you can have the most beautiful art, the best paneling, totally solid dialogue and story. but if you're not putting as much care into your lettering as your art, you are wasting it all. bad lettering *ruins* comics. lettering is PART of the art. it's like leaving a part unfinished

you know it's good when it can give me the chills through car speakers www.youtube.com/watch?v=cikS...

Quite taken with the brickwork for the Greek Orthodox Cathedral and Hellenic Center. A lot of interesting religious buildings in Portland, which I did not expect.

Sometimes you are used to feeling you understand something, but, like, metaphorically, and then you revisit it later and it makes sense completely literally suddenly

[rubs temples] Do I need to explain depleted uranium again? I don’t wanna explain depleted uranium again. Dammit @dankaszeta.bsky.social.

with an assistive device (glasses) i am a sighted person but man do i appreciate alt text for context. when i see some random photo and i have no idea whats going on and it has no alt i get mad as fuck lol

In case I don't get a job imminently I should record my list of things I plan to buy in celebration: - salmon and asparagus dinner - various concert tickets - pants that fit better - curtain rods

the only target audience you should keep in mind when making art is the worms in your own brain tbh

AJ taped up tinfoil to the outside of the doors (heat shield?) but the wind crinkling it is putting the cat on High Alert as she tries to figure out what it is

Finished stitching my Oversight series. 12 small stitched poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads. #embroidery #textileart #handembroidery #beadwork #canvaswork #needlepoint #fourwordgridpoem #poetry

i could hear gray tree frogs (Dryophytes versicolor) trilling all over on our short woods walk, but i didn't expect to see one!!!!!!

Hang on, I have been myself for How long without putting together that "asperger" is French for "spray"

AJ told me cats have to sleep 20 hours a day which I find a little hard to believe given Lunar Lander's tendencies

pulling invasive garlic mustard is the ultimate form of touching grass because you are battling helplessness by improving your environment AND it smells delicious the whole time

Guy Fery’s album art for ELO’s 1981 album 'Time'

switch flipped in my brain and made me buy a big bag o' romaine unplanned. After finishing the first big salad I made (cheddar, apple, turkey lunch meat) I am only more excited for those in my future (I forgot I have a BEET waiting in the wings!)

Singer With Furry Stickers 🧷🪡🩲🧵 Oil acrylic wax pastel and stickers on canvas 48 x 60 inches

One of my strongest beliefs about comics is that referring to it as “(writer’s) comic” alone will be a mistake 97% of time. I don’t even like when trades are “(character), by (writer).” It’s a reflection of a labor imbalance, a suggestion that words and art are hierarchical. It’s really boring, dude

84% of indigenous woman & two-spirit natives have faced violence in their lifetime. Indigenous Women are murdered 10x higher than all other ethnicities. May 5th is national awareness. Please read up, hear our voices, and become aware on these topics, we have to push for indigenous acknowledgment

TMBW wishes a very Happy Birthday to Mr. John Flansburgh @tmbg.bsky.social!

i did not endure years of the unfunniest people parroting charlie the unicorn for people to now be saying this

This crow at Laurelhurst had stolen a cheese stick in plastic from a family on the slope. I immediately grabbed it from the crow... to remove the plastic as hazard and tossed it back to the crow. *That's how brainwashed I am by Portland crows.* Then worried cheese bad for them, but took 2 bites only

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Iiiiit's garlic mustard season ^_^ god dammit

use this, as you will

@kmsumaverick.bsky.social cool cats Shyboy Tim & Shelley hardly break a sweat during our 12-hour @tmbg.bsky.social marathon. But can they survive the Shuffle Function TWENTY-FOUR HOUR Pledge Drive A-Go-Go??? Tune in (and pledge!) to find out! bit.ly/HELPKMSU

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Hey! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Intelligent

thinking about a real screen door again. Hmmmm

Woke up early, fell back asleep, dreams about my parents tiptoeing around my room whispering trying not to wake me up, discovering rooms I'd forgotten about in my apartment, dopplegangers of the people I was with walking by and casually waving at me

Making my favorite jar a big sibling. #pottery

I may have picked the wrong aspirational showbiz butch comparison

there's a universe out there where norman osborn is a successful wicked witch-themed drag performer. notably harry would have all the same issues though.

Here they are, kids! Sorry too many and sorry kinda lame. flic.kr/s/aHBqjCRVBv

TWO new (but also old) stories on my website: "That's God, Emily" and "Jack Durham's Dead" Check 'em out if you're interested in strange burial beliefs, body horror, and/or headless cowboys! jakemorris.neocities.org/writing/that... jakemorris.neocities.org/writing/jack... #writing #horror

POV: your day was stressful so you are hanging out with your baby geese

Fun fact: the first paper showing strong observational evidence of the jet stream was published only in Esperanto, so the rest of the field didn't know about it until other observations came out about a decade later.

Today was a fine reminder that if you want things to happen in another country, you should give the money to the people in the other country to do the things. If you're afraid of corruption and just send your own people to that country and pay them instead, just looks like imported corruption.

throw out the first two job listings for being weird outside contractor shell companies and the next three for being defense companies. Stare at the next company, which makes wearable subscription model app-connected fitness gadgets that talk to you and wonder how much self respect I have left

Woodstock people! Thank you so much for such an auspicious start to a touring cycle. Y'all rocked!

my sister is incredibly funny

AJ made a scary homunculus of me in their Mii game and then came over to show me it talking in a weird robot voice

went for a walk in a new place this weekend (STEEP)

Flansy gonna getcha

happy lesbian week