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Pic of me with a lot of filters, I missed taking selfies to post here

The bugs may be taking over my brain a little bit. But I really love this design. It’s kinda inspired by a geode.

i wanted to build off of gabe's idea where headcrabs are used as a pork brain substitute in dishes like gulai banak. the dish above is cooked headcrab meat served with a runny curry, paired with sauce derived from antlion grubs, which is either poured into the curry to make it thicker or used as a dipping sauce.

the headcrab legs dont work as a perfect substitution to actual crab legs, but virtually you can eat them the same; you squeeze or pick the meat out and its delicious with butter or aforementioned grub sauce

before I start, I want to clarify that I’ve only just started using ellipsus, so there may be things I don’t know or maybe things I got wrong? basically these are just what I experience so far since I began using it for the past couple days. so fyi I am definitely not an expert on how the platform works.

“what convinced me to move from google docs to ellipsus? / what makes it better than google docs?”

from what I hear people say, google docs apparently uses ai to 1. train their ai model 2. scan what you write — so that they can delete your works or ban your gmail account if their ai deems your works violated their terms of service, aka if your works are too explicit, if they’re smut or if they’re too taboo.

though I must say that I’ve never had any issues with google docs and I write a lot of smut, explicit, taboo fics on there. so this is entirely what I hear other people say. but I decide to move from it to ellipsus anyway because I don’t want to risk losing my works or my account.

so… “why ellipsus?”

as I’ve mentioned earlier, I don’t want to risk losing my works, or my gmail account, because google’s ai allegedly gets to decide what I can or cannot write.

from what I hear, ellipsus was built with the purpose of being 100% ai-free and 100% writer-friendly. so I believe my works are safer here.

“how’s ellipsus compared to google?”

so far I prefer ellipsus’s ui. it’s more convenient, easier to navigate, it has themes you can choose. it makes you feel less “writing is a job that you have to do” and more “writing is fun, look at all these themes and cool tools you can play with!”

that said, the only thing I have to adapt is that ellipsus blocks all autocorrect and text prediction. granted, I understand they do this because, unlike other platforms, ellipsus’s core is that you as a writer write everything yourself. I’m still used to google docs, and pretty much every other platform, where I can somewhat rely on autocorrect to fix my typos and text prediction to help me so that I don’t always have to type down every single letter of the word I want. but it’s no big deal. I can correct typos when I proofread my works, and it’s not like I rely on autocorrect and text prediction that much to begin with anyway.

“would I recommend ellipsus?”

Rocky is not a scientist but hes likely familiar with the basic principles of an experiment and he likely knew that since he has literally no idea what killed everyone else, the only way to ensure his own survival was to add as few variables to the mix and change as little as possible.

Considering the fact that he's, you know, alive by the time Ryland shows up, I would guess that Rocky never left that workshop unless absolutely strictly necessary, among other things that stayed the same for, again, almost half a century. Just in case that was the thing keeping him alive. Even if it meant living in monotony for an indeterminate amount of time.

He’s a scientist; Rocky is an engineer. Of course they figured it out

And it’s just. The Blip-A is GORGEOUS to our eyes. The strings. The harmonics. The sounds. It’s made of xenonite and gold and silver and she’s just spinning in space looking lovely for Grace like

I genuinely love ALL the differences between book and movie but that’s maybe my favorite. Grace gets to intake Rocky’s ship, and gets a giant glance at the way a whole new world thinks — and then he ends up living there. Fucking beautiful.

hell nah im done with this