October 9, 2013 // September 29, 2025 #DumbingOfAge #DoA (Jocelyn is also present for both strips, and let's be honest, that's half the reason I recalled the previous panels so well)

I miss Magic. so I'm going to share a little personal exercise that I've done. I revise it from time to time, but I'm pretty happy with this incarnation an alethiometer (see my profile pic) is a truth-telling device. it has 36 symbols whose meanings are used to frame questions and answers

it's a beautiful day outside but my foot still hurts :( (walking 4-7 miles a day catching up with me)

bedtime, need to take my meds *pour glass of water* *drink water* *pause* um… *pour another glass* *use it to take meds this time*

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

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The Rapture, aka:

y'all I finally saw ONE CUT OF THE DEAD tonight (on the big screen!) and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I was in tears by the end. the whole film is a goddamn *magic trick*

Lil Amazing Digital Circus doodle!

"Castlevania" is called that because it's a Metroidvania but it's set in a castle. A little on the nose, but it works

it's mid-september, time for the beauties!

The "Dan Da Dan" end credits this season give "Scott Pilgrim," and "My Dress-Up Darling" is giving @aidosaur.bsky.social's "Barbarous" (all highly complimentary)

requesting recommendations for good sapphic prose smut. magic/fantasy/sci-fi elements welcome. trans-inclusive encouraged

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

I went out for a walk and ended up doing probably 5 laps (~6.5 miles) because I have a couple little queers in my head and I'm trying to make them kiss

president of the United States posting a speech with a.i. generated video to social media, cool cool cool

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

maybe today is the day I delete the Duolingo app. I passed 4 years in my streak last month. I canceled my Super subscription. the use of a.i. is obnoxious and bad, and the free version has recently gotten way worse (they replaced "hearts" with "energy," severely capping daily practice)

found an object in my closet and performed an action upon it (I never played it, it once belonged to one of my brothers)

all the three leg illustrations in one (i need to draw more)

Jokesters: "Sounds like a hell of a handjob haha" Melville: "… Keep reading."

Melville via Ishmael is being cheeky in this chapter to hype the glory of whalemen, but he's not exactly wrong here! In the Bible, Leviathan was a (likely seven-headed) chaos dragon/serpent, reflecting the older Canaanite Lotan. Then "leviathan" became generalized to "sea monster" and thus "whale"

Dark Science High School Part 2! I'm formalizing a new yuri category: delinquent who's secretly a nerd x nerd who's secretly a delinquent. dresdencodak.com/2025/09/07/d...

That’s queer, too.

So @maklelan.bsky.social hasn't responded to my video, but he has addressed my question! In Chapter 11 of his book, "The Bible Says So"!

This frame has potential.

welp, I'm officially a shots girlie! 💉 Silksong drops and I give the needle a try, coincidence?? 🪡

the president had 11 people murdered and then posted the snuff film

The Good, the No Really, and the Honey That's The Dysphoria Talking

silksong soon

TFW your girlfriend shows up like a meteor for the save but you're also reminded that you're gay.

the late president Donald Trump

Orby Dick

I'm in a mood

there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up

They're pulling themselves, I'm pulling the wrong lever

you're crankin that hog but i, the enlightened, am kronkin that hag. we are NOT the same.

the plants immediately behind the bench in this photo are primarily European water horehound (relative of mint and bee balm) I saw it flush with wasps and bees (redundant, bees are wasps) of many species the day after I took this photo, all those plants were mowed down

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there's so much to love about THE LIGHTHOUSE, but one thing I will never get over is Willem Defoe's final monologue. he never spits!

I saw the horrifically anti-trans screed from that fascist podcaster. I'm not exactly panicking over it, but it's deeply disturbing and worrisome that the rhetoric is already being escalated like that Anyway, as always, take courage, and extend grace to those who are scared

This video by Alex Pearlman does a really good job explaining why branding changes like his aren't "woke" they're just another chapter in the big book of "Capitalism and the adventure of endless growth for the shareholders".

I have a cat under my bed our foster cat, Ash, took tonight's feeding time as an opportunity to explore more of the apartment than he's used to he spends most of the day hiding under a chair, so I'm hoping this is progress

Cracker Barrel went out the window with the mail pouch cut plug chawin' by the stove changed the approach of the travelin' salesman, made it pretty hard

Sara: "I hate this phrase, but… 'the circles are waggling'" … "WAIT 'the wagons are circling'"

donated blood today. they had to fish with the needle a bit, and then could just barely get enough blood :/ so now my arm is sore, ow side effect of HRT: my really good blood-tapping vein is harder to find :( got my Fig Newtons, tho