Holding On To Happiness

@sign-seeker

Joseph, 35, big gay nerd living in Cheshire. Generically geeky about fantasy, science-fiction, religion, mythology, folklore, occultism, video gaming, musical theatre, tabletop games and roleplaying games, not necessarily in that order. https://bsky.app/profile/signseeker.bsky.social Snapchat: sign-seeker

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falchieyan

Chilling with the gorls~

Sylvanian Families / Calico Critters + Warhammer mashup, part of my Bunny War Crimes series.

a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay

do you have a hobby that's expensive as fuck

yes

no

all of them

absolutely 0!!!!

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Remaining time: 1 day 2 hours

#Christ alive. I'm a Warhammer fan #except for quite a while now I've been priced out of being a Warhammer fan because I simply can't afford to expand my collection.#which was REALLY FUCKING INCONVENIENT WHEN THEY INTRODUCED PRIMARIS MARINES #and the writing on the wall said “you're going to have to replace your entire army within a few editions”.

fravery

Dmitry Lyovin (Russian painter, b. 1955)

byjove

why did he turn white? was that what he was worrying about?

#he lives in fear of the caucasianising beam.

mummer

this person is 30 years old

#that's just having an open relationship. what the fuck is there to figure out.

Absolute horror show found on Reddit.

Just stumbled across an Instagram account run by some off-camera parent providing a daily record of their quest to get their 11 year old son to lose weight, because he is unacceptably fat. There are two concerns I have:

1) The kid is not fat. He's like, slightly chubby at most. If this is the level of overweight that his parents have decided requires daily internet records to resolve, I shudder to think how they'll respond if he ever back slides, or if he gets actually fat when he's older.

2) Even if he WAS truly fat, he's fucking 11! And a shortarse! He hasn't even begun to grow into his teenage frame, let alone his adult frame! They have absolutely no fucking idea what the kid is going to look like within the next few years but they've already decided that his body cannot be allowed.

This poor fucking kid doesn't have the opportunity to spend his summer playing without it being turned into a public spectacle designed to make him change his body according to other people's desires. He seems chill with it at the moment, but the whole debacle appears to have started this summer, and when he goes back to middle school in the autumn, and his peers have seen his parents' video of him jumping into a pool in slow motion to highlight how he jiggles, I can't imagine that he'll find the experience anything other than unpleasant.

Poor little fucker. It's all just so miserably fucking depressing.

fuckyeahchinesefashion

OP: How to create floating Chinese shufa/calligraphy (cr夏末）

geekysteven

#underselling the suffering and overselling the polycule managenent. that motherfucker doesn't manage the polycule.#he doesn't know he's IN a polycule. Keiko is managing that shit with naval efficiency behind his back.

skodasforge

Has any kid ever in the history of the world actually groaned/expressed disgust at their parents expressing affection for one another? Why does media continue to push this myth?

sign-seeker

I've see my friends kids do this? It's a moody early-teenage thing, it's eye-rolling and fake retching at perceived sappiness. Have you really never seen this in real life?

why-i-love-comics

Plastic Man #5 (1946)

written by Jack Cole & Gwen Hansen art by Jack Cole, Alex Kotzky, Bart Turney, & John Spranger

sign-seeker

Holy shit, this artwork is phenomenal for 1946? The linework and the perspective and the staging and the colour all look like they came from decades later? Like for comparison here's a Batman issue from the same year:

Like the dialogue writing in Plastic Man absolutely marks it as of it's age, but if you showed me those panels without the dialogue bubbles I'd assume they were from the 70s or 80s?

sign-seeker

Okay, I'm wondering if the Plastic Man pages above have been digitally retouched for a reprint at some point, because I'm looking at other issues from the same era and

These scans have linework quality and paper yellowing and colour-bleed that you would expect from the 40s.

#comics

why-i-love-comics

Plastic Man #5 (1946)

written by Jack Cole & Gwen Hansen art by Jack Cole, Alex Kotzky, Bart Turney, & John Spranger

sign-seeker

Holy shit, this artwork is phenomenal for 1946? The linework and the perspective and the staging and the colour all look like they came from decades later? Like for comparison here's a Batman issue from the same year:

Like the dialogue writing in Plastic Man absolutely marks it as of it's age, but if you showed me those panels without the dialogue bubbles I'd assume they were from the 70s or 80s?

#comics

dozydawn

“Theo, a four-year-old Pomeranian dog, takes cover from the rain under Meme, a 10-month-old Afghan Hound, at a photocall in central London for the Crufts dog show. The dog show was postponed due the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.”

Photographed by Johnny Green.

15 May 2001.