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Taross Blackburn-Tawner;
Spotted Skunktaur. Shi/hir. Liquidshifter. Generally chill.
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Looks fine to me.
January 23, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Maybe they were also looking back and noticed the target of target shift to them...
January 22, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Poor Strickland. First he quits his job as a Dean to live quietly to run a musical instrument shop and then he gets invaded by extradimensional barbarians and teens.
January 22, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Adam looks like Sam Winchester...
January 22, 2026 at 4:35 PM
But... going out IS a chore...
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I'll just end with this here...
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I do what and where I can, but quite more often than not that results in taking action that is not super visible or immediately impactful; except that which I can offer people near me directly.
But hey... that's not visible enough for some people, right?
So see above first reply.
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I get similar tossed at me for other issues I am against but here's the rub.
I can't even go visit my mom without knowing where I can take emergency restroom stops while on the way there if needed. Physical shit; quite literally too.
Can you see me protesting anywhere? :/
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Then there will ALWAYS be someone who claims you're not doing enough or not visible enough.
So you're not doing anything.
So you're complicit.

The internet and social media 140 character limit has radicalized everything so damn black and white. We always end up with pancakes and waffles...
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 AM
This entire thing is a gigantic catch-22 when it comes to situations like this.
If you're not doing anything, you're seen as complicit.
If you're not doing anything visible enough, you're not seen as doing anything so you're seen as complicit.
If you're doing what you can within your means...
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Why only sometimes? ;D
January 21, 2026 at 5:43 PM
That means that they'll be paying not just for commercial use of my work, but also for the permission to alter it after.
Those are all, legally speaking, different rights that have to be separately negotiated.
January 21, 2026 at 11:56 AM
I mean... I'm not an artist myself but if I were and I had a client who told me they'd go ai for their stuff and then came back because it didn't get what they wanted, I will assume that when they get their thing from me they'll feed that through the same for new iterations.
January 21, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Did you mean "Verflareon"? ;)
January 21, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Like that's going to stop someone who is already ignoring an obvious majority screaming at him face to face.
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
It does take a lot of crazy and guts to intimidate an entire bus full of mostly adults to be so compliant they didn't even just call 911 and screw whose jurisdiction it is. And instead just keep trying to convince the obviously unhinged bus driver with phone calls to his boss.
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Although, if I'm going to be completely honest, I'm quite surprised nobody actually pulled the driver out of his seat.
It takes one person to hold the wheel steady and one to yank the dude out of his spot.
After that the brakes are in the same spot as any other vehicle.
January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
This thread was a ride. Both literally and figuratively.
January 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The sad thing is that this means that the show runners had a show that people genuinely cared about.
Or else nobody would care about this kind of thing.
But they just let it die...
January 20, 2026 at 11:24 AM