Was about to post 'sunflower seed hulls are great for when you're craving pencil shavings and ice lolly sticks' and then I googled it and discovered I could be giving myself intestinal damage by eating sunflower seed hulls. Back to pencil shavings it is then

From: Sand, or Peter and the Wolf (1969), dir. Caroline Leaf, Carpenter Center

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

Animation with sand on glass From: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977), dir. Caroline Leaf, National Film Board of Canada

The ENTIRETY of Baman Piderman is now available in sparkling HD quality on our youtube channel! Thank you so much for everyones love about it. New eps are on the way to being posted very soon, we're just waiting for the kosher go ahead from Mondo. Thank you so much!! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A classic from The Electric Company: Cool Pool Fool (1971), created by Faith and John Hubley, Hubley Studio Animated by Tissa David and voiced by Dizzy Gillespie

Listen I don't want to talk about it but I think Mike Wozniak in Taskmaster is giving me gender envy. I just think my general demeanour would make more sense if I looked like a milk drinking manfailure

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

The link between gut health and mood disorders needs to be studied and treated better because I truly lose the entire will to live every time tummy hurts a bit too much for a bit too long

I lose more faith in the public every time I go to the apartment bin room and see people's complete laziness and inability to follow basic waste sorting instructions. I wash and dry and separate my recyclables only for someone to throw their chicken tikka masala over it for god knows what reason

#birdbot

“A couple of starlings with their maturing brood are perched on this roof of stone slabs” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

One chronic illness perk is that I'm now able to swallow an insane amount of pills at once. I used to choke on half a panadol as a kid and I just threw down 10+ pills, an entire mouthful of pharmaceuticals, big gulp of water no praaawblem

Forgot to show u how good I looked at a queer wedding where I felt safe drawing on one of my lil pencil mustaches. The mustache gives me endless power and reliably makes people stop ma'aming me

It is Wednesday my dudes

My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

I’m gentle but nervous, like a lamb who is late for an important meeting

Speaking of loving SFX and prosthesis, I made myself some mask decorations out of liquid latex, loo roll, fake nails and toothpicks to celebrate the launch of @griffski.bsky.social's excellent book Eat The Ones You Love, out now in all good bookshops 👁️🌱

I think the thing I like most about Dropout is the 'DVD extras' vibe it brings that has been lost to this streaming era. I generally don't find Very Important People funny (love Vic Michaelis tho) but I LIVE for the behind the scenes videos where the SFX artists talk through their process.

A demented thing that has been happening in my brain the last few days is the Too Many Cooks jingle but the lyrics are the entirety of The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost youtu.be/QrGrOK8oZG8?...

I ❤️ MY ROTTWEILER #art #fish #shrimp

Bigtop Burger Back youtu.be/E7Ejus_AoIY?...

Was nervous to go to a family wedding for the first time since changing my name but nobody passed any heed in true Irish fashion. Some of them already knew the new name, some didn't, some ppl made an effort with the pronouns which was sweet and unexpected, no conversation was made of it. 10/10

Me, when I am free from tasks: do not ever burden me with a task Me, when I have been burdened with a task: lord help me I have been burdened with a task Me, when the tasks continue: I am burdened lord

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 28,1951

Chris' first car has finally broken down in a big way and he needs to get a new one. He's being very normal about it but I will need some time to process the loss of brave Volvo. I don't care about cars but I get very attached to the ones in my life, they are metal horses to me

Me: I have the brain of a gnat and a flea and I will not see God Chris, consolingly: I know this, dear. I've known all along

Just a reminder that Juvenalia is a good podcast that exists www.juvenalia.net

Thinking about naming books. I imagine it's quite hard at this stage. Like naming racehorses

Happy because I have a lovely dental hygienist :-) I told her I was autistic when asking if I could wear my headphones for the noisy bits and since then she's been so considerate and explains every procedure and what it feels/sounds like in detail before it happens.

Photoshoot with houseplants. Real houseplants are too delicate and move too erratically for stopmo but I'd love to involve them somehow. The asparagus fern would make good trees I think

Sometimes I like to lip my meds up from my palm like a little horsie eating an apple slice or perhaps some oats. I am a brave and powerful steed

Made myself a little pal at a stopmotion puppet fabrication workshop

I go back and forth on whether to post my face here because I have encountered some weirdos already but on the other hand I think everyone should look at my nice eyes and clap. I'm not the best at eye contact irl, they have to be appreciated somehow

honeys are you in Indianapolis!? are you in Bloomington? would you like to come see me in Morgenstern’s Books tonight? did you know they’re having WEE DRINKS!?! pls come i have stickers and am so nice and love talking about horrible murders and kissing plants

It's a shrimp world we're all just living in it

It’s #ehlersdanlosawareness month! Here’s a #comic about living with a #disability. You can read the whole essay at open.substack.com/pub/kelleycl... #eds #neis #neisvoid #heds #chronicillness #comic Special thanks to @crucialcomix.bsky.social and Zareen Choudhry for the #chronicillnesscomicsclub

Woke up to the sound of Chris grinding coffee beans and my first conscious thought was 'Yay! Wet slug!'

gotten rly into drinking electrolyte solutions every day because I've heard from other chronic illness havers that it can help with some symptoms. dunno if it's helping but i am addicted to my little salty fizzy drinkies now so probably it is

I have post-deadline regular person illness and my dad's chemo didn't work like they hoped but I have a real bud of hope in my heart! The future is finally starting to feel like a thing that can and will happen again.

Was at dinner with the family yesterday and this came up, my mam met my old teacher and apparently he still remembers and thinks about my copybook fantasy epic from 20 (jesus) years ago 💖

Just spotted my first proper smattering of silver hairs growing in on the side of my head, I'm delighted. What a privilege and joy it is, to have lived this long and survived this much :-) and more importantly i think I'll look cool with greys

Juvenalia never fails to make me light up like I'm having a really interesting conversation with a pal! I absolutely wrote a presentation about the Alien franchise as trans allegory in college (mostly focusing on body horror and dysphoria).

209 | Alien Resurrection with James Hudson James is the director of the TITE Festival which takes place in the Lighthouse from TOMORROW. He joined @alanmaguire.bsky.social and @andreacleary.bsky.social for a great chat about the fourth entry in the Alien Quadrilogy

So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.

As a petsitter I strive to be extremely respectful of other people's spaces and leave the lightest possible footprint and not cross any boundaries: but if there's one place I'm snoopin you know it's gonna be in the bookshelf. This is the library and I am *reading* honey

Got more bad news and decided to cope with it by singing slow motion Copacabana to my friends as we played REPO. Nobody liked that (I liked that)

I don't think it talks about monotropism directly, but I think this gives some useful ways into thinking about alexithymia... medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

I have hit my DEADLINE and we're getting PIZZA and I bought KATAMARI DAMACY REROLL to play, alles GUT

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