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d.ly

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his name is Jimmy Fallon bc we all want a piano to Fall on him

December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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Tom McH

@tommchenry.bsky.social

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM

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post malone ergo propter malone

@proptermalone.bsky.social

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 3d

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM

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Alexandria

@sexymollusk.bsky.social

We’re back! New episode!

Saucer Cinema Podcast @saucercinema.bsky.social · 2d

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Finally! After a nearly two-year hiatus, Saucer Cinema has returned!

@bowsnonk.bsky.social of @haveyouseen.us podcast
returns to talk with me about 1993’s Coneheads, starring Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin.

December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy

@bitterkarella.bsky.social

looking back and forth between gavin newson and bill maher like i'm watching the pigs at the end of animal farm

Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 6d

California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”

December 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM

THR

@teeaitchare.bsky.social

How did every cartoonist in the 80s know Trump was human garbage and yet we still ended up here?

A classic Foxtrot strip depicting Jason and Marcus playing Trumpopoly, the board game where you acquire so much wealth and power your opponent is forced to bow in worship to you.

Milk and Cheese burn down Trump Tower as a sympathy gesture toward Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots in 1992.

December 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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🍗 🎄

@werechicken.bsky.social

Have a happy Patrick Swayze Christmas, one and all

youtu.be/Lq8WhYTRbC8?...

A reddit & MST3K holiday tradition: "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas This Year"

YouTube video by Reddit

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December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM

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Advent Calendar House

@adventcalendar.house

I have been informed Santabear is back in town.

Dayton's unveils the 2025 edition Santa Bear

YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota

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December 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM

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Jerna Van Vooren

@jernacious.itch.io

I got the chance to talk about the Homestuck pilot on A Special Presentation with @teeaitchare.bsky.social and @gertrudeprkns.bsky.social

I was mostly there for therapeutic reasons.

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A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight - A Special Presentation 321: Homestuck Pilot

Listen to A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not Be Seen Tonight - A Special Presentation 321: Homestuck Pilot by BitterKarella on Podcast Addict. That's right, we're going to tell you about Homestuc...

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December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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zee the RACCOON 🇨🇦 SLOWLY REALIZING SHE'S HYPERMOBILE

@zeekayart.bsky.social

this is my zootopia

November 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM

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Advent Calendar House

@adventcalendar.house

Last year I covered “Santa and the Three Bears,” a 1970 Christmas special with a crazy history involving, of all things, a marine park in Florida.

But it started as a passion project by former Hanna-Barbera animator Tony Benedict, who died this weekend.

Thanks for the memories, Tony. RIP.

Advent Calendar House | Santa and the Three Bears

No porpoises were harmed during the making of this podcast. Guests: Gerry Davila, Ethan the Hungry Reader

adventcalendar.house

November 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM

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Art by Riilu 🇸🇪🔞 COMMISSIONS OPEN

@riilu.bsky.social

November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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Bill Corbett

@billcorbett.bsky.social

Streaming for free on YouTube!
YAY YAY! (<— watch and this will make “sense”)

RiffTrax @rifftrax.com · 13d

Who needs the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade when you have the fever dream of Fun In Balloonland? Please enjoy about ~1 minute of the most insane yet somehow real footage you will ever see.

November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM

THR

@teeaitchare.bsky.social

I still find the perfect symmetry in the cast of Today’s Special fascinating. I can’t think of any other show that mirrors this dynamic.

Puppet/Actor: Sam & Muffy / Jeff & Jody
Make/Female: Sam & Jeff / Muffy & Jody
Human character / fantasy character: Sam & Jody / Muffy & Jeff

November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM

THR

@teeaitchare.bsky.social

I just wanna grill!!

George (brown tabby) and Shy Violet (silver tabby) snuggled up on the Blackstone griddle in autumn.

November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM

THR

@teeaitchare.bsky.social

Literally no one else will say this.

The Dodecahedron from The Phantom Tollbooth, as drawn by Kinuko Y. Craft for the 1979 Childcraft Annual, “Mathemagic”

November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM

THR

@teeaitchare.bsky.social

Hope you like BEETS.

Advent Calendar House @adventcalendar.house · 15d

🦃 10 years ago, the musical monsters of “Turkey Hollow” were finally introduced after being dreamed up by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl in the 1960s. You can watch it on Prime. It’s cute.

Here’s a podcast about it with @teeaitchare.bsky.social @muppetdude.bsky.social & @sammyhain.bsky.social.

Advent Calendar House | Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow

Musical monsters squonk, burble, zorp, and thrinng their way into our hearts. Guests: Ethan the Hungry Reader, Sammy Hain, Tony Whitaker

adventcalendar.house

November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM

THR

@teeaitchare.bsky.social

I absorbed my twin in utero, my growing bulk pressing its husk flat against the uterine walls, and when I was born at 10.6 pounds with an APGAR score of 99, my twin detached itself and fluttered unseen to the delivery room floor, like the last leaf of fall.

This is why I like Metroid: Other M

Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 15d

My mother fell belly-down into a running microwave at the 2nd trimester, that's why I like Sonic Spinball.

Panic Restaurant @panicrestaurant.bsky.social · 15d

I was upside down with the cord around my neck and required emergency intervention

This is why I like Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures for Sega Genesis

November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Advent Calendar House

@adventcalendar.house

🦃 10 years ago, the musical monsters of “Turkey Hollow” were finally introduced after being dreamed up by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl in the 1960s. You can watch it on Prime. It’s cute.

Here’s a podcast about it with @teeaitchare.bsky.social @muppetdude.bsky.social & @sammyhain.bsky.social.

Advent Calendar House | Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow

Musical monsters squonk, burble, zorp, and thrinng their way into our hearts. Guests: Ethan the Hungry Reader, Sammy Hain, Tony Whitaker

adventcalendar.house

November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM

THR

@teeaitchare.bsky.social

I didn’t used to believe in the Mandela effect, but sometime between summer and fall I slipped into this parallel universe where everyone is talking about something called “pickleball”. A day doesn’t pass where I don’t see the word, and apparently it’s not even new

November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM

THR

@teeaitchare.bsky.social

I've Heard it Said that We Only Gain Wisdom Through Suffering — and Tonight I Intend to Make You Very Wise, Charlie Brown

dungeonmaster11 @dungeonmaster11.bsky.social · 17d

You Will Not Be Saved by the God Plutonium, Charlie Brown

Aaron Alexovich @aaronalexovich.bsky.social · 17d

There’s No Room Left in Hell, Charlie Brown

November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM

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Mishell Baker merrily

@mishellbaker.bsky.social

Can you spread the word about weaintbuyingit.com? This is one of the easiest and safest ways possible to fight back against the current administration. If you've been saying there's nothing you can do - you're wrong! All you have to do is not buy from Amazon, Home Depot, or Target for five days.

We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!

We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.

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November 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM