Truly weird how The West Wing, the most influential political show of all time, was made by a guy with only one political belief: Smart people should be in charge. Aaron Sorkin thinks things should be run by Aaron Sorkin types, and they should do nothing.

One of the great things about The Wire and Treme is that David Simon hates George W Bush. To publicly hate Republicans on your show you have to make the best show of all time. Everyone else has to pretend they're great.

Watched the first episode of Treme. Forgot how bad the discussion around Katrina was, there was a serious discussion of how much of the city should be abandoned permanently.

This addresses one of the big problems of the American news environment: 90% of the time someone says, "Democrats should do X", Democrats already did! The news just didn't tell anyone about it!

Honestly I think the Mandalorian concept is better suited to a movie than a miniseries. Just make another Yojimbo but Grogu is there, no one will notice.

i had a dream about Metroid but all of Samus’s powerups were in the form of poodle skirts

"how can you say musk is manipulating the Twitter algorithm against the left, my posts about how you should stay home instead of voting for Genocide Joe did great" like ya that post was working towards Musk's medium term goal of course it did great

Pixar has become a shadow of itself. Especially tragic to watch this mess when no one is making a Wayfarers show. boxd.it/b8ronH

Weekend! I could do some art requests.

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Pretty fucked that they had to split the right wing into flavors to get it all to fit in the chart

Weekend! I could do some art requests.

People usually exaggerate the difficulty of Dark Souls or Hollow Knight, but Groal is actually demonic. The runback is awful and his dive & body drifting back and forth makes it almost impossible to avoid bumping into him. The attacks are comparatively easy to avoid!

Peak female performance #silksong #momoart

People who criticize transgender people say there are only two genders. But the soul has so much more individuality🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 No matter how much my activities are restricted, super Chiitan will continue to speak out until we live in a world where everyone can freely express their love and love each other♡

How does this series not get more attention? Some of the best sci fi of all time. The second one might be the book that gives me feelings more than any other.

Banger youtu.be/pYS9WjAjfro?...

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

All done! Couldn't do everything I wanted with markers, but that's how you learn!

You are not Making a Difference there. You are not Fighting the Good Fight. You are not even Maintaining a Community you couldn't easily replicate elsewhere. You are propping up a right-wing site and, worse, you are being warped by your constant exposure to it and you don't even realize it. Leave.

The Federal Government vacuuming money from rich Democratic states and giving it to Republican states gives Republicans the same kind of economy as petrol states. They don't need productive citizens because the money comes from outside.

Happy with these markers, got to do some more subtle shading.

American culture is so pervasive when this anime character says "Samurai Sword," a purely Japanese thing, he says it in English.

I want someone to make a list of *Stars*, the people that grab your attention in a way that seems supernatural. Julie Andrews would be right there on top of the list. boxd.it/b3OCv7

From here on out I'm gonna ask that people retweet my work when I do an art request. That seems fair.

My art requests are all finished! Phew.

Getting around in Act II of silksong is a bit of a mess. So many one way doors. Not that much fun to spend 5 minutes getting somewhere only to find out it is the wrong side of a door.

When people say that white people ended slavery, they're confusing two different practices, both called "slavery". All cultures had some kind of compulsory labor/lower status. The USA also had chattel slavery. The US abolished chattel slavery and kept compulsory labor. They joined the norm.

DND is so funny, it's a Miniature wargame with a roleplaying game stickynote on the side. The current DND book literally has ONE page for "social interaction" It's the same amount of space given to a tedious list of near-identical weapons.

Tempted to write the most niche Vulcan fanfic ever written. (The idea of Syrrannites was wasted.)

The worldbuilding in Act II of silksong is immaculate. They way they put you in the exact situation the people that live there would experience, chef's kiss.

I love how most Utopian planned societies start with, "First, we all have to promise to be nice and not have disagreements." Societies have to be able to absorb conflicting perspectives, values, and beliefs! That's the virtue of a democratic society. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_...

Dungeons and Dragons' "Speak with Dead" ability provides endless opportunities for detective stories. A thoughtful writer working in the DND world could make a whole series. (If someone is in a coma you could kill them to get their testimony!)

Hey this silksong game is pretty good, I dunno if anyone's heard of it

Question: Why are many people under the impression that Trump and the awful things he’s doing are popular, even though they’re not? Answer: America is still a mostly free country where dissent against Trump’s dictatorial ambitions is widespread, but media keeps making it appear as if it’s not.

Talk about a power couple.

Art requests please!

ah that’s better…

It feels kind of surreal to see people fighting for gun control legislation. What do you think could get past this supreme court? Basically every issue of any cultural relevance requires voting Republicans out of office, issue advocacy is kinda irrelevant.

just doing buny business

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Any Federal employee should be unable to receive any outside income whatsoever, and given a pension after their retirement that lasts as long as their employment, during which the "no outside income" rule still applies.

Everybody can eat. 🐧

A queen and her knight.