june

It's always a good time to be thinking about Farscape! It was my first scifi love and when I go back to it now, I can still—endearingly and embarrassingly—see how it shaped me as a person. It's such a strange and lovable show.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1711:
Everything needs to pay for its keep. Every scene, conversation, description needs to have a purpose. What does it serve? Does it expand your knowledge of the world, the plot, the characters? If you can't answer, then however fine the writing is, it needs to go.

with its characters, and lets them make mistakes and grow from them in a way that endears it to me enormously. And the casting is so bang on, all the main three are consistently compelling to me even when the show goes full hijinks (and then does a hard left into heartbreaking drama).

Yesssss, I've seen it... too many times by now, but it really feels different on second watch, because you notice all the little cues and foreshadowing. Li Lianhua's arc breaks my heart, and the show feels remarkably sensitive about his health issues/disability to me. But it's generally so good +

A must-watch fantasy is the day 18 Asian drama recs challenge. I ummed and ahhed. I love #LostYouForever (the first arc is 👌), but it’s mostly not fantasy. #WordOfHonor is good but didn’t grip me. So . . . #MysteriousLotusCasebook it is! Identity porn, mystery, heroic fights, qi techniques aplenty.

I will absolutely second Mysterious Lotus Casebook! It has kind of consumed me, so maybe I'm biased, but the acting, the music, the action scenes, all of it is just thoroughly charming.

I wrote a Your Guide to Farscape story a few years ago and I'm always so happy to see folks get into the show, which I love a lot. Talked to Brian Henson of Jim Henson Company for this as well. This was such a labor of love: www.ign.com/articles/201...

the proliferation of omegaverse really took so much away from us. bring back sex pollen, bring back D/s-verse, bring back sentinel-verse, bring back mindbreak fic, bring back plain and simple whump. everything is homogenized and watered down—it's gotten SO bad. please, my family is starving.

JOYCE MESSIER - “Of bodies of water and forest-covered surfaces, clusters of light where the cities lie. You've seen the montage, we all have -- this world is enough,” she concludes.

CONCEPTUALIZATION - It *must* be. This is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them.

A drawing of Neve Gallus and Tarquin from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It's pouring with rain as they both stand under an awning against a dark red, scruffy wall with peeling flyers on it, smoking together. Neve holds her smoking pipe away from her face as she lights Tarquin's cigarette with her fire magic as he leans down to the flame.

Dock Town pessimists #dragonage

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

SHIVERS - BY THE WAY, APOLOGIZE TO YOUR PARTNER AT ONCE. UNITY AMONG THE RANKS IS PARAMOUNT.

KIM KITSURAGI - “Press your damn cheek against Lamby, okay?” The lieutenant sounds authoritative -- and surprisingly gruff.

Barret Wallace 💥💖 #ffvii

I do many of these things already in my writing, but this is still such a helpful holistic look at how to build a sex scene. And with the all-important "anything you do, do it with your whole chest", which really is the golden rule here. Thank you for writing this!

A dreamwidth screenshot, posted by iodhadh on March 30th, 2025 at 4:36 p.m. The post is titled "The Principles of Sex Scenes: Or, How to Think About Pornography in Your Writing." Alright, everyone: here we go. This is a post I've been thinking about putting together for a long time. I've been told I'm really good at writing hot, intense, and emotionally impactful sex scenes. "Sex scene as character study" is one of my favourite genres of short story to write; and I also love writing plotted stories that have a strong element of romance/erotica. It's high time I shared my insights for the people who want to read them. As with most of my writing advice posts, this is less of an instruction manual, and more of a conversation on how I conceptualize writing sex scenes and their emotive aspects. There isn't going to be a checklist you can follow to get things right—sorry, but even if I did believe there was only one right way to do things, I just don't have a list for myself either! Instead I want to give you a framework for thinking about how to write sex and incorporate it into your stories, and from there to perhaps dig a little into some of the technical aspects of writing as applied particularly to sex scenes. Some of this may involve a bit of a shift in how you think about sexual writing; some aspects of it touch on elements of sexual politics and my personal beliefs surrounding sex and narrative. And, honestly, I'm not yet fully sure where this post is going to go! Much like how I think about writing plot, this is something I have an instinctive sense for, and will be articulating as I go.

The Principles of Sex Scenes: or, How to Think About Pornography in Your Writing

📝 It's blog post o'clock!
📝 Insights on sex scenes, in conversation.
📝 There's no checklist. Sorry. Got lots of thoughts though.
📝 From your local "smut as character study" enthusiast.

iodhadh.dreamwidth.org/2950.html

digital fan art of Neve and Lucanis from Dragon Age: The VeilGuard, done in a painterly style and a warm palette of browns, beige and soft teal. Neve is a woman in her mid-thirties, with light brown skin and long straight dark brown hair. she is wearing a white silk shirt with a low neckline that shows her cleavage, a pair of fitted turquoise pants, and a short leather vest. her geometric drop earring and the buttons on her clothes are all done in gold, and her eyes are accentuated with dark eye shadow. Lucanis is a light-skinned man of similar age to Neve, dressed in a shirt, trousers and a waistcoat in shades of brown and dark blue. he has straight shoulder-length black hair that would ordinarily be slicked back, but is now partially falling down as he is leaning over Neve, who has her head pillowed in his lap. they are looking at each other, Neve with a crooked grin, Lucanis with a softer, smaller smile. one of Neve's arms is resting on the ground, the hand relaxed and close to her head, while the other is reaching up, her palm curling around the back of Lucanis's neck, keeping him close.

commission for @mllekurtz.bsky.social, who requested Neve and Lucanis posed in the style of one of the photographs from a Marjorie Morningstar (1958) photoshoot! both the composition and the characters were so fun to work on, thank you for commissioning me 💜

#DragonAge #Veilguard

The Three Attacks on the White Bone Demon is a famous tale from Journey to the West. As Tang Sanzang and his disciples journey through White Tiger Ridge, a corpse demon—the White Bone Spirit—seeks to devour the monk’s flesh. She takes the forms of a village girl, 1/2
#JTTW #SunWukong #art

The image conveys that in the 36th GLAAD Media Awards, Dragon Age: The Veilguard from BioWare/Electronic Arts won the category of Outstanding Video Game. In the top right is the logo of the GLAAD Media Awards in gold. In the bottom left is a gold trophy. The background is a spectrum of color ranging from purple at the top through red to orange at the bottom. In the center of the image, in an oval shape, is part of one of the promotional key arts for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The iconic Rook stands in their purple cape in front of companions Neve Gallus, Davrin, and Emmrich Volkarin. Manfred and Assan are also visible. The group are fighting off red lyrium darkspawn. In the background roars a purple dragon about to breathe fire.

The image is a text list of the nominees for the category of Outstanding Video Game in the 36th GLAAD Media Awards. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is marked as the winner. The full list of nominees is: Caravan SandWitch (Studio Plane Toast / Dear Villagers), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (BioWare / Electronic Arts) – WINNER, Dread Delusion (Lovely Hellplace / DreadXP), Dustborn (Red Thread Games / Spotlight by Quantic Dream), Fear the Spotlight (Cozy Game Pals / Blumhouse Games), Life is Strange: Double Exposure (Deck Nine / Square Enix), Minds Beneath Us (BearBone Studio), Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo), Sorry We’re Closed (à la mode games / Akupara Games) and Until Then (Polychroma Games / Maximum Entertainment).

Dragon Age: The Veilguard recently won the award in the category of Outstanding Video Game at the 36th GLAAD Media Awards! 🌈 There were many nominees. Thank you to and congratulations to the devs. 💜

Link: glaad.org/mediaawards/...

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

SHIVERS - Meet me there -- wafting above the burnt ruins. Le Retour is waiting.

ESPRIT DE CORPS - And Station 41 and the glow of its desk lamps, the clicking of coffee mugs, clouds of cigarette smoke and the ringing telephone... your youth. There is still a way back.

BEAUTIFUL NECKTIE - Your heart is broken, *bratushka*. And it cannot be mended. Believe me, I've tried.

There is something about haughty rich/noble/royalty ect characters actually being sub

realized I forgot to post soft Cullen on here 🥰
#cullen #dragonage

Looking for something sweet and normal to post to settle your tummies and I found the El Dorado throuple, a classic good meal 🍲

ao3 is an archival website, not a social media platform. that's why it doesn't have things like a dislike button and an algorithm. i hope this helps ❤️

VOLITION - In honour of your will, lieutenant-yefreitor. That you kept from falling apart, in the face of sheer terror. Day after day. Second by second.

INLAND EMPIRE - DETECTIVE

ESPRIT DE CORPS - ARRIVING

AUTHORITY - ON THE SCENE

In Kim's flat Harry and Kim are having breakfast in bed. It's an attic bedroom with sunlight coming through as backlight to them, the room and its walls are decorated with various posters that hint at Kim's interests and hobbies. Air-force models, sewing kit stashed away in the bedside drawer, speed freaks posters as well as tiptop racing posters, a breakdown of the Coupris Kineema details in post card size, radio, cigarettes, toilet paper roll, a used condom wrapper are visible. Harry is twirling his beard and seems to be talking about something while he hold his black coffee with the other hand. Kim lazily looking at Harry, with a small grin and some stubble showing on his chin. He's chewing on his toast with strawberry jam while filling out his crossword puzzle magazine.

re-touched up this from 2 years ago ^U^)

A stain on my notebook
Says nothing to me
Now she's gone
And I'm out with a friend
With lips full of passion
And coffee in bed

["Black Coffee In Bed" by Squeeze]
youtu.be/0x2mV9JktrE
#RicDraws #NSFW
#DiscoElysium #HarryKim

For #DiHua zine

#MysteriousLotusCasebook #LiLianhua #DiFeisheng