A pinned post for Mikke

I’m Mikkeneko, Mikke for short. I’m a writer, American, asexual, she/her, in my mid-30s. I post primarily fandom stuff, flowers, and anything else I find interesting or cute or funny.

My AO3 can be found here and contains fic written for Dragon Age, MCU, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Critical Role, The Witcher, and the latest fandom of interest is The Untamed.  My writing tag on Tumblr is ’mikke fics,’ there is some overlap with my AO3 but not total duplication, so you can peruse that tag if you want. 

I’d like to make my blog a nice place for people to visit, but at the end of the day this is my space and I will reblog (or not reblog) to satisfy myself over any other consideration. I will occasionally signal boost real-world or political posts I find relevant, but I keep that a fairly low ratio of my content.

Triggers I tag for:

  • body horror cw
  • high heights (for heights)
  • clusters cw (for trypophobia posts)
  • shirtless cw (for all partial-nudity content, not just bare chests)
  • loud noises cw
  • flashing cw (for any jerky light/motion content)

(Not a trigger per se, but any post that’s longer than two screens gets the long post tag.)

If something comes up that I don’t reblog frequently enough to have a reliable tag for it, I will try to tag it “[distressing content] cw” but that may be a bit hit or miss. If there is another category of content that turns up frequently enough to be upsetting and you’d like a tag for it, let me know. I may or may not be able to fill your request but I can at least consider it!

Fun things to do in my blog, I guess?:

idanit:

art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament:

THIRD PLACE

Can't Help Myself by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu. A black industrial robot is in the middle of swinging a squeegee-like tool out. The robot is surrounded by a deep dark red pool that has several sections that have been cleaned by the tool. There are streak marks in some of these sections. The robot is surrounded by plexiglass walls, and spatter from the red liquid is all over the plexiglass walls and the white floor.ALT
Two Earthlings by John Brosio. A massive display case. The top is a white panelled light, the four corners are supports, and the rest is glass. Inside the case sits a large dinosaur skull with long pointed teeth. The jaw rests on the bottom of the case, and the top half of the skull has a gray support. A woman stands outside the case, looking down at an informational panel, which can be seen reflected in the glass. The only readable, backwards, words are "Tyrannosaurus Rex" in red. The woman is wearing a long sleeved white shirt with some flower patterns mostly on the arms and breasts. Her pants are black, and have a large golden buckle, and her shoes are grey sneakers. Her hair is golden blonde cut into a bob cut, and she has a thin necklace. Behind her another person is partially visible, in black shorts and a red top.ALT

“Can’t Help Myself” (2016 - Sun Yuan & Peng Yu) / “Two Earthlings” (2003/2009 - John Brosio)

which piece fucks you up more?

“Can’t Help Myself” (2016)

“Two Earthlings” (2003/2009)

CAN’T HELP MYSELF: It’s better to watch a video of it in action. It’s a large robot arm that’s only programmed to repeatedly sweep a pool of red liquid around it. But its task is never done, the liquid eventually oozes back out onto the floor. It just makes me so sad, the futility of its work. Brilliantly, the artists even programmed it to do little gestures during its work. Sometimes the arm will shake or almost wave at the audience. So it feels less mechanical, like it has a personality. People have interpreted it to symbolize many ideas. Like the futility of violence, and those who are tasked with the endless recovery and clean up. It could be about worker exploitation, the dehumanization of victims of violence, policing borders. Regardless of what it means, I feel pity whenever I see it. (nicolaleecallahan)

TWO EARTHLINGS: When I first saw this painting and then it’s title it was like getting punched in the gut. In a good way. It’s super contextualized by it’s title, of course, and it really gets me in the heart!! There’s lots of artwork around that juxtaposes our modern lives with humans of the past in ways that make you feel connected to them and feel a sense of kinship for them, but this one stretches that feeling back millions of years beyond humans back to earlier eras of earth, and makes you feel that sense of connection with ancestors so old and different we aren’t recognizable as each other unless put into perspective in the way this painting and it’s title do, all because we share the same planet. It really really makes me emotional and I think at the very least more people deserve to see it and think about it. (reactorc0re)

(“Can’t Help Myself” is a Kuka industrial robot made of stainless steel and rubber mopping up cellulose ether in coloured water made by two Chinese artists, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu. This installation was displayed in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York but was removed from display.

“Two Earthlings” is an oil on canvas piece by John Brosio. It measures 48 x 48 in (122 x122 cm).)

Vote Two Earthlings. Or three Earthlings. Or four Earthlings. The third one is the artist painting the two; the fourth one is you looking at your screen, and isn’t it lovely how we move through time and space in order to be remembered and seen?

your-resident-fangirl:

the harrow/gideon/ianthe dynamic at the end of harrow the ninth is so funny to me. ianthe thinks shes in a live triangle with harrow and gideon only for gideon to show up and be like WRONG. your competing with ANOTHER dead bitch and we’re BOTH losing get over it loser. meanwhile harrow thinks she has two dead wives and a work colleague (they are BARELY even platonic *scoff* <- harrow voice). truly unparalleled

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shochmonster:

I just wanted to share this mural I painted near the Chicago L. The trick is to pick a literary character you like so that when people make the mistake of asking you about it, you get explain (ad nausea) that no, it's not Robert Smith, but a favorite book. Then you get to talk their ears off about this amazing story. Anyway, this is one of my favorite parts in the Sandman series and I had a blast painting it.

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neil-gaiman:

That is marvelous!

houghtonlib:

digitalnewberry:

Allow us to introduce ourselves…

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TGCF Donghua Concept Art 🦋💖

Great Martial/Shen Wu hall → Xianle Palace → Ghost City → Gambler’s Den Inside & Outside → Paradise Manor Inside & Outside → Prince Yong'an Hall → Luxurious Golden Hall → Green Ghost/Qi Rong’s Lair → Taicang Mountain → Xianle Imperial Mausoleum

hadeantaiga:

If you’re on Windows 11 like I am for my “main” computer (in my case for school purposes and because I can’t get Baldur’s Gate 3 to play on Linux), then you might’ve seen this annoying piece of AI shit show up on your taskbar:

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This is Windows Copilot, and it’s fulled by the same shit ChatGPT is fuelled by. There is currently no way to uninstall it, but there is a way to deactivate it completely, which I’ve linked below. It’s very easy, and it took me like, 2 minutes to do.

How to Completely Remove Copilot from Windows 11
Remove Copilot from your Windows 11 computer using one of these two methods, depending on your Windows edition.
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