That mountain being.

I have a longstanding friend whom I've known forever, and since we met the running joke was we were somehow long-lost siblings (we look surprisingly alike). Anyway, my not-sister just sent me a photo of her family and in the last few years we've grown matching grey streaks. This joke will never die.

Look, I know this is a little bit random, but I want to point out that the American comic book industry has always suffered from this weird inferiority complex about its place in the entertainment landscape and we really, REALLY need to get over that.

*tapping the god damned sign* DON'T tag creators in your bad reviews/threads about their work. Feel free to hate something! Obviously! But there is zero need to tell the creator about it. All it does it hurt. It's rude, and cruel, frankly. And if you want to say "Well you put something... (1/3)

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I trust that I'm still sane because I legit had to double check that this wasn't an AI image.

it's weird to live in a time of total fucking lawlessness

Ignore this, just need a place where I can link images to explain to someone what I see when I see an AI image.

climbing into my Bluesky bubble like:

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

I wonder, do more mainstream gamers get salty that Dispatch is basically a really pretty visual novel? I've seen it described as an "interactive narrative adventure" and like, sure... but that's a visual novel, folks. That's what visual novels are.

It is entirely keeping with the genre, but I do find it sort of funny that the "true" ending of Dispatch is absolutely a termination-worthy HR violation. It is the ending I went with, because I decided to play Robert as "a true hero, but soap-opera messy" in classic X-Men fashion. I'm just saying.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Cut the Pound Cake song needle drop short to progress to the next episode? Why on earth would I do that? Don't you know me at all, Dispatch?

Things like being jarred out of my leisure time to go to work twice on a Saturday (once at 7am, once at 5pm) are why im tired all the time and find it hard to get art done.

I just started playing Dispatch and I gotta say someone was a coward for having multiple women call Robert a dad-bod early on without actually giving him anything aproximating a dad-bod.

still my sickest burn ever

You know the one.

Anyway hire me to edit your comics

I've been reading a lot of 80's paperback horror, specifically those huge 500+ page epics where you meet an entire town full of characters right before they're devoured / mutated / go mad, etc., so I felt inspired to paint a paperback novel cover for one that doesn't exist!

66 gigs all told. I think that's enough maps. Yeah. Should be enough. I can probably stop downloading maps now.

it's don't kill yourself thursday. repost to don't kill yourself

So... Anybody wanna read the first four pages of THE OCTOBER GIRL Book Two? In bookstores next Tuesday, May 26th, from me and @maverickogn.bsky.social!

self portrait

Yeah, I really shouldn't have read more on the p0tus's settlement. That as not wise for my mental health. Why am I at work anymore? Why participate in any system at his point when they are this hopelessly corrupt?

I'm for taxing the shit out of billionaires even if it doesn't directly help a single person, just to mitigate their impact on society. That said, Jeff's wealth alone could fund NASA for a decade, or PBS for 400 years, so I think we could probably find SOMETHING useful to spend it on.

America blames the poor for being sick and the sick for being poor.

Accidentally made Gemini roleplay as a fried egg when I googled a quote from Mixtape.

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t Spinal Tap

Literally was just ranting to my therapist about how I don’t go out and don’t do anything and somehow I’m spending 2-3k a month on just existing.

I doubt I'll ever be as hyped for anything like I was this movie when this trailer came out. If you weren't there it's hard to imagine just how big this trailer was.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others.

I know Greg absolutely despises them, but he's wrong. Alex's anti-jokes at the top of the show are essential. Those are load-bearing non-jokes.

ENGAGING WITH ART EVERY DAY: VOL 1 In this month's newsletter, I discuss my current life project: taking the time to experience at least one new piece of art every single day. Good, bad, ugly, pretty, it doesn't matter. Here is some of what I've experienced so far and why I want to share it

Rachel and Harry harmonizing while he waits to murder her and she waits to fill his face full of buckshot is a scene so good it deserves to be ripped off more often.

Watching Night of the Hunter for the first time. Robert Mitchum, folks, he's just fun to look at.

22 gigs of maps feels like it might be more than I strictly need to run this next ttrpg campaign... ...but that's not gonna stop me.

Man, the movie is a so-so Conan adaptation, but the soundtrack is still an undisputed worldbeater. Real pump your fist fantasy shit. Can go toe-to-toe with the LotR OST any day of the week, fight me.

If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. "Illia turned her eyes out the window and toward the entry gate. Her hands rested on the windowsill and her index finger snapped out a single, sharp tap against the wood. Behind her, a full cup of heavily brewed tea sat, as cool as the room."

Delicious. The first couple of years when LLMs and image generators were coming out so many of my student workers were enamored with them. I'd tell them why I wasn't, all the information warfare stuff, and they'd get a 100 yard stare. Finally it's going wide with the young folk.

I'm a level 43 human today. 43's a bit of a dead level. All you get is a +1 CON and a contextual INT bonus. It is a prime number though, so that's nice. I'm not easily divisible.

This is really an all-time banger of a season for Taskmaster. All killer, no filler.

Rawbraining it

Rewatched an old youtube video I liked from 9 months ago and glanced down at the comments. Saw a comment and was like "Yeah, true that! What a good comment". Then I realized... ... ... It was a comment I left. I'm going to say this makes me consistent instead of saying it makes me an ego-maniac.

The dearth of media literacy thing has been around for a while, but never mind interpreting texts critically, a lot of people now just straight up do not know how to even watch a TV show or movie in the first place anymore.

OK fine if you were so right before why didn't I agree with you???

What’s the highest compliment you can give, can imagine, or have received? I was once told by an art mentor of mine, upon showing him my latest work, that "we're not going to talk about drawing today, because you've solved that problem". Probably live off that high for the rest of my life.

Really doing my Irish breathing exercises today...