i am still in absolute disbelief that i managed to capture this moment

i have the opposite of worldbuilder's disease where every time i try to do the fun "compendium of cultural and zoological details from another planet/fantasy world/whatever" thing i end up fixating on the ways those details could instead be used as metaphor in a 30 page long standalone comic about grief

"May I interest you in some odd Chinese dogs from Rednote "

the fact. that i can't have sources and additional images of these dogs is driving me to insanity, every single one of them is so good, and so deserving of their own post oh my god

march - ferocious unicorn

Life sim that does the "sex scene as a reward for maxing out the Friendship Meter" thing, except the sex breakpoint is in a completely different and seemingly random place for each prospective partner. There's one NPC where the sex scene is the one heart event, but it takes until three hearts to learn their name.

and another thing. Jaime is described as slightly shorter than Brienne (6”6-ish) so he’s around 6”4 AND Jaime and Cersei are always described as Fantasy Identical twins ie basically genderbent versions of each other rather than regular fraternal twins, therefore Cersei is 6”4. No one thinks it notable from a distance bc she was always standing around Robert or Sandor and now The Mountain but Cersei Lannister is in fact 6”4

money isn't "fake" it's based on the gestalt of knowledge of all economic mechanisms, which is way scarier.

Blue-headed Quail Dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala), family Columbidae, order Columbiformes, Cuba

photograph by Yung Niem

Wallace’s Flying Frogs (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), family Rhacophoridae, found in SE Asia

photographs by Virescence and Rushenb 

Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, South Africa

photograph by Merlin Wilsenach

i had to draw her she's so nostalgic

god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world

I could have made a killing as a psychic, but noooo I have to feel bad about lying to people ugh

I think abt this all the time because the thing is, evil rich people truly believe that they’re geniuses who have discovered a way to make money that the rest of us dummies haven’t…but the truth is that they are just willing to do evil shit that everyone else would prefer to not to because we have standards

When I attended my graduate school job fair, Raytheon (unprompted, hearing me say my degree at the next table) offered me $230,000/yr to come work for them. That was their opening offer after hearing nothing more than my degree, in a city with a very low cost of living. The only catch was that the job was working on vision systems for missiles. (i.e. those 'targeted' missiles which kill a ton of civilians as collateral or intentional damage)

I ended up taking an $85,000/yr job as an optical research scientist at Corning instead.

It is an odd feeling, having a price put on your soul. I'd be a millionaire with a house by my mid-30s if I'd accepted that. And the offer is still open, in fact I'd have an even more generous one waiting for me with the skills I have now.

In all seriousness, if you have the right skillset, you can actually sell your soul. This very week. You will live in comfort and moderate luxury for all your days. Two of my family members did that work decades ago, until they couldn't stomach it any longer, and it set up the rest of their lives.

But I promise you, it's not worth it. It's been almost 50 years for one of them and it still haunts him. He says the worst part was the way they (him included) talked about human lives as things. Numbers on a spreadsheet, sterile corporate jargon in meetings. A lifetime later and you can still see it in his eyes when he talks about it.

You can't take it back, treating humans like things.

A Patience Flask. The golden detailing has flaked over generations, yet you feel oddly compelled to avoid revealing its contents. Maybe tomorrow.

(my secret lore is revealed…………..)

Fav bit of news today is that the corporate Adobe account on bsky made their first post and almost immediately deleted it bc artists piled up on them and were absolutely RUTHLESS. I love violence and revenge

A damaged lying Buddhist statue is pictured inside a pagoda following an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, April 3, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer