It’s more about reading than producing, but understanding reading helps me produce

Slightly tangential but: Scott McCloud is a foundational text to a comics module I’m aware of

it'd be great if you could get off Substack

The time it takes to write a joke, from conception to birth, is the jestation period.

I’ve also just found out @uktin.bsky.social is on here, they have a really informative discord that I’m too shy to post in.

Design Doc – The One Shot Podcast Network Come along with Hannah and Evan in a living documentation of the game design process, from the first spark of an idea, to every disastrous surprise. It’s not an instruction manual, but a travel guide, with lots of unexpected stops along the way.

The Questlandia one - oneshotpodcast.com/interview-di... - hits the design part there, I hope.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple.

But he was still hungry.

On Wednesday he ate a whole banana.

On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow.

But he was still hungry."

A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

(I also enjoy wingspan, which I meant to mention in the first reply.)

I enjoy two twitch channels with crosswords, which might help if you see UK time zones: twitch.tv/liari77 (focused on the solve) and twitch.tv/brainmage (…less so)

– I can tell this is an authentic Van Gogh just from the frame

– How?

– There’s a bit of veneer missing

We remember our lait friends

Coming soon: PsiRun Second Edition Whoever was holding you captive, you're free, for now. You have superpowers & amnesia. You know they're after you. What could go wrong?

Get ready to run!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/117...

Three options are given and the third is marked: Option 1: "buying books because you love reading" Option 2: "buying books to support artists" Option 3: "buying books as a little treat to fill the void inside you and then stacking them in comforting piles."

I will take "all of the above" please

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#franimals swordfinch

Dune part 3 poster but it says they pay me in woims

You’re Green
You’re keen
You’re here for a week

In Ork Experience, you need to get through a week’s work placement without anyone working out you’re a 9ft tall green skinned brutal fantasy warrior.

REUNION When Odysseus has returned at last unrecognizable to Ithaca and killed the suitors swarming the throne room, very delicately he signals to Telemachus to depart: as he stood twenty years ago, he stands now before Penelope. On the palace floor, wide bands of sunlight turning from gold to red. He tells her nothing of those years, choosing to speak instead exclusively of small things, as would be the habit of a man and woman long together: once she sees who he is, she will know what he's done. And as he speaks, ah, tenderly he touches her forearm.

Closing this run of Louise Glück poems with a personal favourite

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

VOID 1680 AM by Bannerless Games A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.

Hey, friends. Three years ago today I released VOID 1680 AM, the response to which legitimately changed my life.

I've added 100 community copies free to download. Become the late-night radio DJ of your dreams and build a playlist tied to your history with music here: bannerless.games/voidam

I picked up The Merry Wives of Windsor as a favourite during a read-em-all challenge, and I don’t see any echoes for that in the other replies. (I know I’m outwith critical consensus here)

a barnes and noble display of emerald fennel movie branded copies of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. the sign over them reads: "It's Wutherin' Time!" -- Heathcliff

thought you probably needed to see this

I never thought I’d have a favourite Pokémon until my nephew taught me the card game.
www.serebii.net/pokemon30/56...

A pigeon bribed by a kitten

you can tell the AI revolution is going well because every CEO is begging you to use it in the same tone as the government asking good citizens to buy war bonds in the 40s

Hell of a thread on the UK government's AI training

Setting Things Right: The Manifezto Pt.1 · MyCrossword Hi all, welcome to **Setting Things Right** – aka *The Manifezto* (thanks Henri!) – a blog looking at not just *how* cryptic clues and puzzles work, but *why...

Interested in setting cryptic crosswords, or improving ... or just finding out more? Following on from Raider's excellent advice at @mycrossword.co.uk, I've started a new blog series looking at how and why cryptics work:

www.mycrossword.co.uk/blog/setting...

Hope it's useful / interesting!

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan
Push pineapples, shake the tree

The giant Zardoz head with a party hat and noisemaker

HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.