It has been a long time since I have seen something that’s made me laugh so loudly and with such pure delight

the world needs jazz fusion

love to flip thru This Year and see the beginning of a paragraph that delightfully stops me in my tracks

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

you know what time it is (not almost Christmas other people have got that one covered)

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

*taps sign*

been seeing folks share their festive blingees so heres mine

northern cardinals 🎄

we have to create a world where, when someone says “yeah I might stalk Bill Watterson,” the interviewer stops and goes “sorry, what the fuck did you just say”

this is the most "Get a Job, Stay Away From Her" I've ever felt

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

on professional driver on a closed course

also so fucking stupid to use genAI specifically for concepting, arguably the most fun part of the creative process????????? the part where you get to make up all the stuff??????

if you want to argue that you can only make art via gen ai here’s some advice: quit

hey, I am not gonna doompost about it necessarily but, a glance around will tell you it's a hard & stressful time for artists, and especially so this year consider dropping a kofi donation, or reposting a shop link, or even just, leave a comment so someone knows you like their work it does matter

A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.

the only the machines that have sentience are printers and that’s only to hate you specifically

the chapter in finn family moomintroll where moomintroll transforms into a little gremlin monster and no one recognizes him but moominmamma DOES which breaks the transformation……gimme a second, just, gimme a second

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

instead of reposting that horrible screenshot of that horrible man's post, consider sharing the incredible stories about what sweet, thoughtful man Rob Reiner was and flooding the feed with them

the good that you do persists in this world

update: fully did not realize I was getting experience from enemies because it didn’t give me a “exp gained” readout, but now we’re BACK IN BUSINESS (read: I’ve consigned myself to level grinding and actually finding it meditative rn)

new silly zine over on da Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/145725...

new silly zine over on da Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/145725...

songs used to be about taking your sweetie to the ice cream parlor but nowadays they are all about the delicate scrimshaw patterns found on the bones of a beached leviathan

game awards would only be good if a trap door opens in the stage under geoff keighley’s feet and he falls into the void never to be see again

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

I found out this week that I'm being laid off from my design job at the end of the year. ☹️ My partner's got a job, we have savings, it's not dire. But if you've ever wanted books or prints from me: sarahbecan.square.site or shirts or totes: sarahbecan.threadless.com ...now is a great time. 🙂

wanna make a little guys zine but then I see people talking about those stupid delivery robots like “aw it beeped at me, it likes me :)” and feel like I’d be feeding into the “but robot cute” trick companies want people to fall for with these stupid sidewalk blocking things

I log on here to see people tearing each other apart with insane vitriol about alt text and then I log on to insta to see “story to story” sharing automatically turned on, as if I want strangers to be able to share my stupid ephemeral pictures that purposely go away, and maybe the internet is bad

“Moominmamma cooks a real magic potion following Grandmother’s infallible recipe”, by Tove Jansson, as used on the cover of 1989’s exhibition catalogue of Jansson’s work as shown at Finland’s Tampere Art Museum.

winter pre starting yakuza like a dragon: no thoughts time to hibernate winter post starting yakuza like a dragon: no thoughts only kasuga ichiban

I started playing yakuza like a dragon tonight and. ichiban. ichiban! ichiban!!!!!!!!!

ohhh earthbound beginnings….is impossible to play

So glad I finally picked this up: such an incredible deep dive into Earthbound’s localization process with clear love for both the original Japanese script & the monumental effort the localizers accomplished in just months. Loved it as an Earthbound fan, it gave me new appreciation for localization!

Wow it’s bandcamp Friday TODAY which means bandcamp gives their share to the artist, maybe check out this thread which includes some good albums and pick one up

For those not in those circles, I just need to remind you that losing a job to AI is not a vibes based idea. We are being told explicitly by art directors that we are being weighed against AI for jobs, people on teams fighting against the AD and you. It sucks. It’s demoralizing.

the legends of localization book about earthbound making me cry by confirming that Tony was intended to be gay all along….itoi-san you absolute legend

please buy and play Slay the Princess

everything else about spotify aside (which is A LOT to push aside) why do the wrapped graphics look so ugly this year

as it is Spotify Wrapped season again, if indie artists are among your top played, please consider picking up an (read: one) album of theirs on bandcamp or wherever they have their stuff! streams result in very little revenue for musicians and they gotta eat too

Happy cozy season to you all. ☕🍂❄️

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

All set up at @genghisconcle.bsky.social, and we’re open! 11-5 at the Pivot Center, stop on by!

today!!! it’s sleeting right now but DON’T LET THAT STOP YOU (be safe of course but we’re midwesterners, what’s a little weather)