Box of Art and Crimes

I'm the Artist and Co-Writer of Opportunities. Please read it. Pretty please. Pleeeeease.

[elliwiny]

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Opportunities 2.01 - A Partridge in a Pear Tree - 3d6 Wild Dogs's Ko-fi Shop

This is Chapter 1 of "Let it Snow" - The second Opportunities book! 'Holiday Hitman' Jack Frost is infiltrating a luxury space freighter wi

GUESS WHAT?!?! You can read chapter 1 of "Let it Snow" RIGHT NOW if you wanted. For as low as zero dollars! My birthday's next week, and the greatest gift you could give me is to marvel at all the cars and guns I drew for this kickass action-packed chapter :) My comic Opportunities is about ✨Assholes✨ who murder people and (generally) get away with it. Their latest target is the CEO of an interstellar (and definitely not shady) shipping company. Captain of the assholes Jack Frost is obsessed with Christmas, and is making it everybody else's problem.

In this chapter, the opening of Opportunities Book 2, Jack's going to have a meet-cute with his shit wrecked by Kyan, the alien head of security with incredible thighs.

Imagine! Consequences? For your actions!? 🎄 ko-fi.com/s/4d9486bb69 🎄

(And if you wanted to read an earlier heinous and spectacular assassination, check out Opportunities Book 1: Massacre at the Grand Intercontinental DuPré on our website or in convenient PDF format) (CW for general violence and language)

[galileosballs]

Games that let you pet dogs are a dime a dozen now, but let's not forget that Tales of Symphonia let you go a step further by having one of your party members personally assign a name to every dog in the world, with a reward for finding them all.

Note that you cannot name dogs when this party member isn't in your party (or when... she doesn't feel up to it, to put it in a spoiler-free way) and that once a dog is named its speech bubble will have its name in it. There are 30 dogs in total. Some are missable. The walkthrough has to include the note:

They just don't make 'em like they used to.

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[gregtom]

[k-simplex-deactivated20241001]

Happy Pride

[lucybellwood]

As some of you might recall from this essay, I spent the latter half of 2025 working on a comic for the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum in Savannah, Georgia. Tania Sammons, a curator at the museum who had previously licensed my guide to sailors’ tattoos for a show, wrote to me with an irresistible pitch: four cartoonists would be hired, assigned a vessel from the museum's extensive collection of models, then given six months to produce a short comic for publication in an anthology alongside an accompanying museum display.

How could I say no?

My original brief was to research the Anne, the ship that brought the first colonists to Georgia, but in the aftermath of my dad's death the story took off in directions I couldn't have foreseen.

I'm releasing the whole comic online to coincide with the opening of Drawn to the Sea, the exhibition in Savannah. If you're in the area this week (or anytime over the next nine months!) you can stop in and see all the amazing work that came from myself and fellow artists Avery Hick, Rich King, and Sharon Norwood. Details about the museum show are here.

In the meantime, here's a very personal comic.

Content Warning: this piece deals with suicide and parental mortality. Readers with trypophobia may want to skip pages 14 and 15.

Thanks for reading <3

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

[theangriestman]

SOLD - 550 Bored Apes to this enterprising young idiot

HOMESITE TAPAS PATREON

[ruinousfortune]

Cayden is so cringe now that he is a dad of a 24 year old... god what happened to you dude

[elliwiny]

Today on Opportunities! (3.24)

It's funny because we all know what he'd do! Hahahahaha!!!!!!!

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[truly-sincerely]

Elli: My dad and I are both into Star Wars

Me: I'm a trekkie

Elli: well yeah me too

Me: No, there's no nuance, you have to choose one.

Elli: Well in that case yeah, I would say my dad is probably a star wars guy... and for me, I am also a star wars guy, like my father before me

Me: captain america at the table understanding that reference

Elli:

Elli: I see what you did there

[elliwiny]

Today on Opportunities! (3.23)

Unfortunately it's going to take Baron longer than one night, and that's one of many reasons why we're not sharing any cookies with him.

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[memewhore]

[yepthatsacowalright]

Am enthralled by this visualization NASA shared of Artemis II's path through space. The most mathematically accurate little dance. <3

[llleighsmith]

“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.”

— ERIN BOW

[elliwiny]

Today on Opportunities! (3.22)

Baron's fans ALSO want to know where Krampus is, I'm sure.

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[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[linddzz]

gotta be a term that isn't the dunning Krueger effect but is a kind of similar idea where the more deep scientists get into their topic and the more exhausted they get, the more likely they are to find stupid ways to describe things

[linddzz]

this post brought to you by a bunch of coral specialists at the end of a workshop voting to define coral, a complex animal, as "a rock with problems"