Lord of Vice

( •̀ ω •́ )✧ Indulgence Gives Us Strength  ♪(´▽｀) Rama | 30s | She/They | Fic Writer | 80K / 1.2M | 15/365

[ramabear]

another new year, another run at the Ultimate Goal.

we're doing things a little differently with some hand writing during the week and transcription at the weekends, and so far we're one for one. (yay!)

and even though we're running at the Ultimate Goal, my primary focus is to Finish things. I already went through and made a list of the open WIPs I've posted in order to cycle through them intentionally. i also have unposted WIPs that I'll be working on finishing because I am going to need a Lot of chapters in the end.

posting will likely remain irregular for a while, but yes, I am working on things again. there was a pretty long slump last year, but I'm feeling better these days and aim to take advantage of that for as long as i can.

I'll try to do more frequent updates and snippet posts on here for yall. most likely snippets from when I transcribe things and perhaps ones when i finish a chapter.

at this point the only definitely discontinued things on my Ao3 profile are the ones that are marked that way in the summary. everything else is still up for grabs as far as being worked on and posted.

i havent decided if i'm gonna do a weekly update post or an update as i finish things. if you have a preference, please let me know

and that's how things stand for the beginning of 2025!

[parkchanwoohoo]

Josh Johnson's delivery is so funny 😭

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I really love this thing that Josh Johnson always does, where he tells you the setup for the joke, then digresses with a long story that provides context, then reminds you of the setup of the joke in a single line and waits for you to tell the punchline to yourself before he says it. It gets the audience (and me) howling with laughter very single time. A very "we're all in on the joke" style of comedy.

[that-house]

Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

[anyroads]

#cold inspires a universal element of human nature that says let's share this fire for warmth and survival#heat inspires a universal element of human nature that says i hate you i hate the air it's sticky and i am going to do violence

you're right and you should say it

[everythingfox]

Everyone needs a short friend

(via)

[meangirlnurse]

had some time to chat with the verizon wireless guy while my phone was getting set up and he’s a straight guy it turns out he has two moms and used to DJ for drag events. culturally LGBT

[meangirlnurse]

😭

[sandmandaddy69]

[scrumptiousangst]

There is a series of smaller mixers inside

[thegaymertrainer]

Ya Zhou Pottery

[boyswillbeboxes]

[aanxii]

Teeth of the Valley

[punkitt-is-here]

[batsandboba]

after arouind 9pm all music sounds better and all fanfic reads better BUT all thoughts become 97% less reliable. trust me im science

[batsandboba]

i have been informed this is called being "tired." but i am rejecting this hypothesis due to i am science

[caffeinewitchcraft]

peer reviewed and approved

[junglejim4322]

[tamamita]

Once US civil war 2 happens, Cuba should take Florida while they're not looking

[slopmaster9000]

i am poor transgender girl living in illegitimate desantis regime and am so hungry for estrogen . please president diaz-canel liberate us with your jupiter 5 artillery missles

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

holy hell actually

[alicat54c]

How about you look up the stats for food availability and poverty with starvation in Cuba before deciding you want to be conquered by them.

[tamamita]

i

wonder

how

that

HAPPENED

[mothmanphobia]

The United States ranks higher in deaths by malnutrition than Cuba does. X X X Wild how they're able to support people like this even with an embargo. I wonder what kind of system would allow them to do this.

It's literally shameful how the United States is so much richer than Cuba and still has a higher percentage of people dying of malnutrition. It's actually disgusting.

[elbiotipo]

Cuba is actually an example of a successful transition to an agroecological agricultural model that has earned praise from the FAO and others:

Organopónicos - Wikipedia

In recent years, the supply of food has decreased precisely because of the ongoing illegal embargo and sanctions (and I will argue, unsuccessful and unecessary market reforms):

Fertile Cuba Relies On Food Imports As Farmers Lack Seeds, Fuel

Crop production has plummeted in fertile Cuba as aid for farmers from a government grappling with tough sanctions and the worst economic cri

The blockade policy of the US against Cuba is only an example of sadism and punishment. They have not broken the resistance of the Cuban people or the inmense success of its socialist project, feeding, educating and healing the Cuban people, and even the rest of the world, as Cuban agriculture, medicine and social services are seen as an example all over the third world (and Cuba is one of the biggest producers of medicines, with their doctors employed all over the world in humanitarian causes)

Lávate la boca antes de hablar de Cuba, yanqui.

[animusrox]

[darkseid-deactivated20190806]

ive talked about being too high for things before but this is like.  next level

[nianeyna]

opened the reblog editor to say the mom is obviously Carmen Sandiego but then realized I have zero justification for that whatsoever I’m just going off of vibes

[gallusrostromegalus]

I mean I always shipped Waldo of Where’s Waldo with Carmen Sandiego, and if you combine the respective outfits of both and whatever deranged bullshit Waldo was on, I can see them producing twin Clown Princes of Crime and Corporations.

[the-geeky-fangirl]

imagine just saying “i always shipped waldo of where’s waldo with carmen sandiego” with no explanation whatsoever

[andrewdundundun]

what explanation could they need? they found each other.

[the-real-seebs]

yeah, it’s super frustrating for everyone else though, because like. someone says “how do you guys meet” and we end up with this elaborate list of hints as to where they were, and photos which show a tiny corner of a landmark, and they’ll be like “yeah this is a picture of us” and everyone stares at the picture for like five minutes and they say “do you want a hint?”

[stupot]

Yesterday a kid said to me "excuse me? Your hair looks like beautiful anime hair" which is already amazing and then she said "watch me on your camera when I go down the slide I'm going to do the Peter Griffin death pose when I come out" and she sure did.

[stupot]

Illustration of events

[pallanophblargh]

And in spite of the dumpster fire that roars around me... delivered at long last!

For the most patient of clients: Horses splashing cheerfully in a creek. What a lovely little spot.

95% watercolors, with assistance from gouache and colored pencils for finer adjustments (tones on the bay needed some lightening after I went too dark. First time for everything!)

Approx 12 x 17". Beam paints and Winsor & Newton watercolors and gouache with Caran d'Ache supracolor pencils on Arches 140 lb hot press watercolor paper. (+ some tears and an overdose of love for good measure)

(I shouldn't have to tell people here not to use this for any AI hellspawn. But here's the warning all the same.)

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

Season 2 Episode 9 -- The Dinner Machine

[cryptotheism]

The King of Cups - Tranquility from mastery. Control over the emotions. Balance between emotion, desire, and creativity.

[courtesycalling]

The Dinner Machine

[bodhrancomedy]

May I introduce you to my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strip which only got funnier when I got hearing aids.

[mayhemchicken]

wait actually i gotta reblog this again i just remembered an additional fun fact. sunday funnies pages were not created equal; some allotted less space than others. to make space? they would literally chop off parts of the comics. this is why many sunday strips have a Big Title Bar at the top, bc that was usually the part that got cut off. comic artists essentially had to account for that a big chunk of their strip was Optional Bonus Material that couldn't be relevant to the plot or punchline of the strip.

bill watterson? HATED this. he was in a constant battle with the presses to keep his strips intact. he eventually won this battle, forcing any paper that wanted to run calvin & hobbes to print the full strip. but in the meantime, you would get protest strips, where the top bar is essential for the comic to make any sense at all.

this? is almost definitely one of those. please picture with me living in a town with one of the newspapers that cuts off the top bar. imagine seeing this comic WITHOUT the top panel.

[enlightened-moth]

sorry to be mega autistic but this has been bugging me since I saw it this morning and it just rolled by on my dash again:

the image posted by OP isn't the full comic, it's the just throwaway gag title bar. Here's the full strip:

in newspapers that cut comics down to save space, the topmost of the three rows of panels would have been removed entirely, not just the longest panel containing the actual title, so that entire joke would have been gone.

Watterson's response to this practice was actually to move away from rigidly structured panels in his Sunday strips altogether, which is why later C&H looks more like this:

Newspapers that ran the strip could do so at the full half-sheet-width resolution or they could reduce the size to fit the format of their pages without deleting any of the material.

anyway i just wanted to point this out because i think the way Bill Watterson actually enforced his artistic integrity is way more interesting and adds more to his legacy as a creator.