So You Want To Be A Writer Aka Someone Who Drinks Lukewarm Coffee At Midnight While Arguing With Imaginary

ah yes, my favourite foreign language feel, “I know what all of those words mean individually but not together like that”

There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.

A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.

I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.

Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)

Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.

of course AO3 is going down right as my work shift ends

It's kinda past the new year now but this is gorgeous

happy new year from the batch family <3

Oh there's an English word for it too. Enucleation, I'm pretty sure. Normally used in a medical/clinical context. I haven't seen the movie, so don't know if that would or not, but yeah.

Re-watching "the Guest" with French subtitles atm to get back into the language, and came across s'éborgner.

Do the French really have a verb for the action of taking out an eye???

at the next inconvenience, i'm going to become a fish

the ultimate horror

This little guy hasn't had enough horrors

I put them in a social gathering.

Reblog if you're a cuddler.

We need Gregor's cookbook! With notes and everything in each recipe. Like, how did he come up with that recipe? Where did he learn it from? If it's an original one or if he just modified it. Notes of other clones, which are their favorites. If Gregor named one dish after someone, Illustrations of the dishes. Special recipes like a "birthday cake" that Hunter asked Gregor to do for Omega. People who make Star Wars zines, please do this, and I will give you all my credits. Pleaaaaase!!!!

BABES WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?