the Driveby Calligrapher

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

I appreciate the sentiment here, but it is only honest to say that the United States will never be the same again. The U.S. that led the world in scientific research in so many disciplines is done. It may be possible someday for some to be rebuilt, but why would any other country trust us again?

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

This goes as far back as you can prove it!

I don't qualify because unfortunately my ancestors are from pretty much everywhere in the British Empire except Canada lol

Yes

The algorithm has revealed to me that every single subculture you can imagine has its own DashCon

And they all basically follow the same script, reliable as the sunrise

ads are wild- imagine you're just walking down the street living your life and some dude starts yelling at you about how many grams of protein are in his sandwich

We all love trying to convince people to like but we like, but it’s not a given that other people will like your darlings- enjoy them regardless

Notably it’s like. A show with sex but it doesn’t really have much more than like. Game of thrones. It was so good.

Having fun at arisia but I will say. Notably lower rate of calligraphable quotable moments vs other conventions I have been at, lol. Problem unique to me.

Commenting on the tendency to fill-heart adore whatever you’re currently watching.

@jzweston.bsky.social on guilty pleasures in general and legends of tomorrow in specific

Asked @ceciliatan.com what quote they wanted from their new book, and this is the very funny choice they picked. Happy new book!
(You too can have a quote from your book if we chat)

Another rule by Anne- who made the map? Who is using the map? Is it diagetic or non-diagetic? What is it trying to convey? What is it hiding

From Roxanne Reddington-Wilde, answering a question about how to avoid getting too caught up in the details of the maps of your universe.

Anne E. G. Nydam with an important rule of mapmaking — it’s totally fine to deviate from real geographical rules, but you should generally be doing it intentionally

Kevin Turausky talking about the functions of maps- maps are for conveying information, and we often straighten out and simplify roads

At the night market I did lots of random calligraphy for people, but I didn’t get photos of most of them- did get a photo of this piece of wisdom. Don’t kneecap yourself or your friends.

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.

Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

@ceciliatan.com is as we all know very moderate

Jess Cameron talking about drawing comics

@wiswell.bsky.social’s “Someone you can build a nest in” is getting very deserved flowers in the essentialism panel as a great example of work that undercuts essentialism!

Never been before but excited to try arisia out and see folks!

I’m simply a girl who remembered to bring everything to arisia EXCEPT my blank paper notebook. That I need to be able to do calligraphy, lmao.

that's so PRETTY

Down on my knees begging writers to talk to a single romance readers before churning out yet another absolutely unhinged Heated Rivalry take

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.

And with advice on writing- don’t leave your writing as it starts, think about how cool it could be. Don’t leave it at the magikarp stage. Do not fear the edit, embrace the edit.

“Lady knights are the answer to the tradwife. If we’re going to dress up and act like these histories that never happened are things that we’re going to get again, we might as well do the one where we get a sword”