The Artistic Eggplant

they/them. Rook, i like shiny things and puns. this is mostly just cool/relevant stuff i find. Scattered among the posts, I do have some original art (like the space waffle and icon)

[the-stove-is-on-fire]

Welp, I’m never going to finish this. And that’s okay.

It’s been over six months since I sketched this out and I simply don’t vibe with it anymore. Might as well share what I have with y’all rather than doom it to my drafts forever. 

I’ve more or less officially fallen out with BNHA. The last three or so years in the fandom have been fun but it doesn’t hold my attention the same way anymore. I’ve learned a ton about my own art process, met new friends, and made people happy with my art. That’s enough for me :)

[the-stove-is-on-fire]

All sorts of strange side-effects can pop up after a tough n’ tough quirk battle, for example, Red Riot here has come away with…..toe beans???

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[the-stove-is-on-fire]

More unexpected complications??? What else will this mystery quirk do?

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[the-stove-is-on-fire]

Phase 3 in the furification process: EARS. Kirishima is surprisingly excited. Bakugou is understandably conflicted and concerned. 

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[the-stove-is-on-fire]

What’s the point of being an anime cat boy if you can’t meme about it? Chill out Bakubro.

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[sparrowlucero]

the among us show being a total gorefest on par with john carpenter's the thing is a really fun choice

[sparrowlucero]

the among us show having a gay orgy in the middle of it is another really fun choice

[sparrowlucero]

realizing many people don't know about infinity train creator owen dennis' among us show from years ago, which has been trapped in unreleased limbo all this time and was just dumped on streaming this morning with no advertisement. they don't even know about its weirdly stacked cast

[virtualgirladvance]

was expecting another goncharov but...its real?

[dysfunctionalcreature]

Having now binged this entire show because there's something wrong with me, I'd like to inform people of a few more interesting details:

all of the characters use they/them pronouns, there is not a single gendered term in the whole show

Brian David Gilbert was one of the show's writers!

the song in the credits of the finale, which was written for the show, Everybody's Dead by David Michael Loucks is unironically really good, it doesn't seem to have been officially released yet but someone did upload the song on youtube

one of the character deaths actually brought me close to tears, I'm being so serious

also, for anyone who's considering checking out the show, it's a very fast easy watch in a good way, each episode is about 13 minutes long and there's 10 of them, so it's basically the same length as watching your average blockbuster movie

[thelegendofjenna]

I'm trying to take the high road but I'm like, dragging myself bleeding and sobbing along the high road while looking so so longingly at the low road

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[professionalowl]

it is of course easier to performatively ban children from social media than to do things like "actually challenge and regulate the abusive tactics tech companies use to extract people's data and money via social media" but if we did the second thing we wouldn't have any excuse to force people to use digital ID :(

[likely-confused]

one aspect of the social media ban i think we really need to consider isn’t just that vulnerable people aren’t able to find positive connection online, it’s that e-safety likely isn’t going to be taught in schools because children aren’t supposed to be on social media, full stop. it’s like schools don’t teach people how to do drugs safely for example because it’s expected for people not to do them at all. and what this could mean is that even the people who could have been fine if told properly how to responsibly use the internet, that when they inevitably find a way to get around the ban, they’re at even more risk because they don’t know what to look out for.

[betaminshitto]

they might kiss..

[anphivenas]

(wrinkled and dying from laying eggs) tbhhhh dubstep was better in 2009 (lays another egg) there has honestoy not been another producer like Benga (stress from that last egg makes me go blind) my eggs , where are my eggs

[creepymutelilbugger]

The bar for what a normal post is on this site is so fucked compared to everywhere else

[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

[dappermouth]

And then you had that dream again.

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[valtsv]

[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods go.

[dono-cho]

[shinraalpha]

kids you have to learn how to wing it, it will be so much better for you than getting ai to do it

[frothlad]

Synthesis is incredibly useful as a skill. Also: Know at least a little about as much as possible.

[nitpickspot]

Students' inability to even TRY to BS an assignment legit worries me as an educator

[frothlad]

My anecdote is that as a freshling in an honors 101 class for a subject I did not care about, I had to write a paper. I read an encyclopedia article and a chapter or two of an unrelated book and vomited up a six page paper linking the two subjects in three hours. I got an A and the prof encouraged me to submit it to some journal or something. (I no longer remember the details; I think it was psychiatry, and the encyclopedia article was about Pavlov's experiments.)

Learn how to synthesize. My paper was bullshit in the technical sense; I did not care about its truth value, only that it fit the assignment.

As a professional, I once bullshitted my way through a complex derivation of D from C by noting that when B was derived from A in the same process, it dropped all of the terms of a particular type. I just took C, dropped the terms, and got D and it worked. It was bullshit, because I did no work to prove that what I was doing was correct. But it was correct, because I had synthesized what needed to be done.

That's the kind of BS you want to be able to summon on command.

[nitpickspot]

The level of learned helplesnnes in students these days.

They don't search, they don't ask, they don't attempt.

They either know how to do something or they scream at you to do it