Do you accept

The introductory “Hate” monologue from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, with AM voiced by the TikTok TTS

This is one of my favorite monologues in all of fiction, and I think the voice legitimately, unironically adds to the experience. With the modern connotation we now have surrounding this voice of faux cheeriness, machine generated empathy, machine generated “humanity”, to hear that voice declare utter despisal of life on earth for damning it… its poetry. It’s the only remake of I Have No Mouth we need.

my boss accidentally added a wrong number to our group chat 😭

so bc i am a Gross Dude my friends i and sometimes rate our burps and my coworker (who is a teen girl) burped in front of me once and i instinctively rated it

so now every time she burps she looks to me hopefully for a rating and bc she has delicate little baby burps i now have to create an entirely new Burp Rating System unique to her bc i rate anything below a 5 and she looks at me like this

Being an actor keeps me sane. Yeah I have to work a day job but know what? When my day job is stressful and I want to scream I get to go hey wait. I have a scream scheduled at 7:30 tonight. Gotta save up. And then I go back to what I was doing.

I have a scream scheduled, I have a kiss scheduled, I have an argument scheduled, I have a making up scheduled, I have a sing and dance scheduled, I have a get slapped in the face scheduled, I have a cry scheduled, whatever. It’s all good.

Something something the Greeks were right about catharsis.

ohhhhhhhhhh my god and when you argue you always have a comeback, and when you make up there’s no lingering anger, and when you scream you don’t have to hold back, and when you get slapped in the face you know you’re safe, and when you cry you know all will be well.

Oh and if it doesn’t turn out and your character dies or something well then you can go to the greenroom and have a snack and that’s good too.

Everyone saying “oh like bdsm” or “oh like larping.” Yes. Humans thrive on imagination and play in many ways.

Experience: Learning the right way to connect the dots.

This is the best representation of something I have been trying to explain to people for years!!!! Saving this to my phone so I can routinely pull it out when I need. 

So if you look in the lower right-hand corner of that last panel with the unicorn, you’ll see that it looks like something was erased or pasted over. Know why? Because this isn’t the original version of the cartoon.

This is:

Yeah, that’s right. This entire strip is a comment on antisemtism and y’all changed it to be more “fun” and deleted the artist’s signature in the process. So anyway, this isn’t just some helpful infographic or a silly meme, it’s a commentary on how Jews have been getting blamed for world’s ills for 2,000 years, and whoever erased that panel can fuck right off for eternity.

So I’ve seen this post a lot and when I first saw that it had originally been about antisemitism and that had been erased, I was shocked and angry. But then I noticed just how off the artist’s signature seemed to the rest of the image. It’s in a completely different resolution, in fact you can see slight discoloration behind the logo. So that’s odd. What’s also odd, is how the first picture has an artist’s handle, @gapingvoid and this new handle was completely different. It’s… JNRAGY? I think? Very different from the first handle. 

So I reverse image searched both images, the one commenting on antisemiticism and the unicorn one and I could not find the source for either of them. All I could find were other people posting reuploads of the art, not the artist. So I looked back at the images and actually, it turns out neither are the original. Because the original said nothing about Conspiracy theories. As the previous person said, if you look at the unicorn you can see something partially photoshopped out. On the other hand the lines making up the star are more pixelated than the other parts of the art piece and the dots are slightly blurry. It’s a lower resolution than the rest of the picture. The earliest post I can find with the antisemitism commentary was August 5th of this year. The unicorn 

So I go back to the first artist’s handle, gapingvoid. And it’s a whole website selling prints of artworks with similar art styles. This looks promising. Looking up ‘Data Information Knowledge’ lead me to find this.

It was from 5 year ago. This was the original. The two conspiracy theory versions have started being shared a lot this year, in the past few months honestly.

I think it’s worth always remembering to double check the veracity of claims. However, I do think that the edit of the comic to critique antisemitism is very good and is a very worthwhile piece of art in its own right. Adapting other’s work is an important part of art but it was not the original artist’s intent.

This uniquely illustrates the point of the conspiracy theory panel. People just changed the information. And they did it twice so that the first layer of falsehood only revealed the second underneath.

The earliest use of the original I can find is from 2019, indeed on the gapingvoid site

17 years ago today.. the biggest rockstar move in history.

The look of satisfaction says everything

There are a lot of photos that were purposefully edited or shot in a way that made it look just absolutely abysmal, but in reality? It was a damn good look.

Should also be noted, this wasn't an entirely spur of the moment thing as everyone tried to make it seem. She had actually scheduled and sat down at her stylists/hair dressers office, and told them she wanted them to shave her head — but they wouldn't do it, tried to convince her not to do it, and so Britney ended up doing it herself, which is why the original photos were rather horrible — she was shaving her head for the first time, not using the proper tools, and didn't get every spot, or anywhere close to even.

I've been shaving my head for ten years now, and it took me a good two years to do it properly, and I still mess up fairly often.

She talked about it in 2008 by saying:

i love you black trans people. i love you asian trans people from all over asia (not just east asia). i love you hispanic trans people. i love you indigenous trans people. i love you poc trans people. you're doing great, i promise you, and i'm so fucking sorry the community erases you as much as it does.

Sometimes, I Wonder if I Accidentally Bumped Off JD Salinger

This story is true and goes back to 2008 when John Hamilton at Penguin commissioned me to design the book jackets for JD Salinger's entire back catalogue.

Mr. Salinger was alive then, in his early 90s and, by all accounts, a belligerent and grumpy recluse. The chain of command was unusual and went like this. Salinger directed all his feedback via his New York lawyer, who then communicated with his London lawyer, who then communicated with Penguin, who then communicated with me, in my tiny home studio in North London. This process was somewhat intimidating, and went back and forth for weeks. It must have cost him a fucking fortune.

John told me Salinger was a very sensitive and emotional man and had always hated the first book jacket design for 'The Catcher in the Rye', a book which to this day still sells over a million copies a year. He had instructed Penguin to redesign the jackets using lettering only. "No pictures!" Salinger had stated. That's when John thought of me.

I designed three options, and Salinger chose the third — bespoke Inline Roman Capital letterforms with minimal and carefully considered flourishing to add a touch of refined elegance and unify the set. Salinger was shown the designs and signed them off himself, making only one change to the ‘Catcher’ jacket. He wanted the junction on the 'Y' in 'Rye' raised, which he felt made it more legible.

A day later, Salinger died. John said signing off the jackets was probably Salinger's last creative decision.

To this day I sometimes lie in bed at night wondering if the surprise of my stark, graphic and (back then) avant-garde new covers for his life's work tipped the poor fella over the edge. Fuck me, I hope I didn’t accidentally bump off JD Salinger. I just want to get this off my tits after all these years. Rest in Peace, Mr Salinger. What an intense privilege to be involved in a project of such literary magnitude.

Note: A few years later, just as I was coming to terms with this, I designed a cover for Seamus Heaney, and he died immediately afterwards. I no longer take on book commissions.

We didn't forget about it.

The media is silencing it.

Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.

I just want to clarify a few things, because I have a feeling some people may share this without watching the video in full and/or getting further details from related news articles:

(this is a good thing, if that's not clear; I feel like too many people have forgotten about the tactical use of arrests by activists, especially during the Civil Rights era, to highlight injustice or disrupt a media narrative)

Anyway, kudos to Mr Kluwe for this, I hope more public figures will follow suit.

The fact that this is 80 fucking years ago but still just as relevant is terrifying.

Come back, I have to tell you the plot of a fic I’ll never write and get you excited about it so we can all be disappointed with me later

i want to know what kind of effects eating hot cheeto macaroni and drinking orange joe in the same meal would have on my body

i have regrettably partaken in the joe not once,

but twice (bottled soda was OBJECTIVELY worse)

and the hotcheeto macaroni knocked me out for 12 hours

if i have both of these in the same meal i think i will be knocked into a

shitters coma

eulogy for my bowels, 2022

see you all in the next life

following up on this post ~8 months later with the fact that im now physically missing portions of my intestines from my body