I'm really loving the answers to this question. If you missed it and want to participate, here!

I've got what seems like an incredibly vague question for the other visual artists out there: how does drawing from reference work for you? Do you see an object in 3D space, and have to consciously flatten it?

chaos lives

I heard YGG is finally doing a Y3 Gaiden. -Please don’t fuck this up -this is the only thing I’ve ever written fanfiction about, even if incomplete. Please do not ruin Rikiya -Blockuza? -Rikiya -My boy… -I swear to god, if you introduce some silly-ass magic system -DON’T -please -god

Random blast from the past: that time I did General Zhao fanart and it helped me get into a very technical art school

I’m playing Silent Hill f. Mixed feelings about it, honestly. -It’s definitely not a bad game. -I don’t think it quite feels like a Silent Hill. Many disagree. Spoilers of varying degrees below in rot13. To read, drop the text into rot13.com :

Is it pretty? No. Is my 15 year old dog going to dig under or around it? Also no.

well, masonry is happening. so far digging a reasonably level trench in this extremely uneven, rocky ground has been the most difficult BUT I am not convinced I put the right amount of water in the mortar. Too much? Too little? unclear. Just seems ‘off’

My almost insufferably huge, theatrical Space Shuttle of a case is finally falling apart. RIP

cool study, visual depiction of motion in 300 comics across the world by @cogirmak.bsky.social @neilcohn.bsky.social Might be of interest to @dialhforhagai.bsky.social @soengery.bsky.social @hannahtempler.com @kochalka.bsky.social @tomtomorrow.bsky.social etc (or not 😬, if not sry)

at the Subculture Reveal Party and the parents are about to cut the cake .. annnd... it's full of .. trumpets. fuck. fuck! the baby is Ska

bout 2 lay brick and mortar. wish me luck. it SEEMS very simple but it’s often the things that seem real simple that actually aren’t

Tangentially, I'm setting up a USB stick to flash my BIOS and came across something I really thought I'd lost forever in the Great File Debacle of 2020: Curt Merlo's MO Ch4 cover. God. How cool is that.

Do any of you have expertise getting custom Wordpress stuff to work? I've got all my files/custom assets, etc. for MO, but no database. Plus, there's been a ton of weird backend issues - had to swap from Bluehost to WP Engine. I will pay you. I will *pay you* for help. Real money dollars!

got four bot followers over the past two days. 🤔

anyone else got a favorite boring youtube channel? mine’s USCSB. they go super hard on low budget 3D industrial accident re-enactments

As a person who is related to an actual White Nationalist - weirdly, I don’t think he cares that much about Charlie Kirk’s death. If he hadn’t actually done anything beyond speechifying, it just isn’t that relevant. Weird thing to consider.

I wonder if one needs to be an academic to submit to this. I’d be very interested in discussing the role of post-WW2 Japanese nationalism in the medium.

Speaking of box office failures, I watched the film Heaven’s Gate last night. It’s not about the cult. It was recommended on the basis that I’d just seen Megalopolis. There are apparently some similarities in terms of production insanity (and definitely in self indulgence), but they are so different

Update: it is, in fact, a Robert Moses thing.

well, I saw Metrolopolis? Megalopolis? Megalopolis. um. I wow. wow??? ???????????? I… it’s, you just have to watch it.

today’s inadvisable technical misadventure is: breaking a MacBook open

AI is a cool guy who has never led me wrong

watching videos where they ask people in Muslim majority villages in how they feel about pop songs *interviewer plays the part of Michael Jackson’s Black or White that features Native dancers* Adnan: these are ‘red Indians’, or Native Americans Mashoque: do they follow a monarchy system?

I'm trying, as I often do, to put together a personal essay collection. Despite having written many, I do not have enough and was thinking of other things to write about. I don't know if I can make this into an essay, but I did remember a dumb thing that happened: Housing Stability v. Electrolux.

played a game, writing a thing

have reached the stage of “trying to work while being solicited” that I have now hand written a sign warning solicitous visitors that I will “punch (their) dick off (their) body (spiritually)”. dear god I have no personal animosity but let a motherfucker be

decided to watch Netflix Witcher on a whim. damn this show is not very good. damn

Well, the Coast Guard report on Oceangate Titan is out. News articles are notorious for referencing these things but not linking to them, so if you want the full report, here: media.defense.gov/2025/Aug/05/...

I was just thinking about something. I went to elementary school in the early 90s. Did anybody else do curriculum on what I can only describe as "advertising literacy"?

So, uh… looks like a new Katamari game’s coming out looks like they didn’t learn the lesson about not using power-ups in this game man.

tangentially, this is the first “smart TV” I’ve ever owned and wow I delved into the settings to turn as much of that shit off as possible *so* fast.

sometimes I have a little wisdom to bring to the table, you know, and today’s is “don’t drop a sixty five inch flat screen on your own neck”

Watching Kin-dza-dza. This is gold. highly recommended

Since I can’t quote that post, I’ll follow on: what would a critique of “anime as a medium” even look like?

individual approaches me. say they have criticism of anime as a medium ask if they have criticism of anime or perception of anime caused by US distribution's marketing they don't understand explain the difference "it's a valid criticism, sir" criticism of perception caused by us marketing

Remember that time Kevin Spacey tried to inhabit his character from House of Cards after the show was over? Yeah. I just thought about that. That was. Huh.

Cannot find my physical copy of House of Leaves. Went looking for it on Kindle. It’s not there, but this is!

I have now completed "The Suicide of Rachel Foster". People were right about one thing: this game sucks. I strongly disagree on the *why*, but yes: it sucks.

I’ve heard… things about the game “The Suicide of Rachel Foster”, and I must know for myself if the game is as narratively immature as people say.

Say it louder for the people at the back: The thing about palatability is that it just makes you easier to consume and, in the end, you’re still gone

The precise reason I've branched out and started practicing multiple martial arts instead of just one. Once you see some commonality between different systems, every single one becomes easier to understand. I feel this is one of the great truths of life.

Dr. Cohn returned my email and I was so excited I had to tell the Zoom meeting I was in about it. VISUAL LANGUAGE! Greg asked me why this interested me so much, and to be honest - it's hard to say. I think it's the drive to systematize.

Came across Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae (Letters) and I am really enjoying bits and pieces of it.

Today I’d like to ruin my YouTube algorithm with a new, cursed search: “fallout equestria”

I've been working on this for a while, and I have no idea how long it'll take. This stuff is new to me. The long and short of it is: looks like it'd take some work to get Steven to be honest with you about Allan. gyazo.com/382f71e448aa...

Reading Dr. Cohn's papers. It takes some real guts to turn that into a formula. Dang.

You know the Scott McCloud books. You might know Umberto Eco. If you’re a big enough nerd, you might even know the book “Panel Discussions” (one of my favorites). Did you know Neil Cohn? Because I didn’t. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this guy. His books. His ACTUAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Was chatting with a friend about the Reisangrit/Kingdom of Reisan (it's a fractious desert kingdom in MO, and where Steven's mother is from). He expressed surprise that I'd chosen to make them functionally atheist. It was fun to come up with canon Reisangrit apocrypha about why.

I figure we’ve all thought about politically charged hot-button changes we’d try to make if we were in a position of power, but do you ever think about the boring shit you’d change? Boy howdy, I do