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my brains been a little fried over the past few weeks so I went a bit quick and loose with some npcs for my Pokemon themed dnd game
I’m still playing with shapes and lines but it was pretty fun just to play with the energy of the characters
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my entry for make a terrible comic day 2026: what happens after you die
My terrible comic for make a terrible comic day today
I made a Terrible Comic about a horrible dream I had a few months ago. It doesn't mean anything.
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Dailies, May 25 - 31, 2015
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bacteriography portrait of Five Pebbles I made from yeast , mold , acrylic paints and other stuff i found
05/18/2026
Here she is, folks.
My god. I can hardly form words right now.
I’ll be back with more normal thoughts later, I,m just.
Wow… he has a sister. She’s right here. Pops has a daughter…..
No point in delaying. Let’s talk about Heathcliff:
The characters in this comic are literally saying what so many Heathcliff fans around the internet right now are saying. It is such a strong and immediate exact response that we are standing right there next to the characters. I didn’t know he had a sister!
This is even a somewhat infrequent joke format in Heathcliff history. some action will be happening and people highlight one single element of the ordeal and say they didn’t know that one existed. I didn’t know that X had/did Y.
Let’s just go back to the first appearance of SisCliff:
It is of course the same instinct in this comic as we had in the first. both the reader and Iggy are saying the same thing. I want to compare the emotions going on in both of these panels.
Gately gave us a Heathcliff who is overjoyed to see his sister visiting. She has that iconic casual ‘cliff family smug grin. Even without the caption, we see exactly what’s going on here. The language of old friends seeing each other after a time apart, that coming through the door with arms open. We are being shown the language of a reunion and we are being shown a character who looks identical to our boy, with the same mannerisms.
How does Gallagher achieve the same effect?
We see two heathcliffs, identical in every way except for the little bow on her head. both have the half-lidded casual gaze, the Cliff grin. importantly though, rather than showing us the moment of the reunion, Gallagher shows us something in his own language he has developed across his tenure as Heathcliff artist. Heathcliff and his father are always doing this sort of cooperative mischief when they meet up. pops also looks identical to Heathcliff aside from the accessories he wears. If any week were to be a theme week, I really hope it’s this one. please Gallagher if you can hear me.
I really hope we get to see her permutations through the various symbols of Heathcliff. I’m curious if she can wear a helmet since her defining feature is the bow. I wonder if that means the helmet will have a bow on top of it which would be fucking adorable And I will immediately be changing all of my profile pictures around the internet. What will she think of Jimmy. has she ever been visited by the garbage ape. What are her opinions on beef and on fly flavored gum? has she ever performed with Dumpty?
something that Gallagher has done very well is create a little toy box and every time I see a new toy I want to play with it with all the other toys. I want to incorporate it into my playset. I got so excited when I saw the last word of today’s comic that I yelped. I immediately stopped what I was doing and texted my friends who are in Thailand right now that I had more important news than whatever the fuck they were doing on their trip.
I love that criminal mischief is a trait to the entire family shares, I love that they all have that same casual view of the world around them through those eyelids, I love that after 50 years they are still in lockstep with each other executing meat heists. The way this panel is framed, I can clearly imagine what happened. The cashier was busy dealing with the primary threat, Heathcliff, and thought he had it under control but he didn’t realize there was another. So she managed to slip in while he was occupied and nab a fish and once he saw what was happening, Heathcliff use that distraction to grab one of his own and they both took off. I didn’t know he had a sister, I thought I had it under control.
I really hope we get to see Heath, Pops, and Sis together this week I will lose my mind. please Gallagher if you can hear my prayers
bonus material: look at how fucking busted Heathcliff’s brother is
2013 was five years ago let that sink in
So, I think it's very important to have plenty of things in your life that are just for you and your friends, and aren't turned into "content".
Miniatures is generally one of those things, but I've been working on this ork Speed Freeks army for 40k since the start of the year and I'm actually REALLY proud of them, so you know what? I'm showing them off in public.
Forgive the quality of the photos and paintjobs - I have neither the equipment or skill for photographing miniatures, and my painting has always been more enthusiastic than neat (it's the modelling I love, and I'm often in too much of a rush to get them painted up really well).
Anyway, hope you like 'em. 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO! 'ERE WE GO!
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Once you know all the logic tricks to play minesweeper, you end up in a state of exercised mastery. The goal is not to solve individuals puzzles but to tease out more and more from her while denying her every chance to explode, every chance to deny you your total dominance over her.
In short, mastery over minesweeper is mastery over edging the program.
Okay I did that for all the mines you can logic out can you please click the blank cells now? I need this. Please
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I promised you to talk about it, back when I made my post about caloric magic: unfortunately I lost the article I wanted to reblog as a reference (it is somewhere drowned in my likes). I will still do the post, but quite late and succinct as a result: I want to speak about how bizarre the use of "True Names" is today.
Because if you go onto the Internet, if you check "True Names magic", "Do not share your True Name", "True Names have power", all you get is... Fairies. Fairies, faeries, fae, fair folk, elves, whatever. The Internet today not only proclaims but runs with the idea that a core part of fairy lore, of fairy fiction, of fairy tradition, relies on the existence of a "True Name" that is a powerful thing the fairies protect at all costs, because whoever has them can enslave them. It is everywhere - Mercy Thompson, Modern Faerie Tale, Dresden Files, Shadowhunters, World of Darkness, Spinning Silver...
And... this is utterly, entirely, completely false. Entertaining, charming, a whole aesthetic sure, a freshly-made tradition, but artificial, out of nowhere and heavily misleading to the point of nearing misinformation.
Mind you, it does not come from "nowhere" per se. There is ONE recurring fairy-story that did give credit to the idea that "True Names" were connected with the Fair Folk/Little Folk: the brothers Grimm' Rumplestiltskin, where to defeat the titular antagonist the protagonist must guess his name... However this is A) an exception to the rule as you will find no other popular stories showing fairies relying on their name ; and B) completely missing the point. When you check the many variations, from country to country and era to era, of the "Rumplestiltskin" fairytale-type (type number 500 per the International Classification), you notice that what all the names to guess have in common is weirdness, bizareness, ridiculousness. The "guessing of the name" trial relies not on on the "importance" of the true name, but on the fact the name is just so convoluted and hard to pronounce nobody could guess it.
Fairies in folklore and legend do NOT rely on "True Names" as we understand it today... So where does this whole thing came from?
[EDIT: Mind you, there are, here and there, some little stories about supernatural beings able to be vanquished when their name is spoken aloud, I am not saying it does not exist... But I am saying it is quite minor and not a core nor prominent part of "fairy lore"]
Well, the answer is fantasy. In terms of "magic of True Names", it was the fantasy genre that popularized it. While foundational works like Tolkien's books rely heavily on the importance and multiplicity of names, there's no "True Name" power as we understand it ; similarly its mythical sources do not rely on this either. Yes the Kalevala relies on magic being performed by knowing the "true essence and origin" of the things, but it has nothing to do with "names" at all - to have power over something, you need to be able (for example) to sing how it came to be and how it was conceived. It is knowing the "true tale" of something that is important, not a "true name". [EDIT: Okay, the dwarves of Tolkien do have "true names" they keep secret to their graves and yes names do have significance and power in Tolkien's Legendarium, but it doesn't fit what we understand as "True Names" today]
True Names started in fantasy with... Le Guin's Earthsea. She was the one who first brought the concept that magic uses and relies on True Name ; she was the one who built a world where people kept secret their True Names and went by nicknames or titles ; she was the one who wrote about how you could bind someone using their True Name. And it was from "Earthsea" onward that this concept was used and reused in fantasy - for example in Glenn Cook's "The Black Company" where speaking a sorcerer's True Name means the end of their magic - and the idea that the "True Name" rule only works for magic-users is apparently also found in Niven's "The Magic Goes Away"?
In fact, in fantasy the "Law of Names" was mainly focused as being a purely magical thing. Either it was how wizards and witches worked their magic (like in "The Forgotten Beasts of Held", "Dragonsbane", "Young Wizards" or the "Inheritance Cycle"), either it is a threat to the sorcerer itself, see above. This is very likely because of how Earthsea focuses on the wizards and mages. Similarly sometimes the "True Name" was expanded to dragons, and I suspect it is because the most iconic use of a True Name in Earthsea was against a dragon... And from sorcerers and dragons, the trope slowly slipped into "Fairies". Maybe it is because of famous contemporary works that blurred the line? Such as Ghibli's "Spirited Away" where the witch stealing peoples' name is also a fairy-like inhabitant of an "Otherworld" ; or "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" where the powerful wizard turned fairy-power The Raven King needs his true name to be summoned.
Yet the Earthsea world has everybody keep their true name secret, not just magic-wielders, ordinary folks too. Because, and we are getting into the interesting part... Because it is meant to be a cosmic and social thing for everybody, not just one specific type of people. And this is explained when you look at Earthsea's inspirations. While Earthsea became a staple of "traditional fantasy" in itself (becoming inspiration for "traditional" works like "Name of the Wind" or parody works like Discworld), it was created to be an un-traditional fantasy. Among its attempts at reinventing the genre, or subverting it, was the desire to create an un-European setting. It is still medieval European in essence (the dragons, wizards and a lot of the society is just very "standard fantasy"), but it is wrapped in a lot of non-European elements. And the whole Rule of Names/Law of Names/True Name system Le Guin created for her book was meant to be THE most un-European thing ever.
Because, before it appeared in fantasy, where did the "True Name Law" appear? Putting aside the monotheistic religions talks, of course. [This trope is found in Jewish beliefs, traditions and occultism, especially when the Kabbalah is involved - there is this famous emphasis on God's True Name and how it should be an unspoken secret. This logic was reused for the story of C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God", not to be confused with "Kill Six Billion Demons". In Christianity God's name is also powerful but hardly a secret - demons' name could however be secrets people neede to uncover, mainly during exorcisms, but it can be argued this is a rule of every exorcism ritual around the world, the name/nature/identity of the evil presence needs to be identified.]
Well, Le Guin's inspiration were the Chinese Dao/Tao concepts of "zhen ming", "true names", and "zhen xing", "true shapes", used to create talismans which have power over spirits and demons. And the social traditions of the First Nations of Northern America, where children received two names - one public name that changed with the events in their life, and a secret unchanging one they preserved so evil spirits could not steal it. And the Egyptian legends where Isis stole Ra's true name to gain power. And the Polynesian sacredness or taboo-nature of specific names. (I could mention the South-Eastern Asian habit of protecting children by changing their name when they got cursed, or giving them false temporary names to trick spirits, but I am not quite sure Le Guin used it, whereas I know she did take inspiration from China, Polynesia and pre-colonization America)
And this is the whole irony of the thing. The introduction of "True Names" in American fantasy was done in an effort to create a non-European ambiance and flavor. Yet today it ended up becoming the emblem of the most European thing ever - fairies. It is a fascinating "snake bites its own tail" - in half a century, from trying to get away from European folklore, the Americans returned it all to European folklore.
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