The same KLA who's been here for years

This spicy blend of black comedy, horror, and pulpy queer romance is a very loose Jekyll and Hyde retelling! The wonderful art is by Rachel George.

I will release at least one chapter a month on Patreon! Be the first to read and follow along with this there! It's going into the query trenches after this, so it won't be published any time soon. This is your chance to read it first and see my process!

Had to draw a couple of ppl looking sideways for an assignment so i thought "Why not the star trek woman i've been drawing for the past couple of months AGAIN lets fucking gooo-"

so here she is. Seven of Nine looking at something, viewed from the side. love her to bits

No one tells you when you get a Big Serious Job™ how many fucking abbreviations you’ll be forced to learn.

Been working on block print stamps :) Thinking about making these into stickers

I need to say something and I need y'all to be calm

if it isn't actively bad or harmful, no representation should be called "too simple" or "too surface level"

I have a whole argument for this about the barbie movie but today I wanna talk about a show called "the babysitters club" on Netflix

(obligatory disclaimer that I watched only two episodes of this show so if it's super problematic I'm sorry) (yes. I know it's based on a book, this is about the show)

this is a silly 8+ show that my 9 year old sister is watching and it manages to tackle so many complex topics in such an easy way. basic premise is these 13 year old girls have a babysitting agency.

in one episode, a girl babysits this transfem kid. the approach is super simple, with the kid saying stuff like "oh no, those are my old boy clothes, these are my girl clothes". they have to go to the doctor and everyone is calling the kid by her dead name and using he/him and this 13 year old snaps at like a group of doctors and they all listen to her. it's pure fantasy and any person versed in trans theory would point out a bunch of mistakes.

but after watching this episode, my little sister started switching to my name instead of my dead name and intercalating he/him pronouns when talking about me.

one of the 13 years old is a diabetic and sometimes her whole personality is taken over by that. but she has this episode where she pushes herself to her limit and passes out and talks about being in a coma for a while because of not recognizing the limits of her disability.

and this allowed my 9 year old sister to understand me better when I say "I really want to play with you but right now my body physically can't do that" (I'm disabled). she has even asked me why I'm pushing myself, why I'm not using my crutches when I complain about pain.

my mom is 50 years old and watching this show with my sister. she said the episode about the diabetic girl helped her understand me and my disability better. she grew up disabled as well, but she was taught to shut up and power through.

yes, silly simple representation can annoy you if you've read thousands of pages about queer liberation or disability radical thought, but sometimes things are not for you.

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

"how can you multiship?" well you see honey, when two people love each other very much and neither of them is real...

Sometimes you gotta stop worrying about being the smartest and funniest person in the room and just enjoy being in a room with smart and funny people

I really implore y'all to stop letting the need to prove yourself get in the way of just enjoying life and the people you share it with. I'm using the word "implore" so y'all know I'm serious about it, btw

#scavengersreign is a rare bird, a shooting star. I was lucky enough to see it inside, work on it. Now it's re-released, let's keep this anomaly shining.

Wow. I finally had a chance to see Scavenger's Reign, and... just wow. The whole show is just... artful. Gorgeous. Terrifying. Grotesque. Profound. It started on HBO, which was stupid enough to cancel it. Netflix must have reclaimed the single brain cell in streaming for a while, because they picked it up. Check it out there if you can. Warning for, well, everything -- gore, abusive relationships, suicidal ideation, parasites (so many parasites), existential despair, narcissism, and the most beautiful death world you've ever seen. Recommended for some damn good science fiction.

you cannot fight for equality if you hate, dehumanize, and exclude children.

“i hate children” unlearn that. they’re people. many of them are a part of the marginalized groups you claim to fight for.

it is not children’s fault society pressured you to reproduce and forced heteronormative ideology onto you.

it is not children’s fault they remind you of your own bad childhood.

it is not children’s fault they are loud and messy and still learning how to behave around others.

they are people—some of the most defenseless among us in basically every way, including legally. if you don’t want to keep them safe and include them in your activism, you’re part of the problem.

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

Thank you for this good PSA because I’m still seeing sincere, published, professional writers doing “ahhhhh oh no this monster was SO UGLY i’m mentally ill now!”

forms of eldritch horror include but are not limited to - nobody will ever believe you, you must live alone with this knowledge - you will never feel safe again, and you realize you were never safe before - everything that was familiar is now strange and abhorrent to the point anything that now seems normal should be held in utmost suspicion - having this new knowledge has opened doors that will continually reveal new equally cursed knowledge without end - death and madness are no longer escapes

I’ve always felt that the idea of madness or sanity in an eldritch horror sense were misnomers. If anything, I feel a better term is a change of perspective. There is nothing inherent in seeing a greater being that “drives you insane”, it’s that this being doesn’t fit into your previous worldview at all and you have to wrestle that. Every character can and should react differently, changing in ways that “make sense” for them. It’s either a change in worldview or attempting to fit the greater being into your preexisting one. Both will have negative results, but will be interesting as hell to explore.

You know what? Unironically, I think this is the best comment I’ve seen on this post.

[image id: an ant looking at a circuit board saying “Dios mío! Un horror cósmico!” End id]

I am a solo indie dev trying to overcome my anxiety and actually let people know my game exists. It is a cute physics based game where you are the level.

I love making this game with passion and I am so excited to share it with the world, but somehow I need to let the world know. Unfortunately the way steam works is the more wishlists the more visibility, so if you are interested it is super appreciated :)

Wishlist on steam or visit the website to find out more mightymarbles.com

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

Listen the more I go to dyke events the more I realize I've always wanted to but have been put off by the "men dni" sapphics here-- and I just have to say, "men dni" doesn't exist in real life dyke events. Dyke itself is a rejection of gender and social norms. U guys look so silly using they/them pronouns and identifying as butch but not thinking trans men belong in dyke spaces. Aside from trans men, what about testo butches. What about amab dykes. What about dykes with beards. Dykes with top surgery. What about dykes who are men and also not men. Men aren't the enemy !!! That means nothing to me. If you mean to say cis men, say cis men, but again, it's just kinda weird to create gendered boxes for a box that was made to de-gender. Read some more Leslie feinberg maybe