Laura

how to feels to make art:

I feel that lol 💗. So I've been doing colour/material studies. Digitally painting Christmas ornaments - the round shiny ones. orb time? 😉

Trying to figure out how to carry all the grocery bags into the house in one trip

Adorable! Saw the pics before the caption and assumed you made them 😆🎄. I mean you've got the skillset; you could always craft matching ornaments or something

love to see pigeons 🕊️ and to point and say "pigeon" (french accent, to reflect the word's origin)

Yes! When I saw my nephew's homework I was *delighted*; they learn the efficient, sensible way from the start now

Indy the dog, looking happy and outdoorsy in a green knit sweater at the christmas tree farm

Indy the dog, looking happy and outdoorsy in a green knit sweater at the christmas tree farm

picking out a tree

😭 how's he so pure?! cosmically perfect creature 💖✨

peak output of humanity- no, reality. 14 billion years, and not a second wasted. experts agree, across all fields and nations, and headlines read: “INDY – Culmination of the Universe”

I'm terrified this is what my writing sounds like 😭 what if my friends are just humouring me; how would I knowww

Every trans person who is on a knife edge. On one side is employment for another day. On the other is whether a random transphobe posts "Ick, gross, trans person" with your picture and employer name, and it goes viral. You will get fired, from pretty much any company, if that happens to you.

and to be clear, this would be excellent content

*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

Back in 2016 Humble was literally the only mainstream storefront willing to carry Ladykiller as an 18+ game, which I thought was courageous of them and helped push other platforms. Seeing how far they've fallen since then in making this deeply embarrassing decision is really painful to see

By that metric, my runner up:

Never clean a bathroom again! When it gets dirty, just move to a new one

Plants in the genus Chorizema have stunning flowers. Nearly all the members of this genus are endemic to Western Australia. Like this one seen in Albany in the southwest of WA, which I think is Chorizema glycinifolium.

#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature #inaturalist #Fabaceae

being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate

i’ll never understand why public transit haters discourage use of public transit and want to defund it. if less people use cars the roads will have less traffic and you’ll get to where you want faster with your own car. stupid people

what a Creature 😮 like a piglet that's also a hedgehog 💗

Love the colour palette! The deep teal looks great on the black cats; I gotta try that

I say this all the time! Writing is an extension of thinking. And thinking is an extension of self 💗

Digital illustration of the Grinch working customer service. He's drawn in a loose sketchy style, resembling a low-effort How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The Grinch stands behind the counter, slouching and scowling. He wears an eyebrow piercing, a nametag that says GRINCH, and a T-shirt that says "GAY APPAREL" (corporate-mandated holiday t-shirt). The store is obnoxiously decked out for Christmas, with a Santa-themed maneki-neko, fully decorated Christmas tree, and a garland of red tinsel along the ceiling. Even the point-of-sale system on the counter has festive stickers behind the monitor. A speaker blasts Christmas music, specifically Cliff Richard's "Mistletoe and Wine". The lyrics read "...Chriiiistmas time.../...Mistletoe and wine...". Sparkles and music notes decorate the scene.

Character concept: Millennial Grinch. He hates Christmas because he works retail.

He attempts to sabotage the store on Christmas Eve. Because FUCK consumers. But instead, he accidentally starts a strike and becomes a labour hero. He finds a community, heart grows three sizes etc

#grinch #art

This is insane shit. Yesterday when I saw that Open AI response to the suicide was to victim blame, I really thought that would be the lowest shit. But here, Google acknowledges AI is bad for kids but FUCK IT deal with it, parents. Trash company. They don't need to do this shit.

Photo of my medium haired black and white kitten marcel looking stunned by some unexpected news.

Poor Marcel has just found out that he was adopted by vegans so he won't get any leftover turkey. (don't worry, like most vegans we do not feed our cats vegan cat food. He'll get plenty of churu and the fancy Tiki Cat and Weruva flavors he loves)

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA

The original candidate for DC Comics' first headlining black superhero was a character called the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress. Comics historian Don Markstein later described the character as "an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all"

i semi-regularly think about this concept and way of describing it and crack up. absurd

I've followed this crowd for a while (in horror) but I was still shocked by the article - how can you make SO MUCH money on freebirth?? It's the opposite of a product!

The subtext of the Torre piece on her is she was (nonsexually) abused by the same coach, internalized it as what it takes to become a champion, failed miserably anyway, and took it all out on the trans woman for existing.