R/L Monroe

Hello everyone!
Today starts the LAST WEEK of the 3rd SICKO SELECTION, where 25 perverts came together (ha) to make a sale of horny prose, comics, and art books just for 25 bucks! I personally put together a two part bundle of The Temptations of Father Basil. Check it out!

itch.io/b/3393/sicko...

what god made him shark

or don't, ngl I hate both cultures regardless so continue to live in the fuckhead thunderdome if it matters that much to you

americans consider being maybe a milligram less ghoulish about british transphobia. it's giving "at least we don't have 30 mass shootings a year". imagine hypothetically that you cared at all about the issue beyond a smug cross atlantic gotcha.

As long as AI stays exactly like this, stops evaporating all the water out of the oceans, and loses the trillions of misguided investment, I regret to say that I now love it.

diagram of a cycle of events leading to perpetrators of abuse being unchallenged in their communities. with some cool planets in the middle.

happy DV awareness month !
I’ve been asked about this so much recently I made a diagram. with planets in it !!

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

WAH

Treat yourself to devilish delights this Halloween! Lee single handedly raised my standards for what I consider “good” writing, you can’t miss with him

OPENING PREORDERS ONE MORE TIME
L҉i҉n҉k҉ i҉n҉ b҉i҉o҉

Go ahead and steal it, i can always make more

the phantom thief as artist is instantly way more interesting to me as a foundation for both philosophy and craft than 'painting beautiful portraits' lmfao. but go off.

it's so funny how people post shit like that as if the exact concept "my art is theft of your sacred concept of art" hasn't been explored to death by influential working artists for decades

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Daughter (3) told me for Halloween she wants to be Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” and when I pointed out that she’d be aestheticizing her own politics she countered that to watch passively is to already join the ritual

with a year or two to ruminate on it, I think we all got got by the jangling keys. AI isn't about labour because nothing is about labour. the workforce has not been about labour for centuries. we actively need to make work about labour before we can even begin to challenge AI abuses on that front.

like man I fucking wish it could do all that. I quit a salaried job to get out of unnecessary Teams meetings.

forcing AI into every industry from the top down, ignoring employees who say "this is unfit for purpose, it's creating more work for me", meanwhile if it actually worked and industries were adopting it from the bottom up, the line from management would be "lazy kids don't want to work any more"

is anyone truly buying all these plushies being advertised every day to “fund these indie animated pilots” lmfao. is this really what this has all come to. must animation be paid for with dollars made from mass produced merch of guys i’ve seen for one second. surely there is another way man

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

practicing ethical monogamy

and then you find or make the space to actually get to work again, and you spend a long time wracked by guilt because you can't work on every thing at the same time and catching up on one necessarily means neglecting the others. it never ends.

when a bunch of shit happens back to back that makes it either logistically or psychologically impossible to work on your various projects, you spend a long time wracked by guilt and thinking about how great it's going to be when you can focus for real and fire all those things out again

there are naturally larger gaps in the Painterly palette for some hues than others, but I hope to fill those over time with discrete packs focused on specific moods/landscapes. I figured as a starting point mapmakers always always need more greens browns and greys.

The colourblind pack WILL ALSO INCLUDE a reference key for the full Painterly pack so that GMs who can't see the full spectrum will be able to use it with confidence. I regret that I only recognised the usability gap in the toolset after I'd already packed everything, but we can iterate.

I am also working on a colourblind pack to give away for free, because ttrpgs drastically drastically need better accessibility toolsets for players and GMs, but that is going to take a little longer to cook because I need to make sure it really serves its purpose first.