Also maybe this is the year I finally read This Is How You Lose the Time War and want to talk about it. It’s going to be like the Jim Gaffigan bit about finally watching Heat.

PRECISELY! (Thank you I couldn’t pull that character’s name at all.)

We JUST had a cycle of someone posting their rough/beginner/“bad” art and a ton of other artists going “ooh that is challenging, here’s my try” and suggesting ways to tackle it.

I know that’s not the whole Internet but it’s not like everyone is lurking here, waiting to mock anybody for trying.

This was my overriding thought after reading her conversion comic! (I found out about her through an earlier hobbydrama post.)

I think it shows genuine pain (which is why it all stuck with me, probably) but I keep thinking “sure but have you tried noticing how incredible ferns and mushrooms are?”

AAAAAH BROOKE that’s so exciting! CONGRATULATIONS!!

We have the same birthday! And also one that can, I think, be kind of melancholy?

Wishing you a happy, cozy birthday and belated make-up celebration for, like, all of the rest of November (and maybe the rest of 2025 why not).

Hey THANK YOU!

The iridescence!

You’re influencing me to get back into my daily drawing practice.

If you re-teach yourself to paint through only pigeons I will be so happy (and also you could do worse in terms of the colors and textures and shapes they come in).

This is the only and best Ryan Gosling I’ve ever seen.

One of my very favorite things to do is read (or reread) a graphic novel in one sitting. It feels absolutely decadent, I love it.

This is the true Halloween spirit, yes.