Crater Labs

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Writer of passable sci-fi, lover of vidja games and jazz, and owner of four copies of The Receda Cube (she/her (mostly))

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Crater Labs@craterlabs· 18d

I'm not usually the "mark up my book with a pen or highlighter" kinda gal, but The Secret Life of the American Musical may well be converting me into one

A page from The Secret Life of the American Musical by Jack Viertel where I've underlined the phrase "it turns a original into a hero."

Crater Labs@craterlabs· 23d

Also while walking the beach I took note of these pools that were formed by the tide coming in and going out earlier in the day and my brain was like "Wait. Is that what Tide Pools are?" and now I feel silly having never put that together before in my life XD

A "tide pool" on the beach of Lake Michigan, with the lake itself on the right, separated from each other by the sandy beach. A few seagulls walk in the pool with one notably closer than the rest. People are in the distance but indistinct. The Michigan City Lighthouse is juuuuust in frame in the distance off to the right.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Jun 20

Checked out the Pride festival in South Bend today and got this nifty lil candy sishkabob

A shish kebab made of a very long lollipop impaling a marshmallow peep rabbit and several gummy candies

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Jun 6

pass it on!! It's pfp day where you post your pfp! ...even if my pfp is less of a picture and more of an icon. Created by the inimitable @asterlil.bsky.social!

Crater Labs@craterlabs· May 29

Looking up "Rock the Bull" for more context brought up this delightful scamp

Black and white photo of a rodeo bull named Red Rock standing next to a man in a cowboy hat

Crater Labs@craterlabs· May 4

I'm on a bus trip to New York! I can trust this bus because it has a dapper mascot.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Apr 28

Happy Anniversary... #SaveCoH #SavedCoH

An image of a City of Heroes badge titled "Exuberant" that shows a city skyline and the number 22 with an accentuating ribbon. The badge text says "You have helped celebrate the 22nd anniversary of City of Heroes."

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Mar 18

We're doing this. We're making this happen. #Tuvix #StarTrekVoyager #AcrossTheUnknown

A video game screenshot showing a planet against a purple-tinged backdrop of space. A pop-up of the character Neelix says "Look at that! I've never seen our Vulcan so... enthused! Please, Captain, let me lend Mr. Tuvok a hand. As our morale officer, I'm hoping some of my cheerfulness rubs off on him!"

This is followed by two choices: 1) Send Tuvok and Neelix down to the planet to catalogue the plant life, and 2) Change your mind: Continue course.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Mar 11

In City of Heroes I just got the 1500th badge, and am more pleased with myself than I should be about being able to open my character's Info window in the brief moment or so before the game automatically gave me the 1501st badge (the badge for getting 1500 badges). #shortcut

A screenshot of a character's Info window in City of Heroes, showing the character Short-Cut. The Badges tab is selected, with the phrase 1500 Badges Earned at the top before it begins listing many badges (the visible categories including Architect Entertainment and Day Jobs badges).

Below this window is a chat window showing Looking For Group chatter, and some game information text, showing the defeat of an enemy called Type 22, rewarded experience points and information (the in-game currency for that part of the game), the reception of Focused Rage (a damage-boosting item in the game), and two text notifications giving congratulations for earning the Escapee badge, and then the Until the End off the World badge.)

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Nov 25

Ohhhh... Okay then, I should've probably assumed that

An exit in Union Station that has the words "To All Trains" written over it

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Nov 25

Okay, but like, which trains *specifically*

A sign in Chicago's Union Station that says "To Trains" with an arrow pointing

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Sep 25

Best friends together again

Dr. Eggman and Dr. Wily from the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comic playing a video game against each other on a device called an "Eggs Box". In the background are toy models of Eggman's robots Motobug and Buzzer, a nd Dr. Wily's Castle. The screen shows Sonic beating Megaman in a fighting game, and the screen says "Time Over". Robotnik raises his fist victoriously, Dr. Wily is sticking his tongue out.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Aug 30

Me, playing Sonic Racing Crossworlds as Robotnik and getting Zazz as my rival, seeing him grab the camera and lick the screen: "Oh, I guess he's in this? Instead of Zavok? All right then." My sister, watching: "WHO THE HELL IS THAT"

Sonic villain Zazz of the Deadly Six, reaching forward to grab the camera that is theoretically filming him to emphasize his taunt toward Dr. Robotnik, with a caption saying "Revenge time, baby! I'm gonna terrorize you all the way to the finish line!"

A graphic declares that he is a rival racer and gives him a level of 3 out of 10 flame icons to indicate how challenging he is.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Apr 6

I feel some vindication about this opening weekend. But my condolences to longtime Minecraft players who wanted something else. Y'just got Phantom Menace'd.

A Discord message from CraterLabs dated 09/07/2024 1:13 PM saying 'Honestly, the only thing that truly feels weird to me about the Minecraft movie trailer is that Jack Black doesn't look like Minecraft Steve to me

Nearly every complaint I hear about it is people saying "But it looks like X!" where X is something that nine year olds love"

The first sentence has an image of Ellen from El Goonish Shive nodding her head somberly as a reaction emoji.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Feb 18

Got my calendar from @ethannestor.bsky.social today! Time for many months of a good boi. :-)

An open calendar showing January 2025 with the days New Year's Day, Backflip Day (the 19th), and a day marked as :/ (the 6th). Above the month is a picture of Ethan Nestor in a festive top hat, yellow bow tie, black shirt, and suit jacket holding a bottle of champagne upside down. Ethan's arm is on the shoulder of his dog Spencer, who is also wearing a matching yellow bow tie. A cityscape in the background has fireworks going off above it, implying a New Year's Day celebration.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Feb 2

So I just picked up a new Playdate game called Bona Fido by @rae.wtf. This game is adorable, it's like the original Mario Bros. game, but instead of clearing monsters out of a sewer you clear them from the underworld by barking. Pick it up if you've got a Playdate! play.date/games/bona-f...

Saved for posterity: Nicole's high score after a single session of Bona Fido, coming in at 5th place with 1350 points; highest scocre is 4600, highest about CraterLabs is 1350, and the lowest (right below) is 300.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Dec 29

My fingers hurt so much, but I'm ready to play my new game! #RansomNotes #tabletop #boardgames

A stack of game cards titled "Ransom Notes", the game box, a plastic baggie with small metal trays, a black drawstring bags, and most prominently a large stack of refrigerator magnet poetry words, all arranged on the top of a wooden table

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Dec 13

Is it weird that this tiny, tiny portion of an enhanced screenshot for the upcoming Shadow Generations movie DLC is the most important part of the reveal to me? :-P

A small sign sticking out of a building featuring a stylized Robotnik face, done in the style of the old Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon instead of the modern Eggman silhouette

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Dec 3

Uggghhhhhh fine, I'll do one of these engagement bait things, but only because it looks fun and I like talking about myself (the art section will talk about the arts of writing and/or sandwich making)

A series of 50 questions that will be answered depending on the likes received, including 1) why are you on Bluesky, 16) favorite season, 27) last book you read, and 40) who'd you do fanart of

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Nov 6

Just realized I didn't share my Halloween costume! Here it is. Low budget, but a lotta fun.

Brown paper bag with a crudely drawn picture of a monster with orange horns, red eyes, three teeth poking out of its mouth, red hair, and a scar on it's forehead

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Oct 9

Decided to go to a comedy club for an open mic night for the first time tonight with a friend. I was worried it was gonna be sketchy but literally my only complaint is that it wrapped up after just one hour instead of two. So we went walking in a local park and saw a splash pad light show.

Fountains and lights splashing red, blue, and green water around with a restaurant called "Howard Park Public House" in the background

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Sep 17

Looks like I was Bluesky user #118,685. Woo, first 250,000 adopters!

An image proclaiming me to be user #118,685

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Jun 4

This is what I like to call "Environmental Storytelling"

A screenshot from the Team Fortress 2 store page on Steam giving the game's image, description, Recent Reviews (listed as Mostly Negative) and All Reviews (listed as Very Positive)

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Apr 26

My sister came back from a road trip to see a mothman museum and said she got me a present. Turned out it was a cute li'l Flatwoods Monster sticker!

Sticker of a Flatwoods Monster designed as a cute girl in a green dress, affixed to the lid of a laptop

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Jan 11

I think this is probably the most sensible final layout I've ever gotten in Catacombs of Karak.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Dec 1

I'm concerned about the math being used on the NaNoWriMo website

A screenshot of my progress in NaNoWriMo from the official website, claiming that my 49819 written words out of my 50000 goal is 100%

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Nov 29

Okay, I finally, *finally* caught back up with where I should be in NaNoWriMo. And with two days to spare!

A Scrivener Project Target window showing 46,700 words of 50,000 words finished in the whole manuscript, and 4,090 words written out of 1,667 in the current session.

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Nov 27

Okay, made some good progress on catching up in NaNoWriMo today. Passed the 40K mark, and with four more days to go that's not too shabby.

NaNoWriMo 2023 progress: 80% (40,099 out of 50,000 words) and various badges marking the progress in the event

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Oct 17

Went to a Halloween party for clowns with a hastily assembled (thanks entirely to my sister while I was at work) costume that represents my inner bank robber

Crater Labs@craterlabs· Oct 10

I've been procrastinating about Inktober, so here's two images to catch up. 1: Dream: Teleporting SuperTeen Short-Cut has only had one dream since Galaxy City was destroyed, and it's not a great one... 10: Fortune: Notorious gangster Sammy Stick-Figure steals a fortune from the 723rd national bank