an interesting morning to be in a particular fandom I'm in several different subreddits for Particular Fandom, and the positivity-focused ones are eating themselves while the fans having honest feelings-focused ones are delivering one-liners better than anything in Particular Fandom's new material

Currently on yet another Mass Effect 3 playthrough to try out a male Shep romance with Kaidan. I have, at this point, sampled the majority of romance options. I have opinions.

the u-pick orchard had a minimum weight ... what am I going to do with all of these apples

someone save me from tomato and pepper season, plants can't stop won't stop

now that things have had a day to settle, is this a safe space to admit that my immediate reaction to finding out Paul Gross was cast as HR's homophobia final boss was "noooooo"

I'm very excited about Paul Gross, but Kevin Zegers is Josh from Air Bud, and now I'm having a crisis about Josh from Air Bud being in his forties Also, Air Bud never got to play hockey and Chiron is right there, I'm just saying

Heated Rivalry News@hrnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hot off the press🔥 Kevin Zegers, Paul Gross, and Milla Jovovich join the cast of the Crave Original series #HeatedRivalry. Season 2 is coming to Crave in Spring 2027. via cravecanada

in my basement riding out a tornado warning, so I've been offline, and someone messaged me they were freaking out about the Paul Gross news. I thought he was dead. way more upsetting than a possible tornado

honestly not terrible for a cameraphone

logging on after a famous person dies is always like, will I be sad today or will there be an unfortunate plot twist

I made a fatal attempt at small talk with a man in a [redacted English football team] jersey, just to ask him how his season start was going. He then proceeded to win a trophy for the most mansplaining I have ever received in over twenty years of following Premier League football

I have a phone gallery folder of reaction gifs that had become too large to navigate successfully, so yesterday I organized it into 66 folders, subfolders, and subsubfolders. It was incredibly relaxing. Everything is so organized But now I'm out of gifs to sort, so ... off to the Tumblr mines I go

Aria T'Loak is romanceable in my heart

Trelkez@trelkez.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gianna Parasini is romanceable in my heart

I planted three kinds of zinnias this year: Benary's Giant Bright Pink, Zowie Yellow Flame, and Profusion Double White. The Profusion are small and cute, a nice border plant - but I'm looking for cut flowers, so I'll probably skip those next time. Zowie Yellow Flame are as pretty as everyone says

My mom, watching me play Mass Effect: "Why is a cow stealing your money?" Me: "For the uprising." Her: "Are ... you just going to stand there and let him steal it?" Me: "Yes. For the cause."

Combing through the response to this has made for a fascinating afternoon. I'm not unfamiliar with "I wrote the definitive work on this, therefore it belongs to me and everything that follows is derivative and encroaching" academic territorial behavior, but this is so extra

thene@thene.bsky.social · 2mo ago

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

I DNFed a book for the first time this summer. Not because it was offensive or terrible, just because a hundred pages in I still wasn't hooked and life is short. What a beautiful free feeling Shoutout to the library, which frees me from financial pressure to continue books I'm not enjoying

Gianna Parasini is romanceable in my heart

Nintendo, Super Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt It was the hottest thing going until our friends got a SNES and Super Mario World. Then the Nintendo gathered dust forever. The house didn't see much Nintendo gaming after that, aside from my mom's brief Wii Sports era.

RITSUKAXAN@ritsukaxan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

lets be nerdy wich was your first console! and your first game! ? i wanna know! the MEGA pack: -sega megadrive -sonic the hedgehog -golden axe, streets of rage ,revenge of the shinobi

If anyone has a recipe they particularly enjoy that uses fresh cayenne peppers, wave at me! I planted them in May with no particular culinary agenda (I was given a plant and figured, why not), and now I have peppers almost ripe and no ideas beyond salsa

#petdeath We had to let Louis go this week. I'm not okay about it, I'm not ready to talk about it, but it happened.

oh the shit I would be talking if this account could lock. there are so many people on this web site who would not be feeling my wrath at all because it would be locked away where they would never see it

My porch plants all went bone dry and withered today despite having been watered yesterday evening. This isn't the biggest problem caused by having the worst air quality in the world, it's just one that caught me by surprise

always a delight to have customers at the restaurant

😑 should've left certain shirts in storage

I miss locked posting sometimes not because I want to post my face, or my job, or personal details I wouldn't discuss publicly, but just so randos can't keyword find me

I can tell when people haven't bothered to be curious about the sandbox they're playing in. It shows. I can't tell if I'm noticing it more lately, or if it's bothering me more, or if fanfic writers are generally becoming less curious. Maybe it's just me.

do you guys think I can still redeem this

My overall feelings on Game Changer s8 thus far: - It's been nice to see so many people! Feels like they're using some of that $$ to give more folks screentime, which I am enjoying - Don't Wake Standards & Practices is the only new game so far that I've really enjoyed in both concept and execution

This is a great time to stop using AI for any part of your fanfic process. The best time to stop was before you started, but the second best time is now. If you've been using AI around the edges of your own work, you're still using AI in your work.

the thing about bisexual sitting is that your skeleton and all the bits that hold it together are generally less excited to do it as you age, so it has been a real revelation to discover that my parents' deep tilt recliners are incredible for sitting every which way while fortysomething