You couldn’t publish this today.

You’d have to hide it under seven layers of metaphor.

Credit to Ann Nocenti who has always been an import voice in comics.

Here's the rest of the panels

Autism and loud noise

I recite this to myself every time I refrain from making a stupid purchase

“Babel” by Cildo Meireles (2001)

Tags courtesy of @a-kind-of-merry-war that really explain this artwork!

"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.

Gonna throw in my recommendation for Dickinsonia, delightful ocean flatguys:

Sandgrouse (Pterocliformes) order / Pteroclidae family

My mom got herself a hot tub this year.

She loves her hot tub. Me, on the other hand, I am now convinced that there is no benefit conferred by the hot tub that outweighs the absolute clown show associated with every aspect of the hot tub. Ignoring for a moment, the fact that you now have to maintain and heat and chemically balance your own water feature, just appreciate the exploits of my mother attempting to use the damn thing.

To set the scene, my parents house is in an area far less rural than mine but there is still enough tree cover and elbow room for discretion so standard practice is hopping in the tub naked. It is also, cold as balls at the moment, somewhere around zero Fahrenheit with intermittent snow. The hot tub is underneath the deck so it's not being snowed on but you can still see out to the winter wonderland that's cold as balls. We have set wooden planks that run from the door to the hot tub and keep these swept of snow that drifts in as to protect bare feet. It is also worth noting that the hot tub cover opens with one hand from the inside and it is super simple and easy to do.

(We also set up a cold plunge tub, but right now it is a large brick of ice in a bucket due to the aforementioned cold as balls thing.)

So it's dark because the sun goes down at like 2:30 these days. Mom prances on out there with her towel and nothing else. Crucially, she has left behind her shoes, her glasses, and her brain, because you don't need those for hot tubbing. She elects to open the hot tub cover in the most convoluted way imaginable, leaving the safety of our nicely swept boardwalk to fumble around in the snow barefoot in a towel. This understandably involves some squealing. Getting into the tub involves more squealing because if you've ever gone from ice to hot water, that shit stings.

But she gets her hot soak and shes vibing enjoying the bubbles and the serenity of softly drifting snowflakes sparkling in the inky black night.

Then she has to get out. And get her towel which, rather than hanging on the conveniently accessible hook, is laying on the cold plunge tub where she left it.

If you've been keeping track, my mother, the magnificent woman that she is, is currently blind, buckass naked, barefoot, and soaking wet. So she climbs out of the tub, tries to avoid the icy patch on the boardwalk from dripping wet bodies, fails, promptly biffs it on the step, and stumbles into the snow, screeching. With her tits out, no towel, a possible strained groin muscle and frozen hair she looks over and realizes she's left her zone of carefully shielded discretion and is now looking directly into her neighbors window. While naked and screaming. (👋 Hi Don.)

Personally, I would have called it there, admitted defeat and gone inside. But mom loves her hot tub. So she, naked, blind, soaking wet, barefoot, in the snow, with frozen hair and a strained groin muscle, spewing profanity, dances around the hot tub to close the damn cover, with an audience. (Sorry Don)

I and the rest of my family, are inside, listening to a series of thuds, crashes, and curses, quickly building in vehemence. Mom comes back in, with her hard won towel, looking less like she came out of a spa and more like she won a fight

And she'll tell anyone who will listen about how much she loves her hot tub and how pleased she is with how simple and relaxing and stress free it is.

[It's a -] Dead cow! Exactly. Or more specifically, a dead 900 pound Holstein. It's body completely drained of blood. THE X-FILES, 'Bad Blood'

https://twitter.com/vagina_museum/status/1628046312275935232

YEAH

Highlighting that this is “considered quite rare” but in actuality we have absolutely no idea how common this, or indeed a great many variants in sexual development, are. Because if it’s not visible from the outside then we only learn about it if doctors (or coroners) go looking, and doctors only go looking if it’s causing a problem.

May, 2023

This was a project I made for school.

The project was to create a sculpture of a chimera (a mix of at least 2 creatures, real or not). So, I mixed a dragon and a pig.

I called it “ Piggy Nocturne”. ( “Piggy” for pig, and “Nocturne” as in nocturnal in french. Also, the design reminded me of Thoothless, so I named to something similar to the name of his species in french “Fury Nocture”.)

Also, here’s a drawing I made in january, 2024 of it.

soon may the wellerman come

your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

there’s absolutely something to be said about ‘booktok’ books being largely wattpad quality written erotica i’m certainly not reading them however having seen a guy on tiktok make a video like ‘all the women in your life are READING PORN’ about a book he picked up and read in his FEMALE FRIEND’S HOUSE in a tone of scandalised horror and disgust i actually don’t think men should be making those criticisms. he said he picked it up expecting a romance and was horrified it was GOONER SHIT he said specifically like ‘who are you getting your pussy wet FOR??’ in a tone of revulsion. idk man im not sure shes the weird one. i kind of wish you were dead

"a lot of books that are successful on booktok are not very good" and "people can read what they want and we need to stop being so fucking weird about women enjoying erotica" are both correct statements