It’s 4 years since we lost my wonderful dad, and as he was and I remain a silly creature, I thought I’d share something silly that touched me. When I was a teen I bought back this King Ghidorah toy for him from a trip to San Fransisco.

🐓Weird Ancient Birds Art Challenge Draw mythical birds with your imagination! An ancient mythic geographic compilation, Shanhai jing is full of weird birds. Its illustrations were lost long ago. Why don’t we imagine them from the descriptions in the text? Here is the prompt list #30WeirdAncientBirds

An awesome 🧵, especially w/ current fuckery. Also recommending 4 cookbooks: * YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby * THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen * THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics * GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.

Once more remembering the time many years ago an American mom emailed me to ask how her child could dress as me for Halloween. I’m still sad I can’t find the emails any more (she sent a photo of the result!) It is extra funny to me because here in the uk we only really do costumes of spooky things.

Also also the lovely @jamesfagan.bsky.social invited me to have a little chat on today’s Thank Goodness It’s Folk and share a first play of the single! It’s up on mix cloud for you to listen here www.mixcloud.com/Jimbobfagan/...

Hello lovely people! To celebrate spooky day, Arbrevyn have released a terrifying* first single from our album ahead of its launch on the 16th Nov. Get those dancing skeletons ready cause it’s time for some JIGS arbrevyn.bandcamp.com/track/bounci... *if you are scared of cute bouncy folk tunes

Feeling deeply weird about the Affinity announcement. Free, all in one app instead of three and they don’t train on your stuff, all good. Bringing in Canva’s Gen AI stuff ehhhhhhhh. Apparently you can hide the button and the AI is paywalled but it leaves a bad taste.

Man, who is this guy saying there are no women fans of Star Trek. I did a whole history of women in Star Trek fandom two years ago

Been busy lately (in very good way) but trying to have a couple of cute new bits for Sonic Con UK next week. Been embracing my scribbles again!

Another bit of scribbling that went too far! Always found this bit very memorable in the old games. #SonicTheHedgehog #Sonic3&Knuckles

It’s not long now till Not Long Now Till Dawn! Wanna come hear it in person? Can you get to the wonderful city of Sheffield on the 16th on November? Come hang out with us while we make harmonious noise at you! wegottickets.com/event/680574

huge w for millennials

AaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA I got to hang out and draw with some of my art heroes ❤️

The finishing touches are going on the Arbrevyn album, so time for a preorder link and a sneaky cover reveal! ✨ arbrevyn.bandcamp.com/album/not-lo... Thank you so much everyone who has helped us get here. I can’t wait to share this music with you

Litterally learning #affinity for my first album sleeve free of Adobe this week and I’m going to be so annoyed if this mysterious “Creative Freedom” is gonna be “we stuffed the thing you went to to get away from AI everywhere full of AI because Canva own us now”

There are 2 violinist students next door, they are pretty diligent in their practice, our walls are not thick and I work from home. Sometimes they are both practicing at once. I feel like the protagonist of a scribbly greyscale indie horror where some monster is hunting me through a boarding school.

A gold star to whoever is doing Channel 4's social media today:

Got a tiny palette recently and treated myself to some nice paints to put in it to give myself a low stakes place to do some art for myself. Test doodle to break in the book from last night and remind myself I don’t have to do complicated serious things here, and my bento from my lunch break today

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

a comic about fishing (1/7)

This is at the same time the government is pretty much turning a blind eye to racists painting on walls up and down the country. Art books will talk about how grotesque this is hundreds of years from now.

Leeds and Leeds adjacent folk! My fellow beloved Arbrevyn dorks and I have a gig on Monday evening at the Grove! Come listen! There will be harmonies and nonsense and good times and we’d love to share them with you 🌻 wegottickets.com/event/668786/

The fact that they have not lifted half a buttock to assist Palestine but soared like fucking eagles to rescue this barnacled creep is all the evidence we need that the government is ruderless.

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

This. I LOVE you for it if you name your budget and deadline right away and I am 1000% more inclined to collaborate with you and figure out a way to make it work within these metrics.

and i can't stress it enough 🌈 #art #furry

Last night had a lot of chopping (my knife skills are ok but still mid enough that match sticking things still takes a while) but now I have a bunch more dishes for the fridge and freezer. I know I don’t HAVE to make OJ carrots into flowers but they are so cute when I do so can’t help myself.

A lot of my friends and loved ones are in Morris sides and they are all good folks. I find display routine dancing a bit too stressful but the call is getting stronger. That said, I’d freaking LOVE to build a Morris Beast some time…

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

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Realised I didn’t get around to sharing this. 18th birthday commission for a friend’s child, it was lovely to get to try and capture so many little elements of their past and personality.

Trying to add more protein and fibre to my bento so I don’t crash as hard mid afternoon and oops I bought a new slightly bigger magewappa box to help me. A new shape to play with! Plus now I gotta make nice lunches or the new box will be sad.

You too should listen to it!

I fell into the Chiikawa rabbit hole the last couple of weeks and this 40 year old bought a little Hachiware in miniso yesterday to remind me to keep doing my best so y’know, this checks out. (I was kinda indifferent to the designs but then was like “wait the story is about WHAT” and got pulled in)

I know how to cook, I’m pretty good at it, I often enjoy it (especially when I get to cook for my friends). Does my brain always let me? God no. Especially since I started trying to exercise more, sometimes there just is not the juice. And that’s just me, who is pretty privileged with my food access

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Been struggling a bit lately but managed to make myself cook a good dinner and get a bit self-care cute with it once I was going, to remind myself I can have nice things. Not too fancily arranged because I just cooked all the veg with the noodles for minimum washing up & it only taking like 10mins

AI boosters get mad when I describe LLMs as "Spicy Autocomplete." Sure, it's a bit reductionist ("stochastic parrot" is more precise), but it's far worse for people to see LLMs as "ineffable superintelligence," as WSJ did by claiming ChatGPT expressed "self reflection." No, it didn't.

I’ve been looking for a Colbert quote to post that did suitable justice to my reference for him. I think this might be it.

Heads up anyone who uses WeTransfer, especially in creative work

Hey Pocket Friends, anyone know a good alternative walking challenge thing to The Conqueror? I found that really helpful getting me walking but as they added Potter stuff and I don’t want any of my money going to JK, I want to find a different bit of bonus walking motivation.

Look at these inks!! Lovely work!

I have so much art I need to do in the next few weeks and I can feel thumb tendon being like “hey remember when we really hurt for like six months? ;)” and DON’T YOU DARE. Googling “How to fight your own hand” (Spoilers it is take lots of breaks and also stop messing about on your phone)

Friendly reminder that there's no point talking about using a technology "for good" if you don't let people talk about how it's also being used for bad.

Would have been Dad’s birthday today. Still miss him more than words can say. I’m off to go buy some nice real ale so I can raise a glass for him, in the mean time have him singing with his pals, one I always loved how he sang youtu.be/DSMWsXoimDY?...

Needed this reminder today.

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