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what are you looking forward to right now?

if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?

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What's your hair routine like? Anything special?

what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?

favorite month of the year and why?

favorite time of day and why?

do you play or follow any sports? & elaborate on that?

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dishes or laundry?

what's something you learned recently?

if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

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what's a piece of advice you would give to yourself five years ago?

do you believe in luck and superstition? Do you carry any lucky items or follow any lucky rules?

Are you musical? Play any instruments or sing? Would you ever perform for an audience?

Write, type, or speak?

Grace is joking around with a selectively violent creature that can rip his soft squishy body apart in an instant!

But it’s also a lot of fun to hear Weir talk about all the stuff he wants to include in a possible sequel, like the fact that eridians can have several conversations at once even with the same eridian. He imagine Rocky and Adrian bickering in one conversation while having a nice conversation at the same time that slowly turns into a fight and all of a sudden they’re yelling at each other in two conversations about different things.

He also says they have terrible spacial memory because they can see everything around them all the time thanks to their echo location so to them it’s crazy that humans can only see in one direction but still remember what’s behind them and even what the last room they were in looks like. Apparently eridians mostly just remember that the room exists and that it has the computer in it but if you asked them where the computer is placed in the room they’ll struggle to give a precise answer.

And Rocky got scared when Grace hugged him because eridians don’t have a concept of expressing affection with physical touch. To them it’s only neutral or violent because thanks to their hard shell they can’t really feel much. They only use it to move each other around or to break through their prey’s shell to get to the soft insides. So in their inter-species friendship only Grace would feel any desire to touch Rocky. It makes it very cute that Rocky joins in on Grace’s hugging ritual. It’s purely for Grace’s sake.

Equiping an armor tutorial

Updated June 12th, 2026

"Anti-Psychotic" -- 4k words. A person living with schizophrenia reckons with the realization that their delusions may have more basis in reality than they thought. Originally appears in Diet Milk Magazine F/W II.

"Dream Home" -- 1k words. Not a house that is haunted, but a house that haunts you. Narrated version available through the Creepy podcast Patreon.

"The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" -- 5k words. A lonely, isolated alcoholic begins obsessively fantasizing about her two coworkers at their rural country music radio station. [Note: this story is Not Safe For Work] Appears in issue 4 of God's Cruel Joke.

"Watch Where You're Going" -- 3.5k words. Two trans people talk about life while one of them finishes her shift at the local video store. Appears in issue 6 of Olit Magazine.

"Maintenance Email Transcripts Sept-Oct 2022" -- 2k words. A person living in Boston seeks mold remediation for her apartment with increasing desperation. Appears as an online feature from God's Cruel Joke.

"From the Journals of Dr. Arthur Sweetly" -- 6k words. A Victorian surgeon with an interest in Spiritualism documents his dubious experiments as he seeks to prove the rumored distance communication method of sympathetic writing. Appears in issue 4 of Reader Beware.

"Newshawk's Crawl" -- 5k words. A turn-of-the-century newspaper writer goes to extreme lengths to get his story, but there are some places you just can't come back from. Appears in issue 1106 of Bewildering Stories.

"Butterfly Stitch" -- 4k words. Following a conviction for providing illegal abortions, a disgraced transsexual surgeon turns to backalley work offering gender affirming surgeries for those with nowhere else to go. Appears in Speculative Erotics, issue 5 of God's Cruel Joke.

Tumblr en concreto es muy anglocentrista y un gran número de los usuarios no habla más que inglés. Si quieres que tus cosas lleguen a gente con gustos u opiniones similares, escribirlo en inglés asegura que la gente por lo menos lo pueda leer. Suma a esto el hecho de que bastantes series y tal son originalmente de habla inglesa (y a veces ni se traducen a tu lengua madre), lo que crea un fandom principalmente angloparlante.

Más allá de eso, también hay que tener en cuenta las diferencias culturales que surgen entre fandoms de distintos idiomas. Por ejemplo, durante mucho tiempo el fandom de Vocaloid angloparlante y el hispanohablante han chocado con respecto a temas como la piratería. En ocasiones es complicado manejar estas expectativas, y si sabes varios idiomas, peor incluso.

A mí me gustaría subir cositas en español y encontrar a gente que comparta mis gustos, pero en Tumblr en concreto es casi imposible. Tumblr ya es de por sí mucho más «nicho» en espacios hispanohablantes que otras RRSS como TikTok o Instagram, y si tus intereses no son muy populares, despídete.

La lingüística de los espacios de fans también está hipercentrada en el inglés. No es una pareja, es un ship; no es un universo alternativo, es un AU; no es destripar, es hacer spoiler, etc. Incluso las siglas: en español es LGTB, pero lo que sueles ver es LGBT. Parece una tontería, pero esta disonancia cognitiva hace que resulte muchísimo más complicado hablar en tu propio idioma en un fandom. Por no hablar de las innumerables referencias a posts o a memes... en inglés todo, por supuesto. Como te atrevas a hacer cualquier referencia cultural no inglesa, no te entiende nadie. Pierde la gracia.

Como minothtime acima falou, a questão de visibilidade acaba afetando muito: não é exagero falar que você sacrifica coisa de 3/4 de visibilidade caso você use qualquer lingua que não o próprio inglês.

Pessoalmente, como uma pessoa bilíngue eu não tenho nenhum problema com o inglês, mas se eu tivesse, eu por mim mesma acabaria evitando posts nesta língua pelo simples fato que o Tumblr não oferece uma tradução fácil, nem mesmo copiar e colar é fácil pois no celular, ao menos no meu, o texto não permite cópia. Apenas no computador teria a facilidade de tradução rápida.

Eu sei que o tradutor automático tem seus problemas, por exemplo termos regionais ou figuras de linguagem que fora de um contexto linguístico/social/cultural acabariam fora de contexto, mas ainda sim a opção de tradução facilitaria esse sacrifício entre língua mãe e língua comum.

Mas tem outro problema que a maior parte das pessoas nem mesmo pensa sobre: muitas vezes nós que não somos nativos de países ingleses temos que nos envolver muito cedo com o inglês como segunda língua.

O resultado? Toda a nossa interação com uma diversa gama de fandoms e emoções foram naturalizadas em palavras estrangeiras. Em um processo pessoalmente triste, nos é mais fácil comunicar ideias e sentimentos em uma lingua que nem mesmo nossa, desde meras palavras até a posição de vírgulas e conceitos, é por conta dessa desnaturalizaçao que passamos pelo uso excessivo do inglês.

My story "Nearest and Dearest" is now available to read as an online feature with God's Cruel Joke. Things haven't been the same for Emma since her fall, but at least she has her daughter Jane to take care of her now. There's nothing quite like the love a daughter has for her mother, the way Jane loves Emma. Nothing in the world.

3.3k, content warning for emotional incest and grotesque implications. Read the story for free right here:

The right one has started to die.

My dad got me AirPods because I’m on an iPhone now but they turned out fake.

We found a pair of original Samsung buds online and got them. The left earbud in that one is dying.

After many many tries and lots of research, you can’t mix and match these specific types of Samsung earbuds.