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Here’s our exclusive artwork that we did for this year’s Planet Comicon Kansas City! We’ll have prints at our table in Artist Alley! We’ll also have a 2x3 fridge magnet to match it!

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hey UK followers, go get your covid boosters ASAP before these bastards take away yet another covid protection. jfc

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I don’t want to ‘piss off a terf’, I want to make sure other trans people in my life are safe

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Be the Xmas skeleton you want to see in the world.

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here’s a very dumb thing I made in response to today’s very dumb Twitter announcement. Hope you like it!

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The sardonic, reductionist headline here could be "Scientists finally figured out why you get more colds in winter: bEcAuSe iT's CoLd!"—but the actual science involved here is both interesting, and potentially very relevant to everyday life and especially the immunocompromised:

It turns out the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose. [...] In fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils, according to the study published Tuesday in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. “Cold air is associated with increased viral infection because you’ve essentially lost half of your immunity just by that small drop in temperature,” said rhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleier, director of otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Want to avoid catching or spreading respiratory viruses like CoVid-19, RSV, influenza, or a common cold? Mask up, please, but also bundle up! Wrap up in a scarf, wear a balaclava, and just generally keep your face warm. There's no single magic solution, but that's not a reason to do nothing. Rather, it's a reason to take several simple precautions that help avoid the spread of disease and protect those around you. (I can't tell you how much "this isn't 100% effective so I shouldn't do it at all" frustrates me.)

Oh, and #knitblr? This is your time to shine.

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Good advice. #Thanksgiving

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It’s my opinion that like if a white supremacist/Nazi is going to be reformed. They need to do so willingly. The only times I’ve heard of successful rehabilitation of fascists is when they made the conscious decision to no longer be one anymore and seek atonement. People who try to like hug and change fascists that don’t want to change are fucking morons

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when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

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Here’s a recruitment poster I did for my team of badass monster women archaeologist relic hunters, the Science Expeditionary Force.

This is Frankie. She’s one of Dr. Frankenstein’s creations, and like her older brother, she also rebelled against her “father.” She has less baggage about it, though. Frankie is the team mechanic and heavy. Along with her Robo-Raptor, Fidget (a technological upgrade on the science that her “father” created), she keeps the team rolling in their quest to recover lost scientific relics and knowledge.

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YES, this.

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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opening tumblr is like stepping into the woods at night and listening to the chaotic screams of wandering spirits

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Here’s something I wanna say real quick, while I’m feeling salty: Amazon has totally contributed to the devaluation of literature. Those prices you see, the $13 they’re asking you to pay for a hardcover book? Those are deep, DEEP discounts that they’re able to implement because they don’t collect sales tax if they can get away with it, they don’t contribute money to the communities where they have a physical presence, they have shitty labor practices, Jeff Bezos has more money than god, etc. 

(Read this report from the Institute for Self-Reliance if you really want to get into how they’re hurting the economy.)

They’re so omnipotent at this point that they’ve normalized the discounted prices for books as the standard. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had someone come up to me and tell me what the price on Amazon is, expecting me to match it. The number of times I’ve been told, “Oh, it’s cheaper on Amazon, I’ll just get it there.” Even at author events, where book sales DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTE to whether or not that bookstore will be able to get more authors in.

So when you go into a bookstore, and you’re asked to pay $27 for a hardcover, remember: THAT IS THE COVER PRICE. Set by the publishers. The bookstore is not upcharging you. They are asking you to pay the value of the book. Amazon’s low prices come with a cost. Please, just keep that in mind. 

(I made a post with options for buying books online that aren’t Amazon. Check it out!)

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This is Ed White. He’s about to become the second human being to walk in space. He will describe this experience as the most meaningful of his life, and his return to the capsule, at the pleading of his crew mate on Gemini 4 and the people on the ground, as its most disappointing. In a year he will be dead, burned in Apollo 1’s launch pad fire, trying to return.

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#tbt to the time I was asked to design a poster for the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in LosAngeles. This was a lot of fun to do since I was entirely unfamiliar with HP Lovecraft. It was also the first time I ever drew a sign or recognizable building facade into my work. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPYyDzlDPDo/?utm_medium=tumblr