Fenris Lorsrai @FenrisLorsrai@awoo.space

Hey, Mastodon newbies! Getting in the habit of adding alt-tags to your images can be challenging. >.> I know it was for me. To that end, please follow @botsin.space/@PleaseCaption! It will automatically follow you back and poke you with a reminder if you post an un-alted image. After a few times, you'll remember! #Mastodon #TwitterMigration

I've two articles in the Nov/Dec 2022 issue of Texas Observer magazine. First, a culture feature about the state of bookstores in #Texas, co-written with Gayle Reaves. And then I teamed up with #trans photographer Jesse Freidin to share his art project, "Are You OK?" in a photo-essay documenting the lives of brave young transgender Texans.

The magazine is out now on newsstands, with all articles available online soon.
#LGBTQIA #Books

#FediTips: It’s ok to be confused and overwhelmed while you’re getting used to things. Don’t be afraid to step away from the screen. Go outside in the dead of night with only the tired and icy light of distant stars for company. Walk into the heart of an ancient swamp, where the gnarled trees whisper their forgotten secrets. Listen to the ethereal chorus of a million tiny creatures, and the blissful complexity of their countless songs. Find calm as you feel the planet spinning beneath you.

A fantasy world except the Dragons are replaced by giant squeaky and friendly moths

alternatively: moth-dragon hybrids, as beautiful and fierce and graceful as a dragon, instantly chases after any lamp like they're a huge cat chasing a laser pointer

It always pains me to see romhacks and homebrew console projects with embarrassingly bad programmer-art fonts, or fonts (sometimes ugly ones) taken from other games.

If you're making a romhack or other project that needs (or even just kinda wants) a new bitmap font, don't let your confidence in your code, music, or even pixel art convince you that you can throw something together solo and have it look decent. Please talk to someone experienced. It doesn't even have to be me. (But it could be!)

oh btw if you wanna throw someone money because you like this Mastodon thing, the @Tusky team has a Patreon and they do great work

If you have a daunting big task, take it and break it down into lots of little tasks. Then, try to do one of the small things!

vienna's incinerator is so fun and colorful

If you watch Prey (2022), I recommend watching the Comanche language dub. You can find it in a tab in Hulu's detail page for the movie.

have you ever considered that Klingon bull dykes are probably slender, prettied up and soft spoken because that's basically saying you're badass enough to back it up?

this thought thanks to Goldsmith's "Klingon Battle."

On the stone upon which the anvil stood were carved letters, filled in with gold:
"Whosoever leaves their sword in this anvil and this stone, they are the rightful ruler of this land."
The assembled knights shook their heads.
"Give up my sword? Never!"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

never seen a rapier user who isnt just the most homosexual man on the earth

The sigil was drawn in ash, salt, and blood. The candles, carefully placed at the cardinal points, flared up, as a tired figure appeared.
"You have misspelled Azth'luh."
"I didn't," the summoner said.
"There, you have written Azth'loh. Summons an editor, not a demon."
"I know."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories