I am trying okay

always thinking about how Mass Effect is virtually alone in getting it right by not capitalising species names. asari and krogan not Asari and Krogan. we don't say Koalas and Mantis Shrimp and Common Octopus why would we say Klingon and Goa'uld and Mandalorian? is it because there is a tendency among scifi writers and readers to conceptualise sapient extraterrestrials more as other cultures than other species? so when we write them out we treat them like Romans and Germans and Aztecs rather than monkeys and badgers and ferrets? what do we learn about humanity (Humanity?) from that? anyway thank you Mass Effect for giving me another minor thing to obsess over

It's also one of the only sci-fi properties I know of that doesn't just name species after their home planets. Asari come from Thessia, but they are not called thessians or something.

My psych professor mentioned swaddling in lecture so I emailed him a picture of me being swaddled in my dorm room and asked if I could get extra credit because it was really hot in there and I got really sweaty and he was like “fabulous, sure”

that is actually my main principle of explicit fic is that the personalities stay On during sex.

aww, slide to the left for mommy~ and take it back now, kitty…. aww, there’s a good girl. one hop this time?

I've bumped into a fun new trend in deceptive mobile game awards where they list a whole bunch of awards, but instead of the awards just being made up, they're real awards that haven't happened yet, and there's a tiny piece of text clarifying that these are awards the game's developer expects it to win.

Like, there's absolutely no way that little disclaimer would hold water if they ever actually got slapped for false advertising, but you almost have to admire the nerve.

i understand (on paper) why companies are anti-piracy but its funny when random individuals are also strongly anti-piracy. like how does it negatively affect your life if someone you know downloads a cracked torrent of sims 4. you dont work for EA. EA isnt gonna pay you for this. you lose nothing. its fine. chill out.

"you couldnt make seinfeld today" you couldve made seinfeld in 45 B.C.