The kids have graduated to watching 7-and-up Netflix shows (and watching too much TV)

I'll still be coloring & reusing some other old comic artwork for the game. I hope folks like it and it looks good! My art style has changed a lot....

I had been planning to reuse some artwork from my comics (colorized) for the Dreamland RPG to illustrate the village of Ulthar. But!! In the setting material for my game, the 'timeline is moved forward' a bit, so to speak, so Ulthar is more urban and less of a little village than I drew it back then

Thank you for reminding me! I just randomly discovered that particular manga, if I recall... your Yaguchi knowledge far exceeds mine!! His work is lovely!

Finally a Takao Yaguchi art book! Not super comprehensive, but I’ve wanted one of these for years

Whenever I see these kinds of 'totally made-up monsters ecology' on an Earthlike world in stories I can't help overthinking, where do 'real' animals fit in. A solution in search of a problem

Those SF books have the coolest scariest depiction of an alien ecology, basically, totally supplanting Earthly plants & animals. Clearly this is what happened offscreen before the beginning of the Pokémon stories

Is it wrong that the Pokémon ecology makes me think of the "War Against the Chtorr" novels

As a basic principle I agree that people should practice more forgiveness and restorative justice instead of condemning people to Eternal Badness forever.

However it comes down to case by case, so for example, it’d take a lot for me to forgive Alex Karp for his role as weapons dealer to genocide.

There’s another fleet (39 ships + rising) of boats crossing the Mediterranean to try to break the Israeli siege of Gaza. I haven’t heard as much news about as I did about last year’s flotilla— but then, it’s the same with all news about Gaza. :( Track the boats here: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

צה"ל ממשיך להרוס מבנים בכפרים בדרום לבנון בזמן הפסקת האש מפקדים בצבא אמרו ל"הארץ" כי בשבועות האחרונים הובאו לאזור עשרות כלים הנדסיים המופעלים בידי קבלנים אזרחים, שחלקם מתוגמלים לפי מספר המבנים שנהרסו. מקור המעורה בפרטים אמר כי חלק מהקבלנים פעלו גם בעזה

Even during the "ceasefire", the Israelis are still demolishing entire villages in southern Lebanon with armored bulldozers. In fact, civilian contractors hired by the army receive pay which is based on the number of buildings destroyed.

Schumer voted against blocking the sale of these bulldozers.

Note that i haven’t seen this film so I don’t know if it’s actually good, but based on his other films, which were pretty good, I’d watch it

One nice thing about being a parent is that when I see movies like Lee Cronin’s new “The Mummy” it emotionally affects me whereas before I’d be like, eh, what is happening to the single people

@pstjmack.bsky.social did you just join BlueSky? Great to see you here! 😀

#ttrpg folk: let someone else watch the sheep this weekend! Scipio will be running a GMT-time Dreamland RPG playtest on Discord this Sunday, using material from his book, "Cursed Kingdoms and Dreaming Cities." Time/date is Sunday 4/19 at 6PM GMT (10AM PST). Please join! discord.gg/BGx8j98q?eve...

Reading a dream stories anthology and there is a very cool little ancient stort by Shen Chi-chi (c.750-800… this book is old so the name is Anglicized in Wade-Gilles I think) in which a guy enters a dream realm through a magic pillow into which he crawls. Never seen that particular image before

Way back in the day, I remember that was one of the canceled viz manga that ends at the most annoying point. If they’d gone one more volume it would have ended in a cool dark spot with the hero (seemingly) dead!

More violence is always the answer apparently

Asking people to even slightly restrain their unrealistic hyperbole about things they politically dislike is, admittedly, an impossible ask in 2026

Can women get scolded or maybe fined if some morality police sees them? Possibly. Is this bad? Yes. But they are obviously not being arrested or *killed* (and never were killed even in Iran’s more restrictive 1980s) yet people will shamelessly LIE about this to support their pro war narrative.

It’s amazing that any random pictures of Iranian cities (these 3 are all from today on Al Jazeera) will show women with their hair uncovered. But idiots and bigots will still make insane claims that women will be killed or imprisoned for not wearing the veil.

I should do that too

California's own Schiff and Padilla!! F'ing finally!! Better late than never!!

Looking forward to reading our 6-year-old daughter the first “How to Train Your Dragon” book. Finally, she gets to read a chapter book written in the 21st century 🤪😅❤️

PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike using a US-made bomb on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. An Israeli strike killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/ Abdel Kareem Hana) IMEU POLICY PROJECT

PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS An Israeli army bulldozer demolishes homes in the Palestinian urban refugee camp of Nur Shams, near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) IMEU POLICY PROJECT

PHOTO: Sipa USA via AP The aftermath of Israelian strike on a building of Corniche al Mazraa, central Beirut, Lebanon, April 10 2026. On April 8 Israeli forces reported carrying out over 100 airstrikes in roughly 10 minutes across the Country (Photo by Elisa Gestri/Sipd USA) (Sipa via AP Images IMEU POLICY PROJECT

This is what Israel’s use of US-made bombs and bulldozers in Palestine and Lebanon looks like.

The Senate votes TODAY on blocking these weapons to Israel.

Call your Senators right now and tell them vote YES: imeupolicy.org/noweapons

New Dreamland RPG Blogpost!! @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social

Nightmares, the Dark Gods of Dreamland #ttrpg #dreamlands www.dreamrpg.com/2026/04/15/n...

“Down into the Sea of Galilee” 😂❤️ I love this Enten guy

A Peace Worth Its Name in Iran Must Include Lebanon Lebanon cannot be left out of any peace treaty if it’s going to be worth the paper it’s written on.

"while Hormuz is grabbing headlines—and for good reason—Lebanon cannot be left out of any peace treaty if it’s going to be worth the paper it’s written on." Read @matthewdownhour.bsky.social today www.liberalcurrents.com/a-peace-wort...

Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world.

This is really cool www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...

This is different from ‘sabotaging yourself and the rest of the party because you think it would be funny and you don’t really care’ which I think is more common RPG behavior