So I’m Curious,

The fort, it is Dorf

So, egged on by distant friends, I have picked up Dwarf Fortress again. I'd not played in a few months, EVE Online scratching the 'learn through disaster' and ' horribly documented' itches.

Right now, it looks like the save I loaded is doomed. I hadn't arranged for any food supplies first time out, so while I've managed to make a farm (irrigated entirely by dwarves carrying buckets of water from a well: my only water sources being 20 levels below ground). Obviously, that means no food until the end of the season, and already I have numerous dwarves hunting vermin for food, which is very bad.

I can't just quit, though, you never know what can be saved.

The trick I hit on was to always contribute. Always ask questions. Offer opinions. Clarify acronyms.

Surprisingly quickly I stopped getting invited to meetings I didn't need to be in.

The people who police your gender will police your gender even if you're cis.

Eat them.

I misread this as "fanfic can be as good as professional wrestling", and that seemed rather unkind to everyone involved.

At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

duellist:

That’s more like it, as the tumblr app doesn’t allow you to post embedded videos, I tried posting this as a link before, which didn’t work for some reason. 

All my haters become aligators when I activate my gatorinator.

so apparently the illustrator for the sword art online novels, abec, *also* has interviews you can find online about his design choices

and ive got to say

this^ is fucking hilarious

there was a point in time when the official sao light novel artist, abec himself, had in front of him a drawing of kirito with boobs that he then retroactively had to flatten out again

for a brief shining moment my girl was not flat anymore

what do i do with this information

this is the cover in question btw

that suspicious featureless chestplate has a story behind it

ill never be able to look at this cover and not think of this situation now

love to get tours of architecturally award-winning buildings from the people that work there. especially libraries, for some reason. I have never seen a well-designed architectural library. highlights I have seen include:

it's mostly glass and all the panes leak (many such cases)

they forgot to account for the weight of books and now it's subsiding

it's mostly glass and therefore essentially a greenhouse. books and people studying famously love wild winter-summer temperature fluctuations

it's Round. books tend not to be

they put the radiator just under the window....which is a skylight

the only lift is for moving books, so if you can't use the stairs, you'll have to go out, use the main building lift, and come back in on another floor. doors on other floors need a special access keycard

we built this space specifically to house manuscripts but the temp/humidity control is always on the blink

the stairs/corridors are too Aesthetically Narrow and if you want to pass another person, you have to awkwardly crab shuffle past each other

there are no walls separating the library from the rest of the faculty building. no one's ever wanted a quiet study space, after all

I couldn’t find a hot old lady knight for a one shot so I’ve made one.