A lightning kaiju pillar chases a flying robot out of the atmosphere. Look. I'm trying. This comic is ridiculous.

Ascend.

I've been doodling stuff in the margins between work and other projects, mostly exploratory things for a design I'm not fully satisfied with.

Jay and Talita hold up a banner that reads "THANK YOU FOR OVER 1.400 BACKERS!"

Talita: What's this for again? Jay: Oh! Um... nothing! There are definitely NOT hundreds of people reading about your emotional breakdown on my webcomic right now!

Talita: HUH?? Jay: Anyways, uh, thanks for helping us hit funding on day 1— SIX TIMES! Stay tuned for stretch goals!

Thank you everyone for helping make the first day of the Runaway to the Stars Kickstarter campaign a smashing success! Let's see how far we can take it this month! But please don't tell Talita what the book is about. www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

watercolor of tulip

Doing more watercolors. I should start making some weirder stuff but I want to build up a backlog of normie flowers and birds to give away when I inevitably forget to get a gift for someone.

Pissing off so many people by pronouncing gouache like Goofy would.

You know John Mulaney's bit about how he was practically designed to be gay but God forgot to flip that final switch?

Yeah. Something like that. Raised Republican, fascinated by weapons, good at math, too bad I had a vestigial conscience that made itself known eventually!

A while ago I left a cozy job after being shunted into a weapons program. It was one of the best decisions I ever made.

Anyways, reminder to fellow engineers, you can leave! You can just walk out! I won't pretend it's easy but it's great to be able to sleep at night!

Top image with Jerry saying, "You're crying because of Artemis II?" Bottom image with George saying, "The spirit of space travel got to me." Jerry then says, "Alright."

when you ask 85% of people on here why they hate AI or LLMs, they'll give you thought-terminating cliches or factually incorrect information

it's a damn shame, because it weakens their positions when the correct and reasoned 15% is MORE THAN ENOUGH to tear the entire industry down

black and white comic with mangled robot watching giant kaiju thingy

'tis just a flesh wound

a two bird and one fish ornaments made from soda cans

My truest love, making stuff out of trash. In this case unrolled aluminum cans and sharpies.

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

They were comparing people insulting chatbots to various sci-fi "robots deserve rights" stories.
Which is nuts because most of those stories about about slavery and civil rights and not just saying mean words to sad robots.

It's wild to see someone say "stop bullying AI" while they're using it for what is effectively slave labor. If I had a choice between seeing some mean words and having to satisfy a dipshit's every whim, I would pick the bullying!
Either it's an unconscious tool, or you're a fucking slaver, pick one!

:)

I am testing the theory that showing very little will make me want to draw it faster, so alas, much is secret. But I think it has a very cool premise :)

An eccentric orbit makes this sort of spin-orbit resonance more likely, a circular orbit would probably be like our moon, with one side always facing the planet.
This also lets me have day lengths closer to Earth's. Still pretty long days though! I bet siestas are much more ingrained in culture.

pychart of eccentric lunar orbit

Gave the moon in Remediation an eccentric orbit. It's tidally locked, but the same way Mercury is, which always presents the same side (or it's 180 deg opposite) to the Sun at perihelion. In this case it's a 4:1 spin orbit resonance, so it's always the same side at periapsis.

black and white comic with a dead guy on the ground, a collapsing giant bleeding monster, and a smaller monster covered in butterflies. Honestly it doesn't make much more sense even if you can see the picture.

Lachryphagy

flesh monster lady arcing back following a golden spiral

FYIJ Secret Santa for @mentemori.bsky.social
I love drawing meat :)

brightly colored image of a goat dude playing a saxophone on fire

And here's my contribution for the 24 hour Turbophone 2026 challenge!

my drawing of a wizard and a mothman enjoying the night in a wasteland

art by Spiralshells of a demon getting chomped

art by Skelizard of a bone dragon getting zapped by electric parrots

art by Dani of a walrus and cormorants

hey wanna see how this first image mutated into the other three? we just finished the latest game of art telephone and you can check it out here! ascalaphid.com/telephone/tu...

You even got the shine on his embroidery! This made my day!

A man holding a staff, Tober Lizbetta, stands before a medieval village on another world. He is holding out his hand as a piece of ash falls from the sky.

Fanart of @turbofanatic.bsky.social's character, Tober Lizbetta from Remediation!! = ]

black and white comic with a dang giant robot eating a dude!!!!

The end.

(but nothing really ends)

In this case really Srini's everything just got blapped. Poor partition :(

Tober Lizbetta Age: 95 (48 in Earth years) Height: 6'9"/206cm Species: Dryad (Homo Sapiens derivative modified via mycellial infection after death) A dead child left to the woods that has returned as a servant of the Rotting Mother, the mycellial network that stabilizes the environment, Tober brings rich soil to wherever he stays. Beyond that, he is a poor dryad, and has been unable to hear the Mother or perform the miracles expected of him (such as the highly-sought miracle of penicillin). He has also failed to return to the woods as expected after middle- age, causing some to believe he is defective. Nevertheless, he retains a dryad's physical durability, and opts to travel to the nearest city for help when burning snow starts to fall from the sky and a terrible blue light appears in the distance.

Working out the aesthetics and main character for Remediation

Lots of people worked long hours together to make sure nothing bad happened. It bothers me when people claim the Y2K bug was never real, because people sacrificed a lot to stop it.

Also he should have been given a shitload of vacation time after all that, but that's a different injustice.

I celebrated New Years at an office park and watched tiny fireworks being set off in the distance at midnight, because the company needed people there, he was one of them, and my mother wanted us to actually celebrate something together.

People are talking about the Y2K bug and the huge efforts that went into fixing it, so here's my story.
My father was one of those people. He got up early and worked so late I didn't see him most days around the turn of the millennium.