“‘Zat you, Santa Claus?” by Louis Armstrong. I still like it, as Xmas music goes, but I hear it and I immediately feel my toes being pinched by the kitten heeled shoes I wore when I worked at Express in 2004.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

This fits. Let’s keep standing together until there’s no more need to fight.

Jester was being a little spicy and grumbling at me and with all the Warhammer on my brain, I jokingly cried out, “WAAAAAAAGH”. Y’all she started doing zoomies immediately in response like she was ready for a proper krumpin’. 😳 Maybe she’s an Ork with a K…

All the footage from the Vampire Lestat live show is giving me life today.

Sad to hear about John Blanche this morning. As I’m falling back in love with Warhammer it’s impossible to ignore the impact his crazy imagery had on me as a young aspiring artist. Since everyone is posting his 40k art, I tried to find fantasy examples, and here he is drawing my beloved High Elves.

You have no idea how helpful it is to get a basic stick figure reference. It’s the old “a picture is worth a thousand words”. A “crappy” picture is still worth a thousand words.

Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.

RIP to John Blanche, the best to ever do it. Before Warhammer was even Warhammer he understood what it was: weird, gross, unsettling, maximalist.

A listing for 50~ Oldhammer High Elves for a buck apiece took me and @kaswatzell.bsky.social on a side quest that ended in a surprise bonding session with a fellow nerd and GM who was also selling an assortment of old metal minis, like this 1983 Ral Partha Tanis from Dragonlance. He cost me $1. 💚

WHY DON’t STraiGht PeoPLe hAVe a MOntH

Me, in the game shop: Oh, these dice are so pretty! *grab* Me picking my dice for a D&D session: …JFC, I have a problem.

You know what, I never do this but… I colored some cool shit this past year. Like Return to Skull Island, Star Trek Redshirts, Lower Decks, Voyager Homecoming etc. maybe one of those might inspire someone to nominate me?

After two weeks of travel and working intensely around it I got a tiny breather this evening for hobby time! WIP color scheme test for my Skaven spearhead (gonna be all albino rats with red eyes!) and basing on my otherwise finished Sisters of Slaughter. TL; DR: painted some rats and stabby elves.

Ozzie is giving “I would like to see the baby”.

Waiting in line for coffee with two friends who casually said they wanted to learn to play D&D, and without thinking I offered to DM for them. Five years and four new wonderful friendships later, DMing became basically my whole personality and my favorite non-work creative outlet.

Seriously though Ozzie saw the convention floor and thought that the entire show is for him. We were there for 20 minutes just to unload my suitcase and he made a dozen new friends. If you’re here in OKC, come meet him tomorrow at GalaxyCon!

I am probably not going to get to see it until after this convention weekend but I’m really happy to see people who’ve seen The Mandalorian and Grogu saying that it’s fun. I would try to go with con pals but I have this “Child” with me and I don’t think I can smuggle him into a theater 🥰

Bringing my dog to a convention this weekend means digging up his cutest tshirts and even his Astarion cosplay jacket 😂 Come see Ozzie and I at GalaxyCon OKC this weekend! We’re just one step closer to our dream of being the comics version of Carrie and Gary Fisher.

So once applications open for the $1.7B slush fund, we're all going to apply and break their portal, right?

I really tried today. But I think despite my best efforts, my deadlines, and my impending convention travel, it might just be the kind of mental health day where I crawl back under my rock and wait for this to pass. Depression is a lying bitch but sometimes she wins a round.

I have a story in this, in case y’all thought I could really be away from Star Trek for very long! ❤️ It was a delight to get to spend a few pages with Mr. Scott.

Also hey! I’ll see some of y’all this weekend in Oklahoma City, for my one-year GalaxyCon anniversary! And guess what? OZZIE IS COMING WITH ME! That’s right, you can meet the famous little tripawd himself in person!

I was away from bsky for most of last week while home dealing with my mom’s health stuff. Now I’m back and obviously there’s the usual list of More Important Things, The Horrors, etc. But I really need somebody else who watched Outlander to tell me what in the Sopranos fuck that finale was.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

New! IDW's Star Trek: Red Shirts TPB, edited by @heatherantos.bsky.social. Writer: @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social Art: @meganlevens.bsky.social Colours: @charliekirchoff.com Letters: @longtalljodie.com 2025's most anticipated Trek series didn't disappoint! Go out and get this re-readable treasure🖖

IT'S RED SHIRTS TPB DAY. This book remains the lettering I might be the most proud of in recent history. Really threw everything I had into it and it's such a great book. Also, @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social? Killed it. @meganlevens.bsky.social? Killed it. @charliekirchoff.com? Killed it.

go tell your favorite artists you like their work. you may think they hear it enough or your praise would be identical to someone else's so you say nothing, but i promise you they would love to hear it. and sometimes they need to hear it.

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Since it’s the hot topic again(?!), I have total aphantasia. No conjuring images, sounds, smells, any sensations in my mind. I have no inner monologue. I don’t dream. I have SDAM, so I don’t even have vivid memories. And I draw. Without the shit machine. Fuck your genAI. 😎👉👉

Why is this so precise. Why is this the paradox I chose to live.

Zero spoilers, but there was a moment in MAUL: SHADOW LORD where I actually gasped aloud “Oh shit.” Also this animation is freaking beautiful. The waterfall fight was art, and I’ve always loved the “painterly” quality to the Clone Wars world but this show REALLY leans into it.

"crash out with your trash out" - bluesky in the month of may

In a wild turn of events, I am going to Star Wars Celebration 2027.

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

Angela Morley had two careers, either one of which would be notable. Under her deadname she did the music for the Goon Show, Hancock's Half Hour etc and arranged Scott Walker's first four albums. Post-transition she worked in Hollywood and got three Emmys and an Oscar nomination.

An excellent thread that articulates how live-saving SSRIs can be, and what it is actually like living with depression even AFTER starting medication.

Did we ever decide if it’s Revenge of the Fifth, or the Sixth? Whatever, here’s this month’s Patreon print reward featuring my trashy Sith boyfriend, Maul. I just resubscribed to Disney today (for a little while anyway) so I’ll be binging his entire series this week.

Today, tomorrow and forever fuck Gen AI.

I don’t typically feel the need to share my Met Gala thoughts, but as a Warhammer girlie and a Daughters of Khaine player specifically…I HAVE to ask when Katy Perry joined the Khainite Shadowstalkers.

I may be better known for working on the OTHER Star franchise, but I credit Star Wars with sparking my interest in telling stories through art, so happy #maythe4th to all my fellow rebel scum!

Honestly, can we get a Satanic Panic about AI, please?

happy may the 4th to all who celebrate

It usually happens that within a week of me making some extremely self-satisfied comments about taking time for mental and physical health over “the grind”, I find myself in a panic attack that I am not grinding enough and everything is falling apart around me.

Spirit Airlines has officially shut down operations. Well, you know what that means...

The bartender this evening told me that I look like Molly Ringwald, which might be one of the most generous and also age appropriate compliments I’ve ever received. 😂