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Wednesday DE: tell all

Jul. 9th, 2025 11:06 am
thebattycakes: (phantom spaceman)
[personal profile] thebattycakes posting in [community profile] ways_back_room
Hello Milliways, Wednesday has rolled around once again.

Today's DE:

What is the title of your pup's Netflix documentary?

Wednesday @ 5:33 pm

Jul. 9th, 2025 05:33 pm
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
[personal profile] alisx

HAIRDRESER: And we should be able to get some good volume in here without going the full 80s frizz.

ME: (deadass wearing That Cure Shirt) . . . uuuuh.

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Wednesday @ 5:18 pm

Jul. 9th, 2025 05:18 pm
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[personal profile] alisx

To give an indication of how prevalent this myth is, I know someone who was literally taught it as part of the MBA they did at Harvard.

RE: https://masto.hackers.town/@calcifer/114819019498504878

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Wednesday @ 10:19 am

Jul. 9th, 2025 10:19 am
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
[personal profile] alisx

For what it’s worth, website owners can already (sort of) see a version of this, because every time a link to your site gets posted to a Mastodon server, it gets hit by the bot that creates the preview cards. This bot clearly identifies which server it originates from in its user agent string. Which is good behavior!

Sending explicit referrers makes this information a bit more visible (and more linked to click-through metrics), but on the privacy angle, it’s not something that was particularly secret before.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/114820194432185262

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Tuesday DE

Jul. 8th, 2025 07:47 am
bjornwilde: (Default)
[personal profile] bjornwilde posting in [community profile] ways_back_room
How is your pup with persistent pain?

I'm thinking level 5 or below, just the annoying level rather than the stop what you are doing now level.

Tuesday @ 7:53 pm

Jul. 8th, 2025 07:53 pm
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
[personal profile] alisx

I feel that I have played this game and my advice is: run.

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BAD MEME, chapter 18.

Jul. 8th, 2025 02:23 pm
alisx: (lain.navy)
[personal profile] alisx
The title BAD MEME in a bold, brush font, white with a black outline, in front of a roughly painted symbol that looks like an W on top of a vertical line, with two diagonal lines crossing it at roughly the middle. The background is an abstract grunge effect, mostly orange, but with some green and purple at the edges.

Eighteen

Roxanne Lee, more recently known as the Tooth Girl, didn’t know where she was running to. Only what she was running from.

I’m sorry, Roxx. Just trust me, Bri had said. Or, rather, the girl Roxx had always thought of as Brianna Tran had said it. But standing there, in gloom of the church, Roxx had had to admit she wasn’t sure who her friend was. Not any more.

She’d been . . . dulled, somehow, Bri had. Roxx didn’t know how to explain it another way, didn’t yet know how to work the new senses that’d come along with the . . . the thing inside her. The thing she was. Roxx and the Tooth Girl, forever and ever, amen. And things looked so different now, if she only opened her eyes, opened her maw, and sought to taste it. Emotions with flavor, dreams with texture, fears with scents. One new sense exploding across all the others, described and interpreted in the only way Roxx’s still-human brain could comprehend.

For everyone and everything, that was, except for Brianna Tran. Bri had tasted dusty when she’d walked into the church. Thin, somehow. And the people who’d followed her? Well, they didn’t taste like anything at all.

Keep reading »

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Music Monday

Jul. 7th, 2025 02:03 pm
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
[personal profile] alisx

🎵 Of Mice & Men, “Forever YDG’n

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crantz: (pugs not drugs)
[personal profile] crantz
A few months ago I was at the coffee shop to finish a rapidly approaching overdue story for a fic exchange and noticed a poster for an upcoming ZineFest in town! A bigger city's comic group wanted to trial balloon something in our much smaller city to see if it could work. It had no url on it! At all! But I photographed the name and used the internet and found their instagram and their email and contacted their email because I had no instagram and got the url to their just made website which changed a week later! Anyway after much trial and error including 2 days of their sign up form not working until I discovered it would on the third browser I tried, I signed up for it!

And then waited a month or so for a response.

I got in!

I made all my zines, made stickers, packed up my Ceramic Objects, made a sign and day of we got there in plenty of time, had no problems at set up (minus needing to borrow some tape from the front desk of the art gallery where it was being held) and it went great!

I actually sold stuff! People wanted to buy my writing and my art! I made back the cost of everything! And I talked to so many people and the only bad part is I am one of those people who has to deliberately make facial expressions and it had been so long since I worked in retail I had forgotten the facial movements for a customer service smile and my brain was relaying to me that the muscle movements I felt weren't 'friendly smile' they were 'death rictus'.

But everyone was very nice, no horror stories at all! And it feels so amazing people wanted creative stuff I'd done, you have no idea!

In other news, the latest 'episode' of the Star Trek game I run finished. It was a Beach Episode with lots of Section 31 bullshittery where the players rolled as horribly as possible at every juncture. It was kind of beautiful. However, they got in some AMAZING character moments they hadn't before I would call the whole thing a massive success. The person I'm running these games for primarily and I are now planning the next episode with some very interesting stuff I have to keep under my hat for now.

The Cthulhu/Catthulhu game is going well. I'm managing good player participation, the modifications of the game are going well, and I decided to do a pretty bold move this session that really deviated from the module but got a clue across to the cats that I could not have had them discover otherwise. They also really liked my latest npcs - Pasta and Devil the hippy and military dogs, and Lucille the mangled but healthy and wellspoken cat who keeps/protects the murderous npc Bogdan.

Previous NPC successes were Wiggle and Squeak, the guinea pigs who thought that now their owner was dead, they were going to inherit the house. They had renovation plans. And Fraulein Hoffman, who to her and everyone else's surprise is not a cat but an opossum and possibly having an affair with Burgocat Hans.

I've been having trouble making Pathfinder comics lately, or even HamsterBandit Industries comics lately. I have a lot of pencils and scripts but actually committing to finishing has been tough. I'll wait for a 3 am manic period I guess.

Tiny home(pages).

Jul. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm
alisx: The head of a moth creature. It has dark fuzz and is grinning at you with glowing teeth teeth and eyes. (alis.mothface)
[personal profile] alisx

A cute little homepage generator script that makes me vaguely nostalgic for the days when I ran this blog on a CMS I’d written myself . . .

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Sunday @ 11:59 am

Jul. 6th, 2025 11:59 am
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
[personal profile] alisx

Cleaning up my blog and re-rediscovering this old post, because lol.

From memory, these are from Aurelio Voltaire’s What Is Goth?, but I think what’s most interesting looking at these twenty years later is that they represent a variety of goth looks that . . . wouldn’t necessarily read as goth to The Youth nowadays? Hm.

(Something something tradgoth discourse something something???)

RE: https://alis.me/x/175433867833/

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Saturday @ 8:08 pm

Jul. 5th, 2025 08:08 pm
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
[personal profile] alisx

Apparently while procrastinating studying for her Korean exam, Mum got super into a cdrama about an esports team, and now she wants to know all about MOBAs. Adorable.

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Wednesday @ 8:43 pm

Jul. 2nd, 2025 08:43 pm
alisx: The head of a moth creature. It has dark fuzz and is grinning at you with glowing teeth teeth and eyes. (alis.mothface)
[personal profile] alisx
mildly nsfw video game content

Playing Interdimensional Vending Machine and . . . this is the first thing you give me, game? Really?

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Dear Rare Male Slash Writer

Jul. 4th, 2025 10:24 pm
crantz: (star trek riker/picard)
[personal profile] crantz
Hello! I'm Rosencrantz on Ao3 and thank you for coming to read my letter!

My likes: Adventures, ghosts, casefic, stuff that only works within the canon they come from, smut to gen.
My DNWs: Underage (-18/-18 sexual, -18/+18 anything), noncon or dubcon.

All my requests are for Fanfic.


  1. X-Men: TAS

  2. World of Warcraft

  3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

  4. Hellboy (Comics)



the letter! )
alisx: The head of a moth creature. It has dark fuzz and is grinning at you with glowing teeth teeth and eyes. (alis.mothface)
[personal profile] alisx

Aa-aa-aa-and done!

So I like Hualian better than the main pairings in SVSSS or MDZS (no shade on either, mostly just a personal preference thing), but the story itself I think suffered from being unfocused in places and with, honestly, a pretty disappointing villain reveal.

Still a fun read, and with some parts that will live rent free with me forever.

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Playcost.

Jul. 5th, 2025 11:15 am
alisx: The head of a moth creature. It has dark fuzz and is grinning at you with glowing teeth teeth and eyes. (alis.mothface)
[personal profile] alisx

Terrifying tool that will estimate how much you’ve spent on Steam.

Mine was about $1.6k which . . . okay. Could be worse, I guess?

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Friday @ 9:57 am

Jul. 4th, 2025 09:57 am
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
[personal profile] alisx

They turned the water off in the building this morning for maintenance reasons and oh gods I just want to brush my teeeeeeeeeeeeeth . . .

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Friday @ 9:38 am

Jul. 4th, 2025 09:38 am
alisx: A demure little moth person, with charcoal fuzz and teal accents. (Default)
[personal profile] alisx

I’ve pretty hard-blocked almost all bots from my sites over the last year or so and, yeah. This is why.

Fuck AI, basically.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@krinkle/114786998285436684

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Thursday DE

Jul. 3rd, 2025 09:37 am
bjornwilde: (Default)
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Taliesin the bard once said/sang, “I have been a word in a book.”

If the book is your character’s cannon, what word would your character be?
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