why do people explain my posts to me

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Edward Gorey

Robert Frost's manuscript for "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" for this, the darkest evening of the year.

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

Both of the Dem senators from New York are on here -- Gillibrand and Schumer FUCK YOU, find new jobs you fucking sleazeball motherfuckers -- you're fucking done.

First of all drawing is 95% looking and 5% mark-making, so it helps a lot if you like to look. And once you learn to draw, you can DRAW WHATEVER YOU WANT, WHENEVER YOU WANT TO LOOK AT IT, and NOBODY CAN STOP YOU. 👀👀👀

Being able to draw is really neat! I would highly recommend it to anybody who likes to look at things

Ethel Lisbeth, a “preemie,” then later a red-haired “kid,” Matilda Carmen.

Hey I’m just curious: what was your Cabbage Patch doll’s name? First and middle please

Every Tumblr emoji blog is run by a middle-schooler with DID who writes like "No, I will not give you teh bewbie hugz(!1!!) because I have a hubbeh"

Today is Tom Spurgeon's birthday. Read some Little Orphan Annie or Cul de Sac, write a friend you miss, call your mom, gossip about comics with friends, get a group together for dinner, give a book you love a review, see a play, talk for hours with someone who means the world to you. Remember Tom.

Got my @thorazos.bsky.social Wallace Stevens shirt in the mail this week

using beakers and test tubes to formulate the perfect Centrist position on abortion (it's only wrong/a capital crime if you didn't use birth control)

Whether you're a new fan or a longtime supporter of my work, you have probably asked yourself how to pronounce my name. You can say it however you want (I answer to "Julia Guh... gfruhh... um...") but officially we're saying it "ga-FROOR-eh" now. It's a German name and that's how the Germans say it.

The original tweet with these pages was like “Hey. You can make a zine. Yes, you. Anyone can do it.” And that was when I decided to make a zine, because I’m anyone, and I have endless bad ideas that I’d like to flood the world in. Hoping to make issue 7 soon! jmaq.bigcartel.com/product/taai...

We are down to our last three copies of World Within the World, @thorazos.bsky.social award-winning, career-spanning collection of comics in which sex, horror, history, mythology, depression, and desire collide. Buy it now and get it before Christmas, I promise! www.etsy.com/listing/4390...

Maybe we could get together a Clearness Committee and talk to the price-gougers about how their actions are affecting the community and hope that they will decide of their own volition to better align their business practices with the testimony of integrity

Happy Friday to Archy only

Sheer Spite's US store, started after it stopped being feasible to ship to the US from Canada, is coming along well! Tell a US-american you know who likes zines? Also all these are available at wholesale rates if you know a store you'd like to see them stocked :) sheerspite.bigcartel.com

Oh no… her usual Friday appointment was cancelled… she’s going back to bed… oh NO…

Yes I actually think one reason Let it Go works so well and was such a hit is that it still bears within itself traces of the villain song it once was.

So an ellipse is an oval, and when you draw one in perspective it can become a circle which is visually confusing. More extreme perspective and the oval gets pointy on the edges in a way that can only be divined through laborious math or well-honed instinct, both of which are really hard to get

@thorazos.bsky.social gets a nice shoutout here, right alongside Bob Flanagan, where she belongs

Interestingly, to me at least, the Quaker testimony of integrity explicitly condemns “dynamic pricing”—it’s the reason for the brand name, because Quakers charge based on the value of their products, not what they think they can get away with.

(Said dismissively to a cartoonist) Hey buddy why don’t you go foreshorten an ellipse

"The Prism," a new dark fantasy story by me, is now up for members of my Patreon.

Happy to see Julia Gfrörer's World Within the World alongside heavy hitters like Joe Sacco, Carol Tyler, and Jaime Hernandez in PW's list of the best graphic novels of the year

Where to start? I have a whole discord server to help people get their zines out! Come say hi: discord.gg/NqpKjWKU

Just once I’d love to hear a true crime podcast that starts out “She was the kind of girl who’d spit on you soon as look at you. Not what you’d call attractive. People groaned when she walked in the room”

Yeah man bring it

i have never done a single thing in my entire life

When Biggie says “your daughter’s tied up in a Brooklyn basement” how old are you picturing the daughter? I’ve been thinking maybe 20 all these years but today I realized what if she’s, like, five

If you pour hot tar in my ears I will give you two hundred dollars

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Tumblr is still up and tumbling, if you wondered

So many of you are still using Spotify and I’m concerned

Droid with four lightsabers I know, I know, it's Grevious

God forbid somebody get some work done around here

BREAKING: Gumby, whose career spanned over 60 years and spawned films, television series, video games, comic books, and countless items of merchandise, has died

MF DOOM:

the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities

Also I get the sense that people who think sex can’t drive plot have never had sex that changes your whole outlook on life, and that makes me so sad for them.

The best goth/horror/occult designs you will find anywhere online—shirts, bags, hoodies, you name it

Four new designs are up on my Threadless shop in honor of this sad excuse for a holiday. They're not discounted because they're already as cheap as I can afford to make them, but they DO make wonderful gifts for any goths, creeps, and freaks you're shopping for today. ♥ thorazos.threadless.com

In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Ōshima, 1976)

The Human Brutality Film Festival a Diane & Frasier joke on Cheers, February 28, 1985 a @thorazos.bsky.social & @seantcollins.com reality on Thanksgiving, November 27, 1985

So far The Wild Bunch, followed by The Seventh Seal. @seantcollins.com and I know how to have fun

True story: One time I went to the Met with Darryl and @antek.bsky.social. Darryl slapped his membership card down and said he wanted three tickets for $1. Cashier: "This card is for MoMA." Darryl: "Oops. Here's my Met card." The cashier let us all in for free. Darryl knows from museums