Couture Comix, no. 187 https://lucire.com/insider/20260106/couture-comix-no-187/ #couturecomix #paulasweet #humour #illustration #cartoon

It seems like a pretty common attitude in tech spaces to care more about performing knowledge than actually having knowledge. Berating you for being stupid if you have issues or voice complaints, forming strong opinions about correct software use that they refuse to adequately explain etc. I […]

[kink discussion] Arguing with anti-kink people is so funny cus they are completely unprepared to deal with the fact that most kinksters are subs. Their arguments completely break down when you realize that most people defending things like consensual nonconsent want to be consensually […]

I live in fear that people are going to figure out I've gotten most of my personality from like three writers I've read vociferously.

A fairly common discussion in the D&D space goes something like this: "There is a problem in D&D where players put too much of the burden of running the game and implementing the rules on the GM" "Well, it's the GMs fault for not communicating with their players better".

The only secret to becoming a great artist that I know of is you need to be obsessed with at least one obscure and deeply uncool piece of media. There's a pretty strong correlation between mediocre artists and artists who only cite popular stuff as influence. And if you look at interviews of […]

Reading about cartoon tropes makes me wonder, what are some modern tropes that are likely to become fossilized in cornball humor the way things like anvils or nutty professors have been? The problem with this question is that we'll never really know until enough time has passed to make the […]

"Grandma hobbies" is just short for hobbies that rule. Knitting rules, puzzles rules, watching birds at the feeder rules, reading truly terrifying amounts of saucy romance fiction, oh you know that rules.

Simon Stålenhags paintings is just kind of what the swedish countryside actually look like, just with a vaguely science fiction sheen. The whole quaint farmhouse with some menacing sci-fi building looming in the horizon is just what it feels like living next door to a wind farm.

I feel like part of what makes valve games really good for unfiction horror is a) the fact that they are moddable in some pretty wild ways and b) the fact that Valves logo splash screen is kind of scary, like it basically has a horror movie sting already.

[porn discussion] I think it's safe to say that most anti-porn crusaders don't actually want porn to disappear, they just don't want other people to have it. They seem pretty keen on hitting up smutmongers just so they can oogle their goods and tut-tut about how depraved and perverted it is […]

Retro games are slowly undergoing a transformation from a nostalgia-driven hobby to a classics-driven hobby. That is, the people who are getting into retrogames are increasingly people who did not actually play them as kid and who enjoy them for the same reason people read classic novels, watch […]

neurotypical to neurotypical communication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1GV5o5xNqU

One funny aspect of comedy is there are an entire family of jokes that are just generically about how dumb and absurd a specific group of people is, which tend to attach themselves to whatever social group its currently deemed okay to laugh at, often a country or ethnic group. (In Sweden, we […]

Why yes, I do read theory 🧐

"Serious writers try to tell the full truth about themselves; if a writer never sounds more like a shithouse wall than like a campaign speech carefully worded for optimal and omnidirectional inoffensiveness, it’s safe to say that he or she is dishonest. When writers are afraid to express any […]

The Hague is Waiting, Donald

tbh, my favorite thing that came in the Welcome to Night Vale TTRPG box might be the little plastic coin token with a "1" and "2" on each side. For all that I love collecting weird dice it somehow never occured to me before this that I needed a D2, but now I actually got a proper 2-sided dice.

[lyricposting, war] "Called the president a terrorist Corporate sponsors like, 'How the fuck you gon’ embarrass us?' Ain’t my fault, I was just repeatin’ this Professor Emeritus from America But my tone was like an Afghani kid without a home Blew that bitch up with a drone An Iraqi with no […]

When i was a little boy, my mother told me that i could be anything i wanted when i grew up, so i became a nerdy, kinky, bipolar, autistic, cat lady.

Maybe this is nitpicking on my part, but I feel like "fictional podcast" implies something very different than "fiction podcast", which is what I'd say Welcome to Night Vale is. Although to be fair "Welcome to Night Vale is a fictional podcast, if you recall […] [Original post on meow.social]

One of the weirder footnotes in fandom history is that Steven Universe was right on track to receive an edgy quasi-ironic 4-chan-adjacent fandom a la Brony and then it just... sort of didn't. Idk why that never stuck, I think it's just that the show is altogether too sincere to really support […]

"Owlor, why do you know about so many random things?" I read wikipedia obsessively, that's literally all there is to it.

I was not prepared to learn how awful the card back on the official rider-waite tarot deck is. It's like, based on 60s-era card decks where people didn't give a fuck and it's just a generic plaid.

Underrated christmas cryptids: the golden pig apparition you see when successfully managing to fast before christmas in czech folklore.

How to make a certain type of guys entire day: contrive a way to end up somewhere at night and then be like "oh no, it's so dark, if only someone had a small, surprisingly strong tactical flashlight that they carry with them everywhere they go..."

Approach life like a #cat: Quick to protect oneself but never losing the strong urge of curiosity. Sleep and eat when you need to. Find joy wherever you go. Peeing in a box is optional.

I'm increasingly in favor of excluding Homestuck from the category of webcomics, not because I don't think it meets the definition, but because it's so much more popular than anything else, yet extremely variant in just about every single way, so it tends to dominate any discussion of webcomics […]

New manga idea A girl discovers and old manga, falls in love with it, and decides she must read the other volumes. However, the only existing copies of the rest of the series are in random bookshops strewn around the country. She enlists the help of her best friend to go on a rail tour of the […]

The irony with sex workers not being considered hireable in many industries is that independent sex workers are a highly competent combination of artist, performer, PR manager, accountant, community manager and legal expert, you wish they where hireable. It reminds me of the story of how the US […]

nothing throws The Mountain Goats fans for a loop more than realizing John Darnielle can actually sing.

One of the funniest intra-community gags in Butterfly Soup has gotta be the one scene with the school baseball team in an asian-majority neighbourhood where the couch is like "alright, be honest with me, which sports manga made you wanna pick up baseball?"

[kink discussion] The thing about kinks I find hardest to explain in a way that will make people understand is how often kink is a push-pull between desire and revulsion. Like there's usually a very fine line between what someone will find hot and what someone will find upsetting. This is why […]

Some approaches to TTRPG design has a really strong 'grain' in it that runs towards mecha. Like, if your game design have a very clear distinction between which actions are available in combat and which aren't, then it really wants to be about mechs.

An underdiscussed aspect of unfiction is how many unfiction projects are, like, tech demos in disguised. Like, a non-neglible ammount of them is just people figuring out how to do something weird in source engine or minecraft and building a narrative out of it.

HAIL SLIME GOD!!!!!!!! 💚☣️ (4 slimecult @ x) #JACQALart #art #slime #slimegirl

[fictional warning sign, dubcon] 🖼

Two kinds of fictional locations: Ostensibly a real-world location yet bear only a passing resemblance to it. Ostensibly a fictional location yet it's described with such impeccable sense of place that people who know its inspiration can pinpoint where it would be on a map within a 200 mile […]

Today I discovered there is an *incredibly* detailed Wiki for #granny, the extremely low-budget horror game series https://granny.fandom.com/wiki/Previous_Victim

So many horned furries have assymetrical or broken horns as a charm point, and it does look really cute on other people, but I know for a fact that if I had horns that where assymetrical in any way, it'd drive me nuts so fast. Forget braces, I'd have to put my head in some sort of contraption.

What I wanna know is 1. How many sasquatch sightings are literally just a hiker who happens to be a big hairy guy trying to flag down traffic cus he's gotten lost or something and need some help, but people keep flooring it cus OH SHIT ITS BIGFOOT 2. How many ghost sightings are just one of […]

[commentary on terminology discourse] I have seen claims that "boi" is an appropriation from AAVE and I can't really find much evidence that this is true apart from the fact that some of the earlier usages occur in rap names. The problem is that spelling "boy" as "boi" as a cute deliberate […]

"DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION?" I really love Switch Angels style of Algorave, particularly with the narration on top explainintg what's going on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AifAIqHezb8

One thing that'd be interesting to see a chart of is the mainstream popularity of a thing vs the academic interest in that thing, cus there are a bunch of disciplines that are really obscure but have a lot of articles dedicated to it pretty much entierly because academics happen to find it […]

The sign generator is great

There is an argument to be had that a lot of people have literally been taught how to read wrong. A lot of people have been taught this system (called three cueing) where you are supposed to look for context clues if you don't recognize a word, you look at any available illustrations, you look […]

Happy birthday to literally every racehorse on earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm0dnjbQzD4 You know you are talking about TTRPG history when you can unironically refer to "The Google+ Era"

[kink, lewd] My new years resolution is to remain in chastity for pervy kink reasons and probably fail to remain chaste before the first week of January has ended, also for perverted kink reasons.

2026 is the year of the horse. Time to get commissions of your OCs getting fucked by a horse, everyone. 😌 #nsfw #furry