a book titled what i do in the dark Alt: A cardboard standie of an author mechanized to wave a copy of his book and yell, "Buy my book!" from The Critic.

wait guys i've got a great marketing idea

We are discussing age verification to access the internet. If you don't want your child to access specific content on the internet, the solution is to parent your child, not to have the state forcibly remove the security, civil liberties, anonymity, and privacy of every adult using the internet.

Reminder: Some disabilities are invisible and/or nonlinear.

When I got my ADHD diagnosis I went THROUGH IT. Realizing that I'd gone every step on a higher difficulty level, & having no help for so long, was a lot.

It's not a superpower. But it is part of what made me.

morris, an orange cat with his front legs stretched in front of him. his tongue is out for some reason

Morris again this time looking at the camera with no tongue

buds your breadsticks are out

sometimes i say stuff like "i realize that people don't literally think there are little people inside the TV, i'm saying they act AS IF they do; ideas about how to interpret fiction get mixed up in unconscious ways with how we relate to real people"

then it turns out no, they really do think that

Tweet: "We went to the planetarium today and when the voicover said 'This is the Earth', one of the kids booed."

This.

I cannot emphasize enough how influencer and hustle culture have completely changed the internet from "weird and wonderful things people make for the heck of it" to algorithm chasing joylessness.

Hey. Hey.

Please don’t wait for an indie book series to be finished before you pick up the books. Just buy them. Don’t wait.

So MANY indie series never get finished because the author gets zero sales on the opening volumes and gives up.

Give them a reason to keep going.

Buy the books.

A cool thing about the Dems being absolutely useless institution-fuckers is that if they did gain control again, they'll look at the mutilated, broken remnants of the FDA and NSF and such as sacred and reject out of hand any suggestion they need to be changed.

Dems confused about why they're polling lower than GOPs? Think of it this way: one side is vile, rabid vermin - the other side let them in the house, feeds them, doesn't discipline them, dotes on them, responds to their needs, often takes their side in territorial disputes, asks you for $5.00 often.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Small gray cat scrunching herself on a square cement slab, she has a crazed look in her eyes

I bought Thistle a cement slab and I think it's a hit

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”