After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT. Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

Yay, we have a rec room again :) Painting was such a pain but well worth it in the end!

여기도 업로드해야지 미인계로 위기를 극복하는 노련한 파티구급차입니다 #dratchet #ratchlock

the deep oceans of fanfic on the internet are so great because, yeah, apparently everybody *does* have a novel in them! it just turns out that a lot of those novels are about transformers being gay together

Deadlock's up for preorder! This time around, I much prefer the regular version of the figure to the chase.

Oof, these recent Thomas King revelations are messy af :/

The ladies' room on the fourth floor at work flooded. While in and of itself this may not have been a major issue, the flooding caused the ceiling of the third floor ladies' bathroom to cave in. 😐 Just in case you were wondering how my day has been going so far.

My babies 💕

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

JD Vance slams Canada after being rejected by sexy chesterfield

periodt.

I am so excited we are finally painting over this godawful mural, y'all have no idea. The new colour is Boreal Forest by Benjamin Moore!

Nothing like going into a toy store and saying to the sales assistant, "I'm looking for a Christmas gift for my 6 year old nephew, he's currently obsessed with interior decorating" 😂 She wasn't entirely sure what to make of it at first, but did help us find a great gift - washable window markers!

Hospitals to fight critical staffing shortage by declaring that all PhDs are “that kind of doctor” now

I'm so delighted. I've never seen them this clearly before. It is legit magic 😀

We can see them dancing with the naked eye, it's incredible!!

The Northern Lights are amazing tonight!!

I think fandom spaces can be very insular, which can (occasionally!) lead to things just getting fucking weird. Stepping out for a bit can be important for maintaining one's sanity. :-)

The last straw before I knew I needed to take a break (or would just completely lose my shit), was in seeing a popular fan artist completely lose it on someone who had sent them a note along the lines of, 'you normally post quite a bit and we haven't seen you in a while. Hope everything's okay'.

...One of them seemed to be making the argument that because her dad introduced her to the show, that she 'inherited' his place in the fandom. (uhhhhh, I don't think this is how it works) FFS. Children, please sit down and shut up.

And then (this one didn't involve me directly but still made me feel like I needed a stiff drink), I observed a genuinely bizarre fight between two 20-something women arguing over which of them could be considered an 'original' Transformers fan...

This was soon followed by some other jackass getting mad that I recommended IDW and then proceeding to follow me around Tumblr and insult me... um, okay.

Lots of weird fandom interactions in the month October. Possibly the most bizarre was a man angrily accusing me of only collecting TF figures of characters I like. Um, yes? WTF is the problem with that?!

I took a mental heath day to read fanfiction and do laundry and it has been entirely worth it.

Once again millions of Canadians literally forget how to drive after first snowfall

Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off! Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.

Husband: "well, one of those kids was definitely just an adult on their knees." um, what.

My husband bought a ton of Halloween candy, and then the neighbour gave us all of THEIR Halloween candy to give out, too. So now we have 700 pieces of candy in the house. ... we normally get, like, 20 kids. 😬

Ooh, new Deadlock figure coming from Ocular Max...

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Today I learned Canada has multiple pieces of *Transformers* legal tender. lol, okay, sure!

I've also started reading the original 1984 TF comic, and it is exceptionally goofy and dumb. *is absolutely delighted by this*

Hit the motherlode today! 😀 Don't quite have all of MTMTE & LL but I'm getting very close!!

Good lord this week has been EXHAUSTING. Realllly looking forward to the long weekend!

Love this in the lower key: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-V...

New Taylor Swift album is okay, but I was definitely expecting more music I'd want to get up and dance to. :/

Audley IDW Drift!! They're doing an Ironhide, too - so might we someday see an IDW Ratchet?! :-)

I'm pretty sure I've been in meetings with execs that went exactly like this.

Someone at my gym owns this car and man do I covet it. #sopink #yesplease

The prettiest little floof ❤️

It's a beautiful day to be turning 41 :)

My online store, where you can grab Soft Steel and the character bibles, is now up. Fingers crossed it all works! jacklawrence.myshopify.com

Late night art party!! #nuitblanche

Last day as a 40 year old. The day is being spent on housework (sigh), but we do have the symphony tonight. :-)

UPDATE: Thanks to @altraviolet.bsky.social & @themanlylobster.bsky.social I've reuploaded some older zines w/permission. There's a new reupload tag @freakypqul.bsky.social had a great idea to include zines in progress for ppl to find & support so you can now filter for that. Sorting options added.

Overheard at the Costco food court: "I bet when parents have kid after kid, and then one of them goes bad, they're like, 'where did I go wrong?' ... My mom probably says that a lot."

AO3's going to be down all day Friday?? :( noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo