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The Den!

She's big - specifically, long. Long cat is long. She also has just the right number of limbs in just the right number of places to make getting a good place to hold her while gluing on her fabric skin frustrating pretty much 90% of the time - a lot of awkward "how do I hold this so I have a good grip AND can get at the part I need to cover?" moments. Still, damn impressive once she pulled together!

I think I made her head slightly too large and monstrous - she doesn't have as much of those subtle human qualities that make the Den so haunting in many of her scenes. But I was actually worried I'd do the opposite and try to make her too pretty, so if I overcorrected I'm glad it's in the service of preserving how monstrous this iteration of the princess is. Plus if I made her head much smaller she wouldn't be as good at chomping those articulate jaws!

I am glad I kept her thin - one of the cool things about the Den is that, for all her animal viciousness, she's also clearly sickly and malnourished, like a tiger kept in captivity at a really shitty zoo. She needs to be big and impressive but also kind of frail and vulnerable at the same time - she's a wild animal who's suffered in a cage for too long.

(man, someone is going to tag this as some variation of "Verbing with Mama" and unwittingly suggest an incestuous paradox the likes of which have only been experienced by the Onceler and Phillip J. Fry)

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Happy #makeaterriblecomicday2025! Please make a comic! It’s mandatory that you create some piece of sequential art — what it is and how you make it is up to you! Have fun! You might as well!

If you make a comic (again, it’s mandatory) and you want to share it, post it on the tag #makeaterriblecomicday2025! Or don’t, I’m not a cop.

Remember, the goal is to make something terrible! So if you can’t draw or have never made a comic, or if it’s been ages since you made something just for fun — that’s perfect! You’re all set! If you fuck up and make something that’s NOT terrible… well, some might say there’s joy in that too.

Ok stop reading this and go make something!!!

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This was peak cell phone design and I miss it every day.

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Submission from Sponch

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the LA river

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swanboy.com

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everything is truly so terrible but i just remembered doreen ketchens playing clarinet for her infant grandson and then i was kind of okay again for 36 seconds

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need to revisit her model occasionally to justify all the work i put into it

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thousands of people are marching against ice and in solidarity with la right now in downtown chicago. btw. the protest started out under 50 people. go see if there’s something happening near you

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So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

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Klim Shakhnin

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My one friend group can't stop saying, "See you in hell!" in a cheerful voice instead of, "Talk to you later!" and my other friend group can't stop calling things "penis" instead of "cool" or "good", so I just unironically uttered the phrase, "Sounds penis, see you in hell," as I got off the phone.