Kettlehead Comics

for people with unusual heads

[kettlehead-comics]

Rapscallion got nominated for best writing at the ennies! That's really sweet, thank you!

[corycatte]

may's designs were these buggy dragons that were so fun to do and I hope to revisit this base in the near future

[yellow-cat]

pride flag for nonbinary asexual aromantic individuals that just says "not gonna do all that"

[yellow-cat]

and it has the dragon from the welsh flag on it

[textpostscymraeg]

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[kinnoth-2]

everybody promise not to laugh at me but:

I recreated the Viceland house in Sims spinoff game "Paralives"

Floorplan shots of the main floor, second floor, and attic:

I am ......99.9% sure that I have everything accurate and to scale. The only things I couldn't control for were things that the in game engine would not let me do like get into granular detail about certain asset sizes and how different assets interacted with collision. For instance, the attic window is smaller and closer to the roofline irl but the in game roof asset does not allow you to put a functional window that close to the soffits, so I had to pump up the attic ceiling height by about 4 feet.

1st floor detail shots

I got really obsessed with trying to capture all the light sources dotted around the living room area, so here are nighttime shots and daytime shots. I decided to take out on the movie posters bc it just got too visually busy and all of my (painstaking) design choices were getting visually overwhelmed, but know that there was a version with that crazy poster-wallpaper aesthetic at one point. I might post that later for accuracy

We see only glimpses of the kitchen throughout the show, so the architectures is accurate but the set dressing is largely speculation

I'll post the second floor in a separate post tomorrow. We never see the second floor in the show, but I did an obsessive amount of zillow stalking for architectural accuracy. The furnishings are headcanon but made up for flavor

More detail shots:

[fromthedust]

Crab tureen - porcelain - artists in Jingdezhen, China - 1736-95

[kettlehead-comics]

FUN COOL FACT: bearded dragon beards will swell and grow dark when they're stressed. also dont stress out your bearded dragon you monster Prev: Indignite Next: ???

[qvarr]

This piece has been rotting in my art folder for months now and I finally figured out how I Wanted to color/render Dinraal.

I want to make a piece for each of the dragons, so consider this part 1 of the set.

[draconym]

Me: Fuck, the paper towels I want are on the top shelf.

The Sir David Attenborough That Lives In My Brain: Being smaller-than-average presents an added challenge to foraging ... but necessity is the mother of invention. A little creativity turns a baguette into a tool, and voilà--

(paper towel roll falls on my face)

Sir David Attenborough, pleasantly: Success.

[draconym]

Me, 3am: But am I even deserving of love

The Steve Irwin That Lives In My Brain: Crikey, get a look at this art teacher! These are so important to the local area, right, because they create habitat for heaps of vulnerable critters like juvenile nerds, goths, and furries. I love finding these because they often have these great ornamentations that they can use to identify one another. Take a look at the piercings and tattoos, here. Absolutely gorgeous! Let's let this one get back to sleep.

[contremineur]

Medieval stained glass fragment incorporated in a later window at the church of All Saints, East Barsham (Norfolk)  

image from here

[english-history-trip]

[goob-morning]

dream of beauty

[kettlehead-comics]

I keep forgetting I have like 17 of these in the bank, I just forget to upload them. enjoy the Arizona Green Tea shiny.

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[kettlehead-comics]

#059 - Arcanine

One of my favorite gen 1 designs! and also another chance to push the all-female-dwarves-have-beards agenda.

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[kettlehead-comics]

I forgot to mention!! I finally have a breather between projects right now, so my commissions are open. Feel free to send me an ask or message if interested. Info: https://kettlehead-comics.tumblr.com/post/149708698422/commission-info

[kettlehead-comics]

#059 - Arcanine

One of my favorite gen 1 designs! and also another chance to push the all-female-dwarves-have-beards agenda.

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[kettlehead-comics]

#979 - Annihilape I know, it's from a different generation. i was so sick when I made this that I totally forgot to upload it here, so that's my excuse, sorry all primeape enjoyers. Love annihilape though. what a fun design. Prev - Psyduck & Golduck Next - Arcanine

[kettlehead-comics]

#054 & #055 - PSYDUCK & GOLDUCK

That's right. I can do full evolutionary lines. But only at the most random and unchoreographed times. Poor lil psyduck needed a glowup.

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[kettlehead-comics]

Idk how much you answer asks, but I wanted you to know that I think Rapscallion is a new special interest and revived my Pirate special interest to new unseen hights.

I love this funky pirate game so much and me and my friends are having a blast with it, (the disaster lesbians finally confessed and it was Messy, I Love Them).

This really means the world to me. Thank you for sharing! And somehow, there are always disaster lesbians... A long-standing tradition, since my own three-year playtest Rapscallion game... The disaster lesbian pirate really just ought to be a playbook at this point, apparently. Here's to more messy terrible lesbian confessions!