comics are an incredible storyboarding-esque medium that you can use to draw and talk about anything. it doesn't even need to be limited to a 4-panel gag. I love comics
going to the state library to smash out some assignments I've been woefully avoidant of all week...... hurray
alt text: tweet by Every Beanie Baby @beanybabybot: "Inky the octopus (grey). No birthday." tweet features two candid photos of the octopus beanie baby. quote retweet of tweet (cropped with no user information): "no birthday. hits me every time in my chest like I just got shot with a gun"
jackson is a great resource haha, thanks! I suppose it's somewhere between boredom, attention and generally being quite vocal.
hey cat community! I have some vocal-cat behavioural problems I was wondering if you all could crack.
my cat boy biggins has always been pretty vocal and chatty, but it's gotten pretty unbearable lately. I've started walking him on a harness at the local primary school (it's open to the public out of school hours). he's amazing to walk - super cooperative and sweet with the harness. but when we're home, he's been non-stop throwing howling tantrums when he can't go.
how do you handle this kind of behaviour? I'm ordering some earplugs and ignoring him in the meantime, but any advice would be great!
aw it's janking up
alt text: two flow charts. the first one, "Maladaptive pattern:" "My boss yelled at me", ""I'm worthless."" (red box) "Depression." the second chart, "After cognitive restructuring:" ""My boss yelled at me", ""My boss was having a bad day."", ""While this is not a reflection of my worth, my boss should not take his bad day on me."", "UNIONIZE", "FUCK HIS WIFE", (green box) "No depression."
alt text: a 4-panel comic strip by hausofdecline, in a simple, ignorant art style. panel 1: three individuals in suited corporate attire are assembled for a meeting, two seated together, one opposite. the left of the two: "You may be renowned for your negotiation skills, but we will not go any higher than 12%." panel 2: pulling in closer to the third interlocutor, he, with a smirk, goes to pull something out from his briefcase. panel 3: he has pulled a gun, holding it to his head, wearing a smug expression. panel 4: pulled back out to the three businessmen again. the one on the left states, looking irate and exasperated, "Fine, fine. We'll go to 15%." to his right, his fellow associate looks to him says, "See? That's why he's the best." the negotiator across from them remains unwavering, his gun still trained to his head.
alt text: a tweet by Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) at 2:28 PM, 11/18/20. "The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night"
alt text: caption reads: "politicians: if you don't like it, why don't u protest peacefully?" above larger text, "protesting peacefully:" in the below picture, a wojack protester, red in frustration pulls his eyes exaggeratedly down his face as he stands in a square in the streeet labelled "DESIGNATED FREE SPEECH". a 'fnord' with a clown pepe at the wheel honks at him. off to the side a sniper trains their sight on the protester.
that's true. it's better that we've made our own post for instance-only discussion. Idk I don't blame the reaction since it puts them in a tough spot where they feel inclined to defend themselves. but aside from a post literally being about them I haven't seen them interact aggressively much on our instance.
I get that people aren't a fan of their type of leftist politics but I don't think they really do that much harm. I at least haven't seen any brigading or vitriol from them and I think they're valuable as a trans-positive space.
alt text: anime girl being fed gasoline through the pump machine. text: "drink up baby stay up all night"
alt text: an edited youtube comment section.
mold Mario: these games are very stale mold Mario: Mario decomposes you charlie twymam: mario why do you decompose me mold Mario: because you are damp mold Mario: Mario decomposes you very
alt text: wojak riddled with mould. he has deep black mould eyes, a cavernous mouth and two little spindly mushrooms growing out of his head. his greyed mould-stained shirt reads, "I [heart] mold". in the background is a white mouldy landscape.
alt text: david lynch, addressing the camera during one of his weather reports while wearing sunglasses: "today i'm thinking about trees and how beautiful they are"
alt text: text post by amygdalae, 23rd march, 2023: "Enjoy a drink on one of my special coasters. Yea I custom made them (the coasters) to be so light the drinks condensation makes em stick to the bottom of your glass, but still heavy enough that when it (the coaster) finally clatters to the ground it's loud as fuck and shatters your nerves and makes you spill your drink everywhere. Why am I doing this? Well, it's a sex thing for me"
alt text: a little scraggly humanoid-cat is given a gun by a benevolent hand. text reads: "Go, do crime."
alt text: little scraggley humanoid cat creature is eagerly recieves a gun from a benevolent hand. text under it reads, "Go, do a crime."
I've been replaying disco elysium: the final cut lately. beautiful narration and voice acting, amazing art. love the feeling of being dropped into a completely different world.
I love this, reminds me of me and my so :-)
it's a sock-packer. you put it in your underpants.
pluto ! I loved the manga and randomly found out that it got an anime adaptation last year. beautiful intense sci fi about sentient robots