Author, autist, apostate. Trans man, queer, and proud. Thrives in an environment of G-rated villainy. // An elegant, but slightly disgruntled, person drinking tea. // Internet oddity + friendly neighbourhood vampire. // Professional of pain.
about the earl:
Hi! I’m earlgraytay. You can call me Malcolm, Mal, Earl, Gray– whatever. I’m a writer, a Twitch streamer, and a proud queer. He/him pronouns, please.
You can buy my queer fic on Amazon and Smashwords– want a hopeful queer retelling of Kafka’s Metamorphosis? How about a trans lady airship captain who hunts angels and fights restrictive Victorian gender roles, or a grumpy enby veterinarian who has to heal @historieofbeafts-style goat-unicorns?
You can follow my Twitch streams on twitch.tv/earlgraytay. This post will be updated as I figure out a good stream schedule, but RN I stream on Mondays and Fridays (though I’m not very consistent).
I write fanfic sometimes - I’m on AO3 as scribblingTiresias- but it’s mostly one-shots, with a few ambitious weird longfics that are never updated.
I am needlessly riled by all the posts and humans’ inherent goodness.
Humans are *neutral*, man. That’s why improving society really needs to look like making doing the right thing the path of least resistance.
A majority of people sit right around the tall bit of some sort of bell curve with “does selfish shit that could hurt others by default, is generous under the right circumstance” is one side of the peak and “is generous by default, will do selfish shit that could hurt others under the right circumstances” on the other.
You can observe it any day by observing people under stress (eg: bad traffic, busy supermarket, an unexpectedly un/pleasant interaction with a stranger who is very different to you) - and in yourself in circumstances you find particularly stressful.
The thing that I mean when I say “most people are basically good” is that the vast majority of people fall into your second category.
Most people want other people to like them. Most people want to see themselves as good people and will at least try to live up to their own standards. Most people will try to be polite, won’t be callous on purpose, and will genuinely try to live in a society.
….The problem is, most people are also low-to-high-key traumatized, surrounded by propaganda designed to exploit those traumas, impatient, panicky, and a little stupid under pressure.
Funny how depending on who’s saying it and where, the words “dark fantasy” could mean that the work contains a hardcore questionably ethical kink scenario, or it could mean that at some point there might be some kind of a Skeleton King.
(Peter Wimsey voice) Let’s get something out of the way. I know I look and sound like I personally know Bertie Wooster. I know that my entire mien is that of a devoted attendee of his gentleman’s club. I know. Unfortunately I am the smartest person in a ten mile radius and there’s been a murder.
“I—I’m afraid it’s ridiculous of me to suppose you can help me,“ she began.
"Always my unfortunate appearance,” moaned Lord Peter, with such alarming acumen as to double her discomfort. “Would it invite confidence more, d'you suppose, if I dyed my hair black an’ grew a Newgate fringe? It’s very tryin’, you can’t think, always to look as if one’s name was Algy.”
—Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker
Hi! This is a rickroll. Please visit youtube dot com, type “never gonna give you up” in the search bar, then click on the first video that comes up. Thank you for your consideration.
I have been looking through Tremulus, a horror RPG! It has various seeds for a spooky location, and in the original, all the various seeds were arranged to form a coherent story.
In this expansion, it seems they’re not, but I connected them before I noticed this and I refuse to change my notes. So I’m making it work by brute force.
As such, my new question is this - does anyone have any ideas how the fuck a sinking cruise liner somehow ends up in the middle of the Gobi Desert, which is notable for being several thousand miles inland and having no water?
Any answers welcome.
This is the Lovecraft themed PBTA hack, right?
If it’s Lovecraft themed, a few options:
Moved through space at the wrong angle, phased through spacetime, wound up in the precise location of the Gobi Desert
It’s not actually a cruise ship; it’s a lure from an anglerfish-style creature, trying to attract humans with something they’ll find familiar
A freak storm blew it so far inland that it flew several thousand miles, carried by a tornado
Someone aboard was messing about with magical artefacts, and wound up teleporting the ship and everyone aboard…. unfortunately, they teleported it to the site of an ancient temple, buried deep beneath the sands
Nyarlathotep got bored and thought, “you know what would be really funny….”
Shinjuku Boys is a 1995 documentary about the lives of Kazuki, Tatsu, and Gaish, three self-identified onabe, an expansive term that can encompass both butch lesbians and trans men. “The suave trio speak frankly to the camera about sex, queerness, trans identity, and masculinity,” says The Queer Review.
The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define “soulmate” however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)
The bad news: you don’t get to pick where they come from.
Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.
the presence of the exoparia doesnt actually change much for the way we reconstruct most dinosaur groups, however, it changes some minor things for two of the most well known dinosaur groups that should be taken into account:
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