i’m so appreciative to suzanne for reframing the rebellion from the original trilogy as a “they saw their moment and took it” type situation and showing us that they’ve been trying, over and over, with so many failed attempts, to break the arena and incite a rebellion for decades. in this current political climate never giving up hope is so essential. haymitch wasn’t the first nor the last, and they kept going even when it seemed completely futile, and that’s what counts, and what ultimately saves them all.

btw if you tell me something and i reply with “oh???” that’s the equivalent of a dog’s ears perking up

Or, "Yeah yeah?"

Reblog this to place a small flower in the hair of prev, and that you're very proud of them

The Hero of Three Faces is fanfiction crossovers, but it’s comic strips with stick figures, but they’re triangles. Click here for cartoon homepage. Or see this blog’s FAQ, or my archive tumblog’s FAQ. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons posted to Tumblr 11:00 (Central US time) daily are the previous day’s new update and the posts are pinned to the top of this blog. Cartoons linked from Tumblr 22:00 daily are usually from the archive and the posts are pinned only during annual summer hiatus of new updates; but archive cartoon postings currently are temporarily suspended, and the 11:00 new cartoon post, if any, is reblogged at 22:00.

Only some of these link posts have dialog transcripts (and instead of full image descriptions like they once had) because in early 2025 I was obliged to streamline the housekeeping procedures for producing mostly daily comic strips, in aid of avoiding burnout on doing daily cartoons at all. I apologize for the conflict in accomodation needs. Dialog transcript: A Who are you? Why are you bringing an alligator into my office? I represent screen actors, not animal acts We're aliens from other planets, exiled to Earth. In our Confederation we can synthetically evolve animals into sentient beings, like your Moreau Project Hi! B I beg your pardon. What's your name? Hi! Unfortunately we could only afford the cheap kit C If Paul's moving in with Leah then I need another roommate I know you've been out in the human world since high school, but aren't there a lot of "children" of the Moreau Project trying to assimilate now? Guess who's got a regular tv gig! I'm going to be on Real Fear Survivor House! Shooting right here in Chicago! D "Unscripted"! I knew those reality tv contests are rigged He's not a contestant I'm one of the traps

Thanks for reading.

I got the seminal cyberpunk sf novels Snow Crash and Neuromancer from the library, and I had to return Snow Crash when I was halfway through and go on the hold request list again and then I read Neuromancer and now I have Snow Crash back, and I think I'm forever going to be mixing them up because they're almost the same plot

Best hacker in the world falls on hard times, meets a girl, and stumbles into a plot to take over the world, which is partially enacted in V.R. [which the author has to describe in detail to his readers because he's writing before The Matrix]

today we are going to learn about horses

horse fact 1: horses are partially exoskeletal

horse fact 2: horses are partially trees

horse fact 3: got frogs in em

these are all the facts we have about horses.

OP that's not even a full horse. You've literally only looked at the feet.

maybe one day we will be brave enough to lift our eyes and look, trembling, at the rest of the horse. not today, though. today, these are all the facts we have about horses.

Willow (1988)

ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up

suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this

Pulling this out of my tags but for real one of the best webcomics(and also best story in general) I have ever read started out looking like this:

You do not have to be Michaelangelo to make art, just make it. Also, obligatory quote from my good man Bob Ross:

Sorry to pull this out of the tags also but I absolutely agree and wanted to elaborate further, bcs like another reason I genuinely think anyone who is interested in art but feels like they suck too much to make it should really just stay away from AI and actually just give drawing a chance is because AI cannot create new art styles. It can only make copies of what you put into it, so much so that if you want something in a specific style you have to tell it the name of the artist you want it to mimic because it cannot make something that doesn't already exist. If all you ever fed it were drawings of stick figures that's all it would ever know how to do.

But humans can make new art styles, every person's art is unique. And when it comes to ONE(author/artist behind Mob Psycho 100 and One Punch Man) and Rich Berlew(author and artist of Order of the Stick), if these guys never just started making their comics we wouldn't have ever been able to see these expressive, funny, strange, and just all around captivating pieces of art!

The image I used of Order of the Stick isn't actually exactly what it looked like at this start, this is:

And THIS is what Order of the Stick looks like now:

And while it does still look similar, it's clear how much Burlew has improved and grown comfortable in his unique artstyle, how far he's come in the last 21 years. The lighting, the line art, the panel layout, all of it has improved while still essentially just being stick figures. And I cannot even begin to describe how much I fucking LOVE the way this comic looks.

Switching to ONE, his art started out super rough

And while One Punch Man did get a new artist...I genuinely think the "better" art has lost a lot of the charm the original had. I'm so glad that ONE did Mob Psycho 100 himself and that the anime mimicked his style rather than trying to make it look more standard like OPM did, because my god, this guy's stuff conveys humor in a way that is as brilliant as it is unique. It's rough, but the roughness doesn't take away from the impact or emotions, it honestly adds to them, and overall it's incredible to see how much ONE has improved, but also how much it still looks like his art:

I do not want to live in a world where ONE and Rich Burlew didn't make their comics because they were too scared of their art looking bad. I don't want to live in a world without these stories and these dynamic and original art styles. Burlew's art legit has given me confidence, I always felt bad that when I finished and colored my art all my lines were so thick and smooth and coloring-book-esque, it's why most of what I post is like, sketches, colored or not. But after reading Order of the Stick I legit cried a little because for the first time I didn't feel bad about just doing the kind of line art that feels right to me, which looks like this:

So fr, please if you want to make art just make art. Everyone's art is unique in one way or another and if you just rely on AI all the time we'll never get to see styles like ONE and Rich Burlew's and again, I don't want to live in a world where we don't get to see all of these amazing, imperfect works of art. I want to see YOUR art, because it's yours, and the world is a better place with your art in it.

fwiw

realising that literally everything i write is practice and it never has to be taken as an attempt at a masterpiece but can instead be viewed simply as continual exercise in writing genuinely fixed something in my relationship to my own writing. it never has to be perfect. it doesn't even have to be completed. as long as it's being done, i will always be doing myself a favour.

Rhys Darby in the teaser for season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

I've read, on prev's blog I think, he's playing a legacy character. I'm getting a distinct vibe from this clip that maybe no one else is or maybe everyone is; I may just be getting in a queue or I may just need to stay in my trelane

I don't see this mentioned here, things are getting worse and worse for us queers in Hungary

english donation links to budapest pride, as well as the most notable hungarian ngo, if you have any money to spare. please share if you can.

BUDAPEST PRIDE

HÁTTÉR SOCIETY

#the bill Has passed. so pride is banned now and the govt could use facial recognition tech to fine the protesters up to 200.000 HUF#BUT! i hope many of us will be there at Pride still. see yall there! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

as prev said. also protest are still ongoing as of half an hour ago. link to telex on facebook

Hey non-Hungarian oomfies, it's my birthday and it would mean a lot to me if yall could share and possibly donate anything, even just cents to either of the two charities above.

American news usually flood this site but Hungary and its queer citizens need all the publicity we can get right now ❤️

From the TOS episode Elaan of Troius (discarded scene, of course, unfortunately).

The Spock and Uhura friendship needed more screentime, if you ask me

How pretty is the Vulcan lyre?

I hope all my followers know, by now, that Autism Speaks is a eugenics organization.

(I'm not censoring the organization's name, in hopes that this post will reach beyond the Disability Rights community).

Now that it's April, you are going to see a lot of fundraising campaigns for A.S.. If you really want to make life better for autistic people, I suggest donating to the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, instead:

Time for one of those perennial, seasonal, reblogs.

Maybe we can do for Autism Speaks what we're doing for Tesla, these days. Spread the word as far as you can among your neurotypical acquaintances.

Librarians have a bone to pick with President Donald Trump.

On Monday, the Institute of Museum and Library Services placed its entire staff on administrative leave at the Trump administration’s behest ― a move that comes two weeks after the president proposed eliminating the IMLS as part of his ongoing efforts to slash the federal government’s workforce and funding.

That matters to local librarians because the majority of libraries’ federal funding comes from the IMLS. Of the agency’s $290 million budget, about $160 million goes directly to the nation’s libraries, where it’s used to develop literacy programs, workforce training and civic engagement initiatives. Museums and archives get a cut of IMLS funding, too.

As The New York Times reports,the IMLS ― which employs roughly 70 people ― also provides competitive grants directly to libraries of various type: Recently, that’s included things like $250,000 to the Seattle Public Library to support teen mental health and $150,000 to the University of South Florida to develop library resources for autistic patrons.

The American Library Association called the proposed budget cuts “short-sighted” and an “assault” by the Trump administration that would be deeply felt throughout local communities.

“By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration’s executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer,” it said.

Wisconsin