michael

I am a simple man who likes simple things and Kate McKinnon being willing to make such a mess of herself on Hot Ones made me incredibly happy.

Anyway this is just a quick break from playing Hades II because v.1.0 launched last night! I got one game in before bed (Toby was unimpressed), and am pretty much just going to be playing extremely badly (god SO badly, I played with the scythe today and just, haha, ah, sigh) and getting more story out of this game. It's fun pinging all the achievements (not that many) from previously gameplay and they're all at 0.1% rarity or whatever because not enough people have played this version of the game yet, it'll be nice to see the numbers go up.

It's humid today. The 20C might as well be 30C. I'm going to really miss winter this year, I'm not ready for summer, and spring is not playing around. She's a fickle thing. (Actually, Luflijka, you're not, I know you're doing your best).

I've been thinking of how antis/anti-shippers sometimes respond to 'don't like don't read' as though it's the worst thing to say, but it's really just the fandom equivalent of 'hey you remember what the safewords are right? You can safeword at any time.' It's like they resent being reminded of their ability to consent to reading fic, because they can't handle any form of self-accountability at all. And that's where we start, right before the bullying and the abuse takes place. Idk how anyone ever feels that an anti-shipper ever has a single leg to stand on, when that's the starting line.

questionable_content_feed

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5666

oh god I've been in Canada long enough that "neighborly" looks WRONG without the U

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5666

treadingground_feed

Posted by Nick Wright

https://www.treadingground.com/comic/chapter-1-page-29-appreciation/

https://www.treadingground.com/?post_type=comic&p=827

Also available in Vanilla Cat Piss, Butterscotch Taint, and Lemon Cus-turd.

The post Chapter 1 | Page 29: Appreciation appeared first on Treading Ground.

https://www.treadingground.com/comic/chapter-1-page-29-appreciation/

https://www.treadingground.com/?post_type=comic&p=827

questionable_content_feed

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5665

it's FIGURATIVE

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5665

pennyarcade_feed

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/24/deluxe-apartment-in-the-sky

My mom was really late coming home from work once, and cellular phones cost around ten thousand dollars adjusted for inflation then so I couldn't call or text her. It was my presumption that she had been Raptured and that I had been found wanting. Like, first thought.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/24/deluxe-apartment-in-the-sky

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3146/

One perk of being born at 0.88c is that your birthday is over two days long.

https://xkcd.com/3146/

fred_mouse

I keep thinking about making a happy post, and then there are too many moving parts and argh. Instead, you get a possible insight into my mind you didn't need. I keep reading

it also predates genAI

in the verb form related to predator, rather than date and time. I'm not sure what is eating the genAI, and I'm not sure I want to (is it silverfish? it absolutely would not surprise me if it were silverfish).

(note also that I get a giggle out of un-ionised vs union-ised)

moonvoice

I literally have spent years thinking 'oh I should write something' and then...not. I get so frustrated with myself over it, and I've been thinking and noodling over how I want to use this, and I think some kind of combination of like, sharing photos like I used to (otherwise why am I paying for that SmugMug subscription lol), and reviewing things I'm engaging with, and maybe talking about writing stuff perhaps.

Sometimes I think what Twitter/X and Bluesky and similar platforms (Tumblr) took away was like, a basic functionality of Dreamwidth and LJ before these things existed, of the more light-hearted, less-gravity style of writing, where if I have a simple thought now, or a little rant, it goes elsewhere, instead of here. And then as a result of that, I mentally feel pressured to write long, meaningful entries that have like, deep emotion or whatever, which is just silly really, because that was never how I used this site when I enjoyed it most.

Like yeah I wrote some deep entries, but I had just as much fun - if not more fun - sharing art and photos and cross-stitch etc.

I've seen other folks like 'I'd like to use DW again' but sometimes I wonder if that's just nostalgia. 'I'd like to reminisce on what it used to be like here.' It's not going to be like that again, but there are cool people here, and I'd like to grow my participation here into something new.

In the meantime, I think Glen might be home, so it's time to go let our dog, Tobermory, go greet him lol

pennyarcade_feed

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/09/24/deluxe-apartment-in-the-sky

New Comic: Deluxe Apartment In The Sky

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/09/24/deluxe-apartment-in-the-sky

questionable_content_feed

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5664

gregor samsa awoke to find he had transformed into a webcomic character

http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5664

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http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5658

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3145/

Some lava around the piercing site is normal, but keep an eye out for spreading earthquakes and eruptive activity that might indicate rifting.

https://xkcd.com/3145/

pennyarcade_feed

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/22/new-games-i-m-playing

My friends Jerry and Ryan both told me that Borderlands 4 is cool and fun once you get far enough into the game. Like the comic suggests, I bounced right off the intro. I kept getting shitty sub machine guns while running through featureless grey rooms. Eventually I got to a shack and that’s when Claptrap started talking and I had to stop. It’s possible it gets good but I’m just not wired to chew through the bad bits to get to the good stuff.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/22/new-games-i-m-playing

pennyarcade_feed

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/22/borderline

Lego Voyagers is great. I heard it was three or so hours total, but I clocked in at just about five. Some of the coolest parts of it were not "gameplay" but just being there in the world. It's very impressionistic; there are actual lego pieces that look like scorpions, or fish, but Light Brick would rather evoke them with even simpler shapes. It also made my computer run so hot that it shut completely off and wouldn't turn back on. And that made me think about Borderlands.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/09/22/borderline