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Do you use Adobe InDesign? Make sure you turn Generative AI off, it defaults to on. You'll need to check to see if it's been turned back on every time you update the app.

I am having complicated feelings about The Odyssey (which I saw last night). Most importantly, check this before you go (yes it includes #spoilers, but it may save you from being effed up for the entire movie for not the reasons intended) www.doesthedogdie.com/media/901726 P.S. Sinon is everything.

Add to the list of D&D analogs for use in TV and movies: A&D, Angels & Demons, from Simon & Simon, 1981. Smack in the middle of the AD&D age.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

This response thread has some context that is important about what I just posted. Doesn't make it any LESS fucked up but it's part of the story.

This is super fucked up!

LMAO Reed pop just increased the price of NYCC Pro badges by $40. $180 all-in for a pro badge SDCC? Remains FREE for professionals. Reed Pop is a garbage profit guzzling greedy corportation and that is that.

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

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I miss stop motion animated effects in sci-fi and horror visual media.

I was today years old when I realized that Rapid Roy (that stock car boy)'s tattoo read "Hey Baby". It was not two separate tattoos, one that said "Baby" and another one that just said "Hey". Roy, had some real BDE. #JimCroce

I'm in Lisbon armed with the most important phrase: posso fazer festas? Literally it means "may I throw a party?", colloquially it means "can I pet your dog?"

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

I just spotted Madeleine Sami playing Tyro the Amazon in an episode of Xena Warrior Princess! She made one of my favorite movies, The Breaker Upperers, with Jackie van Beek and is extremely funny (not as an Amazon though, she is taking that role seriously).

I've moved all my book tracking to app.thestorygraph.com/profile/gnom... because I like stats. :D

Fuck off, Monday . com! I don't want to read about "How to beat AI guilt" in your "Insights" newsletter. Thanks anyway, I'd prefer not use a technology that is destroying our planet and stealing art and turning it into garbage.

Finished in September: 🎧 Private Rites by Julia Armfield read by Hannah van der Westhuysen. A dismal, disqueiting, and apocalyptic novel loosely based on King Lear. Highly recommend. #QueerBooks

Finished in September: 🎧 Looking for Smoke by K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) read by Julie Lumsden, Katie Anvil Rich, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, and Jordan Waunch. Thriller told in the voices of four teens. I cried multiple times listening to it. I'm looking forward to whatever Cobell writes next.

Finished in September: 🎧 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston read by Natalie Naudus. Slightly less steamy than The Pairing, this paranormal-light romance was sweet and satisfying. #QueerBooks

Finished in September: 🎧 Exhalation by Ted Chiang read by Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon, Ted Chiang. I didn't know that Chiang wrote Arrival until after I finished this collection of short stories. He's an amazing writer with novel takes on the meaning of being human. #QueerBooks

Finished in September: 📕 Someone You Can Build a Nest in by John Wiswell. Romantic horror. So so good! Read It! #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston read by Emma Galvin and Max Meyers. This is a capital R romance novel and it is very good and very hot! #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 📕 Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure: A Graphic Novel by Lewis Hancox. Trans coming of age memoir set in the U.K. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

Finished in August: 📕 Belly Full of Heart by Madeline Mouse. Cute, not super memorable. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

Finished in August: 🎧 Guilt by Association by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. I'm still hooked on these despite the painful internalized homophobia of the main characters (and the externalized homophobia of Wahredua, Missouri). #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 Paternity Case by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. More Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset fighting, flirting, and solving mysteries. But I really didn't enjoy the horrific crime in this one. #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 Transposition by Gregory Ashe read by Tristan James. I have mixed feelings about this entries series of "will they (detective partners), won't they" and "hate to love" mysteries. But I am reading all of them. #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill read by Shaan Dasani. Time travel, the meaning of homecoming and friendship, and a trans protagonist wrestling with growing up. #QueerBooks

Finished in August: 🎧 Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs read by Saskia Maarleveld. Engaging speculative fiction, with satisfying puzzles and a new take on magic. #QueerBooks

Finished in July: 📕 Plane Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol. Especially loved the characters and ending. #QueerBooks #GraphicNovels

Finished in July: 🎧 In Case You Read This by Edward Underhill, read by Shaan Dasani and Logan Rozos. Cute trans gay romance. #QueerBooks

Finished in July: 📕 Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology by Kathleen V. Kudlinski. I found this in a #littlefreelibrary. I didn't really know anything about her and this was a great overview. Well researched and well written. #Nonfiction books written for tweens are often solid intros to a subject.

Finished in July: 🎧 Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by the author. Finally, I've read one of Tchaikovsky's books! He's a brilliant writer and very good narrator! Hey, I like spiders. If you don't, heed the title, heavy spider content. #Fantasy

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Finished in July: 📕 Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane by Cat Rambo; short story. #QueerBooks

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Finished in July: 🎧 Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch, read by Giordan Diaz. Murder, magic, queer teens, and the Quabbin Reservoir. Set in 1999. If you like light horror and ya, highly recommend. ##QueerBooks

@adriellee.bsky.social and I wrote a fun little game about being Queer Witches for @tabletopgaymers.bsky.social 10th Anniversary! It is sweet, light, and a gay ol' time! You'll be able to pick this cozy bad boi up starting at @Gencon! Check out The Queer Coven!

Finished in July: 🎧 The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. Maclean, read by Stephanie Bentley. Cozy novel about an anxious, queer zookeeper, who wants to restore the endangered phoenix population. Enemies to lovers. This was cute but the main character annoyed me quite a bit. #QueerBooks #AudioBooks

Finished in July: 📚 Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austen; poetry. Austen reinterprets bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities. My favorites are the Matthew 25 series. #QueerBooks #Poetry

Finished in June: 🎧 The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang read by Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao, Telly Leung. A multiple lifetime spanning queer romantasy. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of "on screen" sex, definitely a book for adults. I wanted more from the ending. #QueerBooks