cara ‘tyrannosaurus’ ellison @caraellison@mastodon.social

short dudes are hot but short dudes who are insecure about being short are the most annoying people on Earth

"This manifesto is a trap itself, laid for journalists searching for the meaning behind this horrific crime. There is truth in there, and valuable clues to the shooter’s radicalization, but it is buried beneath a great deal of, for lack of a better word, 'shitposting'"

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2019/03/15/shitposting-inspirational-terrorism-and-the-christchurch-mosque-massacre/

its called reddit because its shit

Tickets are now on sale for the Cymera Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror #Writing in #Edinburgh. https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/ (I mentioned it a month or two back).
And look! Mastodon personality /superstar/legend/what's the right word to use here @caraellison is giving a writing workshop:
https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/writing-workshops/caraellison
There's loads in the programme, I might post about this again when I've read it.
https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme
#SF #fantasy

VR experience where you dig a grave, climb in and lie down

For every molecule of pasta, there is a corresponding molecule of antipasto

New piece I finished this weekend, based on a photo from my trip to Japan last summer. This was at the outskirts of Golden Gai, in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

remember that the UK is banning porn from April, lmao. What a stupid country we are

upon reflection i think i'd been hoping that my 2007 trip from Edinburgh to Istanbul would play out like Victor's European sex romp from rules of attraction when in fact i just spent six hours at the national archaeological museum of Athens, &c

i put this in someone's replied once but i have a cishet friend called duncan and one night we all dressed up as goths and went out and he liked his black nail polish so much that he started painting his nails. he got really good at obscenely intricate designs really quickly and when i asked him why he said it was years of painting warhammer figures lmao

getting into a fight at a fuck cabin and your head bounces off the cum-absorbed hardwood floors with a rainboot step sound

citing the constitution to express my anger about nintendo

i love my angular wife

Hey folks, sorry to be that annoying bint again, but @pupper and I are still £200 away from covering February's rent and bills. Yes, I know we're in March already.

Y'all have been wonderful and I'm pretty sure the fediverse has no spare change down the couch cushions anymore, but in case there are any secret rich folks our plight hasn't reached, please can you boost this toot. Thank you I love you goodbye.

https://www.paypal.me/caelyne

yaaay the lineup is announced so I can say: I'm curating and supervising a zine library / collaborative zine project at Now Play This this year (scroll to the bottom lol) http://nowplaythis.net/2019-festival/

Luke Perry taught me it was okay to be very cool