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MechanicalBrain
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Mechanical engineer and aspiring artist. 34, he / him / hey nerd. Webcomic definitely coming eventually probably
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MJ: Peter, get OFF the internet! Peter: NO! I'm almost ENJOYING my anger!
August 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Airplant bloomed!
Six tillandsia airplants clustered together in a red china bowl on a black table. The largest is blooming, its leaves flushed pink and two delicate tube-shaped flowers emerging from the center.
August 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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How do you like your coffee?
feat. the blorbos
#makeaterriblecomicday2025
How do you like your coffee? Panel 1: Infernus HOT. That's not what- As hot as possible. (mug: FIRE CHIEF) Panel 2: Shade Black. (mug: DON'T TALK TO ME) Panel 3: Psy-ko (wordlessly opens a 2L bottle of GAMER SAUCE) Panel 4: Star (pouring sugar and creamer in with reckless abandon) (from offscreen:) Ok, sweetie. Taylor, that's enough. Taylor! #makeaterriblecomicday2025 (mechanicalbrain)
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Mort Anime Club, looming ominously
June 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Mort Anime Club, looming ominously
June 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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A watcher...

The heroes of this setting are by and large Not Having a Great Time. It's a tough job.

#oc #ocart #ocsky #superhumanhero #angeleye
Character sheet of a petite woman with pale skin and light blonde hair. Her left eye is blue, and her right eye is multicolored and iridescent. She weara a white supersuit with blue accents, goggles, and a quadrotor-inspired helipack on her back. She appears discontent. Alias: ANGEL EYE Name: Madison Ward Age: 2 Height: 5'2" Ability: Hypervision (Right Eye) Smile: Unconfirmed Affiliation: AEGIS Status: Active Role: Support (Spotter)
May 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Hell yeah! Check THIS bad boy out:
A "superbolt" multi-jackbolt tensioner. A large screw, with multiple small screws sticking out of the head of the fastener.
April 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Back on my nonsense again #oc #ocart #ocsky #superhumanhero
A series of lineart illustrations of three characters in various scenarios: Infernus, a large man with hair standing straight up, Shade, a smaller man with ink-black skin and hair, and Psy-ko, a petite woman with messy hair and pointy teeth. Left, all three are stacked on each other's shoulders, in reverse order of size. Psy-ko, on the bottom, is floating off the ground. Infernus points forward gleefully and Shade struggles to hold him. Center top, Shade and Psy-ko are stuck together in an oversize "get along shirt" and are squabbling. She is pulling his hair and biting his arm. Upper right, Infernus carries Psy-ko over his shoulder, running away from something while she reaches back after a floating pizza box, slices spilling out, and Shade looks down from above, exasperated. All three are yelling. Lower right, Infernus is wearing a bathrobe and aviators, heating up a coffee mug marked "HOT SHIT" with a flame from his fingertip. Bottom center, the three stand together with Infernus in the middle, one hand on Shade's shoulders and the other ruffling Psy-ko's hair. Shade asks "So do we like have a theme?" and Infernus replies "Our theme is we're awesome." Psy-ko is thinking about pizza.
April 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Yesterday I coped with The Horrors by making a very stupid meme:

#politicalcompass #futurecompass
A 4x4 grid of possible post-Trump American political futures, organized as follows: Leftward < > Rightward Nothing ever happens ^ v The Happening Top row: Everything magically goes back to normal Quadrennial red-blue flip perpetual stalemate Last concerned American sighs, turns on NFL Talibangelical post-coup bureaucratic stagnation (spreadsheets are hard) Second row: Mayor Pete takes charge! Golden age of transit ensues (ignore the national debt) Nation comes to its senses, sheepishly apologizes to allies Musk-Muscovite State-Bankrupting Space Megaproject Hell (Mars still 4 years away) GOP Sunni-Shia split: MAGA true believers vs. Thielite Broligarchs Third row: Surprisingly-benevolent DOGE AI accidentally implements perfect socialism Trump '28 gambit backfires into third Obama term, neolib great restoration Entire nation privatized, sold to highest bidder (MBS) Divine Trump-corpse interred on golden throne (40k starts early) Fourth row: Ocasio-Cortez woke-quistador ascensión (Puerto Rican statehood and brutal incel purges) "God's favorite country" once again saved by direct divine intervention Yarvinite techno-feudalist patchwork corporatocracy (constant armed uprisings) Multiple Trump assassination plots converge in hilarious caper (Vance nukes everyone)
February 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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#HourlyComicsDay 4/ in which I rush a little. Rest will have to come tomorrow since we're busy all evening.
1pm Train Lunch Fruit & Cheese Box Turkey Gouda Sandwich 2pm Arrived! Hotel -> 3pm Checked in *FLUMPH* 4pm Power Nap & Hourlies
February 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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#HourlyComicsDay 3/ in which EVERYTHING IS FINE
9am Acela! *Nyoooom* 10am "Time to draw my dailies!" 11am "Drawing on trains is fun!" *rmbl rmbl* *undo undo undo* 12pm "Let me check" "The news" *phone spews fire* "Hm yes I see" *I am reduced to a burnt skull* "Cool!"
February 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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#HourlyComicsDay 2/ in which the Wife is revealed
7am Catching the M E T R O *blinking floor lights* "Wormsign!" *bonk* (I didn't sit down in time and fell into her) "Sir, I don't know you" "Ma'am, we're literally married" *shoks at her wedding ring in shock* 8am - Union Station Pret a Manger: closed "Nooooo my breakfast!" "Starbs is open." "I could Starb." Starbucks Barista, off panel: "HILLARY" Wife: "Hillary is here!" Me: "Hill-dawg" Wife: "Madam Ubersecretary" They spelled her name wrong. Wife: "Hate crime." Drink: "Kaitlyn"
February 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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First time ever doing #hourlycomicsday!
Hourly Comics Day 2025 5:45am *alarm clock noises* "buh." 6am KHRGL HRBF GACK BLR AAAA Got sick @ xmas Phlegm forever WHERE'S MY BELT?? Just pack another one! (wife) AAAAA and that's how I ended up packing two belts
February 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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KEPLER: Second City of the Lunar Nearside, established by the ESA with significant collaboration from international partners, Kepler has districts dedicated to the preservation of its languages and cultures. Best food anywhere, and legendarily quarrelsome politics.

#scifi #worldbuilding #lunarcity
An illustrated passport page depicting a row of German-style half timbered buildings. One has a clocktower, another flies a German flag. Two Volkswagen-styled vehicles are present in the street. Above is a suspended monorail train. The "sky" is tiled with hexagonal panels. The lower right corner reveals that these buildings are built on a ledge, with a lower level of the city below. Willkommen sie am KEPLER Deutsches Kulturviertel
January 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I Am Willing To Entertain The Idea That This Might Not Be Entirely Butter!
A tub of Land O Lakes "Butter with Canola Oil"
January 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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ARMSTRONG:

The most populous settlement in the system, home to over two million people, established centuries ago by the American space program in a cavernous network of Lunar lava tubes, some over 1km in diameter. Overhead light panels approximate a day/night cycle.

#scifi #worldbuilding
An illustrated passport page depicting a large underground city. Central to the image is an angular statue of a figure holding a torch aloft, surrounded by high rise buildings on all sides. Above, a paneled blue cieling approximates the sky, and outlines the shape of a tube branching in several directions. A highway runs through the center of the scene. Trees and greenery are visible between buildings in the foreground. Several quadrotor aircraft are above. ARMSTRONG First & Finest Lunar Tube City
December 26, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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KOROLEV SHIPYARD: Situated at the Lagrange point between Earth and Luna, the system's largest shipyard is a constant stream of activity, with separate sections devoted to commercial and military vessels.

#scifi #worldbuilding #shipyard
An illustrated passport page depicting a shipyard in space high above the Earth. The Sun is visible in the distance, lighting the scene from behind. The Earth is visible as a crescent, the rest dark. The focus of the page is a series of scaffolding-like shipyard structures linked together, with a number of ships and other dark silhouettes contained within. Worker craft flit about, moving materials and ship sections. КОРОЛЁВ KOROLEV SHIPYARD EARTH-LUNA L-1
December 26, 2024 at 6:41 AM
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Everyone get in here, new Greature just dropped
A Greature in the form of a black cat with four eyes and a head as long as its body. Caption: wow, it's CCAATT! "mrp."
December 19, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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EARTH: Access restricted to ecological missions only. Protected transport required through orbital debris field. While ambient radiation is now within acceptable levels in most areas, other dangers remain...

#scifi #worldbuilding #Earth
A passport page illustrated with the ruins of a 21st Century city, with skyscrapers present as leaning, hollowed-out skeletons. Birds are present in the sky. A meteor streaks by, the fireball of reentering orbital debris. On the near skyscraper, deer graze on a mid-level roof. Something lurks within. EARTH Hudson River Remediation Zone
December 13, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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VENUS: Due to the difficulties imposed by the planet's harsh environment, the only large-scale human activity is in the form of aerostatic mines, dredging metallic "snow" deposits from the mountaintops 50km below.

#scifi #worldbuilding #Venus
An illustrated passport page, depicting the Venusian sky, cloudy and streaked with diagonal sunbeams, featuring a mining facility suspended from a balloon, raising and lowering dredging buckets by cable through the clouds below. Another such facility is visible in the distance. VENUS Ishtar Terra Aerostatic Dredging Facility Warning: do not descend below 40,000m
December 11, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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MERCURY: Largely uninhabited, with the Solar system's preeminent sun observatory, and maximum security prison, as the two notable exceptions.
#scifi #worldbuilding #Mercury
An illustrated page of a "Mars Passport": A thin horizontal strip crosses a large red angry sun. Each side of the strip is a barren horizon with a couple buildings. On the top side, an observatory and a radio dish, with a spacecraft landed nearby on its tail. On the bottom side, several squat buildings and a control tower, with a patrol craft in the sky. MERCURY <<authorized landings only>> North Pole Heliophysics Station South Pole Supermax Facility
December 11, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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Whenever I check in on Twitter
MJ: Peter, get OFF the Internet! Peter: NO! I'm almost ENJOYING my anger!
December 4, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Rude! 5'9" is average height! AVERAGE!!
A screenshot of the NYT Strands game. The daily theme is "I now pronounce you..." and I have submitted a guess of less than four letters, which the game has flagged as "too short", so it looks like the game is calling me short.
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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I think that's an airport "crash tender" (fire truck)! They look really cyberpunk.
A red eight-wheeled fire truck for use at airports. It looks cyberpunk.
November 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Comic isn't out yet so like for spoilers!
1 Like = 1 Answer, comic edition
November 15, 2024 at 12:47 AM