Unholy Missives Delivered by Tortoise

Art experiments. Short things that are interesting. This won't be a full blog, but then a post my not stand on it's own. Generally work-safe.
Fri Oct 7
This expression is because he knows the Island Princess is coming to visit him tonight.
zerostreet:

MOONLIGHT ON KU Acrylic on 8x10 Wood Panel

This expression is because he knows the Island Princess is coming to visit him tonight.

zerostreet:

MOONLIGHT ON KU
Acrylic on 8x10 Wood Panel

(via erotiterrorist)

Mon Feb 7
It is one of the few universal things about people – we love to play games. Not just people like you, whoever you are, but people the opposite of you. People who disagree with you politically, people who hold entirely different belief systems than you. People who’ve lived thorough things you haven’t lived through. There are people in the industry that I don’t see eye to eye with on a lot of things, but they make great games and I love playing them. For me, the whole point of gameplay is to be able share experiences with others and allow them to do and feel things they couldn’t otherwise do and feel in their non-gaming lives. kirbybits aka Courtney Stanton on her blog, Here is a Thing
Mon Dec 13

Gender Politics

I want to say this: I am a cisgendered, (at least) bisexual man.  Gender politics is mildly important to me — I’m not transgendered or even questioning of my gender. In that I am lucky.

But the most valuable thing I got from reading and being with people who really care about gender politics is this: No one gets to define what it means to be your gender,except for you.  You define what it is, and what it means, and how it is.

When I accepted that, I worried less about my manhood, or appearing silly or effeminate.  It doesn’t matter. I am a man, and that means exactly what I mean it means.

It’s freedom, just like this man says here:

Wed Nov 3
Mon Nov 1
The company lesson is that addressing diversity issues isn’t a burden or a duty, it’s a fantastic opportunity to make our content novel and unexpected. Alexis Kennedy of Failbetter Games, in an interview at Border House about their game (which I am playing) Echo Bazaar and diversity in games.
Mon Aug 30
What I mean to say is that it will be a source of happiness for happy people and a source of further unhappiness for those who have chosen to be unhappy.

From Slacktivist. I’m more interested in the intent and worldview embedded in that statement than the actual text of the entry (which I’ve not yet fully read). Happy people are happy, but unhappy people have chosen unhappiness.  

Of course, I think we choose happiness, as well. A lot of whether we are happy or unhappy is in the magic of how we interpret events. We get to choose and control that, and this quote tells me that I’m not alone in that view.  

Which makes me happy.  (Or rather, which I choose to interpret in a happy way.)

Mon Aug 16
Ditto.
mittense:

true.

Ditto.

mittense:

true.

Wed Aug 11
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

More and more years keep pilin’ on me, too.  Doesn’t make me less weird.

Tue Aug 10

The answer, or rather the Question in 7 days. (no, not 7.5 billion years. I’m more efficient than that!)

Thu Aug 5