I've been a little MIA, just posting on IG when I can. I've been burnt out on social media for a while now, but the book is coming out in a week, and it's been suggested by creator friends and publishing people that I try to hang on for a little bit, at least to see what happens. It's tough, though.

I’m here to say I miss OG Livejournal.

So Char’s toon’s name is Ħu l-Oranġjo, which is roughly pronounced “Who la-rinch-ah”. It’s Maltese for “Have an orange”, which is something our mum says all the freaking time because oranges can fix anything. Unfortunately, ESO doesn’t allow for Maltese characters, so it’s spelled “Hu Laringa”. 🧐

Englidottir@englidottir.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Ħu is now out of the Wailing Prison, and into the waiting world. #eso #esofam

Ħu is now out of the Wailing Prison, and into the waiting world. #eso #esofam

The sister is officially IN! Khajiit! Dragonknight! Here we go!

Ugh. I forgot I have to walk my sister through installing some mods. Seriously, are we ever getting a minimap? 😞

Amenos. #eso #esofam

Corked. #eso #esofam

🟢💗👑 #eso #esofam

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Ranking of the people of Tamriel who are most likely attracted to Flame Atronachs: 1. The Laumont Family (rumors that the Laumont bloodline can trace its ancestry to a Breton/Flame Atronach union) 2. Melyn Drad (Melyn Drad's acknowledged attraction to them, as well as his fire resistance)

I kind of want to see who my sister’s first ESO crush will be. One friend’s first crush was on Meram Vox, which totally took me by surprise. We only see and speak to him for a hot minute. Watch my sister loathe Naemon. Boo.

Englidottir@englidottir.bsky.social · 9mo ago

So my younger sister finally installed ESO last night, but has yet to create a character. This slow rollout is killing me. I keep forgetting she's a writer with a child, a fulltime job, and all sorts of adult responsibilities. How dare she.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 9mo ago

It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood. "It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.

Alan Arkin is the best thing about So I Married an Axe Murderer. I know it's a holiday but I'm still too tired to think about anything for more than three minutes at a time.

So my younger sister finally installed ESO last night, but has yet to create a character. This slow rollout is killing me. I keep forgetting she's a writer with a child, a fulltime job, and all sorts of adult responsibilities. How dare she.

I just saw someone refer to Lae'zel's boobs as lae'zongas and that nearly put an early end to my day.

Whenever I see or hear Robert Duvall's name, I never not think of this. This moment meant so much to me for so many reasons.

I had lunch plans with a friend tomorrow but I’ve just been informed we need to reschedule. And while I love my friend dearly, I’m (quietly) positively ecstatic.

a man in a suit and tie is saying " this pleases me "

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying " this pleases me "

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THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

When I was a kidling, this album cover wouldn’t get out of my head. Every time I was sent down to the basement to fetch something, it was there at the front of my siblings’ record rack, waiting to make me move even faster than I already was so I could get the hell back upstairs.

Reading is good for you.

this is not an essay about Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights"

why can't we cope with ambiguity these days?

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I’m listening to a song I love, and there’s a bit in it that sounds almost identical to another song I love, and I can’t think of what that second song is. This is going to keep me up forever if I don’t sort it out.

a young man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and a bowl in the background .

ALT: a young man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and a bowl in the background .

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I’m a moody old fart this Sunday morning. 🧐

Are 'Friends' Electric?

YouTube video by Gary Numan - Topic

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Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting. www.tom-cox.com/thinking-abo...

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last yr.

THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...

Are we actually going to ever see Sanguine, or is he just going to keep showing up in the bodies of people with bad haircuts?

The unicorn and the butterfly. 🦋 | #Art #Illustration #Animation #TheLastUnicorn #Unicorn |