Darc Sowers

Dickens was a wordy mother, but he had nothing on Hugo. 🤣

Hugo: ”…and that’s the history of the Battle of Waterloo.”

Me: “Okaaaay.” [goes back to reading]

Hugo [later, in the middle of a tense scene]: “Now, about the sewers of Paris—“

Me: “HUGO!”

I’ve been enjoying this new reading app, though it‘s made me realize just how slow a reader (as in pages per hour) I am at times. Thanks dyslexia. 🤪

“wife mad at you? DEI”

he’s still got it, folks

I’m not going to lie, there’s a tiny part of me that wants to see them pull this third term shit in a way that lets Trump run against Obama the way he always wanted to and get absolutely obliterated

This is why I regularly let people know how awesome I think they are.

We often think that awesome people must naturally know they’re awesome, but they don’t. And letting them know could be the little push that they really needed that day.

Looks like they started on another one in the meantime. 🦫

Seven months later the little bugger came back to finish what they started… with one hell of a crash!

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Our state: “It’s time for gun hunting season!”

Our neighbors:

Problem solved 🤝

Tickets at charlieberens.com/tour

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Next month's book order has been submitted and loaded into the catalog! There'll be some happy teens soon.

YouTube video by Matt Sowers Halloween 2025

Halloween decorations are up. We'll get another video/pics once it starts to get dark so the lights are all on.

youtu.be/mwYgRDoRL48

[text only] The gulf of meaning between the terms "horse play" and "pony play" illustrates why expecting your culture's translation of another's ancient texts to be 100% true to their original intent is dangerous and probably not a good idea.

It's important to remember that your inner child has been raised by the two wolves inside you.

He didn't wait for consent, what a shocker!

Les Physz FoxTrot by Bill Amend | October 20, 2013

A niche comic for physics nerds and Les Mis fans from Oct 2013...

Lupin gang needs YOU. Let's rob The Louvre together.

Reminiscin’ this’n that and havin’ such a good time. Oo-De-Lally, Oo-De-Lally golly what a day.

Well, due to the universe being shitty to us personally (again), we will not be able to attend PAX Unplugged this year. If anyone wants to purchase our 3 day passes, please drop me a DM.

A pen and ink/marker drawing of Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings movies as "YOLO Swaggins" with a sideways baseball cap, slitted sunglasses, a big gold chain with "YOLO" on it, and a pot leaf clasp holding his cloak.

A drawing of YOLO Swaggins from this day in 2018

Mausoleum fogger test tonight

Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.

I'll be 100% honest i simply could not decide if he was going to be holding a big pepper or a big gourd while i was drawing this so it came out something kind of in between but ultimately leaning towards gourd

Brother Herbert at it again with the weird gourds

cartoon by Ellis Rosen. Set in a gloomy bookshop "The madman who wrote this dedicated himself to the dark arts, despite knowing perfectly well that all the real money is in YA"

Cartoon for all the writers I follow here from the inestimable Ellis Rosen :) www.facebook.com/EllisJRosen

Bart Nouveau - as requested by Andrew Keys

Yep, juggling cutting boards is apparently not a skill I possess. 🤣 I’m doing much better today. Thank you! 💖

It’s spooky season!
Here’s some art I did last year of my partner and I dressed as Beetlejuice and Lydia! ❤️

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

Albedo covers by stevegallacci As I've been struck by the automatic fault generator, the secret connection between my bank and the major appliances in the house t ...

Steve Gallacci, old school furry artist (a LOT of you wouldn't be here without his work) is having a spot of bother due to an appliance cascade failure. He's selling off some things to cover the cost, which you can find referenced in the following FA post. Spread it around.

Thank goodness! There’s no time for a concussion, we’ve got skeletons to set up!