My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.

Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.

It never gets old and it always makes me cry.

@ilgalantuomo ❤️

I’ll always reblog this. The short story itself is lovely, this beautifully illustrated version is gorgeous.

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

Way too frequently 😐

And then there are the little comments “oh I can never hear you so well”

“Oh are you sick?”

(Weird one) “feeling like a champ today I see?” (What? It was apparently another are you sick comment)

“I forgot what your nose looks like!” (O…k? You don’t need to know!”

(Silent judging for my kid masking too)

Yeah 🖕🖕🖕🖕

Seriously. I'm starting to block y'all on sight it has been quite long enough of a campaign to get you weaned off this terf's books and shows (and now games!)

Read. Another. God-damned. Book.

Superb list of alternative books...

Frantically taking notes on this! My kid (7 years old, already been told that the transphobe series is written by someone mean and yucky and we're not reading them in this house) LOVES magical series. I'd add to this list: The Dragon in the Library series by Louie Stowell, and Unseen Magic (two books) by Emily Lloyd Jones.

Then my kid came in and demanded to know what I was writing on the sticky note.

I handed it to her, told her it's new series about people who are magical. She got SUPER excited and yoinked the sticky note out of my hand.

... ... ... I can't read this, your handwriting is bad.

YEP THAT'S ON PURPOSE CHILD but yeah let's go to Libby later.

75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

and yet here I am on tumblr trying to jumpstart my brain into writing the next paragraph of my cover letter

If I look at enough memes I lull it into a false sense of security you see

Well that's a cover letter

Time to stare at the spider in the corner until I can edit this thing I guess

75% decrease in insect biomass within my lifetime and I'm supposed to care about cover letters

and yet here I am on tumblr trying to jumpstart my brain into writing the next paragraph of my cover letter

If I look at enough memes I lull it into a false sense of security you see

The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.

In addition, We Are Higher Ed and Forward are tracking campus abductions specifically.

reblog if you're gay, not gay, slightly gay, or if you just want to launch donald trump into a dying star

YEET MOTHERFUCKER

Seriously. I'm starting to block y'all on sight it has been quite long enough of a campaign to get you weaned off this terf's books and shows (and now games!)

Read. Another. God-damned. Book.

Superb list of alternative books...

Frantically taking notes on this! My kid (7 years old, already been told that the transphobe series is written by someone mean and yucky and we're not reading them in this house) LOVES magical series. I'd add to this list: The Dragon in the Library series by Louie Stowell, and Unseen Magic (two books) by Emily Lloyd Jones.

the knitting will continue until morale improves

I’m on stress-knitting sock #7 since January. At least my feet will be warm.

Polyam Ships

Semifinals

We're gonna lose, but we can go down yelling!

DIANDA/PATRICK/SIMON FOREVER!!!

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."

The new record speech is on the right side of history.

Minor correction: the questions from other Democrats did not allow him to sit down as he must remain standing and at his desk in order to retain the floor. Additionally, I believe the final time was 25 hours and 7 minutes.

Self correction: final time 25 hours 5 minutes.

Absolute legend.

ok other dems pls step up.

The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define "soulmate" however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)

The bad news: you don't get to pick where they come from.

Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.

*broadly defined

but everybody in this franchise SUCKS

HAH BABE I GOT NARUTO I WIN

except it is kinda an embarrassment of riches ngl... like. WHO DO I PICK

let's be real my inner Shikamaru needs Neji

I got Steven Universe, my literal, actual favorite. I win.

For no reason, here is Art Spiegelman's 1991 graphic novel Maus, for free on the Internet Archive.

I was reading an interview from two years ago about Maus being banned in a few places and this was in.

Art Spiegelman recognizes that trans people are going to be some of the first targets of bullshit and he’s out there speaking up.