I think I found some gem-studded puffballs (Lycoperdon perlatum)??

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And now we get City: The Animation: The Musical. What a beautiful start to the week.

Now I remember why I rolled back my Illustrator to an older version. I thought it was my computer but nope. It just crashes. Constantly.

At any given moment, there's at least a 20% chance of me dropping my entire visual storytelling career to become a rakugo performer.

IT'S FAT BEAR WEEK: www.explore.org/fat-bear-week RUN, DON'T WALK

To literally anyone who doesn't have a primary care doctor: Book one now. I know you're not sick yet. I know your insurance might not have kicked in yet. But it's gonna be like a six month wait, so sort the details out later 😔

Sometimes I remember that I make COMICS

*wakes up beside Rip Van Winlke* Sorry, Corinne Bailey Rae went punk when??

Random brain splurt of the day: Cyhydnos Thankfully I have a lead on this one. It's a Welsh word having something to do with... evening? Nope, can't be right.

Lovely!

Heeeey Patreon got a second scroll bar for the new update! Thank goodness, what a pain.

Ah the Sabrina sketches... Clearly I'm looking through sketchbooks at the moment, but I try for a Sabrina about once every 5 years. I think this is the one that finally felt alright.

It occurs to me that I may not have unleashed all my Oz work onto the unsuspecting dwellers of BlueSky. You're lucky I'm kind of tied up right now, 'cuz it's A LOT.

it's me, jake wyatt, from comics and cartoons

Today's driving home thought: Can you imagine trying to pitch Nausicaa as a completed project? Me: So it's like a kind princess that's also a berserker who keeps saving her people and the environment. Editor: Sure, sure, and her emotional arc? Absolutely none. Flattest mountain, smoothest lake.

Topic of the day: When Disney's Hades busts into Disney's Mt. Olympus and says, "Lucy, I'm home," did they have to pay a million-billion Disney dollars to DesiLu Productions?

Current struggle: Finding a CD player on Amazon. Amazon would like to show me many CDs, yet absolutely does not remember what a CD player is. Only a few sparse sponsored ads. What has become of us?

I'm running a modified 24 Hour Comics Day: Saturday, October 4th, 2025. Free event, if you're local to the PNW, come join us! go.bluecatco.com/10HourComics...

Have I spoken publicly about puffins yet?They pretend to be so superior to penguins, being able to fly and all. Tragically they do not fly well. You can practically hear them wheezing as they majestically sweat across the horizon. They are the fix-wheeled bicycles of the sky.

Hart to Hart is good TV

1,000 times yes to the magic of making and FINSIHING comics to level up.

Adding to the list of Things That Can Kick Rocks: - Thin scroll bars on websites. Honestly Discord, what is your problem.

While driving home, I was trying to imagine what it was like to be an animator on Utena. Like, you get your cut, and it's just a blinking arrow pointing at a number of background cats that have no bearing on the plot.

Going backgrounds first on a rush project this morning, and listening to new (to me) rock.

Patreon, why are these always greyed out? Throw me a bone here.

OH ALSO, if you want to talk shop with me, please just ask for a chat, I'm delighted to do so. Love answering questions, though who knows if I'll be insightful. You never need to use the phrase "pick your brain." EVER. A PSA.

I have a pack of my favorite erasers, but I like to fully use things before tossing them out. For about two months, my lil eraser remnant has been smudgy. I'd erase on blank paper a while, get the graphite off, but it was still smudgy. Changed lead. Still smudgy.

Are you really installing a printer if you don't have to do it twice?

People: You seem so knowledgeable! I want to see how your brain works. My brain: So like, sixgill sharks right? Are they... Like, they'd be super oxygenated right?

I just used the first Chicago citation machine that popped up on Google and wow, do better Google. Like, I could take a day off and code a better citation machine, get it together. Scrolled down to myBib to get the job DONE.

Footnotes are my passion and I will compromise to nothing less than endnotes.

SIGH (Google articles feed)

This week behind the Forbidden Gate on Patreon... Is actually, a look behind the forbidden gate! A new advanced scene of Janus in Tartarus is up for paid patrons: www.patreon.com/posts/janus-...

Hot take: Tzekel-Kan was just doing his job.

I'm a freelancer with a full-time job. I've always snuck in art or admin during my work breaks, even if it's just fun sketching. This last week though? I've just been sitting. Allowing my self to scroll or listen to a song. And it's NICE.

I feel like I'm going nuts, wasn't one of the Kingdom Hearts world logos upside down?? I'm so sure, and I can't find it.

@viz.com has a special one-shot up today that's pretty dang fantastic: www.viz.com/shonenjump/c...

Casually sewing a 12' seam, waiting for my bobbin to ruin my life.

OKAY. MILKY☆SUBWAY: The Galactic Limited Express is actually really great. I was put off by the weirdly dubbed trailer, but after watching it in Japanese, they really were doing a good job for the difficult, halting, overlapping material. Occasional bad language: www.youtube.com/@milkygalact...

A new comic! Love Stories, created for the Tacoma Art Museum's exclusive zine for their new exhibition Gossip: Between Us. Read more about the making of this comic here: www.patreon.com/posts/love-s...

ADDITIONALLY, the "Delete Post" button is in absolutely the worst possible place. I haven't deleted my entire post yet, but I can feel it coming, certain as the sun, rises in the East; Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme: full on post delete.

Although, but also, I can't believe that a good handful of people watched allll the way through Wicked the Movie, perhaps multiple times, and picked Elphaba as the neurodivergent-coded character out of the pair of leads. Really.

I love Adobe Fonts. But oh do we fight so. Every time I turn on Illustrator. Why.

My aunt has discovered Wicked. I slowly place my tea cup on my little raw ceramic cat coaster as I smooth the spot pinching between my eyebrows. Waiting. "Elphaba was never wicked!" Sure, quote the songs. "And UGH that Glinda, I can't stand her." This I will not let stand.

I'm losing it. This week's episode of City is presenting parallel stories in the COOLEST way. And plays with the idea of multiple screens in today's society. I feel like I need to watch through about six more times.

Ah what a beautiful field of cherry blossoms.

The search party from Gilligan's Island must've been terrible.

This week on Patreon: Brushes, videos and ink comparisons on a new comic! www.patreon.com/posts/space-...

Finished half the work I need to do, so it was time to celebrate with Charzaku-zun runner version