None of us, even dying of thirst, would drink this water.

Illustration: The "Sickos" meme where a man labeled "sickos" peers through a window gleefully laughing and saying "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!" except the man is Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the label on his chest reads "Siskos"

Two fake ad layouts rendered in black and white halftones. On the left is what looks like a mechanical spider, and on the right is a sphere with tubes intersecting it. Ad copy on the left: Safety isn't a fad. Does it ever feel like the world’s growing a little more uncertain? You never know what’s going to come next, what you can and can’t say in polite company, you don’t even know how anybody’s supposed to dress anymore! Take a deep breath. You’re about to meet the sure thing. This is the all-new SpyderSafe™ Personal Safety System. It’s the first and final answer for safety and security in a world that can feel like there are no answers at all. At Roko®, we believe your personal security is paramount — everything else is secondary. That’s why we built the SpyderSafe™. Featuring a high-carbon steel outer shell, eight independent high pressure shock-absorbing struts, a closed air system, and sealing bolts that use Roko®’s proprietary Mor-Rite™ tungsten alloy, the SpyderSafe™ ensures you’ll have a smooth ride into whatever tomorrow brings. Even in a world where up is down, your comfort comes first. Ad copy on the right: Safety isn't a fad. The world never stops changing. Everybody seems to want something new. Expectations are different. And so are you. You can’t be the hero of your story without making a few enemies along the way, and Roko® knows that as well as you do. Say hello to the new Roko® BasilisQ™, the new standard in mutual assurance security for high-powered individuals. Just because the world’s against you doesn’t mean it gets to win. At Roko®, mutual assurance isn’t just an abstract idea for governments — it’s a fact of life for a certain class of person. Featuring a suite of minimally-invasive vital sign sensors, hardware remote trigger safeties, and multiple redundant gun-type fission assemblies to assure there are no misfires, the BasilisQ™ is the answer to any security question. Don’t make a statement. Make a promise.

Having a lot of fun with this ad copy

A fox-colored anthro rabbit wearing a green cutoff shirt, teal and light purple shorts, and reddish flip flops

I've only ever been furry-adjacent, so this is a fun learning experience

🫵 YOU are going to commission me for art of your OC

That is NOT a request.

A fox-colored anthro rabbit wearing a green cutoff shirt, teal and light purple shorts, and reddish flip flops

I've only ever been furry-adjacent, so this is a fun learning experience

A further refined sketch of a fox colored rabbit man. Now he's wearing a cutoff green shirt

Refining a little further

A little stiff, but eh

Yes his name is Rusty Venture

This is the line of division / Terminus Est

Severian and Thecla from The Book of the New Sun

A sketchy crop top drawn on the previous image

I'm serious by the way

This doesn't have the daisy dukes and wet crop top layers turned on

It's a slutty rabbit man. What more can I say? It's rendered in a sketchy cartoon style with brown outlines and fox colors for the fur. The character seems to be saying something snotty

Friend challenged me to make a furry OC, so I'm making a slutty rabbit man

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

A minor alteration to the previous image so the ROKO logo at the bottom is smaller

There we go. That logo sizing is a lot better.

I also fixed the tagline on the bomb.

This is so stupid and I love it.

I hope the people who understand the references in this are having a good day. Or, alternately, an absolutely terrible one. Not really a lot of middle ground there.

Two fake ad layouts rendered in black and white halftones. On the left is what looks like a mechanical spider, and on the right is a sphere with tubes intersecting it. Ad copy on the left: Safety isn't a fad. Does it ever feel like the world’s growing a little more uncertain? You never know what’s going to come next, what you can and can’t say in polite company, you don’t even know how anybody’s supposed to dress anymore! Take a deep breath. You’re about to meet the sure thing. This is the all-new SpyderSafe™ Personal Safety System. It’s the first and final answer for safety and security in a world that can feel like there are no answers at all. At Roko®, we believe your personal security is paramount — everything else is secondary. That’s why we built the SpyderSafe™. Featuring a high-carbon steel outer shell, eight independent high pressure shock-absorbing struts, a closed air system, and sealing bolts that use Roko®’s proprietary Mor-Rite™ tungsten alloy, the SpyderSafe™ ensures you’ll have a smooth ride into whatever tomorrow brings. Even in a world where up is down, your comfort comes first. Ad copy on the right: Safety isn't a fad. The world never stops changing. Everybody seems to want something new. Expectations are different. And so are you. You can’t be the hero of your story without making a few enemies along the way, and Roko® knows that as well as you do. Say hello to the new Roko® BasilisQ™, the new standard in mutual assurance security for high-powered individuals. Just because the world’s against you doesn’t mean it gets to win. At Roko®, mutual assurance isn’t just an abstract idea for governments — it’s a fact of life for a certain class of person. Featuring a suite of minimally-invasive vital sign sensors, hardware remote trigger safeties, and multiple redundant gun-type fission assemblies to assure there are no misfires, the BasilisQ™ is the answer to any security question. Don’t make a statement. Make a promise.

Having a lot of fun with this ad copy

Lizard. Lizard. Lizard.

Lizard Wizard, Inspired Skypainter for #MtGSoS Secrets of Strixhaven!

Being good at video games seems awesome. I should try it sometime.

a little wizard with his pointy blue / yellow starred hat, drooping over his face, holding a wand with his feet, white beard. to his left is an orange/red flower with an eye in the middle. prompt option button: begone

adobe photoshop 4.0, prompt, macintosh (1997) archive.org/details/MacA...

This is coming from someone who could recite every single line of the original trilogy with accompanying sound effects at around age 10

Star Wars actually got bad in Empire Strikes Back because that's where it started to get treated seriously, irreparably severing it from its roots in the absolute garbage that George Lucas loved as an adolescent

It should've all been a little schlockier and lower budget

Oooh, that video is great

Drawing of a long-legged crab titled "arthropod". Below it is a nearly identical drawing titled "anthropod," where the crab has human legs and hands instead of crabby limbs.

just had a thought...

A page with text at the top and an illustration at the bottom Text reads: Muscat Commune The people of the Muscat commune practice a syncretic religion with Hindu, Eastern Orthodox Catholic, and Islam doctrine coming together to form something new. Many of Muscat’s families trace their lineage back to India, Oman, and Somalia, and their unique culture reflects deep connections with their roots as well as a strong dedication to maintaining a flourishing community. The massive torsion springs that store energy for the commune — the Coils, as they’re known by the community — are venerated as holy relics given to them by God, and most of Muscat’s tools and infrastructure are powered by them in some form or another. Daily ritual at Muscat is essential to the survival of the community, with able-bodied members turning huge capstans every hour, on the hour, to wind the Coils. Children, the elderly, and the infirm join in the ritual through song, dance, and sharing of water. Below is an image of large cylindrical objects that look kind of like generators. They have a bunch of candles on them. Nearby stands a guy in a hat and robe.

This was inspired by a conversation I had several years ago on the corpse formerly known as Twitter

It's still one of my favorite bits of the setting. Communities like this exist all over the world in Glasslands

A screenshot of the zine I'm working on laid out as a bunch of PDF pages

This is weirdly relaxing to work on

Really happy with my progress. Taking a nice break and being able to go on vacation really helped my mental health

It's me! I'm holding up a blue phone in a clear case. There's a stylized tanooki sticker on the case

New phone case means I can put this sticker to good use

How I would open Portal 3: Chel rappels down into Aperture. It’s hard going because she doesn’t have the portal device anymore. Eventually she crashes through a door into some kind of break room, and there are like a dozen Chels inside. All identical to her. Eating lunch. Then GLaDOS comes on the speaker like, before you judge me, you left your DNA *all over the place*. I boxed it up for you, but you didn’t leave a forwarding address. And then, well, can *you* say you never got wistful late at night and started thinking about old... test subjects?

Same as before, but now in higher resolution. Just read the alt text from the last one.

oop, turns out that's hard to read

here's a zoom in

A screenshot of multiple pages in Affinity Publisher showing halftone drawings. The current focus is on an ad with a ball on struts with the following tagline and ad copy: Safety isn't a fad. Does it ever feel like the world’s growing a little more uncertain? You never know what’s going to come next, what you can and can’t say in polite company, you don’t even know how anybody’s supposed to dress anymore! Take a deep breath. You’re about to meet the sure thing. This is the all-new SpyderSafe™ Personal Safety System. It’s the first and final answer for safety and security in a world that can feel like there are no answers at all. At Roko, we believe your personal security is paramount — everything else is secondary. That’s why we built the SpyderSafe. Featuring a high-carbon steel outer shell, eight independent high pressure shock-absorbing struts, a closed air system, and sealing bolts that use Roko’s proprietary Mor-Rite™ tungsten alloy, the SpyderSafe ensures you’ll have a smooth ride into whatever tomorrow brings. Even in a world where up is down, your comfort comes first.

picking away at the zine layout

I'm having an immense amount of fun writing ad copy for dipshits