Becca

formerly skygiants

[parkayquarts]

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[lizardsfromspace]

In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.

[saintofpride201]

Sesame Street's official YouTube channel is uploading the episodes for free, btw. A lot of creators are rebelling against this bullshit.

[amy-vic]

Sesame Street on PBS KIDS. Play games with Elmo, Big Bird, Abby and all of your Sesame Street friends. Watch videos and print coloring pages

As always, America, PBS has you and your kids' backs.

[scifigrl47]

I also want to put in a plug for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by GBH in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country.  More than 7000 public television and radio programs are available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.

https://americanarchive.org/

[birch-shark-art]

Oh wow, the Uffington White Horse mug got some traction, huh? Hello! I'm so glad so many of you liked it!! I absolutely will be making more things with that design; it's so satisfying to me. I'll definitely post more pictures when I do!

In the meantime: HAPPY PRIDE, HAVE SOME QUEER SLUGS 💜💙💚💛🧡❤️

Okay, I'm pretty sure all slugs are inherently queer by human standards on account of the whole thing where most species have both kinds of genitalia, and some of them can asexually reproduce, and so on (and also that if they have any kind conception of gender it's wildly incomprehensible by our standards all around), etc etc. But anyway, these ones are also having a little rainbow parade, and I like to think they're having a lovely time of it.

It's quite a small mug -- enough for a double espresso, maybe, or a small cup of tea or rich hot chocolate -- but I'm happy with it!

[mellific]

haven't done a comic in AGES but i whipped this up for a buddy's 4 panel comic anthology (submissions open til june 1st! i had a really fun time making this, recommend 👍)

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[birch-shark-art]

Uffington white horse cup!

It looks a bit blurry in the close-up, but it's not really; that's an artifact of reflections on the glaze. I'm super pleased with how this came out.

I painted the horse in white underglaze and then painted over my lines with wax. (That was the most fiddly part -- covering it all up without going over.) The wax resists glaze, so when I dipped it in the slightly translucent dark green, it didn't cover the horse. In person the green isn't quite as dark as it came out in pictures -- it's still dark, but grassier -- and the horse looks carved out of it.

I would say "I need to do this design again," but as a matter of fact I already have -- these pictures are from a while ago, and the progress pic above is from the second. But I'm gonna keep doing it again, because I really love the effect.

[eightdaysofdiana]

S3 Bonus Episode 1 - A Guide To The True State of Affairs in Dalemark by @Rebecca Fraimow and Emily Tesh

Truth is the fire that fetches thunder. A planned minisode on the Guide to Dalemark goes fully off the rails with the addition of early pro

Truth is the fire that fetches thunder.

A planned minisode on the Guide to Dalemark goes fully off the rails with the addition of early proto-Dalemark novella "The True State of Affairs," for a wide-ranging discussion on art, time, splendor, and a possible alternate vision for Diana Wynne Jones' career.  

Transcript available here, and we'll be back sometime next month with our next bonus episode on The Tough Guide to Fantasyland!

NB: this episode contains discussion of child abuse and pedophilia.

[hoerrrru]

I finally finished my watercolor portrait series

So here they all are

Death didn't fit in this post TT but you can see him in my post below

[lettucefair]

it's dangerous to go alone! take this [orv doodles] with you.

[romanceyourdemons]

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

[queenlua]

btw did you know Seattle now has a zine store

...b/c it totally does & it whips

some of my fave pickups from opening weekend:

94 feet and a peach basket by jeremiah wistrom: did a DOUBLE TAKE when i opened this one & was like holy shit i know that basketball court!!! i've BEEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD!!!  and the accompanying writeup was like "yeah i was eating a sandwich in boston's north end & did a double take when i turned a corner and there was a basketball court shoved right up in there?" and i'm like I KNOW THE SANDWICH YOU ATE haha

but yeah—beyond that initial shock of startled & delighted recognition, it turns out this whole book is a photomemoir of sorts, in which the author's taken all these (cool/interesting/from-unusual-angles/etc) photographs of random basketball courts in all these places he's visited, all across the country, and written up a little bit about the history/context/etc of each one, what it was like to shoot some hoops there, what brought them there, etc, and... just a lot of love & interest & local color in it, i really adored reading through the thing

it reminded me a lot of what i love about birding: like birding, i guess you can in fact do basketball Everywhere and just by doing it you learn a little bit about Everywhere in the process.

weird tigers by kiriska: AS ADVERTISED. 10/10 delightful. i love every weird-ass tiger in these pages

what horse are you? by aya borucki: i'm a friesian :)

ἄγχω (ankhō) by s. barnes: i love it when things are claustrophobic & paranoid & bad!  spend the Night Before Battle inside the trojan horse with Odysseus, in glorious black & orange :)))))

i picked up a bunch of other zines too and spent too much money ahlgiehalgie... no time to photograph them all, but, there's unsettlingly-illustrated toxic fish!  there's traumatized geese!  there's surprisingly-affecting poetry!  it's all good shit

so yeah!!! go check out the Paper Pusher's Print Shop if you're in the area, it's a cool spot

[wrdnrd]

I met one of the organizers this past weekend at the Seattle Art Book Fair, so i want to add a little more info about this cool shop! It's a pop-up shop as part of a Seattle vacant storefront project.

Address

1200 5th Avenue Seattle, WA 98101

Hours

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: 11 am – 6 pm

Thursday: 11 am – 6 pm

Friday: 11 am – 6 pm

Saturday: 11 am – 5 pm

Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm

Because it's a pop-up shop, sadly this cute little store has an end date. 😥 Visit it before...

September 15, 2026

[girlfailuregawain]

I just started chapter 10 of Parzival. Gawain is performing pericardiocentesis on someone?!?!

[elliespectacular]

I spent 60 hours working on a Tomodachi Life island that takes place in the mind of Harry DuBois and is populated by the 28 skills from Disco Elysium

[victusinveritas]

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[birch-shark-art]

Easter Flegg parade!

...This one may require a bit of explaining.

My wife and I are fans of the actual play podcast Friends At The Table. It's a lot of fun if you enjoy getting a look at the underlying bones of narrative by listening to smart people collaboratively improv a story together! including wrestling with the messiness of when dice rolls don't turn out the way an author would do it! and also if you enjoy games other than D&D, which I do (no shade to D&D, which I also enjoy).

One of their current campaigns is Perpetua, an absolutely delightful collection of JRPG-inspired nonsense (using the game Fabula Ultima). And in that game, there's a kind of low-level... antagonist is not the word. Irritation? Inconvenience? Minor monster? CONTINUAL MENACE AND DELIGHT OF MY HEART called a flegg. Fleggs are little walking eggs with pointy noses and angry eyebrows and wee stick-figure limbs and they love to cause mayhem. They're like cats crossed with toddlers and made semi-invulnerable. I never want them in my house and I cackle every time they show up.

So! We were laughing at one point about Easter Fleggs dying themselves colors and stomping off to throw some protagonists' supplies into a river or whatever, and my wife was like I WANT THAT ON A MUG!!! and here we are. I hope you enjoy their little angry eyebrows half as much as I enjoyed painting them.