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I am being EATEN ALIVE by GRIEF but at least I know I am STILL ALIVE!

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Astrology doesn't seem to work.

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I want to tell a story to the artists and would-be artists out there.

When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It's the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I'm proud of today.

I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-

I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I'd lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.

The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said "Oh I'm so sorry."

Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.

So don't forget to draw from observation, and remember that humans aren't mass produced mannequins. Delight in our variation. Because it's supposed to be there.

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THERE'S MAIL NEWSPAPERS NOW?!

I really wish that the actual newspapers would adopt this model.

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THERE'S MAIL NEWSPAPERS NOW?!

I really wish that the actual newspapers would adopt this model.

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Check out the bonus panel on the site!

SMBC ◆ PATREON ◆ INSTAGRAM ◆ BLUESKY ◆ STORE

Buy this comic as a print!

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“Specifically, Ferguson wrote, Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, speaking on MSNBC, laid out a dream of Americans trapped forever in the manufacturing industry, working in the same factories their parents and grandparents did. “This is the new model, where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,“ said Lutnick. "You know, we let the auto plants go overseas. Right now you should see an auto plant, it’s highly automated but the people — the four, five thousand people who work there — they are trained to take care of those robotic arms, they are trained to keep the air conditioning system.” "There’s nothing wrong with working in a factory, on its face,” wrote Ferguson. “But Lutnick, the son of a college professor and the grandson of a dry-cleaning store owner, is suggesting that millions of people ought to commit to a generational lack of upward mobility under the guise of creating a new class of American labor. What Lutnick is so enthusiastically describing — being bound to the same job in the same industry for decades and decades — is serfdom. And that serfdom won’t even be widely available as automation takes over and the only job left is to watch the robots and make sure they don’t overheat.” In short, he concluded, “Howard Lutnick and Donald Trump view the domestic workforce as a homogenous, voiceless mass happy to live in the dreary mediocrity they’re forced into.””

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‘Serfdom’: Scathing analysis rips Trump admin’s vision of generational labor trap - Raw Story

I wonder sometimes what jobs these people have held, since every manager I’ve worked for viewed workers as interchangeable

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-Anaïs Nin, 1939

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running errands like kurt vonnegut

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"Curve of fatigue" in a frog. Human Physiology. v.3. 1915.

Internet Archive

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Oh, uh. I guess I should mention that I’ve made this thing. Three months after release sounds like a perfect time. Untitled Tile Painter is a quirky little drawing tool that lets you lay down funky geometric Bauhaus-inspired patterns. It’s 50% a useful thing for actual people and 50% me wanting to stretch my UMG muscles on something. It’s also a little bit like a control panel of an alien spaceship, as far as UX goes. Give it a go, if it looks like your kind of thing! It’s entirely free and all generated images are yours to keep and use as you see fit.

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I just want you. Your messy morning hair. Your humming when you’re making breakfast. Your cuddling during thunderstorms. Your hand holding mine as we gaze at the stars. Your good days. Your bad. Your everything. I want you.

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Bank of Sapphire Cold?

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Picture painted by Zdzisław Beksiński, 1979

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“the pope died on easter because—” the pope died on 420. porque la marijuana te vay a matar.

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In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....

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