It bums me out whenever I see a rushed drawing. I would love to be able to fiddle with layers for hours trying out colors & drawing unnecessary details. At the same time I realize making decisions about what to spend time on is a part of being an artist

The biggest yes/no switch in kids’ talking animal stories is whether the animals eat each other

Hookah will always be cool

Heard about civilian casualties in some conflict (don’t try to guess which one, it wasn’t recent) and found myself thinking “meh” and realized to my horror, this is probably how pro Israel jerks “meh” at Palestinian casualties. You gotta always watch out and try not to be selective in your empathy

DungeonCraft YouTuber does an episode on “Village of Hommlet” and mentions my Hommlet #dnd map youtu.be/-LgUNM8oCgA?...

David McGrogan (Yoon-Suin) namedrops Dreamland RPG 💪 #ttrpg monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Israel admitted it bombed a wedding in Gaza and killed 7 but nobody in the UK or Australia or anywhere else will clamor to ban the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself"— again I have to wonder why.

Since mid-October, Israel has carried out an assassination campaign in Gaza targeting resistance leaders. Contacts within the resistance say Israel is trying to lure them back into direct confrontation to avoid fulfilling its ceasefire obligations. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/isra...

Reread "Little Nemo in Slumberland" & noticed it has the thing where every distance is ENORMOUS -- avenues 500 miles long, Nemo travels "a few thousand miles", etc. I love this, it is so cool and dreamy... and I feel it's kinda the *opposite* of dreamworlds where you can just teleport everywhere?

There’s this dude at the grocery store who over the last few months has obviously gotten the most extensive hair transplants (like the entire front by several inches) and I want to give him a fist bump over it but the Balding Code requires I just pay him tribute by not saying anything

No similarity is 1-1, but I bet if you go back ~60 years to the right-wing freak out about Black characters appearing (as normal people not caricatures) in children’s stories, it’s probably pretty identical to the right-wing freak out about trans characters appearing in children’s stories

Power finally restored after 36-hour blackout in our area of San Francisco

Wanted to YouTube this song to listen to it but realized it’s only a reading of a poem I have hummed to myself

Journalists reporting. Aid workers delivering food. Peace activists opposing home demolitions. Teenagers shot at checkpoints. A grandfather detained and left to die. None of the killers of these U.S. citizens have been held criminally accountable by Israel's government: dawnmena.org/u-s-congress...

How infuriating must it be to be an even vaguely pro Palestine Egyptian person and hear that your dictatorship government just announced a $35 billion gas deal with Israel

Having a real hard time finding Cantonese flashcards (yes, the kids are learning Cantonese, not Mandarin). If anyone has any suggestions please let me know

I can’t easily find details online, but I wonder if Disney’s “Strange World” was ever in development intended to take place in the ‘real’ world, instead of made-up Avalonia? Real world always feels like a better basis for exploration stories. Tho, obviously they end up making the world pretty nuts

Our 5 year old saying she wants to learn Chumash because she loves the show “Spirit Rangers” ❤️

iPhone Messages keyboard is suddenly different in the update, grrrrrrr

Christmas movie pitch: kid writes a letter to Santa but it’s intercepted in the mailroom by a creepy stalker elf

mood youtu.be/bPgXYPJC2uA?...

It still strikes me as weird for self-identified fans to call the thing they love a "franchise." That means something owned, like a license to open a McDonald's. Might as well say "Oh yeah, I'm emotionally attached to this IP."

It’s weird when a franchise grows out from being ‘the thing you loved as a kid’ and ‘catering to the nostalgia of aging former kids’ to focusing on a newer market. It’s kinda a drag since my ❤️ is to ‘specific older works’ more than to ‘the franchise.’ But oc it’s basically healthy for the franchise!

the dread caverns of ulag-glosh where one must throw away something precious to enter, for the cave men are a jealous and spiteful race

Player-generated Dreamland map from collaborative variant Dreamland #ttrpg playtest

Horror fans! I'm selling my 1947 Arkham House "Dark Carnival," Ray Bradbury's 1st short story collection. Autographed by Bradbury. Received this long ago from a beloved family member and I love these stories but it needs a new home. Let me know if you're interested. www.mercari.com/us/item/m242...

5 year old seeing picture of a four legged animal carcass (next to a lion) for the first time: “Whoa…! What is THAT?… it looks like a fish!”

Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

Hey #ttrpg folks!! I'm playtesting my Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep, but testing variant rules... collaborative(-y), with multiple DMs! Join us Tuesday 12/16, 7PM PST, on Discord to create a story of a lone dreamer in a strange land... discord.gg/JQN5yKGN?eve...

Whenever people want to justify the de facto single state reality of the occupied Palestinian territory I just show them maps like this and ask them what it means

Jeff Nicholson, whose comics “Through the Habitrails” and “Colonia” I liked, returns to “Colonia” after a 20 year gap 🤯 www.tcj.com/topic/jeff-n...

It’s canon that the elves get to keep the presents for the kids who died before Christmas Eve

This ridiculously over-the-top cooking manga is one of my favorites! Pleasantly amazed it’s getting an anime… like, 30 years after it started (???!!)

Parents question: How can I make Netflix work like TV did as a kid, where after one or two hours of cartoons it turns into boring news and there’s nothing you can do

My friend couldn’t believe how I could go through ~100 layers in a ProCreate drawing. Maybe I’m doing it wrong but, I draw everything in a separate plane on a separate layer. Linework + color + shadows is usually at least 5-6 layers, then also there’s overall shadows & color fades & stuff. 100 easy!

Mist hanging in the hills #sonomacounty #healdsburg

Dean Koontz’s “Phantoms” monster would whip King’s “It” in a fight “It” busy on elaborate setpiece scares while Phantoms Monster walks up as a normal person and immediately kills you The entire town is killed in the first chapter of Phantoms! Pennywise can’t kill all of Derry after 100+ years

Mood youtu.be/CZXLLMbJdZ4?...

Stephen King > Dean Koontz but Koontz’s “Phantoms” > King’s “It”

There's a good essay to be written about Lord Dunsany's "thief" stories and the interconnected weird secretly-magical world they describe (They're all Dreamland stories too, but just the thief stories have their own special vibe)

Been working on designing a Cultist role (class) for Dreamland #ttrpg. I think I've finally figured out their deal, to keep them from stepping on the toes of the Priest and Witch. But, a question..when you hear "Cultist" do you automatically think *EVIL* Cultist? Do they gotta have an evil vibe?

Hey #ttrpg folks!! I'm doing a playtest of a multiple-DMs variant version of my game, Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Tuesday, December 16 at 7PM on Discord/roll20. Please join, and help weave a tale of a dreamer caught between strange fates.. discord.gg/JQN5yKGN?eve...

“Let’s Not Eat”: Spin-off of “Let’s Not Meet” podcast but it’s just about gross food

At a free kids’ book place, found some sus children’s books from “Tattum Reading” by “Steve Tattum” using unlabeled clearly-AI art. The guy has a website advertising hundreds of children’s books and not mentioning AI anywhere. (The tedious, bland text also reads like it’s AI. 🤮)

Drawing some Dreamland fairies on Instagram/FB, but tinkering with the colors a little. Fairies gotta be colorful!

I knew Candace Owens was super right wing, but I didn’t know how just many insane things she believes www.currentaffairs.org/news/candace...

Hey #ttrpg folks! Next Tuesday, December 16, 7PM PST, I'm going to be playtesting a variant collaborative (or really multiple-DMs) version of Dreamland RPG. If this sounds interesting, please join in & try it out! More info is on the Discord server! discord.gg/JQN5yKGN?eve...

Rough sketch of the city of Ulthar #dreamlands #catsofulthar

Looks like it's on Retro Crush dubbed and subbed with better video

Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985): one of the greatest fantasy movies ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiH_...