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@arakin damnit cannot unsee now that you say that.

Anyway, please let me know what you think of the new game?

@chimerror it IS kinda weird that it's a black/white dichotomy. You'd figure a warning/safety thing would be a redlist/greenlist logically.

@topaz Both really, kittens are just so cute, but they're also so vulnerable, and life can be really unpleasant whether it ends too soon or and after a long while; I worry about how bad things could maybe get for them.

@growlbeast Thanks! I'm gonna just soak in that compliment for a bit.

@Chip_Unicorn Thanks! I'm definitely having one of those days when I'm like OOOH PORTRAIT/CARICATURE and then I'm kinda not so great for the rest of the figures (there was a second page which wasn't as good), so I think tomorrow's deal is gonna be portrait heads.

today, trying to get a nicer balance of cartoony stuff, idk.

@chimerror If you really want a neat read about this stuff, Talking Animals and Other People by the late great Shamus Culhane is worth it (even if the part I remember best is that for a while Fleischer Studios was next to a brothel, and both businesses would routinely close for the employees' poker night).

oh shit guys I'm crying about cats again

@chimerror You'll excuse the hyperfixation;

Most animators bounced between Warner, Disney and the Fleischers but Disney intentionally cranked out Silly Symphonies to work on/test out stuff as prep for "Disney's Folly," a feature length animated film nobody expected to work. Then in 1948, there was a huge strike at Disney, which Uncle Walt took like you'd expect, and lots of animators split for WB, which is why pre-1948 Looney Tunes stuff is eh fairly okay and then suddenly it's sheer genius.

I think almost the most hilarious thing about Lovecraft is how he became famous by NOT becoming famous. He was only kinda sorta a name as a pulp author, so when people were casting around for stuff to reprint for GIs a few years after his death, HPL's stuff was cheap, and after the war there was lots of it around. Suddenly a much broader audience was reading Lovecraft's work and going "hey actually this is pretty good."

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HP Lovecraft’s TALES of TERROR! 18 spoooooopy horrors from the master of cosmic neuroticism, including

“Oh Shit Weird Smells Are They Actually Cooking an Octopus?”
“Oh Shit I’m Not Actually White”
“It Was Cold and Everything Was Built After 1850”

Storing everything from cookware to family snapshots in blue jeans at home so that when someone asks “what’s in your pants” I have a good variety in potential answers.

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“Is the seafood you just bought RUSSIAN?” Check for signs like baritone choral singing. I’d say watch for fish driving really badly but that’s more of an international problem.

@ziphi he has only one tusk because he broke off the other to use as a pen so he could transcribe the Mahabharata.

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@owashii@plush.city I don't think Dora has characters that edgelordy

@ziphi You know about the mythology about Ganesa using one of his own tusks as a pen?

@herzmut captain for a moment I thought I saw a scout-class WESSEL

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