Even with the sound off, I heard this

the seagulls are back!!!

sorry to everyone who uses the same bank as me, I was going to do my bookkeeping just now and unplugged The Whole Thing

”hey rowan did you get work done this week” no but I did write a 11k+ summary of a mash fic i’ve been noodling with

Four years ago I woke up at 5 am from distant explosions. I asked my boyfriend if he heard them too, he said he didn’t and I should go back to sleep. I tried to calm myself down, went on the internet, it was silent, no news or explanations.

The past six months or so I've kind of re-started my career from scratch for reasons better left to a blog post and everything is taking *so long* but I think it'll actually be good?? hate to vague post but also maybe it's good that y'all know I'm not dead lol

I've been trying to not resort to "I'm working a lot actually you just can't see it" because that kind of thing can be real demoralising but I *am* working a lot and sooner or later you *will* see it here's a sneak preview of a thing I'm working on!

get weirder 🫵

It's a new year and I've already worked on three projects, all of them stupid. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ro...

Commission for letterofmarque.bsky.social from my 15-15-15 commission drive (now closed!) I've missed doing private commissions something fierce and this was an absolute joy to work on. 💗

My guy @iaoth.se and I have been watching Star Trek: TNG and oh boy unexpected favourite character right here let me tell you. Q knows what's up. (also if your partner sees your gender joy and makes a gif out of it the very next day, oh boy oh wow so lucky)

I had to switch website providers partially bc I don't want to worry US laws will fuck me over bc my host is american, but also because my US website host can't understand umlauts so I couldn't update my debit card. 🙃

📈 @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/#...