Kathleen Jacques

...oh my god, and this was how I found out there was a mass shooting here in BC today? seeing the story on Al Jazeera while reading about international war crimes, somehow before seeing anything local about it

what the fuck, what the fuck, it’s like every day this year there’s something new in the running for the most evil things i’ve ever heard of

from a formal perspective, i think something going on here is: to get this wild mangling in simplified icon style to instantly READ as a human hand, you gotta actually... understand drawing/referencing hands. so we get this like odd grace in the proportions and angles of thumb and wrist and so on

there's like a strange elegance to the mangled pinch point hand. insisting if it's going to hell, it's going with a little flair in the pose

right, right, and there’s always this tension about motive like…oh, is it that this character personally Wants to be destroyed or consumed, or are they simply a traitor selling out their kin? or both, possibly

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

also, of course. to confirm. in my mind these CRTs are a couple of lesbians

thank you! I’m so glad you liked it!

this is also the first really finished drawing I’ve done in ages, so that felt really nice! but also: another mood here is sometimes you’re Still Alive in a static & test pattern way, for yourself and whoever you’re standing with and holding onto, rather than displaying productivity & entertainment

I hate to see wasteful disposable stuff & planned obsolescence, so i have this affection for clunky old things that HAVE managed to last, and the acts of care that have kept them around and running. i like things that Are repairable. i like ownership rather than subscriptions etc out of yr control

I find the surveillance, data-collecting and constant connectivity of modern devices frankly pretty creepy and oppressive, and there’s more and more appeal to self-contained “dumb” objects. there’s an honesty and clarity to tactile controls and physical connections, and

I’ve also spent the past year getting back into retro devices and physical media for fun in a big way, and had to sit with: what is it that I actually like and value about all of this, that’s not just reactionary nostalgia about liking Familiar Stuff From When I Was A Kid? I think it’s a few things:

Illustration of two women with retro CRT TV heads with static and test patterns. They’re holding hands, and there’s a bunch of junk like cords and screwdrivers and tape on the ground. Text: “Another Year, And We’re Still Alive”

The card from the previous image, unfolded to show a 2026 calendar on the back

the card from the previous image, showing how it folds in half like a card. all of these are photographed on a blue cutting mat.

So, I made new year 2026 cards! I held off on posting this until most of the people i personally gave/sent one to got to see it in print. 3 ink Risograph print on brown kraft, and this is my mood going into the year: yeah, older and sort of broken, but stubborn as hell about resilience and repair

Wait, did this work? Did you show the author photo that’s in there?? honestly, if such a thing doesn’t count as an ID, it SHOULD

black cat resting her sleepy little head on white cat

oh, to be a cat resting my sleepy little head on the other cat’s butt

a black cat and a white cat cuddled together

hi, girls

Nice! I’ve only been playing this for a few days, and haven’t seen everything yet (I only fought Chronos for the first time last night, and haven’t made it past halfway on the surface path, i think), and I love how clear it is that there’s still a LOT to unlock, and bigger challenges!

Right!! I was so pleased when I realized there are multiple songs, and each character's part affects both the music and the fight!

scylla...i'm your biggest fan. you can drag me to a watery grave with the lure of siren songs, it's fine

I got Hades 2 for christmas, so that's what I'm obsessed with this week. It's really good! And you know what, if you were to guess my favorite boss fight in this just based on what my general deal is, you'd probably be right

once again spent all week adoring the christmas boy

good news for christmas, my family got me this photo of the cats in mug form!

we are both cis women and obviously that was going to be the baby jesus

Merry Christmas from my parents house in my hometown, I woke up from a dream where a female friend from high school was pregnant and I wasn’t sure if it was mine

right, right, I could have vividly described the scarecrow getting a goat head, but didn’t remember the main plot where the villain was a Bad Wolf. that’s ten thousand cartoons

side note, our family has been into animation history as far back as I can remember, which maybe gives an occasional vampire vibe to things like “oh, I sort of remember seeing this cartoon when I was younger” and it’s from like 1929

really, I think the reason why it was so elusive WAS, counterintuitively, the creepy specificity of “head replaced by goat head”. we remembered almost nothing else.

holiday miracle, my sister managed to find the unsettling half-remembered 1930s cartoon that somehow defeated our attempts to identify it for years

Wait, wait, this…isn’t common? The thing I’ve also been doing pretty much all along?

comic. a person sits at a computer. Text: I got an email the other week

comic. a person sits at a computer. Text: School District in Arkansas banned JO: An Adaptation of LIttle Women (Sort Of), Good afternoon Kathleen,...

text: In it was a link to an article where a man in another country, in a place I have never visited, who does not know me, calls me a [censored] and sinister and a [censored] because 'JO' features a lesbian protagonist.

comic: the image zooms out and the background darkens as the person at the computer says "oh." text: I'm ashamed to admit that I cried. That reading this made me feel scared & small & alone. I felt paralyzed.

Some thoughts on some things I've been dealing with lately. 1/6