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This is a fun one!
I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks.
One is rent.
The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.
An unfortunately relatable scenario 😩
Let me know how this is!! I’ve been curious about it 👀
Four panel comic: Panel 1: Sporting a party hat, Terrance (spider) shows Penny (ladybug) a list of things he plans to change about himself in the new year. Panel 2: Penny thinks to herself, "I should make a list too." Panel 3: Penny writes a list. Panel 4: Penny shows Terrance a list of things she likes about him.
Resolutions | Lucky Bug comic no. 15
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Working on a spec project that I always describe as BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA, but with the kids all grown up. Spent all December resting, now it’s time to jump back in!
We really need to bring back a focus on reading comprehension
On a totally unrelated note, did I mention I wrote a book?
You start to get cynical & bitter & then you find out one of your state's snow plows this year is named Clearopathra & you remember there is no limit to human brilliance
A drawing of a cephalopod in a Santa hat hovering over a town, dropping candy.
On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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I don't want AI. I want to stop filling out my entire medical history every time I go to the same doctor
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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May the cupcakes carry you through 🫡
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A painting of a grandmother growing out of a hedgerow at night. A cloud of golden fireflies floats out of her ribcage.
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All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives
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Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
