artists do better with stability, security, serenity, some enrichment in our enclosure and not being hunted for sport
Roxi Horror @roxiqt.com ⋅ 19h
"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create
love how in the peanuts movie, once snoopy's sopwith camel is depicted as flying in the air, they refuse to show the bottom of it not being attached to the ground, so sometimes they'll just throw a airplane wing in the extreme foreground as necessary
I remember visiting my sister in college circa 2000 and seeing a billboard in Branson claiming that “Tolerance is a Sin” and I’ve been thinking about what sort of miserable, angry, scared bastards think like that for 25 years.
Hailey Piper @haileypiperfights.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
"the sin of empathy"
These people are broken on every level, including a species one.
Giving a damn about each other is what transformed our prehistoric ancestors from living in herds to living in troops. To be anti-empathy is to be anti-human.
Today in #9ChickweedLane I did not learn whose couch this is because wait in whose house does this strip take place, is Edda coming on to Seth in Seth's house, is Seth yeeting Edda from her own living room, does The Void have a communal living space
I knew a guy who had cocoa hoots and he couldn't sit down for a WEEK.
Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Cocoa Hoots (1972-circa 1975): A chocolatey, frosted O-shaped cereal, similar in texture to Cocoa Puffs. Promoted by a mascot named Newton the Owl, voiced in commercials by Pat Butram (of "Disney's Robin Hood" and "Green Acres" fame)
HEY! Did you know that if you buy in-stock Transformers off entertainmentearth.com right now, you might get one of these rad-ass '80s pack-in catalog-style Studio Series checklists? Friggin' wild. And there's a coupon code on there for $20 off orders of +$99.