The bigotry that Elliot Page is receiving right now for being cast in “The Odyssey” is disgusting. Whatever role he is cast in, I’m sure he’ll be awesome

Are there any (cartoon) kids’ shows about geography? How do kids learn about other countries in the post-Tintin-and-Asterix stereotypes era

Dumb question that maybe someone here can answer: when the Israeli military stopped boats & kidnapped people from the Gaza Freedom Flotillas, did they just keep (steal) the boats? I have a hard time believing they’d give them back

There needs to be finally be a tangible set of consequences for the type of abject lying that is done about Tlaib, Mamdani, Omar, etcetera by the right most members of the Democratic caucus. There is a reason that the party has a problem with Muslims and it's because this stuff is tolerated.

#ttrpg status: fleshing out and illustrating the main setting book for Dreamland RPG. I've already got the text and main maps, now I have to draw some more mini-maps and a lot of illustrations, and add more text to a few sections that seem to call out for it

If you step back a little it tells you a lot about American culture that the bikini is named after a nuclear weapon and that attractive women were called “bombshells”

The DOB of Bluey’s dad is revealed in one episode and I am 4 years older

Can’t wait for my kids to get old enough that I can lean on them for emotional support

Related to drawing (distantly): a new Radio War Nerd episode just dropped and I cannot wait to listen to that while drawing dragons and stuff at 5:30am next morning ❤️💪🐉

Doing a ton of drawing these last few weeks for 2 big projects. One of these is Dreamland RPG! 💪🌒🎲 I’ll show these drawings…. Eventually…. #ttrpg #dnd

Today’s music: this pop song stuck in my head since childhood youtu.be/IzAO9A9GjgI?...

There’s got to be some pro-Israel person who is agonized over Art Spiegelman’s acknowledgement of the Gaza genocide (or who became pro-Palestine partially as a result)… there’s got to be right? But I haven’t seen it

Saw a low budget short film adaptation of “Celephais” and was reminded that the Jodorowsky talent where you can imply a fantasy world with paint and thrift store costumes is sadly so rare

This is the key feature of Israel's genocidal intent www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

Drawing Wonderland (Dreamlands style)

Finally finished this amazing, very weird 1964 anthology dream fiction: "The Dream Adventure" by Roger Caillois. Really loved it! A few standouts in the thread....

Summer

Was sorting through old books at grandma’s house and rediscovered “Rose is Rose” by Pat Brady, a great 1990s comic strip. Very vaguely like “Calvin and Hobbes” in its flights of imagination, but its main character is daydreaming housewife-mom Rose rather than Calvin with his boy-centric fantasies

wild stuff e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Daughter is now into Dua Lipa (the few permitted songs…) and said she wants Dua Lipa to do a video where 1st graders come out and dance with her

A cartoon I did years ago about our dog

In the How to Train Your Dragons books, Rome exists and Romans eventually appear. In the shows, the Vikings exist (afaik) in a world with no other recognizable cultures. Wonder at the writers room decisions involved in this (the shows & books are generally very different)

I’ve read Roald Dahl’s introduction to the 1982 book about Lebanon &… it’s actually pretty good (despite using the phrase “the Jews”) :/. He acknowledges the Holocaust and anti-Zionist Jewish people. Too bad he f’ed it up with an antisemitic ‘joke’ in another interview www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Was at a tech event in SF and told one person that I do “strange escapism”

Successfully converting some very sloppy 50-layer photoshop files into 16-layer procreate files

Another Monday morning of drawing at 5:30am listening to letsnotmeetpodcast.com in the cool darkness before dawn

Just reads Kipling’s “The Brushwood Boy,” an interesting dreamlands fantasy story that I bet influenced “Celephais”. HPL’s dreamworlds have an ‘Oriental’ flavor, but in Kipling the hero is literally a British officer in India, so that element is in ‘reality’ while the dream itself is more surreal

Today's work music www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqng...

DC editors trying to publish all their blasphemous (/sarcasm) comics before Larry Ellison buys Warner Bros :/

Big moment for fans of weird 80s superhero comics… Rick Veitch’s “Swamp Thing” censored storyline from 1989 (basically Jesus meets ST) is being published with Veitch’s blessing! 😮 Happy for this. It shows the declining influence of rightwing Christianity…in comics at least www.dc.com/blog/2026-05...

NO GOBLINS

ChatGPT was modeled on me apparently

Is it cheating to read “The Hobbit” to our 6 year old daughter and just rewrite it so Bilbo is a girl

This is very cool -- a family TTRPG drawn out as a collaborative scroll map!

From mechanics to topographics: when the map becomes the medium of the conversation zotrpg.blogspot.com/2026/05/from... Inspired by @mockman.bsky.social 's Walkthrough Maps, a family becomes a team of collaborative mappers, creating a nine‑meter‑long campaign on an Ikea paper roll.

Have been playing the Beastie Boys’ “Brass Monkey” to wake up the kids but need to stop now that they are asking about the lyrics

Read a very good short dream story by Jean Lorrain and now curious to find more of his stuff en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lo...

I wonder if David Cronenberg and JG Ballard went through a period where people kept encouraging them to make stuff their kids could enjoy

Zach Cregger is directing a new Resident Evil film!! I never liked the old movies cuz they went for action over horror (and had very obviously fake early 2000s CGI zombie effects), but maybe this.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu...

wao!!! 900 pages of classic shoujo manga!!!

I like smoking hookah. That is all (Well, not all. I can’t shut up about it! 😆 the nice thing about hookah vs cigarettes is it takes a whole bulky setup so you can’t feed your addiction just casually like with smoking on the sidewalk. Also, two apples flavor 👌🍎)

Reading the original "How to Train Your Dragon" books with the kids. They are VERY different from the movies (one of many examples: Toothless is too small to ride!!) and honestly I prefer the movies, but they have their charm. Their "silly & violent" mood frankly reminds me of my #dnd mockman maps

The former director of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, went on a tour of the West Bank to examine settler violence. He said it made him "ashamed to be Jewish" and that "it reminded me of the events that happened in the last century against Jews." 13tv.co.il/item/news/po...

If you tell me there was a lesbian-friendly cafe called “The Dead Rat” in 1890s Paris… you couldn’t keep it out of my version of Dreamlands Ulthar if you forced me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Rat_...

Maybe I’m wrong but it feels like Disney & now Pixar are held back by their reputation, every film has to be “a big Disney film” (meaning princesses), or a super thoughtful emo Pixar film. Whereas Dreamworks just gets to throw a lotta stuff out there, some meh, but some wildly successful & different

Pop culture isn’t going to be gay enough until animated movies end with the hot guy just randomly kissing the hero to show his improved social status

Can you recommend me some ttrpgs outside of Bluebeard's Bride (love) that are centered around feminine horror? Whether the themes are explicit or metaphorical, both are welcome! Self promo is also ok =)

Dreamland vibes (From Theopole Gautier’s “The Dead Leman”)

ProCreate on my iPad is increasingly freezing up, either for a few seconds or until I turn it off & on again. The ProCreate app holds 128GB of art, about 1/3 of the -350GB I am using of my 512GB iPad storage. Has anyone else had problems like this? Any suggestions?