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MonstroCity - Submitted by: fastman27

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thinking about that one wordless calvin and hobbes sunday strip thats just calvins dad ditching his work to go play in the snow... its going to make me cry

ohhhh my god

”#I LOVE that the comic keeps the lens on Calvin’s dad to the degree of not even showing Calvin’s excited face when his dad surprises him, #You can see the joy and excitement of the moment in his pose and reflected in his dad’s expression, #it’s a great little artistic decision, #I realized what gets me about it it’s the hat covering his dad’s head and hair so the dad just looks like Calvin. #you don’t HAVE to show Calvin! You already see him in the dad becoming a kid for a moment you only have to draw that once”

i’m so genuinely lucky to be dumb as hammers. the simplest things bring me joy. i’ve had several fits of passionate laughing out loud today because i can’t stop thinking of the phrase “one william dollars”

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ohhh yeah that tracks

a little guy on a snowy night

a little guy sees the full winter moon

a little guy follows the smoke to the edge of the woods

a little guy enters the woods

a little guy finds a clearing

a little guy goes deeper into the woods

a little guy realizes he's not alone in these woods

a little guy finds the source of the smoke

a little guy finds a bigger guy

a little guy spends a moment alone

a little guy gets back to his walk

a little guy sees his goal

a little guy walks through the thinning woods

a little guy takes a break

a little guy finds an almost frozen river

a little guy nimbly jumps across the ice floes

a little guy falls in the river nonetheless

a little guy nears the base of the yawning mountain

a little guy is dwarfed by the first few feet of the mountain

a little guy begins his climb while the snow starts

a little guy is now taller than the trees

a little guy climbs higher and higher

a little guy passes history by

a little guy reaches the summit

a little guy spends another moment alone

a little guy pays his respects

a little guy falls asleep

a little guy wakes up untouched by the winter night's snow

a big guy kept an eye on his little guy

a little guy heads home once more

the end

my sister's baby shower has a "suggestion box"

These tags feel really fucking important

Yep, this. What the hell do people think desk jobs consist of? Even if you're just forwarding paperwork you need to know your shit, because that paperwork can mean a license for a local small business owner, for example, or making sure a kid gets extra assistance at school. You don't wanna fuck that up, right? Then you gotta know your shit, and not talk out of your ass.

And that's not even talking about being, say, a tax consultant or lawyer, this is "only" about being a "paper pusher" who takes in applications and forwards them to the right person. Or who takes in invoices and makes sure they're paid on time, which will ensure the survival of the businesses that your company is doing business with.

Just because it's not heavy physical labor doesn't mean it's unskilled.

And I know this says "passable", but still, pushing one paper somewhere wrong can fuck up a person's application for insurance payout, or a craftsperson's income and existence, y'know, existential shit like that.

Let's focus our ire the right way. Give the bosses shit, not your fellow worker.

Me entering any museum: man I’m so excited to learn all the things

Also me: GIFT SHOP GIFT SHOP GIFT SHOP

There are two dragons inside of you. One hoards knowledge and the other hoards trinkets. They’re both very excited when you bring them to a museum

i come from the universe where everything is the same except disney heroines get like an ounce of their fathers' obviously dominant genes and their clothes are like 80% more historically accurate. it's beautiful here.

I should draw rouge the bat. But in what circumstance

Candle clocks

same energy tbh

Would anyone like to join me in my New Year's tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?

A couple highlights:

• There are now ZERO COAL POWER PLANTS in the UK. Zero! Also zero in Slovakia, which closed its last coal plant a full SIX YEARS ahead of schedule! This is great because coal is like, the dirtiest fuel source ever. It's awful for the planet, it's awful for our lungs, it's just The Worst. Goodbye and good riddance!
• Last year, EU CO2 emissions fell by 8%, and the data's not all in for this year yet but they're on track to drop even more. Yeah, you read that right - the EU may have already passed peak carbon emissions. Excuse me while I do a happy dance over here in the corner - this is a BIG FUCKING DEAL!
• This may have been a bad year for abortion rights in the US, but we're an outlier - over the past 30 years, we are only one of four countries to tighten abortion restrictions, while 60 countries have made it more available. This year, France became the first country in the whole world to make abortion a constitutional right. Seven US states did so too - Colorado, New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and Missouri. That's right, Missouri! Shocking, huh?
• A drug to prevent HIV infections was 100% effective in trials. That. That's insane. It's not a vaccine, but it is the closest we've ever been to one.
• Deaths from tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease in the world, hit an all-time global low. Hooray for preventing a truly staggering amount of death!
• Egypt and Cabo-Verde both eliminated malaria, and 17 countries started distributing the new malaria vaccine - remember that? Remember how insanely exciting it is that was now have a vaccine for malaria? It is saving lives as we speak.
• Deforestation in the Amazon is half what it was two years ago.
• The largest dam removal project in history was completed - removing four dams from the Klamath River, thanks to decades of activism by the Karuk and Yurok tribes. A month later, there were salmon spawning in the river basin again - for the first time in a century. Nature's pretty incredible at bouncing back, if we can just give it the chance. I repeat: Largest. Dam removal. In history!
• China finished the Great Green Wall
• Prewalski's horses returned to their homeland in central Kazakhstan, where they'd been missing for 200 years!
• 22 species were removed from the endangered list - let's hear it for the Saimaa ringed seal, Scimitar oryx, Red cockaded woodpecker, Siamese crocodile, Narwhal, Arapaima, Chipola slabshell and Fat threeridge mussels, Iberian lynx, Asiatic lions, Australian saltwater crocodile, Asian antelope,  Ulūlu, Southern bluefin tuna, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, Yellow-footed rock wallabies, Yangtze finless porpoise, Pookila mouse, Orange-bellied parrots, Putitor mahseer (this is a fish), Giant pandas, and Florida golden aster!

This year was deeply shitty in a lot of ways - but not all of them.

Reading sports headlines while pretending sports doesn't exist suggests a fascinating world of magic and whimsy.

terrible news everyone

perhaps i judged too quickly