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A selection of seasonal art of yore. I have rather a surfeit of it. 1. Expanded panel from the Lovecrafty comic 2. Jazzwitch 3. Voodoo (so old) 4. Harlequin 5. The Phantom Bootlegger comic Happy Halloween! ————————– Lackadaisy is on Patreon - there’s extra stuff!

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also we came to a WILD realization tonight: when playing rock, paper, scissors, people from the east coast and midwest go on SHOOT, and people from the west coast (who are insane) go on scissors. like WHY

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Ok so I moved to Alberta’s a few years ago, but I didn’t know about the rat thing until i wasn’t talking to my coworker about the pet rats I had as a kid. He was like, “PET rats? Oh right, you didn’t grow up here. There are no rats in Alberta.”

“What. how can there be no rats?? This is a land locked province.”

But a lot of people I know here who grew up in Alberta have never seen a rat?? One time a couple years ago someone in town THOUGHT they saw a rat, and reported it, but it was just a muskrat. The story was in our local newspaper, complete with a blurry photo of the muskrat, swimming in the river.

Then there’s the rat patrol page on the provincial government website, which starts off with something like “aren’t you lucky to be living in a province with no rats?” The first time I read it all I could think of was 

is it fucking weird to anyone else to think that deer are like, everywhere

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KARL???

The new untitled GG chapters have now titles. Check.

Hang on a minute. 

Are you telling me that our lovely extradimensional friend is named Karl. 

Not just Karl. 

Karl THOT

I’m not sure I have the ability to process this information. 

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Bill Waterson, you magnificient bastard

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Wow I can't believe Governing Intelligence is canon yet AGAIN

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AAAAAAA-hahahaha-AAAAAAAAA

Page reaction:

Ok, who else is scream-laughing? Laugh-screaming? idk

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Still on the Lucrezia!Gil thing. She does that cocky flirting she always does with Tarvek and instantly deduces he’s in love with Gil.

(Behold. Im doing the barest minimum of editing my freehand sketchbook marker doodles that I took a photo of on my phone.)

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Agatha and Gil switching parental mind controls was briefly mentioned in the chat and I took it way too far. 

Bonus:

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Aang’s dilemma over how to stop Ozai without killing him is one of my favorite things about the finale. In a show like A:TLA, you kinda already know that the heroes are going to beat the bad guys at the end. The show will make it look dicey for a bit, but the heroes ARE going to save the day, the only question is how. (This isn’t a complaint — it would both be very unsatisfying and make no narrative sense for the villains to win in this sort of story.) Generally, the mystery of just HOW the heroes will pull off the victory is more than enough to keep the audience engaged, even if the idea of the victory itself is more or less a given.

Avatar went even further though. For much of the finale, whether Aang will be able to stop Ozai is not treated as the main issue for him. Instead it’s whether Aang will be able to stop Ozai without killing him, because that act would harm Aang so much mentally and spiritually. This creates a lot of tension in Aang’s story - will he be able to pull this off? For much of the finale it really looks like Aang will have to make that spiritual sacrifice for the greater good. It’s not a given. And it is a relief when he finds a way to solve this problem.

I’ve always thought this was a clever way to add uncertainty to a final battle where victory is pretty much guaranteed by the narrative. 

Do you ever think about how Aang had to start from scratch? His culture, people and heritage wiped away. No one to talk to him about Air Nomad stories or folklore (maybe it hurt him when Bumi and Kya mocked those tales but that’s not the point) and no one that could go down memory lane with him.

He is left alone to celebrate air nomad traditions, he has to sew his own air nomad attire, that air nomad food he liked growing up nobody cooks it anymore so this 12 year old has to try his hand on it. The worst part is that what if he had to take those wooden necklaces off from corpses of air nomads just to wear it

Maybe he had to make them himself idk but like the thought that he had to revive his own people or keep their memory alive like this, and he wants to keep the philosophy of his people alive, their traditions and choose to be a pacifist but people wanna say he is selfish. Lmao like okay.

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I know paleoart has gone through a lot of changes even in recent years, and the old stuff is really questionable, but charles Knight’s 1897 ‘Leaping Laelaps’ is so iconic, so cute, I can’t bring myself to dislike it in any way.

look at these frolicking guys with their pastel palette. So agile so mischievous! They’re having a good tussle in the grass! I love them!!!

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So, Dumbing of Age and the whole creationist fire breathing Parasaurolophus thing recently have reminded me of a story:

One night, back when I was a senior in college, some dude started chatting me up at a bar. He seemed cool, so we kept chatting. I started going on about dinosaurs because that’s what I do. And then this dude started talking about how there’s scientific evidence that some dinosaurs breathed fire??? And I was like no??? I mean I’m not always that great at keeping up with the literature but I would have heard about this??? And biologically it seems pretty improbable if not outright impossible??? This guy kept insisting and my opinion of him immediately plummeted and drunk college me was pretty baffled and mad about the whole thing and my friend and I left the bar pretty quick.

At the time I assumed this dude had seen some faux documentary on dragons and thought it was real. Or maybe he was just some drunk college dude trying to impress me with cool dinosaur facts he made up. 

But maybe he was referencing this creationist fire breathing Parasaurolophus?

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Violetta!!!

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me @ my cat: why are you so pointy