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i love john brosio paintings bc theyll be an absolute gut punch that forces you to consider your own morality like two earthlings and they will also be Big Crab

This one.

Just as a heads-up, if you're one of the minority of people who actually use RSS (if you're here from Kitty you might be, or at least know of it): I deleted my account and data on Feedly today because, upon logging in, I was confronted with an advertisement/advisory that I could use their Premium Features to "Track the protests endangering your company's profits" or words to that effect.

After I got done vomiting rage blood, I elected to no longer use them to track webcomic feeds and like, one gaming news site. They almost certainly don't care about this, since I was not paying whatever rate they want to let you sort news by descending degree of outright lies, or whatever. That being said.

It is unlikely I have the means to make this happen, but it would make me very happy if they lost ANY number of users or experienced any degree of PR embarrassment for being fascist lickspittles.

I will also point out that a service that encourages corporate users to keep an eye on those damn dirty protestors, and which is thus choking itself on the boot, probably doesn't have the highest resistance to selling your shit or handing it over to any tom, dick or piggy who comes calling.

Anyway, fuck em', switch, think of it as the Chrome of RSS readers. Inoreader is supposed to be good.

It’s a shiny rock, what’s not to like?

merry ides of march

Fanbinding: The Grinch Who Sold Christmas by @forineffablereasons

Anthony J. Crowley, a big-time attorney from London, is sent to small-town Tadfield to close a deal before Christmas that would sell out half of high street to a fancy developer and put him up for partner at his firm. The deal will run the local businesses out and change the landscape of the town forever, but that’s none of Crowley’s business; he’s just doing a job.

But as the town invites him to share in their lives, their hopes, and their holiday celebrations, and as the enigmatic Aziraphale invites him to share in something more, Crowley starts to wonder: if everything has its price, is he still willing to pay what this deal will cost?

Finally posting my other bind from the @renegadepublishing 2022 Exchange! This is "The Grinch Who Sold Christmas" a Good Omens Hallmark Christmas movie AU by darcylindbergh (@forineffablereasons). It was a gift for Lofe (@misanthropiczombie), and I had such a lovely time with it.

I had a lot of fun making this book! This is a three-piece bradel bind, with a spine done in arrestox and boards in ivory Italian cloth from Hollanders. I gave painting a full pattern onto the cloth to create the design (nervewracking on white cloth...), which is inspired by Aziraphale's Heaven's Gate tartan pattern from the show. Fore-edge is a gold alcohol ink sponged on. I had this chunky red and gold lace thread I wanted for the endbands for that touch of Crowley's colors. Since I was already painting in the drop caps for Royal Flush, I decided to paint these ones in as well!

I was very happy to be able to gift copies of this both to my giftee and the author! And I got to do my first Good Omens bind <3.

(via Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight)

[Image description The scene from Parks and Recreation with Ron trying to slaughter a pig in a park with Ron replaced by Admiral Janeway and the park ranger replaced by the Romulan Captain. He says "You can't cross the neutral zone" and she says "Not to worry. I have a permit" second panel is the Romulan holding a piece of paper reading "I can do what I want. Janeway"]

Credit where it’s due

Even good-faith non-haters of Discovery and Picard were like “enough with the grimdark already” after a couple of seasons—and look at the Star Trek slate now:

Discovery is an LGBTQ safe space where the computer’s your friend and everyone gets free therapy;

Picard S2 was a fever-dream mashup of “Tapestry” (TNG), “Past Tense” (DS9), the One with the Whales, and “Unimatrix Zero” (VOY), if you took all the lesbian subtext in “Unimatrix Zero” and made it actual, literal text;

Lower Decks, a whole-ass sitcom which also feels like a genuine sequel series to TNG, my ultimate comfort watch;

Prodigy is arguably the darkest series they’ve got going right now, and that’s literally an animated show for kids;

Strange New Worlds, which isn’t afraid to get dark, but which is even less afraid to get silly.

And… I think we won, y’all. We said “Star Trek, please lighten the fuck up”—and it did. At this point I’m almost willing to let Michelle Yeoh’s Section 31 series have a few war crimes—you know, as a treat. 😈️

Can we talk about the SUPURB concept scaling of Prodigy? The show is designed for kids and to be a gateway into the Star Trek universe. As such they need to slowly and carefully introduce you to the various Trek things most of us longer established fans understand without question.

Let me break down how the first half of the season establishes trek concepts step by step:

Episode 1. Introduces the universal translator, several types of Trek aliens including the Kazon and Medusans, and the Protostar ship.

Episode 2. Introduces phasers (pew pew) and shields.

Episode 3. Introduces holograms, the brig, the concept of the United federation, replicators (food and vehicle), and escape pods.

Episode 4. Introduces the concept of away missions, tricorders, and ship landings. It also reinforces the idea that holograms must remain within the ship.

Episode 5. Introduces klingons and the proto warp drive.

Episode 6. Introduces the holodeck, the concept of the Kobiashi Maru scenario, and Chakotay.

Episode 7. Introduces the transporters, Ferengi, and both the concepts of First Contact and the Prime Directive.

Episode 8. Introduces time travel shenanigans.

Episodes 9 and 10 are special because they both take everything we’ve learned up until now and puts them to work.

So by now we should understand how the protostar jump works, how universal translators work, how the holodeck works, how Medusans work, how holograms are supposed to work (to give us an added surprise when they function differently due to an upgrade) and we reinforce Starfleet ideals and beliefs.

Each episode takes you step by step, slowly acclimating you to these concepts so that further down the line when we see characters in wild settings that shouldn’t exist we just know “Ah, they’re on the holodeck.” Or see characters just appear out of nowhere “ah, that’s because of transporters.”

I know this should be obvious storytelling 101, but I’ve noticed that most other trek shows… just don’t do this at all. They just assume everyone knows what a transporter is, or what a holodeck is, or what phasers and tricorders are. And while to a degree some of that will be absorbed through pop culture osmosis, very few of the other trek shows stop and explain what these things are which makes getting into these shows more challenging for first time watchers.

So I greatly appreciate Prodigy assuming that viewers know next to NOTHING about the Trek world and take the time to let these concepts be introduced slowly over the span of multiple episodes. And each time it feels like we’re leveling up too.

This is good stuff!

Pretty good short video on how bad the new Harry Potter game is

Video by: I_am_a_toad on tiktok (not my video)

Y una cosa más, hay que tener los hueváncanos como sandías para sacar la Carta Rogeriana de Al-Idrīsī como ejemplo y poner una reproducción hecha por un tío alemán (true story) Y CON EL NORTE ARRIBA.

Colega, que en la imagen se ve que está el texto al revés.

Deshonra sobre tu vaca

Map of the world drawn by Europeans in 1515:

That european? Exactly, Albrecht Dürer.

The nature goddess Rhiannon, Queen of Faeries, dwells within the Faerie Realm, an alternate Prime Material plane consisting of endless magical forests.  Her long hair appears yellow in spring, brown in summer, red in autumn, and white in winter.  (Robert Klasnich, from “The Folk of the Faerie Kingdom” by Vince Garcia, Dragon 155, March 1990)

It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE

This is a better endorsement for the movie than any 5 star review

hey, just asking because i'm curious,

but how many people have noticed that a lot medieval fantasy maps are left-justified?

i mean i know its probably europe, but it's enough of a trope for tvtropes to have an article about it.

a lot of these are orientated with cold weather to the north and the sea to the west.

even the ones i found with ocean orientation not to the west, the cold weather is to the north.

i just thought it was interesting and wanted to share

edit: i think the only reason i noticed this is because very few maps look even vaguely like where i live in the s. hemisphere :p

cold weather is to the south and it gets hotter the further north you go

some examples i found:

middle earth - lotr

eragon

wheel of time

westoros - got (looks like britan and europe)

Glass Onion + Text posts

Celebrando la Vigilia de los puercos del modo tradicional: tocando hacia belén va una burra rin rin con las campanillas de navidad de tumblr.

¡Un abrazo a la gente que viene desde tuiter! Acordáos de poner algo en la bio que suene a persona humana aunque no vayáis a postear aún, para que no os confundamos con cuentas bot y os bloqueemos.

Durante las vacaciones de navidad voy a reprogramar La Cola™ (de publicación), que ya va siendo hora.

Gente, si venís del pájaro, saludad para que vea quienes sois, tengo las preguntas y los mensajes abiertos.

Si no reconozco el nombre, solo sigo a la gente que etiqueta sus publicaciones por temas de forma consistente (hay fandoms que no me interesan, te estoy mirando a ti, magos del espacio).

a lot of scantily clad women with numbers in ther urls are following me lately. they must be smitten with my devilish charm

What the past couple days have felt like