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Costume Inspiration - Gator Days Transcript Panel 1 Gustopher and Douglas are meeting up to go Trick-or-Treating. Gustopher sees that Douglas has decided to go as the classic ghost for Halloween. Various spooky things are happening in a house in the background. There are two mysterious figures on the second floor with a spider above them. And demonic entity also appears to have a plate full of eyeballs as a bat watches from above. I hear they're full of protein. Gustopher: DOUGLAS! Great costume! Douglas: Thanks. Panel 2 Douglas poses in his costume. It's just a simple sheet with eye and arm holes cut out but it's effective. I'd give it four out of five rocks. Douglas explains his inspiration for the costume. Douglas: I decided to be a ghost. It represents my fear of never truly being seen and my hope to be remembered. Panel 3 Gustopher stands in his own costume. He is wearing the same taco costume he wore last year. He begins to contemplate his inspiration for such a costume. Thankfully, the house behind him does not have anything too spooky in it. Just a cat looking at what's going on outside. Panel 4 Gustopher carefully chooses his words and explains his inspiration for his fine taco costume. Gustopher: I'm a taco because I like tacos. The cat in the window appears to be doing something. Smiling? And shadowy tendrils are erupting beneath the cat. Okay, I'm sorry. This is too spooky. The eyeballs were bad enough. I'm leaving.

Costume Inspiration - Gator Days

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop: Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop) Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller) Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made) Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie) Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

The Smiling God poster has a blue sky, which makes up the Smiling God's face. In the blue are two eyes with a rainbow shining out where the eyelashes would be. A blue nose and then a mouth, in the same rainbow colors as the eyes and eyelashes which is open, pearly white teach showing with a tongue. Below and covering the bottom part of the mouth are mountains in the distance. Then a desert with a few rocks and cactus. Two black silhouettes of a man and woman holding hands are walking toward the Smiling God. Below this in small script are the words "Welcome to" and below this in big block letters is "Night Vale."

The Smiling God welcomes you.

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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is watching Green leave for a costume party, all donned up in a suit and a mask. Blue: Have fun at the party! Green: I will! See you tomorrow! Now alone, Blue looks around himself. Blue, thinking: Huh. I've got the whole place all to myself. I can do whatever I want. Blue proceeds to sit on his computer, quietly playing videogames, and then going to bed at 9 pm.

If you come across this post, post your sona NOT Smiling.

Does it count if it's post-TF?

#NoelsArt

A drawing of my fursona with cutouts of videogame covers pasted over it for the sake of the meme. The games are: Baroque (PS2), Dragon's Dogma 2, .hack//G.U. Vol.2//Reminisce, Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne, Changed, Dishonored, Ender Magnolia, Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, Ib, Dark Souls 2.

Did the 10 games to know me thingy. I have no idea what conclusions one could draw from this selection

Art by @/tuskito.bsky.social if you wanna check'em out (just take away the slash)

Ready to overdose on sugar

“If you repeatedly use a tool that’s designed to do analytical work for you, it just reduces the brain activity and what some people refer to as the inter region of the brain where that deep thinking would usually occur,” Perry said. “And it’s displacing the growth of that area by offloading the cognitive effort onto the tool. So the tool, you might say, is expending the effort and the student isn’t.”

even "AI" skeptics continually repeat the lie that LLMs are "designed to do analytical work" - they are designed to probabilistically determine the next words in a sequence and recognize patterns! which is not the same as an analysis!

A screen shot from the Pokémon Legends ZA game where the player character is dressed in a black jacket, walking through the park area whilst besides an alpha Furfrou with a dandy cut

“No officer, I have no idea how my elderly husband died.”

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to take Jean Paul for his morning walk before I see to my late husband’s affairs.”

#Pokemonlegendsaz #PokemonScreenshot #PokemonMeme

God yes!

Legends za used its longer dev time for the writers to be horny faggots and that is so beautiful 🫶

finished recording :3

legends za analysis/review is out tomorrow!

I love using Emboar's Heat Crash in Legends ZA because it turns enemy Pokémon to dust just by sitting on them

Pokemon legends ZA shiny dragonite mega

Guys… 😭😭

It’s an alpha too 🥺

corbeau from pokemon legends za with (tboy) stubble

hehe

A red t-shirt with a quote on it: Things may seem bad now.

A fitted red t-shirt with a quote on it: Things may seem bad now.

New! Things may seem bad now quote shirt.

Find it here: buff.ly/UA4emMN

Hmmm thinking thinking

I'd like to do a story where Luigi is completely open and honest about liking Bowser and Bowser is absolutely flummoxed by it. I'm not sure if it should be an AU or maybe Luigi magically loses his inhibitions? Maybe memory loss but Luigi still basically knows who he is.

Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape. Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

Pokémon Legends ZA is pandering to me with some of these characters.

And I’m not complaining at all

This doesn't actually happen in my mechfic but we can all Imagine. #bowuigi
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Parental Permission (Part 5) - Gator Days Transcript Panel 1 Gustopher and Douglas have both asked their respective parents if Douglas can go trick-or-treating with Gustopher and his dad. Gustopher is waiting on the swings to hear if Douglas has received permission to go. Gustopher: Did your parents say you can go? Douglas: Yeah, my dad said it's okay. Panel 2 Douglas has a lot on his mind. He received permission but felt rather different from his father's usual parenting style. He's happy he can go but finds it odd. Douglas: But... Dad is always telling me I need to be more mature. Panel 3 Douglas sits down on the swings. They're pretty high up and he's short so it's impressive that he got up with such ease. Please applause. Douglas deserves it. Douglas: Now he's telling me to enjoy being a kid while I can. It's confusing. Panel 4 The sun is setting behind Gustopher and Douglas as they sit and contemplate parents on the swing. The two of them wondering how much parents really have things figured out. Gustopher: Maybe it's confusing for parents too. Douglas: That's the scariest part.

Parental Permission (Part 5) - Gator Days

A light gray background. At the top in black text: Choose Your Membership. Below this are the first three Night Vale Patreon membership tiers, including Blood Pact Scouts ($5), Weird Scout ($10) and Dreadnought Scout ($25) memberships. Each tier has a partial view of that tier's scout patch, the name of the tier, the dollar cost and bullet point list of the benefits under each. At the bottom in a blue-gray box with white text: Gift a membership

Our Patreon is how we pay all the artists behind Night Vale - from our writers to our voice artists to our sound designer to the illustration for every episode. This show could not exist without our patrons.

If you are not yet a Patreon supporter, please consider joining: buff.ly/QhrYXM6

Oh my god yes yes yes yes yes !!!!!!

there's a new boss in town, haven't you heard? the streets call him Le Papa. some call him the drift king
@rtgame.bsky.social

#plza #pokemonza #art #rtgamefanart #rtgame

Nothing more fun than a bank appointment taking so long because system is slow and the teller I’m with just being quiet throughout and giving me heart palpitations worrying what’s wrong.

Made worse that I had planned to stop by a place but now it’s closed so fun. 🙃

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

Autumn sitting on the steps of a gazebo in the park, waiting

ON SHELVES NOW!

THE OCTOBER GIRL Book One is arriving in a bunch of comic shops today. If you're heading to your local store and you haven't picked it up already, I'd love it if you could take a look! I'm really proud of it.

#TheOctoberGirl
#NewComicBookDay
#LocalComicShop

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Completely mixing up the sir’s name despite calling him family.

Wow, these royals truly are bad. Bowser should burn the place and serve the fried chicken