Ken & Robin answered my question about Alejandro Jodorowsky!

"The Brass Bottle" (1900 novel): Edwardian urban-fantasy comedy about a young guy who releases a genie, which proceeds to screw up his work & love life with its well-intended magic. I laughed a few times, but it's pretty bland. Apparently it (loosely) inspired the sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie"! 1/x

My dad left my mom with a ton of model trains and she (and we) have discovered the sad truth: model trains are a fandom that has died out to the point, they've lost collectible value. The collectors got old and died, and the value of the trains has sunk to 1/10th of what it was a generation ago.

Me to our 5 year old: “I love you with all of my heart. And all of my mind. All of me except this little finger. It’s very angry”

People say that AI will make you dumb, but even without it, I’m worrying that Google Imagesearch already is functioning as sort of an outsourced part of my brain

There's much I don't like about the art direction for #dnd 5.5, but I have come to appreciate their direction to draw (at least) two genders of each humanoid monster in the Monster Manual. I'm following it now for something I'm working on and it's helping me expand my idea of the creatures involved.

My 81-year-old mom got COVID. Luckily she is vaxxed and so is doing fine. I visited briefly wearing a mask but she’s basically ok so there wasn’t much I could do but tell her to take care of herself🤞

Over on Twitter even some of the most (usually) bitter, despairing lefty anti-electoralists are celebrating Mamdani’s win and marveling that it happened. Exciting times!! 🥳❤️ I hope Mamdani can keep his values, deliver results & escape the inevitable sabotage & fake scandals ginned up by jerks.

🥳🥳🥳 Good on you, New York City!!! Go for it Mamdani!

I haven’t fully read this yet, but it’s an academic study on the history of Arabic anime fansubbing! 😮 Written by Yasmin El Ali, Amer Al Adwan & Hanan Al Jabri. Sent to me by Mikhail Koulikov www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Why does Adobe Acrobat have a page on the Adobe website where you can drag & drop images to convert them to PDFs, but you can't just literally insert an image directly into an Adobe Acrobat file and have it be converted to PDF 🤔

Theres never anyone who draws D&D dwarves with super long mole noses. That is. Until now

I don’t know how it is with other artists, but I’ll often conceive something but not really know what it will look like till I physically draw it. The hand conceives as much as the inner eye. (Or to put it more bluntly, my artistic abilities & weaknesses determine the final design)

These photos freaked me out more as a kid than bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts, combined (but I still want to believe) youtu.be/1Z7zSGzdgTU?...

Imagine if “meeting fairies in the woods” was as creepy as “meeting some random man in the woods.” That is what I am going for with my fairy descriptions in Dreamland RPG

A mountain so high its peak is always illuminated by sunlight, no matter what the time #dreamlands

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back. The genocide is ongoing

50+ year old bicycle with tree growing through it (location: my mother’s house)

“Dungeon Babies” 👶🏼🎲 is one of my favorite things that I have ever done and “Dungeon Crawlers” DMed by @dylankkrp.bsky.social is the one & only Dungeon Babies actual play podcast! Listen to their awesome adventures! YOU WILL BELIEVE INFANTS CAN WIELD 2-HANDED WEAPONS! #dnd #ttrpg

This is so demented and hurts my brain. I guess it was time for a right-wing "this hand gesture is offensive for some extremely obscure reason" freakout to match the six-month-long left-wing freakout about the "OK" sign

Instagram is getting so dominated by videos (which I guess I can't complain about too much because I hope it crushes Larry Ellison's TikTok). But I guess there's no other app that people mainly use to share art & photos? (besides this one of course) Anyone got any art app recommendations?

Wanna hear a scary story? The first American vampire was Black. Seriously. 78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy. It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States

In a quest to save all of babydom, our DUNGEON CRAWLERS seek aid from some divine mommies. Can they get through to Mama Bear & the Sea Mother? 🐻🦞 Find out NOW in the latest episode of our #dnd5e #dnd #actualplay using the #DungeonBabies rules by @mockman.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BWx...

It’s sad & a pain that the US Post Office doesnt have customer facing terminals so that whenever I spend 5 minutes filling out an international customs form by hand, the post office employee has to spend another 5 minutes retyping everything I wrote into their computer right in front of me ☹️

There’s surreal movies and fantasy movies (in the sense of secondary/pseudomedieval worlds) but rarely surreal fantasy movies. I guess it’s sort of asking double duty of the production team to establish a non-modern setting and then *also* establish that it’s somehow surreal & weird

Serious question (From “The Hourglass Sanatorium”)

Next to “Free Palestine” graffiti in Golden Gate Park in the same hand I see “Rachel Boss” graffiti. And it’s true! Ms Rachel is the boss! ❤️

Listening to “A Night in the Lonesome October” by Zelazny. Pretty good, not reslly my thing, but a great dog book 🐶

Parents & folks: does anyone have any recommendations for good mobile games (well, actually iPad) for young kids that you can just buy as a unit and dont have all that toxic micropayments garbage?

Eric Adams endorsing Cuomo with a statement about “radical Islamism” is a whopping reminder that this guy never should have been mayor in the first place Who even looks at obviously lefty Mamdani chilling with his unveiled artist wife and thinks “this guy is a closet Islamist”? Unfathomable idiocy

Text AI would seem more humanlike if it would just insert random things into whatever answer it gave because that was what it was “had on its mind”. At least an AI modeled on me personally

Ended up with my dad’s lovely 1930s globe with old-time versions of all the countries on it 🌍 Apparently he inherited it from his aunt

Check out the new episode of Dungeon Crawlers, the only all-baby #dnd actual play! (The characters are babies, not the players) Using my #dmsguild Dungeon Babies variant rules!! 🎲👶🏼💪 #ttrpg

Our infant adventurers take a note from #Planescape and end up in a war between orcs & goblins! Check out the latest episode of DUNGEON CRAWLERS, our exciting #dnd #dnd5e campaign using the #DungeonBabies rules by @mockman.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkN8...

#portfolioday #Kidlit and adult book covers and interiors, magazines, license work, comix. Pen and ink and pencil. Let my cerebellum enlighten your audiences. No AI here, only wholesome, gluten-free natural intelligence. #bookillustration #GN #WasteLand #Krishna #FiresignTheatre #modernism

Ecce hominid! From an unpublished (and probably unpublishable) homage to Max Ernst, Maldoror and Hebdomeros, the Holy Trinity of a misspent artistic youth. #Surrealism

Slowly reading Giorgio di Chirico’s surrealist novel (or “novel”) “Hebdomeros.” The only comparable works I have read are Maldoror and Naked Lunch, but both are much more narrative than this book where the stream of consciousness rarely lasts for more than a paragraph or two. Still sorta interesting

@toysdream.bsky.social hi Mark! I tried texting you & Julie last night but not sure you got it?

Some TVTropes person pointed out that “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator” is basically Roald Dahl doing a total unauthorized ripoff of “Doctor Who” and now I can’t unsee it 🤯

GoFundMe for an uninsured 31-year-old California woman who was brutally attacked and badly injured hoodline.com/2025/10/san-...

Anyone wanna playtest a (semi) collaborative variant of Dreamland RPG with me? Trying something different #ttrpg

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Like collaborative #ttrpg s and storygames? I'm playtesting new alternative collaborative rules for my game "Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep" No previous Dreaming experience necessary. Join us 10/24 Friday at 10AM PDT! More details at link: discord.gg/jfpp2ugj?eve...

Loving the little bit I’ve seen of Louis Theroux’s interview with Bob Vylan (“Death to the IDF”). Like the most friendly imaginable conversation between a mild-mannered antiviolence pro-Palestine leftist and a really angry online pro-Palestine leftist. Love them both

New big Dreamland RPG blogpost! "What Would a Modern Dreamland Look Like?" #dreamlands #ttrpg Come check out my thoughts (and recommended reading/watching)! Art by Shaun Tan www.dreamrpg.com/2025/10/21/w...

Had one of those #ttrpg clashes of expectations where I, the DM, was thinking “how will the players use their PCs’ skills to face this adventure I sorta have already planned” and one player was thinking “how will the adventure/DM give my PC a chance to shine”

Hot Springs Island x Dreamland 2: the dreamers awaken on a beach; fight with a killer plant; Cachuga peppers; the Thief sees the tower; the Squire remembers what happened; on to the tower; saltvine drains their blood; the Tailor talks to a nightgaunt; fight with boltforagers; the Lapis Observatory

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America. Link below.