📈 @lilyisthatyou.bsky.social is blowing up, go listen to her now to get in on the ground floor so you can say you were there when she made it big

"hey rowan you haven't been online much lately, what are you up to" oh nothing much, just freehand embroidering a graphic from a newspaper from 1905.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

if you call and they hang up on you, call back and immediately say you want to escalate to a supervisor because you were just hung up on. you don't even need to say any other details, just that you were hung up on and need to escalate

A new petition spearheaded by prominent German journalists and game developers has gathered over a thousand signatures in the first day. Like other emerging protests, it aims at payment processors to take the pressure from store fronts selling adult games. www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

worth reading article; wrapup at the end also includes actions to take to push back on this blatant anti-queer censorship. not to downplay the importance of having platforms for NSFW (a hugely broad category) but SFW queer and trans works have been hit by this (anything marked with "adult themes").

I went to Stockholm (my home, my love, hopefully my grave) for the first time in two and a half years yesterday, (undiagnosed) autistic burnout is a hell of a thing

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

personally i think when communicating with businesses like The Card Companies you're better off roleplaying a frustrated customer who wants to spend money. you are just a normal fuckin guy and who are they to tell you how to spend your money? it's a free country. you're an adult with income.

lysistrata, but for labor in general

Not a movie but I read Not Without My Daughter when I was ten.

PSA FOR AMERICANS if you sell things internationally DO NOT USE UPS they are a menace and a scourge and the worst fucking delivery service I have ever encountered in my life. USPS is fine. DHL is a pain in the ass but if you really have no choice, okay. UPS doesn't know other countries exist.

As far as the great experiment that is the United States is concerned we have just about all the data we need and to put it in scientific terms EEEYIKES

VALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES: - tapping/drumming - singing - recording a solo metal album INVALID STIMMING TECHNIQUES: - bank robbery - fleeing the scene - driving to the canyon - gunning it to the edge, only to skid to a stop a few yards back - thinking that prison could be cool as like an experience

Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword

Some tape peeling of a quick portrait study I did today. Done with gouache and colored pencils, I feel like I kind of understood how to not get muddy colors a bit #art

Been reading 'Romola' by George Eliot from 1863 and this jumped out at me:

gay king #zoro

a comic about vibleo granes (originally posted 6/23/2016)

I've had scoliosis surgery twice, once to put in bone grafts/titanium rods and again later to *remove* the rods because they uh. Unhooked themselves from my spine. A thing that Does Not Happen.

When NPR left Twitter, traffic dropped by only a single percentage point. niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

On the whole, the internet has been a compounding series of catastrophic mistakes, but there have been occasional, brief moments of transcendence

Taskmaster season 19's squad is a fun batch.

I've been listening to @totalusrankium.bsky.social on American Presidents all week while I ping pong between projects and it is Illuminating. (I'm only on Monroe, don't spoil the ending!)

there's been construction in the building for what feels like years and I only slept four hours bc it was hot last night and this morning I was going to do the dishes and shower before running an errand so I don't have to be in a construction zone all day every day but the hot water doesn't work

woke up at 4 am bc someone dropped this line on me in a dream and now I can't stop thinking about it

hmmm #stobotnik

some light #summerreading

hello bluesky I baked nearly 300 cookies today and they turned out so good

yes, clearly instead of 'brave girl' i must have meant 'burgle girl'. much sense you maketh

the guardians of gabagool is this anything

An oldie. If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem. 1/4 #comic #nitw #nightinthewoods

comicfury has been home to the uncensored version of my comics for years now and I pay my "rent" every month 🫡 just a couple bucks from some readers who've got it to spare could make a huge difference for all of us!

There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊ eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Check out also this campaign for safe and legal abortions! The target number of signatures is 1.175.000 and it has now reached 1.050.000+. The end of the collection period is in April! ❤️✨ eci.ec.europa.eu/044/public/#...

Scream into the void. Scroid.

It begins. #hourlycomicday #hourlycomicday2025 #artbyrowan

Resharing some Psychonauts fanart

I can also edit your script and/or comic layouts. Okay, thank you!

I'm running a BG3 tabletop campaign with my pals and I *finally* downed one of them in a fight yesterday (mountainpass gith patrol) and it was so fun??? to make them sweat????

All things balanced.

With almost the entire Western system of suppression against Palestinian stories working against him, Rasheed has still managed to bring Dreams on a Pillow to 75% of the campaign goal with two weeks left. Please don't let this dream fail in the last stretch. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

I'm going to finally learn to draw this year, i can feel it

sure am thinking about Skidmore Missouri this week.

Dearest Prudence; It seems this Drupal build will detain me for some time yet. We were promised to be home by Christmas, but there is no end to the work. For every CSS snag I solve, there is a plugin that refuse to do the fucking thing. Keep me in your prayers. Yours always, R

survivor's guilt #onepiece

I've gone from drag and drop squarespace to full on learning how to wrangle Drupal in like six months and it's going Great why do you ask

HEY I've been hanging out on my nsfw alt the past couple of months, so if you want to see uuuuh up to 60 new (porn) illustrations go follow @rowanafterdark.bsky.social I'm going to kick this account off soon as I have art to post that isn't butts so please do stick around ❤️