It doesn't happen, but if it did happen it wouldn't impact you, but if it did impact you that would be a skill issue, unless it affected me too which is what we should really be focusing on here.

Hello everyone! Today starts the LAST WEEK of the 3rd SICKO SELECTION, where 25 perverts came together (ha) to make a sale of horny prose, comics, and art books just for 25 bucks! I personally put together a two part bundle of The Temptations of Father Basil. Check it out! itch.io/b/3393/sicko...

americans consider being maybe a milligram less ghoulish about british transphobia. it's giving "at least we don't have 30 mass shootings a year". imagine hypothetically that you cared at all about the issue beyond a smug cross atlantic gotcha.

As long as AI stays exactly like this, stops evaporating all the water out of the oceans, and loses the trillions of misguided investment, I regret to say that I now love it.

happy DV awareness month ! I’ve been asked about this so much recently I made a diagram. with planets in it !!

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Treat yourself to devilish delights this Halloween! Lee single handedly raised my standards for what I consider “good” writing, you can’t miss with him

OPENING PREORDERS ONE MORE TIME L҉i҉n҉k҉ i҉n҉ b҉i҉o҉

Go ahead and steal it, i can always make more

it's so funny how people post shit like that as if the exact concept "my art is theft of your sacred concept of art" hasn't been explored to death by influential working artists for decades

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Daughter (3) told me for Halloween she wants to be Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” and when I pointed out that she’d be aestheticizing her own politics she countered that to watch passively is to already join the ritual

forcing AI into every industry from the top down, ignoring employees who say "this is unfit for purpose, it's creating more work for me", meanwhile if it actually worked and industries were adopting it from the bottom up, the line from management would be "lazy kids don't want to work any more"

is anyone truly buying all these plushies being advertised every day to “fund these indie animated pilots” lmfao. is this really what this has all come to. must animation be paid for with dollars made from mass produced merch of guys i’ve seen for one second. surely there is another way man

when a bunch of shit happens back to back that makes it either logistically or psychologically impossible to work on your various projects, you spend a long time wracked by guilt and thinking about how great it's going to be when you can focus for real and fire all those things out again

there are naturally larger gaps in the Painterly palette for some hues than others, but I hope to fill those over time with discrete packs focused on specific moods/landscapes. I figured as a starting point mapmakers always always need more greens browns and greys.

I am also working on a colourblind pack to give away for free, because ttrpgs drastically drastically need better accessibility toolsets for players and GMs, but that is going to take a little longer to cook because I need to make sure it really serves its purpose first.

My Painterly terrain sets for Dungeondraft are out! Pick up the Megapack to get 792 terrain materials for just $18, all designed to a 22-hue palette with light, mid and dark shades for maximum flexibility. mortalityplays.itch.io/painterly-me...

terrible year! and all of it only likely to keep getting worse. ah well, nevertheless.

Daniel Farson's HAMLYN BOOK OF GHOSTS IN FACT AND FICTION (1978), one of Hamlyn's quadrilogy of classic books about horror, mysteries, and monsters, went all-out on the illustrations. At times, it's neck-and-neck with Usborne's famous trilogy of paranormal-themed books. That second picture!

The Shadow Demon

That joy must not be sold. It must not be "privatised," made into another privilege for the privileged. A public library is a public trust. And that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, and that's everyone, when they need it, and that's always. — Ursula K Le Guin

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...

WILKES BARRE TIMES LEADER, MARCH 13,1909

i don't mean to be hyperbolic but bluesky is the single worst My Little Pony fan forum i've ever used in my life

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whatever, listening to ghost stories and batch processing psds. life can be dream despite it all.

there was a span of years where I didn't make art at all. I went from drawing and painting daily, experimentally, compulsively, to having anxiety attacks any time I picked up a pen. a lot of it came from the rapid commercialisation and professionalisation of the amateur space I'd been working in.

I'm Not An Artist I'm Just Caremad

I'm not going anywhere because more than anything else I am stubborn and I genuinely love what I do. I have a thick skin. it's fine I guess. I Fucking Guess.

feeling extremely hopeless about the state of art discourse lately. don't know what to do about it. everywhere I go, online and offline, is dominated by culture that leaves me feeling more alienated in its midst than I do just working in isolation and trusting that people who get it are out there.

accidentally made a cursed pendant on the harvest supermoon. that's on me.

Tiger in the rain (ink basically)

just ftr Amy and I had a good conversation on discord after [everything] and we are still friends. we both hold to our opinions and we both respect each other enough to give everything we discussed time and thought. wow I feel like I'm writing a press release. headline: no beef here.

if your idea of fostering a positive, supportive art community is to go regina george on your peers the moment they express an opinion that makes you feel insecure, you are the problem. you are toxic. I do not want to work with or near you. gut wrenching behaviour. I don't know what else to say.

sincerely speechless at the behaviour on here tonight. you think you fucking know people.

doing something inadvisable tomorrow. yippeee

it's insane how good the silent hill soundtracks are

Squishy old skull

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

I think critics shot their load about the unique possibilities of webcomics far too early, focusing exclusively on technical possibilities like infinite canvas and multimedia storytelling. Cultural interest peaked and moved on, and missed the longitudinal literary features of webcomics.

Rigsby WI is so so so good. It's a patient, intelligent, incisive tapestry of stories that reflects characters and their social environments back and forth like a hall of mirrors to illuminate all the small angles and nuances of What It's Like. it's the realisation of webcomics as literary medium.

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.