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Ginger 🐻✨

@gingerbearart.bsky.social

The council convenes once more
#deathblart

Comic, Page 1: P1: Outer space, showing several distant planets and a star, focusing on a foreground ringed planet that appears to have oceans and continents with large visibly man-made alterations, including bridges and a central trench of city circling the planet. Narration: "There are 11 billion sentient life forms on this planet. Uncountable artificial intelligences, consciousnesses stored in the core, more arriving every day" P2: A hand touches the top of an alien-looking casket. Narration: "One less, now." P3: The face of an alien person with an expression of grief, with pupil-less eyes, distinctive cheek markings, a metallic hoop around their neck, and a cloak, referred to from now as "MC". P4: Another person appears behind the first, with a floating holographic display of information in front of their face. Other person: "I take it you are aware of the duty the late Vhixyr is trusting to you?" MC: "Yes, I was told long ago."

Page 2: P1: MC is pictured silhouetted from behind, standing in front of a far-future city, full of other citizens and glass transport tubes in the sky stretching into the distance. Narration: "Out of over 11 billion, me." P2: (Blank) Narration: "Despite Vhixyr's insistence that I was just the best fit, I always wondered-" P3: MC's foot stepping on a panel. Narration: "I wondered if my dear grandparent harbored some secret resentment," P4: MC standing in front of a doorway, raising a hand to a glowing panel on the wall. Behind the doorway is swirling shapes and light. Narration: "...or if they just thought I was the only one who could forgive them for this life-long burden?" P5: MC walking on a transparent bridge through a void filled with swirling light. Narration: "But really, all that mattered-" P6: (Blank) Narration: "Is that there are five of them. ...of us."

Page 3: P1: Two arch-shaped desks with small cylindrical devices with 3 bulbs protruding from them, and a fan-shaped holographic display behind them showing a wave-form. MC: "I wasn't expecting your equipment to look so... ancient?" P2: A zoomed out view of the room, showing MC speaking to a larger smiling alien with an arch-shaped structure on their back, referred to from here as Council 1. Council 1: "For taking vibrations in the air. Ancient traditions, after all." P3: From behind MC, still speaking to Council 1, who is pointing at their own mouth. Council 1: "And I see you've been practicing your oral language!" MC: "No small effort - but we need to be able to speak this way for a full cycle after all." Council 1: "You get used to it." P4: Showing MC now. Council 1: "I trust you have now... viewed it, as well?" MC: "...of course." P5: Zooming out, showing both MC and Council 1, and another person in the back of the room by a large holo display. This person (Council 2) is slim, wearing a dark sleeveless shirt and a large brace over their shoulders. Council 2: "As of now, Earth has reached 89.3% of its sun-cycle." Council 1: "Then we will begin."

Page 4: P1: From left to right seated at the desk in front of holo displays, Council 2, Council 1, and a third Council member with a robe and a U-shaped brace framing their head, all with somber expressions. Council 1: "Today we welcome Thonriel, third grandchild of Vhixyr, to the order of T'ddub. Thonriel has the terrible and honorable charge of speaking first today, as our order convenes for audiograph number 0X7B65D. -ahem- So... what did you think?" P2: Thonriel (MC), wearing a grim expression and slamming their hand down on their own desk. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is still a bad movie."

November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Purple Wack'ds Only, Fool!

@wackd.bsky.social

remember a few weeks ago when that article got published about amazon and google losing in the video game marketplace to steam, and people were posting about how steam is "the only good monopoly"?

well, anyway,

December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Zenn

@zennistrad.bsky.social

I just started my new job yesterday, and while payday is coming up in two weeks, I still have monthly bills to take care of before then and $ for food and such until I start making regular income

If anyone can help me out that'd be appreciated

paypal.me/zennistrad

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December 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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Tyler, from the Internet

@tylerfromtheinternet.com

The kids are fine. The society we are gifting them is fucked.

December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Purple Wack'ds Only, Fool!

@wackd.bsky.social

hello. i hate to ask, but i need money to cover my $300 train pass for the month. without this i cannot commute to and from work! any help would be appreciated

Paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/sah...
Venmo: SAH32

December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM

Purple Wack'ds Only, Fool!

@wackd.bsky.social

@profanity.accountant

November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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VoidBurger (AKA Jess)

@voidburger.com

@chipcheezum.bsky.social forgot the name of this guy once and called him "Risky Business"

🌸 OC🎀Kitten 🌸 @ockitten.bsky.social · Nov 14

BIG Challenges 🐊

November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM

Purple Wack'ds Only, Fool!

@wackd.bsky.social

oh no! i didn't like 'wake up dead man' very much

November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM

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Persephiroth~PAX Unplugged!

@persephiroth.bsky.social

It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks

Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it

Learn more here:

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

And here:

notournativedaughters.org

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

www.niwrc.org

November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM

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Pop Arena

@poparena.bsky.social

Another Thanksgiving, another opportunity to plug the Nickelodeon at the Macy's Parade video I did a few years ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgp-...

Nickelodeon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - Nick Knacks SPECIAL

YouTube video by Pop Arena

www.youtube.com

November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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David J Prokopetz

@prokopetz.bsky.social

I believe most artists who advocate better rep for fat bodies in popular art are sincere, but it's still very funny when they get the advocacy and kinks wires crossed and end up going "this is what REAL bodies look like" followed by a drawing of Samus Aran with an ass twice as wide as her shoulders.

November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Purple Wack'ds Only, Fool!

@wackd.bsky.social

i'n sick of people stigmatizing addiction, be politically correct and assign him a mental illness like a normal person

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 8d

I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.

Fat Donald @fatdonald.bsky.social · 8d

This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh

November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM

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Tred

@tredlocity.bsky.social

Pluribus is a show about a woman shouting "I WANT A MOVIE WHERE LESBIANS HAVE SEX" and the world responding "here's a film where two women have a conversation about something other than a man. you're welcome."

November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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👁️🍄🪸

@bloomfilters.bsky.social

it's astounding to me that pluribus incorporates carol's existence as a lesbian so centrally to its philosophical quandary that it legitimately would not work as a show if carol were a man or attracted to men and i wish more people read the themes around gender/sexuality in pluribus

November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM

Purple Wack'ds Only, Fool!

@wackd.bsky.social

i'm an overachiever

void's century @voidscentury.bsky.social · 11d

by your 30s you should have at least 3 or 4 internet friends with tastes in weird cartoon pornography that don't overlap with your tastes in weird cartoon pornography

November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM

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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio Narrator 🏳️‍⚧️

@katrafiy.bsky.social

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.