👾 @alis@fandom.ink

It's a me, elsewhere:

https://alisx.dreamwidth.org/
https://ask.alis.me/
https://www.pillowfort.io/alis

So I never did an #introduction but I probably should, so...

I'm Alis! I'm an #sff #author and I love #monsters and so I write books about monsters. I also sometimes (very rarely) draw, and (mostly) play way too many #videogames.

I'm also the admin of fandom.ink, a small #fandom centric Masto instance, inspired by the #tumblr exodus and aimed at #fanart, #fanfic, #RP, and other general fannish content. (Also cat photos.)

So... hi!

Look I have so many reservations about BLOODLINES 2 but in this one thing, at least, I am content: they're bringing back... THE DANCE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNFFhWagNvI

I've discovered I have a really specific squick for pinching in fic. Like, that thing where characters will ~playfully~ pinch one another, usually on the flank, to show disapproval.

Like... is this a sibling thing? Cultural? Because I've never encountered it and honestly if someone tried to do it to me they'd be getting a fist in return.

(It might also be triggering my physical consent boundaries? Like, I have *such* a negative reaction to seeing it, when it's really not that "serious", so...)

Cleaning up some badly imported comments at my blog, and it's wild just how much Tumblr activity has dropped off since they did The Thing...

Hey y'all remember that article froma while back about how fucking awful it is to be a Facebook moderator?

Guess what? There's a Part II: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa

Now I'm being reminded of the huge annual swarms of bogons and Christmas beetles we used to get when I was a kid, and now don't, because of that whole "all the insects are dying and y'all didn't notice" thing, I guess...

STRAYA MATE!!!!

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/animals/huntsman-caught-feasting-on-pygmy-possum-in-tasmania-ng-b881234616z

Posted WiPs of this guy before, but here it is again with its pencils mostly done.

This was also my other thing I was going to paint at Continuum, but never got around to because lol finishing things what even is that?

(Incidentally, the pre-digital historical precedent for this sort of thing also fucking sucked. Just, like. In case you were wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip )

So in my Space Demons book (that I'll totally get around to posting soon I swear), one of the little bits of side-fluff is that every galactic megacorp has its own "in-game currency", i.e. a digital token that's used on its worlds and, well...

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613789/facebook-libra-digital-currency-crytocurrency-bitcoin/

Is it really “making a mess” when the mess itself is soap?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_i8_WuyqAY

TIL Takashi Miike directed a magical girl tokusatsu show and now I 100% need to watch it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol_%C3%97_Warrior_Miracle_Tunes!

New books! Mostly my haul from Continuum, plus one Kickstarter reward.