Aearo, a SeaWyrm @aearo@dragon.style

reminder: door-to-door campaigners, like all salespeople, exploit social norms of politeness and hospitality to force you to listen to a sales pitch. you owe them nothing, not even a single word. Even if you support their candidate, there is *absolutely nothing wrong* with shutting your door in their face.

It's a sign of our society's dysfunction that we learn through play and then spend decades trying to grow while doing work we don't own for someone else

Last minute for dragon appreciation day, what's the latest, newest, favorite dragon thing you've heard of? Here are some of mine:

This gorgeous shimmery feathered serpent by Nambroth, who otherwise specializes in photorealistic paintings of birds and gryphons: https://nambroth.tumblr.com/post/186796812382/incandescent-deity-digital-painting-corel

This drawing of dragons that does NOT come from the sort of time or place you would guess just by looking at it, you will NEVER EVER guess: https://beardbriarandrose.tumblr.com/post/180455111896

This paleo-artist's reasonably accurate illustration of the goddess Tiamat based on Her very uncertain description in the Enuma Elish (cw for breasts or udders or something): https://iguanodont.tumblr.com/post/180837372816/any-idea-for-a-speculative-tiamat-seems-like-a

This dragon body positivity post (shared on a very cool blog that shares early D&D art): https://oldschoolfrp.tumblr.com/post/180148527149

And no dragons are mentioned in this collection of quotes about marginalization, monstrosity, and mythos, but their theme feels powerfully dragon-adjacent to me: https://angelsandthearchitect.tumblr.com/post/161988624223/when-i-looked-around-i-saw-and-heard-of-none

it dragn day

merr dragn day

I want more video games about hugging lizard people

Progress! I have formatted the open letter, and it looks pretty much ready to send around. Here it is in PDF:

https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2020/01/open-letter.pdf

And here is a copy in basic HTML:

https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2020/01/open-letter.html

Signatories to date:
@noelle
@socrates
@milia
@host
@l4p1n
@koyu
@tyr
@er1n
@Sylvhem
@rey
@david
@liaizon

Appreciate us!!!
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RT @Rumwik@twitter.activitypub.actor
It's #AppreciateADragonDay again! Here's my comic from last year.
https://twitter.com/Rumwik/status/1217880294503657472

Happy dragon appreciation day! Please hug a dragon!

Most confusing sequels

Miles "Tails" Edgeworth

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/R1HKVS

Looks like they took down the dataset

today's musing:

how do you design software ecosystems that are universally useful, at a personal level, but are hostile to exploitation by capitalists and corporations

my final form has very large, very pretty wings

If I was a fish or some kind of aquatic mammal, I'd be like "ah fuck, swimming around in the water feels good as hell, fuck ya" like every day

"That's not what I expected," the knight said.
"What?" said the princess. "It's a dragon hoard."
The knight tried to count the dragons cuddling in a pile.
"How?"
"I started with one, then found a couple of strays." The princess shrugged. "I guess I just started collecting them."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Today's Photoshopery.

Mmm, petting dragons 😌

RT @sushifur@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sushifur/status/1215013875642490880