(Proust’s editor at LE JOURNAL DES PETITES MADELEINES) a lot of this isn’t really about petites madeleines

Me trying to blow a medieval peasant’s mind: and the downloadable content for the game was actually already on the disc you were just paying to unlock it

Peasant(chewing the gas station beef jerky I gave him): I saw the cobbler’s wife kissing Satan’s asshole in the forest

Me (mind blown): waaaaaa

Dear Cide Hamete Benengeli,

It is!

Aside from writing, I don't want to do any of the things you need to do to become a successful writer

The Dreadful Point no.62, broadside edition

We enjoyed reading your manuscript for the first modern novel. Unfortunately there are too many inconsistencies regarding Sancho Panza and his donkey, and we have reluctantly decided not to publish it at this time. We hope to consider more of your work in the future.

I think it's a little misleading for an antique dealer to display an ancient talisman of mysterious and forbidden power if it's not really for sale

There is no such thing as “the perfect crime,” you just have to commit the best crime you can

(Proust’s editor at LE JOURNAL DES PETITES MADELEINES) a lot of this isn’t really about petites madeleines

62. A Fig Tree – Cities of the Plain – Combinations – Human Resources, a story (The following is a work of satire. The people and events depicted, including those based on real people and events, are a…

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Do YOU know him? Have YOU heard of Kelwas?

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CHARLIE BROWN: Yes mistress, you're right, mistress, I'm a blockhead! a hopeless blockhead!

DOMINATRIX: wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah

A mediocre move becomes a terrible movie at two hours and ten minutes

I think we can all agree that if a movie is going to be more than two hours it has to be really good

Kyle Reese: Understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

The Terminator:

He's right

A four-panel comic drawn by your bluesky friend, Pete Toms. It's titled Person from Porlock and the titular person is sitting in a chair reading Kubla Khan by Coleridge which has an intro where the poet in complaining about our protagonist. In panel 1 he's like "Jesus Christ." In panel 2 he says, "A guy can't stop by and say hello because some motherfucker might be writing a poem." In panel 3 he reads a bit of the poem, "As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted by a woman wailing for her demon-lover..." and is like, "God forbid someone interrupts this. Also I have a name." In panel 4 he's slightly resigned and says "At least nobody reads this shit." I hadn't drawn a comic in a while and had forgotten that very specific feeling where you come up with a joke that's maybe at best slightly amusing enough to put in a 4 panel strip and then what's actually funny is the amount of effort and time you have to put in to actually produce the finished comic.

TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.

Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.

I just had to reread something I'd written in a previous issue to refresh my memory and thought, "Damn, that's really good"

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

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Hi #portfolioday!

My name is Luís, I'm a freelance ilustrator from Lisboa, and today for show and tell I bring some of my TTRPG covers.

Commissions closed but looking for more eyes on some current original projects.

A goblin smoking in a chair

A sunflower with teeth

A frog person smoking in a shop

A mad scientist working on an experiment.

Good morning #PortfolioDay ! 👋

I’m Zach and I’m available for freelance illustration work right now.

TTRPGs, Book/Comic/Album Covers, Posters, Video Games, Spot Art, Whatever!

Get in touch. Contact info on my portfolio site: emo-sludge.com

Bookstore — Malarkey You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.

Strange thing happens, when we don’t post about books for a while we don’t sell many books, so this is a post about books and fingers crossed it will help us sell some!

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really can't oversell how dramatically your life will improve when you get these things in your sweaty paws

lol thanks man