Mx Pia Foxhall

--'oh well why not find alternatives?'

Bitch there will be NO SAFE ALTERNATIVES soon, at this pace and trajectory, and you will not like who your favorite creators will have to share space with if Warren et al get their way.

MAKE CALLS.

MAKE CALLS MAKE CALLS MAKE CALLS.

your roflcopter suddenly looks a lot less impressive, as i roll up in my luxurious lmaousine

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Traditional ink and pencil illustration of a jaguarundi in profile

The epic Jaguarundi! :D

A traditional illustration in ink and pencil of an Emerald Moth, it is pale bright green.

Emerald Moth!

A traditional illustration in ink and coloured pencil of a dormouse on a twig.

Dormouse! :D

Traditional illustration of a Yellow-Billed Magpie in bright yellow, blue and magenta, in inks and coloured pencil.

Yellow-Billed Magpie!

A colourful traditional illustration of an Amrith Mahal cow

The Amrith Mahal! A breed of cow considered sacred in India.

Traditional illustration of a Spotted Owl including the wings and face, in green and purple.

Spotted Owl!

Alright folks, give me a letter and I will show you an animal I've drawn starting with that letter!

One letter per reply, you can reply more than once!

The artists and writers who fell back on 'well but it's bad and it's easy to tell the difference' will one day no longer have this to fall back on. Some already don't.

But I still feel less threatened, because I do think a lot of readers care about making a connection. Authors too.

The thing about Gen AI that makes me feel less threatened as an author is simply that I don't like the homogenised generic-ness of Gen AI writing.

A lot of people however, can no longer tell the difference. The Heated Rivalry fandom on AO3 is a good example of this.

It wouldn't annoy me so much except I really like thunderstorms and pre-thunderstorm weather gives me brutal fatigue. And without the weather "breaking" (barometric pressure shifting) the pain lingers.

So I get to predict this with my whole damned body.

At some point, SURELY the meteorologists in Perth have to realise that there's a really high chance that storms angling in from the North are most likely to get trapped/locked behind the Darling Scarp, right?

It's like they forget that ridge every single time they make a prediction. x.x

I hate when I say one thing like 'Underline the Red will be a monthly story' only to realise that it might actually work better in rotation with Underline the Silver. It's partly because the scope of Red is so huge, it's many storylines, many years, it's hard to just bust out lots of chapters?

Hm

'Who's going to win," she says after explaining that she can't even mention the pen names producing books because it will tank what pitiful sales she gets if people know she's using AI to produce them.

LOL. Hear yourself.

It's possible that I could have monetised better and made smarter decisions, but ultimately my accessibility issues really got in the way, in a way they just don't for my writing. And I haven't like "abandoned" it, I just... eh. Idk, simultaneously sometimes miss it and then get reality checked.

Every now and then I miss working as an artist, and then I remember how it absolutely brutalised my wrists/hands/eyes/posture, and I never made more than like $5.50 an hour at the peak of doing it (and often far less), and it's like ah yes, I really, really prefer it as a hobby now.

Tiny Aquarium has this really unobtrusive way of interacting with other people in that you can visit their aquariums and leave (only positive) reactions on there, and they can do the same to yours.

There's also co-op fishing. I don't use the chatrooms, but I do just like hanging out and fishing.

I've been increasingly getting into collectathon / idler / incremental style games, and I have to say I'm really liking Tiny Aquarium now that I've got the hang of it. And I'm so close to 100% achievements on Chillquarium.

"Paradise"
#hazbinhotelfanart

"Kitty"

#HazbinHotelFanart

The idea that artists are elite or privileged rich people is such idiocy. I’ve gone to conventions with artist friends who are tabling at artist alleys and it’s like 4-5 of us in one hotel room.

OMG!! My friend May Wa did the cutest animation 'cause he can't make it to my birthday tomorrow!!!!!

He said, "Sometimes I catch you bouncing over the bridge on my ride home!" I always assume no one can see me, sometimes I am singing to myself on that bridge too

ahhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Cool I've never wanted anything less

I don't know their tav. I don't care about Corporate Tav

YOI is one of those ones that's interesting because most folks think of FS as "gay" but it's been so aggressively homophobic in the past even from within, and it's gotten somewhat better since YOI, but much like HR and Heartstopper is far lighter. Which is sort of my point. We need way more rep