Crowd scenes in comics: are they a dreary task to fill in, or are they an excuse to take a break from drawing the same six people over and over and draw whatever crazy bullshit comes to mind?
(pencils: Phil Foglio, inks: Tim Sale. Myth Adventures #3, Sept 1984.)
Hey, local folks: I’ve started up a Discord server for queer photographers in and around Vancouver, with photo sharing and discussion and gear discussion (because cameras are cool and that’s okay) and whatnot. It’s very furry-adjacent, but not explicitly furry. https://discord.gg/dEVYdtEQb
New keyboard is here. Latest Magic Keyboard is smaller and lighter than the old one. And a lower angle. It's connected and named ("Harmonious Regard", the old one is "Creator of Beauty") and everything.
I keep doodling this lady who has replaced half her parts with rubber displacer beast parts. BG is the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, photographed by me.
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Originally the clowns weren't even part of NPOL at all, I threw in the idea of having a "Newsclown" pop in with obnoxious summaries and they just kinda snowballed into these horrible paperclip-optimizers who run the whole world. "LLM" wasn't even a thing anyone was saying when we started this comic.
*shares WIP pages of Newsclown recapping the plot in No Pizza On Luna in the Cartoonist Union dscord*
"these pages make my soul hurt"
YESSSS
I wonder how many Chesterton's Fences were taken down to get what we're seeing today.
Finally retiring the Apple Magic Keyboard I've had for I don't know how long, the upper bound on its age is 15 years and the minimum's like... 7, so I guess I can't really complain about it quietly refusing to power on any more. (yes I swapped batteries and cleaned contacts)
It will be replaced with another instance of the same model. I tried getting a cute mechanical keyboard when this one started being flaky but it was a non-starter due to hardwiring a lot of fn-letter combos to light control; I've got Karabiner turning fn+key into cmd-alt-key and have a lot of Illustrator shortcuts that use this.
Awake in the middle of the night and my brain keeps turning over the time I got kicked out of animation school because of a joke one of my friends made. The administrator who booted me wouldn't tell me why. She just said "you know what you did". Turned out she was pissed that Ricky had drawn a candle going out and its smoke going up and clearly spelling "SEX" as an exercise for our FX class, which was taught by an FX supervisor at Disney. She was afraid it would piss him off so she kicked out Ricky and Gabe and me.
It was near the end of the year and I did not get any of the industry placement assistance that was part of the whole deal of the school either.
That sure was some bullshit. I wonder how different the trajectory of my career would have been if not for that? I might have gotten a job at a sane, union place instead of ending up at Spumco.
Oh perhaps I am misremembering this, Genius says the second couplet is “I ain’t the worst that you seen, if you know what I mean”. Which kinda makes sense given that the chorus is basically “cmon just fucking do it”.
Also it says that a lot of people hear it as “back against the WRECKING machine”. Which is entertaining.
Me:
My brain: Can’t you see me standin’ here, I got my back against the record machiiiiine, if you know what I meeeean, if you know what I meeeeeereen; aww, might as well JUMP.
I don’t know what you mean, Mr. Van Halen Lee Roth. What *does* it mean for you to be standing before a jukebox? I did not know what that meant in 198x when you first sang this and the ensuing decades have not shed any light upon this.
I just got a Slack DM from an "agent" with a chart telling me how graphic design jobs have fallen to their lowest in the past decade. Probably due to fucking AI eating the low end. Thanks, AI agent. Way to endear yourself to me.
This fucking future.
Down in the Quarter, there is a crustpunk who has decided that a bright pink carabiner is a great choice for his septum piercing. I am intensely curious as to what lead him to this fashion choice, and deeply disinterested in spending enough time in his presence to learn the details. And would probably regret learning them.
Yay! I cleaned out the MagSafe socket on my Mac with a q-tip and a kleenex and now it is charging again. That's like $50-100 I don't need to spend on a new cable and/or power brick.
Oh no! My Mac's power brick stopped charging it!
Or did it? It turns out to work fine if I use one of the USBC cables lying around.
Is it the USBC-MagSafe cable? Or is it the filthy MagSafe socket on my Mac?
I wonder if I have another USBC-MagSafe cable around the house to test with...
my birthday's coming up soon
(nov 21)
I just had a *very* specific hit to my nostalgia gland when, at 1:40 into the second track on their latest album, Master Boot Record takes an ascending synth lead and does a Rob Hubbard dive-arpeggiation straight out of Monty On The Run.
I am still enjoying having two jingle bells dangling from each nipple so that it looks like I have three nipples through a thin top.
I have added a jingle bell attached to the center bar of the plastic frame that my genitals are folded around a lot of the time now. Now I faintly jingle when I shake my ass as well as my tits. This is good.
I need to go out dancing again soon.
"Echo Weaver" is a pretty good timeloop metroidvania. It and a cold basically ate my entire weekend. This morning I booted it up and did the Final Loop, with all the optional "save side characters from doom" actions.
I might revisit it in a little while and try to find all the collectibles and get the "won the game in the first loop" achievement but that'll have to wait until its developers add a second save slot....
Spent a little longer on the Howarth tribute piece, all I gotta do is finish up Konny (or Czu), I half-assed his caterpiggle body. Gotta vent this sadness first though. Probably by working on a smut commission.