Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Figuring this stuff out in your 30s or 40s is wild, right? 010
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 05/05/2026What good is the "Wishlist" if I didn't get a notification when it was available? I'd have bought it immediately if I'd known. End of the day, out of stock aready. 010
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I was clinging to hope for the sequel trilogy, even through TLJ, structureless mess that that was, I was saying "let's see if they stick the landing". They did not. And I HATE that not LIKING the ST for legitimate reasons has me adjacent to people who hate it because it's "woke". 011
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 04/05/2026"Somehow, Palpatine returned" isn't a BAD LINE. What, was Poe supposed to do an investigation and provide full dossiers to the resistance? What hatters is he's back! What sucks is it relies on the already at that point non-canon Zahn books to know how. Somthing Filoni had to patch in, in Bad Batch. 171
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I end up with what you'd get if a vampire turned someone from Innsmouth. If I had a character creator menu to decide my own appearance each day, I'd end up looking like someone tried to make a pretzel out of a gangly gothy stop motion character. LITERALLY dream of the concept, though... 020
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I think character creators give me a taste of what body dysmorphia must feel like. I keep sightly tweaking the sliders just a little bit here, a little there, until I make someone who looks JUST RIGHT. Then I get some hollow-cheeked ghoul with eyes the size of cueballs, and fish-lips. 120
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I say to anyone who says "you don't get to choose your pronouns", "oh, so society decides? Then we're agreed your only pronoun is 'this cunt'." I don't make the rules, I just turn them back on their makers. Just like Catholicism. 020
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Ultimately the movie is all about the Thule society and trying to access alchemy from Edward's world, but when things start kicking off, it's ORDINARY people who are instigating events. 010
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Weirdly enough, the Full Metal Alchemist movie, The Conqueror of Shambala, gives us some of this. It's set in Germany with the rise of Hitler. Ed is in an alternate world to his (ours), and sees familiar faces on different people. A good friend from his world is one of the police rounding up Jews. 100
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I'm sure nothing bad could ever happen, here! I am looking forward to a wholesome and touching story with a classic happily ever after! (Actually wholesome and touching is kind of what I DO expect as a destination, from you, made all the better by the rough ride getting there!) 050
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The safe word is closing the book, quitting the game, turning off the TV, and an experienced writer earns their fans’ (their subs’) trust that they can deliver just the right level of consensual pain without going too far, and the tenderness and anticipation to make the hits really hurt. 000
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I’m not into BDSM, but I realised while reading Sunstone (a romance comic that pretends to be BDSM smut to get you hooked) that the way I enjoy media is a lot like being a sub. I‘m giving my consent to be exposed to (emotional) pain for my enjoyment (or catharsis?) 100
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Back on Twitter I called them "eighters". Names that were just a word and eight digits. It was lost on many of the bot accounts when I would reply with a picture of Android 8 and called them Eighter. 2420
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Is the scorpion finally stinging the frog? Did the right wing suddenly remember it doesn't like Jewish people? 021
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I'm serious, the XP look is cute and nostalgic, but FUNCTIONALLY, you've added something here. I have it installed as a PWA now, so I'm running it without all of the browser chrome (though not Chrome, Vivaldi). If you develop this further, I'd LOVE some theming and configurability. 110
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Oh wow. I just logged into it, and I actually like it more, from a functional perspective. The standard website is too linear and "app-like". I love how it opens new windows in the page when I open posts or profiles! 110
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 20/04/2026We're all just goo and fluids, and the pumps and processing systems for those things, draped over a rigid scaffold and contained in a flexible sack. 010
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 20/04/2026If I've learned one thing from watching my favourite shows get cancelled year after year, it's that if I made anything people liked, I wouldn't let Netflix near it without a three season guarantee and a harshly punitive kill-fee. They cancel shows before they even run for "poor performance". 000
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 17/04/2026You say that, but you know that's not true. We all had a choice, Mastodon is in every way better, and yet the people came here. Feel free to use a social media site with nobody on it. Humourless fuck. 000
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Does anyone think maybe we shouldn’t be using a site made by these particular idiots? OTOH though, maybe it’s good we know precisely what kind of idiots run this place. Idiots are like spiders. When one bites you, it’s better to know the species. 1120
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I don’t think “man, DBZ would be SO MUCH BETTER”, though. I think “wow, if I ever write something with that kind of ‘two opposed schools’ dynamic for a character, I’m going to have to remember to have him combine them when it comes to the crunch.” 040
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The symmetry here is, Gohan sees Piccolo, one-handed, drill through Raditz and Goku, and then NEVER uses the Makankosappo, but it’s a technique of finesse, and precision, not a sledge-hammer. It’s THE tool for the job at the end, and Gohan mixes Piccolo’s training with Goku’s to make something new. 120
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 14/04/2026You see his middle and index fingers straighten out of the claw-grip of the Kamehameha, and he says “makanko-hamehameha!”. The beam narrows, a spiral shoots out around it, and it DRILLS THROUGH Cell’s K-wave, dispersing it, and obliterating him with something other than raw power. 120
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Take this example: I think when Gohan beat Cell, he shouldn’t have done it as Goku 2.0, but as the hybrid of Goku and Piccolo he was always portrayed as. One handed Kamehameha works for a bit, but then Gohan uses his brain, uses his training, and his powers of observation… 120
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I’ll often say how things could have been tidied up, or given more symmetry in Dragon Ball Z, but not because I think Toriyama was a hack who couldn’t write, because I, with a different writing sensibility, and the benefit of hindsight, can see how I would do it differently. One day I may. 130
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 14/04/2026And I don’t mean “this is MY story about shinigami that are stylistically feudal-Japanese”, but I mean you dissect the characters, and their arcs, and figure out what you liked, what you didn’t, and adapt those into something new. You’d never have Star Wars without a huge range of influences. 140
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Basically, if you like Bleach enough to hate how it went, and you think you can do better, I guess file the serial numbers off, write something similar, see how you go. I don’t mean “Bleach but different”, but take the things that worked, the themes, and build on those. That’s all writing. 110
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Great series. Really excited for the next "big" series you do. Knights of the Old Republic, maybe? 000
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The use of the words "Quick Exit" on the Lifeline page is... Potentially counterproductive. 000
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Honestly, I stand with M'Benga. You know when a physician is juicing up to become a rage fuelled murder-monster, SOMEONE crossed a line to put him there. 030
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 12/04/2026And then, yes, there's the point of your article, or a version of the point as I read it, anyway. Any time you're told to go outside your comfort zone, the implication is that you have to meet them in theirs. It's on YOU to always be the one to suffer discomfort for others. 030
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 12/04/2026People seem to take for granted that they even know what comfort looks like. For the rest of us, the closest we get to comfort is the cup of tea we drink while trying not to think about the numerous ongoing and incipient crises that we know of, and all the possibility of ones we don't. 140
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Whenever people told me to get out of my comfort zone, they'd get, depending on how fed up I was, "Oh, you have a comfort zone? That must be nice. I've never found one of those." or "My 'comfort zone' was taken away from me by abusive parents at 10, and I haven't known comfort since." 140
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Fake leather in the diary in MacOS X might have looked a bit naff, but you know what it had? Character. Is it so much to ask that user interfaces actually look like something other than a fascist dystopian city? 110
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I'm not saying you can learn to whip up a multitrack video editor overnight, but there's a lot of stuff you can empower yourself to do. That people are trusting AI to code actual tools that we use every day both scares and sickens me, and I reserve terror-vomit for government bureaucracy. 0110
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Genuinely, AI inspired me to learn to program. Entirely because I had put it off for decades, immediately jumped on AI as a tool to NOT have to learn, and then getting incredibly frustrated with the buggy and non-functional output. AI couldn't even make SIMPLE THINGS that I know how to do now. 1160
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The beginning of the end was flat design. Bring back the skeuomorphism of the 2000s. I am sick of so much dead space in every UI, and no distinction between buttons and forms. WE HAVE THE PIXELS, NOW! FUCKING USE THEM! 0151
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I know if I returned to earth and found it overrun by apes that'd be a huge load off my mind. 040
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I have a smart globe, and bed time is 10% brightness time. That's my "tiny lamp", I guess. It's just enough to read by. Just enough that you feel like you're in a little pocket of cozy dark. 000
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 10/04/2026First computer and software you used for writing? (Other than the pen, paper, and your own mind, I mean) 010
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Good thing I’m not American. If my country ever wants me to kill for it, I’ll decide who, and I’ll be starting on my own soil. Whole lot of house to clean in Australia before we go cleaning up the rest of the world, and I’d start with the dickhead who puts a gun in my hands. 010
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I may not go with Ridge, though. I have a Vulkit one I use for my credit cards and ID (and yes, one more Genius Lab Gear card tool), and I like it, aesthetically, with the wood panels. It also has one important feature the Ridge lacks: you can push the cards up from EITHER side. 200
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Eventually, the card sized tools will be fleshed out, duplicating as much as possible from the rest of the kit, and they'll "move out" into a separate "discreet carry" tool kit, for when having a pouch of tools on my belt would be socially not acceptable. Might upgrade to a better wallet, then. 100
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 09/04/2026There's definitely an argument to be made for moving up in price to get better value, but those are two sides of the story, and the third is utility. Currently, this metal one serves as an organiser inside the pouch, and it holds two card-sized multitools. Higher cost wasn't justifiabe. 100
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The big disappointment with this clone is, I bought this and a carbon fibre one, thinking it'd look cool as hell to swap the carbon fibre outside plates onto the orange metal wallet, but the screw holes didn't match up. Not even close. I'm sure if I bought Ridge I could do that kind of thing. 110
Emily Vee @noobixcube.bsky.social · 08/04/2026It's like a five dollar Chinese clone off Amazon, because I wasn't spending Ridge money on something to hold card sized tools. 110
