The moral to the story of The Laughing Salesman is you should go to therapy instead of accepting strange gifts and promises of aid from an ever-grinning, teleporting businessman who never blinks an appropriate number of times for a human being
Reposting to show support for more madness!
Vinni: *unearths planner that's been missing all year* Well, then...
Kim: "I'm ADHD! I bought a planner to organize my life. I'm ADHD! I lost the planner I bought to organize my life."
Kim: Did you turn off the heater in the living room?
Vinni: I... hmmm... I can't remember. I *thought* about turning off the heater...
K: Good job!
V: ...
K: That wasn't sarcasm. We gotta celebrate the small wins
All of our books and most of our authors’ other works were stolen. We could do a whole lot of cool things with $526,000.
Partial drawing of creature with many eyes
Work in progress #art
If you see this - post a monster
I commented about that company and Fahrenheit 451 on Threads, and some dude told me I liked the bad adaptation. When I said the hounds were from the book, he argued with me until I sent him a link to a study guide, at which point he vanished. I often wonder where he's off being wrong now 😆
After something of a hiatus, Gaijin Mommy Stop Motion Pictures presents a new film I like to call: Pico Iyer Reads his Latest NYT Piece from a Burning Building He Does Not Know Is on Fire. Please enjoy 🙏
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V: But you're likely to upset a preschooler talking about their stuffie like it's not alive.
K: Yes. You have no choice but to use "iru." Curses are the price you pay for having children (2/2)
(Note: iru/aru mean "to be, to exist")
Vinni: So, in Japanese you use "iru" when you're talking about animate things and "aru" for inanimate things. Which would you use for a beloved stuffie?
Kim: Using "iru" for a toy is inviting calamity upon your house. (1/2)
I won't complain about video game price hikes... but I'm gonna b**** 3x as hard if game companies who raise their prices keep laying off their designers and developers between projects
Don't let the power go to your head 🩷🧙♂️⚔️
We love puzzle games. The Professor Layton series is our jam! But we have to admit, we go into 80% of those puzzles like, "Is this a real question or a bulls*** question?"
Just remember: Any time there's a story with the title "[NAME OF CHARACTER] Unleashed", it's implicitly a sequel to another story called "[NAME OF CHARACTER] Leashed".
Sometimes you discover a direction you hadn't expected but is better than you envisioned. You can influence each other, and you can appreciate each other's processes. An algorithm can't give you that (3/3)
It is *fun* to collaborate with artists, to see what ideas they have for your vision, to watch their progress, and to have the opportunity to request changes along the way instead of scrapping and starting over if you don't like something (2/3)
All ethical debates aside, the thing about "generating" the parts of the creative process you can't do well yourself is you're denying yourself the joy of working with another creative with a different skillset or even just a different style from you (1/3)
Happy Pi Day to those who celebrate! Vinni was unable to find a round pie tin at any of our local stores and so is outraged to be making a square apple pie on 3.14
Like, how does a person boycott illegally? How can we engage in this sort of criminal activity? We can't afford Tesla, and neither of us has a Japanese driver's license and therefore no car, but this is the kind of petty crime I want on my rap sheet
Wtf is an "illegal boycott"? 😑
Drop something METAL!
Dear Writer,
Your words will touch someone’s heart.
Love, Kayleigh
For unknowable reasons, Vinni just mistyped "trouble" as "dropple" in an email. Is the antidote sleep or coffee?
I had the kindest teacher in high school—adored kids of all ages—but even she was known for remarking that the only two surviving species of human are homo sapiens and 8th graders 😆
It's warm today, and watching these arm-length icicles snap off from the rooves and explode as they land tip down on the pavement is dramatic and terrifying
Oof. It is *hard* to avoid the prompt-generated images (you know what I mean) on here, especially browsing steampunk, cyberpunk, etc. We've already muted the obvious tags but still get flooded on those feeds! We just want to stick to human-made art! Please!
What do you do when you want to leave the house but don't feel like doing the things to make yourself presentable to the general public?
