Halcyon Hyena

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

girls yearn for popular media with a butch as a main character

Having been Very Online in the mid 1990s is rough because half of your formative influences are like "yeah, this Flash video engages in pop culture deconstruction that's strikingly topical even thirty years later and did things to my vocabulary that persist to this day, and I can literally never recommend it to anyone because its core premise is a level of homophobic ordinarily observed only under laboratory conditions".

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

the anniversary of library paste man’s death is in four days.

One hundred and ten years ago to the day. Amazing. Incredible.

RIP😔🙏📚🍯

the anniversary of library paste man’s death is in four days.

One hundred and ten years ago to the day. Amazing. Incredible.

RIP😔🙏📚🍯

Because we need to gate off and gentrify the internet because all these fucking proles are using it to organize where we can't see them, mostly. I'm just very concerned about what my workers think of me.

by far that's been one of the toughest challenges to crack with designing this game, but I'm really proud of the results

I design individual rooms with spots where doors can appear, and then I made a level generator that assembles them randomly into larger levels that branch and sprawl out in different directions. each level is like a dungeon crawl through a small metroidvania map (but without ability gating)

Oh something like this absolutely needs a built-in and spiffy level editor.

Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

@derinthescarletpescatarian Have you seen this yet?

No, but I've been incubating a society similar to this since reading Sheri Tepper's Grass about a year ago.