Melrose 🌺

Gen-AI’s biggest contribution to my life has been making it 3x harder to look up credible information.
People said I was a fool to hold on to my illustrated ’how-to’ books from the 80s, but who’s the only bitch with a reliable method of performing DIY masonry now?

Hello I have been a bedridden husk for a solid month of recovery and I finally feel pretty again. :blobcatmeltlove:
(Selfies, ec)

Separating the art from the artist, but like with a sword.

We played a mini Hobbit MTG draft tonight and Bard the Bowman won me the prize: Book-Cover Gwaihir!

Dilator, Alligator

Urethra?
OURethra, Comrade!

I love my dog so much she is the cutest thing!! Thank you to my girlfriend for bringing her into my life.

GF playing Pokémon ZA: “This is the French Yakuza.”

Me: “… J’accuza!”

I want a tattoo sleeve full of BIRDS!!

Ok enjoying the Star Wars Maul show. It’s nothing super original but it’s well written and paced. Like a textbook little crime drama in space.

This is what I look like after roller derby practice
Also I like attention. Thank you.
(ec, tongue)

The most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen in your life will repeatedly take professional sultry photos with one hand, all while sitting atop a wasteland of unfolded clothes and monster cans in need of recycling.

It should be illegal for your utility service providers (phone, internet) to send you advertisements through their applications. Absolutely gross abuse of access.

I cannot tell you how funny it is to watch a literal PHD professor of game design describing her delve into a Mechsploitation TTRPG!!
Such careful attention to the inherit dehumanization of the setting, such an emphasis on the surrounding horror and safety tools in play.
Meanwhile there’s me, the sci-fi horror-smut transsexual connoisseur. Gleefully watching the academics exploring transbian trauma art.

You: “There’s a few cormorants by the river today, weather must be warming up.”

Me: “THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!”

First time making a roll like this and I’m honestly very proud of how they came out!

Need to make an RPG campaign where the evil cult is also just the government and a not insignificant percentage of the general populous. Just feels more realistic than a couple guys in spooky robes summoning a demon in a cave.

Today at roller derby practice I learned that other teams have had literal strategy discussions before a game about how to deal with my specific playstyle.
I’ve never felt so honored. 🥲

I’m gonna remain visible and openly trans as long as possible. May it be a welcoming sign to all those who need it and an ominous warning to all who oppose it.

And if you’re not trans, find someone who is and donate to their crowdfunding. I’ve seen like 5 of them already this morning, go make their day!

(Pics of me, ec)

Guess who’s got another TTRPG idea that would be better served as a short story about a queer outsider in a fantastical setting?

This gal!

Played my first game and I felt in control and not especially winded throughout! Which really is all I was looking to do for my first high level game. Got a solid base and gonna build my skills up further from there!

I’m not sure how not to feel overwhelmed. Shit sucks, yo.

I want everything and nothing and unsure how to ask for either.

Where is the device the translates my perfectly visualized headcannon into perfect written sentences? You’re telling me I have to “work on writing” if I want to produce my fictitious dreams??

“Libslop” is my least favorite media phenomenon, stop glazing awful things from the past just to try dunking on current awful thing. Glorifying imperialism and exceptionalism from when they were ‘proper and respectable’ is bad, actually.

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
The gunpowder treason and plot!

I finished reading Nona and now I’m reading the DIE comic and oh my gosh I am mainlining feels after feels with my reading choices of late,,,

First game of the season tomorrow. I’m fine. I’m not nervous. Why would you ask that?

I have finally scheduled a ‘curly’ haircut in the hopes of not having someone heat my hair to all fuck. Maybe this time I’ll have regular haircuts again instead of ignoring it for 6 months every time I get the wrong thing.

Trans Day of Naps

DIE is such a good comic series and oh my god i have so many feels right now. It’s tough getting to the end of “repressed feelings, the comic book”.

When all you have is a tomahawk missile, everything looks like a school.

I once took a manufacturing class at community college where the ‘professor’ assigned us Dilbert comics as regular reading. Because he thought it was relevant to the field.
I really hope he’s stopped doing that by now.

Digimon Beatbreak is so good.
I have no Digimon nostalgia and it’s still making me hype and/or cry every third episode.

Hmm, I’m probably not going to be able to run this ttrpg. It would be a shame to let all these cool ideas and set-pieces go to waste.

… OH right, I can write fiction!

I love when a song drops a beat on a note you didn’t expect and suddenly rewrites its own progression on the fly.

Go to your local Zine Fest.
Buy weird stuff!

I wanna run a long form D&D adventure again. Like Curse of Strahd or Tomb of Annihilation. That kinda crunchy resource management adventuring experience!

The more I talk through my fears and problems, finding peace and stability in my living situation, I’m so so happy living with my girlfriend and just making a little home together between us!

Started playing Hades II and the moment I get one of the NPC gifts, the hot tall brooding avatar of vengeance at the hub suddenly disappears?!
PUT HER BACK!!

I don’t want to work today.
I want to get railed, drink a thc thingie, and lounge for the day listening to euro house and sorting magic cards.

I need to watch Galaxy Quest again

The time has come. I need to write today.

There are 160 units in this building with what looks like a really wide array of different people and families. I should try to organize a ‘meet your neighbors’ event in the common area and see who shows.

I dropped in backwards off the coping at the ramp tonight, please treat me like a big deal!

Seeing a vulnerable queer I know reposting Ruby Ridge propaganda like,
Yeah the government executing people is bad! Maybe don’t make that point by uplifting a white suprematist who was selling guns to other white supremacists. The government does evil shit to all sorts of people.

Leading/passive headlines are not ‘unbiased’, they are purposeful journalistic malpractice.