All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.

Limited this to games that I've played myself, rather than watched through let's plays or on someone's couch. Madeline European Adventures is also a stand-in for a whole era of PC games I've forgotten the titles of my9games.com

So many have told me they didn't give this anime a try cause of the title. If that's you, you're missing out.

Update: I finished my master's in library science at the end of 2025 🎉

All. Please be aware - the US has attacked Venezuela.

My mother doesn’t understand the point of rewatching but how else does one discover delightful treasures such as this Cairn terrier aka Toto dog attending the first ball in the 1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries with Colin Firth

My aunt’s incredibly photogenic horse

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Finally—back to my drawing board. It's been a long, long time I couldn't even set foot into my studio (our late son Mike did the electrical wiring & work; the hole in my soul the size of Mike was just... to... raw). Relieved I still have some drawing chops left.

the vet bill is close to $1K, which isn't something I can personally afford but also didn't hesitate at all to pay. still if anyone is willing to help pitch in for Bocchama, my ko-fi is here ko-fi.com/artofchira

Re the last repost, this 2-part article from the Cartoonist Cooperative Journal about failed unionization efforts in comics offers good historical context for why artists and writers are routinely cut out from making any money off their characters cartoonist.coop/journal/the-...

An easy one: Any comics film adaptation that exists without the original creator being able to pay off their house is a moral failure

I often have vivid dreams, but Nancy Drew defeating a criminal by elbow dropping him from 20 feet in the air down into the ocean as her skin was disintegrating has set a new standard

For no particular reason, here’s a photo of my author copies of Absolute Pleasure, an anthology about Rocky Horror Picture Show! All about sex and kink! Even the cover is a pleasing, sensual experience

IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM PORNOGRAPHERS HAVE YOUR BACK DO YOU HAVE THEIRS?

not much time for art these days, but here's a panel from a li'l comic I made for a zine. the eyes of innocence

damn Mafalda

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

I’m going to take a social break but allow me to leave you with some of the best goddamn centaurs I’ve ever seen. From Donna Barr’s Dreamery!

as a queer person making art i know all too well the ways in which the knife positions itself to come for us all, but man its tiring to see sex workers and pornographers treated exclusively like a kind of unfortunate canary

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

What's a book—or series of books—that you loved as a kid that almost nobody seems to read or even remember nowadays? I got Tanith Lee's Wolf Tower entirely because I saw the word "wolf," but it really stuck with me! my first ever digital comic was based on it

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

I just wrote a whole ass paper on on this topic and the misogyny in academic discussions of the romance genre is PALPABLE. If you’re interested in a history of the genre that takes it seriously, I recommend Pamela Regis’ Natural History of the Romance Novel

Just 68 hours left and we're super close to hitting our goal!

Smart, high strung, pissed off, a little goth - yeah, sure. Definitely more accurate than the last time I took this quiz

Do it for her

The kickstarter is still going! In celebration, here is a little excerpt from my essay

I contributed to this collection! If you like funny, sincere essays about sexual identify or if you enjoy Rocky Horror, please support this Kickstarter! I WILL be sharing this as often as I can to make up for missing the first few weeks of campaign, prepare yourselves

I contributed to this collection! If you like funny, sincere essays about sexual identify or if you enjoy Rocky Horror, please support this Kickstarter! I WILL be sharing this as often as I can to make up for missing the first few weeks of campaign, prepare yourselves

What I wanted to be as a kid 🫡

Was just recommending This Vacant Body the other day, so I might as well repeat it here! This comic is a gorgeous balance of moody supernatural procedural and erotica. I love Jonah and Esh, the climax legitimately made my stomach drop, and the final volume made me cry. This is top tier stuff!

extremely relevant to my final paper this semester

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

My mother bought me Buffy the Vampire Slayer action figures for my birthday and insisted I arrange them inside the cake slice for this photo Anyway, happy spring! I’ll be back in a few weeks

No public libraries means no story time, no free internet access, no employment training or job search programs, no place for unhoused people to rest during the day. Even if you don’t use the public library, it provides hugely important services to the community. Protect them!

there's nothing like the thrill of stumbling across a sex scene during 6th grade independent reading

A lot of homeless advocates in the city warned that passing the camping ban was only going to lead to more problems, and pushing people off the urban streets and into the canyons during a historically dry fire season is just a terribly dangerous thing to do in terms of wildfire danger.

The millennial experience is just finding out over and over things don't suck accidentally, but very on purpose, and often things were actually starting to be ok and got made worse by wealthy bigots

The American Dialect Society Word of the Year: RAWDOG To rawdog: taking on life without the usual protection, preparation, or comfort. Whether it’s diving into a challenge unprepared or skipping the safety net, rawdogging is about embracing risk, stone-cold sobriety, and rolling with it. #LSA2025

One of my top 10 books last year! The supernatural stuff is scary, but is overwhelmed by the horror of the historical events the story is rooted in

As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.

Enjoyed Nosferatu, but there is something deeply funny about overwrought horror, same as the intense emotionality of soap operas. I could not stop laughing through the sequence of Nicholas Hoult running around in the vampire castle

when a new coworker told me she loved the Mummy, I shyly told her that I'd drawn storyboards of the 1st 30 minutes for practice. she demanded I show her and we spent an entire lunch break looking at them and reciting the dialogue. still friends 10 years later

Adobe users: it’s the most beautiful time of the year, where you can threaten to cancel your plan and get the price cut down from $59.99 to $29.99 for the next 12 months ✨ Manage plan-> cancel my plan -> continue and then you get this offer: (more)

My girl in the light and in the dark, 2014 v 2023.

Vibing