ZanViper #001: Seviper goes dress shopping. #ZanViper

Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole." billmoyers.com/story/poetry...

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

🥧 (a Thanksgiving comic)

The shorter Thanksgiving tradition

You'll note that there is zero talk of nationizing fossil fuel revenues for actual nation-building that benefits citizens (a la Norway), it's just corporate profit.

Cartoon: Instead of Elf on a Shelf this year, how about Betty on a Yeti! With thanks to Brent Smith for the idea :) Enjoy!

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

I love Shin's work: he's made stickers, emoticons, and also full portraits of characters of mine. #HumanMadeArt #TTRPGs #FurryArt

Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever

Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you :3

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶

Only One Bed is my villain origin story because so many people are writing it like you just need a room with just one bed and not understanding that the One Bed is the set-up to explore like 100 different choices you make when you are suddenly thrust into extremely intimate forced proximity!

yes, BUT. If you know your craft, you can take a list of tropes you want to write and turn them into an amazing book. And that is the step we are missing. The part where we understand what makes various tropes tick, what they are ACTUALLY exploring. Why they appeal to people to begin with!

now I’m no expert but wasn’t there something pretty major in there about false idols

There’s an age where “Mmm please step on me” becomes less about thirst and more about lower back pain

It's a bit disconcerting when an East German hears you're from Chicago and goes "oh. You are facing some troubles now, yes?" And then it's like "it will not always be so" thanks buddy, authoritarian regime Solidarität 😭

Trying this out… Am having fun with painting right now so am offering a limited number of mini animal commissions! 😊 More info here 😊 shop.kipalizadeh.net/product/mini... #KidLitArt

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.

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So, fun fact: there's KNOWN UXO from WW2 all over London. Stuff that was buried over as it was too tricky to remove during the Blitz as everyone was kinda busy. This is NOT disclosed on housing surveys. They'll tell you that someone 2 miles away sells calor gas. UXO in your garden? Naaaah.

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

the thing is that there are only two explanations for this and they are both utterly disqualifying for Dem leadership 1. you knew they would come for abortion and you already decided you were willing to give it up 2. you did NOT know, because you are too gullible for the job you currently hold

I still look for authors who can establish character voice so well that you don't need dialogue tags in every passage to tell who's speaking. Eoin Colfer was the one who showed me it could be done in The Eternity Code. So far since it's been Jasper Fforde, @jimchines.com, and Martha Wells.

In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", there's a description of a room that is empty except for dead flies on the window sill. Suddenly, 8yo me realized that one well chosen detail can convey an entire room. An entire mood, even. 40yrs later, I still look for authors who can do that.

I keep telling y'all he does not actually know things, have opinions, or make decisions anymore, he just responds to stimuli one of the stimuli he responds to is "this was a Biden witch hunt" he is completely honestly explaining that the correct cue was given so he performed the "pardon" behavior

he's not playing dumb, this is actually a little moment of truth, this is how the regime works insiders get close to the brainhole baron by flattering and/or bribing him and then tell him "my friend was the victim of a Biden witch hunt" and also "there's money in it for you if you pardon him"

I know I say this every year, but you can't beat flagshagger poppyganda by oversimplifying shit to the other extreme. You beat it by actively encouraging people to understand that narratives around war and remembrance are COMPLEX. And that this is GOOD. Because it makes them interesting.

He's very good. Let's face it, all we have left is our language so we should use to it's utmost effect. Another piece by him about America -

Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.

A few reminders. Convention on the Rights of the Child "196 countries have become State Parties to the Convention as of October 2015. Only the United States of America has not ratified the Convention." www.unicef.org/child-rights...

wow

So, acquiring more robust protection via “hybrid immunity” isn’t a benefit of being infected after all…

One of the things I got mom to slow down and wait for me to finish telling a story about, today, was about running into one of these situations and having to take good care of myself rather than become wrapped up in it. She was exposed to so much of this, herself. We're healing together, really.

What "they" don't understand is that our resistance to what they define as "hard work" very rarely has anything to do w/ the work being "hard." It's about us feeling controlled, trapped, or "in trouble"-- all of which frequently trip a combination of "freeze" & "fight" in us.

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

CHANGE IS SCARY I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS

Some of my favourite fan-works are those where it's not initially obvious that they're fan-works. You'll be reading a grindingly realistic depiction of the protagonist's minimum wage service industry job and struggles with gender dysphoria and clinical depression, then 35 pages in Pikachu shows up.

That adult is YOU.

Perhaps a deep hot pink rose? #garden #gardening #BloomSky #bloomscrolling

i posted this in april also the fda and cdc functionally no longer exist

Weigh in tiiiiiime!

*Woofles*