astrid elle jo❄️(jewel of the nihil)

AI generated news articles are news slop. Newslop.

Oh, like Newspeak, but somehow even more stupid.

Executive decision: I'm taking next week off to figure out the script for the next few pages of my comic. So no update on March 9.

Also because I'll be marathoning OPLA season one in preparation for season two.

Currently halfway through Whole Cake Island in the anime.

Half Cake Island?

It's March now and I've barely made any art. I wonder if it's because I'm stressed out at an existential level.

The Pokopia Font Generator with the text 'death metal' in bright colors, on a green blob, on a blue sky with clouds.

Fun with fonts! 🤘🏻

btw, you can totally read this book as a WangXian modern-with-magic AU. It might even work best that way, considering that's more or less how I thought of it when writing it. Spread this secret among the MDZS/Untamed fan crowd. 😉

#wangxian #modernAU

Oh goodie. Spring is here. I just had my first big vertigo episode of the season. Thankfully it was only 45 minutes, but it did lay me flat the whole time.

Technically it's still happening.

Two seated women holding each other for comfort. Golnaz, on the left, is 50s rockabilly red and blue. Iryna, on the right, is 40s rockabilly charcoal grey. Neither of them look very happy.

A scribble of Golnaz and Iryna.

If you know who they are, then you can figure out why they're upset.

Book cover: The Quicksand Theatre Company Tropes: cozy queer romance + fantasy Comedy! Heartbreak! All the feels! Witches, fae, magic Pining (omg they were roommates) Vibes/influences: Howl’s Moving Castle, Moulin Rouge, MDZS/The Untamed

NB/M cozy love story with fae, witches, and a fictional country in our modern world: come away to a comfy seat in The Quicksand Theatre Company. 💜🌈📚💙📚🪐

mollyringle.com/quicksand-th...

(Please share; I was recently told only het romantasy sells well; let’s prove them wrong. Thank you!!💜)

MIDDLE EAST MATTERS "| was born in an lranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that | haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean | want my people bombed, maimed,killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after." Sahar Delijani, lranian author (in picture)

Now with alt-text:

Yeah, there's a page on Substack with more information that is nicely organized. But it's on fucking Substack. I'm not linking to that bar. You know who hangs out there?

Trump Admin Announces Old-Growth Clearcutting Plan for Western Oregon - Oregon Wild Conservationists say proposal to “maximize” logging across nearly 2 million acres of Western Oregon BLM lands would devastate fish, wildlife, and threaten communities

Hey. Oregonian here. The Trump Administration wants to bring BLM practices in Oregon back to 1937 standards when the policy was "Fuck them fish, them owls, them bears! Let's choppy choppy so we can get richy richy!"

Oregon Wild has info:
The 'Leave a Comment' form:
eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...

I used to post art here. What happened to that?

[contemplates the last 18 months of ulcer-inducing stress]

I guess I'll never know.

A young, black, wizard lass holds her spell tome in the crook of her right arm as she flicks a sparkle of yellow stars out of her left index finger. She's wearing round eyeglasses, a sleeveless taupe turtleneck, a purple skirt, black tights, and dark red shoes.

Wizard girl trying out a simple sparkle cantrip.

Wardrobe inspired from one of those "Use your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs to find an outfit." things.

No fucking war please thank you!

It is for the people of a nation to hold the regime accountable, not some unpopular and desperate floppy old man behind a desk in another country on the other side of the planet who likes to kill his own nation's people.

I hear "impeach" and I'm like, okay. Sure. I agree, but what do people expect that to accomplish? We've done it twice already and yet he's still here fucking everything up.

The man is an unflushable turd.

What. The. Fuck.

Twin Peaks opening titles generator with 'TWIN PEAKS' replaced with 'MAIRZY DOATS'.

liddle lamzy divey

[image ID: an old fashioned black and white comic which says "MILITANT MARY. I'm overworked! I'm underpaid! I'm sick and no one CARES— My friends, there's murder in my heart WHEN I SEE MILLIONAIRES!" This is next to a simple drawing of a woman with her hair slicked back into pigtails, wearing large glasses, with hwr arms crossed. At the very bottom in small print is the signature Steve Hyde.]

Militant Mary — Elizabeth Kirkman Fitzhugh, 1914

I saved the email announcement from Netflix they sent three-ish months ago that they'd soon be acquiring Warner Discovery HBO GO MAX GO or whatever.

It'll bookend nicely with the "nope, nevermind" email they'll probably be sending soon.

Every goddamn morning there's some new fuckery being announced with the express intent of ruining people's lives.

No wonder I've got this gordian knot of existential dread living in my gut.

Every Algorithmic Incapacitant company:

For the low, low cost of breathable air, all potable water, and every stick of RAM on Earth, you can have our soulless thinkybots unwrinkle your grey matter into a quivering bowl of jello!

Whoa. I've been playing the Legend of Zelda series for 39 years. (I started with Adventure of Link.)

1) BOTW - Open exploration of a Ghibli-esque world, a dedicated jump button, and nonlinear progression is everything I ever wanted in a game.

2) Wind Waker - So close to nonlinear but not quite. No dedicated jump, but that cel shading tho! And I love the ocean and pirates.

3) Minish Cap - KAWAII!

Me: I'm gonna get so much art done this weekend!

Migraine: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

A screenshot from the dialed dot gg color memory game. "Think you can remember these colors? You're gonna be bad at this." I scored 46.98/50

46.98/50
Ranked 5294 out of 164,284
How, though? I suck at color. Plus three of those colors look completely different now that they're next to each other.

dialed.gg

In order of preference:

3) Wonder Woman most obviously definitely
4) Motorcycle Jacket Seven of Nine
1) Disco Era Dazzler (we'll go roller skating)
2) I cannot think of a single Tolkien character I would want to date, but I'll have a beer with Faramir.

Okay. Looks like I'm going to have to step up trying to get Canadian citizenship through ancestry. Like, with haste.

[write post]

Ask myself: Does anyone need to see this? Does it need to be posted? Does my input enrich the conversation?

[delete post]

(It took me a really long time to commit to clicking 'post' on this post.)

Aww yeah! I just found my great-grandparents' names on the marriage indexes (indicies) from Alberta, Canada. I am *so* going for this.

This has given me a tangible short-term goal and a much needed jolt of positivity. Thanks, Canada!

Thinking about how the Mighty Nein really found their footing once they left the Dwendalian Empire and went to Xhorhas.