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When my spouse and I were getting married, we were looking at sites selling masculine rings with fossils and wood and stuff, and a lot of it was really cool, but all the border art was stuff like cabins and whisky barrels and hatchets like they were embarrassed to be selling jewelry

John Sibbick's art of the dinosaur baryonyx.

Sibbick's cover to Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader from 1987

Watching some videos on old paleoart and a familiar name showed up: John Sibbick.

I didn't realise that the guy I knew best from illustrating the cover of Rogue Trader was also a massively influential artist of prehistoric animals. That is a fact that makes me smile.

I still have my Hot Topic "The Crow" and "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" T-shirts buried in the back of my closet

it was so radically tubular to the extreme

They're literally too stupid to mock.

Reconstruction of sacabambaspis, an extinct jawless fish from the Ordovician period. It looks very goofy and is my friend

I’ve been sick all day and asleep for like 15 hours but I feel like bringing back sacabambaspis would heal this nation

Sketchy drawing of two boys in a run-down room on newsprint

I drew this picture of baby Jack Kelly and baby Crutchie at the Refuge as a NEWSIES prop

I made other Jack refuge sketches but I forgor to take pics before I handed them off

the thing about this that's always wild to me is that I was one of the kids who learned cursive in school. in fact, every handwritten assignment I handed in from the 4th to the 8th grade was written in cursive

& then they stopped making me write in cursive in 9th grade and I never did again

An overhead shot of a woman laying in a bed with two side tables on either side with various items on them (phone, nintendo switch, meds, water, lamp). Her hair is strewn out messily across her pillow and she is looking wide-eyed and scared, pulling the sheets up to her chest with one hand and gripping her chest with the other. The room is dimly lit, with many jagged, tentacle-like shadows creeping in towards her from all sides.

Spooky commission // 2022

I mean, even then I feel like they should've taken the jackets off before stepping out for a smoke, just way too much potential for misunderstanding

(I did once have to stop my spouse from committing aggravated assault against a couple community theater actors by pointing out they were walking toward a marquee for The Sound of Music)

that seems to be reading a good bit into a poll that's 44% "no opinion"

he's a left-wing Democrat, he's supposed to be getting demonized by Fox News

anyone whose opinion is going to be swayed by Fox News is always going to hate a left-wing Democrat and anyone who might decide they like a left-wing Democrat sees hate from Fox News as an endorsement

American Vandal is still one of the best things ever made

not many people can pull of that level of balancing act between "exploration and interrogation of true crime as a concept, the bad and the good" and "dick jokes"

Shibari Vampire 1

Shibari Vampire Part 1: Don’t Remove the Gag

This months Patreon Palette trio

I dunno I'm willing to consider the possibility that Rob Schneider is actually that dumb

My favorite horror-comedy apocalypse with a twist commenting on the cultural fantasy of the end of the world and featuring the Goliath bird-eating spider to be released by an internet comedian to come out in 2012 (a surprisingly crowded field)

It succeeds at being the kind of movie that it was trying to be

no, that's the job of a stenographer

that's like the whole thing though

you try to avoid killing people for both moral and practical reasons, but sometimes shit happens or you blow a Frenzy check, you're probably not gonna not kill people but you want to keep it to a reasonable minimum

it's a genuinely great film, about the semi-autobiographical story of a boy and his little sister in Japan during and after WWII

it is a brutal film, and I'm one of many people who's glad to have seen it once and doesn't need to again

pure in their ignorance, as Adam before he tasted the Apple

only they're talking about everyone who lives more than an hour from a highway or works retail

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I feel like the leader of the Dems' legislative branch refusing to nominate the party's primary winner in his home district is a bigger problem for coalition building than people on social media criticizing party leadership for refusing to nominate the party's primary winner in his home district

Art by • Mark Riddick

HEY NOW

like, when the party leader won't pick a side in the race at his home district between "guy who handily won the primary" vs "guy who resigned thew Governorship in disgrace & tried to make a comeback & got his ass beat and is running on GenAI ads based around gutter racism"

just seems bad to me

Two embroidery hoops. One is made with primarily blue and white fabric to look like the Female Cenobite holding a large serrated knife; Wires are woven into the image to look like they're holding the wound on her neck open The second hoop uses primarily red and white fabric to look like Pinhead. Metal pins are stuck into the image

Two Goth Friends, courtesy of @grouponlobotomy.bsky.social

they also seemed to swing between "oh Donald's just saying that" (a position shared by a depressing percentage of political punditry) and the less open but definitely present "he bailed us out last time that gravy train's coming our way again" (which he still might, but no sign of it this time)