Because GIFS don’t do this justice… ❤️❤️🖖

I am in love with this man’s squeal!!

The Bird Daughters. A comic about a bird woman and her dreams. made in the spring of 2023.

i was going to post just a screenshot of the title as a joke but i kept reading and now i’m completely floored by this theory

Alien Covenant (behind the scenes)

This is so funny to me

Not a huge Tootsie roll fan but I LOVE recipes that require a little bit of themselves to be made. So sweet and poetic plus then there's this cute chain of people sharing the recipe and food as it spreads.

There's a perpetual broth somewhere in France that's been going for like 900 years iirc. People just keep adding to it but it has never fully emptied. The temperature it's been at over the fire in a cauldron is so hot that bacteria does not grow.

After 900 years the broth's flavor is probably dense enough you can use it as mortar for masonry

one hundred percent sure you'd get your lifetime supply of daily vitamins from that. and also probably never shit again

In addition to being pastors, my parents were both also professional teachers. My mom has a master's in education.

I still wish I wasn't homeschooled.

Like, I run into folks now who get super excited when I tell them I was homeschooled because they're thinking about homeschooling if they ever have a kid and want intel, and they get super grumpy and dismissive and defensive when I tell them how absolutely debilitating it was socially, and that it really wasn't worth it just to be a year ahead in math.

And part of that is this sense that homeschooling is an opportunity for you to customize your child. It's usually an extension of a broader fantasy that that's what parenthood is about. That you can minmax your child's stats and construct the perfect build, and the only reason everyone's all screwed up is just that nobody sat down and really micromanaged their child's education enough. Other teachers (and peers, for that matter) might steer them in directions you don't want.

Even when done well, homeschooling is about removing those outside influences so you can control their environment and prioritize your own goals for them. It's a magnet for people with narcissism and control issues as a result, it's a magnet for fundamentalists, but it's also a magnet for idealists. Sometimes it even works out great, hell, there are people who for accessibility reasons will likely be taught far better at home. But that's more a "lesser of two evils" situation.

One person cannot be smarter in every single subject than every single teacher that the kid would ever have. They can't singlehandedly replace the socialization, the networking, the mentorship, and the life experiences. And to think that they can borders on megalomania.

Reblog if you remember this motherfucker:

ooh i have a nice fun fact!

Static was WILDLY popular in Brazil (a country where the population is over 50% black) and we had re-runs for YEARS on open television. Everyone who was a kid in the 2000s knew and loved him. As a result, every single Brazilian Con has a LOT of static cosplayers!

So, a couple of years ago, Comic Con Experience (the biggest con in Brazil, which is actually also the biggest con in the world!) invited Static’s creator Denys Cowan as one of the guests of honor.

Now. Thousands of people attend his panel. And cosplayers went NUTS because they could show their Static cosplay to the creator himself! What none of us expected was Debts Cowan’s reaction:

He cried on stage.

He had never seen Static cosplayers - especially not so many of them! And he had no idea the show was popular here! No one ever told him his character was so beloved! Years and years of reruns and he had no idea! He obviously created the character with his experiences and his community (Black North Americans) in mind. Still, he accidentally touched a whole other community of black people who could see themselves on the screen as a superhero!

Anyway he is a lovely person and one of the best, most memorable guests we had. And I think this is a nice reminder that your art might touch people you can’t even imagine would when creating it.

Going thru old photos and never shared these of my Gideon cosplay from Kumoricon last year

Also gotta post @cassylvan as my Midnight Hagette 😘💘

Kingdom of Heaven

cant stop thinking abt richard siken saying that people liked him better when they thought he was forever young, beautiful, serious and dead

Very short little Christmas comic taking place a few years after the movie and the games kinda.

For my own enjoyment Oogie’s revenge is canon because that thing was 80% of my childhood and i don’t care

Jack remembers that cringe thing he did 5 years ago and suffers.

TASTY REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COMING SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Preview pages of Parliament of Rooks #1 Spring

Read it here

Bayonetta 2 Cosplay Costumes from the Epilogue Bayonetta - Arienai Ten (http://arienai-ten.deviantart.com/) Jeanne - Ksana Stankevich (https://www.instagram.com/ksanastankevich/) Photo by Ivan Alden

i played aa it was good

(on twitter)

Unironically the Beta Trolls in Homestuck are a masterpiece of character design and writing.

12 new characters introduced fairly rapidly yet they're all memorable, distinct, 3-dimensional (some more than others, but still) and most importantly, beloved.

Honestly an inspiration and something writers and character artists should learn from.

I really enjoy how pretty much every Homestuck character is introduced with a particular format:

[an image of character standing in their bedroom]

You are NAME. You like ACTIVITY or ITEMS. Some OTHER RELEVANT TRAITS. Some ITEMS in the bedroom get DESCRIBED.

And I think the bedroom shots do A LOT of work in characterisation - like what do these kiddos do with a space that's wholly their own?

Like you don't even really need the blurb, just look at these two rooms side by side and draw your own conclusions:

There are legitimately a bunch of great lessons a writer or comic creator could learn from Homestuck about how to establish a character who immediately makes a strong impression. People so often get so tied up with the memes and meta around Homestuck, they seem to forget it's like... so well-written that millions of people will happily read conversations of these characters just talking about random bullshit like rapping or bad 90s movies and even in a format that's *kind of hard to read*, simply because they're just that engaging with distinct voices (even if you take typing quirks out of the equation) and great character-based humour.

The way each character makes a really strong impression in the first pesterlog they appear in, for example, or Hussie not being afraid to give good or heroic characters traits that are awkward, annoying or a bit pathetic, or just dorky interests and hobbies. HGNH I could geek out about this shit for days!

The inimitable Rik Mayall as Lord Flashheart, folks. Accept no substitutes. :)

“Big Man on Campus”

story and art by @Protagonist_Of on twitter, @deacblues on tumblr.