Wait, hang on... "The funk Soul Brother"? Are we sure??

20 secs into Cinderella Grey: I-- wait, where are the Umamusko? No wait, I have questions. 3.5 mins in: Why is my YouTube page nothing but Umamusume suggestions, what have I done. 20 mins in: This is so dumb omg Prime: Would you like to play the next episode? Well yeah of course I do.

Recall do, the scene where Cruella de Ville splatters pen ink all over Roger, except I am both Cruella and Roger, and the gross cafeteria drain fly I was in combat with received absolutely no damage.

In other news, I adapted a fancy scallion pancake recipe I to gluten free and it worked well!! Yes, my fingers are blue. Occupational hazard.

*SIGH* I resigned to paying for tax software again this year because I, a tech savvy person, could not figure out the government website to do it for free. ...and the TaxAct website decides to be buggy and crash. Do you *want* me to pay you, Government? I am trying.

Rational brain: You have to leave in ten minutes. You can sit quietly until then. Me: *over the whirring of a Dremel as I see if I can sand the inside of a bowl I made from a dried pomelo husk* ...huh?

*blinks* .... Oh wait, Emerald City Comic Con is THIS weekend?! ...I'm so out of touch 😅

This weekend, I remembered to post the Janus comic update to Substack, only to realize I might have skipped one of the inserts, which seems kind of impossible... If you're wondering how that could possibly get crossed up, it's because Janus is modular and odd! Read it here: www.bluecatco.com/janus/

Every once in a while I feel like I should write an essay on a piece of popular media, but what I Actually want is for someone else to write it, so I can feel jealous about them writing what I want to write 😂

And let me be clear here, I Did listen to other music the last few weeks, scattered between repeated listens. I'm not Completely unstable...

Ohhh YouTube Music do Not embarrass me by giving me a badge as a top listener to the artist of the song I've had on repeat for a monnnnthhh ...I have to leave the platform now. I can no longer show my face there.

5 things I like & 5 moots I've invited to show & tell: Baking (gluten free) Mysteries of ALL kinds Researching the obscure Graphic prop making BOOKS (Making, reading) @ladygoofus.bsky.social @tangocharlie.bsky.social @schweizercomics.bsky.social @8bithobo.bsky.social @indigodawn.bsky.social

Your monthly Janus update is hot and fresh out of the oven! Read here: www.bluecatco.com/janus/stasim...

Not to become an anime preview account, but dang are we getting some great stuff this year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRX0...

New in the PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY Production Diary, bolster your FAITH IN HUMANITY, with… 📕 CHAPTER SIX coming VERY SOON! 📗 The ideals of the Olympics, 📘 George Saunders & Oliver Burkeman on humanity, "aliveness," 📙 discovering a familiar tea, 📚 & more! 👉 www.patreon.com/posts/151832...

Yessss youtu.be/ckW8dEU9W2Y?...

Today on Patreon: Nerding about mechanical pencils (plus some behind-the-scenes on Janus characters)! Includes: - Two solid-sheathed mechanical pencils - Modding to reduce rattle - The perks and downfalls of character reference sheets Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/151710...

In today's news, suddenly, inexplicably, YouTube has tied itself to my spacebar WHILE IN OTHER TABS. So my background video pauses every other microsecond as I type. Isn't this fun??

UM hold the phone. There are emoji hanafuda cards?? 🎴 I'm pleasantly distraught. Why did I not know this before!

Me this weekend: You know, I wish I was good at something. Like, really good. Brain: You're a professional artist. Me: No, I know. But I mean something can be like... Demonstrably good at. Brain: You're a pro-- you know what? Maybe we need some explanatory diagrams.

Explaining to my family the difference between bad CG and generative AI. Just because it's not good, doesn't mean it was made by a bot 😂

Awww yisss youtu.be/d1reryPOMX0?... And even a look at the Knights Moralis?? They don't have to even make the show, just give me a Luluci compilation to a boppin background track and I'll be good for a few years.

Anyone know how to get to Patreon support that isn't a bot? This is my second time through with the same issue and this 100% cannot be a real person.

It's apparently coming upon the 5 year anniversary of working for my current hospital system, and I have to ask: They really trust giving me a staple gun as a gift option? Really?

Today on Patreon: - Hams and Sausages - Grafting plot onto music - Subtle character design choices that hold a lot of weight Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/musica...

I will be turning my Lunar New Year's pomelo into a bowl. I do not know how to do any part of this, but I'm guessing I've cleared at least step one here.

*wakes up at 1:30am for no reason* Oooohh. I think Cosmic Princess Kaguya is an example of the asexual gaze. *does not fall back to sleep* Shoot.

You know when you finally perfectly choreograph an emotional dance (or fight) that's the entire climax of your story, then you realize that it's been mapped onto a song and literally none of those feelings are gonna translate onto the comic page? No? Just me? Okay...

If you want me to LOVE your song, pick three: - 3/4 time signature - Bumpin' baseline - Storytelling - Gnarly accidentals If you hit four, that thing's gonna be on literal constant repeat in my ears for at least a week. Bonus if it's 🎉 matsuri 🎉

Listen-through #1: Pretty good! Listen-through #2: I could comfortably listen to "Reply" for the rest of my life

This week on Patreon: A fat stack of thumbnailed comic pages! Yes, @comiclab.bsky.social I am the 2% of people still doing thumbnails and roughs! Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/writin...

Staying up late to watch Cosmic Princess Kaguya! with family. It's what I wished Kpop Demon Hunters was! And it was CLEARLY made by nerds. Love the billion references, fun animation/design emotive acting and great music. Throwing on the soundtrack tomorrow to hear what I missed.

To quote my nasal self: "Aren't there mini trampolines that have cords instead of springs?" Being ill makes me poetically delirious.

On my sickbed (somehow, again) finally soaking in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. Haven't seen Andrea Bocelli in ages, so stoked to have more Italian Guard visual reference-- Mariah Carey??

Doing my annual flipping through of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicca and this smoke trail jumped out at me for the first time. Love the design choices in this series.

Jokes on me as I see a faintly rosey hue between my keys now. So I get to not only disassemble, but also scrub next weekend. Moral: Do it right the first time.

And to be clear, yes, I am aware that #HourlyComicDay moved to February 8th. Let's address why I, a Black cartoonist didn't do that: 1. The change was hastily communicated without clarity - I thought it was just a Co-op thing. This also left little time to change plans.

I second this! And the animation does something very nice for my brain that I can't quite explain.

What up #HourlyComicDay! Let's do this.

Okay but upon this slow rewatch, it's actually pretty clear that the rosy hue isn't the way it should be. I'm surprised we, as a collective body, were surprised that the shade was due to damage. Also the character rendering seems to leap up in quality like every three episodes in the first season!

Hourly Comics Day is SUNDAY!!

Okay, this is delightful!

Using the character name as the text sample is so simplistically brilliant. I've got some template files to update!

I love this level of scholarship on any topic: youtu.be/_P_d5gm_sYA?...

I love Arthurian tales, but 99% of them do Lady Morgen (Morgana/Morgan le Fay/whatever) super dirty. She's always an extremely unconvincing Bad Guy (even in the worst light, I can't class her as an actual villain).

The effect isn't quite the same, due to the frame rate of the video, but ABBA Voyage spins to match the visual theme of the album. I am delighted.

Thanks to the power of streaming TV, I have just found out that Debra Messing makes an excellent Lucille Ball, and I'm so sad I missed it in the original Will and Grace run/reruns!

Today's random brain word: Tarpaulin. Which I embarrassingly looked up the meaning of, to find that it is the full name of a tarp. Why my brain stored one bit of information, without the seemingly obvious other, remains a mystery. As always, thank you brain for joining us today.

If you can get your hands on a Daiso circle cutter, DO IT. Made such quick work of my headphone cover project.

I do a good boot! Hands are a commonplace event. I'm good at folding research into fiction. But strongest at? Gosh who knows. I do a pretty good job in general, but I think it would take another person to rank things.